By Hantsport & Area Historical Society Comment Closed

The McDade Heritage Centre holds many school records for Hantsport; copies and transcripts of General Registers from the 1880s through to the 1980s (although some years are missing and a search is on for the originals), attendance record sheets from the the early 1900s, minutes of School Board meetings and HHS Yearbooks from 1939 up until the closing of the high school in 1989.

Here for example is the General Register for 1928/29. It includes the name of each pupil, age on the 30th of June 1929 (end of term), grade, standing, number of days attendance, and the name of the parent or guardian.

The number of children in each class, often comprising two or more grades with a single teacher is quite remarkable.

1928/29 Grades Primary, One and Two
  1. Dorothy Helen Frittenburg age 8 grade II
  2. Muriel Isabel McPherson age 7 grade II
  3. Osee Geraldine Phillips age 7 grade II
  4. Evelyn Muriel Collins age 8 grade II
  5. Ronald Star MacInnis age 9 grade II
  6. Cecil Robt Scott age 8 grade II
  7. James Blackadar age 8 grade II
  8. Barclay Kirkpatrick age 8 grade II
  9. Alicia Blanche MacInnis age 7 grade II
  10. John Alexander Scott age 9 grade II
  11. Bernard Johnson age 8 grade II
  12. John Beaver age 9 grade II
  13. Leslie Harrison Porter age 7 grade II
  14. Harry Albert Salter age 11 grade II
  15. Cyril Overson age 9 grade I
  16. Laurie Albert Davison age 7 grade I
  17. Norma Turner age 8 grade II
  18. Robert Coffin age 9 grade I
  19. George Arthur Scott age 7 grade I
  20. Larry John Patterson age 7 grade I
  21. Robert Craig Murray age 7 grade I
  22. Ernest Clyde Mosher age 7 grade I
  23. Malcolm Murray age 6 grade P
  24. Monston Howard Porter age 7 grade P
  25. Everett Mosher age 8 grade I
  26. Alva Foote age 6 grade P
  27. Ralph Everett Starratt age 7 grade P
  28. Charles Havelock Starratt age 8 grade P
  29. Merriam Starratt age 7 grade I
  30. Lillian McKay age 7 grade I
  31. Jennie Laura Vaughan age 6 grade P
  32. Rena Eleanor Berry age 8 grade P
  33. Eileen Winnie Rafuse age 6 grade P
  34. Dorothy Gornall age 6 grade P
  35. Clifford Wyman age 6 grade I
  36. John Leland Harvey age 5 grade P
  37. Bernice Mary Coffin age 7 grade P
  38. Kathleen Margaret Coffin age 6 grade P
  39. Regina Starratt age 5 grade P
  40. Helen Starratt age 8 grade P
  41. Mary Valerie Price age 8 grade P
  42. John Daniel McDonald age 7 grade P
  43. Elton McDonald age 5 grade P
  44. Mary Churchill age 7 grade P
  45. Jean Ethel Lyman age 6 grade I
  46. Donald Davison age 5 grade P
  47. Fred Brown age 8 grade I
  48. Harold Arliegs Jordan age 6 grade P
1928/29 Grades 3 and 4
  1. Kathleen May Comstock age 8 grade III
  2. Margaret Gwendolyne Davison age 8 grade III
  3. Jean Elsie Vaughan age 8 grade III
  4. Charles Dixon Porter age 9 grade III
  5. Murray Joseph Hancock age 8 grade III
  6. Robert George Pulsiver age 9 grade III
  7. Charles Ernest Whicklem age 8 grade III
  8. John Nelson Pearson age 9 grade III
  9. George Edgar Pope age 8 grade III
  10. Basil Elwin Starret age 10 grade III
  11. Berton North Folker age 9 grade III
  12. Mona Laura McDonald age 9 grade III
  13. Lillian Martha Brown age 10 grade III
  14. Dorothy Maud Faulkner age 11 grade III
  15. Emma Isadore Starret age 10 grade IV
  16. Ceva Ollie Starret age 12 grade IV
  17. Elmer Horton MacPherson age 9 grade IV
  18. Grace Adelia Frizzle age 9 grade IV
  19. Jean Hattie Wilnoff age 10 grade IV
  20. Frances Elizabeth Johnson age 10 grade IV
  21. Emily Vaile Foote age 10 grade IV
  22. Mary Eileen Talbot age 10 grade IV
  23. Stanley Richard Overson age 11 grade IV
  24. Freeman Henry Vaughan age 10 grade IV
  25. Elmer Leroy Oikle age 12 grade IV
  26. George Allen Phillips age 9 grade IV
  27. Evelyn Annie Wallace age 10 grade IV
  28. Olive Jean Porter age 9 grade IV
  29. Frederick Morton Wallace age 10 grade IV
