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The existence of Catholic schools in Canada can be retraced to the year 1620, when the first school was founded Catholic Recollet Order in Quebec.〔(Ontario Ministry of Education )〕 The first school in Alberta was also a Catholic one, at Lac Ste.-Anne in 1842.〔(Government of Alberta )〕 As a general rule, all schools in Canada were operated under the auspices of one Christian body or another until the 19th century. ==History== In the early 19th century, there was a movement to take the responsibility for education away from individuals and make it more of a State function. Thus, governments allowed schools and school boards to collect taxes to fund schools. Previously, a combination of charitable contributions from the members of a particular religious body, supplemented with tuition fees paid by the parents of the students, had been the method of financing a school. Nevertheless, an element of religious formation remained as this was considered a necessary part of educating the whole person. The "public" school system was that of the majority of taxpayers in an area. In most of the English-speaking parts of Ontario, this tended to amount to a form of "common-core Protestantism." This was accelerated under the 1846 School Act spearheaded by Egerton Ryerson. He believed it was part of the Government's mandate to be a social agency forming children in a uniform, common, Protestant culture, regardless of their individual family backgrounds. Although working in Ontario, his ideas were influential all across Canada.〔〔 In Ontario, Alberta,〔 and in other provinces, if there were enough families of a particular faith that wished to do so, they could set up a "separate" school, supported by the specially-directed taxes of those families who elected to support the separate school over the public schools. In practice, this gave a mechanism for Catholics to continue having their own schools. Separate schools tended to be Catholic in the south of Ontario whereas in northern Ontario, where the majority of people were Catholic, Protestants were the ones to set up separate schools.〔 Yet, Catholic schools form the single largest system in Canada offering education with a religious component.〔()〕 Starting in the 1960s, there was a strong push to remove all religious education from the public schools in Canada, although Catholic schools tended to maintain their religious character at least in theory if not always practice. In the 1990s there was a further movement in many provinces to dis-allow any religious instruction in schools financed by taxes. Currently only seven of the thirteen provinces and territories still allow faith-based school boards to be supported with tax money (Alberta, Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and Yukon (to grade 9 only)〔()〕).〔(Public Funding of Religious Schools in Ontario mired in controversy )〕 In 1999, the United Nations Human Rights Committee determined that Canada was in violation of article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, because Ontario's Ministry of Education discriminates against non-Catholics by continuing to publicly fund separate Catholic schools, but not those of any other religious groups. For more information see Education in Canada and Waldman v. Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catholic schools in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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