Some of the teachers in the Sylvan District over the years, together with their academic qualifications, the term of their contract and the number and age range of students they taught:
1921 - Edwin Grey McLean - (Teaching Permit) - (12 Sept. - Close of Fall term) - $84.00/ full
teaching month.
1922 - Margaret Edna Walls - (Academic Certificate) - (01 May - left in August due to illness).
1922 - Catherine Kirkpatrick - (Permit) - (19 Sept. - 31 Oct.).
1923 - Arthur Guy Thatcher - (- ?- ) - (01 May - 30 June).
1923 - Edith Lillian Mudie - (Grade XI, Permit) - (05 Sept. - ? -) - 9 children of 4 families ages 6-15 yr.
1924 - Georgianna H. Robinson - (2nd Temp.) - (07 May - 30 Nov., plus 5 1/2 days in Dec.) - 9 children of 4 families
ages 7-15
1925 - Marion Mae Blundell - (1st Class) - (04 May - 30 June).
1925 - Edith Lillian Mudie - (Interim 2nd) - (06 July - 30 Nov.) - 11 children of 5 families,
ages 8-16
1926 - Ethel E. Drury - (2nd Class) - (26 April - resigned 17th Sept.)
1926 - Harold B. Cassan - (1st Intermediate) - (20 Sept. - 17 Dec.) - 13 children of 5
families, ages 7-15
1927 - N. Mcnally - (-?-) - (05 April - 12 April) (resigned, only 2 children attended school)
1927 - Ada A. Lent - (2nd) - (30 May - 30 June) - (returned to University in July.)
1927 - Myrtle Caroline Finley - (Normal) - (18 July - 16 Dec.) - 9 children of 4 families,
ages 7-14.
1928 - Mrs. Shirley Jackson - (2nd Class) - (01 March - 14 Dec). - 10 children of 3 families,
ages 8-15.
1929 - Mrs. Shirley Jackson - (2nd Class) - (01 Sept. - Christmas) - 7 children of 3 families,
ages 8-12.
1930 - Mrs. Shirley Jackson - (2nd Class) - (06 Jan. - 30 June, resigned May 16th) - 6 children of 2 families,
ages 7-13
1937 - 1938 - Teacher: Miss Catherine MacLeod, Salary $700/yr - 12 children of 5 families.
1939 - Teacher Miss Helen Bennet
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Between 1922 - 1926 - Teacher pay was $4.00 per full teaching day, including janitorial work.
Between 1927 - 1930 - Teacher pay was $4.20 per full teaching day, including janitorial work.
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Miss Mudie was the daughter of Harry Mudie (SE 4-54-4-W5), in the Sylvan District.
In 1923 she had passed Grade XI., by 1925 she had been to Normal School and was
certificated.
Miss Kirkpatrick was the daughter of the Wabamun Grand Trunk Pacific station agent.
Catherine MacLeod was the daughter of Donald MacLeod of Lake Isle.
Mrs. Jackson's husband cut pit props for the mine, he would sometimes play aunty-high-
over with the kids. Mrs. Jackson's pre-school son would be around the school all day as
well.