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.

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".

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, course handouts, course evaluation sheets, and comments of participants relating to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1975.

Contains b&w photographs, correspondence, news clippings, ephemera, course schedules and outlines, a course application form, a list of participants, and a course booklist. All these materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course II in 1975.

One photograph of Barbara Smucker visiting students.

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

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.

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.

Correspondence between Mary Johnston and others during her time as Principal of Keatsway Public School. Includes correspondence and photographs of the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario's visit to Keatsway.

Contains president's report, minutes, lists of executive members and committee convenors for 1973-1974, a financial report, reports from the W.C.W.T.A. committees and convenors, as well as ts. relating to W.C.W.T.A. representation at regional meetings, to delegates sponsored by W.C.W.T.A. to provincial conferences and workshops, to representatives on W.C.T.A. committees and boards, and to meeting resolutions. Also includes some ms. notes re this meeting and a flyer featuring meeting agenda.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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).

Scrapbook kept by Mary Johnston detailing professional development events attended and organized by her. Includes photographs, newsletters, correspondence, and ephemera.

Materials kept by Mary Johnston relating to her work on various professional development committees.

Correspondence to parents from Mary Johnston while she was principal at Winston Churchill Public School.

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

Canadian College of Teachers certification for Mary Johnston.

Correspondence between Mary Johnston and others. Topics include Mary's educational and professional certifications and training, her work on the Circular 14 Advisory Committee, and personal correspondence from friends, students, and colleagues.

Contains miscellaneous materials relating to the W.C.W.T.A.'s leadership courses for the years: 1973-1974, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1983-1984, 1995, and 1997-1998. These include flyers, correspondence, course evaluation form, course handouts, as well as the certificate awarded to Mary Johnston in 1975 to affirm her participation in the leadership course in this year.

Contains news clippings which appeared in The Globe and Mail focusing on Ontario teachers' opposition to Bill 274 designed to prevent mass resignations submitted by teachers from taking effect on Dec. 31, 1973. This bill would instead impose compulsory arbitration to resolve disputed contract issues. Actions taken by teachers to oppose this bill included a province-wide strike on Dec. 18, 1973.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Objectives of Winston Churchill Public School.

Contains news clipping (Waterloo Chronicle, Sunday, 23 May 1973, p. [1]) reporting that Mrs. Grace Scott, Mrs. Alice Bullard, Velma Samuel, Mrs. Irene Fretz, Mrs. Gladys Hudelmaier, and Mrs. Sally Beatty, who are retiring and have 160 years of teaching experience between them, were honoured by the Waterloo County Board of Education at a tea organized to mark this occasion.

Correspondence between Mary Johnston and others relating to the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association. Includes information on the establishment and award winners of the Mary Johnston Award as well.

Contains August 1973 issue of this newsletter.

Newsletter from Brighton Public School. Features include bike safety, music programming, intramural floor hockey, and upcoming class activities.

One photograph of students at Brighton Public School. They are standing in what appears to be a classroom and some are holding story books.

News clipping (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Monday, 5 June 1972, p. 28) reports on a leadership workshop sponsored by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario. The names of teachers attending from Kitchener-Waterloo are provided along with information on the themes to be covered in the workshop sessions.

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.

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.

Includes one issue of this serial publication - v. 1, no. 2 (Mar. 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.

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

New clipping (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Thursday, 4 May 1972, p. 38) reports that the spring assembly of the Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario will take place for the first time in Waterloo County. This article also focuses on the items on the agenda for discussion as well as other activities which will form part of this spring assembly.

Contains incomplete set of issues of New Dimensions, a journal published by the Ontario Department of Education including: v. 6, no. 7, 9 (2 copies), 1972; v. 7, no. 6, 1973, v. 8, no. 2, 1973; v. 8, no. 4, 1974; v. 10, no. 1, 2, 3, 1976.

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.

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.

Notes kept by Mary Johnston from her time on the Ad Hoc Committee on Special Education of the Waterloo County Board of Education.

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.

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.

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.

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

Includes 2 issues of this quarterly publication including: O.T.F. Reporter 22 (winter 1972) entitled "The Ideal Teacher", and O.T.F. Reporter 23 (spring 1972), entitled "The Teacher and the Law".

A booklet under the same title was published by the O.T.F. in 1949, 1955, 1959, 1964, and 1969. The present publication presents up-to-date material in revised form. It is intended to provide members of the affiliates of the Federation and prospective teachers with information of value to them in the practice of the profession.

