The Poplar Bay School District was organized formally in December 1927 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at the southwest corner of NW17-16-13E in the Rural Municipality of Alexander. Closed around 1957, the district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Lac du Bonnet Consolidated School District and later the Agassiz School Division.
Poplar Bay School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 111.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.34605, W95.78581
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Poplar Bay School District No. 2175], 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.
We thank Randy Raban for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 April 2021
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