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Glengarry school days : a story of the early days in Glengarry / by Ralph Connor.

by Connor, Ralph, 1860-1937.

McClelland and Stewart, 1963, c1902.

Frontier and pioneer life -- Ontario -- Juvenile literature

Rural schools -- Juvenile literature

Glengarry (Ont.) -- Juvenile literature.

340 p. ; 18 cm.

"In this book the author has written of a way of life that has all but disappeared from the Canadian scene. It's the story of the old one-room schoolhouse and the masters who left their impring upon eager young boys and girls growing up in rural areas nearly a century ago. It was a time when community life centered around the school and the church, when a spelling match provided excitement that lasted for days, when boys tore away from classes to swim at the old 'Deephole,' and when rugged chores or a chance encounter with a vicious bear moulded them early into men. Who among them would ever forget the master who stoically suppressed physical pain while teaching them to love life; or the bully who vente his own frustrations in the undeserved thrashings until he was challenged by the boys themselves; or the teacher who could show them the real people behind the dull names in their history books and yet fight by their side in shinny, a boisterous forerunner of hockey? A model of the 'Old Twentieth' school stands today in Upper Canada Village as a reminder of an era that is past, but Glengarry School Days will live on as a Canadian classic as long as boys and girls continue alternately to love and hate school, as long as a story of hair-raising adventures provokes excitement, and as long as thoughtfulness and quiet strength are the mark of Canadian character."--Dust jacket.

Canadian fiction, Juvenile.

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