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’ '7’“’â€"1 HIBTORY OF 8.5. NO. 15, WESTMINSTER TOWNSHIP. The land for the first school building was given by Mr. Duncan Macpherson in 18h7, and a small frame school house erected, which _l_i_,___ served the section untid 1869. At this date, more land was bought . from Dougald and Barbara Macpherson. The deed to this land was given â€"“““â€"â€"_fi December 8, 1869, and is duly entered and registered in Registry Office ll.m__w_.. as No. 599h for the county of Middlesex, Westminster township. A 9 larger one-room school was built on this site, and larger playgrounds _*’”‘"”‘“ provided for the children. The name of the first teacher cannot -l_.l.___ recall, although I have been told it. ’A Mr. MadKenzie was the second teacher. When he left to study for the ministry, a brother of his beâ€" came the third teacher. Both are buried in Christ Church cemetery, l_____ll. Glanworth. The first teacher I remember was a Miss Davis, Miss Howard, and Miss A.E. Hodgins, and Mr. William Gauld, who afterwards studied for the ministry and became a missionary to Formosa for the Presbyâ€" ,lll___a terian church. Other pupils who became ministers were- Rev. John W. t Bannantyne, Rev. Walter Millson, Rev. Paul Milne, priest of the Cath- ’“”““’““ olic church, Rev. William Smith, priest of the Roman Catholic church: , -l,,lli Margaret Milne, nun, at the convent in London. ” ’fl‘*__' Two of our boys from 5.8. 1h, are now members of Parliament. Charles 7.4. gal; Cox was Liberal member for Port Arthur for the Provincial Parliament, 4 Toronto, and a member of_the cabinet without portfolio for the Hep- flk, "'fi burn administration. Conservative Harry 0. White is member of Par- ‘ liament for Middlesex East in the House of Commons, Ottawa. We have four Medical Doctors- Dr. Offley Shore, specialist in Xâ€"ray; Dr. John ”"’“A‘d Lewis; Dr. Hugh Lewis, and Dr. John Fisher, pathologist at Victoria Hospital, London. Robert 0. Glen became an architect of note in New { York. Twentyâ€"eight girls trained for schoolâ€"teachers and twenty for *" i "’1 nurses. Many who remained on the farms have taken courses at the School at Guelph; several have graduated and become well-known in business; Someéare wellâ€"known nationally and internationally as thoroâ€" â€"â€"""*” bred cattle, 5 cap, apple and honey exporters. The girls who remained on the farms are the capable women of today who are presidents of the Women‘s Institutes, workers in the Sunday schools; not only capable, “”’ but deeply concerned about helping to make the world we live in a ‘ truly Christian country. ** Our grandparents denied themselves and worked hard to establish the school in our midst, and we owe them a debt of gratitude. Many have brought honors to No. 1h; none have, as far as I know, disgraced it. )< .__‘_.v77 Aof our young people of yesterday ‘ and today, 7m”. &