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Circulars

  • GR-1111
  • Series
  • 1949-1967

This series contains curriculum circulars containing announcements, changes, directives and rulings from the Division of Curriculum. These circulars were sent to all school principals with instructions that they should be kept on file and made available to all teachers. The circulars from 1949-1955 are indexed and arranged by subject. Removed from GR-1030 (B.C. Home Economics Branch), in 1981.

British Columbia. Division of Curriculum

Bulletins

  • GR-1112
  • Series
  • 1936-1956

Bulletins of the Provincial Summer School of Education describing faculty, courses available and procedures.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Circulars

  • GR-1113
  • Series
  • 1946-1956

Series contains departmental circular notices pertaining to school regulations, curriculum changes, special events, etc. Also 8 pp. brief prepared by the Association of Provincial Government School Inspectors (1947) regarding salaries of inspectors and directors of Educational Divisions.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Manuals

  • GR-1115
  • Series
  • 1947-1980

School Building Manuals, 1954, pre-1962, 1967 and 1980. Also program and report from Conference on School Buildings ' Grounds and Equipment (1947) and B.C. Community Centres Conference (1947).

British Columbia. Ministry of Education. School Finance and Facilities Division

Reports

  • GR-1116
  • Series
  • 1925-1974

This series contains reports regarding the B.C. school system, as follows: 1) Survey of the School System, by J.H. Putnam and M. Weir (1925); 2) Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Educational Finance, by Maxwell A. Cameron (1945); 3) "Reorganization of School Districts as proposed in Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Educational Finance", by Maxwell A. Cameron (1945); 4) "Brief presented to the Royal Commission on Education" by the B.C. Teachers' Federation (1959); 5) Report of the Royal Commission on Education (1960); 6) A Precis of the Report of the Royal Commission on Education in British Columbia (1960); 7) "The Coffe Report". The Report of the Commission on the Future of the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia (1969); 8)An Interim Report to the Honourable The Minister of Education Mrs. Eileen E. Dailly from the Senior Secondary School Study Committee (1974); 9) Cameron report - miscellaneous; 10) 1960 Royal Commission - miscellaneous.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Circular

  • GR-1199
  • Series
  • 1955-1968

This series consists of the Chief Inspector's Circular containing suggestions for improvement of instruction from many sources.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Circular

  • GR-1200
  • Series
  • 1954-1965

This series contains a circular entitled "Teaching Aid Circular for the use of inspectors, principals and teachers.".

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Circular

  • GR-1201
  • Series
  • 1957-1964

This series contains circular entitled "Announcements Circular containing miscellaneous information of interest to educational personnel."

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Circular

  • GR-1202
  • Series
  • 1951-1958

This series contains a circular entitled "Departmental Circular for Inspectors, Directors, and other Officials."

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Circular

  • GR-1203
  • Series
  • 1950-1974

This series contains a circular entitled "Administrative Bulletin, Curriculum Adjustment for the Secondary Schools of British Columbia".

British Columbia. Division of Curriculum

Course calendars and other material

  • GR-1314
  • Series
  • 1939-1983

This series contains records relating to correspondence education courses. Types of records include course calendars containing general information and descriptions of courses offered.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education. Correspondence Branch

Curriculum outlines and other material

  • GR-1316
  • Series
  • 1946-1980

This series contains the records of the Correspondence Education Branch. The records mainly consist of curriculum outlines, instruction books, and examination papers for courses offered through provincial correspondence education programmes.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education. Correspondence Branch

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-1389
  • Series
  • 1969-1979

This series contains correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous papers regarding planning and revision of school curricula. The first box contains ministerial correspondence, progress reports, plus files on Indian education, industrial arts, home economics, and women's studies. Box 2 contains files regarding secondary guidance, English and business education. It also files regarding a Captain Cook study kit from 1978. Box 3 contains files regarding an introduction of core curriculum, 1977. It also includes departmental papers, reports, selected correspondence and "reaction sheets" from teachers, parents, and pupils.

British Columbia. Ministry of Education. Curriculum Development Branch

Language Arts Committee correspondence and other records

  • GR-1423
  • Series
  • 1972-1975

This series contains correspondence, minutes and reports of Language Arts Committees for the years 1972 and 1975.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education. Curriculum Development Branch

Superintendent of Education correspondence inward

  • GR-1445
  • Series
  • 1887-1894

Consists of correspondence inward to Superintendents John Jessop (1872-1878), C.C. McKenzie (1878-1884), and S.D. Pope (1884-1899). Types of records include petitions for school buildings, applications for teaching posts, minutes of local school boards, school trustees' reports, etc. This series may be used in conjunction with GR-0449 (Superintendent of Education, Indexes to Correspondence Inward, 1881-1915) and GR-0450 (Superintendent of Education, Correspondence Outward, 1872-1919).

