Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité
Titre propre
Dénomination générale des documents
- Document textuel
Titre parallèle
Compléments du titre
Mentions de responsabilité du titre
Notes du titre
Niveau de description
Cote
Zone de l'édition
Mention d'édition
Mentions de responsabilité relatives à l'édition
Zone des précisions relatives à la catégorie de documents
Mention d'échelle (cartographique)
Mention de projection (cartographique)
Mention des coordonnées (cartographiques)
Mention d'échelle (architecturale)
Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)
Zone des dates de production
Date(s)
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1898-1950 (missing: 1901-1902, 1907-1908) (Production)
- Producteur
- Nova Scotia Department of Education
Zone de description matérielle
Description matérielle
20cm of textual records
(original school registers)
Zone de la collection
Titre propre de la collection
Titres parallèles de la collection
Compléments du titre de la collection
Mention de responsabilité relative à la collection
Numérotation à l'intérieur de la collection
Note sur la collection
Zone de la description archivistique
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
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.
Historique de la conservation
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.
Portée et contenu
Series forms part of the Colchester County school registers fonds and consists of 105 school registers for Brookfield School, from 1898-1950 (missing: 1901-1902, 1907-1908). 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.
Zone des notes
État de conservation
Some registers are in poor physical condition: pages are unbound, tattered, or missing.
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Classement
Arrangement is chronological and imposed by archivist.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Localisation des originaux
Disponibilité d'autres formats
High resolution images may be available for registers 100 years or older. Contact Colchester Historical Society.
Restrictions d'accès
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.
Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Instruments de recherche
Boxes SR61-SR63
Éléments associés
Accroissements
Further accruals are possible.
Note générale
In 1834, a school was built in Brookfield on Downing Street. This was probably on the west side of the present-day Carter Road. In 1883, a new two-room school was built on land purchased from Robert Densmore for $125. This school burned down in November of 1902. A two-storey school replaced this one. In 1943 and 1945, portions of the community hall were rented to provide extra classrooms.
SOURCE:
Fragments of the Past: History Notes of Brookfield & Area. Brookfield Bicentennial Committee, 1984.