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Ronald Seal fonds
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42 cm of textual records
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William Ronald Frank Seal was born in Nelson, BC, on April 7, 1914. He attended high school in Nelson and was awarded a bursary from the Rotary Club to attend Victoria Normal School on Vancouver Island. In 1932 he began teaching in a one-room school at Mirror Lake. He married Olivia Dickson in 1934, and they had a son, Michael, in 1937 and a daughter, Helen, in 1939. He taught in small schools in Shutty Bench, Silverton, Gibsons and Prince Rupert. In 1943 Seal took a job with Boeing Aircraft on Sea Island. He joined the Canadian Navy in 1944 and was discharged in 1945. The Vancouver School Board then hired him, and in 1957 began training Industrial Arts teachers. In 1958 he was appointed to the Faculty of Education at UBC as a senior instructor, later becoming chairman of the Industrial Education Division. The Division eventually grew to nine faculty; a facility was built on Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby, becoming a UBC degree‐granting program. Seal retired in 1979 – after retirement, he continued with his first love, boat building, and became active in community affairs. His wife Olivia died in 2000, so in 2005 he moved to North Vancouver to live with his daughter.
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Fonds consists of UBC course notes, written and organized by Ronald Seal for classes that he taught at UBC in Industrial Arts Teacher Training. Interspersed with these materials are Seal’s personal notes from his teacher training at the Normal School in Victoria in the 1930s.
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Donated to University Archives in 2010 by Anne Mott on behalf of Ronald Seal.
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