Memories of Wingham: John Congram remembers public school in Wingham

November 6, 2025 @ 10:54 amColumns, Rural, Wingham Advance Times

Black and white school class photo.
Wingham Public School Grade 8 class photo. Back row, from left, Keith Lancaster, Jim Dremman, Mr. Stewart Beattie, Bill Connell, John Congram. Second row from back, Don Breckenridge, Jerry Fry, Bill Foster, Gord Wain, Ross Hayden, Bruce Lott, Wendell Alton, Doug Murray. Third row from back, Patsy Dawson, Lois Walker, Doreen Machan, Patsy Carmichael, Gael Burdon, Louise Campbell. Second row from front, Joan Armitage, Barbara Edwards, Justine Lee, Francis Merkley, Marie James, Frances Newman, Velma Redman. Front row, Mary Stapelton, Sally Slosser, Sheila Laidlaw, Joan Loughlean, Mary Hotchkiss, Shirley Chettleburg. (Contributed photo)

He has written extensively of his memories and the WAHS is happy to share the excerpts that follow, of his many recorded memories, with the readers of the Advance Times. In June 1947 our family moved to Wingham. I had spent many enjoyable weeks with my grandmother in Wingham. She, like a good grandmother, would…

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