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The Hamiota School District was formally established in April 1892 and a school building was erected that year on the southeast corner of the SW17-14-23W farm of James Stewart in the Rural Municipality of Hamiota. That first school was financed via a $1,500 debenture and built by contractor George S. Anderson. This original school was then moved into the village and used as a private residence, later occupied Mayor Edward Perry Venables.
That earliest building was replaced with a new school based upon the architectural designs of S. Frank Peters in 1898 and financed via a $4,000 debenture. Built by contractors McGavin and Elliott on land at SE-17-15-23W in Hamiota purchased from M. B. Jackson, it featured two classrooms and a basement. Two more classrooms were added in 1908, with the drawings for the expanded design also provided by Peters.
The district was one of the first in Manitoba to participate in the consolidation movement when, in June 1912, it joined to Kerr School No. 220 and Chumah School No. 401 to form Hamiota Consolidated School No. 692. A second addition to the school, on the north side, was made in 1914. By the 1950s, it had four classrooms on each of two storeys. It was demolished in 1957 and replaced by the present structure nearby.
Period
Principal
1899-1900
Henry Gledhill “Harry” Heasman (1870-1955)
1901-1906
Stephen Thomas Windsor (1874-1967)
1906-1913
Washburn Van Dusen (1869-?)
1913-1916
Thomas Addison Neelin (1882-1970)
1916-1919
Charles T. Cresswell (1872-1961)
1919-1921
William Edgar Rogers (1889-1979)
1921-1925
Johann Gestur Johannsson (1886-1978)
1925-1927
Harold Ludlow Albright (1888-1955)
1927-1950
George Henry Ruttan (1880-1960)
1950-1951
Sidney George Denham (1909-1989)
1951-1954
Joseph William Butcher (1906-1997)
1954-1956
John Chalaturnyk (1915-2001)
1956-1963
Frank Lorne McKinnon (1934-2015)
1963-1973
A. William Robertson
Period
Principal
1988-?
Allan Robertson
Period
Vice-Principal
1988-?
Dick Prawdzik
Carol Smith
Among the early teachers of Hamiota School were Miss Lockhart (1892), William Edgar Pye (Fall 1892 - pt Fall 1896) and Dr. John H. Fraser (pt Fall 1896 - Fall 1898).
School Year
Teachers
1899
Mina Fox (junior grades, pt Spring - Fall), Henry Heasman (senior grades), Miss A. M. Johnston (junior grades, pt Spring)
1900
Mina Fox (junior grades, Spring), Henry Heasman (senior grades), Kate Stewart (junior grades, Fall)
1901
Florence Armstrong (? grades, Fall), Kate Stewart (junior grades, Spring; ? grades, Fall), Stephen Thomas Windsor (senior grades)
1902
Stephen Thomas Windsor (senior grades), records not available (junior and intermediate grades)
1903
Stephen Thomas Windsor (senior grades), Miss Stewart (? grades, Spring), Miss Wilson (? grades, Spring), records not available (junior and intermediate grades, Fall)
1904
Stephen Thomas Windsor (senior grades), records not available (junior and intermediate grades)
1905
Bertha Reid, Ada M. Venables, Stephen Thomas Windsor (senior grades)
1906
Florence M. Cochrane, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades, Fall), Ada M. Venables, Stephen Thomas Windsor (senior grades, Spring)
1907
Florence M. Cochrane, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades), Ada M. Venables
1908
Florence M. Cochrane, Linda Norris (Fall), Sarah Ann Sproat, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades)
1909
Florence M. Cochrane, Linda Norris, Sarah Ann Sproat, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades)
1910
Florence M. Cochrane, Annie C. Courtney (Spring), James Edward Shimmin (Fall), Sarah Ann Sproat, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades)
1911
Florence M. Cochrane, James Edward Shimmin, Sarah Ann Sproat, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades)
1912
(January-June only): Florence M. Cochrane, Howard A. Garland, Sarah Ann Sproat, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades)
1912-1913
Florence M. Cochrane (Fall), Florence M. Graham (Spring), Gladys Houck (Spring), Kenneth Morton Lewis, Annie L. Rutherford (Spring), Sarah Ann Sproat, Washburn Van Dusen (senior grades)
1913-1914
Florence M. Cochrane, Gladys Houck, Kenneth Morton Lewis, Thomas Addison Neelin (senior grades), Annie L. Rutherford, Lizzie Smith (pt Fall), Sarah Ann Sproat
1914-1915
Charles Maurice Brousson (grades 9 & 11), Florence M. Cochrane (grades 1-3), Gladys Houck (grades 3-4), Mabel A. Kirk (grades ?, pt Fall), Kenneth Morton Lewis (grades 4-5), Thomas Addison Neelin (grades 10-11), Sarah Ann Sproat (grades 6-8)
1915-1916
Charles Maurice Brousson (grade 9), Florence M. Cochrane (grades 1-2), Gladys Houck (grade 3), Kenneth Morton Lewis (grades 4-5), Thomas Addison Neelin (grades 10-11), Sarah Ann Sproat (grades 6-8)
1916-1917
Katherine J. Cameron (grades 8-9), Florence M. Cochrane (grades 1-2), Elva Cowan (grades 2-3), Charles T. Cresswell (grades 10-11), Kenneth Morton Lewis (grades 4-5, September-December), Jeanette N. McFarland (grades 4-5, January-June), Sarah Ann Sproat (grades 6-7)
1917-1918
Barbara Coates (grades 8-9), Florence M. Cochrane (grades 1-2, September-December; grades 1-3, January-June), Charles T. Cresswell (grades 10-11), Jeanette N. McFarland (grades 4-5), Laura May Ripley (grade 3), Sarah Ann Sproat (grades 6-7)
1918-1919
Barbara Coates (grade 9), Florence M. Cochrane (grades 1-2), Charles T. Cresswell (grades 10-11), Gladys Houck (grades 5-6), Jeanette N. McFarland (grade 4), Laura May Ripley (grades 2-3), Sarah Ann Sproat (grades 7-8)
1919-1920
Gladys I. Atkins (grade 1), Florence M. Cochrane (grade 9), Elsie Parkin Graham (grade 8), Gladys Houck (grade 5), Jeanette N. McFarland (grades 3-4), Laura May Ripley (grades 1-3), William Edgar Rogers (grades 10-11), Sarah Ann Sproat (grades 6-7)
