When the Ravenswood School District was established formally in 1886, its one-room schoolhouse at NE4-7-6W was situated in the Rural Municipality of Elm River, later part of the RM of Dufferin. In October 1918, the district was consolidated with the Graysville Consolidated School District. No vestige of the school remains at the site but a metal sign erected by the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee commemorates it.
Among the teachers at Ravenswood School were Louisa Bridge (Spring-Fall 1886), George Durno? (Spring 1887 - Fall 1888), Annie I. Young (Spring 1889 - Fall 1890), Margaret R. Baxter (Spring-Fall 1891), Alex McPherson (Spring 1892), Carrie Pedlar (Fall 1892), Helen Hislop (Spring 1893 - Fall 1894), Annie W. McFarlane (Spring 1895 - Fall 1896), Mary E. McConnell (Spring-Fall 1897), Adeline Mitchell (Spring-Fall 1898), C. M. McGaw? (Spring-Fall 1899), Louise C. Anderson (Spring 1900 - Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), L. Jean Clandenning (Spring 1905), Elmina S. Jickling (Fall 1905 - Spring 1906), Blanche A. Ryder (Fall 1906 - Fall 1907), Lizzie Hardy (Spring 1908 - Spring 1909), Annie E. McLaughlin (Fall 1909 - pt Spring 1911), Charles H. S. Traill (pt Spring - Fall 1911), Ethel Buchanan (Spring 1912), Violet M. Hefford (Fall 1912 - Spring 1913), Clara Cook (Fall 1913), Frances Gilbert (Spring 1914 - Spring 1915), N. Elma Herrell (Fall 1915 - Spring 1916), Christie Thompson (Fall 1916 - Spring 1917), and A. Myrtle McCullough (Fall 1917 - Fall 1918).
Ravenswood School commemorative sign (March 2021)
Source: Art PeersSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.54305, W98.21022
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.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
School Bells & Honey Pails: A GPS Tour of Local Country Schools, Dufferin Historical Museum, circa 2011, 74 pages.
We thank Art Peers for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 20 November 2025
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