This collection consists of records and information about education on Grand Manan Island collected from various sources. The administrative records include correspondence about the construction of the Grand Manan Regional High School, school board minutes, handbooks and financial statements.

Staff and student records include yearly reports on students and staff, retirement notices, prize lists and information about students who went on to post-secondary education. Copies of school publications--namely, School Post, Chatterbox, Mananooc News, and GMHS Review--are also included. Other printed materials include copies of the Education Act & Regulations, 1950-1963, press clippings and programmes from the official opening of the high school, the music festival and other events.

There are also records of the Grand Manan Teachers Association and the Home and School Association.

Included are:

• Reports of Committee Chairman of NBFHSAL presented at the AGM May 1961 and 1962 and the minutes of the same meetings.
• Grand Harbour Home and School Association first minute book, 2 November 1938 - May 1943.
• Board of School Trustees of Grand Manan Regional School District minute book, 24 June 1949 - 23 May 1960; and a second minute book for 13 June 1960 - 12 June 1967. (Note: 12 June 1967 was their final meeting.)

This collection contains the attendance registers from 1968 onward. Series of registers for the smaller community schools cease as the schools were closed. In 1968 the Department of Education changed the format of the registers. They record student names, attendance, and occasional comments by teachers.

There are registers from the following villages although not all series are complete: District #1 North Head, beginning 1907; District #2 Castalia, beginning 1919; District #3 Woodward’s Cove, beginning 1923; District # Grand Harbour, beginning 1892; District #5 Seal Cove, beginning 1934; District #6 White Head, beginning 1923; District #7 Wood Island, beginning 1929; and District #9 Deep Cove, beginning 1926."