The Minnewawa School District was established in March 1885 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE25-7-19W in what is now the Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa. The district was dissolved in 1962 and its area became part of the Nesbitt Consolidated School District No. 724.
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.59195, W99.92789
denoted by symbol on the map above
Wawanesa West topographic map, 62G/12 West, Edition 2, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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 March 2021
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