The pioneer school houses and districts are treasured by many communities and individuals as is reflected in these WWW sites.

Saskatchewan One Room School Project provides an online history for current generations to enjoy, preserve, and experience, our historical educational, architectural, and cultural, heritage.


A collection of websites on the internet regarding historical SK schools, or text submissions to the one room school house project. (Images are entered in the gallery) (Book listing at Footnotes - sources for the alphabetical listing))
  
 
 
 
  • Algoma School District No. 2876
    The Algoma School District (1914-1946) was built on SE 3-33-22-W3 in the Rural Municipality of Oakdale 320. A wikipedia article.

 
 
 
 
  • Biggar and area
    Images from the Leo Campbell Collection at the Biggar Museum & Gallery include Allanbank SD 567, Avalon SD 4077, Curth's Hill SD 3048, Gagenville SD 4091, Kensmith SD 2877, Oban SD 4733, and Triumph SD 2832. There are also nine unidentified Schools Can you help?

 
  • About Big River
    Big River History: Part I - Pre-settlement. In 1889 Louis Ahenakew and George Isbistertaught at the Society of the Church of England missionary school on the east shores of Delaronde lake.

 
  • Avonlea's Prairie Pioneers.
    Avonlea's Prairie Pioneers contains community memories of Sunshine School 1920 (?) Near Avonlea, Saskatchewan, Canada, by Avonlea and District Museum - Heritage House.

 
 
 
 
 
  • Captain R. Deacon was one of four men who stood at the four corners of the first little log schoolhouse of the North West Territories. These men built the building and hired a teacher in order to get some schooling for their children some years before the government schools were organized.

 
  • Cadillac: Prairie Heritage
    Our Roots: Canada's Local Histories Online books, Title: Cadillac: Prairie Heritage. Author: Cadillac and District History Book Association, Publisher: Cadillac, Saskatchewan: Cadillac and District History Book Association, 1987

 
 
 
  • Cherished memories of Silver Willow
    Cherished memories of Silver Willow
    Silver Willow Reunion and Book Committee,
    # Schools--Saskatchewan--Willowbrook Region--History
    # Silver Willow School District no 681--Biographies

 
  • Cherished memories of Silver Willow
    Cherished memories of Silver Willow
    Silver Willow Reunion and Book Committee,
    # Schools--Saskatchewan--Willowbrook Region--History
    # Silver Willow School District no 681--Biographies

 
  • Coleville School District No. 3645
    Coleville School District No. 3645 Warwick School 1913 to March 6, 1946. Coleville later accepted students from Warwick School and St. Florence School was closed in 1948, Eureka in 1949 Driver School in 1959, Driver in 1972 and Buffalo Coulee in 1972 before Coleville became a part of the consolidated Kindersley School Unit. A wikipedia article.

 
  • Country Schools
    School and class pictures of the Grace School District- 1926, Little Valley School District #3956- 1910 , Little Woody School District, Sharon School District #3903, Lautier School District- 1908, Empress School District # 4438- 1921, Anchor School District- 1915

 
 
  • Cumberland House
    First school in western Canada , founded by catechist Henry Budd in 1840.

 
  • Cumberland House History
    Cumberland House (Waskahiganihk), 1774 is the oldest permanent settlement in western Canada. Henry Budd an Anglican Church Missionary began schooling here in 1839-40. Father Ovide Charlebois, a Roman Catholic missionary, and community members erected Charlebois School a one room log school house in 1897.

 
 
  • Districts Part five
    Ladder Valley, Timberlost, Big Ravine School and the Otter Lake School: Memories Of Deep River Hunting, Trapping, Fishing and Fur Farming in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada

 
  • Doing more with less: A simulated amalgamation of school boards
    examining a hypothectical amalgmation of east-central Saskatchewan: Deer Park S.D. No. 26, Melville S.D. No. 108, Melville Comprehensive Board of Education, Potashville S.D. No. 80, Yorkdale S.D. No. 36, and Yorkton S.D. No. 93. By Gord Erhardt SSTA Research Centre Report #97-04

 
  • Dore Lake School
    September 1960,a school house started a quarter of a mile south of South End.

