1. Clipping from the Renfrew Mercury of about 1966, article entitled “Relic of Pioneer School in McNab”. The article refers to a school reader found by Harry Hinchley, authored by Lindley Murray, published in Toronto in 1839. It showed an illegible name written in ink over the word “Burnstown”. On the back of the book was written “Goshen, Oct. 1st, 1850”. The location or present owner of the book was not mentioned.
2. Photocopy of an article from a local paper (no date, but after 1967), entitled “Goshen School. Gone but not forgotten” by Mrs. John E. Miller. Reference is made to an unnamed “history” copied from one held by Mrs. Harvey Jamieson Sr. “We believe ... erected some time prior to 1861, as records show that Goshen School Board engaged Amelia Smith to teach in 1961”. The site had been sold for $1 by Thomas Hudson, and it was “covered with bush and stumps”. The first building was of logs. “Five years later, Thomas Hudson, a lad of 16 years, built the woodshed”. In 1898, “Mrs. Frood had the school hauled across the road to be renovated into a dwelling [presently] the dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Riopelle”. A new school must have been built, because the article continues” ... woodshed and horse stable built in 1929, wire fence in front of the school in 1934, log fence on the other three sides replaced with wire fence in 1946, voluntarily by the men of the Section. Same year: building covered with brick siding, porch repaired, new window, etc. Well dug in 1946-47, new well in 1950. School closed in 1965 when the pupils were transported by bus to Burnstown, then later to McNab Public School.
3. Photocopy of pages 142-143, “McNab — The Township”, regarding Goshen school.