The Ideal School District was established in February 1908 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW30-17-2W in the Rural Municipality of St. Laurent. In 1936, it became St. Laurent Municipal School District No. 1416.
Ideal School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 120.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.47812, W97.73633
denoted by symbol on the map above
St. Laurent topographic map, 62I/5, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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: 8 March 2021
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