For those desiring a still higher and more specialized 

 education, there are ample facilities. A University is 

 situated at Edmonton, where courses are offered in Arts, 

 I aw, Medicine, Applied Science, Pharmacy, Agriculture, 

 Household Economics and Engineering. Last year the 

 Provincial Institute of Technology and Art was opened at 

 Calgary, meeting with such an encouraging reception, that 

 a permanent building, costing a million dollars, is now 

 under way. During the first year of this institute, 628 

 students were enrolled. Courses given here include rail- 

 way, architectural and mechanical drafting, armature 

 winding and electrical engineering, telegraphy, motor and 

 tractor engineering, mining engineering, applied mathe- 

 matics, machine shop practice and steam engineering. 

 Preliminary classes in steam engineeringand mining are also 

 held in different parts of the province, more or less as a 

 preparatory course to the similar faculties at the Institute 

 of Technology. 



Schools of Agriculture 



Agricultural instruction is also carried on under the 

 provincial government, which has established schools of 

 Agriculture at Claresholm, Olds, Vermilion, Youngstown, 

 Gleichen and Raymond. Here young farmers and farmers' 

 children are taught scientific farming and the methods of 

 cultivation and stock raising found to be best suited to 

 their particular locality. For those wishing to continue 

 this study a faculty of Agriculture has been added to the 

 curriculum of the University. 



Five thousand teachers are required to provide in- 

 structional staff for these schools, and three institutions for 

 the training of teachers Normal Schools are maintained 

 in the province, each one accommodating from 150 to 200 

 students. These schools are located at Calgary, Camrose 

 and Edmonton. Although more than four hundred teach- 

 ers graduate from these normal schools each year, they are 

 not sufficient to supply the demand and teachers are re- 

 cruited from the other Canadian provinces, from Great 

 Britain and from the United States. Before these latter, 

 however, can practise their profession they must pass a 

 qualifying test at one of the Alberta normal schools. 



In its policy of educational assistance, the Alberta gov- 

 ernment helps students to complete their training as teach- 

 ers by granting them loans, wherever necessary, to carry 

 them through the course. To date, one hundred and 

 ninety teachers have been assisted in this manner. It is 

 recognized that in the rural districts, teachers need first 

 class homes if the schools are to operate from year to year 

 all the year around. Accordingly the government pro- 

 vides one-third of the cost of a good home, a site of not less 

 than five acres, and the complete furnishings of the home, 

 where such are necessary. In this important matter, 

 Alberta leads all provinces and states on the continent. 



A Teachers' Bureau 



The services of the Department of Education are always 

 available to both teachers and school boards, to enable 

 them to readily get in touch with each other, and for this 

 purpose the dspartment is maintaining a free teachers' 

 bureau. Last year this bureau was directly responsible in 

 placing 1,100 teachers and indirectly assisted the Normal 

 schools in placing half as many more. 



Reviewing the changes that have taken place in every 

 phase of life on these Canadian prairies, it is hard to realize 

 that they have all happened within the last decade or two. 

 How typical of the whole country is the progress shown 

 in the educational facilities afforded by the city of Calgary 

 during the last twenty-five years, during which time the 

 city itself has witnessed such a phenomenal growth. 



In 1884 the first school was opened a one-roomed log 

 shack but sufficient for the needs of the settlement's 

 nine pupils. To day, within the city limits, there are some 

 sixty-four schools employing more than three hundred 

 teachers and costing upwards of five million dollars. Last 

 year 14,239 students w^re in attendance. In the rural 

 districts the growth has been just as steady and as 

 rapid, and there seems no doubt but that the province of 

 Alberta will solve the problem it has set itself '.o give 

 the farm child a city education. 



Canadian Book Week 



By B. K. Sandwell, Secy., Canadian 

 Authors Association, Montreal 



At a conference held on Friday and Saturday, 

 September 9 and 10, between the Publishers' 

 Section of the Toronto Board of Trade, including 

 practically all the more important English lan- 

 guage publishing houses of Canada, and a special 

 committee of the Canadian Authors Association, 

 an agreement was reached for close co-operation 

 between these two bodies in the organization and 

 carrying out of a Canadian Book Week, to be 

 observed in every part of Canada, during the 

 week commencing November 21. 



The term, Canadian Book Week, means a 

 week devoted to propaganda in the interests of 

 books written by Canadian authors, and more 

 particularly to propaganda for the increased 

 sale of any such books by Canadian authors as 

 may be obtainable this autumn from the Cana- 

 dian Book Trade. 



The publishers are preparing to expend a large 

 amount of money and of energy to insure the 

 success of this campaign, which obviously means 

 so much to Canadian authors not merely for the 

 present season but for the future. But that 

 success cannot be wholly assured by money ex- 

 penditure or commercial effort alone. The Cana- 

 dian Authors Association, through its special 

 Book Week committee, has undertaken to supple- 

 ment the work of the publishers, by various forms 

 of effort which can only be carried on by such 

 an association. These efforts will be mainly 

 carried on through the following six channels: 



(1) The Press. The Association will provide, and 

 endeavor to secure the publication of, the largest possible 

 amount of reading matter drawing attention to the large 

 number and high quality of works by Canadian writers 

 now being offered to the public through the book trade. 



(2) The Schools. The Association will endeavor 

 to arrange through the proper authorities, the holding 

 of special classes or the delivery of special addresses on 

 Canadian literature in every educational establishment, 

 and will undertake where required to provide volunteer 

 speakers or instructors for this purpose. It will also offer 

 prizes of books to be competed for by scholars. 



(3) The Libraries. The Association will endeavor 

 to enlist the interest of all librarians in the Canadian Book 

 Week and to assist in the arrangement of special exhibits, 

 displays, lectures, posters, or any other means of propa- 

 ganda which can be employed in libraries. 



(4) The Churches. The Association will endeavor 

 to secure the aid of the churches, both through their 

 ministers and through the various lay societies in connec- 

 tion with them, with a view to drawing attention to the 

 Canadian Book Week by means of sermons, addresses, 

 prize competitions and any other suitable means. 



(5) The Booksellers. The Association will endea- 

 vor to assist the booksellers in their effort to feature 

 Canadian books during the Canadian Book Week. There 

 are many ways in which this can be done, but all of them 

 involve the maintaining of a sympathetic and friendly 

 relation between the booksellers and the authors who 

 happen to live in the same community. 



(6) Clubs and Societies. The Association is ap- 

 proaching a large number of clubs and societies which are 

 opsn to listen to addresses on literary subjects, with a view 

 to arranging that before or during the Canadian Book 



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