The Fairbank School District was organized formally in January 1888 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE1-8-17W in what is now the Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa. The district was dissolved in 1948 and no vestige of the school building remains at the site.
Fairbank School (no date) by A. J. Hatcher
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 80.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.62803, W99.64891
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Fairbank School District No. 134], GR1688, E0027, 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 Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 April 2021
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