Inside this cemetery in the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth is a fieldstone monument commemorating pioneers of the Kinsmore district, Kinsmore School No. 371 (1885-1913) which later consolidated with Lenore School No. 628, and Kinsmore Church (1907-1934).
Among the teachers who worked at Kinsmore School were Miss Kerr, Miss Hattie Parr, Mr. Kemlo, Miss Lesley, Alfred James Bell, and Arthur Irvine (1913).
Kinsmore Cemetery (September 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Commemorative monument for Kinsmore School and Kinsmore Church (September 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.04871, W100.71549
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.
Lenore and Districts Homecoming, 1906-1979, Lenore School Homecoming Committee, circa 1980. [Copy held by Ed Arndt]
We thank Garry Draper for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 October 2020
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