The Image Hill School District was established formally in April 1897, in what is now the Municipality of North Norfolk. A school building was erected, at a cost of $597, on the southwest quarter of 5-12-9W. The first teacher was Miss Nel Warren, paid $30 per month. The school closed in 1944 due to low enrollment and transported its students to MacGregor School. The district was closed in January 1965. A monument marking the site of the former school was dedicated at a ceremony on 5 August 1984.
Among the teachers who worked at Image Hill School were Peter Renwick Stewart and Frederick Leopold Johnston.
Image Hill School (no date) by A. B. Fallis
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 16.
Image Hill School commemorative monument (July 2016)
Source: Alan MasonSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.98265, W98.67471
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.
Through Fields and Dreams: A History of the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk and MacGregor by The History Book Committee of the North Norfolk-MacGregor Archives, 1998, page 932.
We thank Alan Mason for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 August 2022
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