St. John's School,Rural Municipality of Happyland #231, near Leader, Blumenfeld, Sceptre and Liebenthal - Saskatchewan Gen Web - One room School Project


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St. John's School
1924-1965
North east quarter of section 4 township 21 range 26 west of the third meridian
Rural Municipality of Happyland #231
near Leader, Liebenthal, Blumenfeld, and Sceptre, Saskatchewan
15 kilometers south of Leader, 11 kilometers north of Liebenthal on Saskatchewan Highway 21
50°45'29"N 109°32'14"W

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St Johns School and Church near Leader Saskatchewan Sts Peter and Paul Church near Blumenfeld



Saskatchewan History
& Folklore Society Inc.
St. John's School
NE 1/4 4 -21 -26 W3M
St. John's School was built in 1924.
The student count at that time was 38.
St. John's was the only parochial school
in the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran
Church in Saskatchewan. In 1942 St. John's
became a separate school. Due to declining
enrollment, the school closed in 1965. It
was the last of one-room schools in the
district.

St. John's Church and School was the
activity centre for the district members
and families. They formed the Happland
Concert Band, a baseball team and an
active youth group.

Erected 1996 by
Leader and District Tourism

"Gathering, preserving and sharing
the history and folklore of Saskatchewan"

~~Quoted from the plaque mounted on the one room schoolhouse.

Fifty years ago the first
German Catholic settlers cam to
Blumenfeld. Under care of the
Oblate Fathers they built
Sts Peter and Paul Church in 1915.
The Shrine to B.V.M. in 1936.
~ 1958 ~
Mater Dei ~ Ora Pro Nobis.

Quoted from plaque on monument at Blumenfeld Heritage Site.

(Blumenfeld Heritage Site is east of St. John School and Church site
east of Blumenfeld, southwest of Sceptre and 17 km southeast of Leader
at 50°44'46"N 109°26'33"W on township road 210 (3.1 km west of range road 3254 signs for Prelate)

Blumenfeld & District Heritage
Sts. Peter & Paul Church
Erected 1915

Our Sorrowful Mother Grotto
Erected 1936
Tours July to September 7
Sundays: 2:00 p.m. ~ 4:00 p.m.

quoted from Sign at the Blumenfeld Heritage Site.



Nearby Placenames from the Rural Municipality of Deer Forks No. 232 and Rural Municipality of Happyland #231 historical map

Acreworth section 4 township 20 range 29 West of the third meridian
Alexander Plains Section 6 township 20 range 28 west of the third meridian
Baden School District #704 SW section 30 township 20 range 25 west of the third meridian
Burstall NE section 35 township 19 range 29 west of the third meridian
Caithness School District #3824] SW section 17 township 22 range 28 west of the third meridian
Cululi School District #3215 SE section 15 township 21 range 25 west of the third meridian
Dante School District #1223 NE section 32 township 21 range 26 west of the third meridian
Dean View School District #3368 1916-1945 section 9 township 23 range 26 west of the third meridian
Deerforks School District #3194 1916-1945 SW section 18 township 22 range 27 west of the third meridian
Dirksburg School District #3190 SE section 13 township 21 range 26 west of the third meridian
Elaine section 29 township 21 range 27 west of the third meridian
Elardee School District #3695 Section 15 township 19 range 25 west of the third meridian
Estuary School District #3387 1916-1959 section 2 township 23 range 28 west of the third meridian
Flowerdale section 3 township 23 range 25 west of the third meridian
Frohlich School District #3181 / 3191 SW section 17 township 20 range 26 west of the third meridian
Gascoigne section 27 township 20 range 28 west of the third meridian
Heg section 1 township 20 range 26 west of the third meridian
Herrman School District #401 (Herman School District #401) 1912-1946 SW Section 6 township 22 range 25 west of the third meridian
Hohenlinden School District #408 1913-1946 NW section 14 township 22 range 27 west of the third meridian
Hollymount School District #352 1911-1951 section 20 township 21 range 26 west of the third meridian
Keynote section 9 township 20 range 27 west of the third meridian
Leader (White School 1915-1958 and Brick School 1917-1958) NW section 21 township 22 range 26 west of the third meridian
Liebenthal sections 3, 4 township 20 range 26 west of the third meridian and parts of section s 27, 28, 33, and all of section 34, township 19 range 26 west of the third meridian
MacKenzie School District #3107 NE section 22 township 20 range 25 west of the third meridian
Mendham N section 10 township 21 range 27 west of the third meridian
Nicefield section 21 township 19 range 26 west of the third meridian
Prelate SE section 9 township 22 range 25 west of the third meridian
Puritan School District #3417 section 23 township 21 range 27 west of the third meridian
Richfield section 8 township 19 range 28 west of the third meridian
Richville section 11 township 19 range 28 west of the third meridian
Rosenthal School District #2869 SE Section 13 Township 19 range 26 west of the third meridian
Sautner School District #3696 SE 4 section 34 township 21 range 27 west of the third meridian.
Saskedge School District #4632 NW section 28 township 21 range 29 West of the third meridian
Selz School District #2843 NE section 34 township 19 range 25 west of the third meridian
Smith School District #961 NW section 35 township 19 range 28 west of the third meridian
Spyer School District #3033 near Mendham.
St Johns Parochial School 1915-1942 St Johns Separate School 1943-1965 section 4 township 21 range 26 west of the third meridian
Valley School District #2585 section 16 township 22 range 26 west of the third meridian
Weigel Plains section 33 township 19 range 27 west of the third meridian
Westerham School District #3973 1918-1947 section 2 township 23 range 27 west of the third meridian

Nearby Placenames from the Rural Municipality of Clinworth 230 Map;

Lemsford SE section 9 township 22 range 23 West of the third meridian
Portreeve SE section 32 township 21 range 22 West of the third meridian
Sceptre NE section 9 township 22 range 24 West of third meridian

Books

The Carl Berndt Manuscript
edited By Joyce Donst
Notes And Additions By William Wardill Berndt, Carl
Eatonia, Sask. : Speargrass Specialities, 2004

The Carl Berndt Manuscript
edited By Joyce Donst
Notes And Additions By William Wardill Berndt, Carl
Eatonia, Sask. : Speargrass Specialities, 2008, c2006

Pages Of The Past
[Editors, Jo-Ann Tetlock And Patti Trautwein] [Leader, Sask.] : The Leader Lioness Club, [circa 1981]
The Past to the present : 70 years, 1909-1979
[Sceptre, Sask.] : Sceptre-Lemsford Historical Association, [1979]

Ursulines of Prelate, 1919-1979
Sask. : The Ursulines, circa 1990

School District Maps


Canadian Online Map Digitization Project (Saskatchewan railway maps)

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