 
  • Doverly School District #2794
    Philipp Ritthaler, was the chair of the Doverly School District
    #2794 in the Municipality of Keslross; Winnifred Ritthaler school
    secretary for a fairly large school district of 50 and 55 students.

 
 
  • Education in Saskatchewan
    History, Pre-school, Primary and secondary education, Normal ages, Primary, Secondary, Saskatchewan school divisions, Electives, Post-secondary education, higher education, and academia, Vocational education and training college, Universities, Teaching, Additional options for gifted students, Education of students with special needs, and Extracurricular activities on wikipedia.

 
  • Education Yorkton's children (part 1)
    Miss Ella Carson began the schooling the children of York colony in 1889 in the "Stone School". The townsite moved in 1890 and Miss Nellie Teeple was the first teacher at the new location of the "Stone School". In 1899 the growing population saw a six room Victoria School followed by West End School 1906, Simpson School 1913, Burke School 1921, Fairview School 1954, Columbia School 1965.

 
 
 
 
  • Estevan, Saskatchewan school history
    History of early Estevan schools, such as Estevan School District No. 257, Rook's House 1899, Valleyview School, Hillside School, Estevan Collegiate Institute, Westview School, Pleasantdale school, Hillcrest School, Scotsburn School, Estevan Comprehensive School, Spruce Ridge School, and Land Central School placed online by Doug Gent

 
 
 
 
 
  • Ghost town where I started School
    was written on February 21, 2011 by © Joan Miller - Luxegen Genealogy. The article is an account of both Cuthbert School District and Hatfield, Saskatchewan (SE27-28-22-W2).

 
 
 
 
  • History of Frobisher and District Schools
    Including a history of Ansell School, Ernewein School, Frobisher School # 810, Hirsch School, Munro School # 544, Nivelle School District, Rockland School #800, South Frobisher #4167 Vineberg #284,

 
 
  • Holbrook School District # 844
    Neva MacLeod in 1919, has left some interesting notes about her tenure in Holbrook School District, near Alameda SK. My Narrow Escape: The experience of spending the night in the school house due to a blizzard and Saskatchewan School 1919-1920.

 
  • Hungarian Settlements
    Kossuth, Magyar, Rakoczi, and Little Mountain school districts were part of the Bekevar colony near Kipling, SK. Article by Alan Anderson published for the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan © 2006 Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina

 
 
 
 
  • Krist School District
    c1908 map of the Krist School district named after Father Krist with all the land owners.

 
  • Legal land description
    How to read Homestead Records - Section, Township, Range, Meridian. Tutorial, maps and information on the legal land survey system

 
 
 
  • Lysenko Rural School - SD #494
    LYSENKO SCHOOL History of the Lysenko one room rural/country school (1907-1959) located approximately half way between the towns of Insinger & Theodore Saskatchewan, Canada.

 
 
  • Meadowdale School
    This class picture was taken at Meadowdale School near Canora, Sk and Phoenix SD 2320.

 
  • Melfort: Heart of the Carrot River Valley
    Melfort: Heart of the Carrot River Valley is an online book which relates the history of: Argus School, Arpsville School, Athol School, Belgrave School, Berlin School, Campbellville School, Carrot River School, Central Park School, Clapton School, Dover School, East Bend School, Edenbridge School, Excelsior School, Fairy Glen School, Fortuna School, Galabank School, Harriville School, Kirkton School, Louisa School, Maryville School, McAllister School, Melfort Public School, Melfort View School, Melinda School, Murphy Creek School, Naisberry School, North Star School, Norwood School, Orchard School, Oriole School, Pathlow Heights School, Percieville School, Prescott School, Queen's Park School, Rothwell School, Sacriston School, Sandhill Creek School, Shannon-View School, South Star School, Spry School, Star City School, Stoney Creek School, Sweetwater School, Taelman School, Taylorside School, Teddington School, Thatch Creek School, Vaughan School, Willowdale School, Yankton School, and Flett's Springs.

