Question Number 110
Does the Archives have a holding [probably from the Department of Education]that lists the date of formation of schools and/or school divisions, give school locations and their date of closure? If so, do these records predate Alberta's 1905 provincial status? Thank you.
The published book: Dale Holtslander School Districts of Alberta (1979) lists the date of incorporation and the legal land description for every school district in Alberta.
Similar information can be found in: William Peter Baergen. Pioneering with a piece of chalk: the one-room country schools of Alberta, 1885-1982 (2005).
Holtslander does not list the dates of school closure; Baergen occasionally does. I do not know of any source that lists all the dates of school closure.
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