The Cleophas School District was established in June 1927 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW34-9-11W in the Rural Municipality of Victoria. In 1963, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Spruce Hills Consolidated School District and later the Pine Creek School Division.
The teachers of Pratt School were Irene Gill (c1926), George North, Iris Jackson, Jenny Mackie, Joe Mayers, Helen Francis, Valera Cathcart, Jean Philips, Dorothy Legg, Esther Jeffrey, Jean North, G. L. Miehe, Fay Sims, Annie Lamb, Ivy McCuaig, Beverly Rankin, Grace Hay, and Adria Burkhardt.
Pratt School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 107.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.79766, W98.89252
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Spruce Hills Consolidated School No. 2413 (RM of Victoria)
Macgregor West topographic map, 62G/15 West, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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.
R.M. of Victoria: Past & Present, Volume 1 by RM of Victoria History Book Committee, 2002, page 194.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 April 2021
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