Hastings Mill, 1886   The text for this Feature Story is taken from an article published in 1911 in the British Columbia Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 6. The photos featured [...]

  The following excerpts are from the book  STRATHCONA SCHOOL 1873 – 1961, published in 1961: FOREWORD When Mr. Carl Barton, principal of Strathcona School, proposed that the story of our [...]

 (L) Vancouver High School (1893 – 1904)     (R) Vancouver High School (1905 – 1908)   (All written passages are taken from THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS – VANCOUVER HIGH SCHOOLS 1890 [...]

History of the FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE to 1940.                                           [...]

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  Author:  Lisa Glandt, MAS. With the support of the VSB Archives and Heritage Committee, I recently updated the historical exhibits at Sir William Van Horne Elementary and organized our [...]

   Date: 1917 In 1917, the Vancouver Board of School Trustees commissioned two school administrators,  Principal W. H. Vance and Dr. John Mckay, to conduct a thorough evaluation of the ‘efficiency’ of the [...]

Vancouver ‘s Open Air School was operated by the Rotary Club.   The first “Open Air” schools appeared in Germany and Britain in the early 1900s. They were seen as playing [...]

      This history Of Britannia High School was published in the school newspaper in four installments during October 1938 – May 1939. It is a remarkable story of [...]

      Elsie was born on December 28, 1917. Her family had come to Canada from Northumberland, England in 1907. They first settled in High River, Alberta, where her [...]