Crooked River @2219

Crooked River School District # 2219

The first school in Crooked River was erected in 1905, and included sections 31, 32, 33, in township 44, range. 12, sec. 13. This first school was an old Saskatchewan Lumber Company cook shack. On June 3, 1922 a new site was approved by the R. M. 426, this was on the N.E. corner of NW 6-45- 12. On Jan. 10, 1923 debentures for $1500 were issued. The first one-roomed school was built in 1924 or 1925. By the year 1929 the population had increased and another school was needed. A new site in the hamlet of Crooked River was approved by the R. M. on March 16, 1929. Another school was then opened on a different site. In 1937 an additional class room was added to that school, there were now three classrooms and three teachers.

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n 1947 these classrooms were replaced by a new two- roomed school (right) which remained in use until 1964. This building then became Hesje’s Welding Shop. A fourth classroom was located in the United Church building. At this time the total enrollment reached an all time high of 143 students.

Mr. Alex Fairbairn served as principal of Crooked River school for the period of 1940 to 1960 with the exception of three years service in the R.C.A.F. and the year 1959 at the University of Saskatchewan. At one time Crooked River school taught all grades from one to twelve. Enrollment declined to 80 students, but thenin the nineteen sixties, students from Alder Ridge, Girwood, and Peesane were added to Crooked River School. Enrollment then went to 103 in grades one to nine. High school students were bussed to Tisdale.

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In November, 1964, a new one story, four room school was officially opened. The new building included an assembly room in the centre measuring 23 by 34 feet. A well on the chool site provided water for modern plumbing until the hamlet constructed a water system for the entire community. The total cost of the building was $75,000. The Provincial building grant was $15,600 and contribution by the Federal Government by way of Municipal Development and Loan Fund was $10,000. Mr. Bill Peoples cut the ribbon for the official opening of this school November 13, 1964.

At the end of the 1989 school term Crooked River School was closed and students bussed to Tisdale, Arborfield or Bjorkdale. The Crooked River School was then converted to a workshop for the Tisdale School division.

The Teachers:


Jessie (McTavish) McDonald	1909-13	Arthur J. Elliott	1913-14
Barney F. Bjarnason	1914	Hiram H. Wright	1915
Thomas Gordon Carlton	1915-16	John B. Champness	1916
		John B. Champness	1919-20
Miss M.M. Boyd	1918-19	Mrs. Anna D. Dykeman	1923-24
Velda V. Boxall	1924-25	Myrl R. Phillips	1925-26
Phoebe Densmone	1926-27	Edward C. Powell	1927-28
Frank Ast	1927	James W. Leeder	1928-31
Jean Taylor	1929-31	John Robert Denike	1931-34
Loretta Mary Vasey	1931-37	Hazel Irene Leard	1934-35
Ronald Carl Smith	1935-37	Peter Rowland Sproule	1937-38
Clare Mildred Torrance	1937-39	George Robert Major	1938-40
Mary Alice Curtiss	1938-39	William Hrynkiw	1939-41
Doris Patricia Gow	1939-42	Muriel E. Bergey	1940-41
Neoma N. Klaasen	1941-42	Alexander C. Fairbairn	1941-61
William Seneshen	1942-43	Edith J. Hollingsworth	1942-43
Hazel S. Johnson	1942-49	Margaret MacMurchy	1943-45
Mary Elva Yake	1943-45	Mrs. Margaret Bouchard	1945-46
Irene D. MacKintosh	1945	Mary E. Phillips	1946-48
Amy Deirdre Mills	1946-47	Isabelle M. Paquette	1948
Edith A Randall	1948-49	Isleen Arda Goudal	1949
Vivian Verna Malakoff	1949-52	Ernest Paul Sawchyn	1950
William P. Hancheroff	1950-53	Marjorie Louise Lutz	1952-53
Florence Cummings	1954-68	Barbara Ann Spark	1953-54
Margaret Hayes	1954-56	Margaret Looby	1956-57
Gwen Czank	1957-63	E.E. Slade	1961-63
Mrs. M. Stasiuk	1963-64	S.E. Siganski	1963-67
Phyllis E. Petersen	1963-64	Kathleen Kowal	1964-69
Muriel M. Popp	1964-65	Mrs. S. Will	1966-67
Arnold Schmeichel	1967-69	Miss E. Korback	1968-69
Joseph Mykietiuk	1968-83	Morley Mehler	1969-70
		Morley Mehler	1983-88
Mrs. H. Mykietiuk	1969-83	Chris Molnar	1970-71
Mrs. E. Hrenevich	1972-73	Gwenne Degenstein	1973-75
Helen Clark	1974-75	Theresa M. McHugh	1975-76
Therese Mahussier	1975-89	Nancy Fortier	1976-77
David Delschneider	1978-81	Selena Kaowal	1981-82
Bonnie Wilson	1982-87	Donalda Murray	1984-89
Kathleen Kowal	1987-89	David Isaak	1988-89

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From Forest & Mills to Farming Skills, Crooked River History Committee, 1990

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The School Districts Tisdale School Division a compiled history