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How Schools Worked: Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940 (2011) 552pp; additional details; Harris, Robin S. A history of higher education in Canada, 1663-1960 (1976) in ERIC; Heyking, Amy von. Creating Citizens: History & Identity in Alberta’s Schools, 1905 to 1980 (2006).
The High School of Montreal was an English-language high school founded in 1843, serving Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the area eventually known as the Golden Square Mile.It was less formally known as Montreal High School and from 1853 to 1870 was called the High School of McGill College, or the High School Division.
Canada spends an average of about 5.3 percent of its GDP on education. [30] The country invests heavily in tertiary education (more than US$20,000 per student). [31] As of 2022, 89 percent of adults aged 25 to 64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree, compared to an OECD average of 75 percent. [28]
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 original school building was completed in 1903 as a British-style exclusive high school for boys called Western Canada College (not a college in the North American sense of the word). It was created by "The Western Canada College Bill of Incorporating Ordinance" enacted by the Legislature of the NWT, which Calgary was then a part of before ...
Dunfermline High School, Scotland (1468) Bromsgrove School (record of a chantry school 1476, re-founded 1553) Magdalen College School, Oxford, England (1480) Galatasaray High School, Istanbul, Turkey (1481) Skegness Grammar School, England (1483) Stockport Grammar School, England (1487) Ermysted's Grammar School, England (1492) (first record of ...
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Prior to the 1900s, single-sex faith-based schools were more common as schools were catered towards males. The first private-Catholic school in Canada was founded in 1867 and is called Bishop Strachan School, it was catered towards the "whole girl" and is a boarding school. [38]