Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Pincher Creek School Division No. 29 fonds
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
39.7 m of textual records. -- 31 photographs. -- 9 architectural plans. -- 51 microfiches
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The first school in the Pincher Creek area was opened in 1884, but it was not until 1888 that the Pincher Creek School District No. 121 was incorporated under the laws of the North-West Territories. From the 1880s to 1932, 47 other school districts were established in the region. These consisted almost exclusively of one-room schools. In late 1938 these districts were joined to form the Pincher Creek School Division No. 29. The towns of Pincher Creek and Cowley were not included in the division until 1947. In 1941 a dormitory was established in Pincher Creek for students who wished to attend High School. It was used until the early 1960s, when centralization and improved bus service made boarding unnecessary. By 1960 most of the outlying one-room and two-room schools had been closed in favour of larger centralized schools in Pincher Creek, Cowley, and Lundbreck. At the end of 1994 PCSD became part of the newly-created Livingstone Range School Division. For further information see Unfolding the Pages : Recollections of Education in the Pincher Creek Area / Pincher Creek School Division No. 29. -- Pincher Creek : Gorman & Gorman Ltd., 1992; "Beauvais School : A Collected and Living History" / Simone Forget. -- MEd thesis, University of Lethbridge, 2003; and Willow Valley School, 1914-2014, 100 years of Learning and Community Spirit / Wendy Davies. -- Lundbreck : Wendy Davies, 2014.
Custodial history
Scope and content
The fonds consists of minutes, attendance registers and cashbooks of the original school districts, and minutes, attendance registers, secretary - treasurers' files, superintendents' files, Early childhood Services records, financial records for the amalgamated school division, and scrapbooks. Includes architectural plans of schools and teacherages, and photographs of schools and pupils.
Records related to the following school districts are in this fonds. See inventory for details: Ashvale, Beauvais, Beaver Mines, Bellevue-Hillcrest, Blairmore, Brocket, Burmis, Burmis Camp, Chapel Rock, Chipman Creek, Clear Brook, Coalfields, Coleman, Cowley, Crook, Cyr, Drywood, Fir Grove, Fishburn, Frank, Gadshill, Gladstone Valley, Halifax, Heath Creek, Hillcrest Mines, Hillsboro, Johnson's Mill Private, Lee, Lundbreck, Marr (Mars), Marr Roman Catholic, Maycroft, Millview, New Yarrow, North Fork, Olin Creek, Ortin, Parkview, Passburg, Pincher City, Pincher Creek (Canyon, Central, Matthew Halton), Robert Kerr, Rocky Coulee, St. Michael's Roman Catholic, Spread Eagle, Spring Point Hutterite, Spring Ridge, Summerview, Sunset Hutterite, Tanner, Tennessee, Tennyson, Todd Creek, Twin Butte, Utopia, Waldron (Walrond), Waterton Hutterite, Waterton Park, and Willow Valley.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Alberta School Trustees' Association, Alberta Teachers' Association, Chinook Health Unit, C.H. Dyer, C.H. Emard, home economics, industrial arts, Lethbridge Junior College, James A. McKay, Macleod-Pincher Creek Health District, O.L. Matson, National Film Board, Peigan, Municipal District of Pincher Creek, Pincher Creek Recreation Board, Southern Alberta School Authorities, Southwestern Alberta Teachers' Association, K.H. Thompson, truancy, and University of Lethbridge.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Gift of Pincher Creek School Division No. 29, 1978-1992, and Livingstone Range Schhol Division No. 68, 1996.
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
No restrictions on access.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Inventory available. Please consult before requesting material. http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/pcsd.cfm
Associated materials
Records of Fishburn School District and Utopia School District, original districts which became part of the division, are held by the Pincher Creek and District Historical Society. An essay, "The teacher experience : Pincher Creek School Division No. 29, 1949-1955" by Donna Hicks is located at M-7994.
Accruals
General note
Call numbers. Please consult inventory.
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Pincher Creek School Division No. 29 (Subject)
Genre access points
Control area
Description record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules or conventions
Level of detail
Language of description
- English