The Edison School District was organized formally in November 1921 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at the northeast corner of NE36-23-7W in the Rural Municipality of Woodlea, in what is now the Municipality of West Interlake. In 1936, the district became part of the Woodlea Municipal School District. It was reformed as a separate school district in 1958, becoming in 1967 part of the Lakeshore School Division. The former schoolhouse still stood at the time of a 2015 site visit.
Among the teachers of Edison School were Katherine Penner (1941-1942) and Catherine Fairlie Dowie (1942-1943).
Edison School (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 92.
The former Edison School building (June 2015)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Edison School building (June 2015)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Edison School building (October 2023)
Source: Rose Kuzina
The former Edison School building (October 2023)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.03747, W98.30507
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Woodlea Municipal School District No. 1589], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Edison School District #2091 Daily Registers, GR3613, 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.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Rose Kuzina for providing additional informaion used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 January 2024
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