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The Great Falls School District was established formally in September 1919 and $3,500 borrowed in April 1920 to purchase property and building a school at the southwest corner of SW27-17-11E within the Winnipeg Electric Company settlement of Great Falls. The school provided education for children of staff who serviced the nearby to the Great Falls Generating Station as well as families from the surrounding catchment area. The district was expanded in January 1953 with the transfer of the east half of 29-17-11E land from the Mud Falls School District No. 2281. In 1954, a new four-room wooden frame and stucco schoolhouse built along Caton Street within the village, based upon designs of Winnipeg architectal partnership of Prain & Ward. Starting in Fall 1961, high school students were relocated to Powerview Collegiate and Lac du Bonnet Collegiate Institute. In January 1968, the district became part of the Agassiz School Division. The school closed in the summer of 1971.
Principals
Principals (High School)
Teachers
Period |
Teachers |
1938-1939 |
Benjamin Popeski (grades 9-11), Jacob Bernard Warkentin (grades 1-8) |
1939-1940 |
Benjamin Popeski (grades 9-11), Jacob Bernard Warkentin (grades 1-8) |
1940-1941 |
Benjamin Popeski (grades 9-11), Jacob Bernard Warkentin (grades 1-8) |
1941-1942 |
Henry Benjamin Bees (grades 9-11), Jacob Bernard Warkentin (grades 1-8) |
1942-1943 |
Margaret Catherine Busch (grades 9-11), Jacob Bernard Warkentin (grades 1-8) |
1943-1944 |
Margaret Catherine Busch (grades 7-11), Lily May Nevin (grades 1-6, 1943; grades 1-3, 1944), Helen Maude Ortwein (grades 4-6, 1944) |
1944-1945 |
Margaret Catherine Busch (grades 7-11, 1944 & 1945), Florence Bernetta Marie Cadigan (grades 1-6), Doris Rita Case (grades 1-6, 1945), Sheila Jones (grades 7-11, 1944) |
1945-1946 |
Doris Rita Case (grades 1-6, 1945), Fern Castain (grades 1-6, 1956), Eva Menzies Fallis (grades 7-11) |
1946-1947 |
Garnet Robson Harland (grades 7-11), George Kroeker (grades 1-6) |
1947-1948 |
Garnet Robson Harland (grades 7-11), George Kroeker (grades 1-6) |
1948-1949 |
Garnet Robson Harland (grades 7-11), Rosemary Margaret Lyon (grades 1-6) |
1949-1950 |
Nellie Doris Campbell (grades 1-6, 1950), Enid Laurie Causins? (grades 1-6, 1949), Garnet Robson Harland (grades 7-11) |
1950-1951 |
Nellie Doris Campbell (grades 1-6), Garnet Robson Harland (grades 7-11) |
1951-1952 |
Nellie Doris Campbell (grades 1-6), Garnet Robson Harland (grades 7-11) |
1952-1953 |
Garnet Robson Harland (grades 8-11), Verda Johnson (grades 3-4, 1953), Ethel Kate Templin (grades 1-3, 1952; grades 1-2, 1953), Annie Elizabeth Warden (grades 4-7, 1952; grades 5-7, 1953) |
1953-1954 |
Garnet Robson Harland (grades 9-11), Olga Jorgenson (grades 5-8), Arline Nancy Newman (grades 3-4), Ethel Kate Templin (grades 1-2) |
1954-1955 |
Garnet Robson Harland (grades 8-11, 1954; grades 9-11, 1955), Arline Nancy Newman (grades 3-4, 1954; grades 3-5, 1955), Gwendoline Jessie Smith (grades 5-7, 1954; grades 6-8, 1955), Ethel Kate Templin (grades 1-2) |
1955-1956 |
Naomi Clara Dyck (grades 1-2), Helen Hendrie Jorgensen (grades 9-11), Soren Bernhard Jorgensen (grades 3-5), Gwendoline Jessie Smith (grades 6-8) |
1956-1957 |
Naomi Clara Dyck (grades 1-2), Helen Hendrie Jorgensen (grades 9-11), Soren Bernhard Jorgensen (grades 3-5), Gwendoline Jessie Smith (grades 6-8) |
1957-1958 |
Naomi Clara Dyck (grades 1-2), Frelan Loewen (grades 9-11), Olga Loewen (grades 3-5, August-April), Freda Petterson (grades 3-5, April-June), Mrs. G. Smith (grades 6-8, August-October), Dave G. Wereschuk (grades 6-8, October-June) |
1958-1959 |
Naomi Clara Dyck (grades 1-2), Clarence Armen Koch (grades 6-8), Frelan Loewen (grades 9-11), Freda Petterson (grades 3-5) |
