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Formerly established as the Broad Valley School District No. 1543, it was renamed the Fisher Branch School District in 1912 when a new school was built at this site in Fisher Branch. The school opened in May 1912 and as the local school-age population increased, other quarters also served as additional temporary classroom space, including the nearby Presbyterian Church. In September 1925, two new classrooms added on Mr. K. Marykuca were opened. The three-room school served until June 1954, when it was replaced with the construction of a new two-storey building. The old building was then split into three and sold, with one room to become a local residence, and another to the Ukrainian National Hall.
The two-storey facility was built in SW-24-24-2W and opened in November 1954. It also hosted the Fisher Branch Collegiate, with high school students from the surrounding area transferred here beginning in 1959. Collegiate grades were relocated to the Fisher Branch Collegiate Institute in 1961. It then became an elementary school and the former Ringrose School and McMaster School buildings were brought to this site as additional classroom capacity. In 1967, it became part of the Lakeshore School Division in 1967. The two-storey school was renovated and expanded in 1979. As of 2019, it remains in use as the Fisher Branch Early Years School.
Principals (Fisher Branch School)
Principals (Fisher Branch Collegiate)
Principals (Fisher Branch Elementary / Fisher Branch Early Years School)
Teachers (Fisher Branch School)
Period |
Teachers |
1912 |
? |
1913 |
Alexine Bourier |
1914 |
Mrs. E. E. St. Peter (Spring), Miss M. Claire Couture (Fall) |
1915 |
Miss M. C. Couture (grades 1-5, Spring), Charles D. Smith (grades 1-5, Fall) |
1916 |
Charles D. Smith (grades 1-5, Spring), Aurelius Celestin Joyal (grades 1-5, Fall) |
1917 |
(Spring only) Aurelius Celestin Joyal (grades 1-5, Spring) |
1917-1918 |
St. George E. Jeffrey (grades 1-5, October-March & June), Wilfred C. Murray (grades 1-5, April-May) |
1918-1919 |
St. George E. Jeffrey (grades 1-5, October-December), Freda McInnis (grades 1-2, March-June, daughter of Archibald Dawson McInnis) |
1919-1920 |
W. F. Billyard (grades 1-4, October-December), Archibald Dawson McInnis (grades 1-2, July-September; grades 3-7, January-June), Freda McInnis (grades 1-2, January-June) |
1920-1921 |
Roy W. Gillespie (grades 1-2 & 4, at Old School), Archibald Dawson McInnis (grades 3-6, 1920; grades 4-8, 1921), Freda McInnis (grades 1-2, 1920; grades 1-3, 1921) |
1921-1922 |
Miss E. Butters (grades 1-2, September-October), Emma Connell (grades 1-2, November-December; grades 1-3, January-June), Freda McInnis (grades 1-2, September; grades 1-4 at Old School, September-June), Miss C. D. MacQuarrie (grades 1-2, November), Archibald Dawson McInnis (grades 3-8) |
1922-1923 |
Archibald Dawson McInnis (grades 4-9), Miss C. D. MacQuarrie (grades 1-3) |
1923-1924 |
J. Auguste Dansereau (grade 1), Archibald Dawson McInnis (grades 4-10, March-June), George Stevens (grades 1-10, October-December; grades 4-10, December-March), Ruby McNeill (grades 1-3, January-June) |
1924-1925 |
Archibald Dawson McInnis (grades 4-11), Germain Roy (grades 1-4, January-June), Julia M. Wysocki (grades 1-3) |
1925-1926 |
Archibald Dawson McInnis (grades 4-10), Freda McInnis (grades 1-3) |
1926-1927 |
Laura Josephine Longpre (grades 1-2), Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 5-11), Julia M. Wysocki (grades 3-4) |
1927-1928 |
Regina Champagne (grades 3-5), Mary L. Chimchak (grades 1-2), Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 6-11) |
1928-1929 |
Mary L. Chimchak (grades 1-2), Leonie Guyot (grades 3-6), Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 7-11) |
1929-1930 |
Mary L. Chimchak (grades 1-2), Alice Desautels (grades 3-5), Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 6-9) |
1930-1931 |
Nicholas Boychuk (grades 6-10), Theresa [Teresa] Demchuk (grades 1-3), Alice Desautels (grades 3-5) |
1931-1932 |
Juliet L. Desmarais (grades 3-5), Nellie Medel (grades 1-2), Maxim George Wawrykow (grades 6-10) |
