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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Series | | No.: | PR0077.0002 | | TITLE: | Académie Assomption community, Edmonton, Alberta | | CREATOR: | SASV-Académie Assomption community | | DATE RANGE: | 1868 -2013 | | EXTENT: | 1.01 m of textual records and photographic prints | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Sisters of the Assumption opened in 1926 in Edmonton a boarding school for French-Canadian girls, which took in 1960 the name of Académie Assomption. The goal of the institution was to offer a superior education in French. The school was especially outstanding in choral singing and music. In addition to teaching children, the Sisters of the Assumption stimulated and facilitated French-Canadian education in Alberta by organizing competitions, festivals and other educational activities and by promoting French-Canadian youth organizations. After 1967 the Académie Assomption took only day-students and did not accept boarders any more. It closed in 1972 when the contract between the Sisters of the Assomption and the Edmonton Separate School Board came to an end and when the School Board decided to open a new bilingual (French and English) school named École Picard. This new school replaced the Académie Assomption. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The series includes the school and convent records of the Académie Assomption in Edmonton. It consists of chronicles (1925-1972), administrative records (1946-1966), programs of special events (1926-1971), inventories (1927-1956), lists of students (1926-1972), lists of attendance of students (1930-1972), financial records (1925-1971), lists of students' awards (1960-1965), school marks (1926-1972), lists of teachers (1926-1972), lists of visitors (1952-1987), retreat records (1927-1940), records of school activities and associations (1927-1986), and of a choir connected to the school (1966-1983), anniversary books and other publications (1926-1991), historical notes (1926-1966), yearbooks of the Académie Assomption and of the Ecole Picard (1963-1978), curriculum materials and publications (1868-1971). | | LANGUAGE NOTE: | French with a few files in English | | EXHIBITION, PUBLICATION AND OTHER USES: | Fonds PR077; Soeurs de l'Assomption de la Sainte Vierge | | RELATED FONDS: | PR0077 (Sœurs de l’Assomption de la Sainte-Vierge)
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