1

We were living in the "black house" at Steveville when I started grade one at Berry Creek (little did I know I'd teach in the Berry Creek School District years later). This one-roomed school was three miles west of the hamlet of Berry Creek.

2

Better than walking
5 May 1935
Pollockville, Alberta, Canada

3

I began teaching in country schools in 1934, after graduating from Calgary Normal School in 1933 during what is commonly referred to as the "depths of the depression". My first one room school fifteen miles west of Pollockville,near Berry Creek, Alberta has been torn down as have many of the schools pictured in this exhibit. I "batched" in drafty teacherages, did janitor work and enjoyed hospitality of many parents in those isolated communities.