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The Leonard School District was organized formally in December 1917. A one-room wooden schoolhouse was built and later replaced with a larger structure, constructed at NE30-18-10E, in what would later become the Village of Powerview. In 1946, the school was given a 24 x 36 foot expansion. By 1965, the school was an eight-room facility and, in January 1968, the school district was reorganized into the Agassiz School Division. It continued operating until the close of the 1970-1971 school year.
Period
Principal
1952-1953
Sister St. Elphege
1953-1959
Sister M. Claire Tetrault
1959-1961
Sister Lucie du Sauveur
1961-?
?
?-1971
Lucien Laroche
School Year
Teachers
1936-1937
Marguerite Marie Dupont (grade 1), Judith F. Clarence (grades 2-4), Petter Martin Juul (grades 5-8)
1937-1938
Marguerite Marie Dupont (grade 1), Judith Frances O’Connor (grades 2-4), Rene Jotras (grades 5-8)
1970-1971
Lorraine Cormier (kindergarten), Judith Louise Sinclair (grade 1), Irene Aimee Dean (grade 2), Sharon Lee Pelletier Papineau (grade 2), Helene Aline Pereux (grade 3), Nola Dorothy Cooley (grades 4 & 5), Gisele Marie Vincent (grade 5), Lesley Irene English (grade 5), Sister Theresa Benat (grade 6), Eunice Cyr (grade 7), Pauline Menard (grade 7), John Harold “Jack” Bogaski (grade 8), Lucien Laroche (grade 8), Sister Dorothy M. C. Bouvier (resource)
Among the other teachers of Leonard School were Rev. Sister Florence (1948), Miss S. Beaudette (1948), and Miss T. Desrosiers (1948).
The original Leonard School building (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 58.
A later Leonard School building (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 58.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.56777, W96.19728
denoted by symbol on the map above
Pine Falls East topographic map, 62I/9 East, Edition 2, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“14. Tenders [Leonard School District],” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 June 1946, page 15.
“Teachers form new society at Pine Falls,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 November 1948, page 5.
“The Leonard School District,” Winnipeg Free Press, 11 May 1965, page 29.
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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports, Schedule: E 0757, Accessions: GR1196, GR1628, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 5 April 2021
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