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Yet, Catholic schools form the single largest system in Canada offering education with a religious component. [5] Starting in the 1960s, there was a strong push to remove all religious education from the public schools in Canada, although Catholic schools tended to maintain their religious character at least in theory if not always practice.
Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Indian residential school system [a] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [b] The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
St. Anne’s Indian Residential School was a Canadian Indian Residential School [1] in Fort Albany, Ontario, that operated from 1902 to 1976. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It took Cree students from the Fort Albany First Nation and area.
Originally Catholic schools were publicly funded as well in Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec, and were guaranteed this funding under the constitution of 1867, those provinces have asked the federal government to amend the constitution as it applies to them in order to secularize the school system.
Groups such as the Committee for Neutral Schools opposed religious schools and religious school boards. In the 1990s, a secular group called the Mouvement laïque québécois began a class action lawsuit against the board, and two political parties competed for power within the MCSC: the religious Regroupement scolaire confessionnel led by Michel Pallascio (RSM) et the secular Mouvement pour ...
Assumption Indian Residential School (also called the Hay Lakes Residential School) was a part of the Canadian Indian Residential School System in Northwestern Alberta, Canada. The school was operated on the south end of the Hay Lakes reserve by the United Church of Canada and the Roman Catholic Church between 1951 and 1974. [1]
Since its creation, Loyola College had welcomed almost exclusively young English-speaking Catholic men as students. It became co-ed in 1959 and became less homogeneous with the ever-increasing number of foreign students. In 1964, the Loyola High School Corporation was founded to run Loyola High School separately from the
The school is operated by the Toronto Catholic District School Board, formerly the Metropolitan Separate School Board. The institution was founded by the Loretto Sisters ( Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary ) in 1915, whose founder (Blessed Mary Ward ) advocated for excellent education for young women so that they might "do great things".