60 Years Ago
School days
Author Mary Elizabeth Colman focused on young Jimmy (Robert James) Anderson, who, along with his sister Eliza, was tearfully left at British Columbia’s first school at Fort Victoria in 1850. Along with several other children, the siblings endured austere surroundings, exacting lessons, hard labour in the chaplain’s garden, and strict Sunday prayers. But the December 1951 issue also tells of outdoor excursions and mischievous fun, which afforded the youngsters rare periods of freedom.