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Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. Jean Baptiste Centre School No. 941 (St. Jean Baptiste, RM of Montcalm)

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The St. Jean Baptiste Centre School District was established in May 1897, and separate school buildings for girls and boys operated in the village of St. Jean Baptiste in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm. In 1958, it became the St. Jean Baptiste Consolidated School District No. 2362.

Principals

Period

Principal

1912-1913

Sister Elisa Marion

1913-1917

Sister Bertha Lamarre

1917-1918

Flore-Alice Nadeau

1918-1919

Brother E. Berger

1919-1920

Sister Bertha Lamarre

1920-1921

Flore-Alice Nadeau

1921-1933

Beatrice Bedard [Sister Elizabeth St. Joseph] (c1893-1983)

1933-1937

Sister M. A. Bellemare

1937-1942

Sister Elodie Daneault

1942-1943

Sister Otilia Nolin

1943-1947

Sister Delphine Joubert

1947-1948

Sister Marie Agnes de Jesus

1948-1949

Albina Marie Bleau (1897-1982)

1949-1951

Sister Luce Marie

1951-1955

Sister Alice Parent

1955-1956

Sister Luce-Marie

1956-1957

Sister Alice Parent

1957-1959

Sister Marie Louise Gabrielle

1959-1961

Sister Elizabeth

1961-1963

Beatrice Bedard [Sister Elizabeth St. Joseph] (c1893-1983)

1963-1969

Agathe Comeault [Sister Edmond de l’Eucharistie] (1914-2001)

1969-1973

R. Perron

Teachers

No information.

Photos & Coordinates

St. Jean Baptiste Centre Girls’ School

St. Jean Baptiste Centre Girls’ School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 126.

St. Jean Baptiste Centre Boys’ School

St. Jean Baptiste Centre Boys’ School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 126.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.26465, W97.34257
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Morris West topographic map, 62H/6 West, Edition 2 ASE, 1958, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].

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: 19 August 2021

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