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i The Western Bank of Canada i Chartered by Act of Parliament 188% hv Twentieth Year of the Port Perry Brafich. FOR OVER .10 VEARS we Have ministered to the hen Financial wants of Port Perry and the adja- cent Townships. FOR OVER 19 YEARS we. have numberéd among our 5 customers the very best people in the district, they are our customers still, they 'recommend this. Bank to their friends and teach their children to open Savings Accounts with ws. They know us and they kiiow that' we know them and umderstand their monetary requirements, and that. we. © dre-alway's ready to-lénd them os much money as it is prudent for them to botrow. FOR OVER: 19 YEARS young and old 'have deposited = ¥ i Ta "PRINCIPAL OF PORT PERRY HIGH SCHBOL FOR 38 YEAR ~ Sketch of Mr. McBride's Career Mr. McBride is by birth a 'Scotchman, having been born in South Knapdale, Argylshire; Scotland in 1839. "He came to the western part ~-Jof Ontario in 1854, and comnienced teaching in 1856, and for fifty-one | years he has steadily followed this honorable callimg, and has gained for ~ fhimself'a wide and enviable reputation. After teaching for nine. years {in the county of Elgin, Mr. McBride accepted the position of "assistant master in the Port Hope High Scliool, or Graminar Schoo], as it was then called. "After nearly two years! service in Port Hope, hie took the J principalship of what was then the only graded public school in the town Jaf Cobourg. * At the close of 1871 he-was appointed principal of the Port "| Perry High School, and for nearly thirty-six years he has continued to -Jotupy this post with the most distinguished credit, and with unfailing : success. x : \ . 4 . McBride received the elements'of an English and Classical Bduca- tion in Scotland, including what was equivalent to the present .require- eiits for Junior. Matriculation without Science or. Moderns. After coming to Canada he attended the St. Thomas Central School for some the, and in 1859, 'when only twenty yedrs of age, was awarded a First Class Grade A certificate as public school teacher. For the more ad- vanced part of his secondary education he was indebted to private tui- ion ; in Classics to the coaching of a memper.of the Royal 'College of Preceptors, England, who bad carried on for many yeats a private sehiool for gentlemen's sons in the city of Cambridge, England, and also at a Tater time to the private iistruction of a graduate of the University f Rochester; Ny iW, ono 74 Sg le t has always been Mr, McBride's ambition to keep fully abreast of the vancements in_educational matters and niethods;" He passed the 'matriculation examination in connection with Vietoria« University, and graduated therefrom a Bachelor ini Arts, with honors in Mathematics, {in 1871, He obtained his figst certificate as High School Principal, No. 496, fn 1879, and'in the same year was also awarded a certificate as {County Inspector of Public Schools. Later when changes were made in the requirements for priteipalship of 4 Higli School he "obtained a new certificate, No..93, in 1894, and certificates of Special 'Standing, as reco nized 'by the Educational Department of Ontario. in tlie Depart- of Classics and Mathenyatics, No. 933, in the same year, He has pt himself yi in lieart and spirit, and is a long way yet from cBride's per- by his iL ce in various callings and profe fon. cease/to cl the mos tr ; Pri ese their Savings in this Bank for safe keeping, it earns 'them .interest while. they work and while they sleep, and they are free to with- draw it without notice or delay. rogram for the Reunion, oP ~~ Following is an outline of the program for the' High School Re- union on Friday. 6 Inthe afternoon there will be an informal gathering at the school building and grounds, where the Citizens Band will play at intervals, beginning at 2.30 c'clock, There will be a foot-ball match, Myrtle vs. Utica and a base- ball match Uxbridge vs. Port Perry. In the evening there will be a mass meeting in the Methodist church with Dr. Johnston of Chicago in the chair, An address to Mr. McBride will be presented. by the Board of Education, and a second address from the ex pupils, to which Mr. McBride is expected to reply. A number of five minuté addresses will be given by distinguished ex-pupils, and ex-teachers, in- terspersed. with vocal and instru- mental music. The orchestra will play . frotr 7.30 to 8.15 when the meeting will be opened. Ad- mission to the evening meeting wili be by card only until 8 o'clock, after whith hour the house will be open to all. {More Certificates for Port | were from 'the «Perry Students - See our Dinner and . "Toilet : Sets before : LL Ih elsewhere ROSE & CO. t Perry School. Seven candidates from this. county ': | wrote successfully. in 'the Senior Principal McBride received the | Teachers' examination and re- | following note from the Department | umber two prepated for 1 Ra tion a day of tWo ago T amination at our H joi ons he ortwo ag Hon Two of those who wrote here will - seen. that ded to the list of es from our High the Facult eC! 1 School, direct to the Normal College, or x. f Education i con University of To- f which serves to show