Salt Spring Island Archives
153 Ganges Private School (c1907)
154 Formby House School (c1910)
155 Formby House School (c1911)
156 Ganges Private School Pupils (c1916)
157 Isabella Point School (c1905)
158 Beaver Point School (1885)
159 Ganges High School (c1930s)
160 Divide School (c1928)
161 Fulford School Builders (c1896)
162 High School Group
163 Vesuvius Central School (c1908)
164 Vesuvius Central School (c1894)
165 Burgoyne School House (1930s)
166 Burgoyne School Pupils (c1901)
167 Log Schoolhouse at Central (c1894)
168 Vesuvius School (March 22, 1921)
169 Vesuvius School (c1893)
170 North Vesuvius School (Fernwood)
Ganges Private School (c1907) (Norah Nixon)
Rear on rail: Bob Scott and Roy Beech
Rear standing: Willie Palmer, Ian Halley, Duncan Craig, Charlie Tolson, Marg Tolson,
Maude (Tommy) Scott
Front: Marjorie Beech, Beryl Scott
Centre front: Norah Tolson (Later Nixon)
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1907
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Norah Nixon
Dimensions: 12cm x 8.25cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.153
Formby House School (c1910) (Norah Nixon)
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1910
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Norah Nixon
Dimensions: 12.5cm x 8.5cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.154
Formby House School (c1911) (Norah Nixon)
Residence of Leonard Tolson, school master, located on Ganges Hill
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1911
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Norah Nixon
Dimensions: 8.75cm x 12.25cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.155
Ganges Private School Pupils (c1916) (Norah Nixon)
Helpers - rear: Beryl Scott, Mary Clark, Norah Tolson Middle: Phyllis Borradaile, Clair Wilson, Kathleen Halley
Front: Mary Bostin, Ruth Walcot, Edith Walcot, May Cartwright
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1916
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Norah Nixon
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 12.5cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.156
Beaver Point School (1885) (Gwen Ruckle)
Teacher Mr. Lavigne. Original class at Beaver Point School Seated in front: ? , Alexander McLennan, ? , Ewen McLennan
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: 1885
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Gwen Ruckle
Dimensions: 8.25cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.158
Ganges High School (c1930s) (Muriel (Dewhurst) Leflar
Two teachers in the 30s John B Foubister and Florence Groves (Later Hepburn)
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1930
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Muriel Dewhurst
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 12.5cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.159
Divide School (c1928) (Mary Inglin)
Cranberry to Beddis Road
Rear: Ethel Carter, Audley Gardner, Mary Purdy (Inglin)
Next: Myrtle Nobbs, Lorna Rogers, Margaret Purdy (Cunningham)
Next: Jack Ashbie, Freda Gardner, Sam Beddis Front: Hilary Purdy, Edith Gardner, Jessie Nobbs, Pearl Gardner
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1928
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Mary Inglin
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.160
Fulford School Builders (c1896) (R. Akerman)
A “bee” to build a school in the Burgoyne Valley
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1896
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: R. Akerman
Dimensions: 9cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.161
High School Group (and) (Muriel (Dewhurst) Laflar
Teachers John B. Foubister and Florence Groves. Maybe a field trip?
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1935
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Muriel Dewhurst
Dimensions: 8.75cm x 12.5cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.162
Vesuvius Central School (c1894) (Bob Hele)
This frame building replaced the older log school at Central.
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1894
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Bob Hele
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 12.5cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.164
Burgoyne School House (1930s) (Pat Lee)
Built about 1896 on Fulford-Ganges Road
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1930
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Pat Lee
Dimensions: 8cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.165
Burgoyne School Pupils (c1901) (R Akerman)
With teacher, James Donagan
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1901
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Norah Nixon
Dimensions: 8cm x 12.75cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.166
Vesuvius School (Central) 1894
Front L-R: Mr. Edward Wakelim & Mr. Edward Harrison beside the yoke of oxen, Walter Norton, unknown, Lionel Beddis, Dorothy Norton, Margaret Mouat, Joel Broadwell and Luther or Charlie Bittancourt
Rear L-R: Francis Norton, Will Mouat, Gilbert Mouat, Howard Wakelim, unknown, Arthur Walter, Elsie Norton, Mary Walter, and Mary Mouat.
