Fern Glen School District # 1675

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The school was constructed in 1908 on NW 14-46-15-W2. The school name was chosen by Grace Boxall after a school she attended on Ontario. The first teacher was Mr. Archie Hunt. Henry Boxall served as the school district secretary from its inception until the late 1930s.

The school was used for many social gatherings in the district such as box socials, dances, and card parties. Sunday church services also held in the school. A school picnic was always held on the last day of the school year.

The students walked to school, rode horseback, travelled by horse and buggy, or by horse and toboggan. Senior students had to travel nine miles to Tisdale to attend high school. Fred Boxall remembered a winter day when the students of Fern Glen decided to ice the hill just north of the school for better sledding. When Fred’s dad, who was the Reeve, heard about it, he insisted the ice be removed immediately.

After the school closed, the building was moved to Tisdale and served for a number of years as the “Lucky Dollar” store.

The Teachers:




Archie J Hunt

1908

Moot Fritshaw

1909-10

Lena Dauncey

1911

Annie McIntyre

1912-14

Mildred McIntyre

1914-15

Huerrita Harris

1915

Merle Soare

1915-16

M. Finn

1917

F. Summerfeldt

1917

D. Johnston

1917-18

(school was closed in December 1919 due to Flu epidemic)

G. Clearwater

1918



Mabel Thomas

1919

Violet Jones

1920

E.A. Maranda

1920

Sarah Campbell

1921

Lena Eade

1922

F. Ogdue

1922-23

Irene Thompson

1923

Cora Ham

1924

Mary McDonald

1924

Sarah Howe

1925-29

Eliza Arnold

1927

Evaline Scott

1929-30

M. Davies

1930-31

Elizabeth Herbert

1931-34

George Major

1934-37

Law Venn

1937-38

Edith Umphrey

1938-42

Agnes Rude

1943-44

Ethel Hancock

1944-46

Esther Finnie

1946-47

Archie Epp

1947-48

Jean Boxall

1948-49

Helen Corbett

1949-50

Marie Johansen*

1950-51

Mary Wright

1951-54

Evelyn Conron

1954-55

Irene Flemming

1955



*Study supervisor
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Information abstracted from an article by Fred Boxall in the community history book Pioneer Reflections
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