The Montcalm School District was established formally in January 1898 and a one-room, wood frame schoolhouse operated in the southeast quarter of 28-6-8 west of the Principal Meridian, in what is now the Municipality of Lorne. The district was dissolved in 1960 and henceforth the students in the area went to the Notre Dame du Lourdes Consolidated School No. 2390. The school building is no longer present at the site but a metal sign commemorates it.
Montcalm School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 35.
Montcalm School commemorative sign (September 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Montcalm School commemorative sign (August 2022)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.51061, W98.47649
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Montcalm School (120 Tecumseh Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Montcalm School / Camden School / Norgate School No. 807 (Norgate, Municipality of McCreary)
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.
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 December 2022
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