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Muheim Elementary School
- Date Range
- 1933-1935; 1938; 1940-1942; 1967-1970s
- Collection
- School District No. 54 fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- graphic material
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Series contains records pertaining to the Muheim Elementary School, including past iterations of the School such as Smithers Elementary School and Second Elementary School. Records include five Smithereen yearbooks (1933 [digital only], 1934, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, and 1942), a centennial photo bo…
- Collection
- School District No. 54 fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- graphic material
- electronic record
- Fonds No.
- GF3
- Series No.
- SF1
- Item Number Range
- P6311-P6369, P7976-P8001
- Accession No.
- 1981.22
- 1981.28
- 1990.26
- 2002.5
- 2003.9
- 2017.36
- 2017.135
- 2020.36
- 2023.10
- Physical Description
- 4.5 cm of textual records; 59 colour slides; 31 b&w photographs; 156 MB of textual records (PDF/A)
- Date Range
- 1933-1935; 1938; 1940-1942; 1967-1970s
- History / Biographical
- Smithers Elementary School, also known as Smithers Public School, was built circa 1915 as a two-room, two-storey building on Third Avenue South. Two more rooms were later added to create an L-shaped building. The school taught grades one through seven. It was used as a temporary hospital during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Another two-storey building was later constructed on the same grounds by the local contractor, Ernie Hann. In the early 1950s the original building was demolished and replaced with a new eight-room school, renamed Muheim Memorial Elementary in 1959 after the School District’s first secretary, Alex Muheim. New facilities, including a gymnasium, four new classrooms, a staff room, and a library, have since been added, with the whole school receiving a renovation in 1979.
- Scope and Content
- Series contains records pertaining to the Muheim Elementary School, including past iterations of the School such as Smithers Elementary School and Second Elementary School. Records include five Smithereen yearbooks (1933 [digital only], 1934, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, and 1942), a centennial photo booklet containing five photographs, and 26 photographs (P7976-P8001) and 59 colour slides (P6311-P6369) depicting the school in the late 1960s and 1970s.
- Subject Access
- Smithers Elementary School
- Smithers Public School
- Muheim Memorial Elementary School
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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