The St. Adolphe School District was established formally in May 1896 and a one-room schoolhouse operated on a three-acre site within the Parish of Ste. Agathe in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot. The schoolhouse may have changed locations over the decades, with River Lot 616 (1906) and River Lot 612 (1931) also found in some sources in addition to its final location on River Lot 614 (1944). Funding for a new schoolhouse was acquired via a loan from a $1,000 debenture issued in May 1917. This building measured 24 feet wide by 35 feet long. A $2,000 teacherage (18 feet wide by 22 feet long) was added in late 1948, paid for via a $2,000 debenture.
The district was dissolved in May 1961, its catchment being split up between Niverville School No. 315, Dubuc School No. 973, and Ste. Agathe Consolidated School No. 2385, which later became part of the Red River School Division No. 17. The schoolhouse, teacherage, outbuildings, and all contents thereof, were put up for tender in August 1961. Both a collegiate and elementary school within the Seine River School Division would later carry the same school name within the community of St. Adolphe.
Among the teachers of St. Adolphe School were Josephine McDougall (Fall 1896 - Fall 1901, Fall 1905 - Spring 1906, October 1906, Fall 1907, & pt Fall 1908), records unavailable (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Elizabeth Desrossiers (Spring 1905), ? (Novmeber 1906), Charles A. Barsalow (December 1906 - June 1907), R. Vandenhouten (Spring 1908), Charles Dube (pt Fall 1908 - Spring 1911), H. D. de Moissac (Fall 1911 - Spring 1912), Miss E. Delorme (Fall 1912 - Spring 1914), Mary Ann Sauve (September-December 1914), Noelie? Marie Anne Dufort (January-June 1915), Evelyn Niedert (September 1916 - April 1917), Marie Lagimodiere (May-June 1917), Eleanore Delorme (September-December 1916, March-June 1917, October 1917 - June 1918, September-October 1918, January-June 1919), school closed due to influenza pandemic (November-December 1918), Annie Delorme (Fall 1919 - Spring 1920), Caroline Courchene (Fall 1920 - Spring 1922), Marguerite Courchaine (Fall 1922 - Spring 1924), M. Jeanne Baril (Septebmer-December 1924), Marie Helene Gousseau (January-June 1925), Irene Guertin (September 1925 - January 1926), Regina Champagne (February-June 1926 & Fall 1926 - Spring 1927), Rose Anna Rioux (Fall 1927 - Spring 1928), Marie E. Leclerc (Fall 1928 - Spring 1929), Arthur John Charles Starr (Fall 1929 - Spring 1933), Margaret Evelyn Herriot (Fall 1933 - Spring 1934), Therese Marie Jutras (Fall 1934 - Spring 1938), school closed (23 September - 14 October 1935), Anne Delima Todd (Fall 1938 - Spring 1939), Laurent Forest (Fall 1939 - Spring 1940), Joseph Edward Belanger (Fall 1940 - Spring 1941), Blandine Chaput (Fall 1941 - Spring 1943), Eva Girouard (Fall 1943), Irene Champagne (Spring 1944), Dora Marie Masse (Fall 1944 - Spring 1946), Marie Louise Cancade (Fall 1946 - Spring 1947), Anna Catherine Cosco Filion (August 1947, wife of W. J. Filion), Armande Claeys (September-October 1947 & May-June 1948), G. Carriere (November-December 1917), Gertrude Veronique Joyal (January-April 1948), Yvonne Belliveau (Fall 1948 - Spring 1951), Mary Lasko (Fall 1951 - Spring 1952), Anna Catherine Hruska (Fall 1952 - Spring 1954), Florence M. McDonald (Fall 1954 - Spring 1956), Mary-Lou Boisjoli (Fall 1956 - Fall 1958), and Garry Wayne Clifford Rogers (Spring 1959 - Spring 1961).
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.60993, W97.12698
denoted by symbol on the map above
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #7 School District of St. Adolphe, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Rosengart School District No. 2131, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), St. Adolphe School District No. 881 - Minute Book, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), St. Adolphe School District No. 881 - Cash Books, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 881 - St. Adolphe - Permanent, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
School division borrowing files (MA 0038), St. Adolphe School District No. 881, GR1798, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, St. Adolphe School No. 881 - Daily Registers, GR2040, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, St. Adolphe School No. 881 - Financial Record, GR2040, Archives of Manitoba.
William Reid Clubb fonds, Municipal Maps Volume 2: Rural Municipality of Ritchot, PR1962-09, 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 Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 23 September 2026
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