For our local history feature this week, we go back to the time before centimetres, metres and kilometres, when everything was in inches, feet and miles.
The March 27th, 1975 issue of the Northland Post carried a report about converting schools under the Cochrane-Iroquois Falls Board of Education to the metric system.
Superintendent of schools Ray Michon told the board that the school in Shillington had already converted, and the rest would by June, 1977. That was a year ahead of the provincial government target.
The superintendent noted that 90 percent of the world was metric, with Canada and the U.S. being the only two major countries still using the imperial system. Even England, where the imperial system originated, had gone metric.
Thank you, as always, to the Cochrane Public Library, for giving us access to its archives.
