Historic Sites of Manitoba: Twyford School No. 663 (Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne)

Twyford School was situated on SE3-15-13 west of the Principal Meridian. A monument was erected on 11 July 2009 for the 125th anniversary of the Rural Municipality of Lansdowne in commemoration of the school’s students, teachers, and trustees.

Twyford School

Twyford School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 105.

Twyford School commemorative monument

Twyford School commemorative monument (2010)
Source: Allan Drysdale

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.24091, W99.17000
denoted by symbol on the map above

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 Allan Drysdale and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 31 January 2021

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