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The Lafortune School District was established in August 1904 and a one-storey wood frame schoolhouse operated in Woodridge in what would later become the Rural Municipality of Piney. In 1968, all of the local rural schools were consolidated to form LaVerendrye School, in a new building, as part of the Seine River School Division. It operated until closing in 1992. The former school building was then converted into a community centre.
Period
Principal
1968-1969
Ed Bourrier
1969-1970
Pierre Laurencelle
1970-1972
Sister Celine Vermette
1972-1975
Rino Oullet
1975-1977
Ronald Edward Turner (1928-2019)
1977-1984
Ronald Buzahora
1984-1986
Armelle Degagne
1986-1988
David Pearson
1988-1991
Ina Thomson-Ruttle
1991-1992
Penny Hovorka-Alcock
No information.
Lafortune School (no date) by Clarence Moore
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 95.
The former La Verendrye School, now a community centre (June 2021)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.28430, W96.14667
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: La Verendrye School (290 Lilac Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: North Ward School Monument / La Verendrye School (500 Seventh Street NW, Portage la Prairie)
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 Doris Hovorka (Sprague and District Historical Museum) and Rose Kuzina for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 August 2021
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