Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter I. The dominion of Canada

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CHAP. I] THE DOMINION OF CANADA 695 matter ; the negotiations were most fortunately successful, and an Act of the province restored to the minority certain facilities of a definite and limited but not ungenerous character for learning their language and being taught their religion in the public schools of the province. By this agreement, dated November 16, 1896, it was provided that religious teaching should be conducted if authorized by resolution passed by a majority of the school trustees, or if a petition were presented to the Board of School Trustees asking for such teaching and signed by the parents or guardians of at least ten children attending the school in the case of a rural district, or by the parents or guardians of at least twenty-five children in a city, town, or village. Such teaching was to take place between 3.30 p-m. and 4 p.m., and to be conducted by any Christian clergyman in whose charge lay any portion of the school district, or by a person duly authorized by such clergyman, or by a teacher when authorized. The teaching would be on every teaching day unless the resolution or the petition asked for it on certain specified days only. In any school in towns or cities with an average attendance of Roman Catholic children of forty and upwards, and in villages or rural districts with an average attendance of twenty-five or up- wards, the trustees, if required by petition of the parents or guardians of such number of Roman Catholic children, must employ at least one duly certificated Roman Catholic teacher. Similarly the trustees, where the average attendance of non-Roman Catholic children was forty or twenty-five respectively, must, if required, employ at least one duly certificated non-Roman Catholic teacher. Where religious teaching was required to be carried on in ! Manitoba Act, 60 Vict. c. 27; Sir W. Laurier in House of Commons Debates, 1897, pp. 63-6. In Alberta and Saskatchewan the Acts of 1905 provide for the continuance of separate schools ; see, on the difficulties which have arisen, Canadian Annual Review, 1907, pp. 587 seq.; 1908; Pp. 486, 491. The privileges accorded are practically (1) exemption from rates for other denominational schools ; (2) right to have separate schools if desired 5 (3) half-hour's religious teaching (3.30-4 p.m.) for children whose parents desire it : see Canadian Annual Review, 1905, pp. 44 sed.

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