Margaret Buckle tells us about her first teaching experience in L'Anse au Diable: "In the one room school on cold days, it was pretty miserable there, because you had to get all the children seated around the stove. And lots of times when they were suppose to be doing their English, most of them wanted to use the pen and of course, them times it was the ink and the fountain pen. When they'd go to get their ink, most of the time it was frozen, so the first thing you had to do, was put the ink bottle on the stove and let it thaw out. And while you were waiting for the school to warm up in the mornings, everybody was wearing their mitts and most of the time throughout the day, before the school is heated up they had to keep their mitt or their glove on one hand and probably have to write with the other one."