SMC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lower Canada, Equal Footing, Separate School
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Separate schools provision in the 1840s eventually favored catholic, as it becomes more restrictive 1841 and 1843. It was a protestant initiative in order to use the bible in schools. Recall: initial dissent was to have separate dissent based on religious wants. 1843 act becomes more restrictive for catholics and protestants (favouring catholics, because protestants lumped together). To illustrate, (1) minority catholic can set up own schools and (2) majority catholic is a public school but catholic. 1844 ryerson wants to build a better common catholic school, thinking that the christian values should transcend and not offend anyone. 1846 ryerson builds a compressive system through the oct and the separate school provision. The provision holds that you need 10 or more catholic or protestant teachers. He believes the spirit of the law was not to put the school on equal footing. For catholics, it is a right not a grievance for their school.
