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Known originally as the Albion School District when it was established in June 1883, a school building operated in Dunrea in what is now the Rural Municipality of Prairie Lakes. In 1957, it became consolidated as part of Dunrea Consolidated School and, in 1966, Dunrea School. It later became part of the Turtle Mountain School Division.
Period
Principal
1938-1939
Claire I. Tisdale
1939-1940
Arthur Milford Preston (1908-1981)
1940-1941
Olive Mildred McMahon (c1914-1962)
1941-1942
Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1942-1943
Blanche Sicard
1943-1947
Sister Sophie Bosc
1947-1951
Sister M. St. Gabriel
1951-1953
Sister St. Augustine
1953-1957
Sister M. Jeanne d’Arc
1957-1958
Sister M. St. Odile
1958-1960
Rita Petit (Sister M. Ernest Albert)
Among the teachers who worked at Albion School were Sidney E. Lang (1885), Lincoln Wilkie (1895), Ada Reive, and Annie B. Fraser.
Albion School (no date) by W. J. Parr
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 49.
Albion School (1940)
Source: Municipality of Riverside Commemorative PlacematsSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.40526, W99.72883
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Aerial view of Dunrea, 17 May 1944,” Charles J. Gingras collection #155, N18387, Archives of Manitoba.
And So ... Ninette, 1879-1919 by Eva Calverley, circa 1966.
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.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Stephanie Fraser for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 November 2019
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