Kleinburg History: Recent Additions
The following photograph was submitted by Joan Love.
Vaughan S.S. #17 - April 12, 1945
Back Row: (1) Bert Shore (Teacher); (2) Len McTaggart; (3) Bert Train; (4) Cliff Love; (5) Don Defoe; (6) Don Hillard; (7) Wilf Bensteap; (8) Jack Ireland; (9) Allan Dooks; (10) Duncan McDonald; (11) Ed Pressley; (Student Teacher);
3rd Row: (1) Vern Defoe; (2) Marg Shaw; (3) Jean Shaw; Lois Bell; (4) Sylvie Nelson; (5) Lorna Thomson; (6) Jane King; (7) Mary Simpson; (8) Ruth Defoe; (9) Jean Simpson; (10) Don Venn; ;
2nd Row: (1) Jean Dooks; (2) Myrna Kaiser; (3) Wanda Topper; (4) Joyce Train; (5) Jean Love; (6) Melva MacDonald; (7) ?; (8) Laura Wray; (9) Phylis MacIntyer; (10) Joan Maskell; (11) Ennis Persly; (12) Roma Kaiser; (13) Lynn Hawman
Front Row: (1) Don Dion; (2) Cecil Wray; (3) Ron Howman; (4) Bob Maskell; (5) ? Dion; (6) Lorne Wray; (7) Murray Hilliard; (8) Walter Bell; (9) Billy Hughes; (10) Gerald Venn
This school consisted of a large one-room red brick building with (attached to the south so as to form an L) a much smaller wooden building painted red, always known as the little room. The large brick part was called the big room. The little room was opened and closed as needed. Both rooms were heater with wood burned in box stoves. Around 1916 a small cellar was dug out under the big room and a coal furnace was installed. Around the same time several more lots to the north were bought to enlarge the playground.
From "A History of Vaughan Township" by G. Elmore Reaman,
© George C.H. Snider, 1971 ,
University of Toronto Press.
Thanks to Walter Bell and Marjorie Bell (McIntyre) for help in identifying some of the missing names.
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