The Ridge Road School District was established in 1893. The original one-room school house was situated in the southwest quarter of 9-11-6 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie. In 1929, it was destroyed by fire. There was sufficiently large enrollment that, instead of replacing the school with a single building, two were built: North Ridge Road School at this site, and South Ridge Road School two miles south. Both schools were operated by the same school board. When the school closed permanently in 1968, the building was moved to Portage la Prairie where it was made into a duplex residence. The only remnant of the former school is its shelterbelt of trees, a baseball backstop, and a monument unveiled on 2 July 2000.
The original Ridge Road School (no date) by A. B. Fallis
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 116.
North Ridge Road School (no date) by A. B. Fallis
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 116.
North Ridge Road School commemorative monument (February 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.91642, W98.23872
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: South Ridge Road School No. 730 (RM of Portage la Prairie)
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.
Rural Schools of Portage la Prairie School Division #24 by Muriel Wright, 1996.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 February 2021
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