Known as the Little Maple School District when it was organized formally in February 1915, it was renamed Skogan School District some time prior to the September 1919. A one-room schoolhouse operated at NW18-18-1W in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong. By the the fall of 1931, the district was transporting students to Rondeau School. In 1936, the district became part of the Armstrong Municipal School District No. 1842 and school operations at this location were resumed.
Among the teachers of Little Maple Leaf School / Skogan School were Corra M. Travis (August-December 1919), Bower Collins (January-June 1920), ? (1920-1921), Thomas E. Black (July-October 1921), Roy E. Arbuckle (April-July 1922), ? (1922-1924), Elsie M. Packer (July-August 1924), Alice M. Pieper (September 1924), George W. Burrell (October 1924 - July 1925), ? (1925-1929), Emma Jean Dean Moore (1929-1930), Walter B. Lowe (September 1930), David Kidd (September-December 1930), Marjorie Jean Lavender (January-June 1931), (1931-1936, see Rondeau School), Viola Uldine Lang (1936-1937), Harvey Disrael Ginsberg (1937-1938), ? (1938-1940), Lydia Dyck (1940-1941), and Edna Jean Carson (1941-1942).
Skogan School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 33.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.55067, W97.59753
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maple School No. 584 (Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)
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.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Armstrong Municipal School District No. 1842, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Skogan School District No. 1775 - Daily Registers, GR11220 , Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Skogan School District No. 1775 - Minute Book, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), File 1842 - Armstrong Municipal School District (Skogan) - Permanent, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 4 August 2023
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