In November 1958, the provincial government under Premier Duff Roblin passed an amendment to The Public Schools Act that gave itself the authority to establish school divisions for secondary education in Manitoba, so long as the divisions were approved by a majority of voters in an area. In April 1959, recommendations of the MacFarlane Commission and the School Divisions Boundaries Commission led the Minister of Education to propose the establishment of school divisions with responsibility for education in grades 9 to 12. Through that year, divisions were established as local voters approved the proposal. Within a few years, the divisions would assume responsibility for education in all grades.
Agassiz School Division No. 13
Antler River School Division No. 43
Assiniboine North School Division No. 2
Assiniboine South School Division No. 3
Beautiful Plains School Division No. 31
Birdtail River School Division No. 38
Boundary School Division No. 16
Brandon School Division No. 40
Dauphin-Ochre School Division No. 33
Duck Mountain School Division No. 34
Evergreen School Division No. 22
Flin Flon School Division No. 46
Fort Garry School Division No. 5
Fort La Bosse School Division No. 41
Hanover School Division No. 15
Interlake School Division No. 21
Intermountain School Division No. 36
Lakeshore School Division No. 23
Lord Selkirk School Division No. 11
Midland School Division No. 25
Morris-Macdonald School Division No. 19
Mountain School Division No. 28
Pelly Trail School Division No. 37
Pembina Valley School Division No. 27
Pine Creek School Division No. 30
Portage la Prairie School Division No. 24
Red River School Division No. 17
Rhineland School Division No. 18
River East School Division No. 9
Rolling River School Division No. 39
St. Boniface School Division No. 4
St. James School Division No. 7
St. Vital School Division No. 6
Seine River School Division No. 14
Seven Oaks School Division No. 10
Souris Valley School Division No. 42
Stanley School Division No. 26
Swan Valley School Division No. 35
Tiger Hills School Division No. 29
Transcona-Springfield School Division No. 12
Turtle Mountain School Division No. 44
Turtle River School Division No. 32
School districts in sparsely populated areas of the province were not combined into school divisions:
Bad Throat School District No. 1014
Barrows Junction School District No. 2296
Berens River School District No. 2291
Beresford Lake School District No. 2276
Burns School District No. 2003
Churchill School District No. 2264
Cold Lake School District No. 2253
Cormorant Lake School District No. 2129
Cranberry Portage School District No. 2201
Dallas School District No. 1970
D. R. Hamilton School District No. 2310
Fairford School District No. 1796
Gillam School District No. 2250
Golden Branch School District No. 1845
Grand Rapids School District No. 1660
Green Valley School District No. 1358
Gypsumville School District No. 1612
Hardy School District No. 2179
Herb Lake School District No. 2114
Karpaty School District No. 1751
Lenwood School District No. 2035
Lynn Lake School District No. 2312
Middlebro School District No. 2227
Northland School District No. 2199
Norway House School District No. 1917
Pikwitonei School District No. 2231
Rice Creek School District No. 2185
San Antonio School District No. 2234
Snow Lake School District No. 2309
South Junction School District No. 1615
Sprague Consolidated School District No. 2439
Sunny Valley School District No. 2027
Thicket Portage School District No. 2290
Van Dusen School District No. 1728
Vassar School District No. 1329
Wabowden School District No. 2181
See also:
Events in Manitoba History: MacFarlane Royal Commission on Education (1957-1959)
Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions Boundaries Commission (1958-1959)
Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba’s Rural School Consolidation (1905-1967)
Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions (2001)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Acts of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba, 1958. First Session of the Twenty-Fifth Legislature, 23 October - 7 November 1958, Chapte 7, Legislative Library of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 February 2020
