Special thanks (again) to Bill “Mole” Thomson and his brother Richard for the pdf. The document is best read offline, and it is indexed so you can search on any term.
There is a bunch to unpack here.
This Bulletin covers, Selkirk, Alberta, and Ontario. There’s a bunch of history packed into these eight pages. This was a period of the Company’s expansion into Ontario.
I came to Selkirk in the Fall of 1973. There are many familiar names of boys (and masters). The Selkirk names are very familiar – Cruikshank, Kelleher, Corkett, Anthony, Weatherbe, et al. The interschool race, the interschool debate, and the ebb and flow of resources and teachers between Manitoba and Alberta document a much grander design of solidifying the schools’ place in the world.
The first Ontario staff being hired, the Alberta printing plant spooling up, it’s all in here. (There are some things in here I did not know – like – you can’t sell meat door-to-door in Edmonton (who knew Albertans had good sense? It sounds like a fine rule to me).
I saw the word “Eaton’s” and found myself living again in a primeval pre-Amazon world, delivering sales flyers door-to-door. But I digress.
Behold, the The St. John’s Bulletin – Spring 1973. You can read it online or download it and read it offline. Good reading!
