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Originally the Kitchener School, this building was built in 1911 on George Kisner land east of the Berry Creek, Alberta. It was moved to Wardlow where it was in operation from 1930 to 1940. The building was moved to the Brooks Museum site in 1978 and is used for "live" country school lessons each spring. Even in 2004, third grade students attend 30 minute lessons taught by Blanche Coultis to learn what learning was like in a country school in the early part of the 1900's.

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Originally the Kitchener School
8 June 2003
Brooks and District Museum, Brooks, Alberta, Canada
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Enamel pitcher and basin
1940
Brooks, Alberta, Canada

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Telephone installed in the Kitchener School
1944

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Interior of Kitchener School
1978
Brooks, Alberta, Canada

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Kitchener School built in 1911
1977
Brooks, Alberta, Canada
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Interior of Kitchener School, District 2529
1911
Brooks, Alberta, Canada
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Interior of Kitchener School, built in 1911
1911
Brooks, Alberta, Canada
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Water cooler and tin cup
1930
Brooks, Alberta, Canada

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"Gopher Tails and Syrup Pails" written by John Charyk contained remembrances of many country school teachers. Blanche Coultis wrote: "My first teacherage was at Brown S.D. 4617, eighteen miles west of Pollockville, Alberta, during the school term 1935-36. It was a one-room affair, covered with rubberoid, with a slanting roof. This building was not insulated, but the large kitchen range kept us warm, as my sister and I did our homework with our feet snugly ensconced in its big oven.

That particular stove, or my over firing of it, was the cause of our almost burning down the teacherage during a blizzard. When my sister and I returned to the teacherage at noon on a stormy day, we found the wall behind the stove on fire. In a trice I dumped the coal from the coal scuttle I was carrying, and we used it to scoop up snow from a snowdrift just outside the front door. We managed to put out the fire by dousing it with this snow. I can tell you that it was a very close call.

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Syrup pail, early lunch pail
1940
Brooks, Alberta, Canada

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Tin lunch pail replaced earlier syrup pails
1940
Brooks, Alberta, Canada

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Coal oil lamp
1930
Brooks, Alberta, Canada
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Coal bucket similar to the one used at Scapa school.
1941
Brooks, Alberta, Canada