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Primary responsibility for early learning, preschool and child care in Canada rests with the 13 provincial and territorial governments. Since 1984, there have been a number of unsuccessful attempts at establishing a national child care system. By 2019 in Canada, about 60% of children who were 0 to 5 years-old participated in day care arrangements.
On June 22, 1915, Hon. Walter Scott, Premier and Minister of Education, set out as his mandate the "purpose of procuring for the children of Saskatchewan a better education and an education of greater service and utility to meet the conditions of the chief industry in the Province, which is agriculture". [1]
When Saskatchewan was created in 1905, there were over five thousand school districts in Saskatchewan operating one room school houses. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 1940s, the provincial government instituted an amalgamation process resulting in larger school units, which greatly reduced the number of school divisions. [ 3 ]
In 1933, amidst the Great Depression, early teachers' groups disbanded and re-organized as the STF to create a provincial organization; STF organizers enrolled more than ninety percent of teachers. Then, in 1935, the Saskatchewan provincial government passed legislation requiring all teachers to be members of the organization.
This is a list of schools (at the elementary and secondary level) that are located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.The three main school divisions encompassing the city are the Regina Board of Education (also known as the Regina public school board; the largest school division in the province), Regina Catholic Schools, the Roman Catholic school board, and the Conseil des Écoles Fransaskoises ...
Saskatoon Public Schools (SPS) or Saskatoon S.D. No. 13 is the largest school division in Saskatchewan serving 28,924 [3] students as of September 2024. Saskatoon Public Schools operates 47 elementary schools, one alliance school (Charles Red Hawk Elementary School on the Whitecap Dakota Nation), and 10 secondary schools in Saskatoon .
A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km 2.
Saskatchewan's 16 cities had a cumulative population of 689,475 in the 2021 Census. [3] Saskatchewan's largest and smallest cities are Saskatoon and Melville with populations of 266,141 and 4,493. [3] The largest and smallest city by land area are Saskatoon and Meadow Lake with 226.56 km 2 (87.48 sq mi) and 12.37 km 2 (4.78 sq mi). [3]