Burnbank School District No. 789 was formally established in January 1894 and, in 1902, a one-room, wood frame school building was erected on the southeast quarter of 34-12-28 west of the Principal Meridian, on the banks of Niso Creek in what is now the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth. The school served as the educational and social centre for the area until it closed in 1963 and its remaining students went to Elkhorn Consolidated School No. 366. The district was dissolved in July 1964. Over the course of its history, it hosted 165 students and 36 teachers.
Among the teachers of Burnbank School were Miss Agnes Stewart, Miss Lena Vodden, Miss Cairns, Miss Lackey, Kitty Prouse, Miss Alford, Miss Marion
Lambert, Miss Macey, Miss McKenzie, Miss McIntosh, Mr. Middleton, Miss Clarice Leslie, Miss Edna Tottle, Miss Phillis Johnson, Miss Anne Dickison,
Miss Margaret Lyttle, Miss Ellen Linner, Mrs. Jean Fordyce, Miss Janeva Wood, Miss Margaret Peloquin,
Mrs. Leone Dixon, and Don McBean.
The school building is no longer on the site but a stone monument commemorating the school was dedicated at a ceremony on 30 August 1987. Also affixed to the monument are plaques in memory of two men, Thomas Lincoln Duxbury (c1916-1941) and Gordon Ivan Williams (c1922-1944), killed during the Second World War.
Burnbank School (no date) by W. R. Beveridge
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 126.
Burnbank School commemorative monument (September 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.05336, W101.21841
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Steel and Grass Roots, 1882-1981 by Elkhorn and District Historical Society, 1982, pages 94-97.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 July 2025
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