A fieldstone monument in the Municipality of Lorne commemorates the Grange School District. It operated a schoolhouse on the northeast quarter of 10-6-12 west of the Principal Meridian, as of October 1896, moved in 1900 to a one-acre site in the northwest quarter. The original building was replaced in 1925 and the former schoolhouse was moved to Cypress River where it still stands as of 2021.
The school operated until January 1959 when the remaining students went to St. Alphonse Consolidated School No. 2371. Eventually, its catchment area became part of the Mountain School Division. The building was moved to a farmyard near Pilot Mound (N49.24104, W99.06441) in 1963.
The second Grange School building (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 18.
The second Grange School building (no date)
Source: Manitoba Historic Resources Branch, HRR5041.
The former Grange School building, renovated into a farm building (September 2007)
Source: Justin De Baets
The former Grange School building (June 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Grange School commemorative monument (August 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Grange School commemorative monument (July 2024)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.47286, W99.02109
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Cypress River Pioneers Monument (Cypress River, RM of Victoria)
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, Justin De Baets, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 August 2024
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