The Post-War Baby Boom
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Department of Education and city school districts were hard pressed to keep up with the growing primary school-age population.
This picture shows pupils in Garden City School, opened in Richmond, B.C. in 1949.
The poster on the blackboard reads:
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OUR SCHOOL Our school is Garden City school. Our school is new. It is a big school. Our school is green and white. We like our school. |
Very soon, however, the new schools were full to capacity and portable classrooms were being installed on the playgrounds of many city schools. In this picture, a portable classroom is being positioned at Kerrisdale School in Vancouver in 1950. The small bystander is clearly puzzled and may be wondering "What's going on here?" A few years later, when this boy was old enough to enrol in a Grade 1 class, "portables" like this would be common in most city school districts in British Columbia. |  |
