B6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 28, 1996

Grandmother recalls school days KY

WE'VE ALL heard stories
about older folk who had to
travel miles through snow-
storms to go to school.

Well Les Scott had to
listen to many of those
stories, because his mother,
Mabel Scott, used to be a
school teacher on the
prairies. She visited him
recently, and I had the
privilege of talking to this
fascinating lady.

Mabel started her career as
a school teacher in the
1930s — a rough time to try

and find a job.
She got her first break jn a
small town in Sas-

katchewan, substituting for
a teacher who had a nervous
breakdown.

That job lasted six months
and then she had to go job
bunting. Fortunately she
landed a job at a one room
school house in While Fox,
Sask., with 35 pupils.

She taught for three years
and saw her yearly wage go
from $850 a year to $450
during the Depression.

Mabel was married in
1938 to Ralph Scott. After
the wedding they took time
for a modest honeymoon,
travelling through northern
Saskatchewan in a little Jit-
ney Model T.

Their first home Mabei
described as'a shack. But
they were lucky, she said,
since they had windows.

FOUR GENERATIONS are pictured here. That's
Mabel Scott in front, her son Les, his son David and
his two children.

Some of their neighbours
had to use sugar sacks for
windows,

Their son Les was born in
1939, and shortly after the
couple moved to Prince
George, then finally settled

in Campbell River.
Here Mabel taught school
for 16. years, teaching spe-
cial needs < children. She
finally retired in 1973.
When I asked ‘her what the
biggest change was that

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she’d seen over the years
she said she couldn’t get
over the amount of books
and equipment schools now
have, compared to the days
when she taught.

Mabel even remembers
having to sell a piglet from
her farm so she could buy
an encyclopedia for the chil-
dren.

If her stories sounded
strange to her grandchildren,
just think what her great
grandchildren must say!

HERE*N THERE.
YVONNE MOEN

‘Brenda
Lana

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