Edmonton (Alberta)

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53.5461° N, 113.4938° W Map of Edmonton (Alberta)

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  • Post-colonization and prior to 1870, the Hudson's Bay Company governed the West, which included Fort Edmonton (established in 1754). Education of children in the Northwest Territories was provided by church missions and private religious schools. In 1881, a public school was built in the Edmonton settlement. In 1882, Edmonton became part of the District of Alberta, one of the four districts of the Northwest Territories. In 1883, the Edmonton riding of the North-West Legislative Assembly was established through a royal proclamation. In 1905, the province of Alberta was established, and the district continued as Edmonton (Alberta).

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1286 Archival description results for Edmonton (Alberta)

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A Management Model for the Mill Woods Campus

Item is a preliminary report which addresses the development of a management structure for the Mill Woods Campus. It looks at management issues and makes recommendations. It was prepared by APRA (Advance Planning and Research for Architecture) for the Mill Woods Campus Joint Steering Committee consisting of the Edmonton Public School Board, the Edmonton Separate School Board, Edmonton Parks and Recreation, and the Mill Woods Cultural and Recreational Facilities Association.

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The Alberta School Trustee

Item is the official publication of the Alberta School Trustees’ Association, Vol. 40, No. 4. This issue has a line drawing of M. E. LaZerte School on the cover and contains an article about M. E. LaZerte School and an interview with Dr. M. E. LaZerte.

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Edmonton Public Schools Annual Report 1981-1982

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the 1981-82 school year. It originally appeared in the Edmonton Journal. It highlights activities and programs within Edmonton Public Schools. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Responsibility In Our World : Edmonton Public Schools

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the 1977-78 school year. It appeared in the Edmonton Journal. Included are reports which address responsibility for the 3 R’s, for the Quality of Education, for Life Skills, for Sound Minds in Sound Bodies, for Arts and Knowledge, for All Children, and for school buildings. Also included is a brief summary of building projects and finances. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Annual Report of the Superintendent to the Edmonton Public School Board 1967-68

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the school year 1967-68. Included are reports addressing Instructional Division, the Department of Elementary Education, the Department of Secondary Education, the Department of Pupil Personnel Services, Special Instructional and Service Branches, the Business Division, and the Department of School Facilities. Also included is a brief Financial summary by the Department of Administrative Services and the Department of Business Administration. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Annual Report 1956

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the calendar year 1956. It includes a message from the Superintendent of Schools and a summary of the work completed by the various departments within Edmonton Public Schools. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Edmonton Public School Board Annual Report for Year 1953

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the calendar year 1953. It consists of a report by the Superintendent and a report by the Secretary-Treasurer. The report by the Secretary-Treasurer includes the Financial Report and the Report by the City Auditors. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Edmonton Public School Board Annual Report for Year 1952

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the calendar year 1952. It consists of a report by the Superintendent and a report by the Secretary-Treasurer. The report by the Secretary-Treasurer includes the Financial Report and the Report by the City Auditors. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Edmonton Public School Board Annual Report for Year 1949

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the calendar year 1949. It consists of a report by the Superintendent and a report by the Secretary-Treasurer. The report by the Secretary-Treasurer includes the Financial Report and the Report by the City Auditors. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Edmonton Public School Board Annual Report for Year 1945

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the calendar year 1945. It consists of a report by the Superintendent and a report by the Secretary-Treasurer. The report by the Secretary-Treasurer includes the Financial Report and the Report by the City Auditors. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Edmonton Public School Board Annual Report for Year 1944

Item is the Annual Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the calendar year 1944. It consists of a report by the Superintendent and a report by the Secretary-Treasurer. The report by the Secretary-Treasurer includes the Financial Report and the Report by the City Auditors. Annual reports are created to demonstrate accountability to the Provincial Government Education department in accordance with the responsibilities specified in the School Act.

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Junior High Timetables

Item consists of timetables for individual Junior High School teachers within Edmonton Public Schools. Each timetable lists the courses taught in each period and includes the number of periods given to each subject. The teacher’s extracurricular activities are included. The file is divided by school by not all schools are included.

Superintendent of Schools

Administration Files

Series contains correspondence pertaining to administrative activities of Edmonton Public Schools as well as trustees' acceptance and resignation letters.

