The Klondyke School District was established formally in July 1901 and a schoolhouse was built 400 yards west from the northeast corner of northeast quarter-section 36-11-6 East of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Springfield. In July 1912, the district was consolidated into the Hazelridge School, with some of its catchment area reallocated to other adjacent districts. That same year, the school building was purchased and relocated east of the Dale family farmstead where it became Eastdale School.
Among the teachers of Klondyke School were Miss Irving (1902), Miss Olive Christopherson (1904 - Spring 1905), Alice Fisher (Fall 1905), Lulu Robinson (Spring-Fall 1906), Miss Ellen Morrison (Spring 1907 - Fall 1908), Miss Edith Brace (Spring 1909), Helen D. M. Scott (Fall 1909 - Fall 1910), Miss Eleanor D. Graham (Spring-Fall 1911), and Margaret Webster (Spring 1912).
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89927, W96.75681
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hazelridge School No. 1583 (Hazelridge, RM of Springfield)
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.
Springfield, 1st Rural Municipality in Manitoba, 1873-1973, Dugald Women’s Institute.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Klondyke School District No. 1139, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Tighe McManus for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 2 February 2026
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