Millarville Community School
Box 29 T0L 1K0 Millarville, AB, Canada

Thank you to everyone that came out for the 45th Annual Highway Clean-Up. MCS was responsible for 11km along Hwy 762. Last year's cleanup event saw Albertans collect ~32,000 bags of garbage from more than 9,000 kilometres of roadways.

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SQUARE BUTTE SCHOOL In 1922 there was a need for a school in the Square Butte district. Logs being plentiful, Jack Bell was hired to build the school on SE9-21...-4-w5. By May of 1922, the school was ready, and the two pupils, Peggy and Dick Lyall were soon joined by Annie, Albert, and Johnnie Silvester. The first teacher was Miss Betty de Mille. Soon these pupils were joined by Arthur and Isabel Silvester, Jean and Lizzie Malcolmson, Harry and Jean Fisher, Olive Rawlinson, Vivian Connup, George and Marthe Ingeveld and Dorothy and Jim Virtue. For the first few years school was held from May until December but as more families moved into the district another room was added to the one room school and the school year was extended. The first trustees were George Lyall, Sam Virtue and Billy Trevenan. From 1922 until the school closed in 1950 there had been 76 pupils and 24 teachers. Some of the teachers married locals and stayed in the district. In 1946 Jake Reimer bussed his own and neighbors’ children to the school in a Jeep. In 1950 when the school closed, he bought a regular bus and took the children to Sheep Creek School at Millarville, picking up other children along the way. My father used to say you could set your watch by Jake’s regularity of pick ups. After the school was closed it was still used as a community centre until the Kew hall was bought by the district and moved to its new location. Unfortunately, shortly after the old school was accidently burned. In 1972 a 50th anniversary of the school’s opening was held at the community hall with pupils coming from near and far to attend. Among them was the first teacher, now Mrs. Jenkins of Ottawa and Billy Trevenan, one of the first trustees of fifty years before. Some of us still remember the old schoolhouse which was used for community events. The old generator was a stubborn one and needed constant monitoring to keep the fun alive. Locals provided the music and the old dances such as the Schottische, Pola, Square, Waltz and Butterfly were popular. Many of us will always remember the good times had there. See more

Words of gratitude for and from some amazing MCS alumni.

The long and arduous journey on horseback from Montana to Southern Alberta could easily break a man, but a freed black American slave in the late 1800s had few options. Hired to drive cattle across the Canada-U.S. border, John Ware arrived road-weary but hopeful in the Diamond Valley region. He quickly earned a reputation as the best horse breaker in the area. By 1890, John Ware had more than 200 branded cattle at his Sheep Creek homestead near Millarville. ... #blackhistorymonth