The Humberstone School District was organized formally in October 1898 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW4-8-26W in the Rural Municipality of Pipestone. In 1920, when the Pipestone Consolidated School District was formed, this district was dissolved.
The teachers of Humberstone School were Miss McLaren, Mr. Grant, C. K. Newcombe, Miss Clarke, Miss Townsley, and Miss Acres.
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.62154, W100.96234
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.
Trails Along the Pipestone by Pipestone History Project, c1981, page 261. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.P56 Tra]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 April 2021
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