Province Alberta | ||
The locality of Mount Valley, approximately 54 km south-west of Grande Prairie, centered on the Mount Valley Store which was established by Colonel Lyle and Cephas Tennyson of Beaverlodge ca. 1930. The name is descriptive, as the location of the store was in a valley near the mountains. It was located on Ed Moore’s homestead, the NE quarter of section 25, township 70, range 13, west of the 6th meridian. In January 1932, West End School District 4592 was organized and a log school on a stone foundation was built two miles west of the store on the NW quarter of section 23. On January 8, 1938, the Mount Valley Post Office was added to the store, now owned by the Elliott family. The postmistress was Mrs. Elva Elliott Lingrell, a daughter of the family. Although the school only lasted a few years, closing in 1935, the store and post office operated until the building burned down in 1951. The closing date for the post office is recorded as September 16, 1951.