The Bushey School District was organized formally in December 1912 following a petition of local residents which resulted in an Award of Arbitration. The district area included lands that had previously been part of the St. Benoit School District No. 1315, Cherry Valley School No. 1181, and Rathwell School District No. 578. The catchment area included Sections E½10, 11, 13-14, E½15, 23-25, E½26, and 36 all of Township 8 Range 8 West in the Rural Municipality of South Norfolk and Sections 19-20 and 29-30 all of Township 8 Range 7 West of the Rural Municipality of Grey. In March 1913, the district's creation was approved by the South Norfolk council.
Contrasting information exists as to the proposed location of a schoolhouse in the district. According to February 1913 correspondence of William Christopher Hartley, Secretary of Arbitration, the probable school site was to be in S24-8-8W. However, a 1978 MA thesis by Mary Perfect gives the school site as 23-8-17W, a quarter section that was well beyond the district's defined boundaries.
Records suggest the district never built or operated a schoolhouse, and Department of Education records indicate that no grant money was ever paid to the district for a teacher's salary. The district was dissolved on 4 August 1919.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Bushey School District No. 1651, GR1688, 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.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 12 February 2024
