Little Schools in the Parkland

BATTLE HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT No.3090

  1. Battle Heights School opened in 1914. The name is supposed to have been
  2. derived from the heights of the Battle River, which are one and a half
  3. miles east of the school. It was built on the NW corner of the NW ¼ 33-
  4. 45-7 W4. It was a one-roomed school, in which grades one to nine were
  5. taught. There were as many as thirty-six children attending at one time.
  6.  
  7. The school was the social centre of the community. Card parties were
  8. held, with dances following, every three weeks all winter.
  9.  
  10. After the Wainwright School Division was formed, the school building was
  11. sold to Mr. Ted Thurston. It was converted into a comfortable home where
  12. he and his wife Molly raised their family and still reside. The school barn
  13. was sold to Gordon Elliot. John Newton now owns the land.
  14.  
  15. A dance was held in the school the day before it was sold. To bring the
  16. evening to a close, everybody joined hands and sang “Auld Lang Syne,”
  17. bringing to an end an important era in the history of the community.
  18.  
  19. Secretaries for the school district were: Pat O’Reilly, Mrs. Hugh Adams
  20. and Mrs. Jim Wakefield. Trustees through the years were: Mr. Hugh Adams,
  21. Mr. Leo LaPalme, Mr. Joshua Holt, Mr. Jim Wakefield, Mr. Thomas Shaw, Mr.
  22. A.L. Dietrich, Mr. William Milton, Mr. Jack Headon and Mr. George Bachelor.
  23.  
  24. Teachers were: Miss Margaret Clark, Miss Martin, Miss Rank, Mr. George
  25. Taylor, Miss Helen Ballentine (Mrs. Geo. Taylor), Miss Fern Alexander, Miss
  26. Marjorie Dutton (Mrs. Geo. Fischer), Mrs. Orril Darling, Miss Doris Gray
  27. (Mrs. S. Fenton), Mrs. Jack Gregson, Mr. Harold Lissen, Mrs. Moan, Miss
  28. Gladys Cubbit (Mrs. Lloyd Gouley), Mr. Harry Uniat, Miss Geneva Zajic (Mrs.
  29. Dreger), Mrs. Ione Hetherington, Miss Muriel Hill (Supervisor), Miss Helen
  30. Melnyk, Mrs. Sirois, Mrs. Benfield, Miss K. Younker (Mrs. Chester Green), and
  31. Mrs. Ruth Parcels.
  32.  
  33. Pupils’ names appearing on the registers were: Hortons; Kents - Neva and
  34. Donald; Dietrichs - Bill, Clara and Alice; Headon - Jack, Almeda and
  35. Reagan; Benoit - Irene, Lucienne and Hector; Burns - Margaret, Robert,
  36. Rita, Molly, Andrew and Billie; Briault - Leo, Ernest and Rene; Milton -
  37. Willie, John, Jesse, Mary, Bob and Annie; Adams - Joy and Lloyd;
  38. Holt - Sarah, Dave, May, Alice, Lily and Sam; Sirois - Joyce and Valerie;
  39. Walker - Violet, Nancy, Bill, Lilly, Arthur, Ruby and Pearl; Walker - Alice
  40. and Albert; Bachelors - Harry, Jim, Betty and John; Wakefields - Jean,
  41. Muriel, Hazel, Clifford, Keith, Charles and Marlene; Shaw - Sidney, Ellen,
  42. Edith and Rob; Driver - Lome; Dalton - Dorothy; Gray - Doris and Virginia;
  43. Marchand - Traffli; Kind - Ralph and Esther; LaPalme - Theresa, John Paul
  44. and Aline; Massie - Arthur; Rices - twins; Straus - Betty; Parcels - Marie,
  45. Ethel and Harvey.

Battle Heights School District No. 3090
Submitted by Clifford Wakefield

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