The Agriculture School District was organized formally in August 1915 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW34-23-5W in the Rural Municipality of Woodlea, in what later became the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale. In 1936, the district became part of the Woodlea Municipal School District. It is believed to have closed around 1950 and, in 1955, the building was moved to NE5-23-5W (about N50.96369, W98.12078) to become Birch Lake School.
Among the teachers at Agriculture School were Sophie Szwaluk (1941-1942), Peggy Florence Karlowsky (1942-1943), and Esther Marie Mallerson (1945-1946).
Agriculture School (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 38.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.03715, W98.09155
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Woodlea Municipal School District No. 1589, Agriculture School District No. 1802], GR1688, E0027, 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.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Agriculture School District #1802 - Daily Registers, GR3613, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Agriculture School District #1589 - Daily Registers, GR3613, Archives of Manitoba.
Beyond Beginnings by Eriksdale Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee, 1996, page 58.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 January 2021
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