The Williamsdale Academy by Irwin H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 28, 1907

The Williamsdale Academy

By Irwin H. Evans

Two thousand dollars from the $150,000 fund was appropriated by the council to the Williamsdale Academy. This academy is located in Nova Scotia, about twelve miles from Oxford Junction. Those managing the work in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick purchased two hundred acres of land on a hillside, with a beautiful stream running in front of the same, on which they have constructed a dormitory, accommodating about thirty students, with a schoolroom. Besides this main building, they have a good dwelling-house and two good barns. The land is best adapted to pasturage and hay. However, with proper fertilizing, it will produce vegetables and grains. There is considerable timber on this land which can be converted into lumber and wood.

The Maritime Conference has between two and three hundred members, and this little institution is the only one they have in all the conference, which embraces New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

We believe that the school will be a great blessing to this little conference for the training of workers for the eastern part of Canada. Our people in these provinces are poor, work for small wages, and have but meager means that they can contribute for the building up of this enterprise. However, they have shown a willingness to do what they could, and we believe the Williamsdale Academy will be a great blessing to the work in the Maritime Provinces.

We are sure our people will be more than glad that a part of this $150,000 is to go to this needy school enterprise.

In a recent letter, Elder Wm. Guthrie, of the Maritime Conference, wrote that the Williamsdale Academy had thirty-one students, and matters at the school were moving on very encouragingly. This school means a door of entrance into service for the young people in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

I. H. EVANS.