Coming to an end of the tour, tomorrow will be my last photo. I do hope you have enjoyed it. Here we are looking out on to the school grounds from the second floor. It offers a nice skyline shot, certainly a lot different than it would have looked like in 1904. The small building in the corner is the Edmonton Settlement School. It was built as the first one room wooden schoolhouse outside the walls of the Fort Edmonton Trading Post. It was built in 1881 and today it sits on the grounds very lose to its original location.
Unfortunately by the time we had finished looking around inside it was closing time so we did not get to go inside this one. I guess we will have to make another trip back there on another day.
Tomorrow we will show you the third floor of the school which for a couple of years played a huge part in the history of our entire province
Good for Edmonton for preserving this little schoolhouse. I like seeing it there with the more modern buildings in the background. What a lot of history it must have seen!
@tristansmum I did not mention the fact that at one point this schoolhouse became a small residence in the river valley and was close to being demolished until someone realized what building it was and brought it back up to the original area
@kimshots I can see why it would remind you of that. Quite a few years ago we stopped at the Little House on the Prairie Museum at Walnut Grove in Minnesota
@bkbinthecity Truly a special shot; a merging of past and present. You're motivating me to search out a couple more one-room school houses I've been meaning to capture. :) Maybe before the snow gets here...
