Contains issues of the newsletter Lehrgespräch. The issues are contained in 18 files as follows:

• v. 1, no. 1-9, 1971-1972;
• v. 2, no. 1-10, 1972-1973;
• v. 3, no. 1-10, 1973-1974;
• v. 4, no. 1-11, 1974-1975;
• v. 5, no. 1-8, 1975-1976;
• v. 6, no. 1-6, 1975-1976;
• v. 7, no. 1-7, 1977-1978;
• v. 8, no. 1-7, 1978-1979;
• v. 9, no. 1-7, 1979-1980;
• v. 11, no. 1-5, 1981-1982;
• v. 12, no. 1-4, 1983;
• v. 13, no. 1-5, 1983-1984;
• v. 14, no. 1-5, 1984-1985;
• v. 15, no. 1-4, 1985-1986;
• v. 16, no. 1-3, 1986-1987;
• v. 17, no. 1-2, 1987-1988. Final file includes Special Election Issue, Nov. 1988, as well as a section of an issue from 1989.

Missing issues include: v. 5, no. 3, 1975-1976; v. 6, no. 7, 1977; v. 13, no. 4, 1984.

v. 1 - 5 were published jointly by three Waterloo County Teachers' Federations including the W.C.W.T.A., and v. 6 was published jointly by two Waterloo County Teachers' Federations including the W.C.W.T.A. v. 7 onwards - published by the Waterloo County Teachers' Association.

Note: The title of this publication changed to become "The Big L" during the period Nov. 1974 - June 1975.

Canadian College of Teachers certification for Mary Johnston.

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.

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

Includes five issues of the W.C.W.T.A.'s newsletter including: v. 3, no. 2, 4, [1971]-1972; v. 4, no. 1, 1972; [Nov., 1994], Dec. 1994.

Postcard of Courtland Avenue School, Berlin, Ontario.

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, 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, 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.

Includes single issue of this journal - v. 1, no. 1 (February 1998).

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.

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.

By Barrett, I.C. ...[et al.]

Contains two issues of the O.P.S.M.T.F. newsletter Newstoday including: v. 1, no. 12 and 18, 1980

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.

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).

Contains three issues of the journal Ontario Education including: v. 3, no.5, 1971; v. 6, no. 1, 1974; v. 8, no. 2, 1976.

Materials relating to Mary Johnston's membership in the Canadian College of Teachers. Includes membership lists and correspondence.

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 single issue of this journal - v. 8, no. 2 (April 1977).

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

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

Contains August 1973 issue of this newsletter.

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

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.

Report of a study conducted for the Waterloo Co. Board Ad Hoc Committee on Structure by members of the O.I.S.E. Dept. of Educational Administration and Midwestern Field Centre.
File also contains a clipping (n.d.) re the Herb Epp Report

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

Includes single issue of this journal - v. 13, no. 2 (fall 1986).

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

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, W.C.W.T.A. newsletters, programs, and some loose materials relating to meetings, conferences, a panel discussion, and the leadership training course of the W.C.W.T.A.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

One school notebook kept by Wendy Warren in Mary Johnston's grade 8 history class. Includes maps, drawings, notes, and clippings relating to historical events.

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

Contains b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, and a meeting agenda relating to a W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meeting, to the Principals' Conference in Barrie, Ont., to a meeting of the Committee on the Costs of Education in the Elementary and Secondary Schools of Ontario, and to Math Night at the Winston Churchill School in Waterloo, Ont.

Contains b&w photographs and news clippings relating to a presentation hosted by the W.C.W.T.A., to a W.C.W.T.A. board meeting, to the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 annual meeting, to a primary teachers dinner, to Fun Day, and to the Regional Assembly of the F.W.T.A.O.

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

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, and ephemera relating to the F.W.T.A.O summer annual meeting, to an F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly, to the Waterloo County Principals' Conference, to a presentation hosted by the W.C.W.T.A., to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meetings, and to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 2 events.

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

Contains b&w photographs and 1 col. photograph, news clippings, a meeting agenda, and ephemera relating to an F.W.T.A.O. workshop, to F.W.T.A.O. meetings of Waterloo Region's elementary teachers, to a W.C.W.T.A members meeting, to a presentation by Mary Johnston hosted by W.C.W.T.A. Unit 3, to meetings of the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 3, to Elementary P.D. Day, and to a W.C.W.T.A Leadership Course

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.

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.

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.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, a list, and ephemera relating to the annual meeting of W.C.W.T.A. Unit 3, to a W.C.W.T.A. Unit 2 meeting, to Professional Development Day, and to the annual spring assembly of F.W.T.A.O. at which Joan Westcott, president W.C.W.T.A. was selected as F.W.T.A.O. Director.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, ephemera, news clippings, a meeting agenda, and a copy of the W.C.W.T.A. President's Report. Also includes minutes of the W.C.W.T.A.'s third AGM, as well as the president's, the committees' and the convenors' reports. The materials in this scrapbook relate to the third annual meeting of the W.C.W.T.A. on June 3, 1974, to meetings of the W.C.T.A.'s Ad Hoc Legislation Committee and to a meeting of the F.W.T.A.O.

