Early
Schools of Kings County,
New Brunswick, [Canada]. Published by the Kings County
Retired Teachers' Association. Printed in 1983. This 272
page book contains information on 180 schools of Kings County.
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In 1983, the Kings County Retired
Teachers' Association decided to
undertake
the writing of a history of the rural schools.
Many hours of research and personal interviews were conducted to obtain
as
much information as possible on 180 schools in Kings County.
The records for 1862 for the Penobsquis School show the teacher
received
a yearly salary of $125 from the district and $125 from the government.
There
were 47 pupils. Subjects included spelling, reading, writing, languages
(English,
French, Latin and Greek), arithmetic, geography, history, book-keeping,
geometry,
measuring, surveying of land, navigation, algebra and other fields of
study.
Oak Point had a one-room, log school, which was vacant in 1844 as there
was
no teacher available that term. Fifty years later, in 1894, a larger
one-room
school was built. The first teacher was Amelia Heustis.
Darlings Island School was in District Number 10 in the Hampton Parish
and
was probably built in the 1870s. A trustee's return dated 1890 gives
the
name and age of the 15 children in attendance with the family names of
Henderson,
Appleby and Morrell.
The Canaan Road school was known as District Number 10 in the parish of
Havelock.
The first return that could be found was dated 1877. The teacher was
John
Black and the surnames of the pupils were Thorne, Keith, Perry, Mullins
and
Burgess. Some of the early teachers were: Zelpha Saunders, Richard
Thorne,
Bessie Thorne, Amasa Ryder, Bernice Thorne, Albin McKnight, William
Humphrey,
B. Hughes, Minnie Coates, Spurgeon Jenkins, Ross Keith and James
Thorne.
When James Brown, a member of a commission appointed by the government
to
look into the state of education in New Brunswick, visited the
Tennant's
Cove school in 1844, Thomas Davis of Earle's Wharf was in charge.
Schooling like religion was important to the Kingston Loyalists. In
many
areas, lessons were given in private homes before schools were built.
The
first log school was built in the heart of Kingston village in 1787.
The original Warneford school, in the parish of Norton was built on
land
of Oliver Barberie, later belonging to the Warnefords. It was on a
hill,
high above the road.
James McAnary was 56 years of age and married according to his license
for
Passekeag School (Patticake Settlement) in 1842 and he was in charge of
the
school for nine years. Surnames of pupils in 1844 were Crocket, Carney,
Earle,
Floyd, Hunter, Hughston, Jones, King, Matthews, Mitchell, McVey, Newel,
Ogden,
Stewart, Smith and Tease. Teachers from 1879 to 1900 were Edwin Hayes,
Augusta
Dodge, Mary Millar, Jessie Brown, David Wagner, Jennie Hanson, Augusta
Titus,
Omar Campbell, Caroline Raymond, Miss R. Ryan, Mabel Folkins, L. M.
Colpitts,
Maggie Fowler, Maggie Pickle, T. A. Leonard, E. J. Puddington, Laura
Snodgrass,
Ethel Moody, Ella Smith and Eugenia Keith.
‘
Early Schools of Kings County, New Brunswick'
published
by the Kings County Retired Teachers' Association holds not only
information
on the 3 R's of education but lots of ABCs for the family tree.