And they didn't call it Beaverton-High-School, they called it Beaverton-Continuation-School. But it went from grade-nine to grade-thirteen. And um- those were the years where Beaverton was small, wasn't it. That was in the years when it was about nine-hundred. But then, in the summer because of all these cottages, it became about three-thousand. Now I don't know what the population is of Beaverton.

Speaker 2: We both went to Beaverton-Continuation-School for- Speaker: For- well, thirt-- well thirteen. I was in grade-thirteen, you stopped in grade-twelve. I went to grade-thirteen and there was one more year of Beaverton-Continuation-School and then they built a big general, Brock-High they call it. And it was from Cannington, Beaverton, Sunderland, they all- it's still there. Our kids all went there.

Speaker 2: I was sixteen at that time. Was that fifteen or sixteen at that time? Speaker: Well um, not, yeah, seventeen, eighteen in- in grade-eight, grade-thirteen. In grade-thirteen, I was. But um- oh, there was so many changes.

My mother died in March um- where was I? Oh I was in high-school, I was in grade-thirteen. And she died and we had a big snow-storm. Now you don't know whether that's the one you were- they were talking about but there were no trains that came to Beaverton for about a week because we got flowers or- a good week after the funeral.

That was because Joseph was older than you. Yeah. Joseph got off um grade-thirteen, we had grade-thirteen in those years, grade-twelve and thirteen. And he got off because of the war. And he became a sailor.

Interviewer: (Laughs) Um what about um d-- did you finish high school? Did you go all the way through? Speaker: Yeah. Yeah I was- I've got my grade-thirteen that's- Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: My mother was a teacher.

Interviewer: Do a lot of people just come up here for the summers, or- Speaker: Used to be a lot more. Now ah- like when I got out of grade-thirteen I worked for the ah- the I-G-A. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Was Freddy-Ander's but it was across where the small mart is. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah it used to be significant like this place'd go from a thousand people to three-thousand in the summertime.

And um I remember in grade-twelve when I discovered um, unbeknownst to me our guidance system wasn't great back then, and I discovered that I didn't have the right selection of subjects to go on to grade-thirteen, and by the time I was in grade-twelve I had this education idea had really caught on and I wanted to go to university so I wanted my grade-thirteen.

Um- and then I was the first one to leave home. Um- I went to teacher's-college so I did grade-thirteen here and then I left to go to teacher's-college at eighteen.

Interviewer: Where did you go to teacher's-college? Speaker: Ottawa. And it was only one year at the time, eh? Mm-hm. You didn't have to have your degree. So I went from grade-thirteen, teacher's-college one year and then teaching. And we got a job just like that. You went- we went- people came, school-boards came to the ah Ottawa teacher's-college and you picked whatever county you wanted to go to.

Yeah because I didn't go into the high-school. The high-school here in Madawaska-Valley, I'm a first year graduate. I only went there for grade-thirteen. So from ah Saint-Joseph's we went to Stratford I think one year and then- and then we went to Expo. That was our big thing.

... new Catholic-Church, was the last school I went to. Then on to high-school at- in Barry's-Bay for ah, Matawaska-Valley-District-High-school for my grade-thirteen.

... there were kids that met kids from Killaloe or kids from you-know, Palmer-Rapids or Combermere, and they started to go together in grade-nine, they got married in grade-twelve or grade-thirteen, and they're still married today.

Interviewer: Have you ever been to the Wilno-Tavern? Speaker: Oh many times. Many many times. Yeah, yup. Yeah. It's fun to go there and- and ah- I didn't go there so much, 'cause when I was in high-school you could drink at eighteen, s-- and I was eighteen in grade-thirteen, so you could go to the bar when you were eighteen. And ah- but people- we didn't go to Wilno.

So you'd go down to Martha's on a Friday night and there was a band playing or if it was you-know after school or-whatever and you're in grade-thirteen and you think you're like really wise and philosophical, then you would- you-know there- three or four of you go over to ...

Speaker: Lanark was only a continuation school. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: They just taught to grade-twelve. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And if you wanted to take a grade-thirteen you had to go to Perth. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Ah to take grade-thirteen, which I never did. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: I got married instead. Interviewer: Right out of high-school? Speaker: Family wasn't very happy, but anyway.

Speaker: Well, I- I sta-- we had- I- I- I did my high-school here in Barry's-Bay. We had a- we had, um- well the grade-school, the Roman-Catholic-Separate-School-Board, then we have ah, Catholic schools, ah, and, um, ah- up to grade-thirteen. And we had a small high-school here in Barry's-Bay, at that time, a Catholic high-school, eh?

Speaker: So it's, ah, it's a little different because, ah, they already had- had a Catholic high-school up to grade, ah, ten, I guess, and then after that they got the support, you-know, or the funding to be able to go right up to grade-thirteen, and now you don't have grade-thirteen, you, ah- ah, that's co-- discontinued, eh? Interviewer: Yeah, no, it only goes up to grade-twelve. Speaker: Grade-twelve, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So we had very few lay-teachers, right up from grade-one to, ah- to grade, ah- grade-thirteen. Ah, you, ah, were taught by the sisters, you-know?

Not, in grade-school, no, but, ah- but, ah- but even grade-thirteen, one of the- the teacher taught all the subjects. All the subjects in grade-thirteen, you-know?