Historic Sites of Manitoba: Menota School No. 519 (1887-1959)

The Menota School District was established formally in November 1887, and a school building was erected on the northwest corner of 20-3-25 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Brenda. It closed in January 1959, with remaining students going to Napinka Consolidated School No. 2369 or Medora Consolidated School No. 493. The former school building sat alongside Highway 452, between Highway 3 and the village of Waskada, until 2009 when it was moved to the Waskada Museum where it is being renovated as a display.

Menota School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 80. Menota School (April 2009) Source: Doug Brown, Ghost Towns of Canada. Menota School (April 2009) Source: Doug Brown, Ghost Towns of Canada. View Larger Map Menota School (August 2009) Source: Google Refurbished Menota School building at the Waskada Museum (May 2012) Source: Ken Storie Site Location (lat/long): N49.23579, W100.80487 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.

We thank Doug Brown and Ken Storie for providing photographs of the former Menota School building.

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

Page revised: 3 July 2012

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