One assignment by Mary Johnston for the course 1261 taught by Mr. R.C. Harris at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Ontario department of education course of study for grade 8 history.

Postcard of Courtland Avenue School, Berlin, Ontario.

Report of the curriculum study committee for English for Waterloo District School Board.

Daily register for public and separate schools used to list names of students and attendance for Elizabeth Ziegler, Alexandra, and Central Schools for the years 1934 to 1938. The register appears to be for a home economics class as class projects such as sewing, housework, and cooking, are listed.

Daily register for public and separate schools used to list names of students and attendance for Elizabeth Ziegler, Empire, MacGregor, Wagner, Alexandra, for the years 1956-1957.

Daily register for public and separate schools used to list names of students and attendance for Elizabeth Ziegler, Alexandra, and Central Schools for the years 1939-1944. The register appears to be for a home economics class as class projects such as sewing, housework, and cooking, are listed.

Daily register for public and separate schools used to list names of students for Alexandra Public School for the years 1959-1961. Includes some information on student attendance, as well as names and address of parents and whether or not female students can bake and sew.

Daily register for public and separate schools used to list names of students and attendance for Elizabeth Ziegler, Alexandra, and Central Schools for the years 1936-1938. The register appears to be for a home economics class as class projects such as sewing, housework, and cooking, are listed.

Daily register for public and separate schools used to list names of students and attendance for Elizabeth Ziegler, Alexandra, Mount Carmel, and Central Schools for the years 1943 to 1948. The register is for a home economics class.

Daily register for public and separate schools used to list names of students and attendance for Elizabeth Ziegler, Alexandra, Central, Mount Carmel, MacGregor, Empire for the years 1949-1950.

Contains news clipping dated May 10, 1968 (source unspecified). One article reports that Education Minister Davis has announced that Waterloo county will not get two boards of education at least until 1970. Minister Davis says this is because he wants one or two years experience with the new system before amending the basic county plan. Another article relates to Waterloo public school teachers' salary increases, while an additional article relates to a school site swap negotiated by the Kitchener and district school board.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, and ephemera. Some of the photographs appear to be personal family photographs of Mary Johnston. The remaining photographs and other items in this scrapbook relate to various F.W.T.A.O. and W.C.W.T.A. events including an emergency F.W.T.A.O. meeting, Professional Development Day, and to a W.C.W.T.A Leadership Course. Also includes a news clipping and photographs relating to a meeting between Premier Davis and Joan Westcott, W.C.W.T.A. president and Bill Langdown, OPSMTF Waterloo District President.

Contains news clippings, b&w photographs, and ephemera relating to the adventure playground built at Winston Churchill Public School in Waterloo, Ont. where Mary Johnston was Principal, to the official opening of the new Neil A. MacEachern school in Waterloo, Ont., to a panel discussion, to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership II course, and to social outings of the W.C.W.T.A. Also contains a loose copy of the journal Ontario Education 7, no. 1 (Jan/Feb. 1975).

Annual examinations for for the Department of Education, Ontario, for the years 1895 (high school arithmetic), 1911 (high school arithmetic), 1936 (Upper School trigonometry), 1947 (high school literature and mathematics).

Exams for entrance into the Faculty of Education in Ontario. Includes exams for the courses mineralogy, zoology, botany, chemistry, history, Latin authors, Latin composition.

News clipping (source unspecified) reports on a presentation given to Waterloo Region's women public school teachers by Carol Brooks of the Everywoman's Educational Centre in London, Ont.

Contains directories issued by the W.C.W.T.A. which include the federations, the Board of Education's trustees and officials and supervisory and consultative staff, in addition to educational services contacts and a directory of teachers and of schools. The directories in this file include: 1973-1974, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1979-1980, 1980-1981. This file also contains an Elementary Teachers' Telephone Directory, 1993-1994, issued by the W.C.W.T.A. in conjunction with the Ontario Public School Teachers' Federation.

Speech given by Mary Johnston about Dr. Grace Schmidt for German Pioneer Day.

One drawing notebook kept by an unknown student. Includes pencil and crayon drawings of plants, animals, landscapes, farm machinery, interiors and Santa.

Contents originally stored in ring binder.

Materials relating to the education and early career of Mary Johnston. Includes grades from high school, her BA at Western and her BEd and MEd at the University of Toronto. Also includes correspondence from relating to career qualifications and certificates and the trajectory of her career until her retirement.

Education Department, Ontario annual examinations for high school entrance for the year 1895.

Photographs of Mary Johnston as as student and at graduation from Normal School, Western, and the University of Toronto.

Elementary School Principal's Certificate for Mary Johnston.

