The Mink River School District was established in December 1901 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE27-28-20W in the Rural Municipality of Dauphin. In 1965, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the Sifton School District No. 1009. No vestige of the school remains at the site.
Among the teachers of Mink River School was Nicholas Bilash (1938-1939).
Mink River School (no date) by H. J. Everall
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 68.
Former site of the Mink River School (May 2014)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.42053, W100.19347
denoted by symbol on the map above
Sifton East topographic map, 62N/8 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
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 Borislaw Bilash II for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 March 2021
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