This project was undertaken by the Lac du Bonnet & District Historical Society to preserve the history of the area’s school houses.
To read the full document, please click: One Room School House List
Lac du Bonnet #1235
One room school
Opened 1904
Lac du Bonnet #1235
Expanded to three room school 1915
Later moved off the property
Lac du Bonnet #1235
Four room school, designed by Gilbert Parfitt
Built 1931 / Burned down 1945
Lac du Bonnet #1235 renamed Park Ave. School
Built 1947 / Closed 1989
Riverland School #1557
Opened 1911 / Closed 1967
(2nd school pictured here)
Pinawa School #1627
Opened 1912 / Closed 1966
Brightstone School #1646
Opened 1912 / Burned down 1947
2nd school built 1948 / Closed 1968
The Brightstone one-room schoolhouse opened in 1912. Leona Gorecki was the first teacher.
Leona married Jack (John) Stanko, and they moved to Detroit, Michigan.
Information & Photo Credit to Diane Stanko
Newcombe School #1716
Lettonia: Opened 1914
Closed 1954, due to McArthur Generating Station
2nd school on Wendigo Road: Opened 1954
Closed 1968
Smith Siding School #1847
Opened 1916 / Closed 1964
Cedarkine / Milner Ridge School #1859
Opened 1917 / Closed 1967
Renamed Milner Ridge in the 1930s
Buchan School #1883
Opened 1917 / Closed 1967
Landerville School #1888
Opened 1917 / Closed 1966
Woodrow School #1897
Opened 1917 / Burned down 1938
2nd school Opened 1939 / Closed 1966
Red Deer School #1916
Opened 1918 / Closed 1967
Brookfield School #2052
Opened 1920 / Closed 1961 due to proximity to AECL
Lee River School #2104
Opened 1923 / Closed 1966
Berryland School #2246
Opened 1934 / Closed 1967
Crescent Bay School #2259
Opened 1935 / Closed 1962
Moved from log building to renovated cottage in 1955
Maple Creek School #2275
Opened 1936 / Closed 1966
Overwater School #2349
Opened 1954 / Closed 1968
Built by carpenter Joseph Chrusch
Springwell School #2410
Opened 1959
Still in operation on Brightstone Hutterite Colony
Poplar Bay School #2175
Opened 1928
Closed temporarily in 1940 (inadequate enrollment) and reopened in the fall of 1945 with 12 students.
Closed 1963
One room, grades 1-8, school built of logs in 1928 and later was clad with rolled, grey imitation brick asphalt siding.
As there was no Teacherage, the teachers resided at the home of neighbor, Andrew Schauman.
Teachers at Poplar Bay School:
Mary Swirske, 1928-29 / Elnora M. Wachter 1929-30 / Esther P. Smith 1930-31 / Sophie Gorovitz 1931-32 / Pauline Mattern 1932-35 / Elizabeth May Amall 1935-36 / Cecilia Smillie 1936-37 / Carrie E. Hatch 1937-38 / Esther Smith 1938-40 / Helen Lagsdin 1945-46 / K. Lotecki fall 1946 / Alice Mathews spring 1947 / Lawrence O’Grodnick 1947-48 / Mary Mikolaychuk 1948-49 / Helen Micke 1949-50 / Nettie Funk 1950-51 / A. Grywinski 1951-52 / Joyce Larson fall 1952 / Jim Kabaluk spring 1953 / Velma Tuokko 1953-54 / Douglas Martin 1954-55 / Lorena Conway fall 1955 / Isabelle Allison spring 1956 / Grete Tagesen 1956-57 / Helen Ripat 1957-59 / Olive Trask 1959-60 / S. Crampton 1960-61 / M. Higgins 1961-63