Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rossendale Consolidated School No. 2419 (Rossendale, RM of North Norfolk)

As rural school consolidation occurred throughout Manitoba in the 1960s, smaller schools around the Village of Rossendale closed, including Allandale School No. 1946, Clairmont School No. 1140, Currie School No. 1952, Elmwood School No. 864, Ferris School No. 1442, Hartford School No. 896, Lavenham School No. 742, and South Rossendale School No. 1441. Their students were bussed to the new Rossendale Consolidated School, opened in January 1965 with five classrooms and a gymnasium. Children from Long Plains Reserve and, later, Dakota Plains Reserve, also attended the school. It became part of Pine Creek School Division in 1968, and served the community until the mid-1980s, by which time declining enrollment resulted in just one of its classrooms being used for teaching purposes. The school closed in August 1986. The building is used as a workshop for a oil-seed processing company based in Rossendale, and a new roof was installed around 2010.

Principals of Rossendale School

Period	Principal
1956-1968	William V. Domitrack (1908-1978)

Rossendale Consolidated School (2010) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Location (lat/long): N49.82441, W98.61937 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.

Through Fields and Dreams: A History of the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk and MacGregor by The History Book Committee of the North Norfolk-MacGregor Archives, 1998, page 1150.

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

Page revised: 13 June 2013

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