HEATH SCHOOL DISTRICT No.2464
- The first school board of Heath School District was elected June 20, 1911
- with R. Haynes as chairman, George Hunt as Sec-Treas. And trustee J.A.
- Messier. Several sites for the school were discussed, finally the SW ¼
- 23-44-5 W4 on Sid Bouck’s homestead was agreed upon since it was in the
- centre of the district.
- Tenders for the building were received from Otterholm & Withnell for
- $1790, P.M. Christensen for $1127, and F. Bailey for $1075. Christensen
- received the contract.
- Miss Perrin was engaged to teach at a salary of $65 per month.
- School opened March 15, 1912. Some of the first pupils were Georgeanna,
- May, Alda and Avila Messier; Joe Touchette; Edmond Grenier; Arthur, Alex
- and Juliette Sabourin; Sybil and Phyllis McLeod; Roch Cartier; Esther and
- Rita Cummings.
- Many of the teachers were: Miss Perrin, Miss C. Cummings, Mr. Lorne Goode
- (later Superintendent of Schools), Morley Young (who became a doctor), Mr.
- L. Boucher, Bessie Borden, Edna Wallace, Mr. Frank Beattie, Miss Caldwell,
- Cecil Ward (later a dentist), Mr. Runciman, Mr. Oliver McIntyre, Nina Young,
- Luke Killoran, Velma Brunner.
- Heath School Pupils in 1913 included: Frank Svetnicka, Antoine (Tony Chartier), Alex Sabourin, Jeanette
- Sabourin, Margaret LaRocque, Agnes Duroche, Delphine LaRocque, Arthur
- Sabourin, Vernon Cummings, Ernest LaRocque, Juliette Sabourin,
- Dominique Chartier, Sybil McLeod, Lucy LaRocque, Phyllis McLeod and
- Gerard Chartier. The teacher that year was Miss Caldwell.
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