home of Jas. Gorrell. The following year the school was built and opened
August, 1884, with Norman Taylor as teacher and Wm. Werry, Jas.
Gorrell and W. S. Jory as the first trustees. The Louise telephone line
was built in this district in 1904 and electric power came in 1948.

Honor has come to Huron School through some of its pupils, namely:
Annie Werry, daughter of Wm. Werry, who went to Egypt as a mission-
ary: Jas. and Russell Gorrell. distinguished surgeons, and Harvey Gorrell,
a dentist, all sons of Jas. Gorrell; Don Elliot practised law; and Sir Donald
Mann, a railroad contractor. In 1934 Huron SD. celebrated its 50th
Anniversary at a picnic at the home of Thos. Gorrell with a large crowd
present, among whom were many ex-teachers and pupils. A roll call of all
pupils since the district was formed, brought many responses and a
minute’s silence was observed in memory of the brave souls who had
gone to rest.

LONDESBORO S.D.

Londesboro, Yorkshire, England, 1859, and a call to a new country.
After seven weeks on the sea a start was made clearing heavy bush and
a new Londesboro settlement made in Huron County, Ontario. Then
another call to a new country and practically all of Londesboro settlement
moved west and once more founded a new Londesboro, Manitoba, in 1879.
The earliest pioneers were Anthony and Mrs. Cockerline and son, Joe and
Mrs. Wallace, Thos. and Mrs. Hagyard and family, Sam and William
Longman, Wm. and Mrs. Manning and family, James McCool, Sam and
Mrs. McLean and family, James and Mrs. McLean, Tom Sandercock,
R. C. Riddell, Wm. Southcombe, James Whenham, Thos. and Mrs. Ady
and family, Wm. McDonald, John and Mrs. McDonald, Sam Frith, John
Dixon, Mrs. Harbottle and James.

Londesboro School was opened in 1881 with Thos. Hagyard, Sam
McLean, and David Cuff as trustees and Thos. Hart as the first teacher.
In the early days religious services were conducted in Londesboro School
by Rev. Stewart, of Crystal City. Then Londesboro became part of the
Methodist circuit of Pilot Mound, and later, part of the United Church
circuit. The original homesteaders have all gone on their last journey
excepting Fred and Foster Hagyard, who came west with their parents
in 1879 and are still enjoyng good health. It is now third and fourth
generations of the Cockerlines, Wallaces, Hagyards, Mannings, McLeans,
McDonalds and Friths who are carrying on the work started by these
brave pioneers of Londesboro.

MARRINGHURST SD.

The Marringhurst plains are steeped in the history, not only of the
early pioneers, but also in that of the Indians who once passed through
these parts on their way to trade at Fort Pine, north of the present town
of Baldur. Excavations being carried out at Rock Lake are unfolding
the hidden past of our community.

In 1872 the plains were surveyed and in 1879 the first white family

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