Schools

Schools in the region are operated by School District 51 Boundary

School District 51 Boundary

School District 51 Boundary is a school district in British Columbia. Centred in Grand Forks, it covers an area west to the outskirts of Kelowna, British Columbia and all along the border with the United States. This includes the communities of Midway, Greenwood, Beaverdell, and Rock...

 which has its main office in Grand Forks but also serves Midway

Midway, British Columbia

Midway is a village located in southern British Columbia in the West Kootenay region.It is located 13 km west of Greenwood and 51 km east of Osoyoos along Highway 3.-History:...

, Greenwood

Greenwood, British Columbia

Greenwood is a small city in south central British Columbia.It was incorporated in 1897 and was formerly one of the principal cities of the Boundary Country smelting and mining district. It earned "city" status and has retained that stature despite the population implosion following the closure of...

, Beaverdell

Beaverdell, British Columbia

Beaverdell is an unincorporated settlement in the Monashee Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, which lies to the east of the Okanagan Valley and north of the Boundary Country region...

, and Rock Creek

Rock Creek, British Columbia

Rock Creek is an unincorporated settlement in the Boundary Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Located at the confluence of the Kettle River with the eponymous Rock Creek, site of the Rock Creek Gold Rush of 1860, the community also lies at the junction of British...

.

There are two elementary (Dr. D. A. Perley Elementary School

Dr. D. A. Perley Elementary School

Dr. D. A. Perley Elementary is a public elementary school in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada, part of School District 51 Boundary. It has 253 students and a great staff....

, and John A. Hutton Elementary School

John A. Hutton Elementary School

John A. Hutton Elementary is a public elementary school in Grand Forks, British Columbia part of School District 51 Boundary....

) and one secondary school (Grand Forks Secondary School

Grand Forks Secondary School

Grand Forks Secondary School is a public high school in Grand Forks, British Columbia part of School District 51 Boundary. Grand Forks Secondary School, abbreviated GFSS by many students and faculty members, has three great principals in Mr. Scott Stewart, Mr. Shawn Lockhart, and Ms. Marci Butler...

). The District also operates an alternate learning centre in Grand Forks; Fred Walker Development Center.

Industry

Major industries in Grand Forks are logging

Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks.In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard...

 and agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

. The town is close to the site of the former Phoenix copper mine, which closed in 1935 and left several mining slag piles just outside of town.

Sports

Club	League	Sport	Venue	Established	Championships
Grand Forks Border Bruins Grand Forks Border Bruins The Grand Forks Border Bruins are a junior ice hockey team based in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Neil Murdoch Division of the Kootenay Conference of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League...	KIJHL Kootenay International Junior Hockey League The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League is a Junior "B" Ice Hockey league in British Columbia, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada. The winner of the KIJHL playoffs competes with the champions of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League and the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League...	Ice Hockey Ice hockey Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...	Grand Forks Arena	1969	0

Notable residents

Ron Areshenkoff Ron Areshenkoff Ronald Areshenkoff is a former professional ice hockey centre. He was drafted in the second round, 32nd overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft... Vasily Balabanov Vasily Balabanov Vasile Vasilievich Balabanov was an administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia....

Bill Barlee Bill Barlee Neville Langrell Barlee is a Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a New Democrat in 1988... Martin Burrell Martin Burrell Martin Burrell, was a Canadian politician.Born in Faringdon, Berkshire , Burrell emigrated to Canada as a young man, where he eventually became a fruit grower on a farm about two miles east of Grand Forks, British Columbia...

Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,... Chris Loseth Chris Loseth Chris Loseth is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age six, Loseth's family moved to Fort Nelson, British Columbia then in the year before he graduated high school they resettled in Grand Forks. As a boy he was inspired by the success of the great Alberta jockey, Johnny Longden...

Ted Reynolds Ted Reynolds (Canadian television) Ted Reynolds was a broadcaster on both Canadian television and radio. His career spanned for more than fifty years, with some thirty five having been spent with the CBC.-Career:...

Katelyn Derhousoff

External links

• City of Grand Forks, British Columbia official website