Known originally as the Slowo School District when it was organized formally in August 1907, it was renamed Strand in the 1930s. A one-room schoolhouse operated at NE9-2-8E in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Boundary School Division. It is believed that, after the school closed, the building was moved to Vita and used as a classroom. When a multi-room school building was constructed there, the one-room school was sold.
Strand School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectaors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 116.
Strand School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectaors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 116.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.11218, W96.44993
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [Strand School District No. 1433], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
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.
We thank Don Machnee for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 September 2020
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