The Kelloe School District was organized formally in April 1889 and a one-room school building operated at SW30-17-24W in what is now the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead, on land donated by G. C. Hall. In 1927, the school inspector recommended that a new school building be constructed so, in 1928, a new structure opened at NE19-17-24W. In 1938, the original building was moved into the village of Kelloe and renovated into a community hall. The school closed in 1964 and its remaining students went to Shoal Lake Consolidated School No. 2352. The building was moved to a farm near Foxwarren where it was used as a residence. A sign commemorates it at the earlier site.
Among the teachers who worked at Kelloe School were Charles S. Castell (1890), W. H. Crosfield (1898-1899), Daniel Baldwin (1890s), and Peter L. Hyde.
Kelloe School (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 90.
Kelloe School commemorative monument (June 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.47647, W100.76702
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.
Ripples On The Lake: A History of Shoal Lake Municipality, 1884-1984 by Shoal Lake History Book Committee, 1984.
We thank Malcolm Bell for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 August 2019
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