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Coles Alex Lord's British Columbia: Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-1936 at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools,
shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely out
of the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory,
utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes,
Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and
their faith in the humanizing effects of tiny assisted schools. En
route, he performed in resolute yet imaginative fashion the supervisory
functions of a top government educator developing an educational
philosophy of his own based on an understanding of the provincial
geography, a reverence for citizenship, and a work ethic tuned to
challenge and accomplishment.
These memoirs invite the reader to experience the British Columbia
that Alex Lord knew. Through his words, we endure the difficulties of
travel in this mountainous province. We meet many of the unusual
characters who inhabited this last frontier and learn of their hopes,
fears, joys, sorrows, and eccentricities. More particularly, we are
reminded of the historical significance of the one-room rural school
and its role as an indispensable instrument of community cohesion. John
Calam organizes the memoirs according to the regions through which Lord
travelled. Included in the introduction are a biography of Alex Lord, a
brief description of the British Columbia he knew, a sketch of the
province’s public education system and an assessment of the place
Lord’s writing now occupies among other works on education and
society.
Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools,
shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely out
of the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory,
utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes,
Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and
their faith in the humanizing effects of tiny assisted schools. En
route, he performed in resolute yet imaginative fashion the supervisory
functions of a top government educator developing an educational
philosophy of his own based on an understanding of the provincial
geography, a reverence for citizenship, and a work ethic tuned to
challenge and accomplishment.
These memoirs invite the reader to experience the British Columbia
that Alex Lord knew. Through his words, we endure the difficulties of
travel in this mountainous province. We meet many of the unusual
characters who inhabited this last frontier and learn of their hopes,
fears, joys, sorrows, and eccentricities. More particularly, we are
reminded of the historical significance of the one-room rural school
and its role as an indispensable instrument of community cohesion. John
Calam organizes the memoirs according to the regions through which Lord
travelled. Included in the introduction are a biography of Alex Lord, a
brief description of the British Columbia he knew, a sketch of the
province’s public education system and an assessment of the place
Lord’s writing now occupies among other works on education and
society.
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