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    • Part 1: First Nations of the Peace River Region
    • Part 2: The Fur Trade Era
    • Part 3: Transportation and Communication
    • Part 4: Old Timers and the Price of Land
    • Part 5: Dawson Creek: The Story of the Community
    • Part 6: Mysteries, Adventures and Indian Legends
    • Part 7: Arts, Crafts and Recreation
    • Part 8: Agriculture
    • Part 9: Church Histories
    • Part 10: Schools
    • Part 11: Health Care
    • Part 12: Industries and Enterprises
    • Part 13: Policing the Peace
    • Part 14: Pouce Coupe, Rolla, and Other South Peace Communities
    • Part 15: Chetwynd and the Fort St. John Area
    • Part 16: The Alberta Peace
    • Part 17: Natural History of the Peace River Region
    • Part 18: Interviews with Old Timers
    • Part 19: Remembering Our Veterans

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10-028: North Dawson School

The first North Dawson School was held in log building which Pete Hyndman had built for a chicken-house. The first teacher was Mrs. Dorothy Clarke. On the register for that first year term of 1922-23, were 9 pupils — 6 boys and 3 girls. Some attending were Laura Crack, Ted Crack, Blackstock children, Hyndman boys and a little Russian girl named Annie(?). Pete Hyndman built this log building for a chicken-house but this place was never used for chickens. This little school had an old tin-heater set in a box-like affair filled with ashes. If the wind blew hard, occasionally the stovepipes fell down. There was a blackboard about 6 ft. by 4 ft. A small window at each side. Tarpaper covered the outside of the door. Mr. Hyndman was one of the school trustees. Whenever the stovepipes fell down, Mrs. Clarke would send one of the children to get him to come and fix the stovepipe, which he always did. Later there was a new North Dawson School built from lumber on the south quarter of Pete Hyndman’s land.

 
NORTH DAWSON
1922-1923 – J. McDiarmid

1923-1924 – Mrs. D.A. Clarke

1924-1925 – J. Erwin Lean

1925-1926 – J. Erwin Lean

1927-1928 – W. Sutherland

1928-1929 – W. Sutherland

1929-1930 – W. Sutherland

1930-1931 – Miss Anna Parsell

1931-1932 – Miss M.W. Hall

1932-1933 – Miss M.W. Hall

1933-1934 – Miss C. Partridge

1934-1935 – Miss C. Partridge

1935-1936 – Miss C. Partridge

1936-1937 – Miss M. Anderson

1937-1938 – Miss Lorraine Welch

1938-1939 – Miss M.T. McFarlane

1939-1940 – Miss M.T. McFarlane

1940-1941 – J.A. Cuthbert

1941-1942 – Mrs. G.E. Blackstock

1942-1943 – Mrs. G. Patterson

1943-1944 – Miss T.K. Vigdal

1944-1945 – Miss E.A. Hendricks

1945-1946 – Annie McKinnon

« 10-027: South Dawson Teachers, 1921-1944

10-029: Moving to the New Dawson Elementary, 1952 »

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