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Saskatchewan One Room School Project provides an online history for current generations to enjoy, preserve, and experience, our historical educational, architectural, and cultural, heritage.
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Please add the name and location of a one room school that perchance may be missing from the alphabetical Listing One Room Schools, 1850 - 1950. The listing is growing, and hopes to become complete with assistance from visitors like you.

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Copyright Date: Tuesday, 19-Feb-2008 20:45:28 MST

Email: Ed Oldridge
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Comments: Looking for information on "Lake School", a one room school that was active from 1907 until 1957. It was located about 8 klm west of the Village of Briercrest. We are in the process of restoration project.

Email: Gaelynn Wall
Web Page: Wall / Dube Homepage
Comments: Attended school in Pontrilas. The small school had a plaque stating it was part of "Little Hollywood" district. Last I heard, it was serving as someone's chicken coop! Who remembers the great merry-go-round?

Email: Ann Froebel
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Comments: I am looking for the location of School District #2362, name of school district: Muller (that is Muller with an umlaut over the "u")

Email: Anna Rainone
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Comments: As my family tells it my greatgrandfather began the Temple school. My mom and her sibling attended in early 30's before it closed. The family then got together in late 80's to but a kairn (stone) there to remember the now crumbling building. Anna Rainone, daughter of Lovina Temple

Email: Murray Charters
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Comments: My grandfather, Charlie Charters, hauled the lumber for Oakenshaw school in 1916. The one room school operated to serve the rural area roughly 5 miles west and 2 miles south of the village of Stranraer, Saskatchewan. My uncles, cousins, siblings, and neighbours all attended until the school closed in 1955. The Oakenshaw school sat vacant for several years and then was moved to the village of Plenty, and converted to a residence by Gordon Rundle. I discovered this very worthwhile site while researching material for a page on my own web site. http://www.geocities.com/murraycharters/038.html

Email: Clarence Uhll
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Comments: I taught in Snowflake Scool District from 1956 to 1958. It was located just east of Neudorf, but I do not see it in your list. Could it have had a different name?

Email: Alicia Otenbreit
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Comments: Hi, I love this section. My dad went to a one-room schoolhouse until it shut down in the 1960s. The name of his school was Gelowitz School, and it was in the Grayson district. He has told me several stories about it and it makes me wish that I had been a student at a one- room schoolhouse. His teacher, Mrs. Leona Dean (nee Ottenbreit), was the teacher of his school, and I was lucky enough to have her as my Grade 1 and 2 teacher in Grayson School, shortly before her retirement.

Email: Lynne Anderson
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Comments: I know of a one room school house that is in the area I grew up in. It was called Gregherd School and both of my grandparents attended it. It originated on Apr. 3, 1914 and is located at NW 32-24-17 W2. It is located in school district #3142. It is now a Heritage site and is very worthwhile to check out. Original students hace placed marker stones with their names on them and there is other items on display there also.

Email: Gail Newton
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Comments: I find your project very interesting. I went to a one room school house in B.C. until grade 3. My Parents also attend one room schoolhouse in Saskatchewan. My mother in Pinetorch, Whitefox & my father in Carrot River.

Email: M. Grahame
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Comments: Really enjoyed this valuable website on the one room schol house. As my Dad attended one of these schools around 1922-23 I was really interested. I am trying to find his school records for a school called Bredock of Beedock near Canora/Donwell. Can anyone give me a hand and point me in the right direction where I might find this school?

Email: Lois Sparling
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Comments: This is a beautifully done site. I love the pictures. However, I was looking for the one room schools at Talmadge (Tallmage?), Eskbank, Happy Valley school district, and Birsay.

Email: Denise Daubert
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Comments: I would like to pass on my thanks for a beautifully designed/written/presented website on the One Room School Project! In the midst of compiling family history for the Vogel Family who arrived in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1908 (these Russian children attended Amdewanda School) and another side of the family who came to Kennedy about the same time - I was thrilled to navigate your site and find information placing the Amdewanda School geographically and a photo of the Kenndy School, built in 1905. Accessing the booklet on early Saskatachewan women teachers gave me a "sense" of the times when my husband's two grandmothers were educated in one room school houses. Thank you for a wonderful project that you are sharing with everyone! Denise Daubert

Email: Sheila Finnie
Comments: I am looking for Silver Creek School. It was about three or four miles from Coté, Sask, about ten miles from Kamsack, Sask. I believe it closed in about 1956 or 1957. I went there for my first four grades and remember being heartbroken when it closed and we had to go to school in Kamsack.

Email: Sheila Finnie
Web Page: Comments: I am looking for Silver Creek School. It was about three or four miles from Coté, Sask, about ten miles from Kamsack, Sask. I believe it closed in about 1956 or 1957. I went there for my first four grades and remember being heartbroken when it closed and we had to go to school in Kamsack.

Email: Irv Krause
Comments: I attended Eigenheim District school in the 1940's. I( did not see it listed in your alphabetical listings. I attended there for the first years of schooling and I remember it well. We had 32 students, one teacher of course, a Mr. Nick Kroeker. Almost all of the students were first cousins of mine. I went back a number of years ago and there was only a rock with a plaque on it. I was the only student in Grade 4 so I took grades 4 and 5 at the same time because I believe there was only one student in Grade 5. Interesting education!!!!!

I attended Braeval School in the Meadow Lake District from 1957 to 1964 and thoroughly enjoyed the experience! We had Grades 1 to 8 (with only 5-6 grades functional at any one time) with one teacher. Elly Ward was the teacher for years and ruled with both an iron fist (for the older boys who wanted to be farming) and with care (for those looong recesses when the whole school was playing ball). There was a barn on the property and that afforded us an extra playground, although technically forbidden. We had a coal furnace and there were many mornings when we had our mittens on for a long time while the furnace heated up the school. I have stories almost too numerous to mention regarding this unique experience. Are there any other folks who attended that are reading this? Send me an e-mail......
Dan Lavallee
Love your site!!!!!
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