Known as the St. Julien de Chambord School District when it was established in July 1899, a one-room schoolhouse operated in Richer in the Rural Municipality of Ste. Anne. Its name was changed to Richer in July 1940, coinciding with the construction of a new schoolhouse. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its area became part of the Seine River School Division.
Among the teachers of Richer School was Sister du Sacre-Coeur-je-Jesus.
Richer School (circa 1940)
Source: Report of the Department of Education for the Year Ending June 30th 1940 [Legislative Library of Manitoba]Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.65770, W96.45554
denoted by symbol on the map above
Richer West topographic map, 62H/9 West, Edition 2, 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.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 December 2024
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