Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gordon Union School No. 393 (Municipality of Norfolk Treherne)

The Gordon Union School District was established in April 1885 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE2-9-9W in what is now the Municipality of Norfolk Treherne. The district was dissolved in 1956 and its area became part of the Rathwell Consolidated School District. A commemorative sign stands at the former school site.

Gordon Union School

Gordon Union School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 38.

Gordon Union School commemorative sign

Gordon Union School commemorative sign (August 2014)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.71697, W98.57420
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gordon School No. 213 (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)

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.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 March 2021

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