The late 1800’s and the early 1900’s was a time era when change was required in Ontario’s education system. The province was lacking many school’s, libraries and teachers. George William Ross also known as, “the father of New Ontario”, was Ontario's Minister of Education (1883-1896) and the Premier (1899-1905). His early career started as a school teacher and he had advanced farther in his studies, becoming the 5th premier and the Minister of Education. Although he was a descendant from Scotland, he wanted to enhance Canada's history. He had made many contributions toward Ontario and his life had impacted Ontario significantly. He had pursued success in politics after he was elected Liberal for several years. In his political years, he had …show more content…
Later on that year he was invited to discuss some of what they were going to be doing to help the universities. Originally suggested by William Mallock, vice-chancellor of the University of Toronto, as a way to elevate it’s claims for greater funding. Ross had a different opinion of how there would be separate ways of how the universities would run. The state had made it clear that they would not support denominational teaching. Ross therefore translated the proposal into a legislation in 1887. Federated denominational institutions, if located in Ontario, could put instructions in arts, while providing training in theology and other judged subject based on religious education. The sciences and the professional training would be held in the University of Toronto. In return, the colleges would not give degrees in other subject areas other than theology. In 1889 Wycliffe college accepted federation, Knox College and Victoria University the year after. St Michael's College had cross special terms and Trinity, Queen's University, and Toronto Baptist College (changed to McMaster University in 1887 over Ross’s objection) all rejected. Ross had finally changed the education drastically and overtime there were many troublesome times Ross had to …show more content…
Catholic people had wanted separate schools based on religion and responsibilities as the public schools. The conservative opposition protested against the possibility of the support of the catholic separate school system. The Conservatives were not supporting this idea because they believed that English should be the only language used in the school system, and there should be no cultural practises.Ross had disagreed to this statement and so he went on with what he was aiming for. His policy, which he argued repeatedly, was to “promote organization” in the separate school system. Ross had said there would be the same subjects in a regular school accept there would be religious practise. Therefore, he changed legislation in 1886 for the people who would go to a Christian based school, the money that they would pay would go towards only the Christian based school and not the public schools. Maintaining that Catholics were overlooked, the municipal councils made appointments, Ross then obtained legislation in 1885. The religious based schools and the bilingual schools had eventually been accomplished and Ross was then known as “the father of New Ontario”.
George William Ross had faced a lot of obstacles in his career. From a farmer he became a very successful man becoming the 5th premier of Canada and the Minister of Education. Schooling at that time was lacking
Born on December 5th, 1875 in Napperton, Ontario, Arthur William Currie found his place in the world. Having been the third of seven children, Currie found his family to be very supportive of each other (Dancocks, 1985). At the age of 15, Currie’s father died of a stroke, leaving the family in financial problems. University was not the path to go down at this point for Currie, in hopes of becoming a lawyer. Instead, he took a teaching course (Harris, 1988).
“Just watch me.”Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau said in 1970. He meant it as he fought to keep Quebec a part of Canada. Not only did he do that, he managed to be prime minister for 16 years, as well as being Canada’s youngest leader at the time. He brought greater civil rights to Canadians, Quebec citizens mainly. His charismatic personality matched his innovative ideas, that enhanced Canada for the better. For his entire political career, not only did Canada watch him, the whole world watched him change the country for the better. He made a radical change to Canada by championing the idea of officially implementing bilingualism. Trudeau was a trailblazer from the moment he was elected.
Bill 160 was written to allow the Ministry and Cabinet to intervene and control every aspect of the school boards. It also enables the suspension of trustees who do not support their commands. This bill creates centralized power and decentralized blame. Some people see it as an unprecedented power grab. The school boards and trustees are still accountable, but their ability to take action on issues has been completely taken away. Whenever changes are needed, the Ministry can make them through regulation. No legislations will be needed; therefore no consultations of any kind are required. Neither the public nor the members of Provincial Parliament have any say in what goes on. Bill 160 makes school councils mandatory, but provides them with no effective role or support. As a former student representative in the Roman Catholic school board, I felt our influence on our own education would be diminished. If there were any issues that arose with the curriculum, students would have to go to Toronto to complain. We would no longer be able to go to the local school board, which was amalgamated because of Bill 160. With the passing of the bill, seventy new school boards to be created, including one massive school board covering all of Metropolitan Toronto.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was arguably one of the most vivacious and charismatic Prime Ministers Canada has ever seen. He wore capes, dated celebrities and always wore a red rose boutonniere. He looked like a superhero, and often acted like one too. Some of the landmark occurrences in Canadian history all happened during the Trudeau era, such as patriating the constitution, creating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the 1980 Quebec Referendum. However, it is Trudeau’s 1969 “white paper” and the Calder legal challenge which many consider to be one of his most influential contributions to Canadian history.
The government also started to replace programs the Church previously ran, which included hospital insurance, pension schemes and the beginning of Medi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle with Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars. One of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire school system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers.
John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 11, 1815. His family immigrated to Canada (Kingston, Ontario) in 1820, Macdonald was five years old at the time. In 1829 Macdonald ended his schooling, his parents could not afford to send him to university. Macdonald would later say that if he had went to university he would have ended up in literature, not politics. (Waite, John, 7-10)
CBC (2014). A history of residential schools in Canada - Canada - CBC News. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-history-of-residential-schools-in-canada-1.702280
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Throughout the early 1980’s Canadian society began being troubled by its relationship with Quebec, it seemed more isolated than ever. After being promised a deal following the separation referendum and not seeing any development, it appeared they were more bitter and angry than ever before. They could not be forced to sign the Constitution Act of 1982, therefore, there was much pressure for the federal government to come up with a quick solution to either lose Quebec or finally win them over. Brian Mulroney was elected in 1984 and made it his personal goal to unite Quebec with the rest of Canada. Mulroney planned on completing this task by opening up the constitution and meeting various requests Quebec had, along with repairing other flaws that seemed to be dragging the country down.
Thompson, John Herd, and Mark Paul Richard. "Canadian History in North American Context." In Canadian studies in the new millennium. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 37-64.
These residential schools have become mandatory. The Canadian government saw this was the only way to educate these people, and changing their way of life, by changing their religion, language ,and beliefs. The residential school’s main focus was to tech these native’s the English language and change their religion into the Christianity faith. The schools were run by church priest and nuns in almost every province in Canada from 1860-1884. By 1931 there were eight residential schools. The period of these credentials school lasted for sixty five years, up until the last residential school which was closed down in 1996. This ...
In conclusion Canada gained independence because of a series of events that took place during the twentieth century. If it hadn’t been for these events, Canada to this day might have been a part of the British Empire. Through discussion on the Chanak affair we signalled that we wanted autonomy. Through our hard work and lives, the world knew we had the ability to stand alone as a strong nation. While, our international reputation of being a “peacekeeping” country the right to stand as an independent self-governing nation. But finally through the Canada Act, we stood solely independent from our Empire. It is obvious that the twentieth century provided us with great chances to become an independent strong nation.
Ed. W. Gordon West and Ruth Morris. Toronto, Canada: A Canadian Scholar? Press, 2000. 89-99.
As Bakvis writes, “the transformation of Canada’s university system… came about largely through the effort of the federal government alone,” (Bakvis 205). There are a few key abnormalities to this statement, one being pertinent to the CA 1867. When one looks at the constitution, under sections 91 and 92, anyone remotely well-versed in Canadian politics would know that those two sections outline w...
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