An authoritative snapshot of postwar education in Ontario: Schools And Teachers in the Province of Ontario - Elementary Public and Separate Schools, November 1947 presents original provincial listings that map an era of rapid social change. A living archive of classrooms. Compiled as an administrative directory at the close of the 1940s, this volume captures elementary education in the 1940s with clarity, providing vintage school listings and historical school data that matter to genealogists, education researchers and anyone fascinated by Ontario school history and the evolution of public and separate schools. As a working teachers reference guide and a primary education researchers resource, the book is both practical and archival. Researchers will find names, administrative structures and place-based entries that support Canadian education records and enrich Canadian educational history; casual readers will discover local colour and human detail in otherwise dry statistics; collectors will recognise the value of a preserved school directories collection and other educator archival material. The tone is factual; the evidence is immediate - useful for reconstructing staffing patterns, mapping postwar Ontario schools and tracing communities through their schools. Its straightforward listings also make it easy to cross-reference municipal archives, local newspapers and census returns when piecing together family or community histories. Historically significant and quietly evocative, this title illuminates how schooling was organised in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and why elementary provision mattered to civic life. Useful to those researching school consolidation, denominational schooling or local governance in mid-century Ontario, it supplies the factual backbone for deeper narrative studies. Casual readers exploring neighbourhood history and classic-literature collectors assembling heritage shelves will find complementary pleasures here: readable local detail and authentic archival presence. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
