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Small rural schools like this played an important role in both American and Canadian education. This one stands out on top a hill without any trees to be seen. This photograph shows a rural primary school--Ives' Hill Country School. The school was located im eastern Quebec and was taken in 1939. Most of the children wear tan long stockings with either short trousers or knickers. The girls also wear tan stockings. The one-room schoolhouse stands behind the students. Rural Quebec tended of course to be mainly Roman Catholic, although this was a state school. One of the students from this school, Jean Farwell Monty, who became a teacher herself, recalls that the children made stuffed animals for packages sent to the Montreal Children's Hospital. We know one boy's name--the boy in the front row at the extreme left wearing dark shorts and tan long stockings. His name was John Cowan. He was 8 years old at the time. There were many similarities between American abnd Canada, but we also notice difference. We notice both knickers and long stockings persisting longer in Canada than America.
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