The original Coultervale School was built west of the Principal Meridian in 1887. As populations grew it was necessary to build larger schools. What you see in these photos is the two-room school built by Robert Wyatt in 1914. It must have been quite a luxury to have "your" school faced with a brick veneer.
After serving as a school for many years it was used as a community hall. The school became a municipal historical site in 2000.
Information courtesy of the Manitoba Historical Society, Historic Sites of Manitoba and Government of Manitoba websites.
Photographed on December 15, 2018.
TWO room school! Must have been a pretty heavily populated district.
ReplyDeleteWonder how the school was divided by the use of two rooms...were boys in one side and girls in the other....or were they divided according to age.
ReplyDeleteUsually one room was Grades 1-4 and the other was Grades 5-8.
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