The Elk Creek School District was organized formally in August 1900. A school building was constructed in the southwest quarter of 14-1-6 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Stanley. It closed in July 1967.
Elk Creek School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 55.
Elk Creek School commemorative sign (October 2010)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.03008, W98.16928
denoted by symbol on the map above
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 Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 February 2021
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