The Cooks Creek School District was established in December 1872 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW31-11-6E in the Rural Municipality of Springfield. The district was dissolved in 1965 and its catchment area became part of the Oakbank Consolidated School District. The former schoolhouse was later renovated into a private residence and removed from the site sometime after 1986.
Among the teachers of Cooks Creek School was Peter M. Onysko.
Cooks Creek School (no date) by R. Goulet
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 7.
The former Cooks Creek School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1285.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.97368, W96.77277
denoted by symbol on the map above
Dugald topographic map, 62H/15, Edition 2, Series A743 [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.
We thank Robert Marusyk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 April 2021
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