The Eastland School District was organized formally in March 1913 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW4-22-4W in what is now the Municipality of West Interlake. The school closed in 1961 and the district was dissolved in 1967. Its catchment area became part of the Lakeshore School Division.
Among the teachers of Eastland School were Fred Bell (1919), E. B. MacLean (July-December 1919), Gladys Isabelle Sleigh (March-June 1920), Ethel Rushforth Bell (1929-1934), Marian Winnifred Gering (Fall 1953 - Spring 1954), Henry George Henderson (Fall 1954 - Spring 1956), Nellie Viola Craig (Fall 1956 - Spring 1958), Hilda K. Gislason (August-December 1958), Lily Irene Rushforth (January-June 1959), Helen Hildebrandt (Fall 1959 - Spring 1960), and Mrs. Craig (1961).
Eastland School (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 11.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.87502, W97.97083
denoted by symbol on the map above
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Eastland School District No. 1658 - Daily Registers, GR11220, 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.
Beyond Beginnings by Eriksdale Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee, 1996, pages 62-63.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 November 2025
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