Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum

History of Sports and Games

0085.Ldl.36
Item
1982

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about the endurance of sports and games.

Visual Education Consultants

Dinosaurs

0085.Ldl.011
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film produced for the National Museum of Canada and is a brief introduction to Dinosaurs.

National Film Board of Canada

Dinosaurs

0085.Ldl.011
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film produced for the National Museum of Canada and is a brief introduction to Dinosaurs.

National Film Board of Canada

Map Making Field Surveys

0085.Ldl.012
Item
1952

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film presented by the Topographical Survey, Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys Canada. It takes a historical look at surveying in Canada and different types of surveying.

National Film Board of Canada

Map Making Field Surveys

0085.Ldl.012
Item
1952

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film presented by the Topographical Survey, Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys Canada. It takes a historical look at surveying in Canada and different types of surveying.

National Film Board of Canada

The Little Brown Bat

0085.Ldl.013
Item
1952

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a brief filmstrip about the Little Brown Bat.

National Film Board of Canada

Minerals from the Mountains of the West

0085.Ldl.014
Item
1955

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about minerals in the mountains in British Columbia and the Yukon.

National Film Board of Canada

Use Your Head, Save Your Neck

0085.Ldl.016
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip about safe work practices when doing physical labour.

National Film Board of Canada

Our Resources : Fisheries Part One

0085.Ldl.017
Item
1949

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip presented by the Canadian Citizenship Branch, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration about the history of the fisheries in Canada.

National Film Board of Canada

Our Land Part Two : Maritimes

0085.Ldl.018
Item
1949

Part of Artifact Collection

tem is a film presented by the Canadian Citizenship Branch, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration about the Maritime Provinces.

National Film Board of Canada

The Grasshopper

0085.Ldl.019
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about the lifecycle of grasshoppers, presented with assistance by the Division of Entomology, Dominion Department Agriculture.

National Film Board of Canada

Nickel

0085.Ldl.020
Item
1957

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about the history, production and uses of Nickel and is presented by the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys.

National Film Board of Canada

Snakes of Canada

0085.Ldl.021i,ii
Item
1956

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip about the snakes of Canada and was presented by the National Museum of Canada.

National Film Board of Canada

Canadian Journey

0085.Ldl.022
Item
1960

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip depicting a cartoon train crossing the map of Canada. It appears to be for Elementary students.

National Film Board of Canada

Vitamin D Fair

0085.Ldl.023
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip depicting cartoon children going to a fair and learning about the importance of Vitamin D. Film is presented by the Nutrition Division of the Department of National Health and Welfare.

National Film Board of Canada

Steel and the Automobile

0085.Ldl.024
Item
1956

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film strip about the manufacture of steel and automobiles.

National Film Board of Canada

Celebrating Christmas

0085.Ldl.025
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip about North American Christmas traditions. It looks at the activities of one family.

Curriculum Films

Health and Safety : Safety at School

0085.Ldl.026
Item
1949

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip about how to be safe at school. It is aimed at Elementary students.

Curriculum Films

Janet Visits Europe : Tulip Time in Holland

0085.Ldl.027
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip depicting children visiting Holland during Tulip Time.

Curriculum Films

Community Workers : Policemen at Work

0085.Ldl.028
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip about the work of urban policemen.

Curriculum Films

A Story-Time Picture Tale : Rumpelstilskin

0085.Ldl.029
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a cartoon version of the Rumpelstilskin fairy tale.

Curriculum Films

Health and Safety : Safety at Home

0085.Ldl.030
Item
1949

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is filmstrip about safe practices in the home. It is aimed at Elementary aged children.

Curriculum Films

Through the Seasons : Winter in Country and Town

0085.Ldl.031
Item
1949

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip depicting drawings of children in winter time in town and in the country.

Curriculum Films

Your Health : Posture

0085.Ldl.032
Item
1951

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip encouraging teenage students to have good posture. Each image is a drawing rather than a photograph.

Curriculum Films

Work Animals Around the World : Aubel & Leman, Farm Horses

0085.Ldl.033
Item
1952

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip about work horses. The images are all drawings.

Curriculum Films

How Soil is Formed

0085.Ldl.034
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about the importance of soil preservation. Item was produced in association with the Conservation Foundation.

Encyclopaedia Brittanica Films Inc.

The History of Transportation : Water Transportation

0085.Ldl.035
Item
1946

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about transportation on water through history.

Young America Films Inc.

