Canada Road near where a Baptist church later stood. (This church is presently the United Church.) Later a large two-room school was built on the tongue of land formed by the Canada and McLean roads coming together. (This building is now used for a Day Care.) In 1855 a report by the Anglican minister in stated that a Glebe House had been moved from to New Bideford . Two years later it was referred to as the Glebe Schoolhouse, and that it was ready and used for service in summer. A report in 1861 stated Glebe School House one of Church buildings, fitted for Divine Service. On an 1863 map, an Episcopal Church and School are shown near where the residence of Thomas H. Pope was later located. Meacham 's 1880 Atlas shows English Church property at the same location. In 1875 the School Visitor's Report for Bideford stated that a new school- house should be built without delay. The next year the School Visitor reported that a large, commodious schoolhouse had been erected in Bideford . This would be the school in which Lucy Maud Montgomery taught in 1894-95. In a 1952 newspaper clipping: Rev. John Dystant Honored at University—The many friends of Rev. John Dystant , will be pleased to know that at the iooth anniversary of the founding of Illinois Western University, at Bloomington, Illinois , the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him. Mr. Dystant is a native of Ellerslie in .... To earn money for an education, Mr. Dystant engaged in many types of work such as working in a lobster factory, in the saw mill in the lumberwoods, on a farm, with a construction crew with pick and shovel, and during one winter he did the chores at the home of a well to do farmer in for his room and board. He first attended school in the school. This school, a one room building, was located in an open field between Ellerslie and ; there were no modern conveniences outside not even a wood shed, and few inside. There were a few home made desks along the two sides of the build¬ ing, while the center of the building was filled with backless benches. The drinking water was brought from a spring by the pupils, which involved a distance of one mile for the round trip. The new community of Hardscrabble was outside the bounds of the school district and the children of that community were permit- Chapter Four ~ Moving On 63