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Rural Schooling

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Jones, David C. "'We cannot allow it to be run by those who do not understand education:' Agricultural Schooling in the Twenties," BC Studies No. 39 (Autumn 1978): 30-60.

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Fleming, Thomas and Carolyn Smyly. "The Diary of Mary Williams, A Cameo of Rural Schooling in British Columbia, 1922-1924," in Jean Barman, Neil Sutherland, and J. Donald Wilson (eds.), Children, Teachers & Schools in the History of British Columbia, Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 1995. Also in Thomas Fleming (ed.), School Leadership. Essays on the British Columbia Experience, 1872-1995 (Mill Bay, B.C., 2001), pp. 369-403.

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