Historic Sites of Manitoba: Pumpkin Plains School No. 702 (RM of Ellice-Archie)

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The Pumpkin Plains School District was organized formally in May 1892 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW16-17-29W, near the village of Victor, in the Rural Municipality of Ellice. The district was dissolved in 1961 and its catchment area became part of the St. Lazare Consolidated School District and later the Birdtail River School Division.

Pumpkin Plains School No. 702

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.46120, W101.42616
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

School District Formation Files [Pumpkin Plains School District No. 702], GR1688, E0027, 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.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 27 April 2021

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