Saskatchewan Gen Web - One Room School Project - Home Page


Dear Valued Visitors,

Exciting news! The Saskatchewan One Room School House Project, a cherished resource on the Provincial Saskatchewan Gen Web, is making a move to a new domain. You can now find us at https://saskgenweb.ca/cansk/school. We're thrilled to announce that this labor of love will continue, and our webpages will be regularly updated at the new Domain.

Our commitment to documenting the rich history of one room school houses, cemetery and headstones, historical maps, and disappearing placenames remains unwavering. These records are invaluable for those tracing their genealogy or seeking historical insights into the past.

To support this endeavor, we've launched a Patreon community at https://www.patreon.com/SaskGenWeb. Your contribution enables us to maintain the new domain and web hosting, ensuring the continuity of this essential service for historians, genealogists, and the public.

Explore the revamped webpages at https://saskgenweb.ca/cansk/school and witness the ongoing journey of the Saskatchewan One Room School House Project. As we embark on this exciting chapter, we invite you to join our Patreon community, ensuring that this historical treasure trove thrives for years to come.

A heartfelt thank you to Ancestry.com and Rootsweb.com for their past support. Now, we're turning to you, our community, to help us sustain this vital Saskatchewan GenWeb service.

Your support is truly appreciated.

Warm regards,

Saskatchewan GenWeb Team of Volunteers




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

About the Saskatchewan One Room School Project
  
  
  Saskatchewan One Room School Project provides an online history for current generations to enjoy, preserve, and experience, our historical educational, architectural, and cultural, heritage. The one room school house of the late 1800s of the NWT and early 1900s provided education to a burgeoning population. This project honors the communities, teachers and students of that era.

The objective of the Saskatchewan One Room School Project is an online project for those interested with the digital preservation of Saskatchewan country schools, recording the location of one room schools, celebrating the legacy of schoolhouses remaining, restored or commemorated by plaque or picture, the history of the people and places involved, digital capture of images, data, memories and recollections from those who taught and attended Saskatchewan One Room School houses

Where are these schools today" Do any remain" The School Districts Listing contains the names, legal land description and dates of establishment of over 5,000 school districts (mainly rural one-room schools), established in Saskatchewan after 1884 giving rise to the Pioneer Slogan ~ "A New School Everyday for Twenty Years (1900-1920)." By 1947 there were 5,192 school districts in Saskatchewan. One Room School Houses dotted the province about 4-6 miles apart limiting a child's walking distance to school to 2 -3 miles. The Larger Unit Act of 1944 produced 33 larger school units by 1951, evolving to the 28 school divisions of today.

One-room schools are no longer used in Saskatchewan, the rural geography shifted from small family quarter-sections to larger farm operations, the number of children to sustain the small schools declined. Remaining rural pupils are conveyed into centralized schools with the increasing use of motorized travel on improved highways, and school consolidation.

The gallery content varies, including historical class and school house photos, teacher and pupil correspondence and historical school documents. Photographs of commemorative markers and plaques along with contemporary images of school houses still standing are added to the gallery along with biographies and images of teachers, principals, school inspectors and pupils. The legal land locations of the school and nearby towns with school district map segments serve to place the school in context geographically. Local history books are noted alongside which may record more information about the one room school, pupil and teacher names. The dates listed include school district milestones: school district incorporation, school building erection, first class, last class, school district dissolution along with the fate of the school house are recorded when known.

How did schools obtain teachers" Saskatchewan Normal Schools and Union Schools were the precursors of University courses providing teacher training when there was a drastic shortage of teachers in Saskatchewan. What about yearbooks" The history of teacher education is supplemented by Normal School year books.

How did the one room school house education system evolve into the school system in use today" Book transcriptions of pioneer school planning (Survey of Education 1918, The Country School in Non-English Speaking Communities in SK. 1915 and History of Education, 1924 are complemented with a timeline; the Evolution of Education in Saskatchewan. The one room schoolhouses across North America looked to neighbouring communities for guidance and support in developing their own curriculum, standards, and school acts. Reminiscences are included as they are submitted, entire books, chapters or stories and activities of one room schoolhouse times, history and days gone by. The guestbook provides an online centre to reach out to the one room school community. The One Room Schoolhouse is an endangered species today. What has been the role of the One Room School House District to the family, in the community and for the province of Saskatchewan" All of us have the ability to respond in preserving memories of this important and vanishing part of our history!

All submissions are invaluable and are truly appreciated.It has been an honour and pleasure to acknowledge these contributors to the One Room School House Project. It is with pleasure that these schools, history, photos and/or legal land description locations have been added to the Saskatchewan One Room Schoolhouse website. Thank you very much for these kind submissions. With the help such as this it is hoped to make this as complete a list of school houses as possible, as well as provide history and reminiscences of the One Room School House era. Learn on this web page about the Saskatchewan One Room Schoolhouse project. The Sk One Room Schoolhouse Project has a collection of records available online and they are extremely useful in finding locations, history, timelines and people. Thank You all of you... We encourage everyone to get involved, just E-mail the Sk one room schoolhouse project.

History of the Saskatchewan One Room School Project, aims and objectives, and future plans.

The online 'One Room Schoolhouse Project' helps to bring the one room schoolhouses of history to life on the internet with contributions by former students, teachers and residents. To illustrate the wealth of available information, Christa Kaytor will discuss her family's research into a number of one room school districts.
Heritage Sasktchewan ~ 2017 Heritage Week February 20-24

Become familiar with the one room school districts near Cadillac; Elmwood, Fairy Lake, Boule Creek, Priory, Wheatville, Crichton, Bedford, Orwell, Highway, Gouverneur, McKnight, Pinto Head, Driscol Lake, Frenchville, Lac Pelletier, Notre Dame, Cadillac. The amazing resources compiled by local residents provide a wealth of information. The online One Room Schoolhouse Project helps to bring the one room schoolhouses of history to life on the internet with contributions by former students, teachers and residents. Registration required.

With a passionate ardour the speaker at the above library resource event, Christa Kaytor, has populated the One Room School House pages with the history of schools in and around Cadillac, Saskatchewan. Obtaining the prerequisite permissions to republish online the book; History of Cadillac and Surrounding District, The Good Old DaysPrepared by Alta Legros and Marlene Davidson for Homecoming '71Elmwood, Fairy Lake, Boule Creek, Priory, Wheatville, Crichton, Bedford, Orwell, Highway, Gouverneur, McKnight, Pinto Head, Driscol Lake, Frenchville, Lac Pelletier, Notre Dame, CadillacSaskatchewan, Canada has been a treasure for visitors world wide as they come to understand pioneer life and school days in Saskatchewan. Alta Legros and Marlene Davidson spent hours of research on the book, and traveled many miles to make this book possible. Now Christa Kaytor, descendant of Alta Legros is carrying on this fine tradition with further submissions: One Room Schoolhouses in and around Cadillac, Saskatchewan and offering to share her wealth of knowledge about the Saskatchewan One Room Schoolhouse on the prairies.


Thank you for stopping by # [an error occurred while processing this directive]
Web Page title: About.html
URL: /~cansk/school/About.html
Copyright " Web Publish Date: Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 15:57:58 MDT All Rights Reserved
E-mail Webmaster ... Important Notice