week 7 - highlights

Question 1

Influence of First nations

Answer 1

• uneasy and irregular peace with indigenous populations
• french and English settlers aligned with different aboriginal groups
• small number of settles needed to work with these people

Question 2

What was the role of the Clergy?

Answer 2

• schools were run by the church
• many mothers died in childbirth so orphanages were needed to support settlers - also run by the church
• Clergy acted like the police

Question 3

What was the first pillar

Answer 3

Battle at the plains of Abraham 1759 
British defeat french  
British rule but french majority
french people were allowed to keep their language and religion and law
provides rights for francophone people.

Question 4

what was the second pillar

Answer 4

Canada was plit into upper and lower

demands for school around christen values

decided that funding and decisions would be made at the local level rather than the church as a whole

Question 5

What was the role of Ryerson

Answer 5

first superintendent of schools

wanted to have regulations regarding teacher certificates but realized that school would need to be given local authority due to their own needs

many churches still ran schools

Question 6

What was the third pillar

Answer 6

BNA act in 1867
made the decision that school and health would be provincial matters

federal government controlled schools in territorial and for native

Question 7

Present day Alberta

Answer 7

funded schools are public, separate, francophone and hutterite colonies

partial funding of private schools

allowed for religious schools

Question 8

True or false:

Education is a provincial authority rather than national as in most countries

Answer 8

true