First Arrivals/Pheasant Forks S.D. No 48
N 50° 49.021 W 103° 10.272
13U E 628825 N 5631069
Located right beside Zion United Church, Pheasant Forks
Waymark Code: WMVJAM
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 04/24/2017
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As the plaque reads:
1882-1982
To commemorate the arrival and honour the memory of a group of primitive Methodist Colonists from Yorkshire England and Ontario, Canada who came across country from Brandon, Manitoba by wagon-train arriving at Pheasant Forks District of Assiniboia N. W. T. June 2. 1882
1885-1947
Pheasant Forks S. D. No. 48 School began in a log hall in 1885 replaced in 1894 by a one room frame building. In 1920 a two room red brick school was built and opened January 1, 1921. Closed December 1947.
Marker type: granite tablet on stone cairn
Marker placement date: Not listed
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