The Elgin School District was organized formally in July 1885 and a one-room school operated at SE5-6-21W in the Rural Municipality of Strathclair (now the RM of Yellowhead). The district was dissolved in 1913 and its catchment area became part of the Strathclair Consolidated School District.
Among the teachers of Elgin School was Percy Dewart Harris (1891).
Elgin School commemorative sign (September 2015)
Source: Ken StorieSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.44704, W100.34630
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elgin Consolidated School No. 153 (Elgin, Municipality of Grassland)
“Personalities,” Manitoba School Journal, Vol. 6, No. 9, May 1944, page 2.
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.
This page was prepared by Ken Storie and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 October 2024
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