Supervisor of Industrial Arts.

Miss McAvoy has been a resident of Edmonton for many years, taught school in the city and is keenly interested in the preservation of Edmonton's history. She was a championship tennis player and active in many other sports. She has compiled her own and others' memories and written a history of the Edmonton School District.

Burt Demeriez was an Edmonton Public Schools teacher, Outdoor Education Consultant, Bennett Environmental Education Centre Coordinator and Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum Program Coordinator. After retiring from the Edmonton School Division in 1991, Demeriez began contract work with Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum. Notably, he conducted the "1881 Schoolhouse" program as one of its pioneering program teachers. Additionally, he developed the Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum programs "Mr. Puffer Goes to Provincial Parliament: A Study of Government in Perspective" (implemented in 1991-92) and "Grandma's Place: A Visit to Grandma and Grandpa's Place in the Past" (implemented in 1993-94).

John Gordon Sinclair was born in Komoka, Ontario, in 1889. After attending Normal School in London, Ontario, he taught school for several years in Ontario before moving to Edmonton, Alberta, in 1912. He had originally intended to take a job in Saskatchewan, but when that position fell through, he carried on to Edmonton. There, he found employment at the Edmond Technical School, where he taught art and design for 25 years. He was later the principal at McKay Avenue School, from which he retired in 1955. Sinclair was also known for his landscape and portrait painting.

Normal School was a teacher-training school in Edmonton. Normal Practice School is where teachers from Normal School gained experience (mirroring a contemporary student-teacher field experience). The Practice School and the Normal School occupied the same building from 1930 to 1940. The facade of the building (Corbett Hall) is 259 feet long. The north (the Normal School) and the south (the Practice School) wings were each 165 feet.

When the building was used by the RCAF from 1941 to 1945, the Normal School moved to schools in the Garneau area. Normal School was staffed by Edmonton Public Schools, with a principal and certified teachers and students enrolled just like any other Division school.

Vernon was a pioneer, in spirit and deed, in the early days of instrumental music education in schools with several trailblazing ideas and inaugural events upon which others would build.