Manitoba Organization: Beautiful Plains School Division No. 31

The Beautiful Plains School Division was created on 1 April 1959 by an order of the Manitoba Minister of Education, acting on a recommendation of the MacFarlane Commission on Education and the School Divisions Boundaries Commission. It became responsible for all secondary education, grades 9 to 12, within the area of the following school districts:

Ward	School Districts
1	Big Valley School District No. 2109 Clarksville School District No. 1396 Eden Consolidated School District No. 1661 Elk Ranch School District No. 1145 Iroquois School District No. 303 Mountain Road School District No. 1432 Pine Bluff School District No. 771 Polonia School District No. 732 Springhill School District No. 574 Tobarmore School District No. 616
2	Arden Consolidated School District No. 341 Birnie School District No. 465 Glenholm Consolidated School District No. 208 Inkerman School District No. 875 Ivanhoe School District No. 764 Molesworth School District No. 765 Mountainview School District No. 244 Orange Ridge School District No. 576 Salisbury School District No. 127 Twyford School District No. 663 Union School District No. 300 Winchester School District No. 706
3	Neepawa School District No. 126
4	Brookdale Consolidated School District No. 1299 Dumfries School District No. 192 Franklin School District No. 780 Glendale School District No. 207 Gordon School District No. 213 Hallboro School District No. 710 Irvine School District No. 1146 Oakdale School District No. 709 Oberon School District No. 259 Osprey School District No. 261 Sinclairville School District No. 2063 Stoney Creek School District No. 133
5	Auburn School District No. 146 Castle Hill School District No. 1057 Dempsey School District No. 189 Derry School District No. 1052 Elesmere School District No. 1147 Fairview School District No. 198 Ingelow School District No. 560 Kennedy School District No. 1443 Langley School District No. 2082 Melbourne School District No. 234 Montrose School District No. 242 Petrel School District No. 268 Pleasant Point School District No. 267 Prosser School District No. 2040 Sumerville School District No. 160 Stinson School District No. 325 Wellwood Consolidated School District No. 135
6	Carberry School District No. 125 Linwood School District No. 641

Superintendents

Term	Superintendent
1968-1989	Cecil Crawford Cox (1930-2020)

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions (1959)

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba’s Rural School Consolidation (1905-1967)

Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions Boundaries Commission (1958-1959)

Events in Manitoba History: MacFarlane Royal Commission on Education (1957-1959)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Safeway Store / Neepawa Banner Building (243 Hamilton Street, Neepawa)

Sources:

Report of the School Divisions Boundaries Commission, 13 January 1959, Manitoba Legislative Library, SpR 1958 Education.

Advertisement, Winnipeg Free Press, 8 May 1976, page 60.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 3 April 2020