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Orkney School Daze connects youth with rural one room school history
The Orkney Historical Society hosted a School Daze event near Yorkton with Grade 4 students from three Yorkton schools. They explored education in early settlement one room schools, hearing Gerry Muir recall shinny with frozen horse manure as a pack and noting the cultural importance of these rural schools as heart of the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girwood
Clashmoor School
New Osgood and Eldersley
Florentine
Yorkton
Orkney Historical Society
Gerry Muir
OHS
Orkney