Title: Prince Rupert Municipal Board of Trustees fonds

This record describes the Prince Rupert Municipal Board of Trustees fonds.

Creator: Prince Rupert Municipal Board of Trustees

Date: 1931 - 1945

Physical Description: 0.5 cm of textual records

History/Biography: A Board of School Trustees was established in 1910 in Prince Rupert, the year the city was incorporated. The Board of Trustees at the time were D.G. Stewart, C.V. Bennett and John Currie. In 1933 the City of Prince Rupert was bankrupt. The school board was superseded and W.J. Alder was appointed as Commissioner. In 1943 the school board was restored and on April 1, 1946 School District #52, serving Prince Rupert and the outlying area, was incorporated. The incorporation was the result of a provincial consolidation of existing school districts into 74 large administrative units based on The Cameron Report on Education, in which Dr. Cameron recommended a restructuring of the province into large, regionally defined administrative units to be called school districts.

Scope & Content: The fonds consists of three annual reports prepared by the Prince Rupert Municipal Board of Trustees for the Superintendent for Education in 1939, 1943 and 1945. The schools in the city at that time were Booth Memorial High, King Edward, Borden, Seal Cove, Westview and Conrad (1944-45). Reports give teachers names, certificate, salary, attendance, and pupils in each grade.

Note: Title based on the contents of the fonds.

Name Access:
Prince Rupert Municipal Board of Trustees

Subject Access:
Teachers

Geographic Access:
Prince Rupert, B.C.

Accession Number: 1985.034

Record ID: 796


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