The Roman Catholic Church and the North-West School Question - 9781487576974

The Roman Catholic Church and the North-West School QuestionA Study in Church-State Relations in Western Canada 1875-1905\nAuthor(s): Manoly Lupul\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487576974, 978-1487576974\nSynopsis\nThe separate school question is a continuing controversy in Canada - a variation on the classical issue in western history of church-state relations in education, heightened by the conflict between French and English. In this carefully researched work, Dr Lupul investigates the school question in the North-West Territories in the late nineteenth century before the division of the area into the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This was an impotant development in Canada's educational, political, and religious history. \nThe last quarter of the nineteenth century was an era of intense nationalism that embraced the political principles of the primacy of the state and the need for a co.