The Lowland School District was established formally in June 1913 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at the northeast corner of SE2-24-1E in what is now the Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton. The district was dissolved in 1966 and its catchment area became part of the Arborg Consolidated School District and later the Evergreen School Division.
Among the teachers of Lowland School were Cas Hollinger and Donald Bjornson.
Lowland School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 16.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.04500, W97.34549
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Lowland School District No. 1684], 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 [Donald Bjornson], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 January 2023.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 January 2023
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