The Campeau School District was established in May 1898 and a one-room schoolhouse operated on Lot 180 in the Parish of St. Norbert. It was replaced by another one-room building around 20 lots south of the original site, on the east side of St. Mary’s Road. In March 1959, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the St. Vital Municipal School District No. 2374.
The site is now used by a school bus transportation company, and the school building is still present, using as a private residence. In the early-1970s, a collection of school registers for the period from 1924 to 1955 were found in the attic of the former school. They were given to the St. Vital School Division and later transferred to the Le Centre du patrimoine of La Société historique de Saint-Boniface.
Among the teachers of Campeau School were Aurelius Celestin Joyal (1915), Agnes Courchaine (1923-1925), Clara Campeau (1925-1926), Marie Anne Cote (1926-1927), Laura Longpre (1927-1928), Anna Toupin (1928-1929), Alfred Moran (1929-1932), Marguerite Royal (1932-1933), Marguerite Remillard (1933-1934), Sylva Landry (1934-1935), Mary Deverell (1936-1938), Therese Jutras (1938-1939), Clemence Aquin (1939-1940), Pauline Simon (1940-1942), Lucille Bourgouin (1942-1943), Stella Helene Dancho (1946-1947), Lorraine St-Germain (1947-1951), Margareth Molodoshanin (1953-1954), and Dorothy Munro (1955-1960).
Campeau School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 32.
The former Campeau School building (August 2014)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Campeau School building (June 2019)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.77356, W97.12559
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Campau School No. 1418 (Municipality of Lorne)
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 Normand Boisvert, Corinne Tellier, Le Centre du patrimoine of La Société historique de Saint-Boniface, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 23 March 2023
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