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Thornton School

Two buildings with trees and snow banks in front
Stamped on the back in blue ink: "279"
Printed on the back in a pattern: "Velox"

Victoria school and the West End school

Victoria school and the West End school.
Above.
Victoria school, built on the present site of Shaw Park on 5th. Avenue in 1899. Mr. J. A. Gregory was the principal and Mr. J. A. M. Patrick was his assistant. This building became outdated and was replaced by the New Victoria school on 4th. Avenue in 1929.

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The West End school, built on the present site of the Western Grocers building on Broadway West in 1905. It was moved, in 1910, to the corner of Broadway and Melrose Ave., to make way for the right-of-way of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It was used for school purposes until the Simpson school was opened in 1915. The building is still in a good state of repair and has been used as a multiple for a long number of years.

Whippletrees

Two copies of a coil-bound book containing poems and stories based on the events of the author Myra (Smith) Stilborn's life. One copy is larger than the other.

Stilborn, Myra A. I. (Smith)

Wynona School

Written in Arbos 1983: STF Memories, p. 21; "In 1909 Georgina McGill, a student at McMaster University, came west to visit her brother Jud at his farm near Stranraer. She stayed to teach for several months at Wynona school? built in 1907. Miss McGill taught fourteen students in this sodded frame schoolhouse." Georgina McGill standing outside the Wynona sod schoolhouse.

Wynona School

Written in Arbos 1983: STF Memories, p. 21; "In 1909 Georgina McGill, a student at McMaster University, came west to visit her brother Jud at his farm near Stranraer. She stayed to teach for several months at Wynona school? built in 1907. Miss McGill taught fourteen students in this sodded frame schoolhouse." Georgina McGill and students outside the Wynona sod schoolhouse.

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