Provincial Institute of Technology and Art - Record Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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The Emery Weal The students’ paper, The Emery Weal, started the past year under extremely diffcult circumstances. Business conditions were not such as to make the paper a financial success, and since the paper has always been a self- sustaining part of the activities of the Students’ Association, this was indeed a blow to the school paper. The students themselves have not this year shown the interest in the school activities that has been shown in for¬ mer years, end without the support of the Student Body nothing can be a success. In February, The Emery Weal dropped out of the picture to give place to the Year Book, since their finan¬ cial interests were clashing. It might be a good thing to have a compulsory subscription to The Emery Weal taken up, in the same manner as the students’ dues, and turned over to The Emery Weal. This would give the paper a fair working- margin. The Emery Weal wishes to thank Mr. Young, our Staff representative, for the support and co-operation he has given us, and to thank those students who have so loyally supported the paper. To the graduating students we wish every success in their future endeavours, and to those who return again, may they leave with as fond a memory of the Institute and its Staff as we are leaving.

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.TECH-ART RECORD Technical Schools in Canada By Dr. W. C. Carpenter T echnical Education is a relatively new venture in educat on in Canada. Practical education has been a part of the system of education in Europe for many years. Some Russian handiwork from their schools was shown at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, which gave a large impetus towards the organization of Jthis work in the United States. In Canada, the first senous attempt at Technical Education in day classes was made in Toronto in 1900. Considerable interest in this type of educat onal endeavour had been developed over Canada through the gifts of Sir William MacDonald for the encouragement of Man¬ ual Training. Dr. James W. Robertson, administering the MacDonald fund, introduced several instructors from England. These were distributed throughout Canada, and beginnings in practical programs were instituted. In Toronto remarkable progress has been made. Eor fifteen years work was carried on m a modified building until 1915, when work was jbegun in the magnificent Central Technical Schoo ' , since when three very large and magnificent schools have been erected and filled to capacity. In Hamilton, Technical work was begun in 1909, since when the fine Technical Institute was erected and very Quickly filled to capacity; and a second school, in West Hamilton, had to be provided to meet the demands. London and Windsor- Walkerville have excellent schools, w.th heavy enrolments, and at the present time there is not a city of over 10,000 population that has not a Technical School as a part of its local system. Technical education is firmly placed on a permanent basis in Ontaro. In Quebec the Ecole Polytechnique was organized in Montreal in 1873. This has grown into a large and Important branch of L.aval University and carr es the engineering services of this large University. This ,school is not a Technical High School, inasmuch as its main function is more of a University grade. The Montreal Technical School was organized in 1907, offering practical courses of a sub-un ' versity grade. Since then large Industrial schools have been built at Quebec City, Hull, Three Rivers, Grande Mere, Shawinigan, Beauceville, Chicoutimi, Port Alfred and other places. These schools have been largely financed by the government of the Province of Quebec, the communities in which they are situated contributing towards their maintenance. In the Maritime Provinces, the first beginnings were made in the organization of the Nova Scotia Technical Cbllege in 1907. The main urge behind the plan in Nova Scotia was to provide a central school for the training of engineers which could not easily be Page Twelve