Fonds 479 Canuck School Reunion fonds

38 photographs

Date: 1930-2009 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of photocopies of the minutes of the Canuck School District from 1932-1938; photocopies of Daily Registers from 1930-1955; and a research file containing copies of legal documents, maps, correspondence, and news clippings, as well as notes and newspaper articles from the 2000 and 2009 school reunions. There is also a poem called “The Christmas Orange” written by Joan (Lozeron) Wispinski in 2001.

Physical description: 2 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1927-2009 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series contains report cards for Ruth Balisky from 1927-1942; a “Spring Bird Sightings” poster created by Alice Sutherland ca. 1930; and some teaching records and correspondence for Myrtle (Tolley) Brown from 1933-1935 for both East Kleskun School and Canuck School. Some of the items are photocopies.

Physical description: 1 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Hand-drawn poster on brown paper listing the different species of birds in the Bear Lake area, and which of the students had seen which bird.

Poster from the Canuck School 2009 by Lorraine Bode Nagel.

Date: 1927-2007 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of photographs of Canuck School students, teachers and buildings from about 1927 to the restoration of the building in 2007.

Physical description: 27 photographs

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•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1927-1951 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The subseries consists of photographs donated for the Canuck School reunion.

Physical description: 6 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Copy of a photograph showing Canuck School students on the steps of Canuck School with their teacher in 1927-1928. Photograph from Lorraine Bode Nagel.

Canuck School students on the steps of Canuck School with teacher Alice Sutherland. Front: Bob Slowe, Martha Husack, Eva Alexandre, Inga Duncan, Peggy Duncan, Stacey Kosmina, Tina Kosmina, guest Arthur Dubord. Back: Sadie Brown, Jean Duncan, Bruce Mayo, Louise Sawatsky, John Sawatsky, Claire Alexandre, Sam Brown, Nellie Duncan, Joe Husack, Esther Sawatsky, Bill Gorrie, Sara Mayo, Lizzie Duncan, Joan Landry, guest, and Miss Sutherland. Photograph donated by Lorraine Bode Nagel.

Copy of a photograph showing students at Canuck School on the east side of the school and its bank of windows.

These boys from Currie School, perhaps visiting Canuck for a baseball game, are (left to right) Fred Balmer, Bill Balmer, Maurice Halwa, Roy Knechtel, and Tom Mostovich.

Copy of a photograph showing the Balisky boys with their stripped-down car at Canuck School. Bob and Paul are in the front, and Terry and Dan at the back. Dan is driving. Photograph donated by Eleanor Waefler Haddow.

Copy of a photograph showing Miss Eleanor Waefler’s Class for a Valentine’s Day Party at Canuck School in 1951. Front row: Jim Lozeron, Joan Lozeron, Terry Balisky, Don Lozeron, Bev jackson, Sharon Brown, Gary Brown. Second row: Frances Lozeron, Bob Balisky, Andre Lozeron, Denny Brown, Larry Balderston. Back row: Mae Robinson, Julie Duda, Robert Jackson, Don Jackson, Dan Balisky, Paul Balisky, Harold Gorrie. Missing were Anne Hudz and Art Duda, and the two small boys, Gary Brown and Jimmy Lozeron, were there as “guests”.

Date: 1928-1950 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The subseries consists of photographs donated by teacher Alice Sutherland for a Canuck School Reunion.

Physical description: 10 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Teacher Alice Sutherland off to Canuck School by horse and caboose with the Alexandre girls (Claire and Eva) and Arthur Dubord, who is holding the horse. The horse’s name was Susie.

Canuck School students in the school yard in 1929 are identified as Sadie Brown, Jeanie Duncan, Lizzie Duncan, Louise Sawatzky, Martha Husack, Sarah Mayo, Nellie Duncan, Claire Alexandre, Inga Duncan, Peggy Duncan, Eva Alexandre, and Esther Sawatzky. The photograph was taken by teacher Alice Sutherland.

Canuck School students beside the school.

Miss Alice Sutherland’s class of students at Canuck School.

Girls from Miss Tolley’s class at Canuck School in 1936-1937. Sitting: Kathleen Balisky, Betty Gorrie, Kathleen Brown. Middle row: Marie Lozeron, Agnes Lozeron, Helen Gorrie, Ruth Balisky, Edna Showers. Back row: Rosella Heppner, Ella Leggatt, Grace Heppner, Kay Gossen, Martha Husack. This was probably taken at the end of the school year, in June 1937.

Boys from Marjorie Clifford’s Class at Canuck School in 1938-1939. Sitting: Ray Heppner, Jack Gorrie. Standing: Stan Slowe, Ralph Balisky, Buster Leggatt, Bill Gorrie, Joe Husack, and Paul Lozeron.

Girls from Division Three at Canuck School. Front row: June Bode (partially visible), Eleanor Wafler, Rheta Bode, Alva Bode. Back row: Ruth Leggatt, Eileen Balisky, Margaret Robinson, Jean Jackson.

Miss Cunningham’s class at Canuck School on the extended front steps of the school.

Teacher Barbara Bailey with some of the students on the front steps at Canuck School in 1950: Mae Robinson, Annie Hudz, Betty Robinson, Miss Bailey, Julie Duda, Barbara Lozeron, Lorraine Bode, Lillian Jackson, Theresa Robinson. Barbara later married Maurice Powell.

