The Ministry of Education would like to thank Sandy Reber for the photography of the artefacts.

Education Across the Years
The Ministry of Education would like to thank Dr. Thomas Fleming, University of Victoria and Carolyn Smyly, Research Assistant, for the compilation of images representing BC’s education history and the creation of the captions for the images.

Dr. Thomas Fleming has granted permission for the use of the following images from his personal collection:

Log School at Kelly Lake
Schoolyard agriculture at Sayward 1947
School nurse making her rounds in the Peace River country during the early 1930s
School Inspector Bill Plenderleith beside his car
Extracting the School Inspector’s car from a snow bank
Ten below zero: School Inspector Plenderleith setting out for Lone Prairie

The Ministry of Education would like to thank the staff of Reber Creative Design and Communications for the development of this website.

Archival images on this website have been used courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives.
(Click here for a list of images.)

This site was made possible by the work of Ann Garside, Project Manager, and the support of many Ministry staff.