Ellerslie Consolidated Elementary School was officially opened on September 15,1972. During the winter of 1971, under the direction of Larry Yeo from Lot 16 , Community School was begun at Ellerslie-Bideford and has been held each winter since then at the Ellerslie Elementary School. Hernewood Junior High School was officially opened on November 13, 1975 and Westisle Composite High School was officially opened on November 2,1979. When the Ellerslie-Bideford four-room school was no longer needed for classes, it was renovated into an apartment building. The School Visitor Reports for Bideford and a list of school teach¬ ers in Trout River and Tyne Valley can be seen in Appendix i . L.M. Montgomery wrote in her Journal about attending school in Cavendish until June 1890. In August of that year she went to Prince Albert , Saskatchewan , where her father and stepmother were living. She attended High School there for one year. In 1891 she returned to Cavendish and stayed at home for one year. In August 1892 she went back to school to study for entrance to Prince of Wales College and a teacher's license. She passed the Entrance Exams, placing fifth among 264. She attended P.W.C . from September 1893-1894, placing sixth out of 120 in the exams. She came to Bideford on July 28 and began teaching school on July 30, 1894 continuing until June 28, 1895. In September of that year she went to Halifax where she attended the Halifax Ladies College at Dalhousie University returning to Prince Edward Island in April 1896. She taught school in Belmont ( Lot 16 ) during 1896-97 and in Lower Bedeque for six months from October 1897 until April 1898, as a substitute teacher. In September 1901 she accepted an offer for the posi¬ tion of proof-reader in a newspaper office in Halifax for the winter. She returned to Cavendish in June, 1902 to stay with her widowed grand¬ mother. She became engaged in October 1906 to Ewan MacDonald (later The Rev. Ewan MacDonald ). Worship The first recorded English speaking Protestant worship service on the Island of St. John was held on Sunday, June 3, 1770 in a home in Princetown (now Malpeque). This was recorded in a diary of Rev. Chapter Four ~ Moving On 67