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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Seventh Announcement of the Edmonton Technical High School Day Classes 1921-22

Item is a prospectus for the Edmonton Technical High School. Course descriptions for Prevocational, Matriculation, Shop Courses, and Industrial Courses are included. Industrial courses include both free and fee courses. Course descriptions are included for Matriculations subjects, Art, Mechanical Drawing, Elementary Carpentry, Cabinet Making, Advanced Cabinet Making, Pattern Making and Foundry, Power, Cooking, Sewing, Printing, Woodwork, Machine Shop Practice, Forge Shop, Vocational Dressmaking and Costume Designing, Textile and Textile Chemistry, Gas Engine, Industrial Chemistry, Invalid Cookery and Chemistry.

Edmonton Technical School

Utilizing Community Resources

Item is a coil-bound book prepared by the curriculum sub-committee of the Edmonton Public School Local Alberta Teachers’ Association in cooperation with Edmonton Public Schools. It details the reasons for using Community Resources in education and provides a directory for field trips. Within the book are photographs of a class which were taken by a Parkview School teacher.

Curricular Services

Utilizing Community Resources : Theory and Practice of Community Study for Educational Purposes : A Directory for Field Trips

Item is a bound book which details the reasons for using Community Resources in education and lists a directory for field trips. The book was coordinated by the Committee for the Utilization of Community Resources within Edmonton Public Schools and a forward was written by the Superintendent, R. S. Sheppard.

Curricular Services

Avalon Special Projects Class 1975

Item is a hard-bound book containing student reports from the Avalon Junior High School Special Projects Class. M. Eurchuk, Assistant Principal of Avalon Junior High School, was the Special Projects Class Supervisor. The class was part of the district's Gifted and Talented Program. Students who participated in the class and submitted reports were from several different junior high schools within Edmonton Public Schools.

Curricular Services

Secondary Education and Guidance Files

Item consists of files maintained by Directors of Secondary Education and Guidance, W.P. Wagner, G. R. Conquest, and M. J. V. Downey. Within the files are monthly reports to the Superintendent, assessments of teachers and students, and correspondence and information about both career and psychological counselling.

Consulting Services

Information for Parents

Item is a brochure 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

Graduating Class 1960

Item consists of letters from students in Hamburg, Germany to students in Edmonton. Each letter, written in German, is accompanied by an English translation. The letters express appreciation for an album created by the King Edward School students and sent to Germany as part of a Red Cross program. Postcards and one photograph of Hamburg are attached. Also included is a letter from the Red Cross.

King Edward School [1914]

King Edward Junior High School Honor Roll

Item is an Academic Honour Roll for King Edward Junior High School. It lists the names of honour students, grades VII, VIII and IX, for the school years 1961-62 to 1972-73. It is continued from item 84.KE.19.

King Edward School [1914]

Gray's Gazette

Item is a student newspaper. Articles focus on school activities and items of interest to junior high students. Included are biographies of teachers, Mr. Quaite, Miss Bailey, Miss Jensen, and Mr. Waldron. Concert Prize Winners are listed, including the elementary winners.

H.A. Gray School

Gray's Gazette

Item is a student newspaper. Included are short biographies of teachers, Mr. Curtis, Mrs. Gerard, and Mr. Heffel. Articles focus on school activities and items of interest to junior high students.

H.A. Gray School

King Edward Intermediate School Presents Rio Rico

Item is a photocopied programme of the comic operetta presented by the King Edward Intermediate School at the Garneau Auditorium. Miss L. Parnell was the director. The programme includes the cast of characters as well as advertisements from local businesses.

King Edward School [1914]

Honour Roll

Item is an Academic Honour Roll for King Edward Junior High School. It lists the names of honour students, grades VII, VIII and IX, for the school years 1973-74 to 1981-82. It is continued from item 84.KE.19.

King Edward School [1914]

Certificates

Item consists of four blank certificates. The first is for highest honours standing in the school. The second is for perfect attendance. The third is for Outstanding Progress in Pre-Vocational studies. The fourth is a Service Award Certificate.

H.A. Gray School

Vic Argosy

Item is a student newspaper from Victoria School, which contains articles about student activities.

Victoria School

Administration Files : Contests and Competitions

Item is a file of correspondence regarding student poster and essay contests sponsored by service clubs, the Canadian Authors' Association and the radio station CJCA. The item contains information about a federal job competition and the Civil Service Examination. A pamphlet from the Province of Alberta outlining the competition to destroy crows and magpies is also included. File was discontinued and removed from a larger series.

A Report on the 1979 Student Opinion Survey : Edmonton Public Schools

Item is a report detailing the results of a district wide student attitude survey conducted in June 1979 to determine students' attitudes toward school. The questionnaires are included in the report. The survey was initiated in 1979 by Superintendent Strembitsky as a tool to monitor principals in the newly implemented district wide School Based Budgeting. The survey director was Dr. Mosychuk, Monitoring and Assessment Services.

