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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hudson’s Bay Company Store / Seven Sisters Post Office / Seven Sisters Falls School No. 2218 (Seven Sisters Falls, RM of Whitemouth)Link to: This building at Seven Sisters Falls in the Rural Municipality of Whitemouth housed a Hudson's Bay Company store, post office, two-classroom school, teachers' living quarters, company office, and library. The Seven Sisters Falls School opened in 1929 and a school district was established formally in May 1930. It was operated by the Winnipeg Electric Company, and later the Manitoba Power Commission and Manitoba Hydro, for the children of workers at the nearby Seven Sisters Hydroelectric Generating Station. The school closed in 1967 and, the following year, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Agassiz School Division. The building is used as a local training and conference centre by Manitoba Hydro. Principals
TeachersAmong the teachers who worked at Seven Sisters Falls School through the years were James Dark (1930), William R. Lee (1933), Gordon Jorgenson (1937-1940), Earle Outhwaite (1942-1949), and Gertude G. Cousins (1945-1967). Photos & Coordinates
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Sources:Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library. 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. Trails to Rails to Highways edited by Bob Porth and Craig MacKenzie, Whitemouth Municipal Museum Society, 1979. “Seven Sisters Falls School committee plans reunion,” Lac du Bonnet Leader, 15 March 1988, page 11. “Seven Sisters Falls school reunion was an overwhelming success,” Lac du Bonnet Leader, 6 September 1988, page 18. A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages. We thank George Penner and Manny Jacob for providing additional information used here. This page was prepared by Robert Porth and Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 18 July 2023
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