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Alex Taylor School - SW
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-19 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

9321 Jasper Avenue. This school is named to honour Alexander Taylor, Edmonton Pioneer and Chairman of the Edmonton Public School Board from 1899 to 1909. The cornerstone for the school was laid on August 30, 1907. The contractor was R.J. Manson, and Roland W. Lines was the architect. Over the decades the teaching staff have maintained the pioneer spirit of Alexander Taylor by introducing innovative programmes of study for its young students as well as for the adult population of Edmonton.

Alex Taylor School - SW
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-20 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

9321 Jasper Avenue. This school is named to honour Alexander Taylor, Edmonton Pioneer and Chairman of the Edmonton Public School Board from 1899 to 1909. The cornerstone for the school was laid on August 30, 1907. The contractor was R.J. Manson, and Roland W. Lines was the architect. Over the decades the teaching staff have maintained the pioneer spirit of Alexander Taylor by introducing innovative programmes of study for its young students as well as for the adult population of Edmonton.

Edmonton 1881 School
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-135 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

10425 - 99 Avenue.
Edmonton's First Public School.
Created in 1881 by public subscription and built on this site which was donated by the Hudson's Bay Company, Edmonton's first public school was later replaced by the long lasting McKay Avenue School where Alberta's first legislature met in 1906.

CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-254 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

8525 - 101 Street.
Built at a cost of $180,000, King Edward School opened its doors to students on March 9, 1914. Originally, it had 17 classrooms, separate playrooms for boys and girls, separate rooms for manual training and domestic science, an automatic heat regulator, and shower baths. For the first time, the large assembly hall common to schools of this time, was built on the ground floor instead of the top floor, to accommodate its use as a social centre for the surrounding community.
Inside, the foyer features oak paneled walls, latticed windows and doors and a terrazzo floor leading to a marble stairway. Fifteen foot ceilings, wide hallways and oak mouldings and railings are found throughout.
King Edward School has a long list of distinguished alumni, but perhaps the shining moment in the school's history occurred during the Royal Visit of 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the school.

King Edward School - SW
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-255 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

8525 - 101 Street.
Built at a cost of $180,000, King Edward School opened its doors to students on March 9, 1914. Originally, it had 17 classrooms, separate playrooms for boys and girls, separate rooms for manual training and domestic science, an automatic heat regulator, and shower baths. For the first time, the large assembly hall common to schools of this time, was built on the ground floor instead of the top floor, to accommodate its use as a social centre for the surrounding community.
Inside, the foyer features oak paneled walls, latticed windows and doors and a terrazzo floor leading to a marble stairway. Fifteen foot ceilings, wide hallways and oak mouldings and railings are found throughout.
King Edward School has a long list of distinguished alumni, but perhaps the shining moment in the school's history occurred during the Royal Visit of 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the school.

McCauley School
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-291 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

9538 - 107 Avenue
This twelve room school opened in 1912. The three - storey Tudor Gothic style building was designed by school board architect G.E. Turner and built by contractors Pheasey and Batson for a cost of $93,800. Among the features of the building are the red pressed brick and Bedford stone mullioned facade with a crenelated roof line, decorative shield embellishments, separate entrances for boys and girls, polished granite hallway floors, leaded windows, and original fireproof metal staircases. The grouped windows provided plenty of natural light, and each classroom was provided with its own cloakroom. There were manual training and domestic science rooms in the basement, a spacious library on the second floor, and an assembly hall with a skylight on the third floor. The assembly hall served as the gymnasium until the new gymnasium was added in 1961.
The school was named after Matthew McCauley, the first Mayor of the Town of Edmonton, and a MLA in the first Alberta Legislature. McCauley championed the cause of education, raising money through subscription to build Edmonton's first one room school. He was a member of the first Edmonton Public Board of School Trustees (1881), and was the first Edmonton School Board chairman.

McKay Avenue School
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-306 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

10425 - 99 Avenue.
McKay Avenue School has played a significant role in the educational, social and political development of Edmonton and of Alberta.
The school was named after Dr. William M. MacKay, a Hudson's Bay Company officer and surgeon. Dr. Mackay served at several posts, including York Factory, Norway House, Dunvegan, Lesser Slave Lake and Fort Chipewyan. After retiring from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1898, Dr. MacKay moved to Edmonton with his family and opened a medical practice. A spelling error in the naming of the street in front of where the school now stands was perpetuated in the naming of the school.
This substantial three-storey brick school, designed by H.D. Johnston and contracted by R. J. Manson, was constructed over 1904 and 1905 and cost Edmonton Public Schools approximately $44,000 to build.
After the Province of Alberta was created in 1905, the school's third floor assembly hall housed the first two sessions of the Alberta Legislature, held in 1906 and 1907. In 1912, due to increased need for classroom space, the school was enlarged to the west.
McKay Avenue remained an operating school until 1983. At that time, the school board made the decision to restore the building as Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum.
Built using the then popular Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture, McKay Avenue School embodies the optimism of turn-of-the-century Edmonton. The exterior remains substantially unaltered, while the interior has been extensively restored to reflect its use as a school and the appearance of the third floor assembly hall during the time it housed Alberta's first Legislative Assembly.

Oliver School
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-351 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

10227 - 118 Street.
Named in honour of Frank Oliver, then federal Minister of the Interior and former school board trustee, editor of the Edmonton Bulletin and Northwest Territories councilor, Oliver School opened on 13 March 1911, with an enrolment of 280 pupils.
The Edmonton Public School Board had awarded the construction to Edmonton contractor Alex Beaton for $76,300, but the plumbing and heating installations raised the final cost to over $100,000. New features included fireproof staircases and landings in separate wings, large segregated basement playrooms for each gender, and the latest in heating and ventilating innovations. The original ventilation system is still in use today. Having such conveniences as electric lights, indoor toilets and a miniature rifle range in the boys' playroom made Oliver School a very modern building for its time.
Oliver School expansions included an addition in 1929, a gymnasium in 1957 and a $3.5 million modernization completed in 2000. In 1956, Oliver School expanded to become an elementary - junior high school and remained as such until 1979, when it reverted to an elementary school. Today, it is the home of the Oliver Elementary Program serving 230 boys and girls, and the Nellie McClung Girls' Junior High Program serving 180 girls.
Oliver School holds a record for Edmonton public schools with two of its members, Robina McMillan (1919-1962) and Helen Raver (1922-1964), having taught for a total of 85 years.

Queen Alexandra School
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-379 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

7730 - 106 Street.
This school officially opened in 1906 and was originally called Duggan Street School in honour of J. J. Duggan, former alderman, and Mayor of Strathcona. Built by Messrs. Pheasey and Batson, contractors who insisted upon craftsmanship, it is a fine example of turn of the century architecture. It was renamed Queen Alexandra School in 1910. The University of Alberta used this school as a campus, and as office of the President of the University, during 1908.
It was subsequently a neighbourhood elementary school for many years until offering a charter program in the last decade.

Queen Alexandra School - NE
CA EDM RG-21-2-3-EA-792-380 · Stuk · 2006
Part of City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

7730 - 106 Street.
This school officially opened in 1906 and was originally called Duggan Street School in honour of J. J. Duggan, former alderman, and Mayor of Strathcona. Built by Messrs. Pheasey and Batson, contractors who insisted upon craftsmanship, it is a fine example of turn of the century architecture. It was renamed Queen Alexandra School in 1910. The University of Alberta used this school as a campus, and as office of the President of the University, during 1908.
It was subsequently a neighbourhood elementary school for many years until offering a charter program in the last decade.