Historic Places ln Southwestern Manitoba

Map #1 / Pierson - Melita














Post Offices

Beverley
30-4-28
April 1,1894 - 1897
Frederick T. Tigar

Butterfield
36-1-29
1884 - 1904

Established by James Dann then kept by Henry Dann from 1884-1889 when it was taken over by C. P. Wilcox until 1892. Then, Andrew Maitland kept it until its closure in 1904. 
The family also kept a Halfway House on Boundary Commission Trail.

Cameron
31-1-27
1903 – 1927
W. D. Hamilton.

Copley
12-1-29
1900- 1925.
Charles Reid

Coulter (Village)

2-2-27
1904 – 1988
Alf Gould

Coultervale
16-1-27
1893 - 1927
F. Coulter
Name Change from Coulter to  Coultervale 1898

Elva
24-3-28  1890
18-3-27 (Village)  1918 – 1980
H.J. Archibald

Eunola
6-4-28
1889 -1893
James A. Paisley

Lyleton
10-1-28
1890
21-1-28 - 1929
Mr. Andrew Lyle 

Manchester / Melita
36-3-27 – 1884
Town 1890
Mr. R. M. Graham started a small store in the new town of Manchester, and in 1884 the residents of the district petitioned the Dominion Government to have a Post Office opened in this embryo city. The petitioners were advised that a Post Office would be opened there, but as there was already a post office named Manchester, a different name would have to be chosen. Melita was chosen.

Melita

Established on the original (Manchester) site in 1884
Moved to the new site when the railway arrived.

Pierson
1892
James F. Dandy, Postmaster. Mr. Robert James Tooke of Pierson was responsible for service between Pierson and the train station.

Sourisford
22-2-27
1884 – 1920

During the summer of 1882 a small store, opened by Warren and Snider in a tent, and a regular Post Office was installed there, the name of it being "Sourisford". The post office remained there until the railway was built to Coulter and Lyleton in June 1903. Then the store was moved to Pierson by Mr. Gould. (see footnote)
Alfred Gould was Postmaster at Sourisford from 1884-1896 and following his resignation David Elliott from 1896-1920.

Schools

Arthur School
District #494 (1887-1958)
NW Corner 15-1-26.

Belfry School
District No. 626 (1891-1956)
SW12-4-28
SW5-4-27

Beverley School
District No. 1344. (1906 – 1946)
SW 35-4-29 moved to SW 26-4-29 in 1912

Brown’s School
District #625 (1892 – 1959)
NE 22-4-27

Butterfield School
No. 1328 (1905 - 1943)
SW 15-2-29  

Copley School
No. 839 (1895 – 1955)


Located initially near S 4-1-29W, it was moved to SW16-1-29W in 1931.
(SE 11-1-29 moved to SW 16-1-29 about 1931/1932)

Coates School District
#1091 (1910 – 1934)
SW 35-4-29 moved to SW 26-4-29 about 1907
SE 25-4-28?


Coulter School
District # 1772 (1915 – 1957)

Coultervale School 
District #515 (1888- 1968)
SE 16-1-27

Eunola School
No. 921 (1899 – 1962)
SE11-4-29W
First- SW 7-4-28
It was moved to SW2-4-29W in 1900 and to SE11-4-29W in 1918.

Elva School
District #694 (1891 – 1974)
25-3-28 2km N & 1 km W of where the village
Village 18-3-27 – 1890’s



Fulton School
# 1892  (1919 – 1933)
NE 32-3-29

Lyleton School

District  #731 (1893 – 1971)
SE 15-1-28

Old school sold and torn down.  School bell saved in and mounted in Lyleton Park

Melita School
District #440  (1886 – Present)
Melita Mb.
First site - SE corner of 2-4-27

North Antler School
No. 514 (1888 - 1951)
NE 9-2-28
1897 - moved to SE14-2-28

Peninsula School
No. 907 (1897-1961)
NW 35-2-27
Established in April 1897, the school was merged into Melita Consolidated School No. 440 in January 1961. 

Pierson School
No. 685 (1892 – present)
SE 1-3-29

Roblin School
No. 1046 (1899 - 1947)
SW 33-3-28

Sourisford School
District #906 (1899 – 1961)
NW 29-2-27

South Antler School District
#351 (1915 – 1954)
SE 6-2-27

White School
#1326 (1902 – 1912)

Wicks School
No. 1436 (1907 – 1953) 
SW 21-3-29



Rural Churches

Copley Anglican Church Ruins

SE 14-1-29
301.B.1
1892 / Deconsecrated 1913

Historic Sites

Teepee Rings and Stone Images
NW 8-1-26





Rural Cemeteries

Copley Cemetery
SE 14-1-29
301.F.2
1892

Coultervale Cemetery
NW 22-1-27
99. F.3
1898


Lyleton Cemetery
NE 10-1-28
301. F.2
1890 -93
GPS: 49* 1.785’N  101* 8.938’W


Other Sites

1. Dobbyn City
2. Land Title Office
3. Souris City
4. Boundary Commision Crossing

Pre-Contact Sites

1. Brockinton Site
36-1-29
153. F.1
400AD on


2. Sourisford Linear Burial Mounds
SE 22-1-28
99. F.4
1956




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