Historic Sites of Manitoba: Inverness School No. 475 (Letellier, RM of Montcalm)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The Inverness School District operated a school in Letellier, in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm. The two-storey wood frame structure is no longer present at the site.

Principals

Period

Principal

1919-1920

Mary Furlong

1920-1937

Eleanor Page (1890-1974)

1937-1944

Sister Berthe Cadieux

1944-1945

Sister M. Madeleine

1945-1946

Eva Letourneau

1946-1949

Sister M. Madeleine

1949-1950

Sister M. St. Felicien

1950-1951

Eleanor Page (1890-1974)

1951-1954

Sister Berthe Cadieux

1954-1956

Sister M. St. Hubert

1956-1957

Gaeton Comer

1957-1958

Sister M. St. Hubert

1958-1959

Sister M. St. Bernard

1959-1960

Sister M. St. Henri

Teachers

No information.

Photos & Coordinates

Aerial view of Letellier with Inverness School in the lower, right foreground

Aerial view of Letellier with Inverness School in the lower, right foreground (no data)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2015-0046

Inverness School

Inverness School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 68

Inverness School

Inverness School (1968)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Letellier 1

Inverness School

Inverness School (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 707

Inverness School

Inverness School (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 705

Inverness School

Inverness School (no date)
Source: Cam Timlick

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13744, W97.30032
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

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.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Lucille Emond and Cam Timlick for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 February 2021

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