A highlight each year in the district was the Annual School Meeting presided over by the Senior Trustee. Lively discussions were sometimes held when a controversial matter of importance was being discussed. Each district had three trustees one appointed each year for a three tear term. Their duties were to hire or fire a teacher, look 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 end 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 Business Administrator and I-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- Iported by John MacNeil , visitor of schools. In 1849 school vacant. 1849-51 J. Porteous , teacher. He was also a merchant who leased Va 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 1895-97 — James W. McNeill 1897-98 — Laura Raynor 1898-1900 — William J. MacMillan 1900-03 — Grace Marchbank -Traveller 's Rest 31