The Fulton School District was organized formally in February 1916 and, in 1918 or 1919, a one-room schoolhouse opened in the northwest corner of NE5-4-29W in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. Its name came from three Scottish immigrant brothers George Fulton, James Fulton, and Samuel Fulton who homesteaded in the vicinity. It operated with eight to ten students per year until 1927 when it closed because attendance dropped below five. It reopened in February 1933 but closed again in December 1933.
Among the teachers of Fulton School were Annie Melvin (1918-1919), Bessie Collins, Grace Hall, Isabel Melvin, Margaret Elizabeth Gillander, Elizabeth LeBarron “Beth” Melvin (1925), Katherine Gillander, and Mary McPherson.
The district was dissolved in January 1956 and its catchment area became part of the Edward Municipal School District No. 2353.
Fulton School (no date) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 53.
The former Fulton School building (October 2025)
Source: Christian YachelSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.28105, W101.35676
denoted by symbol on the map above
Harvests of Time: History of the R.M. of Edward by R.M. of Edward History Book Committee, 1983, pages 158-159, 533, 543.
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 Christian Yachel and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 April 2026
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