The school was built in 1927, for $4500.00. The first teacher. Mr Page, developed polio, so could not attend, so Miss Leila Chisholm was hired for $100.00 a month. To heat the school, coal was purchased from Evansburg for $5.50 a ton, and brought in by rail to Greencourt. A barn was built to house the horses during the day in winter. School closed for 2 months in the winter and remained open all summer. An interesting note is, Mr. Markle taught Industrial Arts in the Greencourt Garage, to senior boys doing metal working. A horse drawn van ( school bus) served families to the east during 1943-1948. This was probably the first school bus in the area. In 1960 the present modern day school opened and was closed in 1967 and was used as an overflow school for classes from mayerthorpe until 1971, then was used for kindergarten. My dad bought the school in 1997 and operated a thriving greenhouse, which lots of us bought tomatoes and cucumbers. I remember those as being very delicious The greenhouse operated until 2007, until a fire destroyed the heating part of the greenhouse, and my brother then bought the land and lives there still.