history of education

The second edition of Historical Statistics of Canada was jointly produced by the Social Science Federation of Canada and Statistics Canada in 1983. This volume contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s.

The Homeroom is a gateway to information about the history of education and schools in British Columbia. Launched in 1997, this web site has been developed with contributions from teachers and students at British Columbia schools, colleges, and universities, and from independent scholars and writers. The British Columbia Archives and the Royal British Columbia Museum have also been important to The Homeroom.

This web site is edited by Dr. Patrick A. Dunae and hosted by Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

For more than 100 years, Canadian women have been struggling for equal access to education. Herstory has recorded a few of the “firsts” in that struggle. Although we know the names of these women because they were first, many others, whose names we have forgotten, persisted in the struggle. To them modern women owe their opportunities to study where they please.

A Masters thesis that sets the developments in New Brunswick education against the social, political, and economic background of the province, and relates these developments to the wider field of educational movements in Britain, Europe, the United States, and other parts of British North America.

Katherine F.C. MacNaughton, University of New Brunswick, 1947