Historic Sites of Manitoba: Shergrove School No. 1767 (RM of Alonsa)

The Shergrove School District was established in December 1914 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NE3-24-13W in the Rural Municipality of Alonsa. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Turtle River School Division.

Among the teachers of Shergrove School was B. Scott Bateman (1920s).

Shergrove School

Shergrove School (no date) by R. M. Stevenson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 31.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.05156, W99.19705
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Valpoy East topographic map, 62O/3 East, 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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