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The Thornton School District No. 1797 was incorporated formally in June 1915, probably named for provincial Education Minister Robert Stirton Thornton. A one-room schoolhouse operated at SW21-25-13W in the Rural Municipality of Alonsa. The district was dissolved in 1966 and its catchment area became part of the Turtle River School Division.
Thornton School (circa 1926)
Source: Education Department Report, 1927, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Thornton School (no date) by H. J. Everall
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 37.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.17025, W99.24233
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Robert Stirton Thornton (1863-1936)
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: 14 December 2024
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