Marmora Public School 1913 - Built on the site of the present Legion Building
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
Considered Marmora’s first school and later a pot ash plant and soap factory. Click on photo to read more
Marmora’s second school, located at 10 Hayes Street, Marmora. Click on photo for more
Marmora Herald, dated May 11, 1933
" Reeve F.N Marett and T.W Rind, manager of the Dominion Bank here, went toToronto to interview officials at the Head Office of the Dominion Bank in regard to an increased line of credit for Marmora Village. They were successful in their mission and the school teachers will now be paid in full up to "May 1st".
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Marmora Public School - Earl Prentice Deloro Public School
Sacred Heart Separate School Deloro Separate School
Children's Nursery Centre The Continuation School 1920-1951
Marmora Senior School, built as the High School in 1951
The Township Section Schools
S.S. #2 The Jones School - centre line road
The eight township public schools were referred to as School Sections and were numbered one to ten. There is no reference to schools Number 4 and 9, if they ever existed. In 1964, the board met with the Township Council and decided to close all six of the remaining township schools. In several of the schools the attendance had fallen below the minimum of nine pupils. Shanick Public School had already been closed since November, 1942, and in June, 1948, the Malone Public School was closed.
The Township agreed to pay $1,200.00 a year to Marmora and $800.00 a year to Deloro to have all the children from these township schools bused to Marmora or Deloro for their education.
stewart hardy
Teachers for these early township boards were not rehired if they failed to keep discipline, if parents complained their children were not learning, if health problems arose in the school, or if the destruction of school property exceeded the board's tolerance level.
School caretakers were also hired and fired at random. Their duties included sweeping, mopping, dusting, oiling, cleaning the windows, piling wood into woodsheds, looking after the toilets and lighting the fires. (one hour before school started.) Salaries ranged from $35.00 to $80.00 a year.
On January 1, 1965 a new board combining the Deloro Village and the Marmora & Lake Boards operated under the respective chairmanship of Stewart Hardy and Mrs. William Regan. This board was replaced in January, 1968 when the new Hastings County School system came into effect.
Mrs. William Regan
S.S. #1 The White School (Lot 5, Conc 8, Old Marmora Rd)
WHITE SCHOOL 1946. BACK ROW - 4TH BOY TO THE RIGHT JOHN "JACK" CLEMENS, DOROTHY HULSMANS, TEACHER, UNKNOWN GIRL, LEO HULSMANS (MY DAD) AT THE END STANDING. 2ND ROW BOY STANDING: DAVID HULSMANS, BESIDE HIM JEAN HULSMANS. FRONT ROW SITTING 3RD BOY HENRY HULSMANS. John Clemens is front row far right. (sent to us by Karen Hulsmans Gibson)
1956-58. (List of possible names)
Back Row - Larry Rose, Mel Casselman, Bill Davidson, Marilyn Cross, Barbara Reid, Donny Richardson, Terry Murphy.
Front Row - Linda Willman, Jack Davidson, Bob Parinuik, Herb Casselman, Ken Willman
Barbara Mitts went to this school. June 28, 1955
Leona Hegadorn and Bev Burnett.
Mr. Miller, teacher at White School 1957
S.S.#2 Jones Public School (Lot 15, Conc. 6, Centre Line Rd)
Centre Line Road, south of Beaver Creek Road - formerly known as the Bailey School House. One teacher was Maggie Meraw, who married Mr. Robert Jones.
To the right, a list of teachers at the Jones School from 1888 to 1907
Suzanne Kelsh went there grades 1 through 6
Graham Bell Grades 1 & 2 at this School. One room, 8 grades.
Text Books donated by Bonnie Davidson Stewart
We have no information on this news item.
SS #3 - Allan School (Zion) (Lot 21, Conc 9) a.k.a. Wiley's school
Comment: Judith Tompkins This is Zion Public school. It was across from Zion United Church, and at one time on property that my father, grandfather and great grandfather owned ( i.e. Tompkins).
Teacher in 1916 - Miss A.E. Scott
1903
Ella Faulkner -teacher
Clayton Curtis, J. Wright, W.Sharp, Mabel Bailey, Hazel McMullen, Clifford Chard, Myrtle Sharp, Elda Janson, Evelyn Eggleton, Flossie Bailey, Martha Pounder, Percy MacMullen, Iva Maybee, Claude Scott, Selbourne Sharp, Edith Curtis, Ella Cummings, Vera Sharp, Meryl Cummings, Liza Sharp, Myrtle MacMullen, Twins Ida and Ila Sharp, Melville and Melbourne Sharpe, Percy Lawrence, L. Rupert, Serge Johnson, Roy Scott, B. Sharp, Clifford Maybee, Floyd Garrison, Ernst Curtis, Clarence Maybee
Possibly the Zion School
S.S. #5 Beaver Creek Public School (Pt Lot 17, Conc. 4)
(No longer standing, this frame building with insilbrick stood on the site where the Barrons/Lautenbach house now stands, next door to a converted church, now residential)
Glenn Mawer wrote: That's my old school. Joan Chapman [Fox] was my teacher. She did a great job , many memories. Lorilei Wells Mayhew wrote: My grandparents later built their home on the site. John E. Hutchings added: There is where I did grade one and part of grade two and a Mrs Gay was the teacher, I believe.
