DCHP-3

free school†

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a school supported by the municipality through payment of school taxes; a public school.

Quotations

1839
Among the topics insisted upon in the governor's speech, was a recommendation for a grant of money for free schools for the instruction of the rising generation in the first rudiments of useful learning, and in the English tongue.
1899
At length Egerton Ryerson introduced the "Free School" system. This system, where adopted, did away with the fee formerly charged, and provided for the expenses of schools by levying a tax on every acre of land, occupied or unoccupied, within the section.
1942
It took a generation and a half for English settlers in Victoria to accept the Canadian public school which they insisted on calling the "free school." They turned their noses up at public schools. . . .