Historic Sites of Manitoba: Stony Mountain School No. 294 (Stony Mountain, RM of Rockwood)

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The Stony Mountain School District was organized in 1884 and a school operated in the village of Stony Mountain in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood. In 1967, it joined the Interlake School Division. The present school building stands on the site of the former school.

Principals

Period	Principal
1898-1899	William Jesse Grant (1869-1958)
1899-1901	Richard A. Fines (1871-1966)
1901-1903	Albert E. Young
1903-1904	Miss S. McPherson
1904-1906	Lyley E. Browne
1906-1908	Janet Blythe
1908-1910	Henry Edward Chaplin (1876-1935)
1910-1915	?
1915-1916	Henry Emerson Snyder (1891-1984)
1916-1917	Emma Laura Suttis (1881-1971)
1917-1918	J. de B. Saunderson
1918-1919	Harold G. Leeson
1919-1924	George Henry Blackwell (1864-1941)
1924-1927	Edward Arthur Bathgate [Batke] (1887-1961)
1927-1928	Anne Norrington
1928-1930	Willard Elwin Fife (1873-1944)
1930-1937	Martha Ellen Hamilton Lough (1902-1970)
1937-1943	John Sigfus Helgason (?-1978)
1943-1944	?
1944-1945	Chester MacMillan Fraser (1904-1975)
1945-1951	Austin Alfred Dale (1911-2003)
1951-1952	V. Gable
1952-1955	William John Prochuk (1909-1983)
1955-1956	Gerald Lionel Kuran (?-?)
1956-1957	Mrs. M. Esaruk
1957-1958	Guy A. Hamel
1958-1959	Jean Stuart Williamson (c1920-2015)
1959-1961	Michael John Makowski (1924-2002)
1961-1970	?
1970-1976	Katherine Margaret Mollard

Teachers

Among the other teachers of Stony Mountain School was John Arthur Buchanan (Vice-Principal).

Period	Teachers
1970-1971	David Walter Boch (grade 8), Olivia Bonnie Jean Chizick (grade 1), Patricia Lynn Doan (grade 5), Carole Grant (grade 3, October-June), Myrtle Irene Lee (grade 4), Joy Diane McCullough (grade 6), Lawrence Walter Mydynski (grade 7), Joyce Pike (grade 3, September), Edith Merle Shannon (grades 2-3), Geraldine Janet Sinclair (grades 2-3)
1971-1972	David Walter Boch (grade 8), Mary Dunlop Butterill (grade 3), Olivia Bonnie Jean Chizick (grade 1), Olga Kozak (kindergarten, January-June), Myrtle Irene Lee (grade 4), Joy Diane McCullough (grade 6), Lawrence Walter Mydynski (grade 7), Rosemarie Schletz (grade 5), Geraldine Janet Sinclair (grade 2), Audrey Helen Watson (kindergarten, September-December)
1972-1973	Audrey Judith Boch (no grade), David Walter Boch (grade 8), Mary Dunlop Butterill (grade 3), Olivia Bonnie Jean Chizick (grade 1), Joanne Petronella Coleman (grade 7), Lorraine Marie Cormier (grade 5, September-December), Shirley Ann Glucki (no grade), Dolores Lea Hebert (grade 5, January; no grade, February-June), Eleanor Vera Holmes (resource), Maurice Ircha (grade 5, January-June), Toba Isler (kindergarten, January-June), Elizabeth Joan Lawrence (special education), Myrtle Irene Lee (grade 4), Joy Diane McCullough (grade 6), Geraldine Janet Sinclair (grade 2, September-December), Audrey Helen Watson (kindergarten, September-December; grade 2, January-June), Beverley Jane Penston Wilkinson (grade 3)
1973-1974	Audrey Judith Boch (grade 4), David Walter Boch (grade 8), Olivia Bonnie Jean Chizick (grade 1), Joanne Petronella Coleman (no grade), Dolores Lea Hebert (grade 5), Eleanor Vera Holmes (resource), Maurice Ircha (no grade), Toba Isler (kindergarten), Elizabeth Joan Lawrence (special education), Myrtle Irene Lee (grade 6), Lawrence Walter Mydynski (grade 7), Jean Mary Urbanski (grade 2, January-June), Audrey Helen Watson (grade 2, September-December)
1974-1975	Audrey Judith Boch (grade 4), David Walter Boch (grade 8), Olivia Bonnie Jean Chizick (grade 1), Joanne Petronella Coleman (grades 7-8), Shirley Ann Glucki (grade 2), Toba Isler (kindergarten), Myrtle Irene Lee (grade 6), Margaret-Joan Martens (grade 3, January-June), Lawrence Walter Mydynski (grade 7), Hazel Ellen Ridley (grade 5), Audrey Helen Watson (grades 6-7), Beverley Jane Penston Wilkinson (grade 3, September-December)
1975-1976	Audrey Judith Boch (grade 4), David Walter Boch (grade 6), Olivia Bonnie Jean Chizick (grade 1), Joanne Petronella Coleman (grade 8), Joanne Florence Dowsett (kindergarten), Shirley Ann Glucki (grade 2), Myrtle Irene Lee (grade 7), Margaret-Joan Martens (grade 3), Lawrence Walter Mydynski (grade 7), Hazel Ellen Ridley (grade 5), Audrey Helen Watson (grade 8)

Photos & Coordinates

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.08547, W97.21688 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Stony Mountain School (Interlake School Division #21) - Daily Registers, GR2045, 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.

We thank Ross Metcalfe for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 29 May 2022

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