source: Mrs. Myrtle Drinkwater & Mrs. Doris Rogers
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1894
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Doris Rogers/Myrtle Drinkwater
Dimensions: 8cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.167
Vesuvius School (March 22, 1921) (K. Smart)
Teacher in background
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: March 22,1921
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: K Smart
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.168
Vesuvius School (c1893) (Ivan Mouat)
Rear: Rose Bittancourt, Margaret Mouat, Dorothy Norton, Francis Norton, Norman Wilson, William Mouat, Albert Norton
Middle: Annie Morris, Nellie Bittancourt, Eva Jenkins, Mary Mouat, Cecelia Bean, Elsie Norton, Howard Waklim, Alex Berrow, Frank Fisher, Walter Norton
Front: Leland Berrow, Archie Berrow, Sidney Berrow, Gilbert Mouat, Michael Bean
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 1893
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Ivan Mouat
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.169
replaced with 2011001254
North Vesuvius School (Fernwood) (c1896) (Mrs Sampson)
Teacher - Katie Furness
standing in back Rear: Matilda Sampson, Annie Rule, George Booth, Mary McFadden, Chester Sampson, Bill Spence, May Sampson
Middle: Wick Whims, Mary Rule, Carrie McFadden, Martha Sampson, Jane Whims, _ McAfee,
Amy Rule, Charlie Sampson, Jack Whims, Jem Richards
Front: Wilkie Richards, George Whims, Ed McAfee, Mary Robertson, Ed Cotsford, Bill Madden
Mary Richard, Bill Richard?
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Location: Toynbee Collection binders
Date: circa 11896
Responsibility: R.M. Toynbee
Source: Mrs. Sampson
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 12cm
Extent and Physical Description: copy, good condition
Accession number: 1994.137.170
Can you help me? In compiling a biographical genealogy for my family I am at present focusing on my great aunt Susan Adelaide Steinberg Bailey who taught school at one time at Fulford Harbour. I don't know when Addie, as she was called, taught on Saltspring. In her own words, she was the “first certificated public school teacher in Hope, Lytton, Bonaparte, Fort Steele and Fulford Harbour”.
I have record of her teaching at Hope 1875/76, Yale 1878/80, Lytton 1880/84, Principal Girl's School, Nanaimo 1884/85, Bonaparte 1886, Clinton 1892 and Fort Steele 1894 to 1913 her retirement. In 1905 she married John Fingal Smith, formerly a school teacher at Victoria, Clinton, Ashcroft, Gabriola Island and Fort Steele.
I am hoping to learn the date she was teaching at Fulford Harbour to fit this, of her many experiences, into her biography.
I will be most grateful for anything you can tell me.
Yours truly,
Virginia Bell (née Bailey)
Dear Virginia,
Easier than I expected.
“Adelina” Bailey is recorded as the first schoolteacher assigned to the newly opened Isabella Point school, in September 1904. (Isabella Point is on the shores of Fulford Harbour, but a different community from the Fulford community, at the head of the harbour. Fulford is now a small village, and a ferry terminal.)
In November 1904 we know there were 14 students enrolled (according to Rev. Wilson, in his December 1904 monthly parish newsletter).
The photograph was taken at the end of that first school year in 1905, on the occasion of the awarding of a Roll of Honour to one of her Hawaiian community students, Willie Palua (Kanaka people, the Hawaiians called themselves). Willie's father Johnny Palua (also spelled Pallua) was one of the school's three Trustees. The photograph was submitted to the 1978 book Snapshots of Early Saltspring by another Isabella Point School Trustee, Edward Lumley, whose children also attended the school. (This book is still in print - the photo is on page 65)
Adelina Bailet is standing on the left side of the photo, wearing a white blouse.
Isabella Point School had a different teacher in its second year, so "Adelina" Bailey taught there for the school year 1904-1905. With her certification she was quite a coup for the Trustees...
Thank you so much for the added detail you have provided, regarding this teacher.
Usha Rautenbach.
Teacher Archibald John William Dodds
Rear: Jerry Mouat, Chester Martin, Lyndell Bittancourt, Madge Barret, Mary Barret, Pearl Norton, Edith Lundy, Jean Purvis, Bert Bittancourt, Glen McIntyre
Front: Frank Mansell, Mary Wright, Kate Nelson, Cremo McIntyre, Jessie Mouat, Viva Wood, Ethel Purvis, Alma Wood, Mary Nelson, Herbert Purvis, Helen McIntyre, George Nelson, Bill Purvis, Gerald Mason
Collection:Toynbee Collection
Location:Toynbee Collection binders
Date:circa 1908
Responsibility:R.M. Toynbee
Source:Jessie Toynbee
Dimensions:8cm x 11.5cm
Extent and Physical Description:copy good condition
Accession number:1994.137.108
