Statement of Significance:
This is the Motherwell Homestead stone house.  It was built in 1897.  The Homestead is special because I go to camp there.  It was made of stone.  Mr. Motherwell picked up all of the stones by hand.

Shanae Faith Ann Lingelbach
Grade 2
Balcarres Community School
Balcarres, Saskatchewan

Statement of Significance:
I drew this picture because this is a really old house.  This house was made in 1918.  When my dad was a little boy he used to live here.  The house had its own running water system and 32 volt power plant for electricity.

Carly Schatz
Grade 5
Vibank Regional School
Vibank, Saskatchewan

Statement of Significance:
Have you ever seen a lighthouse on the prairie?  Well in the towns of Weyburn, Kerrobert, Humboldt, and Kamsack there seem to be!  These are the last four lighthouse water towers in all of Saskatchewan!  Two of the water towers are significant to me because I lived in two of those towns.  They have a unique design.  They were made to look like lighthouses, but they're actually standpipe water towers.  They are huge landmarks.  In Weyburn and Kerrobert they are built high on a hill, so they are one of the first buildings you see coming into town!

The water tower in Kerrobert was built in 1914, and it is still in use today!  This water tower is 100 feet tall and can hold up to 150,000 gallons of water.  The tower is made up of eleven steel rings that are riveted together.  No matter where these towers are they would have historical significance, but for these towns the water towers are significant land marks and a large part of the towns' identities!

Michael Bazin
Grade 8
Kerrobert Composite School
Kerrobert, Saskatchewan

Statement of Significance:
In the years of 1893 and 1894 many settlers arrived here from around the area of Weissenberg, near Lemberg, in Galacia Austria.  These settlers were Roman Catholic and of German descent.  Several years after they arrived the need arose for a school and church.  On March 6th, permission was given to build a lumber school under the name of Weissenberg Roman Catholic Public School #49.  However, the first year, school was held in one of the settler's home from December 16th to the end of May.  The following year, 1900 they decided to build a school from field stone rather than from lumber.  They also started a church in 1900 from field stone calling it St. Michael's, the same as the Church in Weissenberg, Galacia.

As more settlers arrived the school soon became over crowded with children of other faiths attended the school as well, as it was a public school.  The Village of Lemberg was formed in 1905 when the CPR located on another quarter of land.  In 1907 Lemberg became a town as there were over 500 people living there.  Weissenberg School became too small, so it was decided to build a public school in the town of Lemberg.  On March 4th, 1907 Lemberg Public School #1752 was formed, and on May 7th, 1907, Weissenberg Roman Catholic Separate School #17 was formed.

A controversy developed, as the public school in Lemberg wanted more furniture and building from Weissenberg that was built in 1900.  Finally in the fall of 1907 the two school boards agreed that the Catholic ratepayers would pay their taxes for 1907 to the Lemberg Public School in lieu of ownership of the stone building built in 1900.  As the number of children grew, the stone school became too small even for the Catholic population.  So in 1922, a bigger one-room school was built of lumber.  The old stone school was then used as a teacherage.  The numbers continued to increase until 1933 the peak was reached when 58 children from grade 1-9 attended Weissenberg.  Because of the declining enrollments and only having a one roomed school, on January 27th, 1964 the ratepayers of Weissenberg moved to amalgamate with Lemberg #1752.  An era of a small town country school came to an end.

There were many different teachers who taught in Weissenberg including lay people and the Sisters of Service.  An interesting fact was that the secretary of Weissenberg in 1899 was John Mann Jr. and that the last secretary was his grandson Robert H. Mann.  The lumber school built in 1922 has been moved off the property, but the old stone structure built in 1900 still stands today.  It is the oldest separate school building still standing in Saskatchewan.

Rae Dawn Ruecker
Grade 12
North Valley High School
Lemberg, Saskatchewan

Statement of Significance:
The Hudson Bay Company building was built in 1897.  It was used as a retail merchandising business for the Hudson Bay Company.

It is now being used as a retail space.  The current store is a coffee shop.  It is neat to go and sit and see the original parts of the building.  A couple of examples are the pressed ceiling tiles and the original wooden railings.

Heaven Starr
Grade 3
Balcarres Community School
Balcarres, Saskatchewan