The girls start High School. It would make sense for them to go to Georgetown for High School – it is only up the hill from Norval. But when it comes to our girls and school – nothing is that simple. Because the Webb’s live in Halton – and on the wrong side of the Townline it is determined that they will go to Milton to High School . Well – at least they don’t have to walk. There is a bus there early in the morning to take them to Milton – which is 20 kilometers away. Well – that is 20 kilometers – if you take the shortest route – but of course the bus doesn’t – it criss-crosses the country side – up one line – across side roads – down the next line. The bus is good for making friends though. I live in Milton and I have witnessed Ina run into people she took the bus to high school with – 60 years ago.
Louise carries on in high school right to Grade 13. Ina – always practical – goes to grade 10 in Milton then opts to go to Georgetown High School for a course in stenography. Stenography – I had to google it – is learning to take notes via short hand – don’t ask me what that is – and then later typing them out – on a thing called a typewriter. As you will see, she uses these skills later while working on an important Canadian project.
Mom always had those blue Pittman shorthand books around. I remember trying to learn some of it.