One of the Red River ladies who attended that school when a very little girl says that the building occupied by it stood near the site of Dean O’Meara’s present residence.  The enclosure took in the pretty ravine formed by a creek in the neighborhood—­the ravine that is now bridged by one of our public streets.  It consisted of two large wings, one for the boys and one for the girls, joined together by a dining hall used by the boys.  There were also two pretty gardens in which the boys and girls could disport themselves separately.  The large trees that surrounded the building have long since disappeared.  The young girl spoken of as a pupil seems to have had her youthful mind captivated by the beauty of the site, and indeed nowhere could the love of nature be better cultivated than along the bends of the Red River near St. John’s, where groves of majestic trees succeed each other, where the wild flowers flourish in the sheltered nooks and the fire-flies glance among the greenery at the close of day and where for sound we have the whip-poor-will lashing the woods as if impatient of the silence.

Among other schools was one commenced in the early thirties by Mr. John Pritchard, at one time agent of Lord Selkirk, at a place called “The Elms,” on the east side of Red River, opposite Kildonan Church.  Mr. Pritchard was entrusted with the education of the sons of gentlemen sent all the way from British Columbia and from Washington and Oregon territories, besides a number belonging to prominent families of Red River and the Northwest.  The Governor and Council of the Hudson’s Bay Company granted to Mr. Pritchard a life annuity of L20 on account of his services in the interests of religion and education.

On coming to the diocese in 1865 Bishop Machray reorganized the boys’ classical school, and it was opened as a high school in 1866.  The bishop gave instruction in a number of branches himself, paying special attention to mathematics.  Archdeacon McLean had charge of classics and the Rev. Samuel Pritchard conducted the English branches in what was now called St. John’s College.

In connection with the parish school of Kildonan the Rev. John Black, who was, as we all know, a scholarly man, gave instructions in classics to a number of young men, who were thus enabled to take their places in Toronto University and in Knox College, Toronto.

In addition to these schools, Mr. Gunn, of St. Andrew’s, afterwards Hon. Donald Gunn, had for a time a commercial school at his home for the sons of Hudson’s Bay Company factors and traders, so that they might be fitted for the company’s business in which they were to succeed their fathers.

GIRLS’ SCHOOLS.