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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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A collegiate institute is an institution that provides either secondary or post-secondary education, dependent on where the term is used.In Canada, the term is used to describe institutions that provide secondary education, while the word is used to describe a post-secondary institutions in the United States.
In most cases the elementary school ends at grade eight, and high school provides grades nine through twelve; however, there are some exceptions where there is a middle school provided. From 1889 to 1920s the school class organisation was for elementary levels; Standard I, II, III, IV and V; followed by secondary school beginning at Standard VI.
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.
Education in British Columbia comprises public and private primary and secondary schools throughout the province. Like most other provinces in Canada, education is compulsory from ages 6–16 (grades 1–10), although the vast majority of students remain in school until they graduate from high school at the age of 18.