Historic Sites of Manitoba: Oakner Consolidated School No. 290 (Oakner, Municipality of Hamiota)

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The Oakner Consolidated School was formed in August 1918 by the consolidation of Scotia School No. 290 with Eden School No. 510, at Oakner in the Rural Municipality of Hamiota. The four-classroom brick structure, designed by Winnipeg school architect Eldred Dodsworth Tuttle and built by the Sigurdson brothers, operated from January 1920 until 1968 when it closed and was sold to a local farmer for use as a granary. It has since been demolished. The building is commemorated by a stone monument erected in 1997. Also noted on the monument is Oakner United Church, which operated from 1909 to 2000.

Principals

Period	Principal
1920-1921	Mr. Hindle
1921-1924	G. H. Dyson
1924-1932	Willard Ervin Rife (1890-1970)
1932-1933	Charles Raymond Slawson (1900-1933)
1933-1935	John Osborn Wilson (1900-1972)
1935-1937	Janet Louisa May More (1896-1986)
1937-1944	Donald Roderick “Don” McLennan (1910-1990)
1944-1947	Ralph Ernest Mayes (1891-1969)
1947-1954	Peter Frederick Kutcher (1918-2013)
1954-1957	H. B. Weinmaster
1957-1958	Frank Veregin (1931-2001)
1958-1960	C. Glenn
1960-1965	?
1965-1968	Mary Joan Foxton

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1920	Miss Andrew (grades 1-2), Miss Burrows (grades 3-6), Mr. Hindle (grades 7-11)

Photos & Coordinates

Oakner School (circa 1920) Source: Education Department Report, 1920, Manitoba Legislative Library. Oakner School (no date) by G. W. Bartlett Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 4. The former Oakner School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 522. Oakner School commemorative monument (September 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.09189, W100.58871 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Eldred Dodsworth Tuttle (1878-1965)

Sources:

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.

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 closes,” Brandon Sun, 2 October 1968, page 17.

Hamiota: Grains of the Century, 1884-1984 by Hamiota Centennial History Committee, 1984, pages 103-104.

We thank Murray Cumming for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 February 2022

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