Historic Sites of Manitoba: Swan Lake School No. 345 (Swan Lake, Municipality of Lorne)

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The Swan Lake School District was organized formally in November 1884. It operated a school in Swan Lake in the Municipality of Lorne. In 1959, it became Swan Lake Consolidated School No. 345 and became part of the Mountain School Division in 1971.

Principals

Period	Principal
1905-1906	Fred C. Brooks
1906-1907	John W. Morrison
1907-1908	Herbert McIntosh (1888-1953)
1908-1910	H. P. Wyness
1910-1912	?
1912-1916	George William Burrell (1857-1941)
1916-1917	Thomas Patrick King (1873-1954)
1917-1919	Murray L. Waters
1919-1920	Claude Elmer Luther Hogarth Law (1881-1959)
1920-1923	?
1923-1924	Hazel Alexina McDonald Parkinson (1898-1981)
1924-1925	?
1925-1926	James Alvin Leslie
1926-1927	David Raymond “Ray” Falconer (1904-1989)
1927-1928	Harry Blair
1928-1930	John Herman Oddstad (1902-1983)
1930-1931	Kathleen Winder
1931-1936	Miss M. Laura Martin
1936-1938	Daniel McKenty Slater (1909-1975)
1938-1941	Norman Oliver Finnigan (1908-1988)
1941-1943	Alexander John Wilson (1913-1991)
1943-1946	Jean C. Arthur
1946-1949	Anne Sims Crichton (1910-1994)
1949-1955	Ronald Morris Bean (1922-2013)
1955-1959	Dennis L. Hennesay
1959-1960	R. Tainchaud
1960-1962	Sister M. Charles
1962-?	?
?-?	David Marno Watson (1945-2020)

Teachers

Among the teachers of Swan Lake School were A. J. Manning and Peter L. Hyde.

Photos & Coordinates

Swan Lake School (circa 1907) Source: Education Department Report, 1907, Manitoba Legislative Library. Four-classroom Swan Lake School (circa 1926) by D. R. Falconer Source: David Falconer Swan Lake School (no date) by G. H. Robertson Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 34. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.41092, W98.79275 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

“Swan Lake, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 12 October 1916, Archives of Manitoba.

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.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 September 2021

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