Signature inside: May and Lizzie Connors, May 16, 1894, S.S. No. 5, Marmora - sisters of Maggie (Connors) Gallagher who was grandmother of Maloneys and McKinnons. May was engaged to Frank Cook - died from gas poisoning in Toronto. Lizzie was in a wheel chair most of her life - did a lot of lovely needlework.
S.S. #6 Malone Public School
As far as can be conjectured, Malone's first school was a log school-house built in 1862. This building, facing south, took shape on the north side of the main road and west of the house later owned by Miss Ellen Terrion.
It was about the summer of 1875 that a new school was constructed about one mile north-east of the log school-house on land purchased from the late Ed. Nihill for one dollar plus the old school property. "It is recalled of Miss Annie Smith, the first teacher in the new school, that on its opening day she paraded the children, two by two ahead. of her from the old building to the new one."
S.S. #7 Tiffen Public School (Part Lot 3, Conc. 2)
S.S. #7 Tiffen School THEN AND NOW
Back Row Eileen Thompson ? Quinlan Bernard Cook Johnny Thompson Middle Row Roy Booth Gerald Thompson Muriel Thompson Gladys Booth Front Row Albert Leonard Earl Thompson Bernard Quinlan Theresa Peever Marjorie Cook
S.S. #8 NORTH MARMORA SCHOOL
ALSO KNOWN AS PLEASANT CORNERS
(Maloney school, near Iron Bridges Rd) (Part Lot 25, Conc. 3, frame construction with basement & furnace)
S.S. #8
According to the notes of Charles Barron. Joe Barron was a teacher at this school.
S.S. #8, now the residence of charles shannon
Glenn Mawer: In grade 4 ,5 ,6 we used to walk from the Beaver Creek School to that school thru the long swamp for a field with that school. Played games . Never saw them again for another year. Had to be at least 5 miles Beverly Thompson: My mother went there! Betty Moffatt. I grew up in next concession over.
S.S. #9 Clemenger Road
CLICK HERE FOR Belmont S.S. #12 or the Cordova School
While we are a little vague on details for S.S. 9, we believe it was originally built on the Clemenger Road, near the Cook's Cheese Factory, but was torn down (1902?) and the children transferred to the Cordova School. S.S. #12 (Belmont)
Wayne VanVolkenburg advises “At that time (when the school was torn down) the Clemenger road followed a little different route. Somewhere near the cheese factory it veered and met the Cordova road somewhere near #2298. The school was located somewhere between those two points.
S.S. #10 Shanick Public School
Annmarie Willman-Sprywrote: That Mrs. Revoy's name was Myrtle & her baby was Pearl.
S.S. #5 Rawdon, in Bonarlaw
In 1939, teacher Marion Prest arrived in Bonarlaw's one-room schoolhouse. She was paid $700.00 per year, working in a building with no electricity or plumbing, and only a wood stove for heat. Her lodging was a former hotel converted to apartments, costing $5.00 a month. The students kept the fire well stocked in the winter and drew their water from a nearby well. Prest taught grades one to eight for four years. She then left the area but returned in 1956 and lived there ever after.
RAWDON SS #5 , 1927 Submitted by NORMA (MCINROY) MASON
Front Row: (L-R) Murray McInroy, Milt Campbell, ?, ?, ?, June Wellman, ?, Ruth Prest, Norma McInroy Middle RoW: (L-R) ?, ?, ?, Madeline?. ?, Hilda Brown, ? Back Row (L-R) ?, ?, Wilson Campbell, John Morrison, Emma Totten, Marjorie Jones, ?, ?, ?, Jeanette Morrison
Springbrook Public School
1962-63
Provided by Sharron Tyson
Front row R-L ,
Frank O'Shea,
Minerva Bateman, unknown, Helen Ann Thompson's brother, Ronnie Bateman, Kathy
Solmes,, Vicky Bateman, unknown, unknown on, a Bateman.
MIDDLE row R-L unknown,
Marvin Gorgoret, Paul Embury Dave O'shea, Leo Downer, Leo O'Shea, Grant Ray,
unknown, Helen Ann Thompson, Louise Bateman, Kenny Solmes.
BACK row L-R Jack
Reid, Monica Gorgoret, Sally Downer, Merna Harrington, Lirna Harrington,
Leonard Cooper, Ricky Embury, Larry Downer, Kenny Pilum, Harold Garfield
Reynolds and Wayne Reynolds.
