The Belton School District was established in February 1885 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW16-13-16 in what later became the Municipality of North Cypress-Langford. In June 1919, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Brookdale Consolidated School District No. 1299. The former school building was moved to NE14-13-16W and used as a stable.
Some of the teachers who worked at Belton School were Dora C. Gilman (1907), Miss Beach, Miss Clark, Duncan Martin, and Millie Ducklow (circa 1919).
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.09366, W99.61395
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.
Quest in Roots: History of Brookdale School District by Brookdale Historical Society History Book Committee, 1987. [Legislative Library of Manitoba, F5648.B81 Que]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 April 2021
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