1932-1933 |
Juliet L. Desmarais (grades 4-6), Nellie Medel (grades 1-3), Maxim George Wawrykow (grades 7-11) |
1933-1934 |
Juliet L. Desmarais (grades 4-6), Bohdan Prygrocki (grades 1-3), Maxim George Wawrykow (grades 9-11) |
1934-1935 |
Juliet L. Desmarais (grades 5-8), Bohdan Prygrocki (grades 1-4), Joseph Wawrykow (grades 9-11) |
1935-1936 |
Jane Andrieshyn (grades 1-4), Juliet L. Desmarais (grades 5-8), Joseph Wawrykow (grades 9-11) |
1936-1937 |
Jane Andrieshyn (grades 1-4), Juliet L. Desmarais (grades 5-8), John Kereluk (grades 9-12) |
1937-1938 |
Jane Andrieshyn (grades 1-4), Clara E. Ayette (grades 5-8, September), Ann Florence “Annie” Fraser (grades 5-8, February-June), John Kereluk (grades 9-11), W. J. Paul (grades 5-8, October-January), |
1938-1939 |
Ann Florence “Annie” Fraser (grades 4-8, 1938), John Kereluk (grades 9-11), Mary Kereluk (grades 1-5, September; grades 1-3, October-June), Lorraine A. Bourbonnais (grades 4-8, 1939) |
1939-1940 |
Lorraine A. Bourbonnais (grades 4-8), John Kereluk (grades 9-11), Mary Kereluk (grades 1-4) |
1940-1941 |
Anne E. Chimchak (grades 1-4), John Kereluk (grades 9-11), Yvonne Peres (grades 4-8) |
1941-1942 |
Anne E. Chimchak (grades 1-4), Aline Hiebert (grades 4-8), Felix Joseph Kulyk (grades 9-11) |
1942-1943 |
Florette M. Giasson (grades 1-3), Jane Grushka (grades 4-8), Felix Joseph Kulyk (grades 9-11) |
1943-1944 |
Florette M. Giasson (grades 1-4), Felix Joseph Kulyk (grades 9-11), Helen Elsie Kulyk (grades 5-8) |
1944-1945 |
Florette M. Giasson (grades 1-4), Felix Joseph Kulyk (grades 9-11), Helen Elsie Kulyk (grades 5-8) |
1945-1946 |
Ben Klowak (grades 4-8, October), Stephanie Winifred Malkowich (grades 1-3), William John Prochuk (grades 9-11), Denyse Olivier (grades 4-8, August-September), Georgette Vouriot (grades 4-8, November-June) |
1946-1947 |
Louise L. Gauthier (grades 4-8), Sonia Lisowecki (grades 1-4), William John Prochuk (grades 9-11) |
1947-1948 |
Louise L. Gauthier (grades 5-8), Stephanie Winifred Malkowich (grades 1-4), William John Prochuk (grades 9-11) |
1948-1949 |
Louise L. Gauthier (grades 5-8), Irene Marie Therese Ponchon (grades 1-4), William John Prochuk (grades 9-11) |
1949-1950 |
Irene Marie Therese Ponchon (grades 5-8), William John Prochuk (grades 9-11), Victoria Yaremkewich (grades 1-4) |
1950-1951 |
Irene Marie Therese Ponchon (grades 5-8), William John Prochuk (grades 9-11), Victoria Yaremkewich (grades 1-4) |
1951-1952 |
Irene Marie Therese Ponchon (grades 5-8), William John Prochuk (grades 9-12), Victoria Yaremkewich (grades 1-4) |
1952-1953 |
William Andrew Kachur (grades 9-11), Irene Marie Therese Ponchon (grades 5-8), Rilla Marion Wright (grades 1-4) |
1953-1954 |
William Andrew Kachur (grades 9-11), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grades 1-4, August-November; grades 3-4, November-April), Roseanita “Rose” Schmidt (grades 3-4, May-June), Michael Sitko (grades 5-8), Mary M. Uhryniuk (grades 1-2, November-June) |
1954-1955 |
Anne Antonchuk (grades 3-5), Denyse Esther Goulet (grades 1-2), Mary Halowka (grades 6-8), William Andrew Kachur (grades 9-11) |
1955-1956 |
Anne Antonchuk (grades 3-5), Mary Halowka (grades 9-10), William Andrew Kachur (grades 11-12), Denyse Esther Goulet Obelnicki (grades 1-2), Peter Eugene Torbiak (grades 6-8) |
1956-1957 |
Anne Buchko (grades 5-6), Mary Halowka (grades 9-10), William Andrew Kachur (grades 11-12), Eugenie McIvor (grades 7-8), Edith Jean Miller (grades 3-4), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grades 1-2) |
1957-1958 |
Emelie Dmyterko (grades 1-2), Mary Halowka (grades 9-10), Ben Hanuschak (grades 11-12), Pauline Labchuk (grades 3-5), Eugenie McIvor (grades 6-8) |
1958-1959 |
Georges A. Beauregard (grade 9), Dorcas Mae Cryderman (grade 10), Maurice Wesley Cryderman (grade 12, October-June), Emelie Dmyterko (grades 1-2), Jonathan A. Greenhalgh (grades 11-12, September; grade 11, October-June), Pauline Labchuk (grades 3-5), Eugenie McIvor (grades 6-8) |
Among the other teachers of Fisher Branch School was Ethel Anna Sankey (?-?).
