GOVERNMENT HOUSE CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

As a Centennial project, the Prince Edward Island Federation of Home and School Associations has compiled this history of its work on Prince Edward lsland for the benefit and information of the lsland citizens of today and of future years.

As far as can be learned this organization was first established at Egmont, P.E.l. in 1893 and was the first of its kind to be organized in Canada. Today there are approximately 2,000 local members and Canada as a nation boasts a membership of 200,000.

The Home and School Association was first organized by a group of interested and anxious parents and teachers, whose purpose was, and still is, to bring the parents and teachers into a more harmonious understanding of the aims and purposes of the public school system as it affected their children. Through the years they have struggled to help improve school systems and improve relations among parents, teachers and children.

I commend this history as a valuable contribution to our lsland libraries, especially to those in our schools.

J. George MacKay Lieutenant Governor

Prince Edward Island