Alex Lord's British Columbia: Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-1936 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774803816)

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.

Author: John Calam
ISBN-10: 0774803819
ISBN-13: 9780774803816
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1991
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover