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revised: 23 August 2000 | Tentative
de créer un Ministère de l'Instruction publique / Attempt to create a Ministry
of Education, 1897-1898
Speech
for the Throne, Province of Quebec Session 1897-1898 [Note
from the editor: Only the two paragraphs
concerned with education are reproduced here.] "You
will be called to give assent to measures of the highest interest, among which
will be found, in the first place, a new law regarding education. This measure
includes important changes to the existing law without, however, bringing such
other modifications that are not called for by the needs of the present situation. Imbued
with a sense of responsibility in anything that will further the well-being and
the progress of the province, the government cannot disinterest itself of so important
a question as education. In the bill that will be submitted to the House, the
creation of a Ministry of Education is provided for; its functionning will not
cause any additional expenditures, the number of ministers remaining the same
as presently". Source: Journaux
du Conseil législatif, Québec, 1897-1898, Vol. XXXII. Quoted in Louis-Philippe
Audet, « Le projet de ministère de l'instruction publique en 1897 », dans Mémoires
de la société royale du Canada, Vo. 1, fourth series, June 1963, pp. 133-161,
p. 140. © For the translation,
2000 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College |