The Zoria School District was organized in March 1912 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW35-27-21W in what is now the Municipality of Gilbert Plains. The original school building was destroyed by fire in 1938 but was replaced the following year. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its area became part of the Intermountain School Division. The school building is no longer present at the site.
Zoria School (no date) by H. L. Albright
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 3.
Site of the former Zoria School (May 2014)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.36154, W100.31239
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Zora School No. 1518 (RM of Springfield)
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.
Country Schools of Gilbert Plains by Barry Randell, 2006.
We thank Ed Arndt for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 December 2020
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