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1888-1959 (Creation)
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- New Westminster School Board
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52.5 cm of textual records
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The New Westminster School Board made crucial decisions regarding School District 40, which included such schools as Central Girls’ and Boys’ Schools, Sapperton School, Queensborough School, Lord Kelvin School, Sixth Avenue School, Herbert Spencer School, Richard McBride School, Lord Lister School, Twelfth Street School, John Robson School, and Duke of Connaught High School. Decisions discussed within the minutes of the School Board include selection of teachers, decisions regarding salaries, selection of insurance, and matters pertaining to the construction, destruction, and maintenance of school facilities.
Custodial history
Books were donated to the New Westminster Museum and Archives by the New Westminster School Board in 1984.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of ten minute books of the New Westminster School Board. Names that appear throughout the fonds include W.B. Townsend, John Hendry, Reverend Robert Jamieson, E.A. Davidson, Nettie Dockrill, John McKenzie, F.W. Howay, J.W. Creighton, Robert Lennie, John Peck, T.J. Trapp, and Robert H. Gray.
Chronological List of School Board Minute Books:
Book 1: 2 August 1888 – 29 December 1897
Book 2: 30 September 1898 – 24 December 1902
Book 3: 14 January 1903 – 10 October 1909
Book 4: 25 October 1907 – 30 March 1911
Book 5: 3 April 1911 – 20 July 1911
Book 6: 13 July 1911 – 23 December 1919
Book 7: 12 January 1920 – 20 December 1931
Book 8: 21 January 1932 – 13 January 1943
Book 9: 13 January 1943-12 December 1951
Book 10: 10 January 1952 – 14 January 1959