Yesterday: A Record of Parrsboro Public Schools
Printed in July 1970 by the Parrsboro Board of Trade
I came across this booklet while cleaning out the family cottage at West Bay, across from the old one-room schoolhouse where my mother, her siblings and many cousins attended primary school.  It's full of interesting pictures and stories concerning Parrsboro public schools of the last 150 years, and I have attempted to reproduce it in full for the benefit of my fellow online researchers.  You can click on any photo for a larger and clearer version.  I have no further information on the individuals pictured herein, but if you can identify anyone in a photo please email me and I will make a note on the site.  This booklet was published by the Parrsboro Board of Trade in 1970, so I am unable to say if a hard copy can still be ordered.

Regards,
Aramathea M. Nakayama
TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1.
Title Page
2.
Table of Contents
3.
Preface
4.
History of the Parrsboro Schools
5.
Expenditure for School Purposes in 1897
6.
List of Teachers, 1895 to 1970
7.
P.H.S. Squeak, 1930
8.
Two Poems by Muriel Llewelyn & Sonny Morrison
9.
P.H.S. Sports Capsule, 1939
10.
Assemblies, 1938-39
11.
"Time Told" by Garnet McDade
12.
Ex-Pupils of Parrsboro Schools Who Gave Their Lives in Two World Wars
13.
In '58 They Saw '70 This Way...
14.
Extra Photos
NAMES APPEARING HEREIN:

Lynne Ackles, M. J. Ackles, Charles Adams, J. G. Aikman, A. D. Allen, D. R. Allen, Vera Allen, Alexander Amon, I. Antrim, T. G. Archibald, Gilbert Arsenault, Effie Atkinson, Hazel Atkinson, K. Atkinson

Donna Babineau, J. W. Adams Baird, W. Barkhouse, W. N. Baxter, Marjorie Belding, Freeland M. Bentley, Lloyd Bentley, Hubert Bentley, S. L. Berry, Barbara Best, A. A. Bigelow, R. Bigelow, Ethel E. Black, J. V. Blenkhorn, Elbridge Boran, M. Boss, Elizabeth Bowden, Henry Bowden, B. S. Boyd, Wallace Brannen, Arthur Broderick, Brenda Brown, Dawn Brown, Doris Brown, Doreen Brown, John R. Brown, Marilyn Brown, Ross M. Brown, Wayne Brownell, M. J. Bulmer, M. N. Byson

Bertha A. Cameron, Blair F. Cameron, M. E. Campbell, Jean Canham, Edith C. Canning, I. B. Canning, Iona Canning, Theresa Canning, Hazel Cahlmers, Thomas C. Choisnet, L. Maude Chute, A. M. Clarke, Jean B. Clay, Freda Cockrane, Vaughan Colpitts, E. M. Connors, K. Connors, Mary E. Connors, Layton Copp, Clara Corkum, Edith M. Corkum, Minnetta Crowe, Ronald Currie

Annie W. Davison, James W. Day, Robert DeCoste, Eva Desmond, Anne Dickenson, Maude S. Dickenson, J. E. Dickinson, Maude G. Dickinson, E. G. Dimmock, Leo Dioron, Edna Doane, Alva Dowe, Irma G. Dowe, Jean A. Downing, Edward Duffy, G. K. Duffy, Gladys Duffy, Stewart R. Duffy, C. C. Durant, Katheryne G. Dyas, Marion Dyas

N. Eaton, Wayne Eaton, Vernon E. Elderkin, Edna G. Elliot, Raymond Ells, Alma Embree, Louise Evans

A. Farrel, Mary Farrell, Merla Farrell, C. E. Faulkner, Nellie Filmore, D. P. Finch, Murray Fitch, Melita Ford, M. C. Foster, Ralph Fowler, Norman Fowlow, Hugh Fraser, K. P. Fraser, Aleene Fullerton, Bruce Fullerton, Edna L. Fullerton, J. M. Fullerton, M. Fullerton, M. G. Furgeson

Robert Gabriel, John Gabriel, Violette L. Gallager, A. C. Gates, Margaret Gavin, Garfield George, Audrey C. Gerwell, G. Getsay, W. J. Gibson, Alonzo C. Gilbert, Anna Gilbert, Donna Gilbert, R. N. Gillespie, Jean M. Gilroy, L. M. Gilroy, M. C. Gilroy, R. Gilroy, Roy C. Gilroy, Grace Goodwin, J. A. Graham, Naomi Graham, Ruth Grant, Harriet V. Greene, Joan Guilderson, John E. Guilderson

D. M. Hackett, Willis Hall, Elizabeth Hameon, Clyde Harrington, Edgar Harrington, Carolee Harrison, John Harrison, E. Harvey, A. L. Hatfield, Althea Hatfield, Effie M. Hatfield, Gertrude Hatfield, Mary Hatfield, W. C. Hatfield, Wilson S. Hatfield, Bertha Hatherley, Fred Hemmeler, Hazel Higgen, Adelaide S. hiltz, Frank Hiltz, Alfred Holmes, M. R. Hunt, Frances Huntley

