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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).
Quotations
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.