Silver Stream School District #2011

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The first record is an official petition form, supplied by the Department of Education for the formation of a public school district dated at Carrot River (Silver Stream' s first post office) October 7, 1907. A second petition for the formation of a school district is dated December 13, 1907. This one is stamped “Approved” by the Department of Education. The suggested name “Riverside” is crossed out and the name “Silver Stream” is written in. The first meeting of the new school district #2011 was held in the home of James Randall on February 1, 1908. James Harvey was elected as the first board chairman. On April 4, 1908 the school board received authorization to borrow $1300 to purchase a building site and build a 24 by 26 foot school. School taxes were set at 5¢ per acre. During the winter of 1908 the school was built on the NE corner of SE 15-47-14-W2 purchased from Charlie Wegmiller. The school opened in March 1908 with ten pupils registered. The first teacher was Lillian Coote. She was hired as teacher for one hundred days at $55 per month.

In July, 1917, the school was moved 1⁄2 mile south and 1⁄4 mile east to NE 11-47-14-W2. A teacherage was built on the school grounds in 1947. In 1959-60 the Tisdale School Division replaced the aging Silver Stream building with the more modern Treasure School. Ned Pearce purchased the original school and moved it one mile north to his yard site. By 1960 the enrolment was down to nine students. The school was closed in 1961 and the students transferred to Leacross. In 1963 the Silver Stream Ladies Club purchased the school building for community activities.
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Teacherage

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Forty different teachers were employed during the fifty-two years the school was open. Their annual salary ranged from $550 to $2600 per year.

The Teachers:
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Lillian Coote

1908

Lillie Maybrook

1909

Alice Simpson

1910

Jean Gallegher

1911-12

Bertha Stanley

1913

W. Ross

1914-16

Mabel Schiltroth

1915-16

Blanche Clearwater

1917-18

Mabel Schiltroth

1918



Evelyn Bates

1919

Margaret Hamilton

1920-21

Bertha Curtis

1922

Alvin Miller

1922-25

A. Booth

1925

R. Williamson

1925

Winifred Henderson

1926

Rita McDonald

1927

Ross Robinson

1927-28

Kathleen Philion

1928

Elsie Bishop

1929

Edna Henderson

1929-30

E. Evaline Scott

1930-31

Augusta Thomason

1931-33

Lillie Peterson

1934-37

Wm. Richmond

1937-39

Rowena Homer

1939-40

E. McFarland

1940-41

Julie Lloyd

1941-42

Hazel Green

1942-43

Muriel  Wrigley

1943-44

M. Woolsey

1944-45

Helen Craven

1945-47

Richard Pittaway

1948-49

Julie Lloyd

1949-50

Julie Lloyd

1952-53

Bernice Wallacke

1951-52

Helen Righi 

1953-54

Freda Bourne

1954-56

Frances McNair

1956-57

Helen Maksymiac

1957-58

Lorraine Sebelius

1958-59

Stella Leister

1959-61

Julie Lloyd

1959-60
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Information abstracted from Homestead to Heritage: a History of Armley and Districts
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