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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Duck Mountain School No. 1179 (Municipality of Grandview)The Duck Mountain School District was organized formally in March 1902 and a school building operated on the southwest quarter of 32-25-24 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Grandview. Sometime in the 1940s, the original school building was replaced by the present structure, a two-classroom metal building that featured girls’ and boys’ washrooms and forced-air heat provided by a large furnace. The school closed in 1967 and its remaining students went to Grandview Consolidated School No. 2447. The former school building was used for a time as a granary. It now stands vacant in an agricultural field, partially obscured by shrubbery. At the time of a 2021 site visit, it appeared to have been burned. A stone monument nearby was dedicated on 11 August 1985.
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. A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages. We thank Lorna Clark for providing additional information used here. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 9 July 2021
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