Historic Sites of Manitoba: Postup School No. 1655 (Municipality of Roblin)

The Postup School District was organized formally in February 1913. A school building operated on the northwest quarter of 5-27-27 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Municipality of Roblin, from 1914 to 1967. After the school closed, its remaining students went to Goose Lake Consolidated School No. 1283. The school building is no longer present at the site.

A monument to the school was erected in 1985 on the opposite corner of the road intersection from its former site, on the site of the former Postup Hall. It lists the names of early pioneers of the district from 1904 to 1967.

The monument also lists the names of teachers who served at Postup School through the years: Philip Storozynsky (1914-1920), Dmytro Dutchak (1921), Antin Skorobohach (1921-1922), William Lisowsky (1922-1924), John McNeil (1924-1926), Lorne Merle (1926-1928), Ralph Racklin (1928), Howard Allison (1928-1929), Mabel Barkley (1929-1931), Tillie Nowosad (1931-1932), Joan Belcher (1932-1934), Ronald J. Dingwall (1934-1936), Bruce Watson (1936), Ethel Rogers (1937), Viola M. Graham (1937-1938), Agnes Y. Arnott (1938-1939), John A. MacDonald (1939-1940), Mary Livingstone (1940-1942), Sophia Olsen (1942), Pauline Shenderewich (1942), Rita Ardis Jeffrey (1942-1943), Annie Ostrowski (1943-1944), Miss N. Pawloski (1944-1945), Liz Mitchell (1945-1946), Helen Kuzyk (1946-1947), Alice Stephanow (1947-1950), William Kozak (1950-1958), Heller Palmer (1958), Yvonne A. Magadell (1959), Leonard Glushka (1959-1961), Helen Beatrice Bondar (1961-1962), Mike Heschuk (1962-1963), Gladys Ludwig (1963), Irma Janzen (1963), Robin S. Morris (1964), Hanna Andres (1964), and Mary Livingstone (1964-1967).

Postup School (no date) by H. L. Albright Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 11. Postup School commemorative monument (June 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Postup School commemorative sign (September 2021) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.31864, W101.23689 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

We thank Gayle Mager and George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 16 September 2022

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