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News item. Centennial of Victoria High School, which first opened 01-May-1876. Poor background sound.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1908;-;1951 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-07-24 SUMMARY: Mary Wallace Hamilton, born in New Westminster, 1891, is a 1908 graduate of Victoria High School. McGill University graduate. Types of students who completed their high school education in 1908. Parental influence and encouragement concerning a girl's academic achievement. Opportunities for women; clerking, teaching, nursing or secretarial work. Role of women in school life. General attitudes towards women and education. Women's opportunities -- changes through the years.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1975?] SUMMARY: Mrs. Schroeder's parents came to Victoria from North Hatley, Quebec in 1891. Another married daughter already lived there. Violet was one of eight children. The family lived on Rithet Street and at other rented homes in James Bay. Attended first services [1892] at James Bay Methodist Church (now James Bay United). Attended Kingston Street school, and then the new South Park School on Douglas Street, where Miss Agnes Deans Cameron was the principal. Recollections of Miss Cameron, her disciplinary style, and her Arctic travels, resulting in the book "The Far North". High school. Trained as nurse at Royal Columbian Hospital in Sapperton. Married Frank James Schroeder [in 1903]. Childhood recollections: games, clothing, Sunday dinners. The Dilworth family.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ida Clarkson : Victoria High School project RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-07-03 SUMMARY: Ida Clarkson was born on April 23, 1927. She graduated from Victoria High School in 1943. She discusses: Harry Smith; teachers; commercial program; army, navy, airforce careers for young adults; sergeant of airforce cadets; air cadet training, drills, uniforms, 1943; member of the stenographic corps; evacuation of Japanese students into the interior, 1942; irregular occurrences in school life directly related to the War; Glee Club; drum majorettes; school dances and high school graduation; dominant individuals.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Victoria High School project RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-06-20 SUMMARY: Jo-Ann Williams: 1962 graduate of Victoria High School. Accounts of school life -- academics, sports, social life. Courses offered at this time. Possible differentiations between male and female students at Vic High. Trends and patterns of high school life.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Elkington recounts his father's [William Howard Elkington] coming to the Cowichan area in 1883; he bought a place on Quamichan Lake and established a farm, "Oak Park". He talks about the Cowichan Creamery; schooling; Miss Skinner; childhood adventures; Quamichan Lake School; South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club; social life; amateur dramatic society; a childhood illness and being sent to Victoria to hospital in 1895; meeting the Dunsmuirs and Sir Henry Crease. He discusses his schooling and education at Victoria High School. TRACK 2: Dr. Elkington recounts traveling to Victoria; the train route; stage between Duncan and Cowichan Lake; his father's farm; Chinese labour; Cowichan's "gentleman farmers"; Robert Service; Maple Bay; Billy Beaumont; anecdotes; sailing in Cowichan Bay; "public school boys"; the Elkington family house and Indians.