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Terms of the Manitoba Schools Act

This act established a provincial Department of Education and a non-denominational school system that all taxpayers would have to support. North Central School, Winnipeg denominational: (referring to schools) having to do with some religious group or denomination.Denominational schools could still exist but they would receive no public funding and supporters would have to finance them in addition to paying public school taxes. This same round of legislation also took away official status for the French language, contrary to the terms of the Manitoba Act which had created the province in 1870.

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A Country by Consent is a national history of Canada which studies the major political events that have shaped the country, presented in a cohesive, chronological narrative. Many of these main events are introduced by an audiovisual overview, enlivened by narration, sound effects and music.

This was the first digital, multimedia history of Canada. It started out as a laserdisc in 1993 and the CD-ROM version has been used in schools across the country. It has been approved as a curriculum-supporting resource by provincial and territorial ministries of education. This online, public domain site is the fifth edition of the project.