The Pretoria School District was established formally in April 1901. A one-room schoolhouse operated at NE36-33-29W in what is now the Municipality of Swan Valley West. The district was dissolved in April 1913 and its catchment area was added to that of the Durban Consolidated School No. 1080.
Among the teachers of Pretoria School were James First, A. K. Cameron, May Green, James Mossip, Mrs. Isaac Hunt, Laura Latimer, Mrs. Kinley, A. H. Plummer, Jessie McCaully, and A. B. Campbell.
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.88027, W101.43653
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.
Durban by Stuart Harris, Swan River Star and Times, 1986, pages 55-58.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 September 2025
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