The Nova Wood School second grade students posing for a class photograph. A sign at their feet reads "Nova Wood Primary GR 2A 1981 & 82 JK 9534"

The Nova Wood School second grade students posing for a class photograph. A sign at their feet reads "Nova Wood Elementary School 1983 & 84 Grade 2W JK 2037"

The Woodrow Lloyd School fourth grade students posing for a class photograph. A sign at their feet reads "Woodrow Lloyd School 1983 & 84 Grade 4H JK 2038"

The Woodrow Lloyd School fourth grade students posing for a class photograph. A sign at their feet reads "Woodrow Lloyd School 1983 & 84 Grade 4H JK 1033"

The Woodrow Lloyd School fourth grade students posing for a class photograph. A sign at their feet reads "Woodrow Lloyd School Grade 4H 1985 86 JK 5014"

The St. Gabriel's School staff posing for a group photograph

The St. Gabriel's School staff posing for a group photograph.

A professional portrait of Vera Shamon

An unidentified man in front of Thornton School

Head and shoulders image of J. Howard Richards, Professor and Head, Department of Geography.

Bio/Historical Note: J. Howard Richards was born 21 May 1916 in Caerphilly, Wales. He enrolled at the University of Wales in 1934 and graduated in 1938 with a B.Sc. in Geography. Richards remained in Wales the following year to teach at a private school and spent the next two years as a Meteorologist in the United Kingdom and Canada. He joined the Royal Canadian Army, serving in Europe from 1942-1946. After his discharge, Richards enrolled at the University of Toronto; in 1947 he received his MA. Richards taught at Utica College of Syracuse University and the University of Manitoba before returning to the University of Toronto, where he earned his PhD in 1956. He briefly joined the staff of the Royal Military College of Canada prior to coming to the University of Saskatchewan in 1960 as Professor and Head of the newly formed Department of Geography. He was to remain in that post until his retirement in 1979. He was named Professor Emeritus in 1983. During his tenure, Richards developed academic programs in Geography and the interdisciplinary programs of Land Use, Environmental Studies and Regional and Urban Development and Planning. He was the editor of the first "Atlas of Saskatchewan" and the author of "Saskatchewan Geography" and "Saskatchewan: A Geographical Appraisal," among other publications.

Teachers and inspectors gathered in field of sweet clover.

Inglewood School with Miss Reid, the school's first teacher, and her students

Group photograph of teacher, Marie Jopp, and students at the White Beach outpost school in 1943; the students stand by the school that is a frame shanty with mud plaster, a board roof, no shingles and no chimney.