The Cromarty School District was organized formally in January 1903. The school operated in what is now the Municipality of Roblin until 1911 when it closed. The remaining students went to Goose Lake Consolidated School No. 1283. The former school building was converted into a community hall, which it remains today. In 1999, it became a municipally-designated historic site.
Among the teachers of Cromarty School were Amelia L. Umbach (Spring-Fall 1905), Nellie W. Anderson (Spring-Fall 1906), Bernice Loyst? (Spring 1907), Jennie Irvine? (pt Fall 1907), Georgina Agar (pt Fall 1907), Caroline Lowther (Spring-Fall 1908), Maria L. Mitchell (Spring-Fall 1909), Ailie S. Tnydall? [Lyndall?] (Spring 1910), and Benjamin Atkin Higgins (Spring 1911).
Cromarty School (circa 1911)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspector Photos GR2664, C65.
The former Cromarty School building (no date)
Source: Manitoba Historic Resources Branch, HRR4502.
The former Cromarty School building (June 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the former Cromarty School building (June 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the former Cromarty School building (June 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.22779, W101.46925
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
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.
Cromarty School, NE 4-26-29W, Roblin area, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Cromarty School District No. 1412, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 October 2024
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