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The Mariapolis School District was formally established in 1894 and a modest, one-storey schoolhouse was erected in Mariapolis, in what is now the Municipality of Lorne, in 1899. It was replaced in 1912 by a two-storey, four-classroom brick school building.
Near the former school site is a monument (at N49.35972, W98.98693) commemorating the rural schools that, in 1959, were consolidated with Mariapolis School No. 830 to become Mariapolis Consolidated School No. 2372 in the Mountain School Division No. 28. They included Dry River School No. 399 (NW22-4-12W, 1885-1958), Pike Lake School No. 838 (SW17-5-12W, 1894-1950), Zephyr School No. 1384 (NW7-4-12W, 1906-1952), and St. Albert School No. 2164 (NE13-5-12W, 1926-1958).
Period
Principal
1952-1958
Sister Lucille T. Gendron
1958-1961
Sister St. Florence
1961-1962
Sister S. Honore
1962-1967
Sister M. Victorine Hutlett
No information.
The second Mariapolis School building, constructed in 1912, with a convent on the back added in 1929 (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 8.
Mariapolis schools commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.35977, W98.98751
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Mariapolis Collegiate / Indian Springs School (Mariapolis, Municipality of Lorne)
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.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 January 2021
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