"We have always been
an independent family, and there was not one of us who didn't know
what she wanted to do. " ~A. Macphail My Ain Folk |
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Southgate Sideroad 7 The road that Agnes Macphail and her
sisters walked 1-1/4 miles each way to get to school. |
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S.S. No. 4 Proton Agnes, Gertha and Lilian McPhail all attended this school in Proton until the family moved in 1902 to Artemesia. |
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Class Picture from S.S. No. 4 Proton Taken in 1899, this class photo shows all three McPhail girls. |
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Old Durham Rd. School Agnes Macphail's second school where she
wrote and passed her high school entrance examination in 1904. |
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S.S.No.7 Artemesia It would be two years before she could convince her parents to let her attend high school in Owen Sound. | |
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Owen Sound Collegiate Institute
Agnes Macphail took a train to attend the OSCI from 1906-1908, she was
able to come home for Christmas and Easter. |
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