34 Historic Sites Our honoured guest of this evening, John William Jamieson , moved to Panmure Island in 1990. In the winter when he wasn't needed to help with the farm, he went to Julia. Julia, he said was very strict and rapped him on the knuckles with her ruler. He was about fifteen years old when he went to Bella, and she was seventeen years old at the time in her first year of teaching. She said she was not allowed to teach in her home district of Georgetown the first year of teaching, as it was against the rules. John Willie Jamieson was a farmer, fisherman and carpenter. When a new chimney was needed for the school, it was he who put it up. His initials were found this week on the post which supported the chimney. He himself can tell us the rest: The Lecture The Schoolhouse was built in 1897 by John Francis McKinnon of George¬ town. The P.E.I. Legislative Assembly voted 150 dollars towards its construction. It opened that fall with five boys and two girls, taught by Anna Campbell , "Writing on paper, arithmetic, grammar, history, geography, dictation and spelling, and composition". For the next three years, Julia A. Gormley taught nine boys and five girls the same subjects, and also drawing and orthography, which, according to the Oxford dictionary, is either correct spelling or map-making by projection. In 1904, Charles McLeod taught 16 pupils, and the next year 13 boys and 10 girls, with one new subject called "Scientific Temperance". In 1906 Bella McPhee taught 20 children, one of whom was learning Latin, French, Algebra and Geometry. Bella McPhee , who lives in the Regent Hotel across from the Cathedral at 58 Great , recalls it was her first year of teaching and she was 17 years old at the time. She boarded with Peter and Johanna Condon. The subject "Agriculture" was added in 1907 for two of the 23 pupils, who also took the other advanced subjects. Bella McPhee says the two oldest pupils were Edwin MacDonald and Blanche Murphy . In 1908, John Mooney was the teacher with 12 boys and 8 girls. Julia Gormley taught in Gaspereaux in 1905 and 1906, where there were 43 children. She later married Adam French and their seven children went to Panmure Island School. In 1921, Adam French was the secretary of the trustees, followed by Joseph MacDonald for the next twenty years... probably more. After 1942, the records are not in the Public Archives, but in the Department of Education.