Item consists of information about staff members and Edmonton Public Schools, which was used to compose the speech delivered by Board Chairman Joan Cowling at the 1985 Retirement Banquet.

Item is a leaflet providing information about Edmonton Public Schools, its budget, and programs.

Series consists of the Telephone Directories for Edmonton Public Schools. There are two copies, within this series, of the directories for 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, and 1984-85. The directories for 1986-87 and 1991-92 were added to this series after it was accessioned.

Item consists of two copies of a card listing facts about Edmonton Public Schools.

Item consists of information to use during Commonwealth Day observances. Empire Day changed to Commonwealth Day in 1958. Included is information about the flag and a souvenir programme of the Official Flag Raising Ceremony from the visit of Governor General Georges Vanier to Edmonton Public Schools.

Item is the list of teachers who taught at Donald Ross School. It includes the grade each teacher taught and the name of the principal.

Item pertains to the annual spring tea held at H. A. Gray School. Included are programs, job allocations, tickets, applications to the Provincial Government for permission to hold Raffles, expenses, supplies, procedures, and information about displays.

Item consists of information pertaining to Education Week at H. A. Gray School. Included is a public manual, general planning information, a classroom guide for Open House 1960, and information from the principal about activities for Education Week 1967.

Item is a notebook containing the list of substitute teachers employed at Donald Ross School. It includes the date, the absent teacher's name, the reason for the absence, grade taught, name of substitute, and number of days employed. It also includes a memo from the Substitute Teacher Office regarding procedures for substitute teachers.

Item is a notebook which was used as a guest book. The signatures of guests follow the name and date of various special events at Bennett School.

Item is the programme of the Edmonton Public School Local, A. T. A. 25th Anniversary celebration. It includes a brief history of the local.

Item contains a letter from J. Percy Page, Principal of McDougall Commercial High School to G.A. McKee, Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools, explaining how the double shift system within McDougall Commercial High School is organized. The remainder of the file is hand-written evaluations of the double shift system written by students and one teacher, Oliver McKee.

Item is the Bulletin newspaper for the town of Edmonton.

Item is a program plan which identifies, in general terms, the location of facilities for J. Percy Page School and the interrelationships of the facilities.

Item lists employees retiring in 1985. Employees are listed on either a certificated or non-certificated list.

Item is a document pertaining to the formula used to calculate the amount of time principals should be in the classroom and the use of relieving teachers to take over their classroom work. It lists the schools, their principals, and the amount of time that a relieving teacher would have to provide in 1927-1928 compared to 1926-1927. It appears to be written by the Superintendent of Schools.

Item is a log created by R. H. Routledge, Physical Education Assistant Supervisor. It is an incomplete list of high school Track and Field winners from Edmonton Public Schools for the period 1908 to 1961. It is arranged by track and field event.

Item is a program for the Annual Night of Music. It includes orchestras, bands and choirs from within Edmonton Public Schools.

Item is a programme for the Annual Night of Music at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Orchestras and choirs from within Edmonton Public Schools are included.

Item is a yearbook for the Edmonton Technical School for 1931-32. Course descriptions, descriptions of student activities, descriptions of students, and photographs of teachers and students are included.

Item is a list of memoranda and enclosures sent from the Superintendent of Schools to Principals 1931-1959. The memoranda were directives for the Principals and the enclosures were passed on to all staff.

Item is memoranda that were issued out of a need to communicate information to personnel other than school administrators. Item reflects time period 17 Oct 1972 and 23 Nov 1972.

Item is a continuation of the Superintendent's Memo which was to provide staff in leadership positions with Edmonton Public Schools' operational information and to assist leadership staff in becoming more efficient in their roles. Item reflects time period 11 Jun 1973 to 20 Aug 1974. Some memoranda within these records have enclosures.

Series pertains to policy development within Edmonton Public Schools. The series is arranged into three sub-series: 84.51.3 Policy Development : Survey of Principals, 84.51.4-7 Policy Development : Advisory Committee which contains agenda, minutes, memoranda and the policies and regulations the committee has agreed to, 84.51.8 Policy Development : Project Booklets and Draft Policies which consists of Advisory Committee notes and a draft policy manual.

Item is divided into four parts (a-d). (a) budget which lists equipment needed for each room, price of each item and total for each room. (b) memorandum that explains the list does not include music equipment, one unassigned vocational area and teaching aids such as maps and globes. It also recommends that the list of equipment be put out to tender. (c) site plan, main floor plan, and second floor plan. (d) Equipment Budget Breakdown by room. It includes the total equipment for vocational and academic budgets, and the total installation cost broken down into academic, vocational and labor budgets.

