Classes were conducted in this building until January, 1912. The new two-storey school building built on the same site as the old school, was ready for classes. This school remained on the site until 1948. Ratepayers of the district saw the need to move the school from the area which was located near a brook, to higher land. Wesley Cole was hired to move the building to a lot next to the hall at the Stanley Bridge corner. The school building still stands on the site and is presently Old Stanley House Craft Shop . When the school closed its doors in June, 1976, it was still a two- room school, with Mrs. Pauline Walker and Mrs. Leone Bagnail as teach¬ ers. The school had consolidated with Queen Elizabeth Elementary . Students from this area were bussed to their new school in Kensington . The above information has been provided by Mrs. Helen (MacRae) MacEwen, Stanley Bridge , from information she secured from the Department of Education records and her in-laws Mr. and Mrs. Herb MacEwen . Mrs. MacEwen was Principal of Stanley Bridge School from 1960 to 1962. ST. ANN 'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - CONSOLIDATION By Heather MacNeill The ever changing pace of life, with advancements in technology, science, travel, and communication, leads our world in extensive daily growth. The pace of life was beginning to accelerate in the decades of the sixties and seventies. The evolving worldly changes had an impact on the education of our youth and these changes continue to challenge our edu¬ cational systems today. 1964 and 1965 brought remarkable changes to the school districts that fed into St. Ann 's Parish. One room schools soon became a thing of the past as school consolidation was becoming very evident. The school districts were about to embark on a new educational system which once again would change the course of history. In the New Year of 1965, the school districts of St. Ann 's Parish gathered at a meeting initiated by Father Denis Gallant , pastor of St. Ann 's Parish. Father Denis Gallant urged all parents of the communities of Millvale , St. Ann 's, St. Mary's, St. Patrick's, St. Ignatius and to move to consolidate the one room schools into one elementary school. He foresaw the need to consolidate because one room schools would soon be phased out of the provincial educational system. He felt it was in the best interest of the area that the schools consolidate so that St. Ann 's community spirit 51