The Overwater School District was established formally in January 1954 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW5-16-9E in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet. The district was dissolved in 1968 and its catchment area became part of the Agassiz School Division.
Overwater School commemorative monument (August 2025)
Source: Jean McManusSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.33427, W96.32869
denoted by symbol on the map above
Lac du Bonnet topographic map, 62I/8, Edition 2, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
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 Jean McManus and Tighe McManus for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 September 2025
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