Most of the students walked to and from school each day. Those who lived close would go home for their lunch and return to school for the afternoon. Those who lived farther away they would bring their lunches with them and stay at the school for their lunch hour. If the weather was really bad those students who would normally go home for lunch would bring their lunch with them. Those students who walked to school everyday, sometimes got a treat of a horse and sleigh ride to school, by their father or by one of their neighbours who would pick up kids along the way to the school.

At recess time the students would rush outside to play. Some of the common games were baseball and tag. In the winter the kids loved to go coasting on nearby hills.

The students at the Kingsboro School didn’t go on any field trips, however they did have a picnic at the end of the school year and they did have a Christmas concert which was held in the Kingsboro Hall.

The Women's Institute was a big part of the School. They provided a lot of things that were needed within the school.

Some of the teachers at the Kingsboro school were: Joe MacDonald, Florence McLean, Abigail Stewart, Joanne MacAulay, Audrey Robertson, Erma Stewart, Inez Dixon, Leah (Davidson) Kennedy, Rita MacKinnon, Adele Cheverie, Maude Dixon.

History

The area was first named Black Hall. It was later named West River, for the inlet of water, that is today part of Basin Head. The name West River was changed to Kingsboro by James MacDonald, agent for the proprietor Robert Bruce Stewart. He named it after, the Macdonald estate of Kingsburgh, on the Isle of Skye Scotland. The first settlers to Kingsboro were the Kennedy’s, MacDonald’s, MacLean’s, Robertson’s, Stewart’s, MacGregor’s, MacVane’s, and Munns. There were of the Scottish descent.

The first settlers of Munn’s Road were also of the Scottish descent they included the following names: Jarvis, Robertson, Munn, Ford, Pierce, MacDonald, Griffin, Gillis, and MacInnis.

Milton Young owned a Steam Mill in Kingsboro , which was later owned by Seldon MacLean, and then by Horace MacDonald. The original mill was destroyed by a fire in 1929 and was later rebuilt on the same site.

There was a Grist Mill combined with Scott’s carding. It was located below the Kingsboro School and on the North Side of the bridge. The water mill was originally built by Alexander Scott Sr. The upper floor was where the carding mill was located. They made wool into rolls. These rolls were then spun into yarn by using the spinning wheel. The lower level was where the grist mill was located.

David Young owned a blacksmith forge in the area not far from the Kingsboro school. William Ford also owned a blacksmith forge. Kenneth MacGregor began a forge in 1943.

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Waldron H. Leard