The Beaconsfield School District was established in May 1878 and named for Benjamin Disraeli, the British Prime Minister from 1874 to 1880, and the First Earl of Beaconsfield. A school building was constructed at SE18-12-8W in what would later become the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie. In 1895, it was moved to a more central location in the village of Rignold at NW16-12-8W. In 1967, it became part of the Portage la Prairie School Division and closed in June 1968. Its last teacher was Mrs. Anne Poyser Pallister (1965-1968). The building was moved to a farmyard about a half mile west of its former location.
Beaconsfield School (no date) by A. B. Fallis
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 19.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.01892, W98.51406
denoted by symbol on the map above
Cummin’s Rural Directory Map for Manitoba published by the Cummins Map Company, 404 Chambers of Commerce, Winnipeg, 1923. [Copies held by Edward M. Ledohowski and Gordon Goldsborough]
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.
Rural Schools of Portage la Prairie School Division #24 by Muriel Wright, 1996.
Manitoba Permit Teachers of World War II, compiled by Louisa Loeb, Winnipeg: Hyperion Press Ltd., 2007.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 March 2021
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