25) Darwin Station School (S.D. #1950)

Darwin Station School (S.D. #1950)

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The Darwin Station School was located along Highway 44, three miles east of the junction of highway 44 and highway 11 south. This one-room school was built in 1920 and located near the CP Railway. Curtis Wenderborn was the first teacher, teaching twelve pupils. The highest attendance was 22 children. When the school population dropped to eight, the school was closed, in 1945. The building was sold and moved in 1950 onto a private property on Scott’s Hill Road; the old school yard sits vacant, being slowly reclaimed by the forest. No vestige of the former school building remains at the site. 

Among the teachers who worked at Darwin Station School through the years were Curtis Wendeborn (1920-1925), Eva Schwartz (1930), Robert Monro (1935), Mary Williams (1940), and Agatha Wiebe (1945).

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Civic Number: N/A; Click HERE for coordinates. l    Amenities on Site: N/A   l    Building on Site: No

Darwin Station School (no date). Photo courtesy of the Manitoba Historical
Society website.