The Willow Heights School District was formally established in August 1899. A school building operated in the Rural Municipality of Morris, initially at SW14-6-1E. In 1950, the district was renamed to McTavish and a new building was erected at SW11-6-1E, about one mile south. The school closed in June 1966 and henceforth students in this area went to Rosenort Consolidated School No. 2455. In September 2015, a sign commemorating the school was erected at the site.
Among the teachers who worked at Willow Heights School were Maude A. Moore (1899-1900) and Arnold Hildebrand (1965-1966).
Willow Heights School (no date) by A. J. Manning
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 43.
Willow Heights School commemorative sign (September 2015)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Willow Heights School commemorative sign (November 2023)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.47331, W97.35923
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Organization: Morris-Macdonald School Division School District No. 19
Cummin’s Rural Directory Map for Manitoba published by the Cummins Map Company, 404 Chambers of Commerce, Winnipeg, 1923. [Copies held by Edward M. Ledohowski and Gordon Goldsborough]
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.
Furrows in the Valley: A History of the Municipality and its People compiled by the Morris History Book Committee, edited by Lenore Eidse, 1980.
Aerial photograph A11638-142 [1948], Manitoba Air Photo Library.
We thank Mariette Allen for assistance in locating an aerial photograph of Willow Heights School, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 November 2023
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