The Norland School District was organized formally in August 1901 and as of 1944 a one-room schoolhouse operated at the northeast corner of NE15-18-17W in the Rural Municipality of Clanwilliam. Its district was dissolved in 1965 and the catchment area became part of the Erickson Consolidated School District and later the Rolling River School Division. The former school building was moved to Minnedosa.
Among the teachers of Norland School were James M. McGillivary (1901), Carl Lundgren, Edith Johnson, Elma Solmark, Mamie Corbett, Dorothy Hanson, Margaret Paulson, I. E. Johnson, L. Harcourt Johnson, Mabel Christopherson, Cecelia Johnson, Eva McNaught, Judy Donahue, D. M. Jefferson, Emma Haggerty, William Rankin, Margaret Yellowlees, Agnes Thompson, Ann Wilman, Dorothy Carter, Lillian Anderson, Florence Frost, Shirley Willoughby, Ethel Ervin, Betty Tomlinson, Mavis Holmlund, Sylvia Carson, Stella Misanchuk, Mary Harris, Ivy DeJersey, Jeanette Kostecki, Mrs. Horwood, Grant Suppes, May Horwood, Joyce Sichewski, Mrs. Carscadden, Roxanne Bowden, and Keith Worden.
Norland School (no date) by W. C. Hartley
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 60.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.54988, W99.72364
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Norland School District No. 1115], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
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.
Forest to Field: Centennial History of Rural Municipality of Clanwilliam and Village of Erickson, Manitoba, Canada by Clanwilliam History Book Committee, 1984, pages 135-137.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 April 2021
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