1959-1960 |
Mary Bueckert (grades 1-2), Heidi Jeanne Johannesson (grades 3-5), Clarence Armen Koch (grades 6-8), Anthony Rempel (grade 9-11) |
1960-1961 |
Fred Kalinowsky (grades 6-8), Clara Jean Morran (grades 1-2), David Arnold Rosner (grades 3-5), Julius George Toews (grades 9-11) |
1961-1962 |
Fred Kalinowsky (grades 6-8), Clara Jean Morran (grades 1-3), David Arnold Rosner (grades 3-5) |
1962-1963 |
Sharon Ann Holding (grades 3-4), Fred Kalinowsky (grades 7-9), Clara Jean Morran (grades 1-2), David Arnold Rosner (grades 5-6) |
1963-1964 |
Audrey Jean Bateman (grades 2-3), Fred Kalinowsky (grades 6-8), Faythe Marie Malarchuk (grade 1), David Arnold Rosner (grades 4-5) |
1964-1965 |
Audrey Jean Bateman (grades 2-3), Fred Kalinowsky (grades 6-8), Catherine Wenski (grades 4-5), Clara Wilgosh (grade 1) |
1965-1966 |
Jo-Anne G. Hirst (grades 1-2), Fred Kalinowsky (grades 6-8), Audrey Jean Bateman Lehmann (grades 3-4), Alice Marie Olson (ungraded), Catherine Wenski (grades 4-5) |
1966-1967 |
Jo-Anne G. Hirst (grades 1-2), Audrey Jean Bateman Lehmann (grades 3-4), Peter Mikolayenko (grades 7-8), Alice Marie Olson (ungraded), Catherine Wenski (grades 5-6) |
1967-1968 |
Jo-Anne G. Hirst (grades 1-2), Dennis Herntier (grades 7-8), Audrey Jean Bateman Lehmann (grades 3-4), Karen Adrene Sokalski (grades 5-6) |
1968-1969 |
Audrey Jean Bateman Lehmann (grades 3-4), Karen Adrene Sokalski (grades 5-6), Hortense Marie Wilcott (grades 1-2) |
1969-1970 |
Salorne? Desilets? (special education, 1970), Lynda Joan Kalynuik (grades 3-4, 1969), Bonnie Gail Lee (grades 3-4), Karen Adrene Sokalski (grades 5-6), Hortense Marie Wilcott (special education, 1969) |
1970-1971 |
Florine Carol Campbell (grades 1-2), Joanne Elizabeth Clark (grades 3-4), Donald Walter Smith (grades 5-6), Hortense Marie Wilcott (special education) |
Among the other teachers of Great Falls School were Cordelia Martel (Fall 1920), Frank Ryan (Spring - Fall 1921), Arthur A. Frye (Spring 1922), Roy Colter Arbuckle (Fall 1922 - Spring 1923), William Fairbairn Currie Billyard (Fall 1923 - Spring 1928), Robert William Lightly (Fall 1928 - Spring 1931), Raphael Marion Sundt (Fall 1931 - Spring 1934), and Jacob Bernard Warkentin (Fall 1934 - Spring 1938).
Photos & Coordinates

The first Great Falls School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 77.

The second Great Falls School (November 1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, File 118 Great Falls School.
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.45846, W96.01278 denoted by symbol on the map above
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Sources:
“Great Falls S.D. No. 2011 requires teacher [...],” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 June 1954, page 27.
“Tenders [Great Falls School],” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 June 1954, page 36.
“Great Falls,” Springfield Leader, 11 September 1956, page 1.
“Great Falls,” by Stan Gittins, Springfield Leader, 15 September 1959, page 6.
“Great Falls,” Springfield Leader, 4 July 1961, page 1.
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.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Great Falls School District No. 2011 - Daily Registers, GR0565, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Great Falls School District No. 2011 - Cash Books, GR9480, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #20 School District of Great Falls, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Great Falls School District No. 2011, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in the Interlake - Manitoba - Volume 2, Great Falls School - File 118, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 26 December 2019
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