Researchers should also be aware of the Correspondence Inward files of the Provincial Secretary, 1871-1892 (GR-0526). Since the Provincial Secretary was responsible for the Education Department, these files contain many records pertaining to teachers, schools, and education matters in general. Access to documents in GR-0526 is through GR-0524 (Provincial Secretary. Registers and indexes of letters inward, 1872-1924). Documents pertaining to education, etc. are indexed under the headings "SCHOOLS", and "EDUCATION, SUPERINTENDENT".

British Columbia. Superintendent of Education

Elementary and technical education correspondence

  • GR-1446
  • Series
  • 1914-1929

This series contains correspondence inward and outward of the Director of Elementary Education and the organizer of Technical Education. Files include correspondence and reports regarding summer schools and night schools, manual training and domestic science, agricultural education and wartime Food Conservation Committee. The series also contains miscellaneous reports from school inspectors and correspondence regarding provincial university and college programmes. This collection may be used in conjunction with GR-0457 (Technical Education, 1915-1923) and GR-0458 (Elementary Agricultural Education, 1915-1929). This collection includes: correspondence (inward and outward) of J. W. Gibson, the Director of Elementary Agricultural Education Branch and John Kyle, the Organizer of Technical Education; the records of George H. Deane, the Supervisor of Technical Education; correspondence and reports pertaining to summer school and night school programs, manual training and domestic science, agriculture education and wartime food supply; miscellaneous reports from school inspectors; and correspondence concerning university and college courses. During this period, the Organizer of Technical Education (John Kyle) was responsible for night schools, domestic science courses, and manual training programs. The Director of the Elementary Agricultural Education Branch (J.W.Â\~Gibson) was responsible for rural science courses, schools gardening projects and acted as director of the Summer School for Teachers. Gibson was also the Provincial Organizer for the Wartime Food Conservation Committee. Both John Kyle and J.W. Gibson reported to George H. Deane, the Assistant Superintendent of Education as well as the Supervisor of Technical Education (19131917). Deane also acted as Inspector of Schools on Vancouver Island, and this collection includes correspondence relating to school inspection and to matters other than technical and agricultural education.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Legal opinions offered by Attorney General

  • GR-1459
  • Series
  • 1864-1879

This series contains legal opinions offered by Attorney General on a wide range of subjects. For more information on the subjects covered, please consult the attached finding aid.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Attorney-General

Victoria School Board minutes and other material

  • GR-1465
  • Series
  • 1869-1887

This series contains a bound volume of minutes of meetings of the Victoria School Board, along with receipts of payments made by the Board. The series includes minutes of meetings of school board electors (showing votes cast by individual electors for particular candidates) and contains copies of provincial government circulars relating to education and copies of schools-related bills, by-laws, rules and regulations.

Victoria School District. Board of School Trustees

Board of Education minutes and other records

  • GR-1467
  • Series
  • 1865-1869

This series contains records of the Vancouver Island Board of Education and its successor, the British Columbia Board of Education. Records include minutes of Board meetings, letterbook of correspondence outward, account book of text books and other school supplies, and a notebook regarding Vancouver Island schools and visits to them by Superintendent of Education. The letterbook of correspondence and notebook of school visits in handwritten by Alfred Waddington.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Board of Education

Board of Education correspondence and other records

  • GR-1468
  • Series
  • 1872-1884

This series contains records of the provincial Board of Education. The records include a minute book of Board meetings (1872-1878), a register of teachers' certificates (1872-1883), correspondence regarding Victoria School Reserve (1875-1876) and diaries of provincial school inspectors John Jessop, R.M. Clemitson, and C.C. McKenzie. McKenzie diary includes list of students [giving names, ages, classes and grades] in provincial schools from 1880-1881. Map of Victoria School Reserve, 1876, transferred to BC Archives Map Division.

British Columbia. Board of Education

Records with regard to teacher training and certification

  • GR-1471
  • Series
  • 1884-1949

The series consists of records pertaining to teacher training and certification. It includes minute books of the Board of Examiners (1884-1949), teachers certificate registers (1892-1947), student registers at provincial Normal schools (1901-1938), high school examination results (1924-1927), and minutes of the Dept. of Education Appointments Board (1937-1945).

