Summary information
| Repository: | South Peace Regional Archives |
| Title: | Sinclair School District #4370 fonds |
| Reference code: | 0582 |
| Date: | 1928-1940, [ca. 1970] (date of creation) |
| Physical description: | 2 cm textual records |
| Language: | English |
| Dates of creation, revision and deletion: | Processed by Leslie Gordon August 2014 Added to new database December 2025 – TD |
Administrative history / Biographical sketch
Organization of the Sinclair Lake School District was initiated in 1928, and school opened in a borrowed building in the spring of 1929. Sinclair Lake School was built that summer on NE 1-74-12-6 and opened in September 1929; soon a barn was added to the site. Although financing the school throughout the depression was difficult and School Board meetings were marked by strife and dissention, somehow they kept the school open. Sometimes the teacher moved from home to home as taxpayers provided room and board to pay off taxes, and at one point the teacher was a farmer in the district paying off his taxes through teaching so they didn’t have to pay a salary. The Sinclair Lake School Board dissolved itself in 1940 after the formation of Grande Prairie School Division #14. The school itself remained open until consolidation in 1951, when both the students and the school building were moved to Goodfare Centre. Some of the teachers at Sinclair Lake School were Norma Grover, R.A. Hill, Mrs. Leitch, Roy Berlet, and Miss Hines.
Custodial history
Records were passed on to the County of Grande Prairie No. 1, who transferred them to South Peace Regional Archives in 2013.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of one minute book detailing the decisions made by the Sinclair Lake School District for the years 1938-1940, as well as accounts, debentures, bylaws, list of library books received, letters from the School Division, and later historical notes, presumably written by Olive Stickney, and biographical questionnaires filled out by Mrs. Madge Borden Lambert, Dave and Alta Juneau, and Knute Boness.
Notes
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title of fonds based on contents.
Access points
- Textual record (documentary form)
- Education (subject)