Ernfold became a village on December 4, 1912, in the Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165. At its busiest, the village counted around 300 people.
It first stood alongside the original two-lane highway. In 1973 the Trans-Canada Highway became a divided road, and Ernfold ended up enclosed between its opposing lanes. To spare the village from being destroyed, the eastbound lane was rerouted about 3 kilometres south, leaving Ernfold sandwiched between the two sides of the highway.
The best-known landmark is the Ernfold School, a red brick, one-and-a-half-storey Georgian Revival building put up in 1919. It served as a school until 1972, then was used for a short time as a Baptist church until that congregation closed in 1989. On May 6, 1990, the village passed Bylaw No. 90-1, placing the building on the Canadian Register of Historic Places as a Municipal Heritage Property.
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