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The Lundar School District was established formally in February 1913 but it existed for only a few months before becoming the Lundar Consolidated School District. It operated a school in Lundar in the Rural Municipality of Coldwell. A third classroom was opened on 1 November 1917. After the original school building was destroyed by fire on 8 July 1947, a new school opened in the fall of 1949, expanded with an addition on the back in December 1956.
Period
Principal
1914
K. J. Backman
1914-1915
Edward Miskelly
1915-1916
Gudmundur Olafur Thorsteinson (1888-1934)
1916
Freda Samson
1916-1919
Elin Salome Halldorson (1887-1970)
1919-1920
Ivah B. Smith
1920-1922
Hjortur Jonas Leo (1875-1931)
1922-1923
Mary Hazel Dunseith (1900-1983)
1923-1924
Omar Ernest Campbell (1868-1936)
1924-1925
Leonard Krueger (c1898-1991)
1925-1928
Kristjan Bergthor Sigurdsson (1899-?)
1928-1929
Gordon Thomas MacDonell (1908-2004)
1929-1930
Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1968)
1930-1931
William Fogel (1903-1991)
1931-1933
Florence Mae Shirtliffe (1903-2006)
1933-1934
Nita Romanche [Romanczycz] (1910-1993)
1934-1935
Max Manishen (1911-1990)
1935-1940
Benjamin Franklin Olson (1898-1981)
1940-1941
John Archibald “Archie“ Carmichael (1916-2001)
1941-1955
Kristjon Felix Sigurdson (1901-1980)
1955-1956
Bodvar Jon Skuli Bodvarson (1911-1972)
1956-1973
George Schroeder
School Year
Teachers
1913
Jon Arnason (all grades, January-June)
1913-1914
Jon Arnason (all grades, August-December), K. J. Backman (senior grades, January-June), Edward Miskelly (junior grades, January-June)
1914-1915
K. J. Backman (grades 4-8, August-? [pt Fall]), Edward Miskelly (grades 4-8, ?-December [pt Fall]; grades 4-8, January-? [pt Spring]), Aldis Magnusson (grades 1-4, August-December), Freda Samson (grades 1-4, January-June), Gudmundur Olafur Thorsteinson (grades 4-8, ?-June [pt Spring])
1915-1916
Aldis Magnusson (grades 1-4, ?-June [pt Spring]), Freda Samson (grades 1-4, August-December; grades 4-10, ?-June [pt Spring]), Gudmundur Olafur Thorsteinson (grades 4-10, August-December & January-? [pt Spring])
1916-1917
Elin Salome Halldorson (grades 5-8), Freda Samson (grades 1-4)
1917-1918
Elin Salome Halldorson (grades 5-10, September-November; grades 7-10, November-June), Dorothy Marguerite Jefferson (grades 1-4, September-November; grades 1-3, November-December; grades 1-2, January-June), Bertha Johnson (grades 4-6, November-December; grades 3-6, January-June)
1918-1919
Elin Salome Halldorson (grades 7-10), Dorothy Marguerite Jefferson (grades 1-3), Freda Samson (grades 4-6)
1919-1920
Lilja S. Johnson (grades 1-3), Freda Samson (grades 4-8), Ivah B. Smith (grades 9-11)
1920-1921
Marjorie Greer (grades 1-2, January-June), P. Johnson (grades 6-8, September-December), Sigurbjorg “Sibba” Johnson (grades 1-2, September-December), Hjortur Jonas Leo (grades 9-11), G. Magnusson (grades 3-5), Freda Samson (grades 6-8, January-June)
1921-1922
Marjorie Greer (grades 1-2), Hjortur Jonas Leo (grades 9-11), G. Magnusson (grades 3-5), Freda Samson (grades 6-8)
Among the later teachers at Lundar School was Benno Richard Klaassen (?-1979).
The original Lundar School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 14.
The original Lundar School being destroyed by fire (July 1947)
Source: Judy Gleich
The second Lundar School, opened in 1949 (no date)
Source: Judy Gleich
Lundar School (July 2024)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.69347, W98.03401
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dehowa School No. 1451 (Poplarfield, RM of Fisher)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Lundar topographic map, 62J/9, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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.
Wagons to Wings: History of Lundar and Districts, 1872-1980 by Lundar and District Historical Society, c1980.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Linda Collette, Judy Gleich, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 29 December 2025
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