The Arondale School District was organized formally in March 1910 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW27-9-6E (about N49.77233, W96.70685) in the Rural Municipality of Tache. Around 1927, the original frame building was replaced by another one-storey wood frame structure a short distance to the south on a neighbouring property. After the second school closed around 1967, the building was used as a garage, to which the owner later attached a residence. It was destroyed by fire in June 2025 and only the foundation remained at the time of a July 2025 site visit.
Among the teachers of Arondale School were Mary Eden Lyal Pringle (1910) and Elbert Toews (1953-1954). A plaque commemorating the death of Miss Pringle while on nursing duty during the First World War is held at the Anola and District Museum.
The first Arondale School building (no date) by R. Goulet
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 133.
The first Arondale School building (July 2025)
Source: Jean McManus
Foundation of the second Arondale School building after a fire (July 2025)
Source: Jean McManusSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.77055, W96.70677
denoted by symbol on the map above
Name
Occupation
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
Mary Eden Lyal Pringle
Graduate Nurse
3 Stationary Hospital, Canadian Army Nursing Service
Nursing Sister
4 September 1893
30 May 1918
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Anola and District Museum (725 Weiser Crescent, Anola, 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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
We thank Bill Ammeter, Henry Esau, Darryl Toews, Tannis Fillion, Jean McManus, and Tighe McManus for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 September 2025
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