A monument in Kaleida, in the Municipality of Pembina, commemorates Kaleida School No. 433 (which operated from 1886 to 1965, after which students went to Manitou Consolidated School No. 314), Kaleida Baptist Church (1905-1951), Kaleida Methodist Church (1905-1949), and Kaleida United Church (1949-1987).
Among the teachers of Kaleida School was Verna Potoroka (1947-1949).
Kaleida School (circa 1911)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspector Photos GR2664, C65.
Kaleida School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 54.
Kaleida School (1947)
Source: Alice-Marie Dyck
Students and teacher of Kaleida School (1947)
Source: Alice-Marie Dyck
Kaleida School teacherage (1947)
Source: Alice-Marie Dyck
Kaleida School and churches commemorative monument (April 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Kaleida School and churches commemorative monument (November 2024)
Source: Milan LukesSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13006, W98.46912
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.
We thank Milan Lukes and Alice-Marie Dyck for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 January 2026
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