The Elk Ranch School District was organized formally in August 1901 and a one-classroom wood frame school building operated on NE10-17-16W in the Rural Municipality of Rosedale. Increasing enrollment through the 1930s necessitated the construction of a second building to accommodate over 50 students in grades 1 to 8.
The first building closed in the late 1940s. It was sold and moved away. With the formation of school divisions in the 1960s, the second building closed in 1968 and was moved to a farmyard a short distance to the north (N50.44600, W99.58599). A stone monument at the original school site commemorates it.
The first Elk Ranch School (no date) by W. C. Hartley
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 66.
The second Elk Ranch School building (July 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Elk Ranch School commemorative monument (July 2023)
Source: David FordSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.44038, W99.58540
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
This page was prepared by David Ford and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 November 2023
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