Historic Sites of Manitoba: Kenilworth School / Riding Mountain School No. 1439 / Robertson School (Riding Mountain, RM of Rosedale)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The Kenilworth School District was established in August 1907 and a one-room, wood frame schoolhouse operated in Riding Mountain in the Rural Municipality of Rosedale. The name was changed to Riding Mountain School after a like-named school farther west closed around 1909 and became part of the Elphinstone Consolidated School. In 1967, the school became part of the Turtle River School Division. It closed in 1972 and the building was demolished, being replaced by the new Robertson School. A commemorative monument at the site, topped by the former school building, was erected in August 1985.

Principals

Period	Principal
1950-1952	Andrew John Legebokoff (c1924-2014)
1952-1955	Keith Donald Boughton (1927-2014)
1955-1956	Grace V. Smith
1956-1958	Vincent L. Loughlin
1958-1959	L. Molgat
1959-1978	?
1978-1985	Edward Levandoski

Teachers

Among the early teachers at Riding Mountain School was Karen Carroll Boughton (grades 1-6, 1952-1955).

School Year	Teachers
1978-1979	Mary Grudeski
1979-1980	Mary Grudeski
1980-1981	Mary Grudeski
1981-1982	Mary Grudeski
1982-1983	Mary Grudeski
1983-1984	Mary Grudeski
1984-1985	Mary Grudeski

Photos & Coordinates

Kenilworth School (no date) by W. C. Hartley Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 117. Kenilworth School commemorative monument (September 2013) Source: Alan Mason Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.53174, W99.46467 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Riding Mountain School No. 491 (RM of Yellowhead)

Sources:

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.

“Add one position in Turtle R.,” Dauphin Herald, 6 September 1978, page 2.

“Teachers begin year in Turtle River S.D.,” Dauphin Herald, 10 September 1980, page 24.

“Teachers ready in Turtle River,” Dauphin Herald, 1 September 1982, page 18.

“Teachers in Turtle River schools,” Dauphin Herald, 9 October 1984, page 30.

Obituary [Keith Donald Boughton], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 July 2014.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Alan Mason and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 June 2021

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