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In September 1919 John Gibbard, fresh out of Vancouver Normal School, took up his first teaching post in a one-room school in Steelhead, a logging community eight miles north of Mission in the lower Fraser Valley. Arriving to inspect the school, he opened the desk drawer to find a note from his predecessor whose salutation began: "May the Lord have mercy on you." Gibbard and hundreds of other British Columbia rural teachers in the 1920s would come to understand during their tenure the full meaning of this cryptic greeting. The purpose of this study is to try to convey some sense of the life of a teacher in remote corners of the province in the 1920s and the nature of rural teaching conditions. Second, it discusses in some detail the various solutions to the rural school problem proposed by educational bureaucrats in the Department of Education and other educational reformers in the same time period. The essay attempts, therefore, to be both descriptive of a situation not much studied and analytical in a way that might contribute to a better understanding of the province's educational history in the twentieth century.

"May the Lord Have Mercy on You": The Rural School Problem in British Columbia in the 1920s