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Zwintscher, Reinhold

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Reinhold Zwintscher was called to be a traveling missionary in Manitoba in 1899 and also served Assiniboia in Saskatchewan, but spent a great deal of time in Immanuel, Winnipeg. He served the nearby congregation at Neudorf during a vacancy in 1899 as well. During his time at Immanuel he oversaw the growth of the congregation, the building of a new church and school and the achievement of self -supporting status by 1905. Zwintscher also assisted in the formation of a second Missouri Synod congregation in Winnipeg in 1904 called Holy Cross, and congregations at Winkler in 1901, at Tupper (Plumas) in 1903, and Poplar Point, Niverville, Plum Coulee and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in subsequent years. His missions experienced aggressive competition for the German Lutherans from the Ohio Synod, especially in Winnipeg after 1905 and the Missouri Synod lost many congregants. Zwintscher accepted a call to the United States in 1910.

Zonta Club of Edmonton

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The Zonta Club of Edmonton organized in 1953, and received its charter in 1954 from parent organization, Zonta International. Zonta International, a club for business and professional women, was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1919. The club sought to improve the status of woman, and encourage ethical standards of business through donating time and money to various civic and social causes. The Zonta Club of Edmonton formed part of Zonta International District VIII. The club based its membership on classification by business or profession. The club also required any member of its executive to work at least 50% of the time. The Zonta Club of Edmonton is now dissolved.

Zelmer, A.C. Lynn

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  • b. 19 Mar 1943

Adam Charles (A.C.) Lynn Zelmer was born March 19, 1943 in Calgary, Alberta; he was the son of Hubert Adam and Winona Ella (May) Zelmer. He completed his Bachelor of Education at the University of Alberta in 1965 and a Master of Science degree from Stout State University in Wisconsin in 1969. He has found employment as a photographer, a media producer, a trainer, a teacher, an academic and a consultant in Canada and Australia as well as other countries. He has developed a variety of training resources and has been involved in the application of technology to teaching and training. On December 16, 1969, Lynn married Amy Mary Elliott; they had one daughter, Jennifer Lynne Zelmer, born August 11, 1972. In 1988, Lynn and wife Amy moved to Australia. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Queensland in 1994. Though retired, Lynn continued to supervise postgraduate students as well as develop and manage a number of community and organizational websites and other multimedia projects. Amy Mary Elliott was born December 20, 1935 in Halifax, Nova Scotia; she was the daughter of George T. and Annie Caroline (Smart) Elliott. In 1973, Amy earned her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in education administration and communications from Michigan State University. From 1976 to 1988, she was a professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. In 1988, the Zelmers moved to Australia where Amy was a professor in the Faculty of Health Science at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton, Australia until 1996; after February 1996, she has been an honorary professor with the Faculty.

Zella School District No. 1078

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The Zella School District Number No. 1078 was formed September 22, 1904 in the Town of Didsbury, Alberta at Section 6, Township 32, Range 3, West of the 5th Meridian (6-32-3-W5). The school operated until 1954. In April 1955 the Minister of Education approved the sale of the Zella school building to the Zella Community Association; Zella School became the Zella Community Centre.

Zawale School District No. 1074

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Named after a village in Halchyna, Ukraine, Zawale School District No. 1074 was established in 1904 at Section 33, Township 55, Range 17, West of the 4th Meridian (33-55-17-W4). The School closed in 1950 and the children bussed to Andrew to attend school.

Zalewski, Janusz

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Janusz Zalewski lives in Edmonton.

Zaitchik, Shirley

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Shirley Zaitchik was a stenographer at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta in 1975.

Yvonne Hébert

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  • 1942-

Yvonne Hébert was born in 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta, to Laurent Hébert and Alma Brulotte. Laurent Hébert was born in Villeneuve, Alberta, and attended the Edmonton Jesuit College in the 1930s. He was the first employee hired by the Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta (ACFA), working as Director General of the provincial office in Edmonton. He married Alma Brulotte from Guy, Alberta, in 1939.

Yvonne Hébert attended school in St. Paul, Morinville and Edmonton, graduating in 1959 from the Académie Assomption. She was granted an Alberta Teaching Certificate in 1961. She received her B.A. in Elementary Education in 1974 and her M.A. in Linguistics and Folklore in 1976 from the University of Utah. In 1982 she was granted a Ph.D in Linguistics by the University of British Columbia. Her Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Transitivity in Nicola Lake, Okanagan. She started to teach in 1983 at the University of Regina, and in 1985 started a 28 years career in the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, from where she retired in 2013. She is Professor Emerita of Languages and Diversity in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. She is the mother of two children, Lisa Hébert (1961) and Martin Stenger (1963).

Dr. Yvonne Hébert’s academic interests focused on immigration, integration, citizenship education, youth, identity, democracy, minority studies, bilingualism and second language education, policy and educational reform. Her publications include several books: <em>Critical Perspectives on International Education</em>; <em>Negotiating Transcultural Lives: Belongings and Social Capital among Youth in Comparative Perspectives</em>; <em>Citizenship in Transformation in Canada</em>; <em>Indian Education in Canada</em> (2 vols.); as well as articles on second generation youth, their mobility and identification strategies. She published in Canada, the U.S.A., the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. She gave lectures in 2009, 2010 and 2011 in China on the treatment of minorities, on civic and political knowledge, and on cosmopolitan identifications.

She served on several editorial boards in Canada, China and Spain. She has served as national president of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) and was founding coordinator of the Citizenship Education Research Network (CERN), now part of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC), within CSSE. She is a lifetime member of the Gandhi Society of Calgary and the Canadian Education Association.

In 2010, she was awarded the Roger Motut prize, the highest award for scholarly excellence in Francophone Alberta. In recognition of her scholarly leadership and research contributions to Francophone education and community in minority contexts, she was awarded the commemorative Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

Y's Men's Club of Edmonton

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The Y's Men's Club of Edmonton was a branch of the International Association of Y's Men's Clubs. The Y's Men's Club of Edmonton received its charter in 1945. Every Y's Man held membership with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The Y's only accepted members between the ages of 25 and 36 years old. Six Directors and an Executive consisting of a President, Past-President, Executive Vice-President, Service Vice-President, Program Vice-President, Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer managed the organization. Members paid $20.00 quarterly. The Y's maintained several committees including the following: Program Committee, Club Service Committee, Publicity Committee, House Committee, Fellowship Committee, Club Service Committee, Boy's Work Committee, World Outlook Committee, Fellowship Committee, Boy's Work Committee, New Y.M.C.A Member's Counseling, and a Membership Committee. In 1944, the organization purchased land at Jackfish Bay in Lake Wabamum to run camp Keewayhadin.

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