The Zaporoza School District was organized formally in May 1908, and a school building operated on the southeast quarter of 7-20-22 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Municipality of Harrison Park. The school closed in 1960. The building, now vacant, is still present at the original site. A stone monument stands nearby.

Among the teachers of Zaporoza School were D. D. Dutchak (1919), John Kamenesky (1922), J. M. Hawryluk (1923-1924), Sophia Dunlop (1926-1927), Mildren C. McLaren (1927-1928), T. Satten (1929), Joseph Dorey (1929-1930), Stephen Hyra (1930-1931), Mary Pradinuik (1931-1933), Jennie Emily “Teenie” Teresko (1933-1934), Sophie Bugera (1934-1935), Sonja Bugera (1935-1937), Lillian T. Twerdun (1937-1938), Helen J. Antonation (1938), Lena Ellen Zepa (1938-1940), Jean Zapski (1940-1942), Margaret Tokaryk (1942-1943), Catherine M. Chastko Dobrowski (1943-1944), Kate Twerdun (1944-1945), William M. Chuhay (1945-1946), Michael Chorney (1946-1947), Jennie Grace Chuba (1947-1948), Alice Marion Koroscil (1948-1949), Olive Sitko Koroscil (1949-1950), Kay Yanyk (1950-1951), William W. Puyda (1951), Joyce Sitko (1951-1952), Tena Rose Glushka (1952-1953), Stan Kazmir Kwiatkowski (1953-1954), Bernice Angela Korolyk (1954-1957), Diane Yanyk (1957-1958), and Jack Chuba (1958-1959).

See also:

Riding Mountain POWs: The Teacher’s Tale by Bill Waiser

Manitoba History, Number 61, Fall 2009

Sources:

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.

From the Past to the Present, 1898-1987 by Parkland Ukrainian Pioneer Association, circa 1988. [Legislative Library of Manitoba, Rare Book Collection F5648.P36 Fro]

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Zaporoza School District No. 1468 Daily Registers, GR2061, Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Bruce Kwiatkowski for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 26 November 2017