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The Victoria Beach School District was organized in December 1915. A school building operated in the Municipality of Victoria Beach. Heated by a woodstove and with an outhouse in the backyard. In 1920, a $3,000 debenture was issued to acquire a school site and both build and furnish a new schoolhouse. The community had grown enough for a second classroom by 1939, so an addition was added along with hiring a second teacher. It expanded again in the 1950s with a third room, along with indoor plumbing and a furnace.
In 1967, its area became part of the Lord Selkirk School Division. Grades 1 to 11 were taught up until 1960 when collegiate grades were transferred out to Walter Whyte Collegiate. The school operated with elementary grades until closing in the summer of 1969. The former school building is no longer present at the site.
Principals
Teachers
The early teachers of Victoria Beach School were Allan T. Burton (1916), Elizabeth Ehman (1916-1917), Vincent P. Murphy (1917), Louise Amelia Neilson (1918), Christine Johnson (1918-1919), C. M. Brandon (1919), E. N. Very (1920), Daisy Lorraine Walker (1921), Thomas E. Black (1921-1923), Geraldine Kavanagh (1923-1926), Winnifred Gertrude Shield (1926-1928, wife of Walter George Thomas), Gladys Lyle Simpson (1928-1931), Irene Merle Riddell (1931-1935), Helen Hendrie Terry (1935-1938), and Mary Beatrice Jamieson (1938-1939).
Period |
Teachers |
1939-1940 |
Viola Mabel Carefoot (grades 6-10), Margaret Jean Gallagher (grades 1-5) |
1940-1941 |
Viola Mabel Carefoot (grades 6-10), Margaret Jean Gallagher (grades 1-5) |
1941-1942 |
Frances Elizabeth Willard Gray (grades 7-11), Dorothy Maria Slaughter (grades 1-6) |
1942-1943 |
Frances Elizabeth Willard Gray Ateah (grades 6-11), Ethel Wilhelmina Bailey (grades 1-5) |
1943-1944 |
Frances Elizabeth Willard Gray Ateah (grades 6-11, September-December), Walter Gard Jose (grades 6-11, January-June), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 1-5) |
1944-1945 |
Lily May Nevin (grades 5-9), Vernon Lorraine Trainor (grades 1-4) |
1945-1946 |
Lily May Nevin (grades 5-9), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 1-4) |
1946-1947 |
Grace Anderson (grades 1-4), Enid Louise Jonsson (grades 5-10, January-June), Ernest Harold Ranson (grades 5-10, September-December), Vernon Lorraine Trainor (grades 5-10 substitute, Fall; grades 1-4 substitute, Spring) |
1947-1948 |
Grace Anderson (grades 1-4), Soren Bernhard Jorgensen (grades 5-10) |
1948-1949 |
Grace Anderson (grades 1-4), Soren Bernhard Jorgensen (grades 5-10) |
1949-1950 |
Anne Ellen [Eleen?] (grades 1-4), Margaret Alice Morton (grades 5-9) |
1950-1951 |
Melvin Stuart Bell (grades 5-9), Violet Phyllis Bell (grades 1-4) |
1951-1952 |
Lena Shewchuk (grades 1-4), Michael John Shewchuk (grades 5-10) |
1952-1953 |
Elaine Marie Neufeld (grades 1-4), Peter Neufeld (grades 5-10) |
1953-1954 |
Evelyn Carriere (grades 1-4, September-December; grades 1-4 substitute, Spring), Paul Emile Carriere (grades 9-10), Irene E. Fisher (grades 1-4, January-June), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 5-8) |
1954-1955 |
Anita Rita Campeau (grades 1-4), Jean Campeau (grades 9-12, January-June), John C. Campeau (grades 9-12, September-December), Irene E. Fisher (grades 1-4 substitute, Fall), Marina Lela Lester (grades 1-4 substitute, Spring), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 5-8) |
1955-1956 |
Denis Merven Babcock (grades 9-11), Marina Lela Lester (grades 1-4), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 5-8) |
1956-1957 |
Denis Merven Babcock (grades 9-11), Marina Lela Lester (grades 1-4), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 5-8) |
1957-1958 |
Marina Lela Lester (grades 1-4), Gerla [Gilda?] M. Peterson (grades 9-11), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 5-8) |
1958-1959 |
James Christoffer Balness (grades 9-11), Marina Lela Lester (grades 1-4), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 5-8) |
1959-1960 |
James Christoffer Balness (grades 9-11), Marina Lela Lester (grades 1-4), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 5-8) |
1960-1961 |
Marina Lela Lester Chapel (grades 1-4), Maria Merkatz (grades 4-8) |
1961-1962 |
Marina Lela Lester Chapel (grades 1-4), Harry Hryhorka (grades 4-8) |
1962-1963 |
Marina Lela Lester Chapel (grades 1-3), Vernon Lee (grades 3-4 & 6), Roberta Freda Phair (grades 5 & 7-8) |
1963-1964 |
John Jacob Harrison (grades 3-5), Valerie Esther Harrison (grades 1-3), Brian Norman Orvis (grades 6-8, April-June), Roberta Freda Phair (grades 6-8; September-March) |
1964-1965 |
John Jacob Harrison (grades 6-8), Hallfridur Thora Oliver (grades 4-6), Sharon Lila Whyte (grades 1-3) |
1965-1966 |
John Jacob Harrison (grades 7-8), Hallfridur Thora Oliver (grades 4-6), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 1-3) |
1966-1967 |
Hallfridur Thora Oliver (grades 4-6), Gladys Rose Sigurdson (grades 7-8), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 1-3) |
1967-1968 |
Nicholas Andrusko (grades 7-8), Hallfridur Thora Oliver (grades 4-6), Winnifred Gertrude Shield Thomas (grades 1-3) |
1968-1969 |
Nicholas Andrusko (grades 7-8), Hallfridur Thora Oliver (grades 5-6), Jean Brown Segall (grades 1-2), Malcolm A. Watson (grades 3-4) |
Another teacher at Victoria Beach School was Margaret Lesperance (1966?).
Photos & Coordinates
Sources:
Marriage registration [Winnifred Gertrude Shield & Walter George Thomas], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
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.
East Side of the Red, 1884-1984 by St. Clements Historical Committee, 1984.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #31 School District of Victoria Beach, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Orders-In-Council (EC 0003B), Order-in-Council No. 26868, GR1530, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
“History Hunt 100: Clues to 100 Years of History throughout Victoria Beach,” Rural Municipality of Victoria Beach, 2019.
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer, Sheila Grover, and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 February 2023
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