Historic Sites of Manitoba: Cuthbert School No. 633 (Municipality of Two Borders)

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The Cuthbert School District was established formally in March 1891 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at W20-3-28W in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. The building was later moved to NW13-3-29W.

Among the teachers of Cuthbert School were J. H. Dean (1891-1892), Joseph Armstrong (1893), Maggie Strike (1894), Aggie Yeoman (1895), J. F. Morrison (1896-1897), Mona C. Sterling (1898), David Mundell (1900), B. E. Rothwell (1901), Ethel M. Blain (1902), W. R. Morrison (1903-1904), W. Clark (1915), Ida Martin, Grace Dandy, Mary Riddell, Phyllis Hathaway, Vina Dandy (1919), Hazel Miller (1920), and Murdock McIvor (1922-1923).

After the school closed in 1923, the building was moved to Pierson where it was converted into a private residence. The district was dissolved in 1937.

Cuthbert School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 100. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.22933, W101.23238 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.

Harvests of Time: History of the R.M. of Edward by the R.M. of Edward History Book Committee, 1983, pages 148-149.

This page was prepared by Tighe McManus and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 August 2025

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