SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924



         

PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT.

THE STORY OF A YOUNG POLISH SCHOOL TEACHER. (con't)

the high school, and began to struggle with the subjects, of the second class and junior matriculation, which I mastered in eight months. Then I packed up my books, dish~s, and the necessary school equipment, and took charge of Folkstone school, which had an enrolment of forty children of Ruthenian parentage.

"There I spent fourteen months in teaching English to the non-Anglo- Saxon boys and girls, and stimulating the young and old, who took part in concerts, picnics and entertainments. During the winter months I conducted a night school, where many of the adult members of the com- munity were taught to speak, read, and write English. A young people's society was formed and concerts arranged for in order to aid in patriotic purposes." Bibliography follows:



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THE STORY
OF
SASKATCHEWAN
AND ITS PEOPLE



By JOHN HAWKES
Legislative Librarian



Volume II
Illustrated



CHICAGO - REGINA
THE S.J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1924




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