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Canadian education pioneer Kate Henderson is portrayed in A Meeting of the School Trustees by painter Robert Harris (1885) The history of education in Canada covers schooling from elementary through university, the ideas of educators, and the policies of national and provincial governments. In 1957, Charles Phillips divided the history of ...
As education is a provincial matter, the length of study varies depending on the province, although the majority of public early childhood, elementary, and secondary education programs in Canada begin in kindergarten (age five typically by 31 December of that school year) and end after Grade 12 (age 17 by 31 December).
Western Canada High School is a public high school in Calgary, Alberta that has operated since 1929. The high school was antedated by Western Canada College, a boys' preparatory school in the style of a British public school that opened in 1903. The College existed until the end of the 1926 academic year when it closed due to financial problems.
A year later, after the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia were united into a single colony of British Columbia, one of the first acts of the British Columbian legislature was to re-affirm this arrangement by the passage of the Common School Ordinance. In 1872, a year after British Columbia entered the Confederation of Canada ...
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.
Lancaster Royal Grammar School, England (1235) High School of Dundee, Scotland (1239) [1] Bailuzhou Middle School , Ji'an, China (1241) Harrow School, England (1243, Royal Charter in 1572) Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden (exact year of foundation not known, by tradition 1246 [citation needed]) Berthold-Gymnasium Freiburg , Germany (1250)
1834: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, the oldest continuously operated residential school in Canada, opens on Six Nations of the Grand River near Brantford [16] 1841: With the union of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, the position of General Superintendent of Education was created. [15]
A high school in Nova Scotia has typically meant a 'senior high school', referring to a school responsible for the education of students grades 10 to (and including) 12 or grades 9 to 12. A junior high school is typically responsible for grades 7 to 9 or grades 6 to 8, where the latter type is more often called a middle school .