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The Rosamond School District was established formally in May 1905 and the first schoolhouse in McCreary had a single classroom. In 1917, a larger school building was constructed at the site and the original one was moved elsewhere to be used as a movie house and hardware store before being dismantled. The new two-storey Rosamond building had two classrooms on its main floor, with cloakrooms and an assembly area. There were two classrooms on the second floor and a small laboratory. In 1936, it became McCreary Municipal School No. 1348. A new four-classroom elementary school was constructed beside it in 1952 and both structures were used until being closed in 1979, although senior students had moved out in 1959 when a five-classroom collegiate was built at another site. The two buildings were demolished by 1983. The old school bell (restored in 1987) tops a stone monument that was unveiled at the original site on 31 July 1994, along with a plaque listing other rural schools that operated in the McCreary region:
School
Period of Operation
Location(s)
1916-1967
SW21-20-13W
1917-1964
NE28-20-14W
1922-1965
SE33-21-15W
1914-1956
SE34-19-13W
Canadaville School No. 836
1895-1921
NE17-21-15W
1913-1960
SE12-21-15W
1901-1966
NW23-19-14W
Glenhope School No. 1861
1917-1940
SE8-21-13W
Marshall School No. 2013
1919-1933
NW31-21-13W
1899-1962
SW27-20-15W
1898-1966
NE34-20-15W and SE3-20-15W
1941-1962
SE24-20-15W
1905-1959
SW18-21-16W
1918-1962
NE29-21-14W
Turtle Plains School No. 1568
1911-1964
SW6-20-14W
Period
Principal
1917-1919
?
1919-1923
Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1923-1925
Harvey Richard Brown (1895-1962)
1925-1926
George Gilbert Perry (1892-1971)
1926-1931
David Smith Tod (1870-1937)
1931-1935
Earl Duncan McKellar (1902-1984)
1935-1953
William Meldrum (1884-1959)
1953-1956
Harry Piniuta (1910-1990)
1956-1958
William Meldrum (1884-1959)
1958-1960
Ray E. Lavack
1960-1961
John Peter Tutkaluke (1914-1994)
1961-1962
A. H. Butler
1962-1963
George Papas
1963-1964
Oliver Glen Olmstead (?-1997)
1964-1965
Michael “Mike” Posmituck (1918-1996)
1965-1969
?
1969-1979
John Hildebrand
Among the early teachers of McCreary School were Fred Palmatier, Roy Watson, F. M. Thompson, and Marie Louise Trottier.
School Year
Teachers
1906-1907
Miss Clara Love
1907-1917
?
1917-1923
Miss Campbell, Mr. C. J. Gillespie, Mr. Mulligan, Miss Sarah P. Strong
1920s
J. M. McDonald, J. M. Riddell
1927-1936
I. H. Beggs, Miss R. Betts, M. Delmage, J. F. Ennis, B. Gorby, K. O'Neill, C. Shewfelt, E. Steen, M. Steen, E. Tedford, Etheldreda Tucker
1938-1939
Irene Bell, Violet Edwards, J. F. Ennis, Elizabeth Telford
1940s
Miss Bourbonnais, L. Brister, Miss Brock, J. Bryer, M. Collins, V. Copeland, J. Dale, J. Dickie, V. Edwards, Dreda Ennis, J. F. Ennis, Anna Fox, D. Hartley, Miss Little, Michael “Mike” Posmituck, E. Shepherd, Anne Sims, B. Tedford, E. Thompson
1947-1956
Lois Blair, Olga Code, M. Collins (grade 3), Joyce Cook, A. Delveaux, E. English, M. Galanchuk, M. Getz, T. Hall, J. Henderson, A. Hendy, N. Houston, M. Hykaway, E. Jackson, Marj. Johnson, H. Kliman, M. Lloyd, E. Lysack, R. Mooney, M. Morton, O. Muloin, Juliet Noiseux, Leona Poole, Michael “Mike” Posmituck, S. Rehaluk, E. Rinn, V. Roy, B. Soucy, L. Sumner, M. Thierry, M. Thompson, Annette Turko, I. Wilson, J. O. Wilson
1957-1966
E. (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1967-1976
Elizabeth Armstrong, Lois Arthur, H. Bunka, B. Chorneyko, G. Christie, Olga Code, E. Dunning, E. M. (Dreda) Ennis, M. Hanau, G. Haverstick, I. Jarko, J. Lindsay, R. Lofgren, S. Majury, V. Marciski, M. Mellquist, L. Oke, L. Paterson, J. Perchaluk, S. Savard, R. Slade, B. Smith, L. Sodomlak, C. Spewak, C. Stewart, L. Stewart, E. (Cantin) Tardiff, M. Totte
1976-1979
Elizabeth Armstrong, Lois Arthur, Floyd Clark, Olga Code, Gloria Haverstick, David Katsma, Viola Marciski, Linda Paterson, M. Totte
Among the other teachers of McCreary School was Leonard George “Len” Tyerman.
Rosamond School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 102.
McCreary schools commemorative monument beside a model of Rosamond School (June 2013)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.77291, W99.49713
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: McCreary Collegiate / McCreary School (Third Avenue, McCreary, Municipality of McCreary)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: McCreery School No. 797 (Municipality of Norfolk-Treherne)
“The local round,” Dauphin Herald, 20 October 1938, page 9.
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.
“Add one position in Turtle R.,” Dauphin Herald, 6 September 1978, page 2.
McCreary: Milestones and Memories by McCreary History Book Committee, 1987, pages 139-147.
Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques and Manitoba Community Commemorative Plaques, Fiscal Year 1994-1995, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship, page 33.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 March 2024
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