1920-1921
Lillian Helen Arnold, G. Atkens, E. Rita Hawthorne, E. Pearl Latimer, Flossie R. Lind, Margaret McClumb, Mary A. McConnell, Vera P. McKenzie
1921-1922
M. E. Andrew, Lillian Helen Arnold, Laura Hainstock, Ada Pauline Herkes, Mabel Muldoon, Jessie A. Rogers, Lois Spooner
1922-1923
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1923-1924
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1924-1925
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1925-1926
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1926-1927
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1927-1928
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1928-1929
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1929-1930
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1930-1931
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1931-1932
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1932-1933
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1933-1934
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1934-1935
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1935-1936
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1936-1937
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1937-1938
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1938-1939
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1939-1940
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1940-1941
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1941-1942
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1942-1943
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1943-1944
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1944-1945
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1945-1946
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1946-1947
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1947-1948
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1948-1949
Douglas Bridge, Miss J. B. Cummings, Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss N. Fraser, Miss M. E. Jones, Miss A. Lavery, Miss O. Smith
1949-1950
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1950-1951
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Leonard Harvey Goldsborough, ?
1951-1952
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Leonard Harvey Goldsborough, ?
1952-1953
Mrs. Gladys Fraser (grades 3 and 4), Mrs. A. Giesbrecht (collegiate), Mrs. J. Johnston (collegiate), Miss V. Jones (grades 2 and 3), Miss J. Leifer (grade 1), Miss E. Morton (grades 5 and 6), Miss V. Motherall (grades 7 and 8)
1953-1954
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1954-1955
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1955-1956
?
1956-1957
?
1957-1958
?
1958-1959
?
1959-1960
?
1960-1961
?
1961-1962
Mrs. Louise Baillie, Miss Terry Fulton, Mrs. Agnes Pateman, Mrs. Doris Rampling, Mr. P. I. Robinson
Among the other teachers of Hamiota School were Lillian Lawson (?-?), M. Mair, A. L. Loundry, A. Mellar, F. Wilson, E. Hawthorne, Miss M. E. Usher, L. Nicol, M. E. Geddes, E. M. Burkholder, Beatrice Alice Hume, Rose Jane Vasey (wife of Frederick James Westcott), J. H. Woodhill, O. M. Horn, E. Steele, L. Hodges, K. Condell, T. Moloney, E. J. Mollerd, F. Turner, N. M. Molson, Weston Sweet, L. Hodges, E. E. Nelson, J. M. Howlett, I. Wilkinson, R. J. Fraser, L. A. Glinz, L. King, L. McDonald, O. M. Eby, J. M. Brown, K. Walley, D. B. Fraser, M. Lund, J. McCrindle, Russel H. Hayter, W. C. Campbell, R. Bundy, G. Pollard, A. Small, M. McCrindle, V. Howe, P. Haedisty, V. Murray, E. Brook, A. Dunn, V. Jeffrey, I. Birney, O. Smith, F. Francis, L. Kirk, N. Fraser, J. Cummings, L. Ellerington, D. Bridge, E. Jones, R. E. Rathwell, W. Bamford, E. J. Black, R. Stacey, A. C. Thompson, A. E. Lawson, M. C. Brown, V. Jones, C. E. Morton, H. W. Savage, J. L. Hamilton, J. E. Leifer, V. A. Motherall, L. Giesbrecht, S. I. Coulter, M. Hazelwood, A. K. Butcher, H. E. Irwin, Gladwyn Lyle Scott, Miss Mary Babuik, and Harriet Henrietta “Etta” Crewson.
The four-classroom Hamiota School before its expansion (circa 1912)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2017-0012
The eight-classroom Hamiota School (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 109.
Postcard view of the eight-classroom Hamiota School (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2024-0057
Hamiota School (May 2021)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.18246, W100.59877
denoted by symbol on the map above
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Where wealth comes easy and always - The Village of Hamiota,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 May 1903, page 17.
“Wanted, contracts,” Manitoba Free Press, 10 June 1908, page 2.
“Hamiota, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 1916, Archives of Manitoba.
“Teachers at the convention,” Brandon Sun, 15 October 1920, page 6.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
The History of Hamiota by the Hamiota Women’s Institute, circa 1949.
A History of Hamiota Village and Municipalty by Hamiota Women’s Institute, 1953.
“Council reports,” Birtle Eyewitness, 3 October 1961, page 10.
“Current comments,” Hamiota Echo, 18 April 1962, page 2.
“Current comments,” Hamiota Echo, 29 June 1966, page 2.
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.
Obituary [Rose Jane Westcott], Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1985, page 31.
“Trustees conduct regular meeting,” Hamiota Echo, 13 September 1988, page 7.
We thank Len Goldsborough, Rose Kuzina, and Rick Mutton for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 8 January 2026
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