 
  • Memories of Shand:
    History of a Saskatchewan Coal Mining Community. Memories of the "The Little Red Schoolhouse"

 
 
 
  • Morse Memories
    Morse Memories
    * Morse School District (Sask.)--Biography
    * Morse School District (Sask.)--HistoryAlternate Titles

 
 
 
 
  • Oakdale No. 320, Saskatchewan; Rural Municipality
      RM Oakdale 320 registered
    • Algoma School District No. 2876 (1914–1946)
    • Ashford School District No. 3773 (1916–1947)
    • Avoca School District No. 3363 (1914–1947)
    • Beaufield School District No. 3169 (1913–1947)
    • Bonn School District No. 2475 (1909–1947)
    • Buffalo Coulee School District No. 4278 (1919–1947)
    • Coleville School District No. 3645 (1915–1946)
    • Driver School District No. 811 (1912–1947)
    • Elm Point School District No. 2779 (1911–1947)
    • Eureka School District No. 2174 (1908–1947)
    • Gleneath School District No. 4453 (1921–1947)
    • Hopedale School District No. 346 (1911–1947)
    • McKellar School District No. 584 (1910–1947)
    • St. Florence School District No. 4299 (1920–1947)
    • Somme School District No. 4127 (19??-1947)
    • Teo Lake School District No. 1358 (1912–1947)
    • Warwick School District No. 3080 (1913–1940)
    A wikipedia article.

 
  • One-room Schools
    written by Rosella Mitchell for the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan © 2006 Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina

 
  • Our roots : a history of La Ronge
    Our roots : a history of La Ronge Wiens, Alfred, La Ronge Heritage Committee provides a history of La Ronge, and a chapter devles into education in this community.

 
  • Our School
    History of Fillmore, Osage, Tyvan, Creelman School Districts and 33 Central.

 
  • Kelvington School 1936
    School class photograph of grades 4, 5, 6 and 7. Hope someone can fill in the missing names, also that
    others with school pictures will keep submitting them.

 
 
 
  • Pearl Creek School Letters Letters from Lois Purdy, 1904-1979 and her sister Harriet describing their experience teaching at Pearl Creek School, S.D. No. 1048, Melville, Saskatchewan, from May to December 1924. "Mother", the recipient of the letters, was May Purdy (full name Lena May Purdy), who had taught in NWT [i.e. pre-Sask.] schools in the 1890s. There is also a small collection of letters written to them the next year by former pupils.

 
 
 
  • Prairie Fire Prairie West Historical Society Incorporated Eston, Saskatchewan
    Prairie Fire shows the formation of a Bible school as one aspect of the evangelical force that swept the Canadian Prairies. The school is the Full Gospel Bible Institute (FGBI), located in a prairie town -- Eston, Saskatchewan. We trace its development from its humble beginnings to the degree granting institution it is today. We pay particular attention to student life, including life as a foreign student. Finally, we note the dynamics between the school and the town of Eston.

 
  • Rural School Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Moose Jaw Branch has put online photographs of Westview # 256 and Tuxford # 2486 as well as they are indexing school records for the Alexandra School.

    WESTVIEW School District # 256 was located at S.W Twp 18, Rge 2, W2 In the R.M OF Caron, it is now demolished. Westview S.D. was organized in 1893 and closed in June 1963 There is a write up of the school, it's pupils and teachers in the history book "From Buffalo Trails to Blacktop" The Moose Jaw Branch of SGS web page has some pictures which I put up and to which you are more than welcome to add or link to your site.

