Mrs. Margaret Dunn Beckwith interview

The Provincial Normal School (PNS) was established in Victoria, B.C., in January 1915, to provide preliminary and advanced courses in teacher training. In 1978, Judith Windle conducted 19 interviews in which former instructors and students discussed their experiences at the Provincial Normal School. This interview is of Beckwith discussing her time as a student at the Provincial Normal School, in Victoria, B.C., in 1916-1917. Subjects include instructors, plunge baths, health class, clothes of the day, practice teaching, and graduation. Interviewer: Judith Windle Interviewee: Margaret Dunn Beckwith

In Collection:

• Provincial Normal School Oral Histories

Creator

• Windle, Judith
• Beckwith, Margaret Dunn

Subject

• Teachers--Training of
• History
• Teachers
• Women--Education
• Interviews
• Victoria Provincial Normal School
• Education

Language

• eng

Date created

• 1978

Resource type

• Sound

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 00:58:54

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria

Coordinates

• 48.4915, -123.4174

Chronological coverage

• 1916 to 1917

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Provincial Normal School Oral Histories

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• sound recordings
• oral histories (literary genre)

Archival item identifier

• 1978-057.01

Fonds identifier

• AR338

Is referenced by

• Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/provincial-normal-school-oral-history-interview-collection-1978

Date digitized

• 2006

Technical note

• Audio cassette copied in 1992. Migrated from one audio cassette to digital format for UVic Archives by Richard L. Hess in 2006 for conservation purposes. Digital sound recording in .mp3 format at 64 kb/s mono and 44,100 samples per second, and .wav format at 16 bits and 44,100 samples per second. Metadata by MT.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives at University of Victoria for access to the original recording. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/0x1x-vc64

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