Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brookfield School No. 2052 (RM of Lac du Bonnet)

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The Brookfield School District was established formally in November 1920 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW18-14-11E in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet. In 1962, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the Lac du Bonnet Consolidated School District No. 2394 and later the Agassiz School Division. A stone monument at the former school site was erected in 2017 by the Lac du Bonnet Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee.

Among the teachers of Brookfield School was Ignatius Joseph Zaborniak.

Brookfield School

Brookfield School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 85.

Brookfield School commemorative sign

Brookfield School commemorative sign (May 2019)
Source: Lorna Clark

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.16523, W96.08532
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Lorna Clark and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 3 October 2021

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