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| Title | Provincial Normal School, Victoria, n.d. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | On verso of image: Normal School, Victoria, B.C., later Victoria Univ.
Filed in British Columbia--Victoria |
| Contextual Notes | The Provincial Normal School in Victoria was opened in 1915. It augmented the Provincial Normal School in Vancouver (1901). Although staff at the two facilities had different areas of expertise, the schools adhered to a common curriculum.
The Victoria Normal School was located near Mt. Tolmie, by the corner of Lansdowne Road and Richmond Road. It was designed by Vancouver architect W. C. F. Gillam and erected by a well-known firm of Victoria contractors, Luney Bros. The building still stands and is now the centre piece of Camosun College. From 1915 to 1941, the building was used solely by the Provincial Normal School. In 1942, the building was turned over to the federal government for use as a military hospital. It became an educational facility again in 1946 and during the next decade the facility was shared by the Normal School and by Victoria College. The Normal School closed in 1956 when teacher training was transferred to The University of British Columbia. Victoria College evolved into the University of Victoria (1963) which moved to a new campus at Gordon Head. The former Provincial Normal School building was subsequently used by the Victoria School Board for a new learning agency called the Institute of Adult Education. That institute became Camosun College in 1971. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Teachers colleges--British Columbia--Victoria |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Provincial Normal School (Victoria, B.C.); College buildings--British Columbia--Victoria; Victoria (B.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc. |
| Location Depicted | Canada--British Columbia--Victoria |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC0783
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Canada Photograph Collection. PH Coll 393 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
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