Includes undated draft version #3 (incomplete) of the E.T.F.O.'s constitution and by-laws. Also includes another draft of this federation's constitution and by-laws dated Aug. 1997 - comments and explanations are provided for each article and by-law.

Includes ts. document featuring details of E.T.F.O. fees, fee rebates, as well as release time information and calculations.

Contains a flyer produced to announce the first meeting of the E.T.F.O. This flyer contains details of the meeting agenda and motions. One of the invitations issued for this meeting is also contained in this file.

One photograph of staff out front of Elizabeth Ziegler School.

One ledger book used for tracking student names, address and parents, as well as examination marks for entrance exams into grade 8 for the years 1938 to 1954. Courses include reading, spelling, writing, literature, composition, social studies, mathematics, grammar, science, health, music, art, craft, home economics, and agriculture.

Entrance examination papers for the Province of Ontario for the past 5 years. The years are 1922-1926.

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.

Contains invitation, a menu, and a program for a gala evening dinner and dance hosted by the Waterloo County Board of Education to honour its retiring Director of Education, W.T. (Bill) Townshend. Also inlcudes a flyer featuring informaton on the W.T. Townshend Award of Excellence, an award presented each year to an outstanding elementary school teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education by the Waterloo County Principals' Association.

Other items in this file include an general informaton leaflet about the Waterloo County Board of Education, as well as three transparencies featuring information on the Waterloo County Board of Education curriculum process and on education in Ontario. These were most likely produced for the purposes of a board presentation or seminar.

Contains flyers relating to WCWTA meetings and other events. Some other flyers take the form of promotional materials designed by WCWTA election candidates. Additional flyers provide information on the Reville Report and on issues such as teachers' salaries and preparation time and the progress that has been made in these areas through collective bargaining. Also includes a copy of the certificate awarded to those nominated as Diamond Jubilee Educators.

Contains five news clippings. News clippings from 1980-1981 relate primarily to the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association's aim to obtain a written policy guaranteeing equal-opportunity rights for women teachers from the county board of education. One clipping from 1988 reports that the receipt of a provincial award for employment equity advances by the Waterloo county board of education is an "embarrassment". Sue Coulter, a member of this board, says that this is the case because the board has failed to live up to the honour since receiving this award.

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 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.

One notebook with pasted in examination papers promoting students from Junior IV to Senior IV.

One notebook with examination results for students for the years 1934 to 1941.

One notebook with examination results for students from Elizabeth Zeigler School for the years 1934 to 1941.

One panoramic photograph of the Faculty of Education of Toronto class of 1920. Mary Johnston's mother Marion Leslie can be seen seated second row from the bottom, 19th person from the left.

Contains b&w photographs and news clippings relating to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership course, to P.D. Day, to a conference on family sponsored by the F.W.T.A.O, to a F.W.T.A.O. Unit 4 dinner, and to Dialogue Day, a conference sponsored jointly by the Minstry of Education and the Ontario Teachers Federation.

One scrapbook kept by Mary Johnston detailing meetings and events of the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario.

Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario 1988 honorary members.

Scrapbook kept by Mary Johnston relating to her award at the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario diamond jubilee dinner.

Distinguished service award presented to Mary Johnston by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario for 37 years of teaching.

Distinguished service award presented to Mary Johnston by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario.

One photograph of Mary Johnston speaking at a podium at a Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario meeting.

Photograph of delegates at the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario.

Contains 8 col. photographs (n.d.) which appear to have been taken at an annual meeting of the F.W.T.A.O. and at the annual dinner celebration afterwards.

Includes course handouts for a workshop which formed part of the F.W.T.A.O.'s assertiveness training summer learning lab in 1980. This workshop was presented by Carolyn Burwell and was entitled "How to Surpass Yourself" and related to the personal finances package.

Contains spiral-bound ts. including meeting agenda, the text of Bill 274 and Bill 275, and of amendments to Bill 274. Also includes some ms. annotations and additions.

Contains correspondence and other material all of which relate to the affairs, activities etc. of the F.W.T.A.O. Includes correspondence received by Mary Johnston from the F.W.T.A.O. as well as other documentation issued by this organization. Among these items are: flyers, a questionnaire, report, F.W.T.A.O. pledge of acceptance, associate membership application form, information sheet on F.W.T.A.O. services and organizational structure, on F.W.T.A.O. policy re school assistants, on the inflation restraint act (Bill 179). Also contains a list of membership questions and answers, and ts. of an address by Norman M. Goble to the F.W.T.A.O. February Conference in 1981.

