The Harmer School District was formally established in June 1885 and a schoolhouse was later erected on the northeast corner of 6-6-9 west of the Principal Meridian, in what is now the Municipality of Lorne. It closed in 1959 and the district was dissolved in January 1960. The building is no longer on the site but a marker commemorates it.
Harmer School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 48.
Harmer School commemorative sign (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.45866, W98.65955
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 January 2021
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