The Provincial Training School faces a shortage of qualified staff due to the number of people serving overseas during the Second World War.

1939-1945. For the Alberta Provincial Training School, created to care for the mentally disabled and the "feeble-minded", the Second World War made it increasingly difficult to secure staff, as many resigned to join His Majesty’s Forces. By 1943, the school declared that age limits were being ignored and educational and other standards lowered in their staffing efforts. In 1944, the turnover of staff in the school was eighty per cent, and the annual report declared that “anyone who could work at all was taken, irrespective of age, and with little or no enquiry into character or ability” (p. 165).

-Sheila Gibbons

  • Province of Alberta. (1938). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1939). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1940). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1941). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1942). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1943). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1944). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1945). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The Provincial Training School faces a shortage of qualified staff due to the number of people serving overseas during the Second World War.

1939-1945. For the Alberta Provincial Training School, created to care for the mentally disabled and the "feeble-minded", the Second World War made it increasingly difficult to secure staff, as many resigned to join His Majesty’s Forces. By 1943, the school declared that age limits were being ignored and educational and other standards lowered in their staffing efforts. In 1944, the turnover of staff in the school was eighty per cent, and the annual report declared that “anyone who could work at all was taken, irrespective of age, and with little or no enquiry into character or ability” (p. 165).

-Sheila Gibbons

  • Province of Alberta. (1938). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1939). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1940). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1941). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1942). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1943). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1944). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  • Province of Alberta. (1945). Annual Report of the Department of Public Health. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.