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Age of Sail Heritage Museum, Port Greville

Port Greville School

Most boys were lucky to complete grade 8 in school before going out to work in the lumber camps or apprenticing in the shipyard. Many went to sea as cabin boys by age 12.

Teacher: Sadie Slater - back left to right: Addie Hatfield, Abbie Rolfe, Flossie Bentley, Marie Webster, Jean Parsons, Alice Crossman, Stanley Crossman, Bill McLellan, Harry McCully, George Cook, Clarence Cole, Arthur Parsons, Oscar Parsons, Hubert Canning, Wesley Dorman.

Second row left to right: Frances Canning, Menia Mills, Fay Elderkin, Flora Patterson, Sophronia O’Leary, Nita Grant, Lexie Canning, Clara Welsh, Louella Patterson, Myrtle Parsons, Jennie Tibbetts, Winnie Parsons, H. Mellady, Verta Sherriff, Fay Parsons, Freda hatfield, Lottie Webster, Lottie Welsh.

Front row left to right: Otto Hatfield, Guerny Merriam, Ross Wilson, Ralph Parsons, Lee Patterson, Morton McCully, Everett Canning, Lester Canning, Aubrey Canning, Harold Canning, Wiley Tibbetts, Sherman McCully, True Hatfield and Morley Welsh.

Date: 1903-1904

Reference: Ruth Allen Fonds  Age of Sail Museum and Archives 2011.12.02

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