KILLARNEY SCHOOL DISTRICT No.2536

1. On November 13, 1911, a meeting was held to form a school district in
2. Killarney. Newly elected officers were: Chairman L. Borregaard and
3. Secretary, T. Armour. The land of SE ¼ 25-42-2 W 4th was purchased
4. from E. Paquette for $10 and acre.
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6. While negotiations were in progress, school was held in a sod house owned
7. by H. Semple. Mrs. Ladd was hired to teach during the summer months.
8. Some of the first students were: Charlie Foreman; Ina and Andrew Armour;
9. Ester Ellen, Louis and Willie Borregaard; Philip, Bertha, Margarite and
10. Beatrice Lambert; and Edna Sevigny.
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12. The school was completed in the fall of 1912 at a cost of $1500. In 1913,
13. $150 was borrowed to pay a teacher. The teachers boarded with families
14. and usually walked to school. As there were both French and English
15. speaking families in the area, the teacher was expected to speak both
16. languages. A former student, who spoke only French said, when he started
17. school, some children learned both languages.
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19. In 1915, the Killarny Presbyterian Church donated $70 and the U.F.A. built
20. a barn.
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22. Some of the teachers in these early years were: Pratt and Judd Perry, Miss
23. Colin, Miss O’Gorman, Miss Olive Folkins, Miss Edna Nelson, Grant Saul,
24. Miss Kluck, Miss Agnes Laplander, Miss Stella O’Brien, Carl Cayford and E.H.
25. Mickeljohn. One teacher wrote that she was fortunate enough to have a
26. telephone in 1923.
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28. The enrollment was large and usually included grade nine. A picture taken
29. in 1922-23 shows Miss Folkins (McKenzie) with her large class. In 1940,
30. the enrollment was still large. Some of the students recognized in a
31. picture at that time include Philip and Annette Cote Eric Allen, Gordon,
32. Chapman, Melvin and Eva Holden, John Girard and John Sevigny.
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34. In 1947-48, eight or nine supervisors came and went until Mrs. Perry
35. finally took over after Christmas that year. When teachers became hard to
36. get, the school was closed and the students were bussed to Chauvin. The
37. Killarney school building was used as a house for some time and was later
38. moved to Chauvin to be used as a warehouse by D.W. Parcels. It was later
39. torn down and the lumber was then used in the construction of a two-car
40. garage built by Ezra Fahner.
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42. The original site of this school, built by pioneers, is lost in a field owned
43. by George Chapman.

Killarney School District No. 2536
Submitted by Mildred Goede Reinhart

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