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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.

Finney joined the Royal Air Force in 1924 as a Pilot Officer and immigrated to Canada in 1929. He moved to British Columbia from Montreal in 1933 and prepared aviation correspondence courses for the Dept. of Education, was active in the Aero Club of British Columbia and other aviation clubs and trained pilots during the Second World War and civilians in the post-war years.

The records includes Finney's log-books, 1924-1939, log-book of Ruth V. Johnson, 1946-1951, biographical material, personal papers, correspondence with the Aero Club of B.C, Marjorie L. Todd and others, Department of Education aviation correspondence courses and examinations, and miscellaneous material.

The file contains Principal Patience Sweetnam's Owen Bay Elementary School annual report to the Dept. of Education in 1938. The file also contains correspondence from 1973 concerning the provenance of the report.

The series consists of records created by the Dept. of Education between 1915 and 1924. The records include teachers' "Reports on Instruction Given in Rural Science," submitted to J.W. Gibson, director of Elementary Agricultural Instruction. The reports show name of teacher, teacher's length of service at the school, qualifications in rural science, and previous experience with school gardening. The reports also contain information re: syllabuses, textbooks, equipment, etc., as well as monthly calendars of gardening activities of various schools.

The reports are filed alphabetically by teachers' names. Researchers should consult the Public Schools Reports for these years to determine the names of teachers at particular schools.

The series includes records relating to three inquiries into various educational matters, and include correspondence, transcripts of evidence and reports on:
Commission on the Board of School Trustees of Vancouver, 1913
Commission Re Board of School Trustees of the City of Nelson, 1912
Commission to investigate the charges brought by Miss [Agnes] Gertrude Donovan of Victoria against the Department of Education, 1903-1908