CALL NUMBER: T0360:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Art H. Phair discusses his background; in that he was born in 1880, details of his father's work, his experience at private school in Victoria, the story ...
Item consists of an interview, recorded April 20, 1976 with Cedric Lonsdale who recalls his uncle, C.W. Lonsdale, the founder of Shawnigan Lake School, and discusses the history of the school. Cedric G. Lonsdale was also on the school staff at one...
Documents in this collection pertain to both schools and include: Collegiate School (CS) students' register (1892-1929); CS students' roll book (1910-1929); CS Cadet corps orders book (1910-1919); CS scrapbook (1898-1929); and samples o...
This series consists of correspondence inward to the Premier's office and the Minister of Education with respect to the Independent Schools Support Act (Bill 33), 1977. Under this legislation limited government funding was made available to p...
This series consists of correspondence, minutes, briefs, memoranda, etc., of the Council of Public Instruction. Most of the records in this unit date from the 1967-1970 period. Included are records relating to Indian schools, private schools, un...
CALL NUMBER: T1704:0113 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: On independent schools and nuclear power RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-13 & 20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Opposition Leader Dave Barrett describes the NDP's position on aid t...
This record series is composed of the 1960-1963 files of the then Minister of Education, the Hon. Leslie Peterson. The files contain his ministerial correspondence and briefs that he received as a member of the cabinet. The filing system is not ...
Dirk Fraser was a student at Vernon Preparatory School, 1938-1941, and Magee High School in Vancouver, 1941-1943. This collection includes his 1941-1942 diary, his letters home to his mother and sister 1940-1941, letters to him from friends 1942-...
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorothy Richardson describes how her father, Gerald Payne, came to BC in 1885 to Saturna Island; Saturna Island characters Warburton Pike and Billy Trueworthy; Gerald Payne's ex...
CALL NUMBER: T0999:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Comments on the Gaudry report and on the funding of research and education RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-02-04 SUMMARY: Comments on the Gaudry Report and the funding of higher education and r...
The item is a copy of a thesis by Jean Barman titled "Growing up British in British Columbia: Boys in Private School, 1900-1950." 1982. xii, 474: tables. Thesis (D.Ed.) University of British Columbia, 1982. Bibliography: leaves 475...
Minutes of annual, semi-annual, and executive meetings, 1927-1968. Includes statements of accounts and brief submitted to British Columbia Royal Commission on Education (1959).Presented by Douglas Harker, Pender Island, 1980.
Independent Schools Association of British Columbia
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Sankey describes her early life in Kamloops, where her father was a doctor. His name was Dr. Simon John Tunstall, and he later practised in...
The Rev. Augustine Clark Mackie (1879-1965) and his brother Hugh (1882-1971) emigrated from England to Vernon, B.C. in October 1913 with the intention of establishing an independent school for boys. Vernon had been recommended to them by a nephew...
CALL NUMBER: T1290:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nellie, Mrs. F.G. Hood, talks about her childhood in early Victoria; her father, Colonel Prior, was an MP in the federal parliament, the premier of BC and Lieutena...
This series contains Qualifying Pupil Lists for schools funded under the Independent Schools Support Act (1977). Lists, which are arranged alphabetically by school, give names and ages of pupils, plus names and addresses of parents and guardians....
British Columbia. Office of the Inspector of Independent Schools
This series contains Qualifying Pupil Lists and Summary Sheets for schools funded under Independent Schools Support Act (1977). Box 1: Pupil lists, arranged alphabetically by school. Includes names and ages of pupils, plus names and addresses of...
British Columbia. Office of the Inspector of Independent Schools
Records of Queen Margaret's School, an independent school for girls on Vancouver Island founded in 1921 by Misses N.C. Denny and D.R. Geoghegan. Collection includes financial reports, students' roll books and attendance registers (1921-...
The collection consists of the records of Qualicum College, an independent boys' school on Vancouver Island. Included are letters between R.I. Knight and his family in England re: the founding and funding of the school; applications for adm...
CALL NUMBER: T4044:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1983-02-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: family background; father's work as school inspector in India; Anglo-Indian upbringing in Calcutta and England; memories of prep school and schoolda...
The series consists of School Inspectors' reports created by the Dept. of Education between 1918 and 1957. The reports are arranged alphabetically, by name of school or community, for the years 1918-1938; thereafter, reports are filed alphab...
CALL NUMBER: T0845:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sir Philip Livingston recalls how his father [Clement Livingston] came to the Cowichan Valley in 1890; the family's home; game in the Cowichan Valley; Mount S...
Series consists of minute books of meetings of school governors and directors (1934-1981), athletic programmes (1933-1951), and scrapbooks containing photographs, circulars, and news cuttings (1933-1977).
