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Title: Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McCaig, J Alberta. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Edmonton, Alta. : Issued under the direction of Minister of Agriculture
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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l training is further supplemented by institutes,conventions and summer schools. The Department of Educationis charged with the care of mentally defective children and a largeinstitution with a farm of one thousand acres is being establishedfor this purpose near Edmonton. Prominence is given to agricul-tural teaching in the elementary school. All high school studentspreparing for teaching are obliged to take agriculture in the highschools. In the year 1918 of the total 5,652 teachers employed in theschools males numbered 1,090 or nearly twenty per cent. Theaverage salary of male teachers was $1,066.50 and of females $876.44.The growth of the schools is shown in the progress of organizationof new schools and the progress of school enrolment over a periodof ten years: No. of School No. of Districts Pupils 1909 1,250 46,048 1910 1,501 55,307 1911 1,784 61,660 1912 2,029 71,044 1913 2,235 79,909 1914 2,360 89,910 1915 2,478 97,286 1916 2,598 99,201 1917 2,779 107,727 1918 2,971 111,109 75
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76 The University of Alberta is situated in Edmonton South.It opened with 37 students in 1908 but at the close of 1919 had aregistration of over a thousand. The work of the university isorganized into the following faculties: arts and sciences; appliedscience; medicine, law and agriculture. In addition to theseregularly organized faculties the university conducts a school ofpharmacy, school of accountancy and gives the first two yearsinstruction in dentistr)^ A number of denominational colleges areaffiliated with the university. The land at the university includes600 acres, 400 of which is devoted to the work of the faculty ofagriculture. The university is doing important work in the re-education of returned men. The Department of Agriculture directs the teaching of agri-culture in special schools for farm boys and girls. These schoolsare six in number and provide courses in crops and cultivation,live stock husbandry, dairying, farm mechanics, horticulture andpoultry, besides science

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