The Alberta Medical Association (AMA) is a voluntary organization for Alberta physicians that offers personal benefits to its members as well as communicating their professional interests and health care concerns to the government and the public. In 1986 it was authorized by the provincial government as the official bargaining agent for Alberta doctors.
Alberta Nursing Educators Administrators
On October 31, 1968, a group of senior representatives from schools of nursing in the city of Calgary met with the purpose of standardizing aspects of nursing education in the region without diluting the competitive sprits of the schools. The group agreed to meet regularly to discuss issues pertinent to the group and called their meetings Directors of Schools of Nursing Conferences. By 1978, the group had grown to include representatives from other parts of Alberta and the name was changed to the Consortium of Senior Nurse Educators (COSNE). Membership in COSNE was open to senior administrators of Alberta institutions with professional nursing programs and with the purpose of providing an opportunity for members to share and discuss ideas, act as a resource group, and provide direction to appropriate bodies in matters related to nursing education in Alberta. In 1983, COSNE changed its name to the Alberta Nursing Educators Administrators (ANEA).
Alberta. Post-War Reconstruction Committee
The Post-War Reconstruction Committee was established in 1943 by an Act of the Government of Alberta (Statutes of Alberta, Chapter 8). Its purpose was to study how the province could make the transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy and re-absorb the population absent from the economy during World War II. The general committee was chaired by Nathan Eldon Tanner and (after September 1944) Alfred John Hooke, Members of the Legislative Assembly. Robert Newton, President of the University of Alberta, was a Committee member and chair of the Subcommittee on Education and Vocational Training. The Committee and its subcommittees issued their final reports in March 1945, and subsequently the Post-War Reconstruction Act was repealed and the Committee dissolved.
Alberta. Provincial Normal Schools
These schools trained elementary and secondary teachers for service in the Alberta school system. They included the Calgary Normal School (1906-1945), Camrose Normal School (1912-1938), and Edmonton Normal School (1920-1923, 1928-1933, 1935-1945). In 1945 the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta absorbed the normal school system of teacher training into the University's educational system.
Alberta. Public Affairs Bureau
In 1948, the Government of Alberta's Department of Economic Affairs created a Film and Photography Branch, the purpose of which was to maintain a photographic record of Alberta's economic, cultural and social development. In 1959, the Branch was transferred to the Provincial Secretary and, after several more transfers, was taken under the Bureau of Public Affairs.
In October, 1919 a committee was convened by the Provincial Secretary to advise on matters relating to industrial research. A preliminary survey of resources was conducted, with encouraging results, and in 1921 the Scientific and Industrial Research Council of Alberta was formally established by Order-in-Council. Research was to be conducted in cooperation with the University for laboratory and other facilities. The President of the University was a member of the Council; the Provincial Secretary and the Premiers of the Province have acted as Chair. In 1930, under new legislation, the Council was reorganized to be an advisory body to the Cabinet. A Cabinet Minister was Chair of the Council; the President of the University was Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee and Director of Research. At this time the Council's name was shortened to the "Research Council of Alberta"; it is now known as the Alberta Research Council. With the onset of the Great Depression the work of the Council halted. The University took over its funding, work, and staff in 1933; the Council itself did not meet from 1934 to 1942. In 1943, the Research Council Act was amended to include ten members, of which two were from the cabinet (one to act as chair); the President of the University; the Director of Research, and members at large. Until 1950 the President of the University was Director of Research. Dr. N.H. Grace was appointed the Councilþs first full-time Director in October, 1951. The Council was the first provincially funded, scientific research agency in Canada. It undertakes, promotes, and funds research which might not otherwise be undertaken. Chairs: 1919-1923 J. L. Cote; 1923-1925 Herbert Greenfield; 1925- 1926 Alex Ross; 1926-[1930] J.E. Brownlee; 1930-[1950] Cabinet Ministers assigned to Chair; [1946-1947] Nathan Eldon Tanner; 1950-1951 Robert Newton; 1951-1961 Nathaniel H. Grace; 1961 William Albert Lang (Acting); 1962-1977 Ernest J. Wiggins; 1977- 1978 Brian Hitchin (Acting); 1978-1983 Giles Cloutier; 1984- 1987 Robert W. Stewart; 1987- Clem W. Bowman;
Alberta. University Survey Committee
The University Survey Committee was created in August 1941 by an Order-in-Council of the Government of Alberta to conduct a comprehensive review of the University's affairs. In particular, the Committee examined the University's success in meeting the cultural, economic, and educational needs of Albertans. Chaired by Harold H. Parlee, then chair of the University's Board of Governors, the Committee submitted its interim report on January 30, 1942. Committees internal to the University were established to act on the report's recommendations, thus the Survey Committee dissolved with no further formal reports. Many of the Survey Committee's recommendations were incorporated into the 1942 revisions of the University Act, while others, such as the creation of an affiliated campus in Calgary, were adopted later.
The Women's Bureau was established in 1966 by an Act of the Government of Alberta as the Womenþs Cultural and Information Bureau. It became the Womenþs Bureau in 1970, and in 1984 it was succeeded by the Women's Secretariat. Under the directorship of Phyllis Ellis, the Bureau compiled information on women's issues and made it available to individual women, women's groups and other interested parties through newsletters and other publications.
Chemist, Administrator, 1924- . Dr. Willard Allen joined the staff of the Department of Chemistry in 1948. He served as president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, 1969-1970. In 1971 he was appointed Associate Vice-President (Academic), to assist in the office's responsibility for faculties, schools, research institutes and ancillary services, as well as the research and Student Awards offices. Dr. Allen retired in 1984.
Teacher, 1890-1982. Ethel C. Anderson was one of seven women who enrolled at the University of Alberta when it first opened in 1908. They called themselves the SIS (Society of Independent Spinsters), which became the Wauneita Club in the following year. Miss Anderson was student head of the women's athletics program before she graduated in 1912 as a member of the University's first graduating class. She subsequently received her teaching certificate in Calgary and taught in Edson and Edmonton, where she retired in 1953.
