Dominion Provincial Youth Training Centre

Automotive Mechanics: 1950 - 1959

Jack Macready, automotive instructor and principal of the trade school entitled this self-portrait "My Ghost". The automotive students in the background are working in the 1950s auto shop which was housed in the WWII army tank repair facility.
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Automotive student circa 1950.
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Auto motive students, 1951.
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Automotive students with instructor and principal Jack Macready, 1952.
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1951 automotive classroom with Instructor Jack Macready (back, standing).
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First Nations students working on engine in Automotive Mechanics class, 1955.
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