Like the iconic prairie grain elevator, the rural elementary school has vanished from the Western Canadian landscape. It has been almost 55 years since rural municipal by-laws in Manitoba were executed to legally declare the rural elementary school a non-entity.
In 1967 this legal process to dissolve rural elementary school districts occurred in more than 2,000 rural school districts across Manitoba. The historical sequence of the critical by-laws pertaining to the creation and dissolution of Gleneden School District # 1465 is outlined here.
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