Fonds MG 29 - Maple School Board of Trustees fonds

Fonds consists of minute book of the Maple School Board of Trustees for the period 1890-1906 recording the deliberations and providing evidence of the transactions and actions of the Board; and the standardized public school daily attendance register for 1898. The latter was provided to public schools via the local school inspector, and in addition to providing the names of students, offers an indication of the moral tone of the day with its regulations for religious instruction; item also provides evidence of curriculum by citing a list of text-books authorized for public school use in Ontario, and a programme of studies delineating the required content of the various courses taught: reading; spelling and writing; grammar and composition; English poetical literature and English language; geography; arithmetic and elementary mensuration; bookkeeping; algebra; geometry; physiology, temprance and agriculture; drawing; botany; Latin and Greek; French and German; music. M009.16 accession contains three documents: 1) a bond to convey the premises from John Line to the Trustees of School Section No. 6 dated 1873, 2) a description of part of Lot 18 Concession 4 prepared by Peter Gibson, Public Land Surveyor, dated 1873, and 3) an indenture dated 1879 from John Line to the School Board Trustees.