The Kinlo School District was established formally in May 1913 and a one-room schoolhouse operated on the northeast corner of NE7-8-2E in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald. In 1914, it was decided to move the building to NW8-8-2E.
Among the teachers of Kinlo School were Miss Jean Pate (1914-1915), Miss Kate Hewett (1914-1915), Miss M. B. Mullet (1920-1922), Miss Edith Campbell (1922-1923), Mrs. George Douglas (1922-1923), Miss Marion Major (1924-1925), Miss Marjorie Houghton (1925-1926), Miss May Smith (1925-1927), Miss Myrtle Wheatland (1928-1929), Miss Catherine Young (1929-1930), Miss Germaine Deusey (1930-1935), Miss Bernice McDonald (1930-1935), and Miss Edna Wheatland (1935-1938).
The school closed in 1938 and its catchment area eventually merged into the Domain Consolidated School District No. 2342. In 1945, the former schoolhouse was sold and converted into a private residence. The school district was dissolved in 1953. The school building is no longer present at the site but a metal sign commemorates it.
Kinlo School (no date) by E. D. Parker
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 15.
Kinlo School commemorative signs (September 2014)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.65048, W97.31141
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Kinlough School No. 784 (RM of Macdonald)
Down Memory Lane: A History of Domain Community, 1876-1967 by Domain Women's Institute, c1967, pages 111-114.
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.
Financial support for research reported on this page was provided by the Manitoba Heritage Grants Program (grant 12F-C101, 2012-2013).
We thank Elaine and Monty Magarrell for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 December 2024
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