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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.

HARRISLAND School District # 3659
NW quarter section 3, township 4- range 16-West of the 3rd meridian
near Bracken, Saskatchewan

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Joker-101

Submitted by Faye Ryder and Florence Tallman Ryder - known as Florence Rodman.



HARRISLAND School District # 3659 NW quarter section 3, township 4- range 16-West of the 3rd meridian Bracken
One last photo from the collection of Florence Tallman Ryder.

Harrisland students Viola and Eunice Benson with their dog and their pony Joker (1945).

The summer before the Benson girls were to start at Harrisland, their parents got them a pony, Joker, and arranged for them to ride back and forth to Grampa Benson's farm - which was near the school. The idea was that they would get used to the pony, and the pony would get used to taking them to school. It didn't quite work out as planned.

On the first day of classes, Eunice and Viola set out on Joker and headed for school. When they got to Grampa's place the plan fell apart. Joker had no intention of going to school - he wasn't trained to go to school, he was trained to go to Grampa's - and that was just what he intended to do! He parked himself in the farmyard and refused to take another step.

The Harrisland students had a good laugh that morning, when Grampa pulled up in front of the school and unloaded Joker from the back of his truck.

Cypress Sheet right Section of the One Room Schoolhouse Maps


Bracken Tsp 3 Range 16 W3 From Waghorn's railway guide 1941

Bracken post office was located at SE Sec.4, Twp.3, R.16 and also at Sec.21, Twp.2, R.16, W3. Between 1917-1924 the post office name was Edmund.77

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1. From: Faye Ryder and Florence Tallman Ryder.
To:Julia Adamson ORSH webmaster
Subject: Stony Plains School, north of Bracken / Harrisland school, north of Bracken
Date Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1

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