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As early as May 1957, trustees of the Woodglen School District considered the merits of splitting the district to better serve local education needs, however that decision was not taken. Instead, in August 1958, they expanded classroom operations to include a second temporary location within the north of the district, while that same month local voters rejected a proposed new schoolhouse, voting 10 for to 12 opposed (with two votes also spoiled). One year later, in the fall of 1959, a new one-room schoolhouse at this site in the southwest corner of SW16-24-4E in what is now the Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton was given local approval and this second schoolhouse funded via a $6,000 debenture. The districts catchment area was dissolved into Evergreen School Division in April 1967 and this school closed in the summer of that year. Local education within the former district was offered at the previously Woodglen School No. 1 during the 1967-1968 school year before it too closed.
Period
District Principal
1958-1967
For a listing of the Woodglen School No. 2 teachers (1958-1967), see Woodglen School No. 1.
Site Location (lat/long): N51.06956, W96.98824
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Woodglen School No. 1722 / Woodglen School No. 1 (Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton)
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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Woodglen School District No. 1722 - Daily Registers, GR6124, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Woodglen School District No. 1722 - Cash Book, GR6226, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Woodglen School District No. 1722 - Minutes, GR6189, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Woodglen School District No. 1722 - Census Records, GR10358, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 1 December 2023
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