Historic Sites of Manitoba: Stockport School No. 295 (Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

The Stockport School District was established at the northeast corner of NE9-1-3E, in what is now the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin, in 1884. It closed in 1943.

Among the teachers of Stockport School were Arthur Abram Harder (1936-1938), Jake David Pauls (1938-1941), and Eleanora Keil (1941-1942).

Stockport School

Stockport School (October 1916)
Source: Education Department Report, 1917, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Stockport School

Stockport School (no date)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 16.

Stockport School commemorative sign

Stockport School commemorative sign (May 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.02985, W97.12269
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.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Stockport School District No. 295 Daily Registers, GR2088, Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 18 May 2019

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