Yellowknife had established a school; now it needed to make it last. Near the end of the summer, as World War II loomed, the three-member provisional school board yielded to a formal board. It was the first democratically elected local government body in the history of the Northwest Territories. A little over a month later, they formally established what is now Yellowknife Education District No. 1 and enacted a six-mill property tax to replace the lotteries and donations that had previously funded the school.
