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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Theobald School No. 1415 (RM of Lorne)The Theobald School District was founded in 1879 through the the actions of Father Theobald Bitsche, parish priest of St. Leon, Manitoba. Named for him, a one-room wood frame school operated as of 1889 on the northwest quarter of 9-5-9 west of the Principal Meridian (on two acres of land donated by Edouard Labossiere) in the Rural Municipality of Lorne. A new schoolhouse erected in 1918 was used continuously until 1959, when it closed and henceforth students in the area went to St. Leon Village Consolidated School No. 1425 or Richard Consolidated School No. 1092. The former school building was moved to a museum in St. Leon but a monument, dedicated on 15 August 2004, commemorates it at the original site.
Sources: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 Alan Mason and Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 19 November 2018
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