Series contains photographs of teachers at Capreol Public School in Capreol, Ontario.
Item is an auditor's report with statements and balance sheets for the Copper Cliff Public School Board.
Item is an auditor's report with statements and balance sheets for the Copper Cliff Public School Board.
Item is volume two of a handwritten Canadian History Outline lesson plan. Subjects included in the lesson plan are: the United Empire Loyalists, Feudalism, the Constitutional Act, the War of 1812, the Fur Trade, pioneers in Upper Canada, Responsible Government in British North America (Canada pre-1867), the Rebellion of 1837-1838, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Confederation, Louis Riel and the North-West Rebellion, Canada in the Boer War (South African War), the League of Nations, the Klondike Gold Rush, aviation during the Great War and the role of the government in Canada, including electoral districts, sources of revenue and available social services. Tucked within the notebook are handwritten and typewritten notes on historical people and events, maps, a pamphlet titled "The Fathers of Confederation" that was issued by the Ontario Department of Education in September 1927, eighteen 'Canadianecdote' articles clipped out of Maclean's Magazine ("The Fiddler Went to War," "Frontenac's Unwanted Heart," "The Tycoon in Caulk Boots," "They Took a Train for Taxes," "John A. and the Jester," "The Tale of Old Wives," "The Vindication of Suzanne Pas-de-Nom," "Finnan Fought a Buffalo," "A Coin that's Worth a Fortune," "The Last Shots of War," "The West's Jesting Judge," "And He Owned B.C.!," "A Favor from Mavor," "He Traded Canada for a Dowry," "He Duped the Duke," "The Sacrifice of Malobiannah," "The Lifesaving Doves" and "The Raid on 'Fort Blunder'"), a memorandum dated June 1933 regarding higher average marks received by students at Capreol Public School in Capreol, Ontario on their high school entrance exams versus their final exams (which included a suggestion that the final exams should be made less difficult and be marked more carefully to ensure that the exams were of value to the students and school officials), a typed article entitled "The Legend of the Crooked Tree" which was based on (predominately verbatim) the published article “Crooked Tree of Ekfrid Casts Shadow Over Site of Canada’s Betrayal” (originally published in the London Free Press), a typed article entitled "Stoney Creek" which was based on (predominately verbatim) the published article “Victory of Stoney Creek,” a handwritten list of the Cabinet members in the 1934 Ontario Government and the 1935 Dominion Government, a handwritten list of six items titled, “The duties of a Citizen,” and newspaper clippings.
(Articles from identified newspapers include: “Commemorate 118 Years of Canada-U.S. Peace,” The Sudbury Star, May 4, 1935, p. 8, “Gold Coins, Silver Plate: Legend True, Inn Yields Treasure,” The Globe and Mail, August 19, 1964, “New Ministers in Premier Hepburn’s Cabinet of Thirteen,” The Free Press (London, Ontario), October 13, 1937, “Dorchester’s Donnybrook Fair Opens Tomorrow,” The London Free Press, October 8, 1965, p. 30 and “The Story of Tecumseh,” The Canadian Countryman, January 24, 1925, p. 11 & p. 33.)
(Articles from unidentified newspapers include: “Will Not Arm Against Canada,” 1935, “I Wish I Were a Millionaire,” “All-Embracing,” “Description of a Storm,” “Victory of Stoney Creek,” “Road Error, Hunch Bring Lou to Place of Tecumseh’s Birth,” p. 1, “Road Error, Hunch Bring Lou to Story,” p. 3, “Memorial to Dan Boone,” “Crooked Tree of Ekfrid Casts Shadow Over Site of Canada’s Betrayal,” “Wishing Well District Scene of Many Dramas In Ontario’s Early Days,” “In the Days of the Indians,” “Brule’s First Indian Fight,” “Unique Lesson: Try New Way of Teaching History,” January 6, 1951 and “Hepburn Cabinet Enlarged to 14 Members; Dewan Heads Agriculture, Conant, Attorney-General,” p. 1 & p. 10).
