The Elam School District was organized formally in December 1892 and a wood frame schoolhouse was constructed the next year in the southeast quarter of 32-2-6 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Stanley. In 1938, the original building was replaced with one located at NW29-2-6W, and the old school was sold and moved to SE14-2-7W where it was used as a barn until at least the 1970s.
Among the teachers of Elam School, in approximate chronological order, were Frank R. Shortreed (1897), Miss Miller, Annie Douglas, Allan Patterson, D. C. Dorrance, V. P. Ruddell, Henry Johnston Everall, Harriet Manning Wilson, Olive Johnston Nichol, Miss B. L. Ruddell, Miss V. Graham, Miss Pearl Amy, Miss Steppler, Miss Kathleen Borthwick, Miss Nichol, Miss Fry, Paul Cameron Langille, Miss Bessie Durnin, Miss Grace McNabb, Miss Jean Allison, Miss Mary Crawley, Miss J. Elliott, Mary Charlotte Pinn, Miss E. McDonald, Miss I. Milne, Miss E. Reichert, Miss E. McIvor, Miss M. Bent, Miss M. Cowan, Miss Helen Bent, Miss H. Wiens, Melvin Borody, Miss R. Turner, Miss L. Olafson, Miss I. Buhr, Miss A. Chanin, Miss B. Buckland, Miss I. Unger, Miss H. Elias, Mr. H. Kuhl, Mrs. J. A. Reichert, and Miss C. Hamilton.
The school closed in June 1964 and the district was dissolved in July 1965. Commemorative signs exist at the sites of the first (N49.16284, W98.23990) and second (about N49.17036, W98.24542) schools.
The first Elam School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 108.
The second Elam School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 108.
Commemorative sign for the first Elam School (September 2024)
Source: Art Peers
Commemorative sign for the second Elam School (October 2010)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.16284, W98.23990
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Alexandria and Elam Districts Monument (RM of Stanley)
As Years Go By: 1876-1971 by the Thornhill Book Committee, 1971.
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 Nathan Kramer and Art Peers for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 September 2024
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