Contains two news clippings (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Saturday, 7 January 1978). One of these clippings is an article reporting that the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association will be running advertisements in newspapers to ask the public to submit names of women elementary teachers who they feel have made outstanding contributions to education. The other clipping takes the form of a nomination form to be filled out by members of the public who wish to nominate a teacher for the Diamond Jubilee Award of the F.W.T.A.O.

Contains informational leaflets and flyers issued by the F.W.T.A.O.

Spiral-bound volume containing a list of conference committee members, details of the conference program, a plan of the hotel in which the conference is taking place, and blank pages for conference delegates to make notes. Also includes some loose leaf items: a conference application form, a conference evaluation sheet, and two tss. which were distributed at this conference.

Items originally contained in folder. Includes information sheets about various aspects of the F.W.T.A.O. including: lines of communication, organizational structure, relationship to W.C.O.T.P., C.T.F. and O.T.F., the qualifications evaluation programme, as well as an F.W.T.A.O. glossary of abbreviations.

Includes questionnaire produced for the purposes of the June Presidents' workshop in 1972.

Spiral-bound volume containing a list of conference committee members, details of this conference program, a plan of the hotel in which the conference is taking place, and blank pages for conference delegates to make notes.

Contains ts. photocopy of a report on the F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly of May 6, 1972. Also includes single leaf featuring the ts. report of the Public Relations Committee at the F.W.T.A.O. annual meeting in 1981.

Includes booklets containing the president's addresses presented at the annual meetings of the F.W.T.A.O. in 1976, 1979 (2 copies), and 1980 (3 copies).

Spiral-bound volume including details of the workshops which made up a series of workshops hosted by the F.W.T.A.O. and entitled "Professional Development".

Includes booklets containing Reports of the Board of Directors presented at F.W.T.A.O annual meetings in the following years: 1980-1981, 1984-1985, 1987-1988, 1988-1989.

Includes booklets containing Reports of the Board of Directors presented at F.W.T.A.O. annual meetings in the following years: 1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1978-1979, 1979-1980.

Contains booklet including menu, program, a biographical note on the speaker Dr. Florence Henderson as well as the text of tributes made to her by various individuals in educational organizations in Ontario. Also includes a biographical note about Shirley Stokes who received an F.W.T.A.O. award at this annual dinner event.

Contains one spiral-bound volume and three booklets featuring summary reports of conference presentations and reproductions of photographs taken at the Waterloo County Principals' Conferences in 1975, 1979, 1980, and 1983. An additional spiral-bound volume for the conference of 1970 features full transcripts of conference presentations and some reproductions of photographs taken during this conference. This file also contains a leaflet produced by the Waterloo County Principals' Association to mark the association's 20th anniversary in 1989.

Spiral-bound volume containing a list of conference committee members, details of this conference program, a plan of the hotel in which the conference is taking place, and blank pages for conference delegates to make notes. Also includes a flyer produced for this conference featuring details of the conference dates, location, content, fees etc.

Postcard of a photograph of the first brick schoolhouse in Conestogo, taken in 1900.

Postcard of the first school house in Waterloo, now located in Waterloo Park.

Contains b&w photographs, ephemera, news clippings, a W.C.W.T.A. newsletter, and documents relating to a W.C.W.T.A meeting in April 1972 and to the Regional Assembly of the Federation Women Teachers Associations of Ontario in May 1972.

Contains b&w photographs, meeting agendas, a W.C.W.T.A. report, and news clippings relating to the annual meeting of W.C.W.T.A Unit 1, to a leadership workshop sponsored by the F.W.T.A.O., as well as to the W.C.W.T.A's annual meeting and dinner.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, a W.C.W.T.A. newsletter, news clippings, and a report compiled by the Reville Report Committee of the W.C.W.T.A. These materials relate to the annual F.W.T.A.O. meeting, and to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meetings.

Contains correspondence, col. photographs, and ephemera relating to the 75th annual celebration dinner of the W.C.W.T.A.

Contains incomplete set of members' handbooks issued by the F.W.T.A.O. including: 1979-1980, 1982-1983, 1984-1985, 1988-1989, 1993-1994, 1997-1998. Also includes ephemera in the form of informational cards re the F.W.T.A.O.

Contains incomplete set of issues of the F.W.T.A.O. Newsletter, some in newspaper format, some in magazine format. These issues are divided into three separate files as follows: First File: no. 7, 1972-1973; no. 6, 1973-1974; no. 5, 1974-1975; no. 2, 5, 6, 1977-1978; no. 1 (4 copies), 2, 1978-1979; no. 6, 7, 1979-1980; no. 6, 1980-1981; Second File: Jan. and Sept., 1983; Jan., June, and Sept./Oct., 1984; April/May, 1991; v. 11, no. 3, 1992-1993; v. 12, no. 1, 2, 1993; Third File: v. 14, no. 5, 1996; v. 15, no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1996-1997; v. 16, no. 1, 2, 3, 1997-1998.

