Historic Sites of Manitoba: Laval School No. 1617 (RM of Fisher)

The Laval School District was established formally in April 1912 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE31-24-1W in what is now the Rural Municipality of Fisher. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Lakeshore School Division.

Laval School

Laval School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 4.

Site Location (lat/long): N51.11219, W97.57995
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

School Formation File, Laval School District No. 1617, Archives of Manitoba.

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 May 2021

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