The Northcliffe School District was established in July 1917 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW25-28-28W in what is now the Municipality of Roblin. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the Goose Lake Consolidated School District and later the Intermountain School Division. All that remained at the time of a 2014 site visit was a commemorative sign and the concrete foundation for the school building.
Among the teachers of Northcliffe School was Peter Bugera.
Northcliffe School “new room” (no date) by R. J. MacKenzie
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 57.
Northcliffe School (no date) by R. J. MacKenzie
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 57.
Concrete steps and foundation from the former Northcliffe School building (May 2014)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Northcliffe School commemorative sign (May 2014)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.42058, W101.28262
denoted by symbol on the map above
Angling Lakes West topographic map, 62N/6 West, Edition 2, Series A743 [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.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 April 2021
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