A highlight each year in the district was the Annual School Meeting resided over by the Senior Trustee. Lively discussions were sometimes eld when a controversial matter of importance was being discussed.

Each district had three trustees one appointed each year for a three ear term.

Their duties were to hire or fire a teacher. lo‘ok after the maintenance f the school building. levy and collect the taxes and make other necessary decisions.

When Regional High Schools came into being another School Board was set up and a trustee represented a general area. Usually a chairman and five or six trustees comprised this Regional School Board.

In 1972 the new Comprehensive School System was introduced which consists of five Administrative Units in which Traveller’s Rest is incorporated within Unit 2. Each Unit has one Superintendent of Education and 15 trustees, ten of whom were elected by the ratepayers‘and five appointed by the Department of Education. There IS also a Busmess Administrator and Assistants who supervise these units.

As new schools are built, the present smaller schools will be phased out and the pupils bussed to larger centers.

Other information gained from research is as follows:

In 1845, Lot 19 school. W. H. Richardson, teacher. 40 pupils as re- ported by John MacNeil, visitor of schools.

In 1849 school vacant.

1849-51 J. Porteous, teacher. He was also a merchant who leased 1A: acre of land from John Townsend June 3, 1847.

Teachers:

1855-56 — Robert Wilson

1859-60 —— G. Corbett

1863-64 — Donald MacKay - engaged in December 1864-65 — Donald MacKay

1869-70 — Alexander McKinnon - 45 pupils 1872—73 — Minnie Cotton

1873-74 — Minnie Cotton

1874-75 — Sarah A. Nelson

1877-78 — Mary A. Burns

1878-79 —- H. C. MacPhail

1879-80 — Emma Burns

1880-81 — Lawrence Mclnnis

1881 -82 — Bertha J. Burrows

1882-83 — Mary I. MacQuarrie - Traveller’s Rest 1883-86 — Elizabeth Bowen

1886-87 —— Eliza Walker

1887-88 — Emma Silliker

1888-92 —— Wilhemina Squarebriggs

1892-93 — Alice Brehaut

1893-94 — John McLaughlin

‘ 1894-95 — Minnie MacKay

3 1895—97 —James W. McNeill

‘ 1897-98 — Laura Raynor

1898-1900 — William J. MacMillan

1900-03 —- Grace Marchbank - Traveller's Rest

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