The Shorncliffe School District was organized formally in January 1917, and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW21-24-3E in what is now the Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Evergreen School Division.
Shorncliffe School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 46.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.08292, W97.12995
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Shorncliffe School District No. 1851], GR1688, E0027, 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: 7 August 2021
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