The Flower School District was established in October 1916 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE25-19-22W in what is now the Municipality of Harrison Park. Two debentures were issued to finance loans used for the school districts development, with a debenture of $1,600 issued in August 1917 for the purchasing of a school site along with construction and furnishing of the schoolhouse, and a second debenture of $800 in March 1918 for the construction of a teacherage. The school measured 20 feet wide, 36 feet long, and 12 feet high, with maple flooring and a brick chimney. The four-room teacherage measured 18 feet by 20 feet, and was located on the three acre site directly west of the school, with the other buildings later added to the site including two outhouses and a coal shed.
Affairs of the district were largely handled by Official Trustees, including Ira Stratton (1917-1918), John W. Smith [of Oakburn] (1936 - December 1958), and Angus Albert MacDonald (December 1958 - ?). In January 1960, the district was dissolved and its catchment area was added to the Elphinstone Consolidated School District.
Among the teachers of Flower School were Sara Elizabeth Kinley (April-July 1918, August-November 1918), school closed due to influenza (November-December 1918), Cornelius Green (January-June 1919), W. P. Donaldson (Fall 1919 - Spring 1920), Walter Alexander Balls (September-December 1920, January-June 1921, Fall 1921 - Spring 1922, August-December 1922), Robert M. Smith (April-June 1923), Kathleen Wark (April-July 1924), E. A. Paisley (Fall 1924), J. W. McCorky? (January-July 1925), J. W. Melosky (August 1925), John M. Hawryluk (September-December 1925), Carrie E. Lunn (March-June 1926, August 1926), Irene Waluk (September-December 1926), D. D. Dutchak (March-June 1927, September-December 1927), Louise M. Butler (March-June 1928), G. Count [Carant?] (September-October 1928), Oliver Clayton Bricker (November-December 1928), Michael Paul Lutack (Spring 1929), Peter Krepiakevich (Fall 1929 - Spring 1930), Alan Bellingham Cheales (Fall 1930 - Spring 1931), Mary Nychek (Fall 1931 - Spring 1934), Phyllis Chopp (Fall 1934 - Spring 1936), John Zurbyk (Fall 1938 - Spring 1940), Lena Ellen Zepa Nychuk (Fall 1940 - Fall 1943), Lula Squire (Spring 1944), Nell Nykolation (Fall 1944 - Spring 1945), Harry Herbert Galan (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Joseph Stan. Dnistransky (Fall 1946 - Spring 1947), Steffie Maduke (Fall 1947 - Spring 1948), Michael Stephen Matiowsky (Fall 1948 - Spring 1949), Martin Koroscil (Fall 1949 - Spring 1953), Eugene Stefanuik (Fall 1953 - Spring 1954), Joseph Kustiak (Fall 1954 - Spring 1957), and Walter Cazmer “Wally” Yanchycki (Fall 1957 - Spring 1960).
The school closed in summer 1960, and its catchment later became part of the Pelly Trail School Division. The schoolhouse burned down in 1962 and the school yard was turned into a livestock pasture. The teacherage was sold and moved two miles east of Elphinstone. A stone monument commemorates the school at the site.
Flower School commemorative monument (September 2007)
Source: Ed ArndtSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.65403, W100.39307
denoted by symbol on the map above
Manitoba School Records Collection, Flower School No. 1843 - Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #44 School District of Flower, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #28 School District of Flower, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Flower School District No. 1843, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Flower School District No. 1843 - Miscellaneous, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 1843 - Flower School District - Permanent, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 1843 - Flower, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Orders-In-Council (EC 0003B), Order-in-Council #29101, GR1530, Archives of Manitoba.
Orders-In-Council (EC 0003B), Order-in-Council #1074/36 & #2026/58, GR0589, Archives of Manitoba.
Elphinstone West topographic map, 62K/9 West, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
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.
From the Past to the Present, 1898-1987 by Parkland Ukrainian Pioneer Association, circa 1988. [Legislative Library of Manitoba, Rare Book Collection F5648.P36 Fro]
We thank Ed Arndt for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 10 May 2026
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