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 (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 (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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