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School Photos courtesy of The collection of Eva Von Agnes Cooper. Maps are courtesy of the Online Historical Map Digitization Project and the Archives of Saskatchewan. |
Glyndwr School District Number 991North east quarter section 10 township 22 range 2 west of the second meridian 1904-1967 near Bangor, Atwater, and Esterhazy Province of Saskatchewan 1911 School photo Marilynn Cooper and and her husband, Brian D. Gushulak , inherited the photos of her grandmother, Eva (Neiley) Cooper. "Eva (Neiley) Cooper completed Normal School in Regina in 1910 and taught at a couple of one room schools in Saskatchewan for two years before moving to Vancouver to attend nursing college." This is one of her photos.... "of her students at Glyndwr School from June 1911." Eva Neiley was born in Kings County Nova Scotia in 1891. Her mother died three years later and her father remarried. He left Nova Scotia in 1906 and homesteaded near Saltcoats. Following graduation from Yorkton High School Eva attended Normal School in Regina in 1910 and then taught for approximately two years ( Glyndwr and Clova). Her father passed in 1912 after which she went on to fulfill a dream to become a nurse. Graduating from Vancouver General Hospital"s nursing college in 1915 she returned to Unity, Saskatchewan where she was matron of the small hospital until she married a local farmer, Samuel Ward Cooper. Eva died in 1977. Regarding this photo, it" was a school near Atwater (close to Esterhazy) that opened in 1905. Glyndwr is a Welsh word and many of the early residents were Welsh." There are no names available for any of the people in the picture, however, if anyone has any ideas, please do e-mail and then the names could be added to the web page. Brian D. Gushulak Nearby Placenames and their legal land descriptions:Atwater Section 4- Township 21-Range 2-West of the 2nd meridian Latitude, Longitude 50.7758139, -102.2269111 is a nearby Village Bangor 15-21-3-W2 is a nearby Village Bird Point is a nearby Village Bird's Point 22,27,28,29-18-3-W2 is a nearby Village Bredenbury 35-22-1-W2 is a nearby Town Cana 9-22-5-W2 is a nearby Unincorporated area Cana No. 214 is a nearby Rural Municipality Churchbridge 17-22-32-W is a nearby Town Cotham 12-19-5-W2 is a nearby Unincorporated area Crescent Lake 15,22-23-4-W2 is a nearby Unincorporated area Cutarm 34-19-32-W is a nearby Unincorporated area Dubuc 3-20-4-W2 is a nearby Village Espeseth Cove NE 1/4 30-18-3-W2 is a nearby Hamlet Esterhazy 28-19-1-W2 is a nearby Town Fertile Belt No. 183 is a nearby Rural Municipality Gerald 25-19-32-W is a nearby Village Grayson 16-20-5-W2 is a nearby Village Grayson No. 184 is a nearby Rural Municipality Grove Park 22-18-1-W2 is a nearby Unincorporated area Hazel Cliffe 27-18-33-W is a nearby Unincorporated area Saltcoats 1-24-2-W2 is a nearby Town Saltcoats No. 213 is a nearby Rural Municipality Stockholm 25-19-3-W2 is a nearby Village Waldron 33-21-4-W2 is a nearby Village West End 30-18-3-W2 is a nearby Village Yarbo 1-20-23-W is a nearby Village Zeneta 22-20-1-W2 is a nearby Unincorporated area 63 For more information:The history of Atwater, Saskatchewan : and the surrounding districts, Barra, Coma Park, Fertile Belt, Glyndwr [Atwater, Sask.]: Prepared by the Atwater Historical Society, 1980 Glyndwr In 1904, the first community school meeting was held, and it was in 1905, that the school opened for classes under Archie McDonald. |
Other submissions from Brian D. Gushulak regarding The collection of Eva Von Agnes Cooper. | Gallery |
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