HIST 1253 Lecture Notes - Common Schools Act Of 1871, Manitoba Schools Question, Acadian Peninsula
10 Mar 2014
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Language, religion, and politics: tensions in the population. Between protestants and catholics: ultramontane movement and french-canadian nationalism. A movement that originated in france during the french-revolution. Was a backlash to the small l liberals. These were the people that truly believed that society should be organized around school teaching. Wanted the right to sensor and control what people read and did to re-strengthen the catholic faith: bitter debates over denominational (religiously run) schools. The new brunswick school question: provincial government passes common schools act in 1871. Created a public school system (only system that would receive government funding) Ended customary public support of denominational schools (including catholic: before this law, church run schools were receiving funding by matters of. It was never written in any law, so it was not guaranteed. Catholic: acadians resented this because they were being forced to pay into this through taxes. A lot of catholics were poor and couldn"t afford this new tax.
