Historic Sites of Manitoba: Homer School No. 2078 (Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton)

The Homer School District was organized formally in July 1921 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE7-25-3E in the Rural Municipality of Bifrost. In 1966, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Arborg Consolidated School District and later the Evergreen School Division. The schoolhouse was still present at the time of a 2020 site visit.

Among the teachers of Homer School was J. G. Ladoski.

Homer School

Homer School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 90.

Homer School

Homer School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 90.

The former Homer School building

The former Homer School building (June 2020)
Source: Rose Kuzina

The former Homer School building

The former Homer School building (June 2020)
Source: Rose Kuzina

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.14839, W97.15651
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

School District Formation Files [Homer School District No. 2078], 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.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Rose Kuzina.

Page revised: 10 July 2020

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