A Page of the History of the Schools in Manitoba During 75 Years (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Tache, Alexandre A.) |
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Excerpt from A Page of the History of the Schools in Manitoba During 75 Years The Manitoba schools are the object of general attention throughout Canada, every day they are alluded to in some of the newspapers. Every political assembly of any importance is forced to consider this question and it is done in a way that betrays embarrassment or half-concealed hopes based on painful incertitude. On the one hand, love of the country and of Christian instruction of children gives hope for an advantageous solution; on the other hand, hatred of the church and religious indifference reject the most elementary notions of common right and respect for the convictions of others. At home people pray, hope and fear; while elsewhere it is triumphantly affirmed that all is finished. that there is no remedy to the evil, not even a wound to heal; that the minority in Manitoba must necessarily submit to the will of the majority and must renounce what they consider as a sure right and a. sacred obligation. I am of those who think that a question is solved, only when it is settled with justice and equity. I am not an admirer of subtile legal technicalities nor of skillful combinations. in the art of expedients; therefore, I am far from believing that the Manitoba school question is settled or that injustice is to put an end to it: that conviction is my reason for believing that the cause must again be studied, even in its minutest details. in order that those who wish to appreciate it may make a full examination into the subject. To-day I gather some historical information concerning the different phases. through which the schools of the Red river have had to pass; not as to the detail of their action, but as to the mode of their existence. This historical study covers three-quarters of a century, it goes back not only to the establishment of the first school on the banks of the Red river, but even to the generous thought that inspired such an establishment.At the be inning of 1818 the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Quebec extended all over the Dominion of Canada; it is that prelate who sent towards the Northwest the first missionaries who took up their headquarters in St. Boniface. A month before the departure of Messrs. Provencher and Dumonlin, Mgr. Plessis gave them a series of instuctions, as remarkable by the largeness and elevation of the duties mentioned, as by the exactness and wisdom of the details. In this document, dated 20th April, 1818. and kept in the archives of the Archbishopric of Quebec, we find the first prescriptions concerning the schools of Assiniboia and the Northwest. It is said: 6. "Missionaries will take a articular care of Christian education among Children. and for this they will establish schools and catechisms in all the localities they may have occasion to visit." Further we read: "The missionaries will establish their home near Fort Douglas, on the Red river, will build there a church, a house, a school. For their support they will take the most advantageous way to utilize the lands that will be given to them." The first order for establishing a school, in this country, came then from Quebec and from a Catholic bishop. All those who have the least notion of the history of Canada, know that Bishop Plessis was a glory to the country by the force of his genius as well as by the splendor of his virtues. It is also well known that his authority over those who were under his jurisdiction, greatly contributed in keeping Canada and the North west under the allegiance to Great Britain, at the time of the war with the United States. What every one does not know is that the first schools of the Red river are due to the instructions, given by him to his priests and followed by these missionaries, notwithstanding great difficulties. A
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