Known originally as Mud Creek School District when it was established in April 1916, it was renamed Golden Branch on a suggestion by student Ellen Jarf. A school operated at NW34-1-14E in what became the Rural Municipality of Piney. It closed in 1965 and henceforth students from this area went to Sprague Consolidated School.
Among the teachers who worked at Golden Branch through the years were Anna Erlendson and Mrs. R. Blixt.
Golden Branch School (no date) by Clarence Moore
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 45.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.08500, W95.64270
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.
We thank Doris Hovorka (Sprague and District Historical Museum) for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 March 2021
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