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The London Muslim Mosque opened in 1964 as Ontario’s first purpose-built mosque. The Vishnu Mandir in Richmond Hill is the first purpose-built and architecturally accurate Hindu temple in the province. The Shiromani Sikh Society built Ontario’s first permanent gurdwara in Toronto in 1969.
The first Christian missionary to reach present-day Ontario was the Récollet priest Father Joseph Le Caron (1586-1632) who accompanied Samuel de Champlain (c. 1570-1635) on his 1615 voyage to New France.
Religion in Ontario: Ontario GenWeb. In the early-to-mid 1800's a religious revolution was underway. With the invention of the printing press and the promise of freedom in a new land, people started embracing new ways of worship. This led to the founding of several 'new' religions.
I. INTRODUCTION. In 1979 the new Religious Organizations' Lands Act' was passed. It is the latest Ontario statute in a long series of enactments dating back 150 years which enable religious institutions to hold land for their purposes. The Act does not present a break with the past.
- Introduction
- New France and Lower Canada 1600S–1830S
- Upper Canada 1790S–1850S
- Lower Canada 1830s–1850s
- Upper Canada 1850
- Lower Canada 1850s
- Confederation in 1867 and Section 93
- Post-Confederation Ontario
- Post-Confederation Quebec
- The Development of Education in The Rest of Canada
The history of education in Canada is a long and complex one that varies according to region. In any social history, there are various interpretations of the facts, and the social history of education in Canada is no exception. This chapter begins by examining the formation of education systems in what is now Quebec and Ontario, as this is where se...
With over 400 years of history, summarizing the development of education in French Canada in this textbook can only partially cover the many events that led to the system of education that now exists in Quebec. More complete discussions are available by noted educational historians of Quebec, such as Louis-Phillip Audet (1971). Stark differences be...
The first government effort toward publicly funding schools dates to the late 1790s, when the Legislative Council and House of the Assembly of Upper Canada requested from the King of England that land and funds be given to the establishment of schools and a university (Di Mascio 2010)—a request that was honoured. In 1799, acts were passed that guar...
Much resistance to the School Acts imposed by Upper Canadian politicians is evident in the history of education in Quebec. Political discourse of the time demonstrates the attempts of the British to spread their ideas of culture—including their ideas of how an educational system should be organized—to Lower Canada. In the years immediately followin...
In 1850, Ryerson passed a second Common School Act, which allowed school tax to be levied on all property. Prior to this, tax was collected only from families with children. This act also provided for the free admission of all children to schools. A series of acts passed in the 1850s created the foundation of the public provincial education system ...
School inspectors, although discussed extensively in the many acts, were not established in Lower Canada until 1852. Meilleur and other officials regarded centralized school inspection as a major step in creating a sound education system (Curtis 1997; Little 1972). In 1853, the Legislative Assembly appointed a special committee to examine education...
Confederation occurred in 1867, creating a country comprising the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. The British North America Act became the constitution of the new country and contained an important section pertaining to matters of education. Section 93 of the British North America Act reads: It is in this historic act ...
In 1871, the Ontario School Act was passed, which legislated that free, compulsory elementary schooling in government-inspected schools was to be provided for all. This act also transformed grammar schools into two types of high schools—ones that focused on classical instruction (which included English grammar, composition, Greek, Latin, history, l...
Chauveau continued on as premier of Quebec until 1875. Further important legislative changes occurred during his premiership, including the division of Protestants and Catholics into their own school committees. The Protestant minority in Quebec wanted explicit guarantees for the autonomous organization and control of their own schools (Silver, 198...
The discussion thus far has focused on Ontario and Quebec’s educational history. What follows are major important highlights from the historical development of education in other parts of Canada. Each province and territory warrants its own complete book on the topic, as the cultural and political issues specific to each geographic region contribut...
- Karen L. Robson
- 2019
The 1950s. During the 1950s, post-war prosperity allowed Jews to move out of the old immigrant neighbourhood around the Queen Street shul. As well, there was a need for new facilities that would expand the role of the shul and make it a Jewish community centre.
Lower Canada, now known as Ontario, was soon to become the most densely populated section of Canada, and religiously the most diverse. The Loyalists brought with them the great variety of religions previously established in the American colonies.
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