  30. George Wiley Beaver age 11 grade IV
  31. Gerald Edward Patterson age 10 grade IV
  32. Edward Arthur Eley age 10 grade IV
  33. Doris Loveina Jordan age 9 grade IV
  34. Margaret Clark Coldwell age 8 grade IV
  35. Winston Spencer Churchill age 13 grade IV
  36. Lena Frances Lyman age 17 grade IV
  37. Geraldine Connors age 10 grade IV
  38. Velma Fraser age 8 grade IV
  39. Carol Violet Jordan age 9 grade IV
  40. Eva May Rogers age 11 grade III
1928/29 Grades Five and Six
  1. Gerald Franklyn Johnston age 12 grade V
  2. Marion Jean Lockhart age 11 grade V
  3. Lloyd George Hart age 11 grade V
  4. Wilbur Chipman Hancock age 11 grade V
  5. Claude Arthur Young age 10 grade V
  6. George William Patterson age 12 grade V
  7. Frank Willis Lyman age 11 grade V
  8. Audrey Amy Gornall age 10 grade V
  9. Ruth Isabel Turner age 10 grade V
  10. Margaret Everson Morgan age 11 grade V
  11. Viola Annie Mosher age 11 grade V
  12. Mabel Madeline Sanford age 12 grade V
  13. Mabel Clara Vaughan age 12 grade V
  14. Pauline Edna Starratt age 13 grade V
  15. Helen Blanche McPherson age 11 grade VI
  16. Elizabeth May Beaver age 12 grade VI
  17. Uriel Maxine Kirkpatrick age 12 grade VI
  18. Dorothy Janet Cohoon age 14 grade VI
  19. Bertha Leona McDonald age 13 grade VI
  20. Jessie Welena Talbot age 11 grade VI
  21. Waldo Arthur Frizzle age 12 grade VI
  22. Gladys May Vaughan age 13 grade VI
  23. Annie Susan Patterson age 14 grade VI
  24. Paul Granville Davison age 13 grade VI
  25. Verna Ethel Overson age 13 grade VI
  26. Budd Joseph Salter age 14 grade VI
  27. Mary Elizabeth Hancock age 12 grade VI
  28. Jean Margaret Lily Webb age 11 grade VI
  29. Bella Electa Gray age 16 grade VI
  30. Ivan Everett Fraser age 12 grade V
  31. George Edward McLellan age 15 grade VI
1928/29 Grades Seven and Eight
  1. Phyllis Ruth Britten age 12 grade VIII
  2. Mona Beazley age 14 grade VIII
  3. Ralph Colby age 16 grade VIII
  4. Orie Mildred Frittenberg age 13 grade VIII
  5. Frances Violet Coffill age 13 grade VIII
  6. Max Churchill age 16 grade VIII
  7. St. Clair Flemming age 13 grade VIII
  8. Albert Foster Frizzle age 12 grade VIII
  9. Allan Gornall age 14 grade VIII
  10. Lillian Ruth Pearson age 14 grade VIII
  11. William Pulsifer age 14 grade VIII
  12. Sylvia Joan Tattrie age 13 grade VIII
  13. Annie Margaret Sanford age 14 grade VIII
  14. Ralph Frizzle age 15 grade VIII
  15. Grace Lillian Foote age 14 grade VII
  16. John Folker age 13 grade VII
  17. Ghlee Elice Kewley age 14 grade VII
  18. George Millet age 14 grade 14 grade VII
  19. Nora Louise Pope age 13 grade VII
  20. Harry Patten age 14 grade VII
  21. Ralph MacPherson age 14 grade VII
  22. Walter Howard Pulsifer age 12 grade VII
  23. Hazel Salter age 15 grade VII
  24. Alice Smith age 14 grade VII
  25. Donald Murray age 12 grade VII
1928/29 Grades Nine, Ten, & Eleven
  1. Elsie Margaret Churchill age 17 grade XI
  2. Maxwell Haliburton age 18 grade XI
  3. Marion Elizabeth Ingram age 17 grade XI
  4. Margaret Elsie Kewley age 19 grade XI
  5. Hazel Marion Millett age 17 grade XI
  6. William Alexander Pope age 16 grade XI
  7. Myrtle Verna Burgess age 16 grade X
  8. Margaret Olivia Cahoon age 15 grade X
  9. Clarence Leroy Fleming age 17 grade X
  10. Edna Winnifred Gollan age 17 grade X
  11. Victor George Kewley age 16 grade X
  12. Mildred Ruth McPherson age 16 grade X
  13. Albert Earle Riley age 15 grade X
  14. Arnold Wellwood age 15 grade X
  15. Maude Douglass Rudderham age 16 grade X
  16. Maud Alley age 14 grade IX
  17. Raymond Manson Burgess age 14 grade IX
  18. John Davison Frizzle age 14 grade IX
  19. Alice Annie Gill age 13 grade IX
  20. Robert Johnston age 15 grade IX
  21. Dorothy Kewley age 16 grade IX
  22. Gladys Gertrude Salter age 16 grade IX
  23. Lyda Dorothy Vaughan age 14 grade IX
  24. Donald Leslie Talbot age 14 grade IX