Historic Sites of Manitoba: North Springfield School No. 38 / Lorne Hill School (RM of Springfield)

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The North Springfield School District was organized formally in September 1876, with the residence of George Sutherland being utilized as temporary school quarters while a schoolhouse was built. The first school was build of concrete and measured 20 feet wide by 20 feet long and located the northwest quarter of 26-11-4 east of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Springfield. This structure was replaced by a new building, opened on 4 January 1898, along with an accompanying teacherage. The school was later expanded in the summer of 1917. A third and separate one-room structure, known as Lorne Hill School, was ereced nearby in 1957 for (at least initially) high school grades. Both the North Springfield School and Lorne Hill School operated until the summer of 1968 when the district became part of the Transcona-Springfield School Division, after which students attended classes at Oakbank. This building and property were sold in 1972, then becoming a private residence.

Principals

Period	Principal
1923-1924	James Morrow
1924	Johanna Pjetrus Solmundsson
1925	Weston Sweet (1899-1994)
1925-1926	Marion Ruth Major
1926-1929	Ronald Thornton Frederick Thompson (1907-1984)
1929-1930	Freda Doris Attenborough
1930-1931	Mary Estella Sheffield
1931-1935	Muriel Agnes Hart
1935	Alice E. Saunders
1935	Irene Gabrielle Potvin O’Sullivan (1909-?)
1935-1941	Michael Ewanchuk (1908-2004)
1941	Herbert Hanford “Harry” McIntosh (1880-?)
1942-1943	Elsie Petursson
1943-1945	Eva Clara Gamberg
1945-1950	Catherine M. Stewart
1950	Rose Stephania Makway
1951-1953	Francis L. Kozlowski
1953-1955	Marguerite Mary De Roo
1955-1960	Boris Shewchuk
1960-1961	Eileen Ruby Zaporzan
1961-1962	Carl Galay
1962-1968	see North Springfield School District