    What a great site you have created!
    Wendy ( a former Westview pupil)
    Bibliography

 
  • Saskatchewan and Alberta
    Under the section entitled education the article discusses the Act of 1905 which includes both public and separate schools in Saskatchewan and Alberta. A general historical account by Kevin Knight of Saskatchewan and Alberta put online by the Catholic Encycopedia

 
  • Saskatchewan History Magazine
    The Saskatchewan History Magazine featured articles about one room school districts.
    • Becker, A. The Story of Frieden School District. 1985. Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 20.
    • Wigmore, Rork. Saskatchewan School Superintendents, 1944-1964. 1985. Vol. 38, No. 2, p. 66.
    • Shepard, R. Bruce. The Little "White" Schoolhouse: Racism in a Saskatchewan Rural School. 1986. Vol. 39, No. 3, p. 81.
    • White, Clinton O. German Catholic Parochial Schools in St. Peter's Colony: Their Buildings, Equipment and Finances. 1996. Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 26.
    • Hallman, Dianne M. Telling Tales In and Out of School: Twentieth-Century Women Teachers in Saskatchewan. 1997. Vol. 49, No. 2, p. 3
    • .

 
  • Saskatchewan Schools: Early History
    General early school history written by Alex Youck, Jim Slough for the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan © 2006 Candian Plains Research Center, University of Regina

 
 
 
 
  • Schools - Celebrating Saskatchewan's Heritage
    Porcupine Plain Elementary School, Mistatim School, Millford School, Handford School, Winona Sod School, Nutana School, Midale School, Neidpath School, first Eagle Creek School SD 741, Bresaylor School, Hohenlohe School, Battleford Indian Industrial School, Victoria Stone School,

 
 
  • Schools 1910-1991 South Central Saskatchewan Schools within the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge #73
      Covers the RM schools of
    • Advance School District #818 Circa 1913 - 1946
    • Bruce School District #2541 Circa 1910 - 1959 SE 27-2-3 in 1910, replaced in 1924 with a new brick school
    • Conifer School District #4613 Circa 1926 - 1953
    • Crestmount School District #3463 Circa 1914 - 1950 NW 7 7 3 3
    • Daystar School District #5114 Circa 1936 - 1951 Sw 3 7 3 3
    • Ford School District #2569 Circa 1910- 1944 NW11-10-2-3
    • Hewson School District #2743 Circa 1910 - 1956
    • Highland School District #2397 Circa 1909 - 1947 NW 11-8-2-3
    • Jackson School District #606 Circa 1912- 1963 SE 9-8-1-3
    • Kea School District #3231 Circa 1914 - 1927 and 1928 - 1949
    • Lakenheath School District #3451 Circa 1915 - 1954
    • Lynthrope School District #3247 Circa 1914 - 1948
    • Maxstone School District #2436 Circa 1909 - 1963 SE 35-6-1-3
    • Milton School District #3111 Circa 1914? - 1954 (on closure moved to Twelve Mile Lake School and then to Stonehenge for a Post Office), Orinoco School District #837 Circa 1913 - 1952
    • Progress Hill School District #2732 Circa 1912- 1967 24-9-1-3
    • Rothsay School District #1302 Circa 1915 - 1945 NW 27-9-3-3
    • Ruperra School District #812 Circa 1913 - changed names to the Assiniboia School District #812 or 7th Avenue School
    • Stonehenge School District #4833 Circa 1910 - 1971 the second site was on S Ό of Alfred French homestead - E ½ 30-6-1-3 whch was west of the first location due to the Maxtone school district being formed
    • Twelve Mile Lake School District #3328 Circa 1913 - 1956 the first school house built on SW 31-6-2-3. and in 1929 the school district divided into two, Twelve Mile #3328 now located at North West corner of NW 36-6-2-3 r and Stonehenge School District #4833 was the other schoolhouse built for the district
    • Welcome School District #2691 Circa 1911 - 1948 south side of SW 1-9-3-3
    • Weston School District #3062 Circa 1916? - 1944 NE 36-8-2-3
    • Willow Beach School District #4339 Circa 1923 - 1946
    . Community Memories, Virtual Museum Assiniboia and District Historical Museum Assiniboia, Saskatchewana. Sources Prairie Trails and Pioneer Tales, Echoes of the RM of Stonehenge #73

