South Fredericksburgh Schools

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School Section #1	Conway	Earliest confirmed date: 1817 Last building erected 1909. Closed 1966.	Hwy 33 west of Conway. Building has been demolished.
School Section #2	Sandhurst	Earliest confirmed date: 1817	Hwy 33 at Sandhurst Now a private residence.
School Section #3	Elm Beach	Shown on 1860 map. Last building erected 1873. Closed 1943.	Hwy 33 Still standing, privately owned
School Section #4	Parma	Shown on 1860 map. Closed 1958.	County Road 8. Building has been moved to another property. Now used as a garage.
School Section #5	Sillsville	Earliest confirmed date: 1845 Closed 1964	County Road 8. Building has been moved to another property, Now used as Machine Shed.
School Section #6	Hamburgh/Hawley	Earliest confirmed date: 1859. Burned/Closed 1964.	Burned down in 1964
School Section #7	Hayburn	Earliest confirmed date: 1842. Closed 1847.	South Shore Hay Bay Road. Now a private residence.
School Section #8 [original]	[not named, located on C3 Add., Lot 12]	Earliest confirmed date: 1842.	No remaining building.
School Section #8 [Union]	Union [with Ernestown]	[unconfirmed dates]	County Road #22 in Ernestown Township. Now a private residence.
Sandhurst Public School	Sandhurst	Built as a two-room school in 1958 and later extended. Closed 2011.	Highway 33. Now privately owned.

Early Records from South Fredericksburgh Township

[starting in 1858 after Fredericksburgh was divided into North and South]

1853+

James Forrest [Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada]

‘First school in which I taught was in the Township of North Fredericksburgh (see North Fred Schools).

My second school, in South Fredericksburgh, was a frame building, 24 x 30 feet, with seats and desks as just described, but not quite so rough made. There was a small blackboard and a few maps. My wages were thirteen dollars a month and my board. The parents of the pupils were very kind to me.

My next school was about two miles east of the former one, and was a frame building of the old style, which, however, was replaced in 1866, by a very fine building, fitted up with modern seats and desks for two, a chair for the teacher, a blackboard, clock and maps. In the old school my wages were fourteen dollars per month, and board, as in the other schools; but after the new school house was built, I received three hundred dollars a year and boarded myself. This was after I returned from the Normal School in Toronto.

At the end of my term in the new school house, three of my pupils attended the County Board at Newburgh, and each obtained a Certificate, a Third, a Second and a First.

Again I taught in the Township of South Fredericksburgh, in a frame building about 24 x 36 feet, which was finished in good style and ventilated by a pipe running from the outside, under the floor to the centre just under the stove, and on which was placed a ventilator.

It was furnished with maps, a revolving globe, with the principal stars revolving around it. I was paid a salary of three hundred dollars a year.

My next school was in the same township as the last, and it was known as the worst school in the township. It was an old fashioned school like those already described, and the salary was also the same. The pupils were, however, quick to learn after I got them tamed and in working order.

Recorded at Mount Albert March 6^th, 1896

1875 Report on Lennox and Addington Schools by Frederick Burrows Esq.

In South Fredericksburgh two new schools were built between 1871 and 1874; one brick and one frame.

1860 Map of Schools ed