Carlin Hall has seen many good times and also some years of limited if any use.  The Sports Club was started in the late thirties. With some difficulty and after much effort, they were able to acquire rings and parallel bars. Without weights for training, the participants became quite resourceful and used each other.  As told by Bert Harrods, one person would lie stiff on the floor while another would try lifting them up over their heads.  In no time, they were “dead lifting” their own body weight. Clubs were active mostly over the winter months, on the weekends and in the evenings.

During WWII, the hall wasn’t used much.  Activity picked up again around 1949 and a new badminton club was formed.  Participants paid $1.50 for four hours of hall use but had to supply their own wood for the furnace.

For most of the fifties, after the Carlin Consolidated School was built, the Carlin Hall was used for school functions as well as community events and recreation. Students would practice the Maypole dance and used the hall for their Christmas Concerts.