Historic Sites of Manitoba: Inverness School No. 475 (Letellier, RM of Montcalm)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The Inverness School District operated a school in Letellier, in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm. The two-storey wood frame structure is no longer present at the site.

Principals

Period	Principal
1919-1920	Mary Furlong
1920-1937	Eleanor Page (1890-1974)
1937-1944	Sister Berthe Cadieux
1944-1945	Sister M. Madeleine
1945-1946	Eva Letourneau
1946-1949	Sister M. Madeleine
1949-1950	Sister M. St. Felicien
1950-1951	Eleanor Page (1890-1974)
1951-1954	Sister Berthe Cadieux
1954-1956	Sister M. St. Hubert
1956-1957	Gaeton Comer
1957-1958	Sister M. St. Hubert
1958-1959	Sister M. St. Bernard
1959-1960	Sister M. St. Henri

Teachers

No information.

Photos & Coordinates

Aerial view of Letellier with Inverness School in the lower, right foreground (no data) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2015-0046 Inverness School (no date) by A. A. Herriot Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 68 Inverness School (1968) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Letellier 1 Inverness School (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 707 Inverness School (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 705 Inverness School (no date) Source: Cam Timlick Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13744, W97.30032 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

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 Lucille Emond and Cam Timlick for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 February 2021

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