BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

B.C. TEACHERS' FEDERATION (1917 - current)


"The British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF), established in 1917, is the union of professionals representing 45,000 public school teachers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. All public school teachers belong to the BCTF and their local teachers' association." (From the BCTF web site, 2020)

The BCTF has been representing the school teachers of the Province for more than 100 years. Prominent members of the Federation included Ira Dilworth, a friend of Emily Carr's, and noted author and school principal Ruiter Stinson Sherman.




Ira Dilworth President's Address, 1930

For many years the Federation published a journal titled B.C. TEACHER, which included information for teachers, instructional articles, and essays by noted teachers like Charles H. Scott. It also printed a range of advertisements that included school equipment, teaching supplies, and new books and publications for teaching. For example, J.M. Dent & Sons advertised all of their school publications in it, and early copies provided the first information about titles of a number of books written by R.S. Sherman.

In 1963 the Federation held a mural competition for the Scarfe Building at UBC. The competition closed on June 30, 1963, and was awarded to Paul Deggan (q.v.)

  

References - BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE PICTURE AND THE POINT OF VIEW by Charles H. Scott
      B.C. Teacher magazine, September 1927

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS by Ira Dilworth
     The B.C. Teacher Vol. X, No. 4 November 1930, pgs. 8-9.

A BRITISH COLUMBIAN SCHOOL OF ART by Charles H. Scott
      B.C. Teacher magazine, June 1932

DRAWING AND GRAPHIC EXPRESSION by S.P. Judge
      B.C. Teacher magazine, May 1935

A NEW ERA OPENS IN THE TEACHING OF ART by Jack Shadbolt
      B.C. Teacher magazine, January 1937

SCHOOL ART AND THE WORKSHOP SPIRIT by Jack Shadbolt
      B.C. Teacher magazine, June 1937


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