Photographs and realia documenting the life of Mary Johnston as well as the history of education in the Waterloo Region.

Materials collected by Mary Johnston documenting the history of education both in the Waterloo Region and broadly in Ontario. Includes school registers, minute books, historical notebooks kept by students, etc.

Materials relating to awards and honours given to Mary Johnston.

Materials relating to professional organizations of which Mary Johnston was a part. These include the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association, the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, Association of Catholic Principals, North Waterloo Federation of Women Teachers, the North Waterloo Teachers Institute and the organization for Women in Education Administration.

Materials relating to the career and teachers education of Mary Johnston. Includes professional development, career trajectory information, and work by students.

This series contains just two files. The first file includes ephemera relating to Waterloo County Board of Education events and activitities, while the second file includes ephemera which relates to events and activities of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

This series contains fourteen scrapbooks all of which are assigned individual file numbers. These scrapbooks contain materials relating to the W.C.W.T.A.'s leadership training courses. Materials take the form of b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, correspondence, lists of course participants, course application forms, course schedules and outlines, course handouts, course evaluation sheets, meeting agendas, and ephemera.

This series contains twenty-three scrapbooks all of which are assigned individual file numbers. The first sixteen scrapbooks in this series have been numbered consecutively by the compiler of these scrapbooks as follows: 1-5, 7, 9, 10-11, 13-18, 20 (some scrapbooks are missing). The remaining scrapbooks have not been numbered by the compiler but also relate to W.C.W.T.A. and F.W.T.A.O. affairs and activities. These sixteen scrapbooks include materials relating to meetings, workshops, conferences, leadership courses and other events of the W.C.W.T.A. and of the F.W.T.A.O. Materials take the form of b&w and col. photographs, newsletters, meetings agendas and minutes, corrrespondence, ts. lists, reports, news clippings, and ephemera.

Includes publications and printed items of the various educational and teachers' organizations in Ontario including the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the Ontario Public School Men Teachers' Federation, the Teacher's Superannuation Commission and other organizations. Materials in this series include serial publications, reports, and informational booklets.

Includes publications and printed items of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association including issues of a newsletter, a guidebook, a submission made by the W.C.W.T.A. to the Social Development Committee of the Ontario Legislature, and a report on the teachers' provincial protest action of 1997.

This series includes a directory of staff, teachers, and others issued by the Waterloo County Teachers' Association. Also includes issues of the newsletter Lehrgespräch.

This series contains publications and printed materials issued by the Waterloo County Board of Education. These materials include booklets, an educational position paper, reports, a submission to the Standing Committee on Social Development of the Ontario Legislature, telephone directories, and serial publications.

This series contains booklets and serial publications published by the Ontario Teachers' Federation.

This series contains government publications including educational legislation, curriculum guidelines, school programme requirements, reports and booklets on various topics, as well as a news release and issues of a journal. Included in this series are publications of the Government of Ontario, as well as of the Ministry of Education of Ontario, and of the Ministry of Education and Training of Ontario.

This series contains publications and printed materials issued by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario. This includes books (including guidebooks and handbooks), reports, position papers, serial publications, a fact sheet, and informational leaflets and flyers.

This series includes news clippings from The Globe and Mail, from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, and from The Waterloo Chronicle. These clippings relate to educational issues. Some of them are relevant to educational matters at a national level e.g some articles report on the educational system in Canada, while anoher article focuses on the likely impact of computers for schools in Canada. Other clippings report on educational issues at a provincial level e.g. Ontario teachers' actions to oppose the anti-strike legislation in 1973. Moreover, some clippings relate to the activities of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario. Finally, this series contains news clippings which relate to educational affairs in Waterloo County including the activities of the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

This series includes materials relating to various conferences, workshops, and other courses of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association respectively. They include correspondence, forms, questionnaires, course handouts, ephemera, information booklets produced for conference delegates and attendees at workshops, as well as summary reports of the Waterloo County Principals' Conferences.

This series includes materials relating to the annual dinners of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, of the Ontario Teachers' Federation, and of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association. These materials include a small number of col. photographs, as well as booklets produced for guests who attended these dinners. The contents of these booklets vary depending on the organization involved but typically include menus, programs, agendas, biographical notes on retiring teachers to be honoured at these dinners, as well as lists of past presidents, executive members, committtee chairs, key teachers, twenty-five year members, and retiring members. Some files just include flyers which were sent out to organization members featuring details of the date, location etc. of these annual dinners.

This series contains meeting agendas and minutes, Board of Director's reports, and Presidential addresses, as well as other supporting documents relating to the meetings of the teachers' organizations of which Mary Johnston was a member. These include the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, the Ontario Teachers' Federation, the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association. These meetings include annual member meetings, executive meetings, committee meetings, and meetings of the North Unit of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

This series contains correspondence sent by or received by Mary Johnston as well as other administrative and legal documents maintained by her relating to the activities and affairs of the teachers' organizations of which she was a member. These include the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, The Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

This series also includes materials maintained by Mary Johnston when she worked for the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association in various capacitites including Key Teacher, President of Unit 1, as a W.C.W.T.A. Past President, as the association's County Adviser and P.R., and as a member of the Book Project Committee.

Also included in this series is a file containing correspondence sent to parents by Mary Johnston when she worked with the Kindergarten at Brighton School.