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The Gypsumville School District was established formally in September 1904 and a schoolhouse operated at 22-31-10 West of the Prime Meridian, in the general vicinity to the mill site of the Manitoba Union Mining Company in the north half of 21-31-10W, near the shore of Lake Manitoba. It provided education for the families of mill staff as well as other residents of the district. A district census conducted in its final year in operation found insufficient school age enrollment to support further operation and the school closed in December 1911. Though closed, the district was renamed Portage Bay School in early 1912 and the Gypsumville name was repurposed with the founding of Gypsumville School District No. 1612 three months later.
Portage Bay School did not resume operation and the district catchment area was partially dispersed as early as 1914 into the Karpaty School District No. 1751 and, in 1917, also into Davis Point School District No. 1872. By 1920, Department of Education records denote the district as “extinct.”
Among the teachers who worked at Gypsumville School No. 1312 were Sara Denton (Spring 1905 - Spring 1906), Cecil W. Tildesley (Fall 1906 - Spring 1907), Annie McLeod (Fall 1907 - Spring 1908), Arthur Marchant (Fall 1908), Bessie Shearer (Spring 1909), M. M. Stewart (Fall 1909), no teacher (Spring 1910), and Jessie Lee (Fall 1910 - Fall 1911).
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.67509, W98.80545
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gypsumville School No. 1612 (Gypsumville, RM of Grahamdale)
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Gypsumville School District No. 1312, GR1688, 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 Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 29 October 2022
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