The Edillen School District was organized formally in June 1914 and a one-room schoolhouse was constructed at SW16-28-15W in what is now the Rural Municipality of Lakeshore. After the school closed permanently in June 1964, the building was sold to a local farmer, moved to a farm at SE16-28-15W and eventually taken apart to reuse its lumber.
Among the teachers of Edillen School were Miss Ramsen, Miss McGhie (1922), Ed Honhosier, Miss Indez Abbot, Claire McNeil Johnson, Mary Wallace, and Vivian Gray Didychuk.
Edillen School (no date) by H. J. Everall
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 29.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.39773, W99.52654
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.
Opening the Door - The Past Comes Alive, The History of the Rural Municipality of Lawrence by Lawrence Municipality History Committee, 1997, page 39.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 August 2019
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