Secretary-Treasurer

Administration Files

Series contains documents pertaining to the administrative activities of Edmonton Public Schools departments, schools, Trustees, and committees. Series contains inactive files that were closed in June 1971 and sent to the vault for storage. Files are arranged numerically by the original file number assigned by creator.

Superintendent of Schools

Bursaries : Teacher Training

Item consists of information about Teacher Training bursaries issued by Edmonton Public Schools. Names of applicants and recipients included.

Personnel Staffing

Staff 1924-1925

Item consists of handwritten lists comparing teacher staffing in 1923-1924 to 1924-1925 within Edmonton Public Schools. It includes the number of teachers per school including a break down by Public Schools, Junior High Schools, High Schools, Part-Time teachers and Supervisors, the number of students enrolled per school, and it lists the names of tentative teacher appointees.

Staff Allocation

Item lists the employees of Edmonton Public Schools for 1935. It is divided into Administrative Staff, Maintenance Staff, Teaching Staff, and Caretaking Staff.

Personnel Services

Teacher Applicants

Item is a list of teacher applicants to the Edmonton Public School Board. It is arranged alphabetically and includes the teachers’ names, addresses and alpha-numeric codes.

Personnel Services

MacDonald, Murray W.

Item is the personnel file of Murray W. MacDonald. He was employed by Edmonton Public Schools from 1927 to 1963. File selectively retained because of Mr. MacDonald illustrious career as a watercolour artist.

Personnel Services

Carmichael, Anne

Item is the personnel file of Anne Carmichael. She was employed by Edmonton Public Schools from 1928 to 1969.

Personnel Services

Teacher Applicants

Item is a list of teacher applicants to the Edmonton Public School Board. It is arranged alphabetically and includes the teachers' names, addresses and alpha-numeric codes. Some names are stamped Appointed, Transferred or Resigned.

Personnel Services

Staff Promotions, Appointments and Adjustments

Item includes a list of appointed teachers with date and permanent or provisional status. It also includes a review of Temporary Teachers, a list of Public School Appointments, a list of High School Appointments, and a list of High School Appointments to be reviewed. There is a list of applicants for a position at Eastwood High School, a position at Westmount High School, a position in the Commercial Department, and a position as a Manual Instructor. Letters of application for the Manual Instructor position are on file.

Personnel Services

1976-77 Guidelines : Staff Utilization : School Organization : Program Implementation

Item is a booklet prepared to assist school administrators in school organization, time-tabling, program implementation and the deployment of staff within Edmonton Public Schools. It contains information about Personnel, Administrative Services, and Curricular Services. Item consists of photocopied pages in a duo tang.

Instructional Process

Department of Elementary Education

Item includes the Department of Elementary Education organizational chart, an explanation of the functions of the Department of Elementary Education, and job descriptions of General Supervisors and Consultant Teachers within Edmonton Public Schools.

Instructional Services Division

Community School : Concept and Development

Item consists of three files documenting the development of Community Schools within Edmonton Public Schools. File number one contains Community School concept reference material, chiefly photocopied articles from Jan 1971. File number two (Nov 1979-Feb 1980) examines Community Education Development Centres in North America and includes the job description of the EPS Community School Liaison position. The final file contains information from Mar to May 1980 used by the Steering Committee of the Community School Facility Task Force and includes the Community School Facility Survey.

Community School Development

Report on Organization and Procedures Edmonton Public School Board / Clarkson, Gordon and Co.

Item is a report to the Edmonton Public School Board recommending organizational and procedural changes. Also included are an organizational chart and a report by the EPS Management and Discipline Committee urging the Board to approve certain recommendations from the Clarkson, Gordon and Co. report.

Board of Trustees

Property Committee Minutes

Series consists of the minutes from the Property Committee, which was made up of Edmonton Public Schools Trustees with School Board officials and representatives present. The committee was concerned with Edmonton Public Schools sites and addressed issues around utilities, supplies, maintenance, caretaking staff, the use of schools by outside groups, and the renovating and selling of sites.