Simple Machines

0085.Ldl.037
Item
1950

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about the usefulness of six simple machines: the inclined plane, the lever, the pulley, the wheel-and-axle, the wedge and the screw.

Row, Peterson & Company

At the Farm with Tom and Susan : Simple Machines

0085.Ldl.038
Item
1946

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film depicting two children on a farm and the simple machines around them.

Popular Science Publishing Company Inc.

The Earth as a Planet

0085.Ldl.003i, ii
Item
1953

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a filmstrip about the Earth’s neighbors, the formation of the continents and the oceans,the motions of the Earth and the Moon, and the geometrical divisions of the Earth.

National Film Board of Canada

Introduction to Maps

0085.Ldl.004i, ii
Item
1953

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is an elementary level filmstrip about maps.

National Film Board of Canada

How A Weather Map Is Made

0085.Ldl.005
Item
1953

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about weather prediction and how official weather maps are made in Canada.

National Film Board of Canada

Iron Ore

0085.Ldl.006
Item
1955

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film presented by the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys about the exploration for and production of Iron Ore in Canada.

National Film Board of Canada

Petroleum

0085.Ldl.007
Item
1955

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film presented by the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys about Petroleum production in Canada.

National Film Board of Canada

The Barren Ground Caribou

0085.Ldl.008
Item
1952

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about Caribou in Canada and products made from Caribou. It was produced for the Canadian Wildlife Services, Department of Resources and Development.

National Film Board of Canada

Native Trees of Canada : East of British Columbia

0085.Ldl.009
Item
1952

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a film about the native trees of Canada east of British Columbia.

National Film Board of Canada

Bausch and Lomb balopticon

0084.20.1,2
Item
1912

Part of Artifact Collection

Slide projector, for 4x3 3/4-inch glass slide. Model BC Balopticon. Black japenned tinplate, Lens focus 41/2 inch, focus knob on side of lens mount, lens diameter 7 cm. Leather bellows. Removable lid. Glass light bulb inside body. Power cord, with on/off switch, from underside of body. Air holes on body and lid. Wood slide carrier mounted behind bellows. Series No. 66385.

Indian clubs

0084.28.1-46
Item
n.d.

Part of Artifact Collection

Indian clubs, which originated in India, were used for physical education in Edmonton Public Schools.

Indian clubs

0084.29.1,2
Item
n.d.

Part of Artifact Collection

Indian clubs, which originated in India, were used for physical education in Edmonton Public Schools.

Estes' Improved Geometrical Solids and Planes

0084.39.1a,b-28
Item
[188-] to [192-]

Part of Artifact Collection

Manufactured by E. B. Estes & Sons New York, New York. Item is a finger jointed wood box with separate lid containing wooden geometric shapes.

E. B. Estes and Sons

Bradley’s Occupation Material for the Kindergarten : Gift No. 5

0084.39.29a,b-67
Item
n.d.

Part of Artifact Collection

Manufactured by Milton Bradley Company in Springfield, Massachusetts USA. Item is a wooden box that is dove tailed with a slide out lid that contains wooden geometric shapes.

Milton Bradley Company

Drum Major's Whistle with Gold Lanyard

0084.43.2,3
Item
1936 - 1969

Part of Artifact Collection

Whistles with gold lanyards used by the Drum Major of the Edmonton Schoolboys' Band.

Edmonton Schoolboys' Band uniform cap badge

0084.43.14
Item
1936 - 1969

Part of Artifact Collection

Edmonton Schoolboys' Band uniform cap badge.

Edmonton Schoolboys' Band uniform cap badge

0084.43.16
Item
1936 - 1969

Part of Artifact Collection

Edmonton Schoolboys' Band uniform cap badge.

Edmonton Newsboys' Band uniform cap badge

0084.45.1
Item
[1928]

Part of Artifact Collection

Edmonton Newsboys' Band uniform cap badge.

Edmonton Schoolboys' Band uniform cap badge

0084.45.2,3
Item
1936 - 1969

Part of Artifact Collection

Edmonton Schoolboys' Band uniform cap badges.

Confederation Diamond Jubilee Plaque

0084.59.1
Item
[1927]

Part of Artifact Collection

Item is a plaque with embossed lettering along the perimeter stating: CONFEDERATION, CANADA, OUR COUNTRY, 1867-1927. Embossed in the centre is the arms of Canada, as in use in 1927, and embossed over the remainder is a design of maple leaves and stems. Plaques such as this one were given to most schools in the Dominion of Canada in 1927.