 
 
 
  • Schools of Willow Bunch
    The First School 1889 Roman Catholic Public School District Sitkala, renamed in 1936 to Willow Bunch School, The Convent, The School Crisis, The Willow Bunch School of Today

 
  • Schools and School Districts
    Area maps and history of St. Joseph's Colony area: Grosswerder District Schools, Handel District Schools,Hearts Hill District Schools, Liepzig District Schools, Luseland District School, Outside Unity District Schools, Phippen District Schools, Unity District Schools, Wilkie District School.
    Online maps include:
      Grosswerder District Schools
    • Ackerman District
    • Bride School District
    • Ollenberger School District
    • Cactus Lake School District No. 296
    • Edenview School No. 3953
    • Falconhurst School District No. 2708
    • GlenEden School District No. 4304
    • Kokesh School District No. 2617
    • Denzil Sacred Heart High School
      Liepzig District Schools
    • Krist School District
    • Pascal School District
    • Cavell/Coblenz School District
    • Aroma Lake School District
    • Leipzig School District
    • Medina School District
      Unity District Schools
    • Alfred Knowles
    • Belton
    • Buccleugh
    • Mount Everest
    • Rosebrier

 
  • Sonnenfeld Colony:A Piece of Saskatchewan History
    Dravland School District- 1912, Hoffer School- 1928, Lorraine School District pre 1929, Lyndale School - 1907, Murray Smith School- 1914, Norge School District pre 1929, Ratcliffe School District- 1929, Summit School - 1911, and Velhaven School- 1915.

 
  • South East Saskatchewan
    Rosedale School, School District #145 (Sec 22 Tsp 12 Rge 1 W of the 2 Meridian) and Vandura school, School District #1164 (Sec Tsp 12 Rge 2 W of the 2 Meridian) submitted by Glennis Lewis.

 
  • SOUTHWEST Saskatchewan historical one room schoolhouses
    Photographs of SK one room schoolhouses around Cabri, SK. taken by Gregory Melle and posted online at Flickr. A few of the school names or places names are Lemsford, Hallonquist, Alexander Plain, Gascoigne, Smith, Bitter Lake, Newport, Surprise, Friesen, Main Centre, Horsham, Loomis, Barr, Butte, Hoyle, St. John's, Kyle (Perone), North Landing, Russelton, Sanctuary, Tuberose, White Bear, St. Boswells, Ararat Springs, Miry Creek, ROE, Waldensian Valley, Wayne Valley, Elrose, Swanson, Glen Kerr, Tuxedo (Calderbank), Leney, Perdue, Nadeauville, Sandford Dene, Verlo (Ess Lake), Fiske, Smiley, Govenlock, Green Dell, Orillia, Panorama, Leinan, Vendetta, Val Marie, Dama-Nixon, Avon, Lashburn, Cabri, Chief Beardy's, North Battleford, Saskatoon

 
 
  • Steele School District Collection
    Pupil, teacher and school district papers relating to Steele S. D. no. 4158 held by Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan (MHSS).

 
 
  • Svoboda #1704
    Svoboda School #1704, Regina, teachers from 1908 - 1925

 
  • Tale That is Told: Estevan 1890 - 1980
    A Tale That is Told: Estevan 1890 - 1980 local history book online covers these school districts: Estevan's First School Bell, Public Schools of Estevan, Teachers in Estevan Public Schools since 1958, Estevan Collegiate - New Junior High, History of the Estevan Catholic School System, The Estevan Comprehensive School, Albany School District #1072, Teaching Days at Albany S.D. 1929, Berdahl School District, Bethel School District No. 655, Memories of Bethel S.D. No. 655, Bienfait Rural School No. 897, Big Butte S.D. #982 and Big Butte School, History of the Brown School District No. 1329, Forest Glen School, Golden Heart School, Memories of the Kingsford School District #3546, Kolke School, Madigan School District #2095, History of Madigan School District No. 2095, Mizpah School District #798, Nygren S.D. #977, History of Reddemann School, Short Creek School No. 768, The History of Scotsburn School 1961, View Hill School District #2507, Wood-End School District.

