The Whitehaven School District (later known as the St. Jean Baptiste West School District) was established in April 1880 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW28-3-1E in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm. The district was dissolved in 1958 and its area became part of the St. Jean-Baptiste Consolidated School District. No vestige of the school building remains at the site.
Among the teachers who worked at Whitehaven School was James Thomas Cressey.
Whitehaven School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 25.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.23643, W97.39194
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files [St. Jean Baptiste West School District No. 89], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
Emerson West topographic map, 62H/3 West, Edition 2 ASE, 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: 25 October 2022
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