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school question

• 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: Manitoba School(s) Question  

  • 1916  Most of the politics of Manitoba in those days grew out of the school question. . . .
  • 1935  This bore on the school question and events have proved but too clearly that, in this respect, the Westerner was more far-seeing than the Ottawa legists, who seemed otherwise to be animated by the best of intentions.