Featured Photo: Students at Lord Selkirk learn telephone courtesy thanks to phones on long-time loan from BC Tel.   From January to June, 1966, Principal J.A. Harper retained all documents that passed his desk. At some point much later, this collection was sent to the Vancouver School Board District Archives for safekeeping. Below is a list [...]

  On October 21, 2022, a permanent display honouring the original school building was installed near the main entrance to the new school. The display is comprised of historical photographs mounted behind an ornate wood frame that was part of the original school [...]

The following Feature Story offers a fascinating look at the challenging ‘entrance exams’ facing Vancouver students in 1911 who wanted to proceed onto the final years of High School, in those days, King Edward High School. The examinations also reveal the importance given to Canada’s connections with Great [...]

      As part of David Lloyd George School’s centennial celebrations, students and teachers worked together to create displays on a variety of topics including:  School Ground History A History of the Rooms in the Building Punishments throughout the Ages Hairstyles throughout the Decades Fashion throughout the Decades The [...]

      Background to this Post – A Tribute to Marjean Gibson Marjean Gibson was a highly respected employee of the Vancouver School Board, where she worked as a photographer. During her time there, she took thousands of high quality photographs, including many posted on the VSB Archives and Heritage website. Judging from the [...]

  The Genesis of the King George Secondary School Archives As reported by Jesse Coomes & Jim Bradbury Photos by Derek Grant   When King George Secondary School was about to turn 100 we started looking for memorabilia to celebrate this event. This meant digging out boxes of stuff from storage rooms, basements, old closets and asking [...]

The signing of high school yearbooks at the end of the school year has long been a tradition. For former students, the signatures will bring back memories well into the future. For the rest of us, the signatures will give hints of the personalities of those who signed. The signatures seen below were written on a copy of the King Edward School [...]

 The Vancouver High School Cadet Corp marches down Georgia Street, Vancouver (1912). One of the most remarkable events in the history of the Vancouver School District involved the Vancouver High School Cadets Corp, which was created in November 1903. In 1911, the Commanding Officer of a contingent of visiting cadets from Australia invited the [...]

This history was written in 1968 by Lloyd Hamel, a teacher at Oakridge School. It was originally printed in April, 1976, and includes an appendix that brings Mr. Harmel’s history of the school up to date. The photography was done by Marjean Gibson, Audio Visual Services, Vancouver School Board. Note: The author uses the term ‘trainable [...]

    by Oliver Matisz, a Grade Eight student attending Prince of Wales Secondary School (Sept 2021) On Friday June 14, 1941, Prince of Wales School Principal, J.H Hall, stood solemnly before a full assembly of students gathered in the school auditorium and announced that the secondary portion of the school would close prior to the [...]