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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New Teacher Reception

Item contains lists of teachers, menus and invitations pertaining to the New Teacher Receptions held in 1978 and 1979. Teacher induction program mentioned. File maintained by Trustee Shirley E. Forbes.

Superintendent of Schools

Retirement Reception

Item consists of documents pertaining to Edmonton Public Schools employees’ retirement receptions for the years 1974-1979. Programs, letters of resignation and acknowledgement, invitations, lists of retiring employees and general correspondence are included.

Superintendent of Schools

Retirement Reception

Item consists of documents pertaining to Edmonton Public Schools employees’ retirement receptions for the years 1980-1982. Programs, letters of resignation and acknowledgement, invitations, lists of retiring employees and general correspondence are included.

Superintendent of Schools

Edmonton Public School Board Expenditures Budget 1967

Item is the cerlox bound Edmonton Public Schools expenditures budget for 1967. It includes a break-down of expenditures and was submitted by the Superintendent of Schools. It is divided into Financial, Administrative, Instructional, and Maintenance sections.

Superintendent of Schools

Liaison Committee Minutes

Item consists of minutes taken at Liaison Committee meetings, held between Edmonton Public Schools administration and A.T.A. representatives. Issues of concern to teachers were discussed. Copies of related correspondence included.

Superintendent of Schools

Teachers

Item consists of listings of teachers, breakdown of teachers by education and sex, timetables, information about teacher recruitment and retention, and a 1961 salary agreement.

Superintendent of Schools

Administration Files : Relief Fund

Item pertains to the distribution of the school fund for necessitous children (Relief Fund) by principals. Lists of amounts disbursed through the schools and receipts for clothing and dental work included. Funds were raised through concerts and contributions. Included is correspondence from Nelles Buchanan offering a donation and a letter from the Special Relief Department regarding the Dominion-Provincial Youth Training Programme.

Administration Files : Religious Instruction

Item pertains to religious instruction in schools and, specifically, Bible readings. The file includes the document Bible Readings in Edmonton Public Schools, Revised Copy. It also includes the Report of Committee Appointed to Select a List of Bible Readings. Item also contains inquiries from other school boards, parent concerns and evaluations by teachers. Included are letters from the Religious Tract Society and a copy of a report on the learning of the Ten Commandments in state schools in the British Empire.

Gross Motor Performance and Motor Learning of Educable Mentally Retarded Boys : A Preliminary Report / Patricia L. Austin

Item is report funded by the Department of National Health and Welfare, Fitness and Amateur Sport and by the University of Alberta. The subjects were boys in the Intermediate Opportunity Classes of Edmonton Public Schools. The study provides information on the physical fitness and gross motor ability of the subjects. It also compares two structured physical education programs.

University of Alberta

A Study to Establish Norms, for Edmonton Public Secondary School Boys, of the Youth Fitness Tests of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation / Robert Henry Routledge

Item is a Master’s Thesis submitted to the University of Alberta by Robert Henry Routledge. It attempts to establish norms for physical performance, specifically motor fitness, of boys in Edmonton Public Junior and Senior High schools.

University of Alberta

A Survey of Opinion on the Elibibility [sic] Rules of the Edmonton High Schools / Michael E. Eurchuk

Item was a coil-bound report submitted to the University of Alberta Faculty of Physical Education to fulfill the requirements of Bachelor of Physical Education degree. It examines the eligibility rules for contestants in Edmonton Public High School athletics and addresses the basic assumptions and applications of such rules.

University of Alberta

The Chinook

Item is a magazine edited by the student body of Edmonton High School, later known as Victoria High School. It includes articles by members of the community as well as articles about school activities. Of note are photographs of Edmonton High School teaching staff and of the students.

Victoria School

Industrial Education

Item consists of charts, course outlines, reports and articles about Industrial Education. Maintained by William E. Robinson, Supervisor of Industrial Arts.

William Robinson

Administration Files of Strathcona School District No. 216

Series reflects administrative activities of Strathcona School District No. 216. Although chiefly financial and staffing issues, opening of new schools, amalgamation with Edmonton School District No. 7, Inspector's Reports, correspondence with University of Alberta, Association of School Trustees of Alberta and Department of Education is also included. Of note is a letter from Lieutenant Governor Bulyea regarding the opening of Strathcona Collegiate Institute. Compiled by the Secretary-Treasurer, files are arranged chronologically. Correspondence of a related subject often glued together. The top document reflects the chronological date within the file but often much earlier documents are attached.

Strathcona School District No. 216

Assessment and Tax Roll

Item pertains to those paying property taxes to West Edmonton School District No. 2320. For each ratepayer it lists name of ratepayer, post office address, description of property, number of lots, amount and date of payment.

