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Murchison, Bonshaw: approximately eighty years

after the first Sohool had been established.

Those present would not forget the fr1zhtening

shock, like unto an earthquake, that ehook the old I school on the morning of December 6th, 1917 - ; when a munition ship loaded with 5000 tons of .

explosives blew up in Halifax harbour. Some Of

our number said fearfu11y, that it wee the end of

the world. or the beginning of the end, but the

majority dehided that, w1th a great war on, we

were under fire from 3 German Warship in Northumber-

land Strait.

DESABLE SCHOOL ROLL - 1916 - 1917 1 Walter MacFarlane

Russell MacFarlane E

Smith MacFarlane Keith Inman

Gordon Inman

Clifton Ince

‘Howard Ince

Robert Ince - ;

Mary MacKay