Manitoba Organization: Portage la Prairie School Division No. 24

The Portage la Prairie 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	Portage la Prairie School District No. 10
2	Burnside School District No. 24 Edwin School District No. 735 Gainsborough School District No. 1941 Hood School District No. 1381 Kelvin School District No. 1347 Layland School District No. 2090 Mount Pleasant School District No. 50 Overhill School District No. 2084 Poplar Bluff School District No. 734 Ridge Road School District No. 730 (North and South) Salem School District No. 623
3	Beaconsfield School District No. 54 Belle Plain School District No. 46 Connor School District No. 476 Dale School District No. 705 Delta Beach School District No. 1810 Dundonald School District No. 1322 East Prospect School District No. 111 Euclid School District No. 197 Flee Island School District No. 527 Longburn School District No. 93 Minnetonka School District No. 659 Oakland School District No. 57 Portage Creek School District No. 505 Rob Roy School District No. 1324 Rose Grove School District No. 2216 West Oakland School District No. 110 West Prospect School District No. 112
4	Belcourt School District No. 1094 Brennan School District No. 2255 Cochrane School District No. 43 Curtis School District No. 1187 East Poplar Point School District No. 15 High Bluff Village School District No. 771 Nairn School District No. 42 North High Bluff School District No. 23 Old High Bluff School District No. 13 West Poplar Point School District No. 12
5	Beautiful Valley School District No. 924 Elm River School District No. 622 Fortier School District No. 721 Ingleside School District No. 831 Mill Creek School District No. 929 Oakville School District No. 655

Superintendents

Term	Superintendent
1966-?	Alfred Leslie Stevens (1920-2004)
?-1973	?
1973-1986	Virgil Elroy Holmes (1927-1986)

Chairs

Term	Chair
1959-?	Marietta Emily Taylor “Reita” Richardson (1898-1970)

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)

Manitoba Organization: University Women’s Club of Portage la Prairie

Sources:

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

“5 boards appoint new men,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 June 1966, page 31.

Rural Schools of Portage la Prairie School Division #24 by Muriel Wright, 1996.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 20 December 2021