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 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.

Elementary School Principal's Certificate for Mary Johnston.

Issues of the newsletter Lehrgespräch, in 18 files. Vols. 1 - 5 were published jointly by three Waterloo County Teachers' Federations including the W.C.W.T.A., and Vol. 6 was published jointly by two Waterloo County Teachers' Federations including the W.C.W.T.A. Vol.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.
Missing issues include: v. 5, no. 3, 1975-1976; v. 6, no. 7, 1977; v. 13, no. 4, 1984.

Materials relating to awards and honours given to Mary Johnston.

Correspondence to Mary Johnston congratulating her on wining the Wiegand Award for teaching excellence.

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.

One photograph of the Brighton Public School hockey championship team with Mary Johnston and others.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Photographs of staff at Brighton, Winston Churchill, Keatsway, and MacGregor School as well as administrative staff of the Waterloo County of Board of Education.

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

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.

One handmade book on phonics for students in grades 2 and 3.

Photograph of Mary Johnston.

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.

Contains miscellaneous materials relating to various W.C.W.T.A. workshops, information sessions, presentations, exhibitions etc. Includes correspondence, flyers, and a questionnaire.

Contents originally stored in ring binder. Contains materials which relate primarily to the affairs and activities of the W.C.W.T.A. This includes correspondence received by Mary Johnston, as well as ms. notes, flyers, and two copies of an issue of the W.C.W.T.A.'s Unit 1 newsletter (Vol. 3, no.2). Also includes minutes of a meeting of the Representatives of the Affiliate Organizations in Waterloo County held in May, 1967 and hosted by the Ontario Teachers' Federation, in addition to a report on the F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly on May 6, 1972. Finally, this file includes an undated clipping (probably from Lehrgespäch) relating to a W.C.W.T.A. Key Teacher/Awareness workshop.

Contents of this file originally stored in a binder. This appears to be a file which was maintained by Mary Johnston during her time as P.R. and county adviser with the W.C.W.T.A. This file contains miscellaneous materials including correspondence, information sheets about the F.W.T.A.O., flyers, notices of meetings, tss. relating to meetings, W.C.W.T.A. notices to members about actions being taken or proposed in a number of areas especially with regard to Bill 274. Also includes booklet containing legislation: Regulations (O. Reg. 95/47): General Regulations for Public and Separate Schools: Made Under the Department of Education Act.

Membership application and invitation to brunch from the Women in Educational Administration, Ontario.

Typewritten biography of Neil A. MacEachern, the first principal of MacGregor School.

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 correspondence and other materials all of which relate to the affairs, activities etc. of the W.C.W.T.A. Includes correspondence sent by and received by Mary Johnston. Some of this correspondence was sent or received in her capacity as a key teacher, as President of Unit 1, as a W.C.W.T.A. Past President, as the association's County Adviser, and as a member of the Book Project Committee.

Other materials in this file include ts. of W.C.W.T.A.'s comments on the Reville Report, a poem by Joyce Lodge (West Unit Executive Member) entitled "You Will Be There", an information sheet featuring an outline of the history of the W.C.W.T.A. Also includes agenda for W.C.W.T.A. executive retreat in 1990, as well as a list of W.C.W.T.A. priorities for 1997-1998. Additionally, contains lists of association executive members from 1996-1997, a list of women administrators for 1997-1998, and a list of honorary association members for 1997-1998.

Materials relating to the operation and history of Brighton Public School. Includes clippings, newsletters, photographs, ephemera, etc.

Contains correspondence received by Mary Johnston from the Waterloo County Board of Education. Also includes a committee report dated May, 1982 on the subject of lunch hour supervision in the elementary schools, as well as an Information Report for Pilot French Program (May 1982) and a School Based Survey Report (April 1983). It also includes the transcript of a presentation hosted by the board. Other items include a salary proposal of the board for elementary teachers dated Nov. 1969.

Patches from schools including Brighton, and MacGregor.

One scrapbook of events, students, and staff at Brighton Public School. Includes photographs, clippings, realia and ephemera.

One assignment by Mary Johnston for the course 1260 taught by Mr. Manuel.

Mary Johnston's Master of Education degree.

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

Lesson plans created by Mary Johnston for history teaching. Includes lessons on Hudson's Bay Company, the Great Fire of London, and Act I Scene V of MacBeth.

Outlines and speaking points for remembrance day assemblies.