The teen committee that planned after school activities for teenagers was not a part of the high school. In fact, the school only played a minor role in organizing dances and after school social activities.
Many remember the canteen to be very cold during the winter months. The building was built with donated railway ties from the Dryden mill and no insulation was used during the construction.
The building was built during the late 1930s and served as a building for the boy scouts. The building became the Youth Center in 1944.
For many years Fergus Brown had the responsiblity of lighting the wood furnace that heated the building. Fergus remembers the wood furnace as a forty five gallon drum made out of boiler tube (a heavy 1/2 inch metal plate) provided by the Dryden Paper mill.
The building was destroyed by fire in 1967.