Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gonor School No. 1070 (RM of St. Clements)

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The Gonor School District operated a school on Lot 190 in the Parish of St. Andrews, in what is now the Municipality of St. Clements.

Principals

Period	Principal
1916	Irene Best
1930-1931	Claude E. Law
1931-1934	?
1934-1937	William Michael Wall (1911-1962)
1937-1941	Maxim George Wawrykow (1902-1977)
1941-1944	Walter Peter Gay
1944-1948	Felix Tesarski (1916-2010)
1948-1951	Cecil Victor Gunn (1894-?)
1951-1953	Joseph Charles Flood (1924-2009)
1953-1954	John Leslie Nixon
1954-1956	Edward Earl Skabar
1956-1957	Mervislawa Lakusta
1957-1959	Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (1896-1973)

Teachers

The teachers of Gonor School were Jane F. Yernew (1901), Clement E. Taylor (1901), Beatrice E. McColl (1905-1907), Jane Gardner (1907-1908), Frances B. Graham (1907), Gertrude Cook (1908-1909), Ada Arnold (1910), Mary Hodgson (1911), Reginald Bate (1912-1913), Christina Gunn (1913-1915), Felice Heymiearicki (1914), F. J. Marciniw (1915), Irene Best (1915-1916), Catherine D. Pluto (1915-1917), Grace A. M. Reid (1916), Edith May Griffis (1916-1939), Anna H. Muckle (1917), Barbara Eugenie Leger (1917-1939), Annie Lillian Oatway (1911-1921), Vilfridur Holm (1918), Ida Schmok (1920-1922), Myrtle Joyce (1921-1922), Jeanette Vance (1922-1926), Grace J. Buckingham (1922), Mrs. James Beattie (1923), Mary Donalda MacLennan (1923-1925), Beatrice Freedman (1925-1926), Kathleen May Anderson (1926-1931), Alina E. Campbell (1926-1927), lrene Viola Stewart (1927-1929), Maxine Gladys Stewart (1929-1930), Margery Edith Rubelle Reynolds (1931-1934), William Michael Wolochatiuk (1932-1934), Marjorie Fitton (1934-1935), Olive Susan Orth (1935-1963), Anne Delima Todd (1939-1943), Casimir Hollinger (1939-1943), Lillian Augusta Henrikson (1943-1946), Jennie Parker Taylor (1943), Esther A. Bolton (1944), Anne Margaret Zalubniak (1945), Casimir Hollinger (1946), Angela Culligan (1947), Jean Hollinger (1941-1948), Jessie Uswak (1947-1951), Helen Beatuater (1948), E. F. Reinner (1949), Anne Delima Todd (1949-1965), Mrs. Jean Hollinger (1950-1952), Henry Schmidt (1952-1953), Lawrence Russell Neil (1953), Alick Chernick (1953), Mrs. L. J. Dawydiuk (1953-1954), Ted Peterin E. Shabas (1954), Mrs. Eileen L. Robilkaid (1956), Margaret A. Young (1957), Mr. George A. Capar (1957-1959), Margaret Young (1959-1960), Ed Baurrier (1959-1960), Elizabeth Cairns (1960-1964), Nestor M. Podolsky (1960-1963), Eleanor Karalash (1963-1964), N. Perchaliuk (1963-1965), Anthony Swidinsky (1964-1965), and Lena Basiuk (1964-1965).

Photos & Coordinates

Gonor School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 51. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.06925, W96.94797 denoted by symbol on the map above

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.

East Side of the Red, 1884-1984 by St. Clements Historical Committee, 1984.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 August 2020

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