Historic Sites of Manitoba: Coates School No. 1091 (RM of Edward)

The Coates School District was organized formally in August 1900 and a one-room schoolhouse operated in the southwest corner of SE25-4-28W in the Rural Municipality of Edward. The district was dissolved in 1956 and its catchment area became part of the Edward Municipal School District.

Coates School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 56. Site Location (lat/long): N49.32616, W101.13196 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

School District Formation Files [Coates School District No. 1091], GR7825, E0033, Archives of Manitoba.

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: 23 March 2015

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