Musical Twins?

While I don't think of myself or my immediate family as particularly musical (let's just say we're much better listeners than producers), perhaps we were just lacking the opportunity to play in a flute band!

The photo above shows the boys with the whole band: 2nd row (after drums) Jim (James) right and Jack (John) left. The caption on the photo reads "We didn't want to get our picture taken that day. Grade 10 at Princess Alex School, Saskatoon".

If this truly was Grade 10, the boys would have been about 15 (circa 1941). I searched Wikipedia and found the following information about the school:

Princess Alexandra School is a public elementary school which is a part of theSaskatoon Public School Division.^[18] The school first opened in 1906.^[19]Construction began in 1906/07 of 'Riversdale School which was re-named Alexandra School; a four room school house was erected, and doubled in size by 1908.^[20] In 1922 there were both Princess and Alexandra schools in operation on the same land allotment. Princess school was sold and torn down in 1961. In 1962 a new school building was erected on the same property site, and re-opened.

I don't know if any of Margaret and William Gilmour's kids went to school after immigrating to Saskatoon - perhaps Tom will know? If the younger kids (David and Mary) did have a chance to go to school, then they would also have attended this old brick school.

The photo below shows the twins posing in their Pipe Band uniforms with their flutes and was taken in the backyard at 428 Avenue E South in Saskatoon.