The 1946 implementation of the 1945 Cameron Report into BC school financing and administration, which ushered in centralized larger school districts, included the creation of School District #58 (McBride) (SD58). When the new high school building opened in 1948, the immediate need was housing the elementary grades, whose building had recently been destroyed by fire. Consequently, the high school returned to the Legion Hall, and a room at the rear of Woodley's Garage, and the elementary students occupied the new four-room building.