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The Galicia School District was organized formally in June 1898 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW29-17-3E in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood. It was renamed as Plum Ridge School District some time between January 1902 and December 1904. A new schoolhouse was built during the summer of 1916 by local contractor Michael Gottfried at a cost of $1,575. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Interlake School Division.
Period
Principal
1917
Mildred H. Gordon
1917
John Hatchyk [Watcyk?]
1917-1918
Crystal Verlie Dicks
1918
Elsie W. Mills
1918
Andrew Hrudka
1919
John Sibinski
1919-1922
Stephen Nykyforuk (1892-1974)
1922-1925
Jacob J. Lysecki
1925-1926
Nicholas Punak
1926-1928
William Chimchak (1902-1981)
1928-1929
Marie Prygrocki
1929-1930
Annie Segall
1930-1933
William Chimchak (1902-1981)
1933-1934
William Yakimischak (1906-1988)
1934-1937
Paul Ivan Nykorchuk
1937-1941
George Lecoq (1905-2000)
1941-1943
Edward Alva Chesley (1911-1995)
Among the early teachers of Galicia School / Plum Ridge School were Alfred Dickson (Fall 1899), Ellie Martin (Spring-Fall 1900), Herbert L. Walsh (Spring 1901), Mary Ellis (Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904, school renamed), Rosetta McNeil (Spring-Fall 1905), Gertrude Campbell (Spring 1906), Eliza M. Jeffery (Fall 1906), D. Yakimischak (Spring 1907), William M. Cahut [Cahute?] (Fall 1907, Spring 1909 - Spring 1910), Thomas Machinney? [Mawhinney?] (Spring-Fall 1908), W. J. Mihaychuk (Fall 1910 - Spring 1911), T. Malliniuk? (Fall 1911), M. Stechishin (Spring-Fall 1912, pt Spring 1913, Fall 1914), Orest Zerebko (pt Spring 1913), John Argius (Fall 1913), E. E. Dicks (Spring 1914), Donald Neil MacCharles (Spring 1915), and F. A. Ryback (Fall 1915 - Spring 1916).
Period
Teachers
1916-1917
A. A. Dybisz (grades 1-5, September-December; grades 1-3, January-June), Mildred H. Gordon (grades 4-6, January-June), F. A. Ryback (grades 1-5, September)
1917-1918
Helen F. Bryce (grades 1-3, April-July), Crystal Verlie Dicks (grades 4-6, November-March), Eva Irene Jeffery (grades 1-3, September-March), Elsie W. Mills (grades 4-6, April-July), John Hatchyk [Watcyk?] (grades 4-6, September-October)
1918-1919
Andrew Hrudka (grades 4-8, September-December), Stephen T. Kaczkowsky (grades 1-3, September-June), Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 4-8, February-June), John Sibinski (grades 4-8, January-February)
1919-1920
Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 4-8)
1920-1921
Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 4-8)
1921-1922
M. J. Chuptyk (grades 1-3), Stephen Nykyforuk (grades 4-8)
1922-1923
Jacob J. Lysecki (grades 4-8)
1923-1924
Jacob J. Lysecki (grades 4-8)
1924-1925
Jacob J. Lysecki (grades 4-8)
1925-1926
Nicholas Punak (grades 4-8)
1926-1927
William Chimchak (grades 4-8)
1927-1928
William Chimchak (grades 4-8)
1928-1929
Ethel Greenberg (grades 1-3), Marie Prygrocki (grades 4-8)
1929-1930
Ethel Greenberg (grades 1-3), Annie Segall (grades 4-8)
1930-1931
Mary Chimchak (grades 1-3), William Chimchak (grades 4-8)
1931-1932
Mary Chimchak (grades 1-3), William Chimchak (grades 4-8)
1932-1933
Mary Chimchak (grades 1-3), William Chimchak (grades 4-8)
1933-1934
Michael Doroschuk (grades 1-4), William Yakimischak (grades 5-9)
1934-1935
Michael Doroschuk (grades 1-4), Paul Ivan Nykorchuk (grades 5-10)
1935-1936
Michael Doroschuk (grades 1-4), Paul Ivan Nykorchuk (grades 5-10)
1936-1937
Michael Doroschuk (grades 1-4), Paul Ivan Nykorchuk (grades 5-10)
1937-1938
Michael Doroschuk (grades 1-4), George Lecoq (grades 5-10)
1938-1939
George Lecoq (grades 5-10)
1939-1940
George Lecoq (grades 5-10)
1940-1941
George Lecoq (grades 5-10)
1941-1942
Edward Chesley (grades 5-10)
1942-1943
Mrs. Nellie E. Chesley (grades 1-4), Edward Chesley (grades 5-10)
1943-1944
Ida Doris Simpson
1944-1945
Tom Chesley
1945-1946
Tom Chesley
1946-1947
Tom Chesley
1947-1948
1948-1949
1949-1950
1950-1951
1951-1952
Peter Budzinsky
1952-1953
Peter Budzinsky
1953-1954
Peter Budzinsky
1954-1955
Peter Budzinsky
1955-1956
1956-1957
Melvin Bodnarus
1957-1958
Melvin Bodnarus
1958-1959
Melvin Bodnarus
1959-1960
Mrs. E. Yurchi
1960-1961
Walter Diachun
1961-1962
John B. Enns
1962-1963
Mrs. Phyllis Ann Rodych
1963-1964
Walter Michael Sorokoski
1964-1965
Walter Michael Sorokoski
1965-1966
Irene Eva Sohan
1966-1967
Mrs. Julia F. Chatfield
The old Plum Ridge School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 30.
The new Plum Ridge School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 30.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.47783, W97.15988
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Teacher wanted for Galicia School District No. 959 [...],” Manitoba Free Press, 15 August 1903, page 13.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
School District Formation Files (E 0027), Plum Ridge School District No. 959, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Plum Ridge School District No. 959 - Daily Registers, GR2046, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Plum Ridge School District No. 959 - Minute Books, GR2043, 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.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 14 November 2023
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