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In 1914, the Vancouver City Council adopted a resolution which required children of Chinese descent to be barred from public schools. [1]In July 1922, the Victoria School District passed a motion extending the segregation of Chinese students (previously in effect until grade 4) all the way to grade 7.
The institutionalization of separate schools in Canada West (Upper Canada before 1840) was secured by the Scott Act of 1863, but with the caveat that rural Catholic schools could only serve an area with a radius of 3 miles (4.8 km). [1] In the Maritime provinces, similar issues were at play.
Many school districts were in existence prior to British Columbia joining Canada in 1871. Some districts were just single schools or even one teacher. Traditionally school districts in British Columbia were either municipal, which were named after the municipality such as Vancouver or Victoria, or rural and given a regional name.
West Vancouver Schools, also known as WVS or School District 45 West Vancouver, is a school district in British Columbia. It is immediately north of Vancouver and includes the Municipality of West Vancouver , the community of Lions Bay and Bowen Island .
Catholic Independent Schools Vancouver Archdiocese is an organization that oversees Catholic education for young people in the greater Vancouver area. It manages 41 elementary schools and 9 secondary [1] schools in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. The secondary schools are: Archbishop Carney Regional Secondary School; Holy Cross Regional High School
St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary is a Catholic school, under the administration of CISVA (Catholic Independent Schools of the Vancouver Archdiocese) school board. [ 1 ] The school is co-educational, offering academic, fine arts, and business programs, as well as athletic, performing arts, and other extracurricular programs, for students ...
Monsignor Forget is the founder of St. Patrick Regional Secondary School, in 1923, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was established by the Catholic Independent School Society of Vancouver Archdiocese to serve the educational needs of its twenty-three designated parishes.
The following is a list of schools that operated as part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [ nb 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first opened in 1828, and the last closed in 1997. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] These schools operated in all Canadian provinces and territories except Prince Edward Island , and New Brunswick .