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Victoria (B.C.) Schools--British Columbia
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Central Junior Secondary School oral history collection

  • PR-1981
  • Collection
  • 1985

The collection consists of audio and videotaped oral history interviews with former students and teachers pertaining to the history of Central Junior Secondary School in Victoria, B.C.

Central Junior Secondary School (Victoria, B.C.)

Mary Hamilton interview : [Stewart, 1975]

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.

Violet Schroeder interview : [Chambers, 1975?]

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.

[Historic items]

Television stock shots. Footage includes: moving of Pioneer School; moving of Stavley School; Fort Rodd Hill artillery; Empress Hotel; [statue of?] Captain Vancouver; the New Year's baby, 1974 ; dismantling of Victoria Machinery Depot; Causeway up-date; historic buildings; Remembrance Day, 1974.

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