The Huff School District was established formally in May 1898 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW31-4-13 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Argyle. It was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1954, then closed in January 1960 when it became part of Baldur Consolidated School. This marker is located one mile west of the original school site, on SW36-4-15W, across the road from the Argyle Cemetery. It was dedicated in a ceremony on 23 June 1996.
Huff School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 28.
Huff School commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.34070, W99.24660
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Baldur District Schools (RM of Argyle)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
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 Ed Grassick and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 December 2019
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