U. S. S. No. 5 Strong, Joly, Armour Prior to 1883 a school board was formed probably in 1882. Settlers who were involved in having a school built were the Dukes, Cunninghams, Cooks, Gibbons, Wilsons, Whittingtons, Hannafords, Stancombes and others. This was a union section covering that part of Strong Township east of Lake Bernard on concessions 1 - 8 and that part of Joly Township east of Strong on the same concession, possibly as far as lot 10. About ten years later, lots 1-7 on concession 14 of Armour joined the above section. Tenders were let early in 1883 for the construction of a frame school house 18' x 24', on one acre of land on the south-east corner of lot 30, concession 4 of Strong Township, owned by John Cook. Mr. George E. Gibbon offered to draw up plans for the school and his son John's tender for the school was accepted. Since this property was heavily wooded it was first chopped and logged by the settlers. Once the building was completed, furniture for the school was bought or made and school was opened in 1885 with a Miss Bowsfield as the first teacher. The school was heated by a large barrel wood stove. The stove pipes were strung along the full length of the school. On winter mornings children shivered around the stove until the school warmed up. At the back of the school room was a partition which was taken out in the spring and replaced before the winter set in. Drinking water in the early years was drawn from a