Historic Sites of Manitoba: Highland School No. 1628 (RM of St. Clements)

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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

Period	Principal
1918-1920	Agnes Ellen Martin Sisler (1899-1981)
1920-1946	?
1946-1948	Felix Joseph Kulyk [Kulick] (1911-1995)
1948-1957	?
1957-1959	Sidney Norman Tether (1894-1974)
1959	Neil McTavish (1902-1968)
1960-1966	?

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

Highland School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 6. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.07774, W96.78526 denoted by symbol on the map above

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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