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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lockerby School No. 570 (RM of Riding Mountain West)The Lockerby School District was organized formally in April 1889 and a school building was subsequently erected on the northeast quarter of 8-22-27 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West. A new, larger schoolhouse was constructed in 1923. Among the teachers of Lockerby School were Randolph Martenson (1889), Ruth Brunt, H. W. Foster (1895-1897), Annie Burrows (1898-1900), T. W. Ebbern (1899), Annie Smith (1900-1901), S. H. Adams (1902), Perry W. Grant (1903), W. Atkinson (1903), Miss Ina Tod (1917-1918), Miss Hazel McIntyre (1918), Miss Gertie Clee (1918-1919), Miss M. Davidson (1919), Miss E. Bartel (1919-1920), Miss Bowles (1920), Miss Amy Allen (1921), Miss Gladys Bell (1921-1923), Miss Annie Jackson (1923-1924), Miss Lucinda Davidson (1924-1926), Miss Hogeboom (1927), Mr. J. G. Minshull (1927), Mr. M. L. Holmes (1928), Mr. Bingham (1928-1929), Miss Neta Sadler (1929), Miss Williams (1929-1930), Miss O. A. Neuman (1930-1931), Miss Gertrude Staples (1931-1933), Miss Inez Virtue (1933-1936), Miss Gladys Dunkin (1936-1938), Isabelle H. Dresser (1938-1940), Miss Jean Smith (1940), Mrs. Marion Pulfer (1941), Rhoda Barry (1941-1942), Miss Sophie Russin (1942-1943), Miss Anne Charney (1943), Miss Emily Olsen (1944), Alex Sabeski (1944-1945), Mrs. Pauline Gallant (1945-1946), Miss McLean (1946-1947), Miss Vicki Czarnecki (1947-1948), Miss Hayword (1948), Miss Noreen Hawson (1949), Dorothy Beischer (1949-1950), Miss Magdalene Daechsel (1950-1951), Miss Shirley Mansell (1951-1952), Miss Irene Sereda (1952-1953), Archie Cameron (1953-1954), Miss Beverly La Haye (1954-1955), Mrs. Sophie Klimack (1955-1957), Miss E. C. McKay (1957-1958), Miss Helen Glod (1958-1960), Miss Adele Trakalo (1960-1961), Mrs. Evelyn Shindruk (1961-1962), Richard Osika (1962-1963), Arlene Fruin (1963-1964), and William C. Kozak (1964-1966). The school closed in 1966 and its remaining students went to Inglis Consolidated School No. 2458. The building was sold and moved away but a monument unveiled in August 1985 commemorates it.
Sources: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. R.M. of Boulton: Once Upon a Century, 1884-1984 by R.M. of Boulton, 1986, pages 38-43. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 4 June 2023
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