Formally established in October 1907 in what is now the Municipality of South Norfolk Treherne, a brick one-room schoolhouse for the South Rossendale School District opened in 1908, replacing a log school that had operated in the vicinity since the 1890s. Situated on the southeast corner of 33-9-9 west of the Principal Meridian, it served the educational needs of the local area until 1964 when it closed and students transferred to Rossendale Consolidated School No. 2419. Now situated in a cattle pasture on private land, the school building was, at one time, used as a granary although it shows signs of structural deterioration.
Among the teachers of South Rossendale School were Lee Tomchuk, Edgar Kenny Marshall, and Edith May Good (1930s).
South Rossendale School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 118.
The former South Rossendale School building (September 2008)
Source: Jordan Sawatzky
The former South Rossendale School building, later used as a granary (September 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former South Rossendale School building (2016)
Source: Desiree Rolfe
The former South Rossendale School building (August 2019)
Source: Rose Kuzina
The former South Rossendale School building (August 2019)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.78336, W98.62033
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rossendale Consolidated School No. 2419 (Rossendale, Municipality of North Norfolk)
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.
Through Fields and Dreams: A History of the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk and MacGregor by The History Book Committee of the North Norfolk-MacGregor Archives, 1998, page 1154.
We thank Millie Stuckert, Sandra Garvie, Desiree Rolfe, Jordan Sawatzky, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 13 February 2021
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