Historic Sites of Manitoba: Blenheim School No. 173 (Municipality of Prairie View)
The Blenheim School District was established formally in June 1880 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE14-16-27W in what is now the Municipality of Prairie View. The district was dissolved in late 1911 and its catchment area became part of the Birtle Consolidated School District.

Blenheim School (no date)
Source: Arthur Durham Bird

Blenheim School (circa 1913)
Source: Arthur Durham Bird
Site Location (lat/long): N50.35884, W101.08527 denoted by symbol on the map above |
Sources:
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 Charles Durham Bird for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 July 2016
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