Opening the School 2
March 3, 1917
Deputy Minister of Education
Sir,
In answer to yours of Feb 26/17 I beg to state that the report you got regarding a low rate of tax for the year 1917 is correct and the family you refer to are residents and taxpayers in the Village of Wabamun, the father of this family is at the present time working temporary in our District and a resident in the land he is working. His children are not attending the Wabamun School at the present time their his no one asking any compensation for driving these children to School their employer having bought them a horse and rig so that they might drive themselves to school. The Chairman of the Wabamun School District might also have told you that we offered to pay them for this families education when the children attended school again but the school Board of Wabamun is not satisfied with that they want one mile of the Sylvan District the poorest farming District in Alberta nothing but bush and stones one cannot make a living on 1/4 section in this part.
Yours Sincerely John Haigh
(37)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sometime between March 1917 and April 1918 Mr. John Haigh was replaced as Secretary-Treasurer by Mr. Thomas Street of Wabamun, the father of Walter Street (NW36-53-4-W5). He was to continue as Secretary-Treasurer until 1930 when Mrs. Freida V. Woollard took over these duties. She in her turn was Secretary-Treasurer until the dissolution of the Sylvan School District in 1948.
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Wabamun - Alberta - April 6th/18
The Deputy Minister of Education, Edmonton
Sirs,
re your letters - March 19
Our Board of Trustees met today. I told you in a previous letter that, at the present time we have no children of School age residing in the the Sylvan School District
We have a good, large, 3 roomed Building, in centre of District available to be rented, or bought for a school, if required.
Some of the Farmers, with Families are on Active Service, others gone to the States; others gone away to earn a living. They all, or some of them, may return at any time with their families. Then this Building, and the nice balance at the Bank, will be useful. I believe a man with children has filed on 1/4 Sec. 2-54-4-5, Roman Catholics.
Thomas Street
Sec. - Treas.
(38)
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