a history of curriculum services canada

2005-2006
Ridges Moraine that was in the negotiation stage at the last meeting.
pdstore.com noted a promising start to 2006-07 with a net income of over $5,500 since April 1
and suggested that International Private Schools and MarkBook customers would likely remain
the most important clients. Several quotes for large textbook orders to private schools in Asia
and for large MarkBook orders to Ontario school boards had been given and CSC was awaiting
confirmation to process these orders.
Although effective May 1, 2006, the day-to-day operations of eSolutions were transferred to
Keith Clark and Peter Sovran remained a special consultant to the project, providing an overview
of its operations from its establishment in October 2005 to June 2006. Perhaps its most
significant achievement, CSC was awarded one of two Canadian Heritage-Gateway Fund
$500,000 awards for building a Cultural E-Learning Content Aggregation Service for K-Grade
12. This funding will be used by CSC and its many partners to construct an online access point
“Access Culture CANADA/Access a la Culture Canadienne,” using state-of-the-art web
application tools. This project has the support of the Council of Ministers of Education of
Canada (CMEC). In January and February 2006, the eSolutions unit secured two new projects
for the production of a video CD and a video DVD for the York Region District School Board.
The final video CD in the series was scheduled for completion September 2006.
Since June 2005, CSC business has continued to expand and new opportunities continue to be
investigated. The possibilities in Educational Video/DVD production and distribution are,
perhaps, among the most exciting signs of the future.
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