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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Garson School No. 1375 (Garson, RM of Brokenhead)Link to: The Garson School District was established in May 1906 and a two-storey stone schoolhouse operated in Garson, in what later became the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead. No vestige of the school remains at the site today. Principals
TeachersAmong the other teachers of Garson School were Edward Bathgate (circa 1919) and Catherine Slater (1940s). Photos & Coordinates
Sources:Selkirk topographic map, 62I/2, Edition 2, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba]. Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library. 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. Obituary [Catherine Maria Thexton], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 March 2019. We thank Nathan Kramer and Jean Ammeter for providing additional information used here. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 21 September 2019
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