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Photo Courtesy of Adele Townshend.

Colville School c.1897 Back Row L—R: George McCormack, Adella Dingwell, Joe Alex Hughie McDonald, Pius McIntyre, Roy McLean, Velma Wood, Nell Clarke, May McIntyre, Mabel Keefe, Cush Mellett, Fred McFarlane, Art McQuaid, George Sutherland, John McIn- tyre (doctor’s son), Laura Campbell, Sebastian McEachem.

Middle Row LR: Dolphie Brennan, Chester McEachem, Herb McIntyre, Hal Stems, Harold Matthew, J. Frank Sterns, Harry Clarke, CliffCox, James McEachern, Doug

Brennan. Lower Row LR: Edith Currie (Wessie), Teena Sutherland, Blanche McFarlane, Elsie McBride, (Unknown), Bernard McEachern (brother of Joachim), Frank McDonald

(son of Capt. Billie). Howard Leslie, Teacher.

called to “finish the interior of the Souris Grammar School (formerly Souris Hall) according to plans and specifications to be seen at the office of Ronald L. MacDonald, Secretary to the Trustees.” It was probably at this time that classes were moved to the lower floor.

Augustine MacDonald of St. Andrews, P.E.I. came to Souris in 1885 to stay with his uncle, Reverend Donald Francis MacDonald and attend Grammar School.69 He has left this account:

The old Agricultural Hall and School faced Chapel Avenue almost opposite Currie’s. (Colville Manor now on this loca- tion.) It was our only hall. Not much used as such after St. Patrick’s Hall was built but the upstairs hall was the scene of political meetings and such in the old days. Three class- rooms were below. Two little cloak rooms for each room under the stairs. They burned coal in the school when I came in 1885...This was the Grammar School and the Mas- ter, when I came here, was Ross from Lower Montague— not sure of his first name. He was a good teacher. I think my last teacher probably was Jim Landrigan—a very good teacher—taught me chemistry which was not on the course. I went from here to St. Dunstan’s. (The student, of course, was later “Dr. Gus”.)70