Formally established on 22 November 1892, a school building was erected on the northeast corner of 27-3-13 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Argyle. It burned down in 1910 and a temporary school was built in Glenora. Two years later, it was replaced by a new one-room structure.
The school was destroyed by fire on 7 February 1946 so classes were held in the Glenora Hall until a replacement was built the next year. In January 1960, it merged with Wigton School No. 381 and Excelsior School No. 449 to become Glenora Consolidated School No. 736. The Wigton building was brought here and attached to the existing structure. The school closed in January 1971 and a commemorative monument was unveiled in front of the school on 2 August 1992.
Among the teachers of Glenora School were Herbert McIntosh and Thelma Bessie Brown Forbes.
Glenora School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 117.
The former Glenora School building (August 2016)
Source: Desiree Rolfe
Interior of the former Glenora School building (August 2016)
Source: Desiree Rolfe
Interior of the former Glenora School building (August 2016)
Source: Desiree Rolfe
Glenora School commemorative monument (July 2018)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.25143, W99.15389
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Glenora School No. 736 (RM of Argyle)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Baldur District Schools (RM of Argyle)
“Fire destroys Glenora School,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 February 1946, page 5.
“Aerial view of Glenora, circa 1944,” Charles J. Gingras collection #157, 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 Ed Grassick, Desiree Rolfe, George Penner, and Glen Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 September 2023
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