old St. Mary's School, they both remember being passed on the informa- tion that only one school building existed in St. Mary's, the one that is presently sitting on the school property.

In the Annual Visitation Reports, there is mention of a Millvale Road Acadian School which exists between the years of 1855 and 1860. However, in 1861, St. Mary’s Acadian School is listed in the Annual Visitation Report, and continues to be listed thereafter with no further mention of the Millvale Road School. It is probably very safe to say that the Millvale Road School had a name change and became St. Mary's School. This can be substantiated by Aubin Doiron and Elmer Murphy's information found above, and by the very location of these titles, Millvale Road, and St. Mary's School, which exists at the end of the Millvale Road. This name change also occurred to the Cavendish Road School, which became the St. Ignatius School during the same time, in 1860 — 1861. Therefore, it is logical to assume that the Millvale Road School and St. Mary's School are one and the same school.

To validate this further, according to the Annual Visitation Reports in 1857 and 1858, Joseph Doirant was teaching at the Millvale Road School. After 1858 there is no more mention of the Millvale Road School in the reports, and visitation by the school inspector didn't occur

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