Historic Sites of Manitoba: Van Dusen School No. 1728 (RM of Grahamdale)

The Van Dusen School District was organized formally in March 1914 and a one-room schoolhouse operated on the southeast corner of SW2-32-9W in the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale. The district was dissolved in 1959. The former schoolhouse still stood at the site as recently as 2011 but by early 2016 the building had fallen down, along with a commemorative wooden sign beside it.

Van Dusen School

Van Dusen School (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 24.

The former Van Dusen School building

The former Van Dusen School building (May 2016)
Source: Timothy Greene

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.71160, W98.62931
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

School District Formation Files [Van Dusen School District No. 1728], 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 Tim Greene for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 April 2021

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