Item is a coil-bound plan detailing recommendations for school and core portable development for the 1980-1983 period. Core portables are structures attached to the main school building and are usually built in groups of 4, 6 or 8. The plan lists recommended projects, budgets, basis of budget development, the financial effects of the recommended projects, the effect of recommended construction in relation to district enrolment and capacity, and a ranking of the different projects into three priority levels.

This item is a file of notes compiled by Herbert Story during his position as Building Commissioner 1916-1936, with some additions made by an unknown author after Mr. Story’s tenure. Detailed, organized notes were made regarding school buildings constructed between 1904-1931, site plans, playgrounds, school furnishings, air quality in schools, washroom facilities, sports grounds, and formulas to make stone preservative, linseed oil soap, Sanispray, disinfectant, hectograph mass, ink, and blackboard dressing.

Item consists of two copies of a souvenir program. It includes a history of Edmonton Public Schools and photographs of school board officials and schools. Information about cadets and physical education also included. In addition, the description of building specifications for the Edmonton School and Oliver School are mentioned.

Series pertains to the construction, modifications and maintenance of EPSB schools and buildings. Included are construction schedules, tender specifications, architectural and engineering correspondence, blueprints, plans, school inspection reports, and caretaking appointments and resignations. The series is a complete record of the building programs carried out by EPSB on a school by school basis during the period 1942-1972.

Item is a list of schools, the years they were built, the cost of each school and the cost per class room for each school. The costs of frame buildings are combined together.

Item is a student exercise book used as a Utilities Record Book at Victoria School. It records utilities readings, including the amount of coal received and used. All entries are hand-written.

Item consists of letters of tender for the building of temporary schools in Allendale, Highlands, Elm Park, Norwood Extension, and Vermillion Avenue. Correspondence with the successful contractors and balance sheets are included.

Item includes letters of tender for repairing and extending Syndicate Avenue School. It also includes correspondence to the contractor from Edmonton Public Schools Building Commissioner during construction.

Item consists of tenders for boilers at Cromdale School. Blueprints and boiler information packages are included.

Item consists of the general contract, plumbing, heating and ventilation tenders for the construction of Cromdale School. Correspondence from construction firms and copies of correspondence from the Building Commissioner are included.

Item consists of specs for the building, heating and ventilation of H. A. Gray School signed by contractors Doyle, Thomas and Christensen Ltd and by Kelly and Kokott Co. Correspondence about construction problems and costs is included. Reference is made to King Edward and McDougall Schools under construction at the same time.

Item consists of an inventory of Edmonton Public schools. Next to each school is the date occupied, gross square feet, and definition of additions.

Item is a list of schools and indicates the number of portables each school uses and the purpose of the portables. The list was updated Mar 1973 from a Principal’s Questionnaire of Nov 1972.

Item contains descriptions of the boilers and electrical machines in Edmonton Public Schools. General information about the boilers is included.

Item consists of plans of the H. A. Gray School. It has been color-coded to indicate the daily cleaning schedule. Item was removed from a frame.

Item consists of 25 architectural drawings of the proposed H. A. Gray School addition. Included is the room finish schedule, the door schedule and the locker schedule. The consulting structural engineers were C.C. Parker and Associates.

Series consists primarily of correspondence pertaining to the work done by Supervisors and Directors working out McKay Avenue School.

Item was created at the request of the Edmonton Public Schools Board of Trustees. It examines 30 schools either in need of renovation or affected by the City of Edmonton’s proposed roadway plans. For each school, information about Building and Site, Safety and Maintenance, Edmonton Transportation and Urban Renewal, and Functional Status is provided.

Item is an invitation to the official opening of the new Edmonton Technical School on 03 Jan 1923. Included is a history of the school.

Item includes letters of tender for construction of a temporary frame school in Elm Park, a list of hardware used, correspondence from the Building Commissioner at Edmonton Public Schools to the contractor and sub-contractors, and a balance sheet.

Item consists of specifications required for a temporary one-room school, possibly for Riverdale Temporary School No. 2. The specifications were prepared by George Turner, Building Commissioner at Edmonton Public Schools.

Item consists of letters of tender and other correspondence pertaining to the old Garneau School building (frame construction).

Item consists of correspondence and accounts pertaining to the construction of the Garneau Temporary School. Most of the correspondence is between the construction firm of O.J. Edinger and the School Board Building Commissioner.

Item consists of correspondence, tenders, accounts and bills pertaining to the construction of McCauley School.

Item is a newspaper covering local news, with some international and national items. Three stories are of note. The first is the Edmonton School closing for the summer on May 31st so the teacher, Mr. Martin, could meet his arriving family in Calgary. Second, is the voting on the creation of East Edmonton School District. Third, is the promotion examinations held in the public school on May 26, 27. The names of the children are included as are the arithmetic examination questions for standards four and five.