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The Highland School District was established in May 1912 and one-room schoolhouses operated at SW12-13-5E in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. In December 1918, a $2,200 loan was secured to expand the building, adding on a frame construction measuring 20 feet by 28 feet, as well as conduct renovations to the existing schoolhouse. A further $400 was secure in June 1919 for additional school accommodation improvements along with a teacherage. The teacherage underwent a further $700 upgraded in the spring of 1922. The schoolhouse was destroyed in January 1956 and was replaced at a cost of $24,500 with a new structure that opened in the fall of 1957. In 1966, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Happy Thought Consolidated School District No. 1452 and later the Lord Selkirk School Division.
Principals
Teachers
The teachers of Highland School, in its early years, were Isabella Calder (1913), John A. May (1914), Alexander Todd (1914-1916), James Connaghan (1916), W. W. Woodward (1917), and Montague Shore (1917-1918).
Period |
Teachers |
1918-1919 |
Kate Livingstone, Agnes Ellen Martin |
1919-1920 |
Kate Livingstone, Agnes Ellen Martin |
1920-1921 |
Kate Livingstone, Marie Rankin |
1921-1922 |
Mabel B. Dickie (1921), Kate Livingstone, Lillian Blanche Moar (1922) |
1922-1923 |
Ellen Fraser, Kate Livingstone |
1923-1924 |
Edith M. Deacon |
1924-1925 |
Mildred J. Brown, Edith M. Deacon |
1925-1926 |
Elsie Dorothy Turner, Evelyn D. Woods |
1926-1927 |
Lila Rae Stephens, Elsie Dorothy Turner |
1927-1928 |
Jean Anne Mitchell, Lila Rae Stephens |
1928-1929 |
Violet E. L. Hark, Blanche Clarissa Hark Wolfe |
1929-1930 |
Violet E. L. Hark, Blanche Clarissa Hark Wolfe |
1930-1931 |
Richard Jeffreys Rolfe, Blanche Clarissa Hark Wolfe |
1931-1932 |
Emily Goodchild (1931), G. W. Graham (1931), Lillian E. Plewes (1932, daughter of J. H. Plewes), Dorothy Ruth Matheson (1932) |
1932-1933 |
Jean Beryl Matheson, Florence Isabel Sheldon |
1933-1934 |
Hymie Litwack, William James Swirsky |
1934-1935 |
Peter Tony Stefaniec, William James Swirsky |
1935-1936 |
Peter Tony Stefaniec, William James Swirsky |
1936-1937 |
John Dubas, William James Swirsky |
1937-1938 |
John Dubas, William James Swirsky |
1938-1939 |
John Dubas, Paul Harry Rudiak |
1939-1940 |
John Dubas, William Nazeravich |
1940-1941 |
John Dubas, William Nazeravich |
1941-1942 |
William Kereluk (1941), Nellie Sozanski (1942), George E. Yachnicki |
1942-1943 |
Nellie C. Rowe, Anne Margaret Zalubniak |
1943-1944 |
Clara J. Kososki, Nellie C. Meade |
1944-1945 |
Evelyn Merle Findlay, Nellie C. Meade |
1945-1946 |
Mary Donliski, Nellie C. Meade |
1946-1947 |
Felix Joseph Kulyk (grades 5-9), Helen Elsie Kostyniuk Kulyk (grades 1-4) |
1947-1948 |
Felix Joseph Kulyk (grades 5-9), Helen Elsie Kostyniuk Kulyk (grades 1-4) |
1948-1949 |
Helen E. Koltalo (1948), Helen Rose Osiawy, Helen Elaine Witko (1949) |
1949-1950 |
Margaret Theresa Black, Sonia Susan Kowalchuk |
1950-1951 |
Alice Julia Shalay, Annie Marjorie Shalay |
1951-1952 |
Alice Julia Shalay, Annie Marjorie Shalay |
1952-1953 |
Alexander William Shalay, Alice Julia Shalay |
1953-1954 |
Matt Parypa, Alexander William Shalay, Alice Julia Shalay |
1954-1955 |
Alexander William Shalay, Walter Stayko |
1955-1956 |
Alexander William Shalay, Walter Stayko |
1956-1957 |
Alexander William Shalay, Walter Stayko |
1957-1958 |
Walter Stayko, Sidney Norman Tether |
1958-1959 |
Walter Stayko, Sidney Norman Tether |
1959-1960 |
Myrtle Barnett, Neil McTavish (1959) |
1960-1961 |
Myrtle Barnett, Rose Doroschuk |
1961-1962 |
Mary Bernice Budz, Rose Doroschuk |
1962-1963 |
Mary Bernice Budz, Rose Doroschuk |
1963-1964 |
Mary Bernice Budz, Florence Hatton (1964) |
1964-1965 |
Mary Bernice Budz, Sharon Packer Vinsky |
1965-1966 |
Mary Bernice Budz |
Photos & Coordinates
Sources:
Selkirk topographic map, 62I/2, Edition 2, 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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #44 - School District of Highland, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #10 - School District of Highland, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #29 - School District of Highland, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Obituary [Agnes Ellen Sisler], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 August 1981, page 71.
The East Side of the Red: A Centennial Project of the Rural Municipality of St. Clements, 1884-1984 by the St. Clements Historical Society, 1984.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 10 February 2023
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