Les écoles
Le canton de Potton a connu jusqu'à dix-huit écoles anglo-protestantes réparties un peu partout de façon à en faciliter l’accès aux enfants. Elles étaient identifiées par des numéros, mais la coutume devait ajouter un nom plus descriptif tel que Fidler's ou Mansonville Station School qui était près de la gare de ce nom à Highwater, ou encore chez les francophones, Ste-Thérèse No. 4. II y eut neuf écoles catholiques francophones dont deux dans Mansonville.
Une liste des écoles anglaises et françaises est ici présentée, suivie d'une collection de photos qui illustrent écoles et élèves.
Écoles françaises catholiques
- Pensionnat tenu entre 1907 et 1922 par les religieuses dans 1'ancienne (1ère) église devenue la maison Carrier.
- Couvent de Mansonville situé sur la rue Principale dans l'édifice de la Légion.
- Maison située au coin du chemin Traver et de la route 243.
- Chemin de l'Étang Sugar Loaf au coin de Peabody (aujourd'hui disparue).
- Chemin de l'Étang Sugar Loaf près du lac. Cette école fut d'abord de langue anglaise et fut donnée à la Commission scolaire catholique avant 1889.
- École Laliberté No. 5 située au coin des chemins Leadville et Laliberté.
- École Ste-Thérèse No. 4 située sur le chemin Province Hill près du chemin Laplume.
- École Christ-Roi No. 7 à Highwater. Maintenant une maison privée, 93 route de Mansonville.
- Chemin Ruiter Brook près de la ferme Newell.
Schools
Potton Township had as many as 18 Protestant schoolhouses scattered throughout its territory, thus making schooling readily accessible to most children. They were identified by numbers, but commonly known by names such as Garland, Sweat or the Mansonville Station School which was next to the train station in Highwater. In addition, there had been eight Catholic schools with two in Mansonville.
The list of all English and French schools appears in this section with a collection of photos.
English Protestant Schools
(in History of Brome County, Vol. 2, by Rev, E.M. Taylor. 1937)
- No. 1 West Potton-Dunkin. The "little red schoolhouse" operated from 1881 to 1923. It was moved to the Anglican Church and functioned until 1951.
- No. 2 South Hill or Mansonville Station next to the railway station (Highwater).
- No. 3 Province Hill near the covered bridge.
- No. 4 Branch. So-called because it was located near a stream flowing into the Missisquoi River at Meig's Corner.
- No. 5 Mansonville. Later merged with the intermediate school.
- No. 6 Blanchard's located at the corner of Traver Road and Route 243. It was later used by the Catholic School Board.
- No. 7 Sweat or Fidler's. This schoolhouse (on Route 243, halfway between Traver Road and South Bolton) was built around 1840. It was large, had a choir loft at the back and served as a church.
- No. 8 Garland. Was located on White Road on the west side and north from West Hill Road.
- No. 9 Larned's. Mr. Gerald Ratzer's home on Fitzsimmons Road.
- No. 10 Maxfield or Leadville on Owl's Head Road.
- No. 11 Owl's Head, on Owls Head Road at the foot of the mountain.
- No. 12 Jones or Vale Perkins at the corner of Peabody Road and Chemin du Lac.
- No. 13 Gordon's at the corner of Vale Perkins Road and Chemin Bombardier.
- No. 14 Magoon's School, later called Record's, and still later the Turner School. On Peabody at the corner of Schoolcraft Road, The building was later moved on the next farm to the north on Schoolcraft Road.