1915  The consolidated school and the "Beef-rings" in the country district are already established facts, and have opened the way for this larger scheme of coöperation.
1957  . . . in 1912, the Macdonald Consolidated School at Hillsboro, the first of its kind in Canada, closed for financial reasons after nine years of operation.
1964  Kids . . . are picked up by bus and taken to a large modern consolidated school in a nearby town.