Contains incomplete set of issues of the F.W.T.A.O. Newsletter, some in newspaper format, some in magazine format. These issues are divided into three separate files as follows: First File: no. 7, 1972-1973; no. 6, 1973-1974; no. 5, 1974-1975; no. 2, 5, 6, 1977-1978; no. 1 (4 copies), 2, 1978-1979; no. 6, 7, 1979-1980; no. 6, 1980-1981; Second File: Jan. and Sept., 1983; Jan., June, and Sept./Oct., 1984; April/May, 1991; v. 11, no. 3, 1992-1993; v. 12, no. 1, 2, 1993; Third File: v. 14, no. 5, 1996; v. 15, no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1996-1997; v. 16, no. 1, 2, 3, 1997-1998.

Contains incomplete set of issues of the F.W.T.A.O. Newsletter, some in newspaper format, some in magazine format. These issues are divided into three separate files as follows: First File: no. 7, 1972-1973; no. 6, 1973-1974; no. 5, 1974-1975; no. 2, 5, 6, 1977-1978; no. 1 (4 copies), 2, 1978-1979; no. 6, 7, 1979-1980; no. 6, 1980-1981; Second File: Jan. and Sept., 1983; Jan., June, and Sept./Oct., 1984; April/May, 1991; v. 11, no. 3, 1992-1993; v. 12, no. 1, 2, 1993; Third File: v. 14, no. 5, 1996; v. 15, no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1996-1997; v. 16, no. 1, 2, 3, 1997-1998.

One Gage's revised and improved system of practical penmanship copybook used by Katie Brubacher.

One Gage's revised and improved system of practical penmanship copybook used by Katie Brubacher.

One Gage's revised and improved system of practical penmanship copybook used by Katie Brubacher.

One photograph of students out front of Galt Central School. The verso of the photograph indicates that this was school no. 7.

One general register, written in a ledger book, of student grades and promotions for Elizabeth Ziegler School for the years 1933 to 1950. Includes student names, addresses, parents, and grades for courses including composition, literature, mathematics, agriculture, algebra, French, Latin, grammar, history, art, geography, home economics, shop and business.

One general register for students at Elizabeth Ziegler School from 1936 to 1955. Includes names, guardians, and addresses of students as well as recording their promotion at the school from grades Kindergarten to 10. In the back of the register are the principal's notes which include attendance and reasons why students left school, information on student promotions, library equipment, pupil supplies, health inspection records, religious instruction records, age grade reports, lists of teachers, and a log book detailing the history of the school. Inset in the front of the volume are various notes and reports including those on home economics and industrial arts, teachers schedules, attendance record forms, a note from the ROM advertising field trips, outline for music class for grade eight, and letters and memoranda from the school board.

One general register for students at Parkway School from 1944 to 1954. Includes names, guardians, and addresses of students as well as recording their promotion at the school from grades Kindergarten to 10. In the back of the register are the principal's notes which include attendance and reasons why students left school, information on student promotions, library equipment, pupil supplies, health inspection records, religious instruction records, age grade reports, lists of teachers, trustee financial statements, and a log book detailing the history of the school. Inset into the book are census information, annual financial statement for 1949, curriculum for 1955, statistical report for 1954, clipping regarding the death of Howard Robertson.

One general register for students at S.S. #5B, North Waterloo from 1939 to 1951. Includes names, guardians, and addresses of students as well as recording their promotion at the school from grades Kindergarten to 10. In the back of the register are the principal's notes which include attendance and reasons why students left school, information on student promotions, library equipment, pupil supplies, health inspection records, religious instruction records, age grade reports, lists of teachers, and a log book detailing the history of the school.

One general register for students at Victoria Public School from 1925 to 1939. Includes names, guardians, and addresses of students as well as recording their promotion at the school from grades Kindergarten to 10. In the back of the register are the principal's notes which include attendance and reasons why students left school, information on student promotions, library equipment, pupil supplies, health inspection records, religious instruction records, age grade reports, lists of teachers, and a log book detailing the history of the school.

One geography notebook kept be Elma Schaefer while a student in Waterloo for the year 1901. While the notebook is described as being for geography class, there are also mathematical equations, drawings, and doodles. A note on the cover indicates that this was kept by Elma's daughter Idessa.

One geography notebook kept by Idessa Eichler while a student in Waterloo.

One geography notebook kept by Idessa Eichler while a student in Waterloo in 1923.