This museum at Anola, in the Rural Municipality of Springfield, features artifacts and buildings from the early days of the municipality. It includes the building for Anola School No. 1602, the Millbrook Cemetery Chapel from 1889, a blacksmith shop, a fire hall, and an early home.
An undated honour roll for the Codville Company lists names of employees killed during the First World War.
Contact the museum via Warren Kruchak at 204-794-3069 or Susanne Wastle at 204-866-3599.
Aerial view of the Anola and District Museum (July 2020)
Source: George Penner
Anola and District Museum, with the Anola School building at left (March 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Anola School building at the Anola and District Museum (August 2023)
Source: Glen Toews
The former Anola School building at the Anola and District Museum (August 2023)
Source: Glen Toews
Codville Company honour roll for employees killed during the First World War, now at the Anola and District Museum (August 2025)
Source: Darryl Toews
Plaque commemorating nurse Mary Eden Lyal Pringle, formerly a teacher at Arondale School, killed during the First World War, now at the Anola and District Museum (August 2025)
Source: Darryl Toews
Plaque commemorating people from the Municipality of Springfield killed during the First World War, now at the Anola and District Museum (August 2025)
Source: Darryl ToewsSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88404, W96.64826
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Anola School No. 1602 / Anola Fellowship Chapel (RM of Springfield)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Codville-Georgeson Building (43-49 Westbrook Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Springfield War Memorial (Dugald, RM of Springfield)
“Hard-won medals and diplomas to be distributed, “ Vancouver World, 1 June 1915, page 8.
“Vancouver nurse victim of bombs,” Vancouver Daily Province, 3 June 1918, page 16.
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.
We thank George Penner, Jo-Anne Hadaller, Glen Toews, and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 August 2025
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