As part of UPEI’s 50th anniversary, the Robertson Library is presenting a lecture series to celebrate the historical roots of higher education on Prince Edward Island and its future. The series is named after educator Frank Pigot, honoured as a UPEI Founder for his work building the Library’s PEI Collection and University Archives.
The third talk in this series was given on Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30 pm on the second floor of UPEI’s Robertson Library. PEI writer Marian Bruce presented “The Lion of Prince of Wales: Alexander Anderson—An Unsung Hero of Prince Edward Island’s Education System.” Anderson was the principal of Prince of Wales College for almost 40 years, from 1862...
The Société Saint-Thomas d’Aquin (SSTA), the principal voice of the Acadian and Francophone community of P.E.I. is 100 years old this year. Its was founded in 1919 at the annual convention of the P.E.I. Acadian Teachers’ Association. Its immediate objective was to collect money for the education of young Acadians, but the overall goal of the SSTA...
Dr. Edward MacDonald delivered the first lecture of the series on Tuesday, March 26 in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building. Dr. MacDonald’s presentation, “The School of Experience: A Patchwork Quilt of Informal Island Education, 1825-1965”, focuses on the variety of learning opportunities for Islanders in the 19th and 20th centuries....
PEI historian and folklorist John Cousins presented the second lecture in the series, entitled “Stand for Your Lessons: Educational Change and Cultural Reaction.” This illustrated talk was on April 30 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Eptek Centre in Summerside. The period between 1960 and the early 1970s brought the most dramatic change in Island...