The St. Felix School District was established formally in November 1894 and a school building was erected on the northwest quarter of 24-5-18 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Rural Municipality of Prairie Lakes. In 1929, a larger and more modern frame building was built on the same location. The school closed in 1951 and its district was dissolved in 1959. The remaining students went to Dunrea Consolidated School No. 147. The school building is no longer present at the site but a stone commemorative monument was installed in the summer of 1996.
St. Felix School (no date) by W. J. Parr
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 9.
St. Felix School commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.41086, W99.78821
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques and Manitoba Community Commemorative Plaques, Fiscal Year 1995-1996, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship, page 33.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 February 2021
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