Historic Sites of Manitoba: Education Point School No. 327 (RM of Wallace-Woodworth)

The Education Point School District was formally established in October 1884, and a wood frame schoolhouse featuring separate entrance doors for girls and boys operated at SW14-11-23W in what is now the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth. The district was dissolved in January 1968. The former school building was destroyed in a suspected arson fire in late 2012 or early 2013. A fieldstone monument, dedicated on 5 July 1981, remains to commemorate it.

Among the teachers of Education Point School were Gilda Marion Menzies and Wilma Tully.

The former Education Point School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1509. The former Education Point School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1508. The former Education Point School building (July 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Interior of the former Education Point School building (July 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Interior of the former Education Point School building (July 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Education Point School commemorative monument (July 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.91701, W100.53033 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba History: Number 90, Fall 2019 (Special Large Issue)

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.

Ripples On The Lake: A History of Shoal Lake Municipality, 1884-1984 by Shoal Lake History Book Committee, 1984.

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 Leona Devuyst, Carole-Ann Brethour, and Malcolm Bell for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 December 2019

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