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years

LIFE’S funny, ch? Still,
what would we do
without it.

But so often, when you
have something'on your
mind, references to that same
thing will turn up here and
there where you had least
expected them, bringing
them to your notice again
and again, as though they
were part of some sort of
plan.

Like this. I rode with my
husband out to a client in
Surrey a few days ago, and he
pointed out to me again the
one-room schoolhouse still
" sitting at 172nd Street, close
to the highway. He’s heard
some of my one-room school
experiences in the North.

_: Then a day or so after that
the Vancouver Sun ran a
Back-to-School feature, |

showing a young woman and’

the one-room schoolhouse
‘she will teach in this fall, the

pressure of population requir- -

"ing the reactivation of this
relic.

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Then, the very next day a
lady from West Vancouver,
Yolande Lepine, called to ask
if I will please read a book
she is writing about her own
experiences teaching in the
Peace River in the 1940s. See
what I mean?

Well, it turned out to be
not a book, exactly, but an
excerpt consisting of 80-odd
pages, some, but nor all, of
those pages being about her
schooi-teaching in 1948 in
Dawson Creek, in the Peace
River Block.

She had been living in

“ Her story is a
good example
of what we ail,
you and I,
should be
doing...”

North Battleford prior to this
time and icoking for change,

-and was delighted to see a

teacher was needed in British
Columbia. Instead of the log-

- and-moss-chinked schoo!-

house that was the norm in

.the:Peace River country in

my day (the Twenties), she
would do her teaching in one
of a number of Quonset huts

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left behind by the Americans
when the Alaska Highway
was completed.

There were also some tra-

itional schoo! buildings, but
built on a piece-meal basis
that meant Grade 1 was here
but Grade 4 might be a good
five-minute walk away — and
might also be far from any
heat source.

Yolande caught on to it all
very quickly, and taught her
classes with good humor and
interesting innovations. She
outlines several of the ways
she used to keep her classes
lively and memorable, and it
is obvious she was in the
right line of work. .

When June ended it
meant she could go off on
the journey she had planned
for years —- to visit her birth- -
place, St. Albans, Vermont,
and also lo renew contact
with relatives in Quebec and
Ontario. The urge to visit far
places was part cf her her-
itage, she says, recalling that
penerations ago her forebears
nad quit France and dared
the Atlantic Ocean, never to
return to their homeland.

This pilgrimage was initi-
ated with her first flight. ‘To
board the plane she had to
get to Fort St.John, 50 miles
away on the fabled highway.
The dust was appalling an
the numerous crosses mark-
ing catastrophes along the
route made one very aware of

CONGRATULATIONS to Clara Mitchell, who celo-
brated her 100th birthday Aug. 21. She was born

‘on that date in 1896 In Winni
late Bill titchell, formeriy of

, and is wife of the
Vancouver Sun.

Mrs. Mitchell celebrated with sons Jim, Glen and

Lyle, daughtera-in-iaw,

randchildren, great-

grandchildren, and many nisces and nephews.

the folly of speed.

In Prince George, she
came together with the rela-
tives who would drive her
across the top of the United
States to meet her past, fur-

ther defining her life.

Her story is a good exam-
ple of what we all, you and [,

should be doing, you know, ;

writing it down, recalling
how it was. If that is too
aunting, using a ta

recorder is not. Do fone
way or another. ‘

Those times will never
come again, and it lies with
us to leave-a lively record.

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