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.