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February 9 1898 Ottawa Journal

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The first Beckwith schoolhouse was built in the 1820s at Gillies’ Corners on Lot 3 Con. 2 Beckwith. The union school, U.S.S. No. 4 Drummond & No. 1 Beckwith, was replaced with a white brick building in 1881 and served the sections until 1966. Donald Conboy was the last teacher at Gillies Corners School.

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S.S. No. 5 Beckwith – Tennyson School
U.S.S. No. 10 Drummond & No. 5 Beckwith existed at Tennyson in 1874. The Tennyson School had a 30-foot well in 1877. The school closed in 1966 and the children were bused to Caldwell School in Carleton Place.

STUDENTS AT THE ORIGINAL ST. JOHN’S SCHOOL, PERTH, 1912–Photo-Perth Remembered
Front row, left to right; Johnnie Byrne, Michael Furlong, Joe Farry, Johnnie Dowdall, Ralph Hanlon, Leo Mulholland, Norbert Doyle, Collingwood Smith, Jim Williams, Leo Dowdall, Frank Daughin, Jim Horan, Isadore Kane, Johnnie McGlade, tom Brady. Second row, left to right; Aileen Kane, Rebecca Jackman, Edna Crawford, Isabel Fenwick, Sadie Quinn, Vera Crawford, Marie McCarthy, Wilma Kane, Mary White, Helen Young, Kathleen Kane, Winnifred Lee, Kathleen McGuggan, Nellie Cooper, Victoria Brown, Emline Courtney, Anna Badour. Back row, left to right; Bernice DeWitt, Annie Nonan Brankin, Gertrude Hudson, Gladys Crawford.

The old wooden school building had four classrooms on the ground floor with another 4 rooms on the second floor. It was taken down and replaced with the present St. John’s School in 1926. During the rebuilding period, classes were held in St. John’s Hall (McMartin House)

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School and students at McDonald’s Corners about 1880-Charles Dobie

The school is still used on a daily basis as a community centre and craft studio

Photo from the Charles Dobie Collection—School Classs, Smiths Falls, Ontario, 1917-18

This photo was purchased from an antique store in Perth, Ontario, around August, 2013. The names of the students are hand-written on a sheet of paper which is taped to the back of the photo. Below the names is written “Sent in by Mrs. Leon S. Robbins”.

Back Row, L to R: Grace Fields, Winona Scott, Aurelia Lane, Marguerite Dewey, Ivy Cooke, Winnifred Chalmers, Bessie Mason, Florence De Val.
Third Row, L to R: Grace Young, Margaret Elliott, unknown, Grace Allan, Lillian Dorman, Jessie Loucks, Willis McIntosh, Inez Wynne, Dorothy McGillvary, Mary Young.
Second Row, L to R: Dolly Gowland, Arnold Hall, Malcolm Parks, unknown, unknown, Andrew Johnston, Harry Kilfoyle, Charles Eldridge, Olaf Scott, unknown.
Front Row, L to R: Clarence Swayne, Kenneth Eldridge, unknown, James Crate, Claude Anderson.

Tatlock School and was taken between 1927 – 1937-Charles Dobie Collection

Pakenham School from-The One Room Schoolhouse

Burgess Township The One Room Schoolhouse

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S.S. No. 9 Ramsay – Leckie’s Corners, School, Hillside Public School or The Tannery 1953 Ramsay Con 8, Almonte–Photo-The One Room Schoolhouse

Former one-room girls schoolhouse in Merrickville, Ontario– Photo-Flickr Hive Mind

South Elmsely Township –Photo from The One Room Schoolhouse

Hopetown–Photo from–The One Room Schoolhouse

White Lake-Photo-Waba Cottage Museum

The old log schoolhouse, which was built in 1878, and a church, which was originally built in the village of White Lake for the temperance society. Visit the Waba Cottage Museum

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Photo- Rootsweb-ancestry.com

SS # 5, Herron Mills school, which was originally SS # 5, Gilles Mills when John Gilles sold his mills to John Herron, in 1871. Photo- Michael Umpherson

Among the teachers was Margaret Weir, the future Mrs. W. C. Stead for the year 1885-1986

The Perth Courier for Friday, May 29, 1885 lists the “Honor Roll for SS #6, Lanark, Maggie Weir, teacher.

Fourth class – Annie Walker, Annie Herron & Lizzie Walker.

Third class – John Herron, George Armstrong & Michael Gallagher.

Second class – Matt Armstrong, Alan Roberts & Eliza A. Gallagher.

Junior class – Mary Herron, Lizzie Johnston & Nellie Gallinger.

Photo- Rootsweb-ancestry.com

The population of SS 4, Clayton, of 1949 are shown. In the front row, from left to right, are Gary Hudson, Clarence Drynan, Louie Ladouceur, Howard Wark, Keith Drynan, Bruce Anderson, Leslie Ladouceur, and John Bellamy. In the middle row, from left to right, are Dawna Mather, Marian Drynan, Ester Wark, Margaret Godwin, Elizabeth Ladouceur, Anita Murray, Elizabeth Drynan and Isobel Wark. In the back row, from left, are Russell Wark, Harold Barr, Norma Mather, Ann Rath, Dorothy Craig, teacher Shirley Hudson, Alice Murray and Raymond Rath. Our thanks to Dorothy Reid for use of this week’s Pic.

Taken from the Almonte Gazette.