A log building near the Lakeland railway siding, in what is now the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, served as a school from 1883 to 1892 within the Lakeside School District. With an increase in local population, North Lakeland School District was organized formally in August 1893 and was established with its own catchment area. A school building was erected in the northwest quarter of 28-15-9 west of the Principal Meridian. The first North Lakeland School was replaced in 1910. A new schoolhouse was commissioned and built in the autumn of 1917 with funding from a $2,000 debenture. That frame one-room building served the district until June 1967 when the district was amalgamated into Pine Creek School Division and the remaining students were bused to Langruth.
Among the teachers of North Lakeland School were M. Flemming (pt Fall 1894), N. Binningham (pt Fall 1894), T. Scarry (Spring-Fall 1895), C. M. Teeple? (Spring - pt Fall 1896), Archibald Macdonald Headlam (pt Fall 1896), Maud Kerr (Spring-Fall 1897), A. H. Johnston (Spring-Fall 1898), Will? I. Prism? (Spring 1899), Alex Crerar (Fall 1899), Andrew Jamieson (Spring-Fall 1900), Katherine Anderson (Spring-Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Lizzie L. Campbell (Spring 1905), Hector McKechnie (Fall 1905 - Fall 1906), Lilian Lynch (Spring-Fall 1907), C. Isabelle Lynch (Spring-Fall 1908), Daniel Windsor (Spring 1909 - Spring 1910), Verna [Verma?] M. Wilton (Fall 1910 - pt Spring 1911), Jennie Irvine (pt Spring 1911), Lena Gottfred [Gottfried] (Fall 1911 - Spring 1912), Mannie Hamilton (Fall 1912 - pt Spring 1913), Flora May Thompson (pt Spring 1913 - Spring 1914), Harvey Barr (pt Fall 1914), Lizzie Wellwood (pt Fall 1914), Clara [Clair] McDermid (Spring 1915 - Spring 1916), Enetta? Elliott (Fall 1916), ? (Spring 1917 - Spring 1943), Edith Isabella Martin (1943-1944), J. Rafukelsson (1944), Leila Duffin (1946), Iola Maybelle Hammond (1946-1947), Julie Sladek (1949-1951), Dorothy Amelia Lees (1951-1952), Lillian Doris Edwards (1952-1953), Miss Eileen Lillian Germain (1953-1954), Iola Ann Aileen Hollier Lasson (1954-1958), Margaret Armstrong (1957), Patricia Elinor Hill Robershaw (1958-1960), Dorothy Myrtle Blair (1960-1961), Kristjan Arnason (1961-1962), Elizabeth Nettie Johnson (1962-1964), Barbara Anne Jackson (1964-1965), and Mary Louise Reading (1965-1966).
In 2000, a monument dedicated to the teachers, trustees, parents and students of North Lakeland School was unveiled at the site.
North Lakeland School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 120.
North Lakeland School commemorative monument (September 2016)
Source: Alan MasonSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.31375, W98.66059
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: North Lake School No. 1431 (RM of Mossey River)
“Langruth news,” Portage la Prairie Leader, 3 September 1953, page 11.
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.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #7 School District of North Lakeland, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, North Lakelands School District No. 754 Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Alan Mason, and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 6 May 2024
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