URBANIZATION AND EDUCATION IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC, 1867-1914

Authors

  • Robert E. Stamp University of Western Ontario

Abstract

Urbanization has been a significant cause of educational problems - problems both for the rural school and for the urban school - in Canada for the past one hundred years. The industrialization of Canada in the late nineteenth century, particularly Ontario and Quebec, was accompanied by rapid urban growth which changed population patterns and placed strains on both rural and urban schools. Educators and politicians of the day seemed aware of what was referrcd to as the "rural school problem" and concentrated a great deal of energy (unsuccessfully as it turned out) in attempting to solve this dilemma. Unfortunately they seemed unaware that urbanization was also creating an urban school problem every bit as serious.

Author Biography

Robert E. Stamp, University of Western Ontario

ROBERT M. STAMP is Assistant Professor and Chairman of the History of Education Department, Althouse College of Education, University of Western Ontario. He is joint editor of A Social History of Canadian Education which is to be published next year by Prentice-Hall.

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Published

1968-08-31

How to Cite

Stamp, R. E. (1968). URBANIZATION AND EDUCATION IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC, 1867-1914. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 3(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/6662

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 002 (1968)

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