The Devonshire School District was established formally in March 1917 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE12-19-1E in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Evergreen School Division.
Devonshire School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 56.Site Location (lat/long): N50.61728, W97.32433
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Devonshire Collegiate Institute / Devonshire School (Main Street, Selkirk)
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 Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 April 2019
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