Petites Ecloe system

Basic education to boys under catholic csystem

Schools for girls were established by Ursuline nuns

College des Jesuites was established

offered classical education and theological training to males

Seminaire de Quebec was founded by Bishop Laval (Universite’ of Laval)

New France were conquered by British

The constitutional Act of Canada created upper and lower Canada

Publicly funded schools were initiated

Acts for guaranteed technical education to orphaned children

Teachers should be certified

Public Schools Act was passed

District School Act resulting in government-aided schooling

Critics called for common schooling

A war between Canada and United States

Common School Act was passed

provided mass schooling in Upper and Lower Canada.

Kings College was granted its Royal Charter by King George

and run by Church of England

Combining Upper and Lower Canada into the United Province of Canada

 The School Act for the United Province of Canada

 Created non-denominational public schools for Upper Canada

 Publicly funded protestant and Catholic schools for Lower Canada

 Compulsory taxation system to levy school taxes

 Voluntary schools existed in addition to common schools in large urban centers

Financed by private tuition fees and attended by exclusively upper social classes

 Education was considered as the parent’s responsibility

 Grant-aided common schools were referred to a charity school

Egerton Ryerson became chief superintendent of Education in Upper Canada.

Suspension of property tax resulting in the closure of several schools

 Ryerson drafted a bill that became a Common School Act

 Establishment of education-related legislation in Upper Canada

 Act detailed organization of the school system

 Act designated schools for teacher training, superintendent for each school district to conduct the annual inspection

 Levied a rate bill or school tax system on the parents

 Standards established for federal grants

 A Series of approved textbooks was established by Ryerson

 No provincial aid for schools using alternative textbooks

 Assured protection of children

 Ryerson passed a Common School Act, allowing school tax to be levied on all property

 Ryerson passed a Common School Act, allowing school tax to be levied on all property

 The series of Acts created foundations for Public Provincial Education System

 The school was secularized and religious exams were removed

 Grammar schools existed along with common schools which were mostly attended by boys

 The legislation of the Grammar School Act specified the subjects of English, Latin, Arithmetic, and History to be taught.

 Grammar schools received government funding  Fees were higher than in the common schools.  They offered a classical education.

 The Grammar School was considered a preparatory school for university-going and a finishing school for non-university bound people.

Separate Catholic Schools gained status as permanent school boards

 Confederation occurred and a country with the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick

 British North America Act became the constitution of a new country with important sections pertaining to matters of education

 Hence the matters of education became a provincial issue and not a federal one.

 Ontario School Act was passed

 School attendance was made compulsory for children between the ages of 8 and 14.

 Grammar schools were transformed into two types of high schools as i) collegiate institutes and ii) high schools.

 Collegiate institutes – focused on classical instruction including English Grammar, composition, Greek, Latin, history, literature, trigonometry, algebra, and natural history.

 Common schools were renamed “Public Schools”

 High schools- Offered classical training and had a track for an English course focussing on natural sciences and practical topics instead of the classics.

 Creation of the University of Toronto as a non-denominational University.

The two programs of collegiate and high school blended into a single one

Collegiate institutes were re-casted into first class, well equipped, and well-staffed urban high schools by the end of the century

English was made a mandatory subject

English was extended as the main language of instruction

Ontario schools became a major political issue

Franco- Ontarians promoted French language interests

Regulation 17 was issued limiting French instruction to the first two years of elementary schooling pic

Regulation 17 was amended to allow one hour of French instruction per day

Regulation 17 could not be enforced due to political crisis

Legislation was passed to permit instruction in French as the elementary and secondary levels