BELMONT TOWNSHIP
S.S.#5 Rockdale (Belmont Township)
The Rockdale school we see now on 2521 Cordova Road #48 was built in 1869 on land donated by pioneer William Young, who settled in the area in 1856. The building, once called Mount Zion, was constructed for $300.00 by John Brown, the first Reeve of Belmont Township to become County Warden, who settled on the Steenburgh property is 1865. The new school replaced the original log school shown below built from logs taken off the Young farm and planed at a mill on the Crowe River. Over the years it was painted and fenced. In 1930 a steel roof added and in 1939 a new hardwood ceiling. An organ was purchased and on April 19, 1948, electricity was installed.
This small one room rural school, situated 8 miles from Havelock has served for over one hundred and fifty years , and acted as a training and observation ground for student teachers. The first teacher was (Mr?) Weir and the first inspector was Mr. Smallburger. Trustees in 1941 were Carl Purdy, Wm Ellis Fred Varty. C.F. Steenburgh the the Sec.-Tres. and 1944 saw Miss Althea Smith and Miss Laura Menzies spend their training time here, and in 1966 so did Miss Joanna Menzies and Aylmer Buchanan. The school closed in 1967.
1960 l-r - Back - Kathy Wheeler, Joanne Hornsby, Michael Snowball, Bill Hornsby, Trudy Wheeler, Don? Bowen, John Jones; Middle - Lynn Edwards, Dean Ellis, Gord Ellis, Tom Edwards, Joey Deshane, ? Edwards; Front: Linda Ann Sweet, Marie Ellis, Johnny Deshane, Frank Sweet; Teacher Phyllis Youmans
1946
2019
Owners Elena Kristiansen and Mike McGough, celebrate 150th anniversary of school with neighbours and friends - Aug.31, 2019
Back: L to R - Wayne VanVolkenburg, Elena Kristiansen, Valerie and Ron Marshall, Mary Ellen and Evan Meyers; Middle: – Cathy VanVolkenburg, Kent Young, Rod McBey, Marion and Mike Bowman , Mike McGough, Loraine and Dan Brownley, Connie Finley, Amy McGough, Tom Finlay; Seated – Dorothy Bowen, Colleen and Gary Ellis, Bob Bowen; Behind the cameras – Connie Young and Cathy McBey
S.S. #10 Belmont - The Vansickle School
#3 Marge Clemenger, #4 Olive Barrons
Vansickle School 1920-21
Vansickle Teachers 1908 -1919
NOTES: Nov. 30. 1930 Teacher Bessie Currie was paid $900.00, Average attendance - 20 March 1948 Epidemic of Mumps and Streptococcus June 18, 1952 Epidemic of Strep Throat, Students went to Cordova Mines School for their vaccination
REGARDING BELMONT TWP. SCHOOLS, we have received the following comments:
Ronald Barrons If I remember correctly there were six schools in this S.S. group, Preneveau, Rush Point, Victoria, Rockdale, Cordova Mines, Vansickle and #9 Blairton. I remember that soft ball games were sometimes arranged between schools. Being from Cordova, I always felt sorry for the other schools with fewer students to make up their teams, but it was all great fun in the great outdoors.
Donna-Gerry Kent The school reunion did take place with many of the students attending. My grandparents, dad and myself went to Preneveau that was the good old days.
Kerry Wrightly McNeely I remember a Round Lake,Nephton and North Schools in this area also.
Kerry Wrightly McNeely There is a lot of history about 17 rural schools at the south lake school at Lang Village
This 1947 photo was posted in 1999.
Preneveau school was located on County Road #50, just south of Hwy.7.
HAVELOCK-BELMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL in Havelock
Cathy Van Volkenburg taught there from 69-74
Havelock, Belmont Public School, grade 6 class, 1969
Best guess names top photo
Back row - Kathy Gordon,_____,Melanie Richardson, Mary Garron.
Middle row - _____,_____,Jim Youmans, Ron Walker
Front row - _____,Darma Hebor,_____,Theresa Hornsby
Back row - Debbie Stinchcombe, Linda Taylor, Melanie Richardson, Karen Whitney, Bonnie Johnston
Front row - Brian Radnor, Mark Pollock,_____,Tom Althouse, Eddie Whitmore
Three hand bells on display at the Havelock Public School, namely bells from the Cordova, Preneveau, and South Lake schools. (Courtesy of Doris Dauplaise O’Regan)
HAVELOCK HIGHSCHOOL
Ross Goheen recently published a thirty page booklet titled "I Came From Havelock". His father was the principal at the Havelock High School from 1937 to 1944. The collection is mostly made up of stories about events that he remembers from his youth. Havelock area people will remember some of the family names, and maybe even some of the people. Below, are two photos from this booklet.
1944-45.
Havelock High School, grades 11,12,13, Bob Watson later owned the Esso station in Havelock
MADOC TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS
pHOTO BY lOU wILSON
mADOC tOWNSHIP SCHOOL
