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In 1935, the Ross Lake School in Flin Flon was constructed by the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company and sold to the Flin Flon School District for the sum of $1. The school closed in 1977 and the building was used for a time as office space by the school board. It was demolished in July 2003.
Period
Principal
1935-1943
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1943-1944
J. W. Gordon
1944-1945
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1945-1949
Stephen John Klym (1920-2010)
1949-1967
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1967-1968
Carl Smorang (c1937-2013)
1968-1977
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No information.
Postcard view of Ross Lake School (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2016-0059Site Coordinates (lat/long): N54.76632, W101.86360
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Flin Flon School District No. 2228], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
“Flin Flon schools’ staff convene,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 March 1944, page 4.
“Manitobans to teach in U.K.,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 August 1968, page 15.
Flin Flon by Valerie Hedman, Loretta Yauck, and Joyce Henderson for the Flin Flon Historical Society, 1974. [Legislative Library of Manitoba, F5649.F65 Hed]
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 Paige Kowal for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 April 2021
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