The Franko School District was organized formally in November 1909. As of 1945, a one-room schoolhouse was operating at SW21-3-8E in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Boundary School Division.
Among the teachers of Franko School were John Mathew Podolsky (1929-1930) and Walter Constantine Bilych (1930-1934).
Franko School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 131.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.22566, W96.46391
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Franko School District No. 1515], 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.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Franko School District No. 1515 Daily Registers, GR4095, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 July 2020
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