Hello everyone, This topic has brought back many childhood memories. My family and I lived at 2nd Ave and Cassiar during the late1930's and up to the mid 1940's and I often passed the school on trips to Hastings street with my mother and sister. The school was an imposing white building that faced Cassiar St. There was a lawn and flower beds in front and yes, there were bars on the windows. There was also a vegetable garden and if memory serves me correctly, there was a greenhouse that could be seen from the street. The property did not extend to what you can see from Boundary Rd. today as part of it was still in bush. As others have mentioned,the "bad girls' school" was used as an incentive for good behaviour and my mother often pointed to the top, barred window and said that's where "really bad girls" ended up. While passing the school, we occasionally saw the girls outside on the lawn, performing callesthenic exercises. And some of them were marched past our house on occasion. I used to stand on our fence and wave at them, but they looked straight ahead and never waved back.They wore a blue-grey, belted dress with a white collar and when I saw them up close, I was amazed that they didn't look bad at all and I thought my mother had made it all up. I think that many of them were teenage girls who had been in some trouble but some of them may have just been poor, as these were very difficult times. I never heard it mentioned that the school was a home for unwed mothers but then, this was a topic that was never dicussed. I hope that these teenage girls went on to better and successful lives and I'm pleased that the building has been preserved and is in good used today. And thanks to Stella for her memories of ice cream from the Glenburn dairy. I enjoyed many "triple deckers" that only cost a nickel. The so-called gourmet ice creams of today are no comparison. With best wishes to all, Shirley Gibbard