The Reykjavik School District was established in April 1909 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE35-25-11W in what would later become the Rural Municipality of Alonsa. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the Turtle River School Division.
Reykjavik School (no date) by H. J. Everall
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 127.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.20081, W98.89909
denoted by symbol on the map above
Ebb and Flow West topographic map, 62O/2, Edition 1, Series A743 [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.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 April 2021
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