SUMMARY: Douglas Peden: Bike celebrates; speed records; techniques in races; regulations; structure of bikes. Newspaper career: high school sports writers from Vic High; high school students on Times staff; athletes known and met. Victoria athletes.
SUMMARY: Douglas Peden: high school; Bill Roper; basketball in 1920s and '30s; Pedens, Patricks, Chapmans; sports at high school; debating society; Ira Dilworth; blue ribbons. 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin -- silver medalists. Discussion of th...
The McKenzie Family collection consists of the business and personal papers of Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874), his ancestors and descendants, including correspondence, notebooks, diaries, and other papers. It documents over one hundred and fifty ye...
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)...
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...
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.
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. A...
"Peace River School Directory, May-June 1934." A bound, typescript volume compiled by School Inspector William Plenderleith. It was compiled to assist J.L. Watson, Department of Education Registrar, in making appointments to schools in ...
Provincial Normal School sessional registers of students for Victoria 1927-1956, and Vancouver 1938-1956. This unit may be used in conjunction with GR-1471 (includes sessional registers of students 1901-1938).
This series consists of 33 volumes of register of Schools, school trustees and teachers. Records include registers showing the location of rural and assisted schools (1 vol.), names of trustees of rural and assisted school districts, 1917-1946 (29...
List of schools in British Columbia, with names and addresses of school principals (city and municipal schools), of teachers (rural schools), and school board secretaries: 1934-1935; 1936-1937; 1937-1938; 1944-1945; & 1945-1946.
This series contains Associate Deputy Minister's files. The records include correspondence and reports dealing with schools, colleges, teachers, curricula, libraries, and various other education-related topics.These records consist of subjec...
Visitors' Book, 1876-1884. This volume contains testimonials from trustees and local residents concerning the school teachers, along with class-room evaluations by visitors and school inspectors. Also includes penciled notes re: pupils'...
Register of Pupils attending South Saanich School, 1878-1897. South Saanich School District was created in 1872. In 1880 the district was redefined and the school was renamed "East-South Saanich." The name of the school reverted to &qu...
Register of Victoria District School, 1861-1865, and school account book, 1862-1864. The Register shows the names and attendance of students at the school. "Accounts" include supply list of food staples, etc., showing prices and custom...
Draft resolution of the Legislative Assembly, urging the establishment of a nonsectarian public school system for the Colony of Vancouver Island; also a petition from a committee of citizens of Victoria, advocating a central location for the city&...
"Me and my family". Reminiscences of childhood and adult life in Victoria, Vancouver and the Gulf Islands. Mrs. Seymour also narrates many of her experiences as a teacher (teaching degree in Music) at Fanny Bay, Gabriola Island, Chemai...
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 ...
This series contains correspondence and copies of memoranda concerning construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, ferries, wharves, railways, and schools. The records also include some drawings and plans.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works. Works Branch
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 si...
The series consists of specifications for Public Works buildings, including occasional plans and contract forms, created between 1872 and 1924 by the Dept. of Public Works.
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. ...
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 dome...
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 b...
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
Amateur film. Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941. Includes footage of wagons en ...
This series consists of correspondence of the Organizer of Technical Education. This officer dealt with night school, summer school, domestic science and manual training, in addition to technical education. The letterbooks of correspondence outw...
This series is comprised of School District Information forms distributed by the Teachers Bureau to rural school teachers in 1923 and 1928 to be filled out and returned to the Bureau. The forms are questionnaires for the purpose of obtaining infor...
British Columbia. Dept. of Education. Teachers Bureau