In 1939 Monsignor Fyme, considered by the residents of Merasheen as the "father of industrial arts" in Newfoundland, had the residents erect, through free labor, a school. It was a concrete structure consisting of two classrooms and a workshop. The sand used to make the cement blocks was pulled by horse and dray from the back beach. This sand had to be brought by schooner from Toslow, a neighboring community about five or six miles across the western side of Placentia Bay. A large hand cement mixer was used to make the concrete blocks. Father Fyme directed the work and even took an active part in the actual building of the school. (from The History of Educational Administration in Merasheen From 1930 - 1968 by Tobias Pearson)

In 1939 Monsignor Fyme, considered by the residents of Merasheen as the "father of industrial arts" in Newfoundland, had the residents erect, through free labor, a school. It was a concrete structure consisting of two classrooms and a workshop. The sand used to make the cement blocks was pulled by horse and dray from the back beach. This sand had to be brought by schooner from Toslow, a neighboring community about five or six miles across the western side of Placentia Bay. A large hand cement mixer was used to make the concrete blocks. Father Fyme directed the work and even took an active part in the actual building of the school. (from The History of Educational Administration in Merasheen From 1930 - 1968 by Tobias Pearson)

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