The Mount Nebo School District was formally organized in December 1920 and a school building was constructed the next year in the southeast quarter of 19-4-6 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Thompson. It closed in January 1954. A monument at the site was unveiled during a school reunion held in August 1993.
Among the teachers who worked at Mount Nebo School were Annie Dunn (1921), Miss F. McNee (1922), Mabel Cook Bird (1923-1924), Miss M. Mawhinney (1925), Pearl McKerlie Burnett (1926-1927), Elsie Smith Clearwater (1929), Alice Sowrey (1930), Helen Dunsmore (1931-1933), Margaret Callum (1934-1937, 1939), Miss C. M. Stewart (1938), Dorine Sharpe Brown (1940), Ruth McNarry Meldrum (1941-1942), Mrs. F. Whitman (1943), Miss M. Harder (1944), Miss M. Lee (1945), Miss N. McLeod (1946), Alice Hunt (1947), Norman Paradis (1948), Doris Mathers (1949), Shirley Steeves (1949), Harry Bachewich (1950, 1952), Doreen Madill Storey (1951), Rosalie Orchard Brooks (1953), and Harry Martin (1954).
Mount Nebo School (no date) by A. J. Manning
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 84.
Mount Nebo School commemorative monument (October 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Mount Nebo School commemorative monument (June 2023)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.31091, W98.25063
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Miami & R. M. of Thompson Chronicles by Thompson History Book Committee, c1998. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5649.M50Mia]
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 September 2023
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