The Kronsgart School District was established in June 1926 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE36-3-4W in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland. The school closed around 1964 and the district was dissolved in 1967. Its area became part of the Winkler School District. The school is commemorated by a metal sign at its former site.
Among the teachers who worked at Kronsgart School through the years were Margaret Dyck (1926-1927), Gustav Penner (1927-1929), Gertrude Hooge (1929-1930), Nick Neufeld(1930-1935), Peter J. Peters (1935-1937), Herman Rempel (1937-1938), Agatha Warkentine (1938-1939), Isaac Voth (1939-1944), Gertrude Harder (1944-1945), Abe Penner (1945-1948), Frank Dyck (1948-1950), John Dyck (1950-1952), Jerry Hildebrand (1952-1955), John G. Dyck (1955-1956), Peter Nickel (1956-1960), Leonard Peters (1960-1962), Ron Peters (1962-1963), and Harold Nickel (1963-1964).
Kronsgart School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 104.
Kronsgart School commemorative sign (August 2018)
Source: Lorna ClarkSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.25166, W97.86603
denoted by symbol on the map above
Roland West topographic map, 62H/5 West, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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.
We thank Marjorie Hildebrand, Harry Hildebrand, and Lorna Clark for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 April 2021
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