Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
Notre-Dame Academy in Drummond (am_789)
Father Alfred Lang was as interested in the education of the young of his parish as in the progress
of agriculture. The parishioners contributed to the construction of a thirteen classroom school
which opened its doors in 1949. The first principal was Nelson Lynch, and in 1952 the first
graduates were Reneth Walker and Alvine Boucher. The following year, a group of thirteen graduates,
of which Gemma Beaulieu was the president, obtained their grade twelve diplomas and wrote the Junior
matriculations exams for the Province of New Brunswick. There were then in Drummond about ten rural
schools spread out in the parish for students from the first to sixth grade. Gradually, these small
schools closed, and Msgr. Alfred Lang High School was built in 1962. Photo taken around 1955.
