Manitoba Organization: Rhineland School Division No. 18

The Rhineland School Division was created on 1 April 1959 by an order of the Manitoba Minister of Education, acting on a recommendation of the MacFarlane Commission on Education and the School Divisions Boundaries Commission. It became responsible for all secondary education, grades 9 to 12, within the area of the following school districts:

Ward	School Districts
1	Bloomfield School District No. 793 Grimsby School District No. 1993 Grossweide School District No. 786 Hamburg School District No. 2139 Hoffnungsort School District No. 821 Kleefeld School District No. 2160 Neu Kronsthal School District No. 1137 Plum Coulee School District No. 651 Rosewell School District No. 1071 Thames School District No. 1991
2	Altbergthal School District No. 1296 Eigenhof School District No. 1591 Ekfrid School District No. 2061 Gnadenthal School District No. 1998 Gruenthal School District No. 1592 Kranstal Consolidated School District No. 1994 Neuhoffnung School District No. 1310 Rosengart School District No. 2131 Rudnerweide School District No. 1752 Schoenwiese School District No. 2134 South Park School District No. 2141
3	Edenburg School District No. 330 Gnadenfeld School District No. 1593 Gretna School District No. 336 Halbstadt School District No. 886 Houston School District No. 214 Neu Bergthal School District No. 1594 Silberfeld School District No. 1590 Sommerfeld School District No. 2058 Strassberg School District No. 757
4	Amsterdam School District No. 885 Hopevale School District No. 1136 Horndean School District No. 820 Kleinstadt School District No. 781 Langevin School District No. 946 Melba School District No. 2039 New Kennedy School District No. 1573 Reichenbach School District No. 1198 Rosenfeld School District No. 755 Rosenheim School District No. 1306 Roseville School District No. 1990 Schoenau School District No. 2142 Schoenthal School District No. 1552 Weidenfeld School District No. 988
5	Altona School District No. 333

Superintendents

Period	Superintendent
c1973	John B. Wiebe (1929-2014)
c1973-?	Peter Thiessen
?-1996	Edgar Enns
1996-?	Don Wiebe

In July 2002, Rhineland was amalgamated with Boundary School Division No. 16, Red River School Division No. 17, and Sprague Consolidated School District No. 2439 to form the Border Land School Division.

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions (1959)

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba’s Rural School Consolidation (1905-1967)

Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions Boundaries Commission (1958-1959)

Events in Manitoba History: MacFarlane Royal Commission on Education (1957-1959)

Sources:

Report of the School Divisions Boundaries Commission, 13 January 1959, Manitoba Legislative Library, SpR 1958 Education.

We thank Ted Fransen for providing information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 November 2023