The first Pleasant school was located near the site of the Doukhobor Discovery Centre in Ooteshenia. It was a one room school containing 38 desks with grades one to eight being taught. A teacher’s living quarters were attached. This building was destroyed by a bomb over Christmas in 1932 and the students were relocated to the Picton Village. This school is famous for being the backdrop of the book ‘Doukhobor Daze’ by Hazel O’Neal who taught there. The Picton village which was situated on land that the Kootenay Regional Airport now occupies. The school consisted of three classrooms and was also named Pleasant School. Grades 3 to 4 were located in a room at the front of the building and grades 5 to 8 in a room at the back. Grades 1 and 2 were housed in the lower floor section of another unoccupied building. The three teachers lived upstairs in one of the buildings in the village. The building was demolished to accommodate construction of the airport.
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