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S.S. #11, Pinkerton School
This school was named after surveyor and settler Matthew Pinkerton. He built the log schoolhouse in 1840 on the NE corner of his lot (Con. 10, lot 6). A new, brick school was built in 1873 kitty-corner to the old one by Thomas Sleight, and was the first of its kind in the area. By 1908, a better brick school was built with two entrances and a bell tower, the one seen in the photograph. The school was in use at least until the late 1950s.

Newton Robinson School, 1934. Teacher was Alma West.
Back Row: Earl Lennox, Marie Myers, Grace Scott, Olive McCarroll, ? Gilroy, Alma West (Mrs. Coborn), Elmer Webber, Earl Bell, June Manser, Leo Harrison, Gordon McCarroll.
Middle Row: Doris Edney, Ruth Noble, Hazel McCarroll, Josephine Harrison, unknown, Ivan Bell, Bill Rowe, Pearla Edney, ? Gilroy, Isobel Lennox, ? Gilroy, Mary Scott.
Front Row: ? Gilroy, Lennox Rowe, Jean Edney, Olive Morrison, Gladys Houghton, Jean Meyers, Lawrence Copeland, Ralph Houghton, Neil Mayor, Jim Lennox, Keith Noble.

Scotch Settlement Ladies Baseball team around 1930.

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The old Hollows schoolhouse on the Middletown Sideroad of West Gwillimbury. In 1863, this school was built by John Garbutt on his lot (Con. 12, lot 11) so his children would not need to walk as far. The school burned down in 1888 and a new, brick one was erected very soon after by William Bingham (pictured here), with William Tindall as the first teacher, later minister in the Methodist church. The new school opened September 29, 1888 with celebration and games. Like many around it, this school was closed and sold in 1960, though the building later became the Hollow Community Centre. The renovated school house is currently the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Skitteral. The mature maple trees on the property were planted by the students in the photo.

Field lacrosse game on the old lacrosse field on Simcoe Road, across from the tennis courts and arena.
From Harvey Marks: "This is a lacrosse game taken about 8 years ago [1911] across from present Community Centre, west side of Simcoe St."

Field lacrosse game on the old lacrosse field on Simcoe Road, across from the tennis courts and arena.

"The first year-round residents of the Marsh arrived in the late autumn of 1934 and took up residence in the row of houses shown in the above picture. They were families from Holland and they named their village Ansnorveld.
Members of the Christian Reformed Church, after selling their first crops, built the first church on the Marsh, also shown above, in the spring of 1936. Today there are two beautiful Christian Reformed churches on the Holland Marsh."

Early harvesting methods on the Holland Marsh. Carrots were stored in bushel baskets.

Leon Radder with bunches of carrots ready for washing.