Victoria High School - Victorian Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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10 Victoria High School 3h fttenunimn K. W. MACKENZIE, B.A. (By William Rea) Mr. K. W. MacKenzie, who had been an esteemed member of the staff of Victoria High School since August, 1915, paid the debt of nature on the 9th of October, 1929. The late Mr. MacKenzie was born on a farm at Holyrood, Bruce County, Ontario, in 1862. He was educated at the Public Schools, at Clinton and Owen Sound Collegiate Institutes, and at Toronto University, where he took an Arts course, graduating- with honours in political science in 1893. Coming west in the same year he took a Normal training- course at Regina, and then became Principal of the Lethbridge Schools, where he remained for two years. He came to Edmonton as Principal of Schools in 1895, and held this position for three years, when he resigned to enter the stationery business in Edmonton, which he followed for the next twelve years. Subsequently, for a period of two years, Mr. MacKenzie held the position of Dominion Land Agent at Edmonton, and as stated above, in 1915, he resumed the teaching profession, which he followed until his death. During his business career, Mr. MacKenzie devoted a large part of his time to the public service and welfare. He was Mayor of the Town of Edmonton for two years, and was the first Mayor of the City of Edmonton, holding this office for the year 1905. This was an historic year in the City’s development, for it saw the inauguration of the new Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the selection of Edmonton as the capital of this Province, and the entry into the City of the Canadian Northern Rail¬ way, the first of the transcontinental main lines to reach Edmonton. Mr. MacKenzie played a conspicuous part in the colourful events of those memorable days and, like the Trojan, he could truly say, “et quorum pars magna fui.” Mr. MacKenzie, when in his prime, was a man of dominating will and great energy and decision, but beneath the “dour” exterior there dwelt a kindly heart and a cultured and generous mind. As a result of the training and influence of that old Ontario home, he retained through life an abiding- faith in the God of his fathers, and when the summons came he went out into the Unseen and the Eternal unafraid.

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Vic Version: All is fair in love and Garneau. Harold Hawker: I’ve got a yen for you. Helen Glockzin: All right, but after this you’ll have to pay your Students’ Union fees in Canadian money. Jack McCabe: I’m going to be a surgeon. Ralph McGibbon: Not for me. Too much inside work. Vera Pike: Gee, that candy in Barootes’ window makes my mouth water. Jimmy McCaig: Well, here’s a blotter. Jimmy Walker’s cigarette lighter is now working so well he can light it with only one match. Bill Love: Wipe off your chin. Ardon Cooper: Can’t. It’s fas¬ tened on. i for Smart oAfternoon and. Sports Wear at 1 Reasonable Prices $15.00 to $29.50 | 9 | V’cALLAIRD’S LIMITED llllllllllllllllllllllllllllMllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll •Vllllll | | II | | | I II | I II II I I ! I i’ll III II I I llliu NATIONAL NOW OFFERING The latest arrivals for spring in Suits - - Top-Coats Tuxodos - One Price Only We are both maker and retailer. Buy National Clothes and save the difference. The National Clothes Shops Limited 10118 Jasper Ave., Edmonton illliii:ii!|iiliili:ilil!illlllil!iliiliillili! I ill i::|i ill 11:111111111 ii :ii ■ :i. BETTER and SMARTER Is Our Slogan Wear Our Clothes and Look Your Best We Specialize in Young Men’s and Boys’ Wear THE COLLEGE SHOP FOR COLLEGE CHAPS THE BOYS’ SHOP 10339 Jasper Ave. 1 I I I! ■ nil ■ ■ ■: I I I! ■ ■ ■III ■ lul l I I ■■■ ■ ■ ■ !■; ■ ■ ■ ■ I, ■ ■ ■ ■ II II I I :■.

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Year Book 11 OUR SCHOOL I carved my name upon the des when I was going to school, I marked initials on the wall, against the strictest rule. But what I never understood and now can plainly see, Is that my school has left its mar , indelibly on me. I cannot see the red and blac without a sudden pain To ma e me wish that I could hold my colors high again. I never meet a school day friend who does not ma e me feel That all the pals I had at Vic. were well worth while and real. And though my feet may ta e the road, my mind the world-wide trac , Ho journey is too distant for my heart to travel bac . —Lotta C. Dempsey.