Teachers

Period	Teachers
1923-1924	James Morrow (grades 3-9), Laura Skeeles (grades 1-3)
1924-1925	Laura Skeeles (grades 1-3), Johanna Pjetrus Solmundsson (grades 4-9, 1924), Weston Sweet (grades 3-9, 1925)
1925-1926	Marion Ruth Major (grades 4-9), Laura Skeeles (grades 1-3)
1926-1927	Kathleen Irene Viola MacGregor (grades 1-3), Ronald Thornton Frederick Thompson (grades 4-8)
1927-1928	Kathleen Irene Viola MacGregor (grades 1-4), Ronald Thornton Frederick Thompson (grades 5-8)
1928-1929	Alva Florence Steen (grades 1-4), Ronald Thornton Frederick Thompson (grades 5-8)
1929-1930	Freda Doris Attenborough (grades 5-8), Alva Florence Steen (grades 1-4)
1930-1931	Muriel Agnes Hart (grades 1-4), Mary Estella Sheffield (grades 5-8), J. Muriel Smith (grades 1-2)
1931-1932	Muriel Agnes Hart (grades 4-8), J. Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1932-1933	Muriel Agnes Hart (grades 5-9), J. Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1933-1934	Muriel Agnes Hart (grades 5-9), J. Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1934-1935	Muriel Agnes Hart (grades 5-9), Irene Potvin (grades 5-8, 1935), Alice E. Saunders (grades 5-8, 1935 substitute), J. Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1935-1936	Michael Ewanchuk (grades 5-8), Jessie Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1936-1937	Michael Ewanchuk (grades 5-9), Jessie Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1937-1938	Michael Ewanchuk (grades 5-10), Jessie Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1938-1939	Michael Ewanchuk (grades 5-10), Jessie Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1939-1940	Michael Ewanchuk (grades 5-10), Jessie Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1940-1941	Michael Ewanchuk (grades 5-10), Jessie Muriel Smith (grades 1-4)
1941-1942	Hilda Janet Main (grades 1-5), Herbert Hanford “Harry” McIntosh (grades 6-10, 1941), Elsie Petursson (grades 6-10, 1942)
1942-1943	Hilda Janet Main (grades 1-5), Elsie Petursson (grades 6-9)
1943-1944	Eva Clara Gamberg (grades 6-9), Eileen R. O’Brien (grades 1-5)
1944-1945	Eva Clara Gamberg (grades 6-9), Ethel Irene Lawrence (grades 1-5)
1945-1946	Ethel Irene Lawrence (grades 1-4), Catherine M. Stewart (grades 5-9)
1946-1947	Ethel Irene Lawrence (grades 1-4), Catherine M. Stewart (grades 5-9)
1947-1948	Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), Catherine M. Stewart (grades 5-8)
1948-1949	Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), Catherine M. Stewart (grades 5-9)
1949-1950	Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), Catherine M. Stewart (grades 5-10)
1950-1951	Elaine Albertine Dalke (grades 1-4), Francis L. Kozlowski (grades 5-9, 1951), Rose Stephania Makway (grades 5-9, 1950)
1951-1952	Francis L. Kozlowski (grades 5-10), Jessie Uswak (grades 1-4)
1952-1953	Francis L. Kozlowski (grades 5-10), Jessie Uswak (grades 1-4)
1953-1954	Mildred Evelyn McCurdy (grades 1-4), Marguerite Mary De Roo (grades 5-9)
1954-1955	Marguerite Mary De Roo (grades 5-9), Katherine Klowak (grades 1-4)
1955-1956	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-4), Boris Shewchuk (grades 5-9)
1956-1957	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-4), Boris Shewchuk (grades 5-9)
1957-1958	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-4), Boris Shewchuk (grades 5-9)
1958-1959	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-4), Boris Shewchuk (grades 5-9)
1959-1960	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-4), Boris Shewchuk (grades 5-8, 1959), Eileen Ruby Zaporzan (grades 5-8, 1960)
1960-1961	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-3), Helen Siemens (grades 3-5), Eileen Ruby Zaporzan (grades 4-8)
1961-1962	Carl Galay (grades 6-8), Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-3), Tina Leochko (grades 4-5)
1962-1963	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-2), Tina Leochko (grades 3-4), William Stepaniuk (grades 5-6), (grades 7-8 at Prince Charles School)
1963-1964	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-2), William Stepaniuk (grades 6-8), (grades 3-4 at Prince Charles School)
1964-1965	Walter Kohut (grades 7-8), Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-2), William Stepaniuk (grades 5-6), (grades 3-4 at Prince Charles School)
1965-1966	Dawny-Kay Helen Kwiatkoski (grades 5-6), Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-2), William Stepaniuk (grades 7-8), (grades 3-4 at Prince Charles School)
1966-1967	Delta Selina Laird (grades 1-2), William Stepaniuk (grades 7-8), Linda Gail Zloty (grades 3-4), (grades 5-6 at Prince Charles School)
1967-1968	Bonnie-Lynn Rogers (grades 1-2, Lorne Hill School), William Stepaniuk (grades 7-8), Linda Gail Zloty (grades 3-4), (grades 5-6 at Prince Charles School)

Other teachers who worked at North Springfield School were Frank Knipe (1877), Miss Mulvey (1878), John May (1879), Walter Gorham (1896-1898), Mr. Robertson (1899), Annie Kathleen Power (1915), Ernest Lott Kerr (1915), Herbert T. Reynolds (1916), Alma McConnell (1916-1917), Laura M. Tayler (1917-1919), Eleanor M. Eldred (1919), Carrie E. Morrison (1919-1920), and James Morrow (1920-1923).

Photos & Coordinates

North Springfield School (circa 1917) Source: Education Department Report, 1917, Manitoba Legislative Library. North Springfield School (no date) by R. Goulet Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 3. The former North Springfield School building (March 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.95917, W96.95550 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

“The Indian famine fund,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 March 1897, page 4.

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.

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

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, North Springfield School District No. 38 Daily Registers, GR9480, Archives of Manitoba.

Springfield, 1st Rural Municipality in Manitoba, 1873-1973, Dugald Women’s Institute.

Obituary [J. Muriel Ewanchuk], Winnipeg Free Press, 24 February 1997, page 25.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 July 2023

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