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Garland, Robert A. Garland was
born in Greenock, Scotland in 1876 and was orphaned in 1881. He was in
the Marchmont Home in Belleville Ontario and later adopted by Garlands.
He married Mary Haslam on May 25, 1909.
Robert was the first teacher in new Carberry School in 1895. He left to
attend Law School and returned to practice in Carberry. He served as
Solicitor for the Union Bank & Bank of Montreal He served on the
School Board, the Chamber of Commerce & the Board of Trade.
He also served as the Town Secretary and the Town Clerk before being
elected Mayor in 1927.
He was the organist at Mason’s Lodge, and a choir leader at the United
Church.
Carberry Schools
The first school was built at De Winton around 1879. The late David
Kerr helped build it during the winter. Mrs. William Guthrie, his
daughter, recalled that they had to warm the nails in a pan on the
stove when they were shingling the school.
After Carberry was established some one and a half miles west of De
Winton, another school was built on Pious Hill in the east end of the
present town.
In 1888, owning to the crowding of the school, another larger school
was built on Third Avenue. These two schools were used until 1895 when
a school by-law was passed to sell debentures worth $11,000.00 to build
a new school. In January, 1896, this building was ready for classes.
Among early records it is shown that
at the November 12,1906 meeting, a
letter from the Department of Education stated that the Union Jack had
to be flown from a pole on the school, or a pole on the grounds, every
day the school was in session. The penalty for not doing so would be
forfeiture of the grant.
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