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Vegreville School for Foreigners fonds
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0.01 m of textual records
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Administrative history
Following seven years of petitioning from parents, and school board members, protesting the lack of bilingual schools available for Ukrainian children in Alberta, The Vegreville School for Foreigners opened in 1913. The school served to prepare Ukrainian teachers to attend Normal School in English. The Schools Act required all teachers, regardless of community requirements, to meet provincial standards. By 1913, training schools had already been established in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Students of the Vegreville School for Foreigners translated local, international, and national English newspapers into Ukrainian as an exercise for school. These newspapers were distributed to Ukrainians in the area. The school closed in 1918.
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The fonds consists of six handwritten copies of a newspaper, The Star, prepared by the Vegreville School for Foreigners.
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In 1990, Peter Nestoruk, son of one of the attendees of the Vegreville School for Foreigners donated the material to the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
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Material arranged according to original order.
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- The material is in Ukrainian.
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There are no restrictions on access. Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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http://hermis.cd.gov.ab.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR2180&dv=True&deptID=1
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Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the records and from Peasants in the Promised Land: Canada and the Ukrainians, 1891-1914 By Petryshyn, Jaroslav, available at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XfKkhhHa1tgC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=vegreville+school+for+foreigners&source=web&ots=NpwYqfYuoX&sig=lJ06FGwZJC9Sls2eghUG07VHslY#PPA193,M1" target="_blank"> http://books.google.com/books?id=XfKkhhHa1tgC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=vegreville+school+for+foreigners&source=web&ots=NpwYqfYuoX&sig=lJ06FGwZJC9Sls2eghUG07VHslY#PPA193,M1 </a>(Accessed May 25, 2007).<br><br>Record No. The fonds includes the following accession: PR1990.0392<br><br>
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- Vegreville School for Foreigners (Subject)