Manitoba Organization: Birdtail River School Division School District No. 38

The Birdtail River 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	Beliveau School District No. 1762 Foxwarren Consolidated School District No. 525 Gamblers School District No. 1244 Oxford School District No. 257 Pumpkin Plains School District No. 702 St. Lazare Consolidated School District No. 2366
2	Birtle Consolidated School District No. 132 Lansburne School District No. 806 Solsgirth Consolidated School District No. 462
3	Buckleyville School District No. 1435 Decker Consolidated School District No. 320 Ekford School District No. 1135 Kelloe School District No. 574 Raven Lake Consolidated School District No. 287 Reidville School District No. 2108 Rothesay Consolidated School District No. 350 Shoal Lake Consolidated School District No. 2352
4	Green Bluff School District No. 759 Strathclair Consolidated School District No. 284 Wolfe Creek School District No. 817
5	Crandall Consolidated School District No. 460 Miniota Municipal School District No. 149
6	Hamiota Consolidated School District No. 692 Lavinia Consolidated School District No. 436 McConnell Consolidated School District No. 1763
7	Breadalbane School District No. 361 Education Point School District No. 327 Erroll School District No. 693 Harding Consolidated School District No. 1352 Kenton Consolidated School District No. 280 Lenore Consolidated School District No. 1754 Oakner Consolidated School District No. 290 Ravine School District No. 932 Verity School District No. 561

It was later amalgamated with the Pelly Trail School Division to form the Park West School Division.

Superintendents of Birdtail River School Division

Period	President
?-1985	William C. Davison
1985-1991	Arnold James Nicholls (1929-2003)

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)

Sources:

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

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 29 January 2016