A monument in the Rural Municipality of South Norfolk commemorates Jeanne d’Arc School, named for French martyr Joan of Arc, which operated in a building established in the southwest quarter of 30-7-8 west of the Principal Meridian, in April 1913. The school closed in January 1960 and its remaining students attended Notre Dame du Lourdes Consolidated School No. 2390.

Jeanne d’Arc School (no date) by G. H. Robertson Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 14.

Jeanne d’Arc School monument (2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Site Location (lat/long): N49.59167, W98.54940 denoted by symbol on the map above |
Sources:
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: 26 December 2013
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