History

• Manitouwadge Public School was founded in 1955 when students attended a two-room school in a building on Manitou Road.
• A year later, the school was moved to a six room building on Wenonah while the original two-room school became the Municipal Building.
• In 1957 an Annex was built and High School students took over four of the rooms. The Annex had two floors and the elementary students used the top floor. This added four classrooms to the original six.
• By 1959 a high school was built and the students moved over leaving four more classrooms for elementary students.
• In 1967 the school was added to again. The Centennial wing was built that housed a new library, 2 more classrooms, a kindergarten room, and a new gymnasium.
• In the mid 80’s the Annex found to be unsatisfactory and had to be torn down and it was replaced with a single floor structure with 5 classrooms in it. With the influx of young parents with young children portables had to be added a year later.
• In the early ‘90’s the six portables we had were shut down and a “portapac” was added. It had seven classrooms with office and washroom facilities. It was torn down in 2000. Today Manitouwadge Public School stands with all of the rooms in the main building in use and we share the facility with École publique Manitouwadge.

Factual Information provided by:

• Nora Perry - retired MPS teacher who has been part of the school from near its inception
• Phil Minty  - retired Principal (1999-2004) of MPS