 
 
  • Talpash Family
    Stephen Talpash attended the one-room rural Wolodymyr School in Manitoba where he was born. Talpash later taught in Saskatchewan one room schoolhouses beginning in the Canora - Buchanan area, 1929 Touchwood, 1930-32 Olesha, Forest Hill, 1934-5 Mikado, 1935-7 Bogucz (Sch. Dist. 1743) near Donwell. Then moving around Saskatchewan to Mistatim 1938, Smeaton 1942-43, Gronlid 1943-44, Caldervale near Theodore 1944-46, Nanton near Willowbrook, Olesha near Rama followed, 1949-52 Stephen taught in Chechow near Sturgis, 1957-63 in Dobronouitz, 1963-4 Poplar Springs, then finally 1964-5 he taught in the Buchanan High School, and in 1967 was the Rector-in-Residence of the Peter Mohyla Ukrainian Institute in Saskatoon.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Unique Lemberg school part of Catholic history
    "Less than a kilometre east of Lemberg, Sask., on Highway 22, was constructed ... 1900 as Weissenberg Roman Catholic Public School #49 to serve an area settled by German-speaking Catholic settlers from Galacia, Austria. "

 
  • Unity One Room School Houses
    Listing of nearly 250 One Room Schools in the area of Unity, Saskatchewan which was compiled by Mr. Frank Oatway and submitted by Marlene Lefebvre.

 
  • Village
    Melfort School District #318 built -1894, Rothwell School- 1907.

 
  • Vallar School District No. 1020 fonds
    Gerald area (25-19-32-W1) established the Vallar School District No. 1020 on May 9, 1904. The school house was built on NW 21-19-32-W1, was built c.1904. and closed 1957. Regina office, Saskatchewan Archives (SAB).

 
 
 
 
 
  • World
    Belleville school built in 1920, Brookside 1888, Fairmede 1889, Highview 1896, Kennedy 1905, Kossuth 1901, Langbank school 1916, Montgomery 1886, Saffordia 1901, and St. Hubert 1910.



Internet sites transferred from Gallery of photos

WWW One Room School Sites not on the SK ORSH Project WWW Site:
Bond School
Ryerson, SK

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Boyle SD 1800
Estlin, SK

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Boggy Creek School
Brora, SK

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Burnside SD 2146
Glenbrea, SK

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Dafoe SD 4038 Dafoe, Sk

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Donamar SD 35790
Edgeley, SK

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Eddy SD1846
Bulyea, SK
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Edenkillie SD 2022
Uhl's Bay, SK
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Estlin SD 107
Estlin, SK
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Etaples SD 4578
Frankslake, SK
WWW Site:
Foster SD 388
Abernethy, SK
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Headlands SD
SK
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Meadowdale SD 4578
Canora, SK
WWW Site:
Pengarth SD
Strasbourg, SK
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Stirling SD 258
SK
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Uneeda SD 1505
Bulyea, SK
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Avonhurst, SK
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Victoria Park SD
SK
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Weardale SD 814
Estlin, SK
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Handford SD 1857
Birsay, SK
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Winona SD 1698
Herschel, SK
WWW site:
Alexandra School
Moose Jaw, SK
WWW site:
Copeland SD 2017
Quill Plains, SK
WWW Site:
St. John's School
Leader, Sk
WWW Site:
Tuxford SD# 2486
Grayburn, Sk
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Westview SD# 256
Grayburn, Sk
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Windsor SD# 265.
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Merrill SD# 1582
Saskatoon, SK
WWW Site:
Llewelyn SD 807
Llewylyn, SK
WWW Site:
Canora school
Canora, SK
       

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