Teachers (Fisher Branch Collegiate)
Period |
Teachers |
1959-1960 |
James Bartram Fergusson (grade 10), Jonathan A. Greenhalgh (grade 11), Eugenie McIvor (grade 9, August-September), Teresa Moloney (grade 12), Arthur Richard Myers (grade 9), J. F. Trevenen (grade 9, October-June) |
1960-1961 |
Andrew Glen Conly (grade 9), Nicholas Constantinesco (grade 11), Teresa Moloney (grade 12), George J. Morrissette (grade 9), Arthur Richard Myers (grade 10), ’Asta Oddson (grade 11) |
After 1961 |
See Fisher Branch Collegiate Institute |
Teachers (Fisher Branch Elementary / Fisher Branch Early Years School)
Period |
Teachers |
1959-1960 |
Anne Buchko (grades 1-2), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grades 3-5), Myrslaw Kubas (grades 6-8) |
1960-1961 |
Anne Buchko (grades 1-2), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grades 3-4), Myrslaw Kubas (grades 7-8), Verna Jane Syranyk (grades 5-6) |
1961-1962 |
Mary Eleanor Dion (grades 5-6), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grades 3-4), Myrslaw Kubas (grades 7-8), Zennovia Daria Pawlik (grades 1-2) |
1962-1963 |
Anne Buchko (grades 1-2), Mary Eleanor Dion (grades 5-6), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grades 3-4), Myrslaw Kubas (grades 7-8) |
1963-1964 |
Anne Buchko (grades 1-2), Mary Eleanor Dion (grades 5-6), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grades 3-4), Myrslaw Kubas (grades 7-8) |
1964-1965 |
Anne Buchko (grades 1-2), Mary Eleanor Dion (grades 5-6), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grades 2-3), Florence Dora Lisowik (grades 4-5, November-June), Myrslaw Kubas (grades 7-8), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grades 4-5, August-October) |
1965-1966 |
Anne Buchko (grades 1-2), Mary Eleanor Dion (grade 7), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grade 3), Myrslaw Kubas (grade 8), Peter Kubas (grade 5), Mary Neighbour (grades 4 & 6), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grades 2 & 4) |
1966-1967 |
Anne Buchko (grade 1), Mary Eleanor Dion (grade 7), Marilyn Giasson (grade 4), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grade 3), Myrslaw Kubas (grade 8), Peter Kubas (grade 6), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grade 2) |
1967-1968 |
John J. Bliss (grade 5, 1967), Anne Buchko (grade 1), Mary Eleanor Dion (grade 4), Olga Grouch (grade 5, 1968), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grade 3), Betty Jean Kubas (grade 1), Myrslaw Kubas (grade 8), Peter Kubas (grade 7), Leontine Marie Meilleur (kindergarten & grades 1-2), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grade 2), Adeline Helen Popowich (grade 6), Anne Alice Boulianne Smallian (grade 7) |
1968-1969 |
Nora June Davidson (grades 2-3), Mary Eleanor Dion (grade 4), Marilyn Giasson (kindergarten, 1969), Olga Grouch (grade 7), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grade 3), Leontine Marie Meilleur (ungraded special education), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Edith Monelle Oman (kindergarten, 1968 substitute), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 5), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grade 2), Barbara Lillian Payment (grades 3-4), Walter Reimer (grade 8), Rosemary Irene Sanduliak (grade 1), Anne Alice Boulianne Smallian (grade 7, 1968), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grade 6), Dennis B. Wishnowski (grade 8), Leon Wishnowski (grade 7, 1969), Patricia Marie Yaciuk (grade 6) |
1969-1970 |
Anne Buchko (grade 2), Peter Deczycia (grade 8), Mary Eleanor Dion (grade 4), Hilda Dyck (grade 1), Vernon Kenneth Eger (grade 7), Clayton Haraldur Johnson (grade 8), Gail Anne Lefebure (grades 3-4), Eugenie McIvor (grade 6), Leontine Marie Meilleur (ungraded special education), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Edith Monelle Oman (kindergarten), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 5), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grade 2), Rosemary Irene Sanduliak (grade 1), Janet Edith Abel Stocki (grade 3), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grade 6), Dennis B. Wishnowski (grade 7) |
1970-1971 |
