The Sinclair River School District was organized formally in June 1917. From 1919 to 1953, it operated a one-room wood frame school building on the southwest quarter of 21-37-25 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman. In 1953, the building was moved to a site one mile north and a half mile east of this location, on the southeast corner of 28-27-25W. A monument at this site, erected in 1996, commemorates it.
Among the teachers of Sinclair River School was J. L. Morrow.
Sinclair River School (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 52.
Sinclair River School (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 52.
Sinclair River School commemorative monument (July 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N52.18742, W100.98923
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Sinclair River School No. 1895 (Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman)
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: 3 February 2021
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