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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Spruce Hills Consolidated School No. 2413 (RM of Victoria)The Spruce Hills Consolidated School District, formed from the merger of Great Carlton School No. 1003, Southfield School No. 1044, Ladysmith School No. 1055, and Pratt School No. 2167, began operation in the Rural Municipality of Victoria in November 1963, in a school building brought from the Hollywood School District. By September 1965, the school had two classrooms. It closed in June 1968 as its catchment area was absorbed into the Pine Creek School Division. The building was used until late 1974 as a community centre, at which time it was sold and converted into a private residence at the site. Among the teachers of Spruce Hills Consolidated School were Carol Kilfoyle, Ethel Gregory, Ellen Bickford, Mildred McCulloch, and Kay Halliday. A monument covered in coloured glass insulators, unveiled in 1988, commemorates the school at the site.
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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. R.M. of Victoria: Past & Present, Volume 1 by RM of Victoria History Book Committee, 2002, page 203. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 9 April 2021
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