Series 3 - Ukrainian Bilingual Association - Edmonton Public Schools

39 cm of textual records

The series consists of records documenting the beginning and incorporation of UBLA (Ukrainian Bilingual Association) in the 1970s and about its work in the 1980s. It also includes UBLA's publicity, correspondence, agendas and meeting minutes, and financial records.

This series also contains information about the activities of Edmonton Public Schools (EPS) in the Ukrainian Bilingual Program from 1974 until 1988. Apart from general activities concerning EPS, there are records containing information about some schools in the UBP, for example Northmount, Balwin Junior, Holyrood, and Brentwood.

The Ukrainian Bilingual Association (UBLA) is a non-profit parental organization formed in 1974 to assist the establishment of the Ukrainian Bilingual Program in Edmonton Public Schools. UBLA’s goal was to develop bilingual language education programs in the Province of Alberta. UBLA prepared submissions to the Government of Alberta and organized publicity and recruitment campaigns on behalf of the bilingual program. Specifically, its projects included the recruitment of students, the arrangement of transportation of bilingual program students in the Edmonton Public School System, Junior High School Scholarships and publicity, increasing public awareness of the availability and existence of Ukrainian language education in Alberta schools. Furthermore, UBLA subsidized the annual Grade 6 graduation banquet and dance, and it organized the Ukrainian Daycamp – an extension of the UBP – until the foundation of APUE in 1984.