ARM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT No.2653

1. The site chosen for the Arm Lake School was the SE ¼ 36-43-5 W4
2. south-east of a lake called Arm Lake for which it was named.
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4. Its first board consisted of G. Lundy, L. Davis and John McClean who
5. organized the district, built the school and opened it in 1911. S.W.
6. Ptolemy was engaged as the first teacher.
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8. On the first register appeared such names as: Clarence McClean; Dorothy
9. and Muriel Lundy; Myrtle, Margaret, Esther and Minnie Patterson; Elsie
10. Pearl and Florence Davis. Some other teachers were: V. Ptolemy, R.
11. MacPherson, V. Jackson and H. Walrath.
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13. When the “Dirty Thirties” arrived, many people were forced to leave their
14. farms, thus lowering the enrollment so that finally families had to send
15. the children to Heath. The little school had served as an educational and
16. community centre.
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18. The building was finally sold to Albert Tribe who moved it to his farm
19. site just across the C.N.R. tracks south of Edgerton where it became the
20. home of the A. Christian family.

Arm Lake School District No. 2653
From “The Winds of Change”

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