The Gerrie School District was organized formally in July 1893 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW24-11-1E in the Rural Municipality of Rosser. The district was dissolved in 1958 and its catchment area became part of the Rosser Municipal School District. The former school building was sold and moved to a nearby farm where it was used as a granary. The school site was sold in 1967 and a private residence was built there.
Among the teachers of Gerrie School were May McCharles, Ada Wilkinson, Charlotte Egan, Margaret MacKay, A. E. Charlton, Ada Spearman, Velma Brown, Shirley Binning, Robert Holloway, Irene Bennet, Jean Harcus, Gertrude Harcus, Edna Alice Beachell, Edna Moore, Jessie McMillan, Molly Cummings, Marion Hancock, and Evelyn Heidahl.
Gerrie School (no date) by E. D. Parker
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 124.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.94574, W97.33278
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Gerrie School District No. 778], 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.
The First Hundred Years, 1893-1993 by the Rosser Municipality Centennial History Book Committee.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 April 2021
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