The Buller School District was organized formally in October 1913 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at the northeast corner (and later, the northwest corner) of NW17-23-6W in the Rural Municipality of Woodlea, in what later became the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale. The school closed in December 1927 and the building was sold. In 1936, its catchment area became part of the Woodlea Municipal School District.
Among the teachers of Buller School were Miss Montieth (1914-1915) and Miss Edith McKitrick (1920s).
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.99322, W98.26837
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Woodlea Municipal School District No. 1589, Buller School District No. 1702], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
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.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 1589 - Woodlea (General) - Permanent, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
Beyond Beginnings by Eriksdale Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee, 1996, page 59.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 January 2021
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