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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The apparatus of the modern welfare state was not set up in Canada until the 60s. This country was a very different place before that. There was no secular public school in Quebec, for example, until 1964 - the Catholic church ran all schools. Everyone older than about 60 today in Quebec or Ireland was taught by priests and nuns.
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School boards in Quebec were organized along confessional lines, Catholic and Protestant, since before Canadian Confederation. Quebec was guaranteed a confessional public school system by the British North America Act, 1867
For example, Protestant school board of montreal (PSBGM) was around in various forms for about 150 years before it became the present secular English Montreal School Board in about 1999.