The original photo is the property of Linda Thompson Feere of Doan's Hollow, whose brother appears in the photo. Linda emailed us our source scan and a list of students found on the back of her print in her mother's handwriting. Other identifications provided by site visitors will be credited on the appropriate web pages.

Linda and/or her brother know/knew/remember some but not all of those photographed, so identifications should be considered tentative until confirmed by a second identifier. Names on the back of the photo include two unknowns, a third identified only as Peter, and one name that appears twice. 
 
Linda's scan appears to have been of a photo with a few signs of age and other imperfections, which are obvious on a few of our enlargements. There are 36 people (students and teacher) in the picture, which appears to have been taken in 1951. The photographer is identified as "Chandler" on the back of the photo.

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 late 193os and the late 194os.