G. V. Jacques, Mary Jennison

Rebecca Kay, Mary Kendrick, Fanie Kent, Lizzie R. Kirkpatrick, O. A. Knowleton, Frederick Krumrei

Margaret Lake, Martha Lamb, Emma Lampshire, Rose Laulor, Anna Lauther, C. K. Lavers, R. G. Lavers, Winnifred Lavers, Helen Leishman, Holly A. Leitch, Fanny W. Leitch, Eartha Lewis, Frances Lewis, Nellie Lewis, Sarah Lewis, verna Lewis, Freda Linkletter, Roseanna Linsay, Muriel Llewelyn, Harold B. Loder, R. S. Longley, W. B. Loomer, Gertrude Lower, J. H. Lyons, Nellie Lyons

Mary MacAloney, Alex J. MacAskill, A. I. MacConnell, W. H. MacCready, C. T. MacDonald, J. C. MacDonald, J. E. MacDonald, Catherine MacIntosh, Harry MacKay, I. L. MacKay, R. H. MacLean, M. G. MacMullen, W. H. Magee, Daniel Maharr, William B. Mahoney, Viva Maloney, Douglas Manzer, Laura Mattinson, Jeulie E. McAliese, Merton McAloney, Timothy McAskill, Jesse A. McCann, Mildred McClary, Garnet McDade, Mary C. McCully, F. McGuire, Elizabeth McGuirk, L. C. McKay, H. W. McKenna, James E. McKenzie, Cora McLaughlin, Edith McLeod, James R. McNamara, Bessie McNeill, Daniel Duncan McRae, Edward McRae, M. K. Merrian, L. M. Messinger, Diane Milton, Sarah Morash, Christie Morgan, Boyd Morris, E. J. Morris, Hollis Morris, Margaret A. Morris, Randy Morris, Wilfred Morris, Sonny Morrison, Jerry Morse, Roy S. Morwick, Elva Moss, Mary F. A. Mullen, Mary O. Mullen, Alberta Munro, Carolyn Murphy

Mary Nelson, L. Newcombe, Hugh Nichols, Rossetta Nightengale, E. W. Nuttal

Anne Ogilvie, E. Ogilvie, Ellen A. O'Regan, Aurdan C. Orr, A. Oxley

William Pace, Eugene Palmer, Andrew Parker, Leander Parsons, Elaine Patterson, Percy Patterson, M. G. Peacock, Katherine A. Penny, James Pettis, Marje Pettis, Elkanah Phinney, Lloyd Phinney, W. J. Phinney, Celeste m. Pierce, Bertram Price, O. L. Price, Willa M. Priest, Elizabeth Puddington

Annie M. Quinn

D. D. Rae, Porter Randall, Carolyn Read, David Read, Vivian Read, Charles Rector, Dewis Rector, Fred Redmond, Ann Reid, Gerald Repetto, L. W. Rice, Lina Ripley, Margaret Ripley, Thomas Rissesco, Beatrice Roberts, David Roberts, Verne Roberts, W. G. Roome, Jean L. Ross, J. E. Rushton, Thomas Ryan

Daphne Seddall, Ethel Sencabaugh, Gordon Sencabaugh, Helen Sharpe, Effie S. Silver, A. E. Skidmore, C. Skidmore, Eileen Skidmore, Ada Helen Smith, Audrey Smith, Don Cecil Smith, Edgar Smith, Eric Smith, Everett Smith, Harley Smith, Hazen R. Smith, Lida Smith, Marilyn Smith, M. K. Smith, N. N. Smith, R. T. Smith, E. Spencer, Alice Spicer, Fred Spicer, Harold Spicer, Mary J. Sproule, Cecil Sterling, Lilian St. Peter, T. J. Sullivan, Jean Sutherland

Helen Taylor, Edward Theriault, Kathleen Tracy, Kitchener Tracey, Alice M. Troop, Beatrice Troop, M. J. Trueman, Stuart Tucker, Harold Tyrell, Anneita Tyrrel

N. H. Upham, Mary Urquhart

Sydney Varner, Coray Vickery

Jane Walker, M. Walker, Cora B. Ward, Hugh Warren, Leonard Wasson, Hatter Webb, lorne Welch, sylvia Welton, Walter Welton, Clarke Wheaton, Eva Wheaton, Frank Wheaton, L. N. Wheaton, Marie Wheaton, Reginald Wheaton, R. H. Whetmore, John Greenleaf Whittier, Olive Wickwire, Beverly Willigar, Douglas Willigar, Gerald Willigar, Joan Willigar, Lavette Willigar, Lloyd Willigar, M. D. Willigar, Roy Willigar, E. Winters, Mary L. Withrow, E. Woodworth, Ethel Wotton, K. Lilian Wotton

Basil Yorke, Cleveland Yorke, K. C. Young