Cathcart S.S. #24
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This school at Cathcart was built 1864, not 1892. There had been a renovation to it in 1892, which was when they converted the two entrances at the front into windows and added the vestibule.
The children remained in class in the old log school building which sat directly across the road in the present corner field. The board fence for that c1845 log school was still there in 1904 when my grandfather attended the new school. When the new school was completed, in 1864, the class was paraded across the road marching in a straight line from the old school to the new school.
Since the old school doubled as an Anglican Church, they had to also wait for the completion of the new church, St. John's, which was located less then a mile to the north-east of this school, on what later became Highway 53.
In 1865 the old log school was moved into the village of Cathcart and became a house. It was not the first school in Cathcart (Sydenham) as the original log schoolhouse was built in 1821 at the intersection of the West Quarter Townline and the Stage Road, less than a mile directly north of the c1845 log school. Both schools were on the same piece of land, so there is also the possibility that the c1821 school had been moved in 1845 to the more southern location to comply with new school sections / catchment and the rise in populations.
Clayton Barker