Known originally as the Eichenfeld School District when it was organized formally in January 1902, it was renamed Lydiatt sometime before 1926. A one-room schoolhouse operated at the southwest corner of SW9-12-8E in the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead. The district was dissolved in 1968 and its catchment area became part of the Agassiz School Division. The former school was later renovated into a private residence.
The teachers of Lydiatt School were A. Heinemann (1903), Stuart Young (1903), William Nau (1904-1907, 1910-1911), Albert Haller (1907-1909), F. Sauer (1911-1912), John Jacob Funk (1913), W. Pomenke (1913-1915), W. Kornelson (1915), Ed Klim (1915-1917), E. Bathgate (1917), F. C. Saunderson (1918-1919), H. Graff (1919-1924), G. W. Jose (1924-1925), Ida M. Kimpel (1925-1926), Murrey L. Jarvis (1926), Mary Milovitch (1926-1927), Thomas O. Litton (1927-1931), Gerhard J. Lohrenz (1931-1938), E. Wendell (1938-1939), John Lyzun (1939-1941), George Wesley Denstedt (1941-1946), Fern Nicol (1946-1950), M. Molodoshanin (1950-1951), G. W. Leonard (1951-1955), M. Bazinet (1955-1957), Jarvis Walter Korchak (1957-1958), Brenda Berkis (1958-1959), Bernice Kianski (1959-19600), William J. Siamchuk (1960-1962), E. Eberhardt (1962-1964), Louise Yestrau (1964-1966), Norma Lee Boss (1966-1967), and ? Green (1967-1968).
Lydiatt School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 76.
The former Lydiatt School building (March 2018)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.98846, W96.45174
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. John’s Lutheran Church and Cemetery (Lydiatt, RM of Brokenhead)
School District Formation Files [Lydiatt School District No. 1199], GR1688, E0027, 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.
Obituary [Jarvis Walter Korchak], Cropo Funeral Chapel.
We thank George Penner and Marlene Huber Wallman for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 June 2026
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