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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Silver Creek School No. 288 (Silverton, RM of Riding Mountain West)

The Silver Creek School District was organized formally in 1884 and a school building was erected at Silverton in what is now the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West. The original building was subsequently replaced by the present structure, which still stands on the original site. The district was dissolved in 1967 when students were sent to Russell Consolidated School No. 2454.

The original Silver Creek School

The original Silver Creek School (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 14.

The former Silver Creek School building

The former Silver Creek School building (June 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.76769, W101.16021
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Silver Creek Centennial Monument (Angusville, RM of Riding Mountain West)

Sources:

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 Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 13 February 2021

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