Eldersley #1784

Eldersley School District #1784

one room school 1919

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The first application for a school in the (Eldersley) district was made July 18, 1906. The application was signed by Aubrey E. Streadwick, Arthur Tench, and Frank B. Holland. This school was to be known as Rousseau School. Later that year it was decided to stay with the provisions made for a voluntary school built by the Saskatchewan Lumber Company in Crooked River. The next application was made in 1907. This school was also to be called Rousseau School. The application was approved and the Rousseau School District # 1784 was started in 1908. The school was to be located between sections 9 and 10 , Township 45, Range 13. The first teachers in this new school were R.J.Ellis and Mrs. Sadie E Byrnes.

In Oct. 1908 a school meeting held at Osgood (now called Eldersley), defined the school district. It was to include sections 31-35 in township 44, Range 13, and sections 2-11, 14-18 in Township 45, Range 13. In December 1908 the name of the school was changed to the same as the siding. Now it was known as Osgoode School District # 1784 of the Northwest Territories

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In April, 1909, the Saskatchewan Department of Education granted a loan of $800 to the Osgood School District for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school building. The school was built on the SW corner of SW 10-45-13 This school was destroyed by fire in Jan, 1917. A log school was erected as a temporary school. It was later turned into an icehouse. In September, 1917, the school district borrowed $1200 for a new school building. By 1921 the name of the village had been changed to Eldersley and the ratepayers decided that the school’s name should also be Eldersley. This became official in July, 1921.

By 1928 there were 80 children in grades I to XII so with a loan of $3500 from the Dept. of Education, an addition was built and sanitary toilets installed. In 1935 with 107 students enrolled, an extra classroom was opened downtown in the old bank building. This room was used until 1947 when enrollment declined. In 1948 a new barn was built to house the horses that the children drove to school.

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In 1950 it was time to replace the old school. The trustees borrowed $22,000 to build a three room school. It opened in 1950. This building had two classrooms on the main floor, with large cloakrooms, sinks and flush toilets. The lower floor was where the third classroom would be when needed, The furnaces, pressure systems (water came from the town dugout), and sewer pumps were also in the basement. This building was definitely a treat for students and teachers! No more cold feet, a room to play in downstairs when it was cold, and electric lights! The old schoolhouse was moved into the yard of the Tisdale Unit Composite School, where it was used as a hall by the community until it was demolished in 1985.

In 1960, the older students, Grades IX to XII, were bussed into Tisdale, leaving only Grades I to VIII in Eldersley. In 1961 the children from Miner Creek and Clashmoor Schools were bussed into Eldersley, enabling the school to keep operating until 1969. There were only 34 students enrolled at this time so the Eldersley School District # 1784 was closed and the children bussed to Tisdale.

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The Teacher:


no teacher listed	1906-7	R.J. Ellis	1908
Sadie E. Byrnes	1908	Archie J Hunt	1909-10
Norman McKeller	1910-11	Douglas Brown	1912
Don McLennon	1912	Richard F. Snook	1913-14
Lorne B. Elliot	1914	Walter V. Kidd	1915
William Edgar Pye	1916-17	Anna DeLila Sproule	1917
Frances M. Townsend	1918-19	Daisy S.C. Pearson	1918-19
Margaret Armstrong	1919	Ellison Dykeman	1919-20
Anna DeLila Dykeman	1921	James N. Collins	1921
Anna DeLila Dykeman	1926-30
William Bennett Wait	1922-23	Muriel R. Gould	1924-25
Mrs. Mabel Robinson	1925-26	Corneilia O. Penington	1925-26
Lillian Smart	1926	Mary M. Smith	1926
Alice M. Burman	1926	James S. Wood	1927
George Ellis	1927	Arnold W. Arps	1927-29
Olive Ketchum	1928-30	James Trecarten	1929
James Edgar	1930-31	Hazel Elizabeth Byers	1930-36
Robert Waldo Scurfield	1931-39	Nellie Scurfield	1931
		Nellie Scurfield	1935-37
Mollie Ross	1935	Isabel Gould Deacon	1935-39
Meryl Emma Elliot	1936-38	Dorothy Ash	1938-40
Norman J. McLeod	1939-40	Alfred E. Loft	1939-40
Mina Juzi	1941	Mary Olive M. Hugginson	1941
Isaish S. Rudy	1941	Annie Grace McIntosh	1941
Wilbur K. Taylor	1941	Mary Alice Curtiss	1941
		Mary Alice Curtiss	1943-44
Peter C. Gerrie	1941-44	Dorothy Steinberg	1941-42
Leona Kittilson	1942	Mildred Jones	1942
Lillian M. Gerrie	1943-44	Doris A. Condie	1944
Helen Bowren	1945	Nora Marie Rice	1945
Mary I. Binnie	1945	Hilda Z. April (Kitella)	1945-47
Leontrice Relland	1945	Lois Mae Hanson	1946-47
Alex Allan Sklarenko	1946-47	Pauline Elsie Makie	1947-48
Dorothy Porter	1947-48	Lily E. Holmes	1948-50
Bill Markowski	1948-49	Gladys Sinclair	1949-50
Margaret Smith (Campbell)	1950-52	Arthur L. Marchildon	1950-52
Margaret Joan Hayes	1952-53	Lawrence George Salamon	1952-53
Paul Zoltok	1953-57	Sally Zoltok	1953-55
		Mary Mishanko	1957
Eleanor Hunter	1955-56	Mary Mishanko	1957-59
Edith Bowes	1957-59	Aline Gendron	1959-61
Joyce Scammell	1959-61	Joseph Mykietuik	1961-68
Joyce McPhee	1961-65	Theresa Parmentier	1961-65
Helen Mykietuik	1966-68	James McGrenera	1968-69
Florence Currie	1968-69

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Thank you to the editors of A Salute To Our Pioneers, Eldersley History Book, 1989.

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The School Districts Tisdale School Division a compiled history