Anne Buchko (grade 2), Hilda Dyck (grade 1), Vernon Kenneth Eger (grade 7), Virginia Gail Fuz (grades 2-3), Gregoria Gobenciong (grade 1), Annette June Holowka (kindergarten), Clayton Haraldur Johnson (grade 8), Anne Lefebure (grades 3-4, 1970; grade 4, 1971), Eugenie McIvor (grade 6), Leontine Marie Meilleur (ungraded special education), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 5), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grade 2), Sophie-Ann Persoage (grade 7), Grant Herman Plohman (grade 7), Janet Edith Abel Stocki (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grade 6), |
1971-1972 |
Anne Buchko (grade 2), Hilda Dyck (grade 1, 1971; grades 1-2, 1972), Virginia Gail Fuz (grade 3), Gregoria Gobenciong (grade 1), Audrey Laneanne Johnson (grade 4), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grade 3), Patricia Marie Marchuk (grade 4, 1971), Leontine Marie Meilleur (ungraded special education), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 6), Emily Domia Pawlyk (grades 2-3, 1971; grades 4-5, 1972), Elaine Alice Robak (grades 2-3, 1972), Janet Edith Abel Stocki (grade 4), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grade 6) |
1972-1973 |
Anne Buchko (grades 1-2), Hilda Dyck (ungraded special education), Gregoria Gobenciong (grades 1-2), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (kindergarten), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 6), Domia Pawlyk (grade 4), Elaine Alice Robak (grade 1), Janet Edith Abel Stocki (grade 3, 1972; grades 3-4, 1973), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grade 5, 1972; grades 5-6, 1973), Virginia Gail Fuz Zembik (grade 3) |
1973-1974 |
Anne Buchko (grades 2-3), Hilda Dyck (ungraded special education & resource), Gregoria Gobenciong (grades 2-3), Annette June Holowka (grade 1), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (kindergarten), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 6), Barbara Lillian Payment (grade 4), Elaine Alice Robak (grade 2), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grade 6), Virginia Gail Fuz Zembik (grade 4) |
1974-1975 |
Anne Buchko (grade 2), Hilda Dyck (kindergarten), Gregoria Gobenciong (grade 3), Annette June Holowka (grade 1, September-December & May-June), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grade 1), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 6), Barbara Lillian Payment (grades 3-4), Elaine Alice Robak (grade 2), Verna May Sobkowich (grade 1, January-April), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grades 5-6), Virginia Gail Fuz Zembik (grade 4) |
1975-1976 |
Anne Buchko (grade 3), Gregoria Gobenciong (grade 4), Annette June Holowka (grade 2), Augustine Stephanie Konopetcki (grade 1), Mary Neighbour (grade 5), Frank Murray Packulak (grade 6), Barbara Lillian Payment (kindergarten), Elaine Alice Robak (grade 2), Verna May Sobkowich (grade 5), Elizabeth Eve Tanchak (grade 6), Virginia Gail Fuz Zembik (grade 4) |
Photos & Coordinates

Fisher Branch School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 137.

Fisher Branch School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 137.

Fisher Branch Elementary - southeast elevation (June 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission - Volume 1, File 42a Fisher Branch.

Fisher Branch Elementary - northwest elevation (June 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission - Volume 1, File 42a Fisher Branch.
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.08315, W97.62051 denoted by symbol on the map above
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See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Broad Valley School No. 1543 / Red School (RM of Fisher)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fisher Branch Collegiate Institute (Fisher Branch, RM of Fisher)
Sources:
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
A Place of Our Own - A History of No Ordinary People, 1982, Fisher Branch Historical Society.
Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in the Interlake - Manitoba - Volume 1, Fisher Branch Elementary - File 42a, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Fisher Branch School District No. 1378 - Daily Registers, GR11220 , Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Lakeshore School Division No. 23 (Fisher Branch Elementary) - Daily Registers, GR11220 , Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Ada Wiebe for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 March 2023
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