Date: 1928-1954 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The subseries consists of photographs donated by the family of teacher Myrtle (Tolley) Brown.

Physical description: 8 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Copy of a photograph showing teacher Myrtle Dixon with her sister Hazel. Miss Dixon taught at Canuck School in 1928-1929.

Copy of a photograph showing teacher Miss Myrtle Tolley on the steps of Canuck School.

Copies of photographs showing Miss Tolley’s class at Canuck School in the 1937-1938 School year. The occasion is obviously a school picnic or sports day as one boy is holding an armful of trophies and several children are enjoying bowls of ice cream.

Photograph shows, from left to right, Sam Brown, Marjorie “Midge” Clifford, Myrtle Tolley, and Jack Brown. Mr. Alfred Brown can be seen in the background, as well as a small girl. Myrtle taught at the Canuck School from 1935 to 1938 and married Jack in 1940. Midge taught at the Canuck School from 1938 to 1939. The notes on the back of the photograph read: “These are Sam, you know him, 25 now. Midge. She was our teacher for 1938 & 1939. Myrtle. Jack’s wife now & Jack. They are taken in Pa’s garden last summer. He is behind.”

Sharon Brown’s first day of school at Canuck.

Desmond (Denny) Brown’s first day of school for the 1950-1951 school year. He was in grade 3.

Desmond (Denny), Sharon, and Gary Brown off to Canuck School by horse and cutter.

Date: 1980-2007 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The subseries consists of photographs taken at two school reunions in 1980 and 2007.

Physical description: 3 photographs

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•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Group of former Canuck School students beside the old school at the 1980 reunion.

The restored Canuck School in Bear Lake Park in 2007.

Date: 1929-1948 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of photographs of the Stone House built by Mr. Flemming on the shore of Bear Lake, the Bear Lake Hall as it was being built in 1948, and of a Presbyterian Church picnic at Pitman’s Point.

Physical description: 6 pp. textual records

11 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1929-1930 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The subseries consists of 6 pages of textual records and 7 photographs. The papers include a history of the Lawrence Bode family, a history of the old stone house, floor plans for the house, a map of where it was located, and a poem by Lorraine (Bode) Nagel about the outhouses at Canuck School, called “Gotta Go.”

Physical description: 6 pp. textual records

7 photographs

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Copy of a photograph showing the old stone house on the north shore of Bear Lake.

Copy of a photograph showing May (Brown) Bode in front of “the old stone house” on the north shore of Bear Lake.

Copy of a photograph showing Lawrence Bode bringing in a load of logs for the winter wood supply with a two horse team. In the background is “the old stone house” on the north shore of Bear Lake.

Copy of a photograph showing the Alfred Brown family at the side of “the old stone house” in 1930. From left to right: Alfred, Sadie, May, Sam, and Jack.

Copy of a photograph showing Lawrence and May Bode beside “the old stone house” in the summer of 1929. They were married January 1, 1929 and the stone house on the north shore of Bear Lake was their first home.

Copy of a photograph showing the five daughters from the Lawrence and Norman Bode families with doll buggies made by their fathers from apple boxes. This is ca. Christmas 1939, and they are, left to right: Alva, June, Rheta, Eloise, and Lorraine. Behind them is “the old stone house” on the north shore of Bear Lake.

Ice piled up on the north shore of Bear Lake close to Pitman’s Point.

Date: 1948 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The subseries consists of two photographs of the building of Bear Lake Hall.

Physical description: 2 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Location of originals:

Could not locate the physical copies of these photographs at the time of database conversion, although both photographs have been digitized. TD, November 27, 2024.

Publication status:

Published

Copy of a photograph of the men from the Bear Lake area building the Bear Lake Hall in 1948. Left to right: Bert Leggatt, Lawrence Bode, Buster Leggatt, and John Waefler.

Copy of a photograph of the men from the Bear Lake area building the Bear Lake Hall in 1948. Left to right: Norm Bode, Lawrence Bode, and John Waefler.

Date: 1948 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The subseries consists of two photographs of a Presbyterian Church picnic at Pitman’s Point. For a number of years Rev. Davidson, from the Forbes Presbyterian Church, held church services in the Bear Lake area. After he left, most of the families drove into Grande Prairie to attend church.

Physical description: 2 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Copy of a photograph of the Bear Lake Church picnic at Pitman’s Point in 1948 with the Rev. Ronald Davidson’s Presbyterian congregation. Left to right: Homer Lozeron, Des (Denny) Brown, Rev. Ronald Davidson, Dora Lozeron, Lawrence Bode, May (Brown) Bode, Bert Leggatt and his daughter Ella (Leggatt) Miles, Gladys Leggatt, Myrtle (Tolley) Brown, Pete Lozeron, Rev. Wright’s back (he was visiting). In the background are Lawrence Bode’s Jeep and Bert Leggatt’s 1947 Plymouth.

Copy of a photograph of the Presbyterian Church picnic in 1948. Reverend Ronald Davidson standing, with little Des (Denny) Brown sitting beside him. Homer and Andre Lozeron can be identified facing the camera.