The Joffre School District was organized formally in September 1916 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW35-6-8E in the Rural Municipality of LaBroquerie. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Seine River School Division.
Joffre School (no date) by James Tod
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 45.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.53207, W96.41347
denoted by symbol on the map above
Richer West topographic map, 62H/9 West, Edition 2, Series A743 [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.
Page revised: 4 April 2021
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