Prior to 1901, teachers in British Columbia were drawn either from outside the province or (after 1876) from graduates of provincial high schools. All teachers required teaching certificates, which were awarded by the Superintendent of Education. Teachers from outside the province were required to sit an examination set by the Provincial Board of Examiners. Candidates were awarded different grades or classes of certificates, depending on the results of their exam. High school graduates qualified for certificates in a similar manner, depending on their scores on terminal examinations. Standards of certification changed frequently over the years, as did the questions which appeared on the "Public School Teachers' Examinations." Basically, though, several classes of certificates were available: Academic and First Class (awarded to university graduates and/or to candidates scoring over 70% on the exam); Second class (awarded to candidates scoring over 50% on examinations); and Third class (awarded to candidates scoring 30% and above on a series of exam questions). First class certificates were permanent, 2nd class were valid for 3 years, while 3rd class certificates were generally good for one year, with the possibility of renewal. "Temporary certificates," valid until the annual examinations were held in July, were also issued under certain circumstances.

In 1901, the province's first Normal School for teacher training was opened in Vancouver. (A second school, in Victoria, was opened in 1915.) Thereafter, graduation from the Normal School replaced the "Public School Teachers' Examinations" for those seeking Academic, First, and Second class certificates. Only Third class certificates valid for a limited period of time were still awarded on the basis of candidates' high school examinations.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Department of Education correspondence and other records

  • GR-1477
  • Series
  • 1913-1929

This series contains correspondence inward to J.W. Gibson, Director of Elementary Agricultural Education. The series includes reports on "Caring for School Gardens" [1913] and notes on correlation of rural science with manual training. It also includes "Remittance Forms" from "Patriotism and Production School Campaign" [1917], a patriotic fund-raising exercise held in schools to assist the war effort. The forms give the name of schools, teachers, and a description of projects undertaken by pupils. There are over one hundred (mainly) rural schools represented. This series may be used in conjunction with GR-0458 and GR-1446 (Elementary Education correspondence, 1915-1929).

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Department of Education administrative records

  • GR-1479
  • Series
  • 1886-1948

This series contains records pertaining to school properties, school sites, and school district boundaries. Vol. 1: Index to Deeds of School Sites, 1886-1948 (provides name of school, date when school district established, legal description of site, and name of vendor of property); Vols. II and III: Index to B.C. Gazette notices defining rural and assisted school districts, 1921-1945; Vol. IV: Alphabetical Register of Rural and Assisted Schools, 1921-1944 [showing dates of establishment, boundary and name changes, etc.]. The series also includes files containing miscellaneous contracts and fire insurance policies, 1914-1934. Vol. I may be used in conjunction with GR-1440, Lands Branch correspondence, File 2655/07.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Directories of School Inspectorates

  • GR-1492
  • Series
  • 1937-1946

This series contains directories of school inspectorates, showing names of school inspectors, names of schools and number of teachers within inspectorates. Directories also list schools closed in various school districts. This series may be used in conjunction with GR-0456 (School inspectors' reports, 1940-1946).

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Department of Education executive records

  • GR-1561
  • Series
  • 1972-1975

The series consists of Associate Deputy Minister A.E. Sole's subject files arranged alphabetically by file title. The records include correspondence and reports dealing with schools, colleges, teachers, curricula, libraries, and various other education-related topics.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

BC Ministry of Education policy files

  • GR-1599
  • Series
  • 1978-1983

This series contains policy files accumulated by J.L. Canty, Executive Director, Deputy Minister's Office. Files pertain to school law, ministry contracts with school districts, school finance and facilities, and interest groups (i.e. B.C. Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, B.C. School Trustees Association, and B.C. Teachers' Federation).

British Columbia. Ministry of Education (1976-1978)

Letterbook and other material of Provincial Normal School (Vancouver)

  • GR-1660
  • Series
  • 1908-1915

This series contains records from the Provincial Normal School (Vancouver). The records include a letterbook, consisting of correspondence from William Burns, principal, to Alexander Robinson, Superintendent of Education.

British Columbia. Dept. of Education

Universities Council of British Columbia records

  • GR-1701
  • Series
  • 1974-1987

The series consists of records documenting the activities of the Universities Council of British Columbia while promoting the systematic development of university education and creating public accountability for university expenditures. Series include council minutes, agenda material, sub-committee minutes, notices of motions, correspondence inward, registers of correspondence inward, correspondence outward, register of correspondence outward, and miscellaneous reports.

Universities Council of British Columbia

Education Branch correspondence.

  • GR-1709
  • Series
  • 1871-1889

This series includes a suggested draft for the 1872 Public Schools Act by Thomas Nicholson (1871), correspondence regarding the school at Burton's Prairie (1882) and correspondence regarding a request for an additional teacher at New Westminster High School (1889).

British Columbia. Dept. of the Provincial Secretary

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