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The Canadice School House # 9. Photo courtesy of Douglas Morgan.

School #9 Canadice NY

West Lake Road Honeoye

Livonia Gazette

22 May 1952

by Mrs. Evelyn Alger McMann

This school district was in the southeast part of the town, like an extra finger on the hand. It extended for about four miles along the West Lake Road from the California Ranch toward the south, the school house being located at the head of the lake.

The first school house in the district was built of logs and was south of the later frame building. This must have been built at least 20 years before the Civil War, as several who attended it were soldiers of that war. It may be of interest to recal some of the names of those who were pupils in this log school house. There were: Peter and Nelson Ross, William and Willard Shepherd, Bat and Catherine Struble, the James Kelly children, of whom there were several, Almira Harris, Henry Harris and several Sullivans.

In 1871 the present frame structure was built on land granted to the district by Almond and Catherine Sullivan, with the understanding in the deed that when the land was no longer used for school purposes it was to become a part of the farm from which it was granted. Hannah Wheatley Alger was the first teacher in this building. Some of the pupils who attended this school for a time from 1872 to 1930, when the pupils were transported to Honeoye, were: Bert and Ray Francis, Delevan Alger; La Fayette Sullivan; Gertrude, Garrett and Cora Winnie; Henry, Edward and Charles Schlimpf; Roy, Louis, Hattie and Minnie Belcher; Jessie and Mildred Hays; Evelyn Alger. The last few years found pupils of the second generation in attendance: Phyllis and Mabel Belcher; Alberta, George and Ellis Alger; Esther Francis.

Among the teachers there were: Minnie Glynn, Myrtle Swan, Cora Winnie, Violet Wood, Nellie and Kathryn Sweeney, Emily Reardon, May Toorney, Minnie and Anna Henry, Jennie Alger, and the last teacher, with one pupil for a whole year, was a Miss Sullivan from Bushnell’s Basin.

The “Little Red School House” is now painted white and is used as a dwelling, the original district having been absorbed in the present central school district of Honeoye.