Historic Sites of Manitoba: Grand Narrows School No. 1402 (Municipality of Roblin)

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The Grand Narrows School District was formed officially in December 1906 and a one-room schoolhouse operated in the northeast quarter of 5-29-29W in what was at the time the Rural Municipality of Shell River (now the Municipality of Roblin). The district was dissolved in January 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Goose Lake Consolidated School District and later the Intermountain School Division.

Grand Narrows School

Grand Narrows School (no date) by R. J. MacKenzie
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 111.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.49191, W101.52370
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 3 August 2022

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