Board Secretary

Superintendent of Plant

Item is two files containing letters of application for position of Superintendent of Plant. It includes the job advertisement in the form of a newspaper clipping and outline of the qualifications and duties of both Superintendent of Plant and Chief Caretaker. Letter of application from successful candidate, R. L. Haskell, included.

Correspondence Book : Strathcona School District No. 216

Item contains correspondence written and maintained by A.T. Mode, Secretary-Treasurer of Strathcona School District No. 216. Subjects addressed include plans for the new Collegiate Institute, hiring teachers, tenders, debentures, re-opening date of school, letters to papers regarding advertisements, paying for plumbing and piano tuning, auditing books, requesting catalogues, a loan from the bank and leasing a school to the University of Alberta. Letters are numbered and an alphabetical index is included.

Memorandum of Transmittal

Series consists of documents from the Superintendent of Schools for the Edmonton Public School Board Trustees. The memoranda provided information about schools, students, staff, buildings, departments, curriculum changes, grievances, press releases and meetings. Appendices are included, but not all are on file.

Directory of Teachers

Item is an example of the forms filled out by the schools that required alphabetical listings of teachers, hours of school operation, and the day and month and time of staff meetings. Bonnie Doon, Eastwood, McArthur and Queen’s Avenue all include non-instructional staff.

Superintendent of Schools

The Edmonton Public Schools

Item is a bulletin produced by Edmonton Public Schools which includes district information of interest to Edmonton Public Schools instructional staff. In this issue is a history of Edmonton Public Schools. Of note is a piece describing J. Percy Page's resignation from the School Board and his appointment as Lieutenant-Governor. The Edmonton Public Schools bulletin was produced from Jan 1949 until Feb 1961 after which it was removed from the budget at the Board’s request.

Superintendent of Schools

Parkdale School Fiftieth Anniversary

Item is a booklet prepared by Parkdale School and its Home and School Association to celebrate the school’s 50th Anniversary. The booklet includes short biographies of former principals, and a chronological list of Parkdale School highlights. The Edmonton Public School Board Trustees and Administration personnel are listed along with the entire 1963 Parkdale School staff. The anniversary was celebrated with a short program, which is also listed in the booklet.

Parkdale School

Baker, Thomas D.

Item is the personnel file of T.D. Baker. He was employed by Edmonton Public Schools from 1940 to 1971.

Personnel Services

Inspectors' Reports on Teachers 1924 and 1925

Item is a list of the teachers in each school. For each teacher, it lists the grade the teacher taught, the rating the teacher received from the school inspector for both 1924 and 1925, and the name of the inspector who evaluated the teacher.

Personnel Services

List of Names of Teachers Appointed to the Various Branches of the Teaching Staff of the Board during the Year 1918

Item is a list of teachers approved for appointment to Edmonton Public Schools. The list provides the following information. The date the appointment was authorized, the class of certification held by the teacher, provisional or temporary appointment, the beginning and end dates of the appointment, the department or level of teaching to which the teacher was assigned, the salary, and whether or not the appointment was accepted.

Personnel Services

King George Park : Farewell

Item is a programme from the ceremonies which marked the moving of King George Park School from its old building to a new one. Biographies of teachers and staff are included.

King George Park School

Personnel Files [deaccessioned]

Series contained personnel files for all staff groups employed by Edmonton Public Schools. Series was arranged alphabetically. Dates reflect retirement of resignation of the employees. Files that were selectively retained are accessible by surname in the holdings of Archives and Museum.

Human Resources

Edmonton Public School Board Teachers’ Contract and Salary Record

Series consists of index cards listing yearly contract and salary records for teachers. Each card includes a teacher’s name, school, date of contract agreement, salary, type of teacher’s certificate, and first day of service. On verso is a record of work by month and day and of monthly payments. Data handwritten. Series is incomplete. It includes surnames from Ainsley to Scott.

Staff Bulletin

Item is a weekly bulletin that was established in Jan 1957 for distribution to all staff members of Edmonton Public Schools.

Communications

Reception Honouring Long Service Employees

Item contains receipts and an invitation for the Edmonton Public School Board Hospitality Room at the Alberta School Trustees’ Association Conference. File maintained by Trustee Shirley E. Forbes.

Board of Trustees

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