Photographs of Sandy Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada

I do not remember attending a kindergarten graduation ceremony when I was a child. Being in the midst of the baby boom following the Second World War the parents in my neighbourhood were too busy creating babies to have time for such nonsense. The suburban city schools became portable cities that kept running out of classroom space for all the pupils they were trying to teach.

Years later as a northern village teacher I have found myself attending many kindergarten graduation ceremonies at the various schools where I have taught.

Trying to take photographs in a school gymnasium is a tricky task. Far too often the photographs did not turn out as hoped because my camera shutter speed responded too slowly under the strange lighting conditions. Here is one set of graduation photos that surprisingly are okay after taking them with a 35 millimetre film camera and later scanning them into my computer.

This is the June 2001 graduation ceremony for the kindergarten class at Hector Thiboutot Community School in the northern village of Sandy Bay, Saskatchewan.