The Rocklands School District was organized formally in March 1914. A wood-frame, one-room schoolhouse was erected at SE6-20-11W in the Rural Municipality of Alonsa and classes commenced in January 1915. The school became part of the Glenella municipal school system in 1936. It is believed the school closed in June 1941.
Among the teachers of Rocklands School were Miss May Mayers (1915), Miss Alice P. Forbes (1915), Miss Alice Cartwright (1916), Miss Mary Smith (1917), Miss Jessie Williams (1918), Miss Vera Whitman (1918-1919), Miss Florence McKinnon (1919), Miss Fanny Girling (1920), Miss Olive Kerr (1921), Selena Johnston (1921-1923), Helen McKay (1924), Robert McLean (1924), Lizzie Emes (1925), N. Hoeght (1925-1926), Irene Sinclair (1926), Edith Aylwin (1927-1932), Marjorie Fitton (1932-1934), Margaret King (1934-1935), Ruby Arndt (1935), Edith Dafoe (1936-1937), Irene Dafoe (1938), and Helen Ward (1938-1941).
Rocklands School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 26.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.68341, W98.98015
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Tracks of Time: Glenella and Districts by Glenella History Committee, 1990, pages 129-130. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.G65 Tra]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 August 2023
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