Written in Arbos 1983: STF Memories, p. 21; "In 1909 Georgina McGill, a student at McMaster University, came west to visit her brother Jud at his farm near Stranraer. She stayed to teach for several months at Wynona school? built in 1907. Miss McGill taught fourteen students in this sodded frame schoolhouse." Georgina McGill standing outside the Wynona sod schoolhouse.

Written in Arbos 1983: STF Memories, p. 21; "In 1909 Georgina McGill, a student at McMaster University, came west to visit her brother Jud at his farm near Stranraer. She stayed to teach for several months at Wynona school? built in 1907. Miss McGill taught fourteen students in this sodded frame schoolhouse." Georgina McGill and students outside the Wynona sod schoolhouse.

A lady stands outside a sod house which was the very first Winona School. The Winona district hosted "sodding bees" where they would pile sod walls three feet thick against the wooden frame of the school, producing a building which was warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Sodding bees were a community event at the Winona School. Walls of sod three feet thick would be piled against the wooden frame of the school to make a building that was warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In this photo, a large group of people stand/sit outside and on top of Winona School. Contact Rosetown archives for names.

The finished Winona School building.

Invitation to Wide Awake School cairn unveiling on August 1, 1993 and an undated newspaper photo of the old one-room schoolhouse before demolition.

Two copies of a coil-bound book containing poems and stories based on the events of the author Myra (Smith) Stilborn's life. One copy is larger than the other.

11 children are seated on the step of the school.

Victoria school and the West End school.
Above.
Victoria school, built on the present site of Shaw Park on 5th. Avenue in 1899. Mr. J. A. Gregory was the principal and Mr. J. A. M. Patrick was his assistant. This building became outdated and was replaced by the New Victoria school on 4th. Avenue in 1929.

Left.
The West End school, built on the present site of the Western Grocers building on Broadway West in 1905. It was moved, in 1910, to the corner of Broadway and Melrose Ave., to make way for the right-of-way of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It was used for school purposes until the Simpson school was opened in 1915. The building is still in a good state of repair and has been used as a multiple for a long number of years.

Smith School in the background with construction site and twelve workmen posing for picture in the foreground.

Thornton School in Biggar, SK; built in 1924, demolished in 1972.

Two buildings with trees and snow banks in front
Stamped on the back in blue ink: "279"
Printed on the back in a pattern: "Velox"

The pupils and teachers in the stone school in 1899. The principal was Mr. J. A. Gregory, right rear, and his assistant was Mr. J. A. M. Patrick, later be came Judge Patrick, left rear. A list of the pupils shown here may be found on another page in the album.

A teacher stands with her students by a tethered horse outside a stone rural school (small wooden stable in background)