The Davis Point School District was established formally in April 1917 and a schoolhouse operated at the northeast corner of NE28-31-10 West of the Prime Meridian in what would become the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale. Its catchment area included a sizable transfer from Gypsumville School District No. 1312 / Portage Bay School District No. 1312. In the summer of 1917, a $2,000 debenture was issued to fund the acquisition and preparation of a school site, along with the construction and outfitting of a schoolhouse. That same autumn, a $700 debenture was acquired to build a 20 feet by 20 feet wood frame teacherage containing three rooms, a verandah, and cellar. A further $500 debenture was issued in the spring of 1919 to complete the teacherage and bring it up to standard.
In April 1959, the district was designated as a Remote School District, a status it retained until being dissolved into the Gypsumville Consolidated School District No. 2461 in March 1983.
Among the early teachers of Davis Point School were Ladora [Ladosa?] May Parker (Fall 1917 - Spring 1923, wife of Reginald Caesar Hawkins), Hazel G. Smith (Fall 1923 - Spring 1924), and Jean C. Howey (Fall 1924).
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.69608, W98.80660
denoted by symbol on the map above
Marriage registration [Ladosa May Parker & Reginald Caesar Hawkins], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #45 School District of Davis Point, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #49 School District of Davis Point, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #28 School District of Davis Point, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Davis Point School District No. 1872, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Orders-In-Council (EC 0003B), Order-in-Council #27701, #28323, & #31222, GR1530, 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.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 29 October 2022
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