Historic Sites of Manitoba: Thalberg North School No. 2270 (RM of St. Clements)

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The Thalberg North School District was organized formally in June 1936, having been created from land split off from the Thalberg School and other adjacent districts, and a schoolhouse operated at SE29-16-8E in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. A teacherage was built on the property around 1940.

In 1947, a second classroom was added to the original structure, used for classes in grades 7 to 11, while students in grades 1 to 6 met in the original classroom. During the 1959-1960 school year, student enrollment had increased sufficiently that a separate one-classroom building was built at the northeast corner of the school yard. It was used as a second high school classroom and, later, as an elementary classroom.

The high school closed in June 1961 and thereafter senior students were bused to Beausejour. Students in grades 1 to 8 were accommodated in the two-room building and the separate one-room building was unused until being converted into a teacherage in 1963.

In 1966, Thalberg South School and Gull Lake School were closed and their students were bused here. Another school building was moved to the site and used for classes until 1970. The district was dissolved in 1968 and its catchment area became part of the Agassiz School Division. with the school remaining in operation until the summer of June 1971. All students were bused to Beausejour.

No vestige of the former school remains at the site.

Principals

Period	Principal
1947-1948	Evan Nelson Stitt
1948-1949	Orest Laurent Shewchuk
1949-1955	William Ferens
1955-1956	John Morris Stokotelny (1925-1972)
1956-1959	Harry Shafransky (1930-1986)
1959-1960	none
1960-1961	Margaret Klassen
1961-1966	none
1966-1967	Dennis Paul Kozak
1967-1968	Margaret Ann Stubel
1968-1971	Catherine Lesosky

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
Before 1936	See Thalberg South School
1936-1937	Mary Kathleen Waychok
1937-1938	Mary Kathleen Waychok
1938-1939	Mary Kathleen Waychok
1939-1940	Walter C. Malenchak
1940-1941	Walter C. Malenchak
1941-1942	Anthony A. Allegaert
1942-1943	L. R. Rogozinski (Spring 1943), Peter David Tymchuk (Fall 1942)
1943-1944	Jennie Eugenia Senicie
1944-1945	Jennie Eugenia Senicie
1945-1946	Jennie Eugenia Senicie
1946-1947	Eldora Ann Reicksiedler
1947-1948	Isaac Froese (grades 1-6), Doris Vivian McJohnston (grades 1-6, 1947), Evan Nelson Stitt (grades 7-11)
1948-1949	Orest Laurent Shewchuk (grades 7-11), Catherine Lesosky (grades 1-6, 1948), Kenneth Conrad Norell (grades 1-6)
1949-1950	William Ferens (grades 7-11), Herbert Fransen (grades 1-6)
1950-1951	William Ferens (grades 7-11), Catherine Lesosky (grades 1-6)
1951-1952	William Ferens (grades 7-11), Gloria Kuhn (grades 1-6)
1952-1953	William Ferens (grades 7-11), Tiena Victoria Warkentin (grades 1-6)
1953-1954	William Ferens (grades 7-11), Tiena Victoria Warkentin (grades 1-6)
1954-1955	William Ferens (grades 7-11), Verla M. Lewis (grades 1-6)
1955-1956	Sonia Pauline M. Podolsky (grades 1-6), John Morris Stokotelny (grades 7-11)
1956-1957	Harry Shafransky (grades 7-11), Laura Johanna Thorarinson (grades 1-6)
1957-1958	Jeanette I. E. Lacey (grades 1-6), Harry Shafransky (grades 7-10)
1958-1959	Jeanette I. E. Lacey (grades 1-8), Harry Shafransky (grades 9-12)
1959-1960	Julia M. Thorarinson (grades 1-8)
1960-1961	Verna Nettie Funk (grades 1-4), Margaret Klassen (grades 5-8)
1961-1962	Adolph Richard Rattai (grades 1-8)
1962-1963	Adolph Richard Rattai (grades 1-8)
1963-1964	Henry Warkentin (grades 1-8)
1964-1965	Dennis Paul Kozak (grades 1-8)
1965-1966	Dennis Paul Kozak (grades 1-8)
1966-1967	Dennis Paul Kozak (grades 5-8), Ed. L. Patzer (grades 1-4)
1967-1968	Arlene Spence (grades 1-3), Margaret Ann Stubel (grades 4-6)
1968-1969	Catherine Lesosky (grades 3-4), Theresa Ann Leskosky (grades 1-2), Margaret Ann Stubel (grades 5-6)
1969-1970	Catherine Lesosky (grades 3-4), Theresa Ann Leskosky (grades 1-2), Margaret Ann Stubel (grades 5-6)
1970-1971	Mary Goritz (grades 1-3), Catherine Lesosky (grades 4-6)

The other teachers of Thalberg North School were Mary Kathleen Waychok (1936-1939), Walter Charlie Malenchak (1939-1941), Anthony Alphonse Allegaert (1941-1942), Peter David Tymchuk (1942-1943), Herman L. R. Rogozinsky (1943), Jennie Eugenia Senicie (1943-1946), and Eldora Ann Reicksiedler (1946-1947).

Photos & Coordinates

Thalberg North School (1946-1947) Source: Brian Lesko The expanded Thalberg North School with the high school addition at left (no date) Source: Brian Lesko Thalberg North School teacherage (1946-1947) Source: Brian Lesko Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.38620, W96.44609 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Thalberg South School No. 1411 (RM of St. Clements)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gull Lake School No. 2269 (RM of St. Clements)

Personal Memoirs: Thalberg School and Thalberg North School History (1907-1971) by Brian Lesko (February 2021)

Personal Memoirs: Thalberg North School Days During the 1950s and 1960s by Brian Lesko (February 2021)

Sources:

School District Formation Files [Thalberg North School District No. 2270], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Thalberg North School District No. 2270 Daily Registers, GR0565, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Thalberg North School District No. 2270 Daily Registers, GR9480, 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.

East Side of the Red, 1884-1984 by St. Clements Historical Committee, 1984.

We thank Brian Lesko for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 20 February 2021

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