The Mountain Gap School District was organized formally in May 1897 and a school building was erected in the southeast quarter of 7-24-25 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Grandview. It closed in 1965 and its remaining students went to Grandview Consolidated School No. 2447. The school building was moved to SW13-24-25W where it is used as a garage. A monument at the original site commemorates it.
Among the teachers who worked at Mountain Gap School through the years was Ed Arndt (1962-1963).
The first Mountain Gap School (no date) by H. L. Albright
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 19.
The second Mountain Gap School (no date) by H. L. Albright
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 19.
Mountain Gap School teacherage (circa 1962)
Source: Ed Arndt
Mountain Gap School and teacherage (June 1963)
Source: Ed Arndt
The former Mountain Gap School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 461.
Mountain Gap School commemorative monument (June 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Mountain Gap School building, about N51.07302 W100.85954 (June 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.14028, W100.81441
denoted by symbol on the map above
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 Ed Arndt for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 January 2021
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