Superintendent of Schools

Our Schools

Item is a newsprint publication containing photographs of students and teachers learning, discovering, creating and teaching. It was created by the Instructional Media Centre and printed by the students of the graphic arts department at Victoria Composite High School.

Learning Resources Acquisitions and Field Services

Hardisty Junior High Music Dept Scrapbook

Item is a scrapbook pertaining to the music program at Hardisty School. It includes programmes, notices to parents, a list of all the secondary Music teachers in Edmonton Public Schools, and adjudication reports from the Kiwanis Music Festival. It also contains photographs of student music ensembles and bands.

Hardisty School

The Tech No. 2

Item is the 1932-33 yearbook for the Edmonton Technical School.

Edmonton Technical School

Edmonton Technical High School : Course of Study : Day Classes 1917-1918

Item consists of two identical copies of the Edmonton Technical High School day class prospectus. Descriptions of technical options offered are included, specifically, Household Arts, Art, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Woodwork, Machine Shop, and Forge Shop. For students over 16, industrial courses could be taken in Art, Architectural Course, Forge Shop, Gas Engine, Household Arts, Dressmaking, Industrial Chemistry and Mineralogy, Machine Shop, Printing, and Woodwork.

Edmonton Technical School

Utilizing Community Resources : Theory and Practice of Community Study for Educational Purposes : A Directory for Field Trips

Item is a bound book which details the reasons for using Community Resources in education and lists a directory for field trips. The book was coordinated by the Committee for the Utilization of Community Resources within Edmonton Public Schools and a forward was written by the Superintendent, R. S. Sheppard.

Curricular Services

Utilizing Community Resources

Item is a coil-bound book prepared by the curriculum sub-committee of the Edmonton Public School Local Alberta Teachers’ Association in cooperation with Edmonton Public Schools. It details the reasons for using Community Resources in education and provides a directory for field trips. Within the book are photographs of a class which were taken by a Parkview School teacher.

Curricular Services

Secondary Education Files

Item consists of documents and correspondence related to career counseling, text books, curriculum, staff issues, student employment, I.Q. and achievement tests, and conferences. The file was maintained by G. R. Conquest and M. J. V. Downey.

Consulting Services

Guidance Files

Item consists of correspondence, student assessments and Supervisor’s Reports written and maintained by W. P. Wagner, Guidance Counsellor. This item illustrates the tasks performed by W. P. Wagner and his department.

Consulting Services

Teacher Education

Item pertains to teacher education, training and certification. It includes information about students attending the University of Alberta and the Calgary Normal School as well as yearbooks from the Camrose Normal School and the Edmonton Normal School. Item is a collection of booklets combined into a kit. The information in the kit is from 1880-1981, predominantly 1910-1946. Item is an educational kit used by students at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Education.

Phys. Ed. Tables / William Barker

Item is a manual for Physical Education teachers. It presents practical information on class planning and athletics. It also contains 25 tables. Each table lists a sequence of exercises for students to follow.

Physical and Health Education Services

Physical Education Policy Handbook

Item is a Junior and Senior High School Physical Education Policy Handbook for Edmonton Public Schools. It includes information governing Physical Education class programs, interschool athletics, League Regulations, and information pertaining to Junior High School athletics.

Physical and Health Education Services

Outdoor Education

Item is a booklet to be used by Edmonton Public School teachers when planning outdoor education activities. It includes lists of areas to visit and resources to use.

Outdoor Environmental Education Services

Grade One Science Process Test

Item is a test examining the degree to which the objectives for the program Science : A Process Approach, Level A were being met. The resulting data was to be used for possible program revision. Included in this item are the test manual, a list of slide numbers and their correlating test questions, and three plastic sheets of slides. The original box and slide carousel, 84.47.6-10 are missing.

Statistics and Geometry Units

Item consists of four Mathematics units developed by Edmonton Public Schools and covering Alberta Education objectives. Included are Grade X and XI Statistics units and Grade X Geometry units.

Mathematics Services

Pre-Vocational Language Arts : Transportation

Item is a booklet of course material for use in year three of Pre-Vocational Language Arts. It was developed by Judy Shapka and is stamped “Draft Copy” and “Pilot Use Only”. It includes fiction, exercises and information relating to cars and driving.

Jasper Place School

Edmonton Public Schools : Organizing for Instruction 1980-81

Item is a booklet to be used by Edmonton Public Schools principals and staff in the organizing for instruction and the preparation of the budget. It addresses resource allocations and the preparation of program budgets, assignment of duties and constraints, and general organizational requirements.

Instructional Process

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