Petites Ecoles' 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 resulted 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

Kings College run by the Church of England

Upper and Lower Canada combined 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

 It was the first education-related legislation in Upper Canada

 Act detailed organization of the school system, apporved curricula and standardized text books

 Act designated schools for teacher training and certification

Superintendents were appointed for each school district to condict annual inspection

 A rated bill or school tax system was levied on the parents

 Standards were established for federal grants

 No provincial aid for schools using alternative textbooks

 Protection of children was assured

The First Normal School in Ontario, then called the Provincial Normal school was established in Toronto

Twenty women were admitted to the Provincial Normal School

The Common School Act was amended to include the Separate Schools Clause

All the children were provided free admission to the schools

 Schools were secularized and religious exams were removed

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

 School tax was levied on all property

 The series of Acts created foundations for Public Provincial Education System (Department of Public Instruction)

 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 offered classical education

 These schools were considered preparatory schools for university-going and finishing schools for non-university bound people.

 Grammar schools received government funding and fees were higher than in common schools

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 was formed

 British North America Act became the constitution of a new country

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

 Ontario School Act was passed

Free elementary schooling in government inspected schools was provided

 School attendance was made mandatory 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.

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

 Common schools were renamed “Public Schools”

 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

A Normal School is opened to train teacehrs in Ottawa

Department of Education replaced the Department of Public Instruction

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

Ontario College of Teachers was founded

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

Department of Education became the Ministry of Education

Ontario College of Teachers was established as an independent accreditation college

Ministries of Education Colleges and Universities and Skills Development were merged into the Ministry of Education and Training