This year is the 40th Anniversary of the Ottawa Carleton section of the Retired Teachers of Ontario. RTO has hundreds of members in the Ottawa area who came to celebrate this week at Confederation High School in Ottawa. There was even a former teacher who was 102 years old! What stamina!
I met several teachers at the celebration who had attended one-room schools and some had taught in them too. In 1934, Sam Yashuk went to one in Maple Grove in Grimsby, Ontario. He was only 5-years-old and wanted to go with his brothers. There was no Kinderarten, so he went into Grade 1. He has great memories of those years.
Joyce Gould Watts attended S.S. No. 6 South Elmsley in Lombardy on the road to Rideau Ferry. She went with her sister, Audrey from 1937-1945. This school had been boarded up for years, but I'm pleased to report, renovations have begun to fix it up.
I met several teachers at the celebration who had attended one-room schools and some had taught in them too. In 1934, Sam Yashuk went to one in Maple Grove in Grimsby, Ontario. He was only 5-years-old and wanted to go with his brothers. There was no Kinderarten, so he went into Grade 1. He has great memories of those years.
Joyce Gould Watts attended S.S. No. 6 South Elmsley in Lombardy on the road to Rideau Ferry. She went with her sister, Audrey from 1937-1945. This school had been boarded up for years, but I'm pleased to report, renovations have begun to fix it up.
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