Official Opening – Monday, May 27, 1957Central Junior High School was built to relieve a situation created by the great increase in pupils of secondary school age in School District 59. The junior high school is designed as a distinctive level of school, one which is specifically designed to provide for the characteristics and educational… Read More

Dawson Creek faced a momentous 90 minutes on Friday evening, January 28. That was the date we lost our most modern school. Ninety minutes — a mere instant in the march of time — yet a time when life hovered in the balance, as it were. At 3:30 p.m. over four hundred students of the… Read More

One year ago — January 28th, 1966 — in the late afternoon when people were preparing to leave for home, the alarm clanged in the Dawson Creek Fire Hall. A column of heavy smoke curled upward in the 15 below zero still air. It was the first intimation of one of the worst catastrophes in… Read More

The Doe River School was opened in January of 1921 with Mrs. Dorothy Clark as teacher. The school was a large building and had a room in the back for the teacher’s residence. Three or four years later this building burned to the ground. With the help of the insurance a new school was built… Read More

One of the first schools built in this district was in Landry. It was built in 1917 with a grant of $150.00. The remainder of the money needed was put up by Mr. Landry. This circumstance gave the school and district its name. Mr. Landry was repaid by benefits from dances and other fund-raisers. Peter… Read More

The school at North Rolla was built in 1928 with the first teacher being Miss Eunice Bates. Enrollment eventually grew to 41 pupils, making it necessary to arrange two classes. As the school was quite large a curtain was hung across the middle of the room as a divider. Ann Cartledge came to teach the… Read More

The pioneers built a school, barn and ice house of logs, and cleared the school yard. The school was opened in 1932 with R.E. Sommers teaching. Fuel for the barrel heater was plentiful, for the school yard was surrounded by windfalls. Joe Vopicka, a grade 6 student, travelled three and a half miles in the… Read More

May 29th, 1934. S.J. Willis Esq., B.A., LL.D., Superintendent of Education, Department of Education, VICTORIA, BC Dear Sir. This letter is to supplement that of the 9th inst., in which I stated Inspector MacLeod’s decision regarding the establishment of a school in the Peavine District. I have now had time to look into the matter… Read More

Everett Miller was the first person to teach school in the Pouce Coupe Prairie. He taught in a small log house built on the corner of his land in the Rolla district for a few months in 1912-13. In 1913, Rev. A.J. Law arrived to organize a Methodist Mission. A log parsonage was built large… Read More

The first school in the Saskatoon Creek district began in 1915 in Slim Ford’s shack with Anne Ligertwood as teacher. Then the settlers built a new log building for the district. This school was a log building 16’ x 20’ with a sod roof. There were only two small windows for lighting, 11 desks, and… Read More