Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lake Lorne School No. 1105 (1902-1966)

Lake Lorne School was established formally in April 1901, and a school building was erected the next year on the southeast quarter of 10-3-15 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Roblin. It closed in 1966 and remaining students went to Killarney School No. 252 or Cartwright School No. 174. The district was dissolved in 1967. The school building is no longer on the site but a cairn erected on 11 July 1982 and metal sign commemorate it.

Lake Lorne School (no date) by W. J. Parr Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 59. Lake Lorne School monument (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Location (lat/long): N49.19645, W99.40498 denoted by symbol on the map above

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.

Information for this page was collected and prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 March 2013

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