In this edition of Remember This, we look north to a town that laid claim to having one of the last functioning one-teacher schoolhouses in Ontario
In Northern Algoma lies a small community nestled off Highway 101, hidden among the trees of the Boreal forest. Hawk Junction, approximately 25 km North of Wawa, is a small, tight-knit community that boasts beautiful lakes, fishing, hunting and a plethora of outdoor activities sure to delight nature enthusiasts.
Hawk Junction is a railway town whose population has steadily diminished over the last three decades due to economic downturns. As its current population sits at 138, with only five school-age children, one can reasonably guess why the school is no longer operating. By the school year 1985-86 Mrs. Jane West, with the help of a teacher’s aide, Fern Ellen Pantilla, was responsible for teaching 25 students ranging from Kindergarten through Grade 3. St. Mary’s School consisted of three rooms: a room for the Kindergarten students, a room for all the students in grades 1 through 3 and a third room, designated as the ‘gymnasium’, a rather loose use of the term to describe a room which had slightly higher ceilings than the other two classrooms.
All grade levels would come together for lessons in areas like music and physical education and when possible outdoors for environmental studies, taking advantage of the natural bounty that surrounded them. The small school even hosted a mini-Olympics for the children in the 80s! While the teacher taught in the main classroom the teacher’s aide would be assisting the children in the classroom for the kindergarten students and vice versa, as even the eminently capable teachers who took on the challenge of this one-teacher school could not be in two places at once.
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