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School
Registers
Details from the 1891 Kennetcook Dyke School Register, April 30, 1892
Recorded on Microfilm at NS Archives
Teacher – Hattie Marie Salter, salary $60 for the half year Sept. – March. She taught 117 days including 3 Saturdays.
Trustees – Harry Brightman, Norval Salter, John S Parker
Partial List of Students
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Name |
Age |
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Lucy Brightman |
8 |
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Madgie Salter |
13 |
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Blanche Salter |
10 |
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Welsford Salter |
12 |
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Harry Murphy |
10 |
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Maggie Sanford |
9 |
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Minnie Sanford |
11 |
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Flossie Sanford |
6 |
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Lucy Dill |
11 |
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? Salter |
9 |
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Willard Salter |
15 |
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Letticia Brightman |
14 |
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Edward Salter |
8 |
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Marilyn Brightman |
10 |
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Siebart Sanford |
10 |
B2.
Kennetcook Dyke
School Register for 1911/1912
(from WHHS
holdings)
Trustees – William Shearer and Harry Caldwell
Among the students
listed are the parents, grandparents, and great grandparents of
a few current residents of Upper Burlington. Before these pupils
finished their 1911/12 year the Titanic had sunk in April 1912.
The Conduct and Progress columns were dropped from Registers in later years.
Murray Sanford (line 7), of the fancy suit in the 1908 picture, several years later had taken up the carpentry trade. As a very junior tradesman he sought work as a rough carpenter in Halifax for the rebuilding after the Explosion in 1917. “Just how rough?” he was asked. “Rough enough” Murray replied. Hattie Barkhouse (line 8) later returned to teach at the school. Like her 1907/08 teacher, Ethel Withrow, Hattie was another who lived into her late 90s. Hattie and Murray were married on June 28, 1919.
B3.
Kennetcook Dyke
School Register – 1916?
(from WHHS
holdings)
Trustees – Austin Salter, Sydney Brightman, Fred Dill. Secretary - George Salter
Note seven grade X and one grade XI student enrolled with six in grade I!
Is this the Register for 1915/16 or 1916/17? Many lifelong residents of Upper Burlington are on this list, but if 1916/17 the ages are off by a year for those with registered births. Several of the 1911/12 students are here, progressing through their years. Conduct and progress scores seem improved. Total days of attendance have a wide variation among the students.
WWI was raging, but without radio or TV, and few newspaper subscribers, it is likely these pupils were affected only if a relative such as Vincent Dill, uncle of young Wallace on line 7, was enlisted.
B4
Kennetcook Dyke
School Register 1917?
(from WHHS
holdings)
The date says 1917, but the continuing students are all two years older than the 1916 list, or is that the 1915 list?
Future teacher Thelma Mildred Sanford is on this list age almost 5. She returned to teach for several years between 1930 and 1939. Her sister-in-law Hattie May Barkhouse on the 1911 list also returned to teach at her old school in the year of the Spanish Flu Epidemic after WWI.
Two students from Goshen, Evelyn and Elmer Smith, are registered for the year. They would have been several miles from the nearest school back there so living with a relative and attending school in Upper Burlington would have been a practical alternative.
Emery Hazel and Charles Dill at lines 17 and 18 and both in grade I, probably shared one of the old two-seat desks in the school. They were still together 46 years later, commuting to their carpentry jobs in Halifax. Emery was late for their connection in Union Corner one morning. He apologized but said he couldn’t have driven any faster to the rendezvous point. “Charlie, I looked out the side as I was coming across the flat in Scotch Village and those telephone poles looked just like a picket fence!”