Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ladywood School No. 555 (Ladywood, RM of Brokenhead)

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The Ladywood School District was organized formally in October 1888. The present wood frame building dates from the early 20th century and is situated at Ladywood in the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead. It closed in 1968 and the building now stands vacant.

Principals

Period	Principal
1920-1923	Hugh Connolly (1890-1970)
1923-1924	Wallace Ross Donogh (1887-1968)
1924-1925	William Skidmore (c1885-?)
1925-1926	Robert MacLaren Keswick (1894-1938)
1926-1927	Winnifred Dorcas Boughton (1900-?)
1927-1928	Jane Wreford Chapple
1928-1929	Eleanor Marie Collison
1929-1932	Edgar Burgess (1867-1954)
1932-1934	?
1934-1936	Thomas Patrick King (1873-1954)
1936-1940	Peter Anthony “Tony” Stefaniec [Stephens] (1913-2011)
1940-1941	Leopold Raymond Labossiere (1913-1969)
1941-1942	Virden Gable
1942-1943	William Val Yacula (c1908-1958)
1943-1944	Effie Pauline Koroluk
1944-1947	Walter Charles Malenchak (1913-1991)
1947-1950	?
1950-1958	Stephen David Bahry (1914-2011)
1958-1960	George R. Truba
1960-1961	Ben Warkentin

Teachers

John McTavish (1889-1891), Oliver W. Thomas (1891-1892), D. J. Hartley (1892-1893), M. E. Alldritt (1893-1895), Mabel Howard (1895), Annie Masters (1895), U.W. Thomas (1896), A. W. Thomas (1897), Edward Gilbert (1897), Agnes Frame (1898-1900), David Howarth (1900), Elizabeth Hodkin (1900), Thomas Macdonald (1901, 1907-1909), Robert Fields (1901), J. Leslie (1905-1906), H. Powell (1905-1906), Amy Wilson (1909-1910), Wasyl Kolodzinski (1910-1911), N. H. Pilcha (1911), J. L. Powell (1912), H. S. Kawecki (1912-1913), S. D. Noldoezyk (1913), William Jerowsky (1914-1916), J. A. Yatchu (1916), Gertrude I. Shaw (1916-1918), J. W. Yatchu (1917-1918), Ivy P. Heuson (1918), Flo Smith (1919-1920), Clara M. Smith (1919-1920), Elsie Wyrzykowski (1919), M. W. Nicholls (1920), Nicholaus John Stryk (1920-1949), Sophie Cherry (1920-1921), Mrs. E. E. Connolly (1921-1922), Laura Chamberlain (1922-1923), Rose Stoller (1923-1924), Rose Silver (1924-1925), Josephine Griffen (1925-1927), Rose Laurel Shline (1928), Olive Kohare (1928), Olive Annie McLeod (1929-1930), Gladys Dobruzki (1930-1931), Mary Gryniuk (193l-1944), Felix Joseph Kulyk, Thomas Patrick King (1935-1936), Louise Wiebe (1944-1945), Mary Holyk (1945-1946), Louise Helen Puhacz (1946-1947), Joe Omichinski (1947), Sophie Horasko (1949-1953), Clara Lorraine Ilchene (1953-1955), Miss Nellie Angeline Lapchinsky (1955-1956), Mrs. Nellie Angeline Greschuk (1956-1958), Mrs. Marlene A. Truba (1958-1959), Olga Bilyk (1959-1960), Elsie Chorney (1960-1961), Mrs. Elsie Mosquin (1961-1963), Cornelius R. Klassen (1963-1964), John Schoen (1964), Jean Panas (1965), Mary-Jane Stefansson (1965-1966).

Photos & Coordinates

Ladywood School building (circa 1917) Source: Education Department Report, 1917, Manitoba Legislative Library. The former Ladywood school building (1987) Source: George Penner The former Ladywood school building (no date) Source: Cam Timlick The former Ladywood school building (March 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.17938, W96.49804 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.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Nathan Kramer, Cam Timlick, and George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 15 August 2020

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