The Aweme School District was established formally in October 1885 and a school building was erected in 24-9-17W, in what is now the Municipality of Glenboro-South Cypress. The district was dissolved in July 1966.
Among the teachers of Aweme School was Olive Lilian Burkitt (1935).
Aweme School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 54.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.70975, W99.61987
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Obituary [Olive Lilian Campbell], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 January 2020.
This page was prepared by Raymond Burns and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 January 2020
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