The Little Saskatchewan School District was organized formally in January 1882 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE20-13-20W in what is now the Rural Municipality of Oakview. The district was dissolved in 1963 and its catchment area was divided between the Rapid City Consolidated School District and the Rivers Consolidated School District, and later the Rolling River School Division. A stone monument commemorates the school at its former site.
Among the teachers of Little Saskatchewan School was Erica Penner (1949-1950).
Little Saskatchewan School (no date) by W. C. Hartley
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 45.
Little Saskatchewan School commemorative monument (August 2019)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.10807, W100.16562
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Little Saskatchewan School District No. 134], GR1688, E0027, 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.
Obituary [Erica Penner Lepp], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 February 2023.
We thank Lorna Clark and Charlotte McCrae for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 February 2023
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