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Footage. Probably scenes from a school inspector's trip through the Gulf Islands. Shots of Texada, Lasqueti, and Denman Islands, and of sports day activities at Nanaimo.

RECORDED: Oyster River (B.C.), 1971-03-03 & 17 SUMMARY: In an interview with Helen Mitchell and Rose McKay, Cecil Eric (Tom) Galley recalls how his parents and family settled at Knight Inlet and later on Harbledown Island on the BC Coast in the 1890s. Logging in the area. The McCrimmon family. The pre-emption on Harbledown Island. Dick Pattison. Schooling on Harbledown and at Metlakahtla and New Westminster. Tom's military service in World War One. Wounded in Europe; met future wife while convalescing overseas. Mrs. Galley's military service. Return to Vancouver and Harbledown. Clam fishing and canning. Their children. Moved to Alert Bay, 1926. Chinese at cannery. The coastal steamship "Boscowitz". Postal service to Harbledown Island and Kingcome Inlet. More on Alert Bay move. Tom became a lineman for the government telegraph and telephone service, 1931 or 1932. Anglican missionaries on Village Island -- two women. People and businesses at Alert Bay. The death and burial of "Shovel-Nose" Murphy. Building the Alert Bay community hall. Indian agents. Schools at Alert Bay.

The file consists of newsletters, course information and forms from Central Junior Secondary School, Victoria, 1977-1978.

The file consists of four school reports of D.H. Tye's performance in the sixth form at University School, Victoria, 1926, 1927.

Public school certificates presented to two of the children of John Patmore Walls and Fanny Georgina Orlebar Walls: Nina E. Walls, High School Entrance Certificate 1899, Orlebar Charles Walls, Roll of Honour 1903.

The item is an essay about the Okanagan School, written by Frank Morgan Buckland of Kelowna in 1947.

"Boys Own Gazette": manuscript magazine produced by students at Victoria High School, 1884. "Edited" by Edwin C. Smith and illustrated by T. Gore and T.G. Fox. The magazine consists of vignettes of school life, humorous anecdotes and cartoons. Also includes a water colour painting of the "Old High School" (i.e. Victoria Common School, 1851) and an ink drawing of "new" Victoria High School. Transferred to Visual Records accession 199205-009.

"The Leisure Hour": manuscript magazine produced for students at Victoria High School, April 1887, "Edited" by J. Boyd and Cary Pope. The magazine consists of vignettes of school life, reports of social events in Victoria, B.C. Also includes a 4 page supplement containing humorous and moral anecdotes as well as riddles - presented to "Editress of the girls' paper as a momento of her school-life" and marginalia and annotations by Kenneth Drury, 1908.

Fort Victoria school 1850, 1851, 1852, sums of money allowed the Rev. Mr. Staines for the board of children, 1850, 1851, 1852. Provides names of parent or guardian paying sums.

School report, High School Entrance examination, June 1886, Girls Department, 1st Division, Victoria Public School, for Flora Fraser, completed by Miss F.E. Armstrong, teacher.