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.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, and correspondence relating to the annual meeting of the F.W.T.A.O., to the Regional Professional Development Plan, to implementation meetings of the primary curriculum, to activities involved in preparing the The Big L (the new F.W.T.A.O. newsletter) for distribution, to the Waterloo County Principals' Conference, and to a W.C.W.T.A. Key Teacher meeting.

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.

Contains b&w photographs and news clippings relating to a W.C.W.T.A. executive meeting, and to a W.C.W.T.A Unit 1 executive meeting and other events, as well as to a F.W.T.A.O. Board of Directors' meeting and dinner. Also contains materials relating to the F.W.T.A.O. Public Relations Conference, to a Wendy House built by Laurel Vocational Students at Winston Churchill school in Waterloo, Ont., and to a W.C.W.T.A. tour.

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

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).

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.

One school notebook kept by David Dell in Mary Johnston's grade 8 history class. Includes maps, drawings, notes, and clippings relating to historical events.

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

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.

Contains b&w and col. photographs and clippings relating to Information Day '75, the Fall Assembly at Welland, to W.C.W.T.A Leadership Courses, to a Program Development Seminar sponsored by the Minstry of Education, Ontario. and to other events.

A hand drawn calendar, likely drawn by a child, for the months of February-May, 1911. This was possibly created by Henry Bowman.

One scrapbook kept by Henry Bowman during the years 1905-1907. Includes artwork, cut outs, and advertisements. A note inserted into the album reads

This untitled scrapbook contains b&w photographs, news clippings, and a list of key teachers and members of the Unit 1 executive. These materials relate to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meetings, as well as to "Operation Rose".

High school entrance answers for examination papers published by James Texts Limited, for the years 1940-1949.

This untitled scrapbook contains b&w photographs, news clippings, ephemera, lists of members of the executive of the W.C.W.T.A., of the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1, and of the F.W.T.A.O. , an information sheet for members about W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1, a list of W.C.W.T.A. key teachers, and agendas for W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 executive meetings, and agendas and summary reports of W.C.W.T.A. Unit I general meetings.

This untitled scrapbook contains b&w photographs, news clippings, ephemera, notes, a list of W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 executive members, a summary report of a general meeting of this unit and executive minute meetings. These materials relate primarily to meetings of the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 but also to the W.C.W.T.A. annual dinner, to P.A. Days, to "Operation Rose", and to the F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly.

High school entrance examination papers for the years 1935-1941, 1945, 1948, 1949.

This untitled scrapbook contains b&w photographs, news clippings, and ephemera. These materials relate to a key teacher reception at the Conestoga Inn, to a F.W.T.A.O. fall conference, as well as to W.C.W.T.A. North Unit meetings and social events. Some of these materials also relate to events held at W.C.W.T.A. North Unit schools to mark the International Year of the Child and to other special events including the planting of a tree by Lieutenant Governor of Ontario , Pauline M. McGibbon at Bloomingdale Public School in Waterloo, Ont. Finally, this scrapbook includes new clippings featuring information on teachers who have recently retired.

High school entrance reports for mathematics for the years 1935 to 1949, composition and grammar for the years 1938 to 1949, literature for the years 1935 to 1949.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, ephemera, a meeting agenda, and president's report. These materials relate to a F.W.T.A.O. annual meeting, to a F.W.T.A.O. conference, to a W.C.W.T.A. awareness workshop, to meetings of the W.C.W.T.A. South Unit and East-West Units, and to a W.C.W.T.A. annual meeting. Two news clippings contained in this scrapbook report that Mary Johnston, principal at Keatsway Public School in Waterloo, Ont. has received the Diamond Jubilee award from the F.W.T.A.O. Other clippings report that Joan Westcott of Kitchener was acclaimed president of the F.W.T.A.O. in 1978.

Postcard of historic stone bridge in Jackson Park, Galt, Ont.

This untitled scrapbook contains col. photographs, a meeting agenda, and a list of honorary members and twenty-five year W.C.W.T.A. members. These materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. annual dinner celebration of 1991.

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

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

Postcard of the King Edward School, Kitchener, Ont., Canada.

Materials in this scrapbook relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course 1973-1974. Contents include b&w photographs, news clippings, course application form and course schedule and outline, 1 photocopied ms. of poem, meeting agenda of the Leadership Course Committe, and ephemera.

Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational Institute 115th anniversary programme.

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).

Certificate of participation in planning and conducting the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association leadership II course given to Mary Johnston.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, course schedules and outline, a list of participants, and a speech evaluation form, as well as ephemera relating to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1975.