HOUSE LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT No.3235

1. On March 22, 1915, the Minister of Education gave the order for the school
2. district of House Lake to be formed. In June 1916, the site was chosen in
3. an unusual manner, that of balancing a map of the district on the point of a
4. lead pencil. The school was built on the NW ¼ 29-43-5 W4 by Alex
5. Chartier and the official trustee was H.M.V. Pecknold of Greenshields Post Office.
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7. The first teacher was Miss Faith Douglas. Others were: Dr. Aykroyd, Miss
8. McLeod (Mrs. Johnny Deyell), Mrs. Callar, Jerry Fieldhouse, Gwen Pecknold,
9. Mrs. Florence Cowan, Rose Palmer, Marjory Reeves, Ruth Stronach (Jack),
10. Isobel McFarland, *Emma Kinghorn (Valleau), Stella Gardner, *Emmy
11. Johnson (Nysetvold), Mrs. B.A. MacLean, *Marie Perkins (Valleau), Amy
12. Berg, Peggy Challenger, Josephine Middlemas, Mrs. Mary Carl, *John Taylor,
13. and Harry Lewin.
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15. When the school opened, it was one pupil short of the number of eight set
16. by the Department to start a school. Consequently Mrs. Valleau was
17. persuaded that her son Stanley, five years old and very shy, attend. This
18. lasted only until Dr. Aykroyd came and decided Stanley was not yet ready
19. for school. A picture in Buffalo Trails and Tales lists Dr. Aykroyd’s pupils
20. as Edna Hughes, ? Richardson, *Stanley Valleau, Mildred Terpening, Ivan
21. and Marguerite Sargent. Later students included Edith, George, Margaret,
22. and Evelyn Bartons, Keith, Arley, and Phyllis Hughes, Fred, and Sargent
23. Attewell, Cecil, Inez, and Packer Roy and *Allen Valleau.
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25. A 1928 picture names *Marcella and *Dorothy Plater, *June and Beryl
26. Jackson, Ivan and Marshall Jackson, Phyllis, Lloyd and Arley Hughes,
27. *Glenn and Rita Valleau, Joan and Micky Williams, *Lillian Pfluger, Edith
28. and Clara Attewell. Other families were June, David, Bert, *Joan and Alex
29. Hutchinson, Winnie Jackson, Marvin and Jacky Jackson, and Clara Attewell.
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31. In March 1948, because of a shift in population, a more central site on the
32. NW ¼ 31-43-5 was granted. By 1952 the population of school had
33. dwindled to two families, the Hines and Hutchinsons. Parents were paid
34. to transport their children to Greeshields. Soon after, all students were
35. bussed to Wainwright. The building was sold and moved to town to become
36. the home of Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Perkins.

House Lake School District No. 3235
Submitted by Marie (Perkins) Valleau

68-69