Report on the Day School at Indian Cove, Fisher's Grant.
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PICTOU COUNTY.
Rev. J.D. MacLeod, Indian agent, reports on educational matters in this agency as follows: - Indian Cove Day School.
This school has been in charge of Miss Gertrude McGirr for several years. Satisfactory work has been done and the pupils are progressing. Eight children live so far away in other settlements that it is quite impossible for them to attend school on the reserve. Micmac is the language exclusively spoken at home. When the children first go to school they do not understand a word of English. This necessarily retards progress in the primary grades. There are five pupils in grade VI, and two in grade V.
Former pupils of the school who have grown to adult age are quite intelligent and their influence on the community must necessarily be beneficial.
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Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the Year Ended March 31 1914 (Ottawa: J. De L. Tache, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1914), 119.