The Henboden School District was formally petitioned for in November 1887 by local residents of the Rural Municpalities of Hespeler and Hanover which sought the establishment of a Protestant school under the Board of Education, with some 19 school-age children within a proposed catchment area. As defined, the district's area was to include Sections 1-3, 10-15, and 22-24, and the south halves of Sections 25-27 in Township 7 Range 4 East of the Prime Meridian, along with Sections 5-8 and 17-20, along with the south halves of Sections 29-30 of Township 7 Range 5 East. Via the petition, a proposed schoolhouse site was suggested at Southeast 12-7-4E.
Available information suggest the district never operated its own classroom nor built a schoolhouse, with Board of Education / Department of Education records indicating no grant money was paid to the district for teachers salaries. Recurring mentions of the district in official sources ended by 1905.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Henboden School District No. 520, GR1688, 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.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 3 August 2024
