The Elgin School District was organized formally in July 1885 and a one-room school operated at SE5-6-21W in the Rural Municipality of Strathclair (now the RM of Yellowhead). The district was dissolved in March 1913 and its catchment area became part of the Strathclair Consolidated School District No. 284.
Among the teachers of Elgin School were E. J. Campbell (Spring 1885 - Fall 1886), John McTavish (Spring-Fall 1887), William Rose (Spring-Fall 1888), J. F. Ellis (Spring-Fall 1889), A. N. McLeod (Spring-Fall 1890), Percy Dewart Harris (Spring-Fall 1891), Isabella McLean (Spring-Fall 1892), Donald McDonald (Spring-Fall 1893), Maggie V. McEwen (Spring - pt Fall 1894), Jennie McEwen (pt Fall 1894), F. E. Robertson (Spring-Fall 1895), R. M. Nyflett? [Neublett?/Neufelt?] (Spring 1896 - Fall 1898), James A. Craig (Spring 1899 - Fall 1900), Lily L. Ross (Spring-Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Isabella Taylor (Spring-Fall 1905), David H. McNaughton (Spring 1906), Millicent Hodgson (Fall 1906 - Fall 1907), Maud Leeson (Spring 1908 - Spring 1912), and Grace Shalton? (Fall 1912).
Elgin School commemorative sign (September 2015)
Source: Ken StorieSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.44704, W100.34630
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elgin Consolidated School No. 153 (Elgin, Municipality of Grassland)
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
“Personalities,” Manitoba School Journal, Vol. 6, No. 9, May 1944, page 2.
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.
This page was prepared by Ken Storie, Nathan Kramer, and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 March 2026
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