Known originally as Sobieski School when it was established in 1904, the school was renamed Borden in commemoration of Robert Borden, the Canadian Prime Minister between 1911 and 1920. A one-classroom wood frame building was erected on the northwest quarter of 4-29-19 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Mossey River. At some point, the original building was replaced by the present structure which, after the school closed in 1967, was converted into a private workshop and storage facility.
The original Borden School building (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 88.
Borden School (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 88.
The former Borden School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 793.
The front of the former Borden School building (May 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Borden School in use as a storage and workshop building (May 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.46297, W100.08791
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Mossey River Schools Monument (Fork River, RM of Mossey River)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Nedrob School No. 1934 (Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson)
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 June 2019
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