Atikokan School Section No. 1

Atikokan School Section No. 1 was established in 1902. The first school teacher was Miss Brown and her salary was $35.00 per month. By 1921 a new school was needed. The present building was constructed by the John East Company of Fort Frances from $17,430.00. In the early 1900s and eight grade education was the customary level of education for young people growing up in the Northwestern Ontario. many living in isolated railway sectional homes, lumber camps and trappers lodgings received much less until the education initiatives of the 1920s. By 1949, the opening of Steep Rock Iron mines and the logging industry created sufficient demand so that the trustees were required to expand their course offerings to the level of a Continuation School. By today's standard that would equal the first two years of high school.