One image of seven Capreol Public School teachers standing outside of the teachers' residence in Capreol, Ontario. The teachers, from left to right, are: Jean McKinnon, Florence Hampel, Irene Murphy, Madge Wallace (Scotland), Agnes Irvine, Gertrude Flavelle and Lena Helferty.
File consists of a bound, handwritten and date stamped Bank of Toronto Pass Book for the Town of Copper Cliff. This pass book was used for the municipality's Construction and Public School Equipment funds. Also included are a typed note concerning a cheque to Harper Construction Company, an invoice from Harper Construction Company (formally Harper & Vuori) dated September 12, 1946 in the amount of $103.95 for construction work on the Copper Cliff High School and two paid cheques, one to Harper Construction Company, dated October 2, 1946, in the amount of $103.95 and signed by the Mayor and Town Treasurer and one to the municipality, dated March 18, 1949 in the amount of $6.91, also signed by the Mayor and Town Treasurer.
Item is a typed, annotated, minute book for the Chelmsford Valley District High School Board. Trustees included Chairman Cyril Villeneuve, Vice-Chairman Gordon Pirie, S.A. Gauthier, Denis Landry, E.T. Littlefield, N. Mainville, W. Petersen, and G. Pirie. Board affiliations with other trustee associations, conference attendance, teacher upgrading courses, faculty and staff employment, building renovations, supplies, field trips, renting school space to the Blezard-Hanmer High School Board for teaching, changes in the curriculum, smoking by students at a graduation dance, windstorm damage to school building, creation of a playing field at the back of the school, a contract with Canadian Union of Public Employees, instillation of a punch clock and other topics are discussed. Internal correspondence between the school board and the trustees (including a letter with two photostat pages attached concerning the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Chelmsford Valley District Composite High School Board non-teaching employees), a xerox copy of a Disposition of Dispute between the Chelmsford Composite School Board and the non-teaching employees, a certified true copy of an item of business that transpired at a special meeting of the Chelmsford Valley District High School Board on February 24th, 1966 involving Section 89 of the Labours Relation Act section 202 RSO 1960, non-teaching staff strikes, a memorandum concerning unlawful picketing at the school and the need to send letters to ratepayers with a copy of the salary schedule of the janitorial staff, and handwritten notes on lined paper are also included in the minute book.
Item is part 2B of a grade eight social studies lesson plan consisting of sixteen sections that cover British history and the development of democracy in the western world. The sixteen sections include: "Part B" [an introduction], "The British Isles," "The Normans in England," "The Crusades," "Scotland in the Middle Ages," "Elizabethan England," "Additional Explorers," "Freedom in Government," "Types of Government," "National Freedom," "Individual Freedom," "The Establishment, Growth, and Influence of the Christian Church in Britain," "Slavery," "The Establishment of Colonies in North America," "Britain To-day" and "Winston Churchill."
One image of the St. Albert's Separate School softball team, 1945 juvenile softball champions of the Association of Canadian Travellers (ACT) League, at a luncheon banquet hosted by the ACT for the winning teams. Front row, from left to right, Steve Grosdich, Peter Battino, Louis Narbonne (Coach), Vico Medina, Fred Grottoli and George Hamilton. Back row, from left to right, are Allan butler, Eddie Boucher, Paul Dinan, Ray Demuynick, Robert Bois, Gerald Retty, Leo Bertuzzi and Bob Dinan.
