Built in 1998, this residential area is an exclusively low-density community where 163 detached, single-family homes are on private landscaped sites.

[1] A portion of the community is located on top of a hill formed during the last ice age by a glacial sand deposit, or esker.

The hills in the area were a place for settlers and native peoples to escape to when fleeing high floodwaters along the Red River valley.

[3] His son, Curtis James Bird a Canadian doctor, politician, and Speaker of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly from 1873 to 1874 inherited the property from his father.

The City of Winnipeg purchased the quarry later and used the gravel for everything from building roads and house foundations to filling sandbags.

The pit was owned by numerous others before the Swiston family's company called Birds Hill Gravel and Stone last operated it.

After the pits could no longer be used for mining gravel, the Swiston family undertook rehabilitation in 1983 with the sloping of the banks and the development of a walkway in preparation for the Silverfox housing subdivision that would overlook part of the area.

The two-room facility was built by contractor Walter Owens that expanded with two additional classrooms approved by local voters in two months of the school's opening that cost a further $3,000.

It was unveiled before a crowd of around 100, including families of the fallen, along with East St. Paul Reeve W. J. Dawson and Councillors, Police Magistrate W. G. Scott, ex-Reeve A. E. Sperring, municipal Secretary-Treasurer W. Gorham and R. D.

The vegetation is an oak-aspen mix, including pin cherry and chokecherry bushes, and even horsetail, a plant species 100 million years old.