The original photo is the property of Richard (Dick) Hewitt now of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, who appears in the photo. Richard emailed us the source scan and a list of fellow students to the best his memory. Other identifications provided by site visitors will be credited on the appropriate web pages.

Years after Richard emailed us his photo scan, his school mate, Barbara Awde found a copy of the same photo in her collection. Barb's print included a bonus: someone (Barb assumes her sister Betty) wrote the names of the students on the back of her photo. Several students Richard couldn't name from memory Barb was able to identify by this list of names.

While we appreciate the efforts of all who identify students, identifications should be considered tentative until confirmed by a second identifier.
 
Richard's scan appears to have been of a photo that has faded and yellowed, with signs of age and other imperfections, which are obvious on a few of our enlargements. There are 24 people (students and teacher) in the picture, which appears to have been taken in the spring of 1947. The identity of the photographer is unknown.

Doan's Hollow Public School (S. S. #2 Woodhouse) was a one-room elementary school house located south-east of Simcoe and north-west of Port Dover. Students are assumed to have lived within a mile or so of the school.
 
At the time this photo was taken, Ontario elementary education consisted of eight grades: 
1 through 8. Typically students would have started elementary school at approximately age 5 and graduated eight years later, age 13, so the students in this photo would have been born between the early 193os and the early 194os.
 
Richard drew our attention to the potatoes baking on the gas heater in the foreground of this photo. "As my father was the largest potato grower in the area, lunches for that class were often baked potatoes."