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Schools in the West: Essays in Canadian Educational History (1986) Shook, Laurence K. Catholic Post-Secondary Education in English-Speaking Canada: A History (University of Toronto Press, 1971). Stamp, Robert M. and J. Donald Wilson eds., Canadian education: A history (1970) Stamp, Robert M. The schools of Ontario, 1876-1976 (U of Toronto Press ...
In Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, schools are now set up as elementary schools with grades K-5, middle schools with grades 6–8, and high schools with grades 9–12; however, high school graduation requirements only include courses taken in grades 10–12. In Saskatchewan Elementary school is most often from K–8 and high school from 9–12.
1871: The School Act makes elementary education compulsory and free up to age 12. [21] The Act also created two streams of secondary education: high schools, the lower stream, and collegiate institutes, the higher stream. Extra funding was provided for collegiate institutes "with a daily average attendance of sixty boys studying Latin and Greek ...
The existence of Catholic schools in Canada can be traced to the year 1620, when the first school was founded Catholic Recollet Order in Quebec. [1] The first school in Alberta was also a Catholic one, at Lac Ste.-Anne in 1842. [2]
St Paul's Cathedral School, England (1123) High School of Glasgow, Scotland (pre-1124) [1] Reading School, England (1125 as the school of Reading Abbey, refounded 1486, Royal charter 1541, closed in the 1860s, re-opened 1871) [12] Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland (1128) Stirling High School, Scotland (1129) Stiftsgymnasium Melk, Austria ...
The Common Schools Act, also of 1871 (CSA), established a whole new system in the province; [15] the place of religion in the school system was a topic of debate as early as 1863, and this Act was its ostensible solution: [16] schools became non-sectarian. Opposition was directed at Sections 14 through 18, which concerned the levy of taxes on ...
Adult high schools in Canada (5 P) High schools in Alberta (4 C, 51 P) B. High schools in British Columbia (12 C, 146 P) C. Catholic secondary schools in Canada (10 C) M.
The 1944 School Act set out to establish larger consolidated schools and the formation of the schools and school districts presently in use. [5] As with any Canadian province , the Saskatchewan Legislature has almost exclusive authority to make laws respecting education.