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The Barrows School District was established formally in March 1913 via an award from School Inspector Edward Howson Walker following the petition from local residents of the Red Deer Lumber Company mill community at Red Deer Lake. Initially, its catchment consisted of Sections 20 and 21 within Township 45 Range 28 West of the Prime Meridian, and a schoolhouse established near the southwest corner of NE21-45-28W. The affairs of the district were later overseen by an Official Trustee, the last of whom was Clifford Knox Rogers (?-1952). The district was dissolved in April 1952.
Among the earliest teachers at Barrows School were John Robert Williams (Fall 1913 - Spring 1914), John A. May (Fall 1914 - Fall 1915), Y?. C. Vrooman (Spring 1916), and Alex Brown (Fall 1916).
Barrows School (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs (A 0233)
GR8461, GP1-3-1-3-3.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N52.89376, W101.46375
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Red Deer Lumber Company and Bank Vault (Northern Manitoba)
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Barrows School No. 1667, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
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.
The Lumber Industry in Manitoba, February 2000, Historic Resources Branch, pages 48-51.
We thank Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 20 February 2026
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