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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.
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
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.
Collingwood School is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational, university-preparatory school founded in 1984. Located in West Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada, it delivers the British Columbia Ministry of Education curriculum from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12.
Roman Catholic schools in British Columbia (2 C) Pages in category "Private schools in British Columbia" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
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 .
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 ...
Yet, Catholic schools form the single largest system in Canada offering education with a religious component. [5] Starting in the 1960s, there was a strong push to remove all religious education from the public schools in Canada, although Catholic schools tended to maintain their religious character at least in theory if not always practice.