DCHP-2
separate school ((1)) DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 Que., Obs.
a school for girls.
See also: separate school
- 1835 When the Assembly passed this most important law . . . they seemed to consider us, for having (may I say?) the misfortune of being protestants and of another descent, as beneath those of their own origin and religion, and therefore unworthy of having a separate school, like those for our sisters and daughters.
- 1835 In some of the seigniories there are separate schools for girls.
2 Hist.
a segregated school for Negroes.
- 1857 (1963) Separate schools and churches are nuisances that should be abated as soon as possible, they are dark and hateful relics of Yankee Negrophobia. . . .
- 1857 (1963) Protestant and coloured separate schools may be authorized by the council of a township, town or village, upon the application of five or more heads of families.
- 1963 In 1927, the legislature created a separate school district in the area for "all residents other than white persons in the district"--and did not repeal the legislation until 1960.
3 n. — Education
see separate school ((2))
See also: separate school
- 1835 When the Assembly passed this most important law . . . they seemed to consider us, for having (may I say?) the misfortune of being protestants and of another descent, as beneath those of their own origin and religion, and therefore unworthy of having a separate school, like those for our sisters and daughters.