Wednesday 21 March 2018

Big Knife School March 18, 2018

Apparently Big Knife Creek was named after a duel to the death between the Cree Big Man and Knife who was a Blackfoot. I am guessing Big Knife won since the creeek is named after him. I was looking for Big Knife School.

This is a small one room school south of Gadsby, Alberta. This is what the rural gravel roads are like in this area at this time of year. I was a little apprehensive about driving on this. I drive a small front wheel drive car and I know from experience that some roads can turn to soup in these conditions. Underneath the slush and the little bit of surface mud the road was solid. The school was just off to the left, or on the north side of the road.


Hisotorical marker. The school was closed in 1943. Still on its original site. 




8 comments:

  1. Glad you could get out for a road trip. That school is an old one!

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    1. I could have picked a better day. Summer cannot arrive soon enough.

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    2. The flickers were rat-a-tat-tat-ting on the metal chimneys and street light standards this morning...a sure sign of spring!

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  2. The one room school house and the 3Rs
    Lake Bemidji (MN) was always ice free by the 28th of April and your part of the world is not that much farther north.
    http://bemidji.org/pages/LakeBemidjiWaterfront

    Hang in there!

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  3. I would have been nervous driving on that with my Civic. It would be very easy to hit a mushy spot and slide off.

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    1. Which is why I am looking for a 4WD vehicle.

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  4. An excellent school, it looks nice in any season.

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  5. I just returned from driving to Manitoba and back on the Yellowhead. I swear to gawd I thought of both you and Jenn every single time I saw a grain elevator, a saggy old barn or some weatherbeaten old farm building along the highway.This is what you two bloggers have done to me.

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