sentences:  Opened on the historic Wellington Public School Site, Mount Benson Elementary was the oldest operating school site in British Columbia.The original school site was provided by Robert Dunsmuir of Dunsmuir & Diggle Co to accommodate a public school for their new coal town of Wellington and the families working in the Wellington Colliery.The first official public school on this site was called "Wellington Public School" and opened on May 20, 1875 as part of the Wellington School District which had been created a year earlier.