The Langevin School District was established in May 1898, probably named for cleric Louis Philippe Adelard Langevin, and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE19-2-1E in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm. The school ceased operation in the summer of 1965. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its catchment area was added to the Altona Consolidated School District and later the Rhineland School Division.
Among the teachers at Langevin School were Leouie? Marrion (Spring 1899 - Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Leo G. Heinemann? (pt Spring 1905), John H. Wiebe (pt Fall 1905), Daniel W. “Dan” Fast (Fall 1905 - Spring 1906), Jacob P. Neufeld (October 1906 - June 1907), school closed (25 April - 22 May 1907), Jacob A. Schellenberg (October 1907 - April 1908), Maggie Nickel (November-December 1908), Peter F. Wiebe (January-May 1910), David C. Neufeld (November 1910 - June 1911, October 1911 - February 1912), school closed (14-29 February 1912), John D. Wiebe (March-April 1912), Peter A. Loewen (October 1912 - June 1913), school closed due to bad roads (7-25 April 1913), David H. Heinrichs (October 1913 - June 1914, Fall 1914 - Spring 1915, October 1916 - May 1917), Anna Nikkel (Fall 1915 - Spring 1916), Peter A. Schellenberg (Fall 1917 - Spring 1918, November 1918 - June 1919, Fall 1919 - Spring 1920), Jacob A. Schellenberg (November 1920 - June 1921), school closed due to diphtheria outbreak (15-26 November 1920), school closed due to quarentine (13-31 December 1920), William J. Toews (Fall 1921 - Spring 1922), John H. E. Neufeld (Fall 1922 - Spring 1923), school closed due to bad roads (16-20 April 1923), Nicolai G. “Nic” Neufeld (Fall 1923 - Spring 1925), Jacob D. Siemens (Fall 1925 - Spring 1926), Jacob D. Friesen (Fall 1926 - Spring 1927), Abr. Zacharias (Fall 1927 - Spring 1928), Jacob G. Siemens (Fall 1928), Isbrand John Krueger (Spring 1929), Jacob Jacob Koop (Fall 1929 - Spring 1939), Bernard D. Klipppenstein (Fall 1939 - Spring 1942), Henry Henry Goossen (September 1942 - March 1943), John Irving Warkentin (March-June 1943), Katherine Hamm (Fall 1943 - Spring 1944), William Peter Born (Fall 1944 - Spring 1945), Jacob H. Janzen (Fall 1945 - Spring 1948), Frank Henry Sawatzky (Fall 1948 - Spring 1949, Fall 1950 - Spring 1953), P. A. Schellenberg (Fall 1949 - Spring 1950), Jacob Friesen Kroeker (Fall 1953 - Spring 1957), Louis Pokrant (Fall 1957 - Spring 1958), Elsie Unrau (Fall 1958 - Spring 1960), Harry Bergman (Fall 1960 - Spring 1963), and Abe Leonard Wiebe (Fall 1963 - Spring 1965).
Langevin School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 28
The former Langevin School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 703
The former Langevin School building (no date)
Source: Cam TimlickSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13355, W97.43792
denoted by symbol on the map above
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Langevin School District No. 946 - Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.
Cummin’s Rural Directory Map for Manitoba published by the Cummins Map Company, 404 Chambers of Commerce, Winnipeg, 1923. [Copies held by Edward M. Ledohowski and Gordon Goldsborough]
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 Henry Unger and Cam Timlick for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 25 March 2026
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