Collector's Roll : Village School District of West Edmonton No. 2320

Item pertains to those paying property taxes to West Edmonton School District No. 2320. For each ratepayer, it includes Name of Ratepayer, Post Office Address, Assessed Value of Real and Personal Property, Rate of Taxation on the Dollar, Amount of Taxes for Current Year, Arrears of Taxes Due, Total Taxes Due, Date of Mailing Tax Notice, Treasurer's Initials, Payment of Taxes (Date and Amount) and Remarks.

School Registration Information

Item is a notice indicating the date of registration for Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High and High School students. It also indicates the age at which children may start Kindergarten and Grade I and a list of Pupil Services.

Communications-Community Relations

Educational Tests

Item pertains to standardized educational tests used in Edmonton Public Schools. It includes memos, blank tests, and reports with results.

Student Information and Assessment

Edmonton Public School Board Annual Financial Report for Year 1967

Item is the Financial Report of Edmonton School District No. 7 for the 1967 calendar year. It includes reports by Secretary-Treasurer, T. W. Meen, and by the Auditors, Deloitte, Plender, Haskins and Sells, Balance Sheet, statements for Revenue Fund Surplus and Capital and Loan Fund Surplus, Revenue and Expenditure, and Payment of Principal and Interest on Outstanding Debenture Debt, schedules for Building Construction, Equipment and Land Purchases, Capital Assets acquired from Capital Funds, and Capital Assets acquired from Reserve, Surplus and Current Revenue, Average Monthly Enrolment and Per Pupil Costs, and Assessment and Taxation Statistics.

Board of Trustees

Interview with Catherine McLean

Item is a recorded interview with Catherine McLean. She discusses her school experiences in Edmonton in the late 19th Century and early 20th Centuries. She describes the Edmonton School and mentions teachers Lucy Dulmage and George Welbourne. She describes College Avenue School and early Edmonton. She also briefly describes her experience working for the Legislature in McKay Avenue School. Interviewer is M. A. Kostek.

Board Administration

Bursaries : Teacher Training Recipients

Item consists of applications for Edmonton Public Schools bursaries and related correspondence. The bursaries were given to students studying Education and committed to teaching for Edmonton Public Schools. Only successful applicants are included.

Personnel Staffing

Superintendent and Associate Superintendents’ Meetings

Series consists of agenda packages for the Superintendent and Associate Superintendents’ regular committee meetings. The function of this committee was agenda planning and processing of Board reports in conjunction with the Superintendent's Executive Council (SEC) and the Agenda Planning Committee (APC). Packages contain an agenda with attachments that include reports and minutes from previous meetings. This committee is also known as SAS.

Superintendent of Schools

Simple Machines

Item is a film about the usefulness of six simple machines: the inclined plane, the lever, the pulley, the wheel-and-axle, the wedge and the screw.

Row, Peterson & Company

Superintendent's Bulletin

Item is a weekly bulletin that was established in Jan 1957 for distribution to all staff members of Edmonton Public Schools. The purpose was to incorporate in one Bulletin most of the notices, memos and directives that formerly came from various offices and departments at different times during the week. This Bulletin was issued from the Superintendent's Office and scheduled to arrive in the schools on Friday. A variety of enclosures attached to the bulletins.

Communications

Elementary School Information For Parents

Item consists of two brochures, one for 1977-78 and one for 1979-80. Each brochure is intended to provide parents with basic information about their child’s school. It includes the school calendar and space to record information about the child’s school and classes.

Communications-Community Relations

Wall hanging

Item is burlap with children's drawings embroidered in wool. Item was located in reception area of Superintendent's Office.

Pupil Directory for School 119

Item is a computer print-out of pupils enrolled at Donald Ross School. Included are the students' names, room numbers, grade levels, sex, addresses, phone numbers, and previous schools.

Student Information

Grain Crop Samples

Item includes seven grains : Side Oats, Mongolian Hulless Oats, N. Dak. Fall Rye, Victory Oats, Fibre Variety Flax, Common Sex Rowed Barley, Seed Type Flax.

Corporal Punishment and Substitute Teacher Record

Item consists of a notebook and a memorandum. The notebook contains Bennett School records of student punishments ca. 1949-1956, and substitute teachers ca.1954-1955 - 1970-1971. The memorandum is dated August 1, 1969 and is from J.C. McCall to all Principals requesting assessments of substitute teachers.

Bennett School

Term Examination Report

Item is the term examination report for Bennett School. It lists the students, their ages, the grades they achieved in various subjects, and the teachers' recommendations. The name of the teacher for each grade is also included.

Bennett School

School Supplies

Item originated in Bennett School and consists of a general list of supplies to be handed out, a tally of supplies given to individual pupils in Grades II, III and IV in September 1915, and the names of the students who received primers in January 1915.

Bennett School

By-Laws and Rules of Order

Item is a booklet of the By-Laws and Rules of Order for the Edmonton Public School Board. The booklet was printed by the Technical High School Press.

Board Administration

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