Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lorette Centre School No. 992 (Lorette, RM of Tache)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The Lorette Centre School District was organized formally in October 1898. In 1966, it became part of Lorette Consolidated School No. 2442. The building still stands in Lorette, in the Rural Municipality of Tache, and has been renovated into residential space.

Principals

Period	Principal
1926-1933	Sister Rose Parks
1933-1939	Sister M. N. Lamoureux
1939-1943	Sister Claire Tetrault
1943-1947	Sister M. N. Lamoureux
1947-1948	Sister St. Elphige
1948-1961	Catherine Farmer [Sister du Sacre-Coeur-je-Jesus] (1916-2012)
1961-1963	George A. Guilbault (c1919-1991)

Teachers

Among the teachers of Lorette Centre School was Neil McTavish (c1961-1965).

Photos & Coordinates

Lorette Centre School (no date) by R. Goulet Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 36. The former Lorette Centre School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1363. The former Lorette Centre School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1364. The former Lorette Centre School building (March 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.74033, W96.87443 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

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.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 15 February 2021

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