The Otterburne West School District was organized formally in September 1889 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE29-6-3E in the Rural Municipality of DeSalaberry. The district was dissolved in 1967 and the former school building was later used as a community hall. The building was gone by the time of an August 2014 site visit.
Otterburne West School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 28.
The former Otterburne West community hall (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 294.
Site of Otterburne West School (August 2014)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.50270, W97.14364
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Otterburne School No. 1486 (Otterburne, RM of DeSalaberry)
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 April 2021
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