Deep
Cove School
The original school house in
Deep Cove was a log building
built on land owned by St.
Paul’s Church Corporation
(established in 1842) and
was maintained by the Church
of England.
The
schoolhouse, besides
affording a means to educate
the youth of Deep Cove, was
also a form of prestige for
the village. It was
viewed as a status symbol
because in the early days
the villagers had first to
build it and maintain it
through taxes and grants, as
well as incur the costs of
running it.
By 1921 a
number of families had moved
further away from the
schoolhouse, requiring some
students to walk more than a
mile to and from
school. Instead of
building a new school closer
to the centre of the
village, in 1922 the Deep
Cove Schoolhouse was closed
down for one year and taken
apart in sections to be
moved further north. To keep
the school centralized it
was moved northerly once
again in 1933. This
time the building was hauled
to its new location by
Arthur and Reginald Carson
using a government tractor.
The
One-Room School House
Teaching and learning were
vastly different in one-room
school houses than in
contemporary schools.
Students in one-room school
houses did not have
traditional grades that
progressed yearly, but had
forms of continuous
progress: they would
learn using books and their
grade moved up as they
advanced in their
books. Students would
not only learn academics,
but also home economics and
employable skills.