School registers for Brookfield Memorial

Title and statement of responsibility area

Title proper

School registers for Brookfield Memorial

General material designation

  • Textual record

Parallel title

Other title information

Title statements of responsibility

Title notes

Level of description

Series

Reference code

2023.1.1585 - 2023.1797

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)

  • 1950-1981 (Creation)
    Creator
    Nova Scotia Department of Education

Physical description area

Physical description

55cm of textual records
(original school registers)

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

(1850-)

Administrative history

In 1850, J. W. Dawson was appointed as the first superintendent of education for the province of Nova Scotia. During his tenure, Dawson encouraged the establishment of free schools. In 1855, Dawson’s successor, Alexander Forrester, established the Provincial Normal College in Truro, for the training of public school teachers and the standardization of school curriculum. The Free School Act of 1864, introduced by Premier Charles Tupper, created a system of free public schools throughout the province. The Education Act of 1864 assigned a school inspector to each of the 18 counties. The act also increased state funding and encouraged local taxation to support public schools, and standardized the classification and examination of students. Over the next hundred years, public school attendance registers fell under the authority of the Halifax-based office variously known as the Educational Department of Nova Scotia (-1894), the Education Department of Nova Scotia (1894-1929), the Nova Scotia Department of Education (1929-1967), and the Minister of Education (1967-). Today, the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, as it is known, is responsible for K-12 public school education throughout the province.

Custodial history

160 bankers boxes of school registers were transferred from the Nova Scotia Archives to the Colchester Historical Society in 1999. A small number of additional school registers have been donated throughout the years from various sources.

Scope and content

Series forms part of the Colchester County school registers fonds and consists of 213 school registers for Brookfield Memorial School, from 1950-1981. Most registers measure 28x44cm or 26x38cm and contain 10-20 pages, though in some cases, only a few pages remain. Registers generally include a list of students' names, along with their sex, age, address, parent or guardians' names, as well as a record of attendance and general standing. Registers have been printed by the Nova Scotia Department of Education and data has been handwritten by the schoolteacher.

Notes area

Physical condition

Immediate source of acquisition

Arrangement

Arrangement is chronological and imposed by archivist.

Language of material

    Script of material

      Location of originals

      Availability of other formats

      High resolution images may be available for registers 100 years or older. Contact Colchester Historical Society.

      Restrictions on access

      School registers 100 years and older are considered open, and are accessible to the public. School registers less than 100 years old are considered restricted, and access may be permitted on a case-by-case basis, by request only. Contact Colchester Historical Society for more information.

      Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

      Finding aids

      Boxes SR64-SR71

      Associated materials

      Related materials

      Accruals

      Further accruals are possible.

      General note

      In 1949, construction began on a new elementary school in Brookfield. By March 1950, the Brookfield Memorial School was complete.

      SOURCE:

      Fragments of the Past: History Notes of Brookfield & Area. Brookfield Bicentennial Committee, 1984.

      Alternative identifier(s)

      Standard number

      Standard number

      Access points

      Subject access points

      Name access points

      Genre access points

      Control area

      Sources

      Accession area