The Manitoba Schools Question

It’s time for the spooookiest episode of them all: The Manitoba Schools Question! You may remember this from a first year Canadian history course, or you’ve maybe never heard of it at all, but the Schools Question was a massive legal battle in the 1890s about the rights of religious education in schools.

Listen to Part 1:

Sources

Glenn, Todd. A very Canadian coup : the rise and demise of Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell, 1894-1896. 2022.

Clark, Lovell (Ed). The Manitoba School Question : majority rule or minority rights? 1968.

Crunican, Paul. Priests and politicians : Manitoba schools and the election of 1896. 1974.

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J.E. Rae, Patricia E Roy. “Martin, Joseph.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Kulisek, Larry L. “McCarthy, D’Alton”. Dictionary of Canadian Biography.