Historic Sites of Manitoba: Coquart School No. 1300 (Ile des Chènes, RM of Ritchot)

The Coquart School District was organized formally in May 1904 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE4-9-4E in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot. The district was dissolved in 1965 and its catchment area became part of the Seine River School Division.

The original Coquart School

The original Coquart School (no date) by James Tod
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 94.

The second Coquart School

The second Coquart School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 94.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.70951, W96.98639
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Ste Anne West topographic map, West sheet, 62H/10, Edition 2, Series A743 [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: 5 April 2021

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