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The Hot Stove
2003
Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
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"I still remember the smell of the school lunches. The kids would bring a glass jar of soup or stew and a chosen lunchroom monitor would, at the appointed time, go downstairs and place a large dishpan half full of water on the hotplate and place everyones' jars in it and turn up the heat to warm them. The odd jar was perhaps a little too well sealed and perhaps it had been frozen, so there were times when a jar broke and the contents would be floating around in the water when we finally got downstairs for washroom parade before lunch."

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Traditional Lunch Pails
2003
Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Lard, honey and syrup pails did double duty. They were an excellent way to transport lunch.

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Book and Lunch Carriers
2003
Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
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"There was some paint left over from painting the school and [one student's] pony used to change color quite frequently."

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The Water Crock
2003
Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
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If there was no well, ice from rivers or lakes was stored in the ice house and used for drinking water. There was usually a dipper at the water crock that everyone used.

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A Small Class
1937
Flett's Springs School, Saskatchewan
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"In the spring it was so nice to see the little yellow buttercups peeking through the sod in the school yard. Another thing peeking through were the gophers which 'the boys' dearly loved to catch and to chase us girls with them. I learned a good trick at this time - if you didn't run it ceased to be fun for them and they quit."

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The Smiling Team
1948
Lenvale, Saskatchewan
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"Other things that stick out are all the games we played at school. I don't really remember them all, but we played Red Light- Green Light, marbles in the winter between desk rows and marbles in summer shooting into a hole in the ground. There were others like Anti-I-Over the barn plus the odd wood house in the edge of the school tree line with a roaring fire in it - I don't think that was authorized by the teacher. Also, there was lots of tunnel digging in the large [snow] drifts across the road from the school. The big thing is we made our fun back then as there were few places to go and few games to buy."

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The Snow Hill
1949
Lund School, Saskatchewan

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The Posed Team
1940
Star City, Saskatchewan