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Concordia College Concordia College is situated in Edmonton, the capital of the Province of Alberta, a city of 120,000 inhabitants, 801 miles west of Winnipeg, 771 east of Vancouver, and some 350 miles north of the Montana boundary. The city dates its origin from the year 1795, when it was established as a fur trading post by the Hudson’s Bay Company. It was incorporated as a town in 1892 and as a city in 1904. Lying in the centre of one of the most prosperous farming com¬ munities in Western Canada, near the Leduc oil fields, and being the gateway to the fertile Peace River empire and the goldfields and the uranium deposits in the far north, the city has long been noted as a progressive community. With its University of Alberta, provincial Normal School, eleven colleges, and two public libraries, it offers excellent educational and cultural facilities. Concordia has its home in a quiet residential district in the eastern part of the city. It lies high above the beautiful valley of the Saskatchewan River, borders the scenic Highlands golf course, and adjoins the Fair Grounds and Borden Park, in which are situated the Edmonton Zoo and a municipal swimming pool. The distance from the college to the heart of the city is a ten-minute ride on the Highland bus line. Concordia College was officially opened on October 31, 1921, with a Grade Nine enrolment of 35 students. The activities of the school were concen¬ trated in the Caledonian Temperance Hotel at 10875 98th Street, and a boarding house at 9529 110th Avenue served as dining room, kitchen, infirmary, and princi¬ pal’s residence. Grades ten, eleven, and twelve were added in the next successive years, and in 1926 the first of two junior college classes was organized. In the fall of 1924 the Fraser estate (together with several lots owned by the city) covering in area 8.11 acres, was purchased at the cost of $13,800. Building operations began on May 20, 1925, and were completed on the day of dedication, January 10, 1926. The new plant, designed by the architectural firm of G. H. MacDonald and H. A. Magoon and erected by the Poole Construction Co. consists of three buildings: The administration building contains six classrooms, laboratory, library, office, faculty room, chapel, vault and heating plant. In addition to the dining hall, steward’s quarters, a small gymnasium, storage rooms, and lavatories, the dormitory contains 16 suites of rooms, the larger of which are designed for five and the smaller for four students. Each suite has a study and a bedroom, the latter being equipped with a dressing table and a spacious locker for each student. All floors in these rooms are covered with battleship linoleum. In the service building are located the kitchen, refrigerating room, storage room, room for maids, and in the second story the sick-rooms. All buildings are of fire-proof construction. The total cost of land and buildings was $147,000. Four teachers’ residences were erected in 1930 at a total cost of $39,466. Co-education was introduced in 1925, but temporarily discontinued in 1931. Girls were again admitted in 1941, and since that time their number has constantly grown. Twenty-four were enrolled in the school-year 1947-1948. In conformity with the suggestion of the synodical Board for Higher Edu¬ cation that “each institution should meet the state or regional requirements for graduation from high school,” the Alberta Provincial High School Course of Studies was introduced in 1939. At that time grade nine was at least temporarily eliminated, since this grade is no more part of a provincial senior high school. The college is visited annually by provincial inspectors and invariably receives words of commendation from them. Its students have done good work in their final examinations and in achievement have held second or third place among the hundreds of provincial high schools. 5
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Above: Mrs. A. H. Schwermnnn, secretary, and Mrs. E. Eberhardt, president of the Ladies’ Shower Committee from 1935 to 1947. Below: Mrs. H. Brown and Mrs. A. R. Riep who were elected president and secretary respectively at the Fall Shower day, 1947. 6
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