Port Stanley’s Third School (2)

Port Stanley has had four elementary schools in the last 170 years. This school, the third, was built in 1908 on the west side of Frances Street where the post office is today. It was designed by Neil Darrach with two classrooms and a library downstairs and two classrooms and the
principal’s office upstairs. When the school opened Mr. Catherwood was
the principal, with Miss Dora Dredge and Miss Agnes Hepburn as
assistants. Our Heritage Port members who attended this school say that
the entrance to the school shown in this photograph was the boy’s
entrance. When the building was demolished in 1972 the stone plaque over
the entrance was salvaged and relocated to a site in front of the
present (fourth) school. The plaque reads, “Port Stanley Public School AD
1908”.