Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997

by David Fraser and The Osgoode Society

When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as "honorary Protestants," based on complex negotiations with the Protestant and Catholic school boards, the provincial government, and individual municipalities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442630485
• ISBN13: 9781442630482
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"