Carlea #3650

Carlea School District # 3650

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In the summer of 1915 committee was formed to begin the organization of a school district. There were twelve school aged children in the area. According to the Saskatchewan Archives the petition for organization of a school district was received by the Department of Education on Aug. 16, 1915. The request was approved and the school was given the same name as the postal district - CARLEA. This postal district name was derived from the first three letters of the local Carrot and Leather Rivers.

Two acres of land in the South West Quarter of section 30, township 48, range13, West of the 2nd meridian, were purchased from W. Hill. Construction of the 22' x 28' school building began on February 17, 1916. The school opened on April 19, 1916 with seven students in attendance and Mabel Schiltroth as the teacher.

Some of the expenses during that first year of operation were: cost of the land - $50, wages for constructing the school - $190, teacher’s salary - $60 per month, firewood - $2.50 a cord, caretaking - 10 cents a day for sweeping and dusting with an additional $18 per year for washing floors and windows monthly, and lighting the fire when necessary.

During the first years the school was at times closed due to a shortage of qualified teachers and in the winter because of the severe weather conditions. As late as the mid 1920s grade eight students travelled to Tisdale to write departmental examinations.

In the early1930s, after the construction of the Canadian National rail line, many new settlers moved into the area. An all time high enrolment of fifty-two students was reached in 1935. A second teacher was hired and the Carlea Hall, located just across the road from the school, was used as a high school. The hall was destroyed by fire in 1944. A vacant store was then used as a classroom until the fall of 1945 when the decision was made to revert to a one- room school.

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New Carlea School - 1953

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The Carlea School District was incorporated into the Tisdale Larger School Unit in 1952. A new school was built in 1953 and the original building was sold to Elton McDonald of the Ditton Park district. In 1963 the land in the Carlea School District was transferred to the Nipawin School Unit. The school was closed in the fall of 1963 and the students were bussed to the school in Aylsham. The building was moved to Crooked River for use as a school.

The Teacher:

Mabel Schiltroth	1916	Charles Whidden	1919
Violet Jones	1919	Irene Holland	1920
Eva Boxall	1920	Ted Mounroe	1921
Orin Reed	1921-22	Mary McEwan	1922
Florence Evans	1923-24	Edythe Ellsi	1925-27
Gladys Eastman	1929	Myrtle Fitzsimmons	1929-30
Katherine McKay	1930	Dorothy Clover	1931-33
Nettie Fairburn	1933	Ruth Porterfield	1933-35
Marjorie Snell	1935-39	Margaret Wall	1935-39
Lenore Cook	1938-39	Mildred Haryett	1939-40
Helen Barry	1939-40	Emma Waldbauer	1940-41
Mrs. Little	1940-41	Kathryn Kay	1941-42
Ann Hellyer	1941-42	Miss Yakes	1941-42
C. A. Scrivener	1942-45	Elaine Jackson	1942-43
Alvina Freisen	1943-44	Zelda Waldo	1944-45
Miss Nixon	1945-46	Freda Starbuck	1946-47
Mildred Owens	1946-47	Albert Herman	1946-47
Mildred Owens	1953-63
Allen Ralph	1947-48	Jean Wallace	1947-48
Irene Ubdegrove	1948-51	Kent Bradford	1951-53
Miss K. E. Freeman	1953-54

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Information from CHIPS OFF THE BLOCK, Aylsham and District History Book Committee, 1982, Aylsham, Saskachewan.

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The School Districts Tisdale School Division a compiled history