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The Dallas School District was organized formally in March 1919 and a one-room schoolhouse operated in the southwest corner of SE13-28-1W, near Dallas in northern Manitoba. The school building was built by local labour in the spring of 1919 with most materials acquired from the Empire Sash & Door Company of Winnipeg. The building was repaired and relocated in the autumn of 1940. In March 1959, the district was designated as a Remote School, a status which remained until April 1967 when it was dissolved into the Frontier School Division.
Among the teachers of Dallas School were Alice Eaton (Fall 1920 - Spring 1924, Fall 1925 - Spring 1931), W. F. Fennell (Fall 1924 - Spring 1925), Josephine Gladys Dunphy (Fall 1931 - Spring 1934), Nora Good (Fall 1934 - Spring 1935), Alexander McLaren Baxter (Fall 1935 - Spring 1936), Max Badaker? (Fall 1936 - Spring 1937), Jeffrey E. St. George (Fall 1937 - Fall 1940), George Edward Basham (c1945), and Peter Jacob Olchowecki (?-?).
Dallas School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 69.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.39203, W97.47124
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Dallas School District No. 1970 - Daily Registers, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Dallas School District No. 1970 - Cash Books, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Dallas School District No. 1970 - Cash Sheets, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Dallas School District No. 1970 - Miscellaneous, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 1970 - Dallas - Permanent, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
Comptroller-General audit records (A 0146), School Districts’ Annual Financial Reports/Statements - #1970 - Dallas, GR0371, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 27 May 2024
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