The New Scotland School District was established formally in January 1914 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE22-27-9W in what would later become the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Lakeshore School Division. The former school building is no longer present at the site and a new building has replaced it.
Among the teachers of New Scotland School were Lanna? May Kennedy (Fall 1940), Gladys Pue? (Spring 1941), Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost (1941-1942), Victoria P. Dolinsky (1942-1943).
New Scotland School (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 22.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.32397, W98.63272
denoted by symbol on the map above
Steep Rock topographic map, 62O/7, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Hardship and Happiness, Interlake Pioneers (Steep Rock), 1974, pages 46-67.
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 Holly Thorne and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 June 2023
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