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PLEBISCITE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACT
COLLEGE AND INSTITUTE ACT AND ORDER IN COUNCIL

March,1967

A letter to School District 46 which
refers to a successful plebiscite held in March 1967 which
led to the establishment of a new community college
on the North Shore

Ref. Minutes of meeting June 18, 1968
(to which attached draft letter dated
June 12, 1968 with note "mailed June 21 ").

April17, 1968

First meeting of the Regional College Council
of the North Shore Regional College in the offices of the
North Shore Vancouver School Board

Ref. Minutes of meeting April 17, 1968

College was named "Capilano College" at that meeting.
April29, 1968

May6, 1968

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Agreed that College Council was an autonomous body but
would maintain liaison with the three School Boards
which were represented on the Council i.e. Howe Sound,
North Vancouver and West Vancouver.

Ref. Minutes of meeting April29, 1968

Reference to using space (for Capilano College) at the
West Vancouver Senior Secondary School

Ref. Minutes of meeting April29, 1968

Reference to an Inter-Board agreement to be signed
by all three School Boards.

Ref. Minutes of May 6, 1968

College governed by Public Schools Act (see page 2)
September 1968

College to be opened (by decision taken at meeting of April 17, 1968).

Ref. Minutes of meeting April 17, 1968

See page 2 for details of Public Schools Act ,
Colleges and Provincial Institutes Act and Order in Council

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PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACT 1958, c. 42, s.l
(sections 250 to 269 apply).
copy on file "Public Schools Act"
PART XI- COLLEGES
250.
The provisions of this Part apply with the necessary changes and so far as is applicable to colleges established as a district college or regional college
prior to the coming into force of this section as enacted by the Statues of British Columbia, 1970. 1970, c. 41, s.25.
251.
The Boards of two or more school districts (called "participating Boards"), within an area defmed for the purpose by the Lieutenant-Governor in
Council or the Board of a school district, may, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, establish, maintain and operate a college under the
name "Selkirk College Technical and Vocational Institute" (or as the name of the institution may be) in which courses of instruction in the first and second years
of university work, courses of other post-secondary instruction and training, and other adult courses of instruction and training are offered by a college council to
persons over the age of attendance at public school under section 121. 1970, c. 41, s.l5; 1971, c. 46, s. 76.
266.
The Minister of Finance shall pay in each fiscal year to the participating Boards a grant for operating expenses of the college for that year equal to
not less than sixty per cent of the difference obtained by subtracting from the total amount of essential operating expenses set forth in the estimates of the college
as finally approved by the Minister of Education the amount of the grant, if any, payable to the college for that year by the Government of Canada.
COLLEGES AND PROVINCIAL INSTITUTES ACT
BILL NO 82- 1977
Passed on Third Reading on 14th September 1977
(copy on file "Colleges and provincial Institutes Act and Order in Council)
PART Ill-COLLEGES AND PROVINCIAL INSTITUTES
6. (1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may designate:
(a) a college, and
(b) the area of the Province that is the college region of a college designated under paragraph (a).
(2) On designation under subsection (1), a college is a corporation consisting of the members appointed to its board under section 7.
ORDER IN COUNCIL NUMBER 2971
APPROVED AND ORDERED NOVEMBER 24, 1978
Executive Council Chambers, Victoria November 23, 1978.
On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant-Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that pursuant to the
Colleges and Provincial Institutes Act, section 6 (1), Capilano College be designated and the area of the Province that is the college region be the combined
area of the following School Districts established by the Public Schools Act: 44 (North Vancouver), 45 (West Vancouver), 48 (Howe Sound);

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AND THAT the effective date of this designation be December 1st, 1978.
Signed by the Minister of Education and the Presiding Member of the Executive Council.
(This part is for administrative purposes and is not part of the Order.) Authority under which Order is made: COLLEGES AND PROVINCIAL INSTITUTES
ACT- section 6 (1). (Signed by Legal officer)
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