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As we continue on our journey down the lane of transportation, we would be amiss if we did not mention schooling. With the arrival of the settlers and their families, schools were needed. Education was an important part of the homesteader's life. Schools were erected, dotting the townships throughout the area. These one-room country schools could have several grades in each school up to grade eight. The school in the Town of Lanigan had several rooms with two or three classes in each room. High School was also taught here.
During the early years children walked to school, some a distance of four miles. Some even walked in their bare feet. Going to school in bare feet would certainly be scoffed at now. Horse drawn carts, buggies and buckboards were used during the summer. As the modes of transportation improved, bicycles came into the picture. Horse back was used all year around.

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Rogers Golden Syrup Tin
1920-1940
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Deer Plain School
Circa. 1935
R.M. of Prairie Rose, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Alfred Schiman
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Pearl pulling the Buckboard
early 1900's
R.M. of Wolverine, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Dianne Bartel
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Four Brothers on an Adventure
2 April 1931
Rural Lanigan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.
Emil Greve Family

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Among all the records, landmarks, and museums marking the progress of the west, someone should have erected a monument to the homesteader's horse. Horses tilled our fields, built our roads, and hauled our produce and our consumer goods. They pulled our conveyances, packed supplies to remote developments, herded the cattle and took our children to school.

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Year Round Travel
Circa. 1943
R.M. of Usborne, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Ruth Wildeman
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Round Up
Circa. 1943
R.M. of Usborne, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Ruth Wildeman
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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For winter travel it could be oxen pulling a sleigh or vehicles drawn by horses. Such vehicles could be a cutter, a sleigh, a stone boat or a Storm Bus (caboose). There were times when the oxen balked and refused to travel in the correct direction. Barns were provided near the school to stable the animals. Lanigan area used the bombardier to transport children to school during the winter months. There was a time when several high school students from the neighboring town would catch the train in the morning to attend school in Lanigan and then returned home by catching the evening train. (This was in the early 1940s when the passenger trains ran several times during the day) A music teacher who lived in Lanigan used the train to commute with the surrounding towns in order to give music lessons.