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The Rosengart School District was organized formally in June 1925 from catchment previously attached to the Snowdon School District No. 1995 and Exeter School District No. 1994, and was a union school district comprised of land from both the Rural Municipality of Rhineland and the Rural Municipality of Stanley. Temporary classroom quarters were initially utilized, with a $1,500 debenture issued in January 1926 to finance a loan for the acquisition of a school site along with, purchase and renovation of an existing building into a schoolhouse, and furnishing thereof as a classroom. This wooden frame structure was located at SW-7-1-3 West of the Prime Meridian in the village of Rosengart, roughly at the midpoint along the central roadway of the community, and on the eastern side thereof. A stable and shed where added to the school grounds within a few years.
In 1959, responsibility for senior grades was transferred to the Stanley School Division No. 26 (later Garden Valley School Division), into which the district was fully dissolved in 1967.
The school closed in 1982, with any vestige of the schoolhouse building(s) used by the district being not yet determined.
Period
Principal
1957-1958
Albert Groening
1958-1961
Abram Peters
1961-1965
John Cornelius Braun
1965-1967
John John Janzen
1967-1968
George Henry Reimer
1968-1972
Leonard Peter Hoeppner
1972-1975
Irene Kroeker
1975-1981
Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht
1981-1982
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Among the early teachers who worked at Rosengart School were David Heinrichs (Fall 1925 - Spring 1926 & night school November-March), Peter W. Fast (Fall 1926 - Spring 1928, night school January-March 1928), David Friesen Driedger (Fall 1928 - Spring 1931 & night school November 1928 - March 1929), Henry Dietrich Dyck (Fall 1931 - Spring 1935), Dietrich Penner (Fall 1935 - Spring 1939, night school January-February 1936, & night school January-February 1937), Abram Daniel Friesen (Fall 1939 - Spring 1942), Susanna Schroeder (Fall 1942 - Spring 1943, August-October 1943), Peter Brown (November 1943 - June 1944), Henry George Ens (Fall 1944 - Spring 1945, Fall 1946 - Spring 1949), Henry P. Thiessen (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Daniel D. Peters (Fall 1949 - Spring 1950), Tina Kehler (August-December 1950), Miss E. E. Penner (January 1951), Shirley J. Friesen (February-March 1951), Susan Krahn (April-June 1951), Martha Warkentin (Fall 1951 - Spring 1952), Frank H. Zacharias (Fall 1952 - Spring 1953), Abe Dyck (Fall 1953 - Spring 1954), and David F. Wiebe (Fall 1954 - Spring 1957).
Period
Teachers
1957-1958
Albert Groening (grades 5-10), Johanna Loeppky (grades 1-4)
1958-1959
Abram Peters (grades 5-9), Anne Peters (grades 1-4)
1959-1960
Abram Peters (grades 5-10), Anne Peters (grades 1-4)
1960-1961
Abram Peters (grades 5-8), Anne Peters (grades 1-4)
1961-1962
John Cornelius Braun (grades 5-9), Marie Doreen Thiessen (grades 1-4)
1962-1963
John Cornelius Braun (grades 5-9), Sara Thiessen (grades 1-4)
1963-1964
John Cornelius Braun (grades 5-9), Sara Thiessen (grades 1-4)
1964-1965
John Cornelius Braun (grades 5-8), Sara Thiessen (grades 1-4)
1965-1966
John John Janzen (grades 5-8), Sara Thiessen (grades 1-4)
1966-1967
John John Janzen (grades 5-8), Sara Thiessen (grades 1-4)
1967-1968
George Henry Reimer (grades 5-8), Grace Anne Zacharias (grades 1-4)
1968-1969
Evelyn Martha Friesen Hoeppner (grades 1-4), Leonard Peter Hoeppner (grades 5-8)
1969-1970
Evelyn Martha Friesen Hoeppner (grades 1-3), Leonard Peter Hoeppner (grades 4-6)
1970-1971
Evelyn Martha Friesen Hoeppner (grades 1-3), Leonard Peter Hoeppner (grades 4-6)
1971-1972
Evelyn Martha Friesen Hoeppner (grades 1-2), Leonard Peter Hoeppner (grades 3-4)
1972-1973
Helen Rebecca Barkman (grades 1-2), Irene Kroeker (grades 2-4)
1973-1974
Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2), Irene Kroeker (grades 2-4)
1974-1975
Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2), Irene Kroeker (grades 3-4)
1975-1976
Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2), Patricia Joan Kroeker (grades 3-4)
1976-1977
Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2), Patricia Joan Kroeker (grades 3-4)
1977-1978
Lois Marlene Funk (grades 3-4), Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2)
1978-1979
Lois Marlene Funk (grades 3-4), Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2)
1979-1980
Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2), Marlene Louise Harms (grades 3-4)
1980-1981
Sylvia Jeanette Giesbrecht (grades 1-2), Marlene Louise Harms (grades 3-4)
1981-1982
?
Rosengart School by G. G. Neufeld (no date)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 100.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.01951, W97.86100
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rosengard School No. 2168 (RM of Hanover)
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #60 School District of Rosengart, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Rosengart School District No. 2131, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Rosengart School No. 2131 - Daily Registers, GR2656, 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 Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 14 June 2026
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