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Manitoba School(s) Question Hist.

• n. a public controversy that raged in Canada between 1890 and 1919 and arose out of the enactment of provincial laws denying French-speaking Catholics the right to receive instruction in their own language in church-run schools, an issue which became national in scope because these laws were in defiance of the Manitoba Act (1870).

  See also: school question  

  • 1894  [Title]
  • 1946  Laurier's first job was to get the Manitoba School question settled.
  • 1963  The strife of race and culture which was involved in the Manitoba Schools Question was the most strident of political issues, excepting only that of commercial union.