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A Blackboard in the Wilderness: Ioco SchoolA one-room school house operated in Ioco from 1918 to 1921 when the current multi-room school was built. Ioco served many children who lived nearby and boasted both manual and domestic science facilities. Ioco school even had its own song.
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The Ioco School opened in 1921.1921
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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A New Town called Imperial OilThe construction of the Ioco Refinery required a labourforce and a one room school was built near the railway tracks for the families of the workers.
Once the town site was constructed, a second room was added to the original school in 1918. Plans were made in 1919 for a new school and by 1921 the present-day Ioco school was built.
With the capacity for 100 students, Ioco School offered grades one through to university entry classes. It operated indepedently with these programs until joining school District 43 in 1946.
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An unidentified class of students, 1924.18 September 1924
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Ioco School, 1921-1974.18 September 1924
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Robust and SuccessfulIoco School was built on land obtained from the Naval Reserve. At the corner of Ioco Road and First Avenue the school served the thriving community. While its students were mostly children of Imperial Oil Company employees, it also served the surrounding community since early transportation to other schools required lengthy boat and/or trail travel to nearby towns.
The school had four classrooms on the upper level for academics. The basement housed manual training for boys and domestic science for girls. A robust and successful sports program developed on the school's expansive playgrounds.
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Grade 5 and 6, Ioco School, 1949.1949
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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The Great OutdoorsMany of the school photographs from Ioco were taken in a natural setting. As early as 1928 students at the school participated in outdoor fieldtrips into the wilderness north of the town.
The following collection of four photographs document the 1928 fieldtrip to Eagle Mountain.
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Ioco students hiking Eagle Mountain, 1928.1928
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Ioco students hiking up Eagle Mountain in 1928.1928
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Ioco School students hiking Eagle Mountain, 1928.1928
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Students of Ioco School take a field-trip, hiking Eagle Mountain in 1928.1928
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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An unidentified class of students, 1940.1940
Ioco School, Port Moody, BC, Canada
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The Ioco School Song(sung to the tune of "The British Grenadiers")
They talk of other systems in elementary schools,
In America and Britain they have some worthwhile rules,
But in all the greatest systems
There's none comes anywhere near,
With a towrow row row row row,
The Ioco Elementary School
Chorus:
We cheer for dear IOCO a small and friendly school!
Oh! see the GOLD & PURPLE, our bright & shining jewel,
We work to help its progress
And raise its standards high,
Hooray...Hooray...IOCO
We'll never let you die.
No matter how you view it IOCO has the name
From Vancouver to New Brunswick there's nothing quite the same.
In each provincial system,
There's good but not the fame,
For PURPLE & GOLD we have and hold,
IOCO has the name.
(Chorus)
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