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Manitoba School(s) Question
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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: school question
Quotations
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.