The University Women’s Club of Portage la Prairie provides fellowship for members, leadership and effective action for community initiatives, and a voice for national issues through the Canadian Federation of University Women.
A project undertaken by the University Women’s Club in 1982 was to document the one-room schoolhouses that once operated in the Portage la Prairie School Division. Coordinated by member Joan Scrase, local artists Charlotte Jones and Karen Braden were commissioned to do pen and ink drawings of the schools. Photographs, written and verbal information was collected from members of the community, and deposited at the Portage Plains Regional Library. The drawings are displayed in the School Division offices, and copies are available for purchase there.
Schools included in the collection:
Beautiful Valley School No. 924
Central School (Portage la Prairie)
East Poplar Point School No. 15
East Ward School (Portage la Prairie)
High Bluff Village School No. 771
Macdonald School
North High Bluff School No. 23
North Ridge Road School No. 730
North Ward School (Portage la Prairie)
Portage Collegiate (Portage la Prairie)
South Ridge Road School No. 780
The Landing School No. 951
Victoria School (Portage la Prairie)
West Poplar Point School No. 12
West Ward School (Portage la Prairie)
See also:
Manitoba Organization: Portage la Prairie School Division No. 24
Manitoba Organization: University Women’s Club of Winnipeg
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 13 December 2013
