I have a class photo taken outside the Mountain school, which believe
was taken about 80 years ago.

Carl Bryan is in the photo and a Mr. Crowder.  Carl Bryan is my father
in law.  He does not know who the others might be.  Both he and Mr.
Crowder are residents at Bayfield Manor in Kemptville now. They each
have a copy of the photo.

I am attaching it here.  If you can help identify anyone, or know the
date, that would be great.

Brenda Bryan
Kemptville, ON
*** Please send information to Joy Forbes.

My father, Abraham Chalk was born in Penetanguishene,Ontario.  I visited the one room schoolhouse there when I was 10 years old...approximately 53 years ago.  I still remember the school room, and the desks that were on display.  Do you have any information about the schoolhouse?

I live in Palm Springs, California...and was a teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 28 years.  I am trying to accumulate information about my family's history. I know my father (Abraham Chalk, born 1917) finished the sixth grade in that one room schoolhouse.  He built a very successful worldwide steel corporation in Los Angeles.  He and my mother resided in a lovely home in Beverly Hills, where I grew up.  My father's parents owned a general store in Penetanguishene. I know it was a small town then...

If you have any information about the one room schoolhouse, can you e-mail me the information....

I thank you...so very much.

Beverly Fried
*** If you have any information about this schoolhouse, please contact Joy Forbes.

The Stone Fence Theatre Company in Eganville is currently putting on the play "The Schoolhouse" by Canadian playwright Leanna Brodie.  The show is performed as supper theatre, with a traditional Ottawa Valley roast beef dinner, in summer July 26, Aug 1, 9, 16, and Saturdays in Fall: September 29, October 13, 20 and 27.  All shows are at the Eagle's Nest at the Eganville Community Centre, 178 Jane St., Eganville, ON. All dinner shows start at 6 p.m.  Five dollars from the sale of each of my books will be donated back to StoneFence Theatre to support local theatre. 

I attended their production and thoroughly recommend it.  The dinner was also delicious and included homemade pies!  There were many people in the audience who had attended one-room schools, mainly in the upper Ottawa Valley.

Joyce Souliere went to S.S. No. 8 St. George, Ontario.  She remembers how well behaved all the students were when the school superintendent came to check up on the teachers.  When he left, all "hell" broke loose!  The school is now a daycare for the village.

Gabrielle (Tourangeau) Burgess from Pembroke barely remembers going to a one-room schoolhouse since her school had burned down in Calumet Island, Quebec.  The nuns they had as teachers were strict, but the children listened well or they would get the strap.  A new school was built and Gabrielle beleives it is still standing.

Bill Crogie recalls the good old days and fond memories when he attended S.S. No. 7 Bromley in Douglas, near Eganville.  There was a junior and a senior room.

Carole (McEachren) Mulroy attended S.S. No. 13, Ekfrid Township, Middlesex County, Appin, Ontario, and her friend Mary Filhaber went to a school in Hopefield, Ontario.