File consists of a scrapbook of Col. David Younger Public School. The scrapbook opens with a picture of the grade six graduating class of June 1964 with a typed list of the students' names. Following is a page with all of the signatures of the students who graduated in 1965; a newspaper clipping from the Sudbury Star (November 10, 1975) describing the academic efforts of David Basso, a former student of the school (1960-1967) who became visually impaired; and a green coloured page with the pictures of all the teachers from the 1968 to 1969 school year. Class photographs, listing all of the students' names, are included for the years 1969 to 1976. Photographs showcasing the students learning about and taking part in reading and language, mathematics, social studies, science, french and physical education activities have also been incorporated into the scrapbook. Photographs from the May 1972 grade five class visit to Paisley Road Public School in Guelph, Ontario to meet the students' pen pals, images from the 1972 Fall Fair and the Christmas concert have been included, as well as photographs of grade five and six students making snow sculptures in February 1975, a class trip to the sugar bush in Hanmer, Ontario in April 1975, a class trip to Storybook Farm by the grade one and two classes in June 1975, the grade two and three classes visiting the Big Nickel in May 1976, and a puppet show at the school by Mr. Strom of Thunder Bay in February 1976. Four Canadian UNICEF Committee Award of Appreciation certificates to Col. David Young Public School from 1971 to 1974 are also included in the scrapbook along with several newspaper clippings of various school events and activities and a letter from CKNC "The Mid-Canada Television System" owned by J. Conrad Lavigne Limited to the grade 1 & 2 teacher Miss Mona Pretty on January 10, 1976 which states their television station's intention of airing a letter written by her students concerning violence and profanity on television during the early evening hours. Pretty's students had previously written a letter which was printed in the Sudbury Star on December 11, 1975 requesting children appropriate programs to be aired before their bedtime.
File consists of (1) Anniversary issue of Blue & White, the Port Hope High School newsletter. Issue includes information on the school, crest, history, memories, photographs of principals and photographs of different buildings used for the high school since 1853, Valedictorians, Staff, Student Council and school song; and (2) Programme for the 25th class reunion 1956-1982, Port Hope High School.
File consists of a diploma received by M. Isabel Jones St. Louis (1897-1987) on 15th October 1919. Diploma is signed by the president, secretary, superintendent and mission of the Port Hope Hospital Training School for nurses, established in 1916. The diploma was presented to the Port Hope and District Hospital as Ms. St. Louis was the last surviving of that graduating class. It hung in the Port Hope & District Hospital until it closed.
Port Hope & District HospitalFile consists of newspaper articles related to the Anglican School for Girls. It also includes: Program for dedication of St. Luke's Chapel; and Program for the dedication of the swimming pool.
Loucks, BarbaraFile consists of papers related to Trinity College School [TCS], as originally owned by Gerald James. It includes: (1) Sketch depicting the TCS chapel; (2) Newspaper advertisement for TCS, c. 1900; (3) Listing of Junior School Prize winners 1931, and "The School on the Hill;" (4) Christmas Carol Service, TCS.
Loucks, BarbaraLetter written by R. C. Wilson and I. D. Willis of the Port Hope Evening Guide, regarding the incident involving Mr. Brackenbury and their recommendations to the Parent's and Guardian's Committee, 1942.
Choate (family)Item is a programme for the Durham Teachers' Association Annual Meeting, listing speakers and activities, c. 1900. The annual meeting of the Durham Teachers' Association was held in Port Hope in the "old high school", formerly St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. The former church building was used as the high school until the new school building was built on Pine Street in 1896. Mrs. Hoodless spoke on Domestic Science. Mrs. Hoodless is believed to be Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, founder of the Women's Institute.
Collection consists of the non-confidential records of Howard Jordan Public School, 1971-2009. It has been arranged into seven (7) series: Clippings, H.J.P.S. Papers, Willis Dowler, Newsletters, Artifacts, Photographs, and Building Plans. For more information, view series-level descriptions.
Howard Jordan Public SchoolFonds consists of papers, architectural drawings and photographs from Dr. M.S. Hawkins Senior Public School, c. 1900-1997. It has been divided into 6 series': (1) Photographs; (2) Building & Planning; (3) Dr. Hawkins School Library; (4) Dr. Hawkins School Administration; (5) Artifacts; (6) Port Hope Model School.
Dr. M.S. Hawkins Senior Public School