The Clematis School District was organized formally in August 1918 and a wood frame, one-room schoolhouse operated on a three acre site at the southwest corner of SW16-19-1W in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong, on land belonging to the family of artist Clarence Tillenius. By the early 1930s, district enrollment was around six pupils, who were instead transported to Rondeau School for classes. In 1936, it became part of the Armstrong Municipal School District No. 1842.
Clematis School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 63.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.62528, W97.55260
denoted by symbol on the map above
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Armstrong Municipal School District No. 1842, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Clematis School District No. 1938 - Daily Registers, GR11220 , Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 1842 - Armstrong School District - (Clematis)- Permanent, GR1206, 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.
Wilderness to Wildlife: Chatfield and District History by Chatfield Oldtimers Club, c1981. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.C45 Wil]
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 October 2019
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