The Rudnerweide School District was established in May 1914 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW6-2-2W in what is now the Municipality of Rhineland. In 1965, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the New Hope Consolidated School District.
Among the teachers of Rudnerweide School were Mr. Derksen, John I. Warkentin, Frank Dreidger, Jacob Penner, Mildred Toews, Margaret Reimer, P. A. Schellenberg, Died Gerbrandt, Johnny Martens, Mary Peters, Elizabeth Dyck, and Mr. Janzen.
Rudnerweide School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 29.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.08947, W97.71860
denoted by symbol on the map above
Altona East topographic map, 62H/4 East, Edition 1 ASE, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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 Marie Dueck, Esther Loewen Peters, Gertrude Bergen Friesen, and Jake Peters for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 April 2021
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