History Matters: Twins pressed into service as teachers in rural school

An educated population was a priority for the new province of Saskatchewan.
One of the provincial government’s first acts was the passage of a university act in 1907. School districts also had to be organized to keep pace with the steadily growing population of rural children, while teachers had to be found to staff the small, generally isolated one-room schools. It was a formidable challenge. 
During the eight-year period from 1905 to 1913, the number of elementary schools in the pro