Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal

Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM, French: Commission des écoles protestantes du Grand Montréal, CEPGM) was a Protestant and predominantly English-language school district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1] [2] which was founded in 1951 as a replacement for the Montreal Protestant Central Board, and ceased operations in 1998, with most of its assets transferred to the new English Montreal School Board. Quebec's Protestant school boards served all non-Catholics, so that the city's Jewish students generally attended schools operated by the PSBGM.[3]

The PSBGM's headquarters was located at 6000 Fielding Avenue in Montreal,[4] which is now the headquarters for the English Montreal School Board.

Schools operated

This partial list includes some schools that are still in operation and others that have closed or been put to other uses. [5]

Elementary schools
  • Ecole Peace Centenial
  • Aberdeen - across from Carré St. Louis
  • Alexandria School - Sanguinet below Ste Catherine.
  • Alfred Joyce Elementary School
  • École Ahuntsic
  • Algonquin
  • Amherst School - Belanger/Chabot area
  • Bancroft School
  • Earl Grey - Bellechasse/Christophe colombe
  • Barclay School
  • Bedford
  • Beechwood School
  • Berthelet School - Ontario west
  • Carlyle School
  • Cecil Newman School
  • Cedarcrest School
  • Connaught School - Ville Emard
  • Coronation School
  • Courtland Park School
  • École Crawford Park
  • Dalkeith School in Anjou
  • Drummond School - 13th avenue Rosemont.1931-1970
  • Dunrae Gardens School
  • École Dupuis
  • Edinburgh School
  • Edouard VII
  • Elizabeth Ballantyne School
  • F.A.C.E. I & II
  • École de la Fraternité
  • Gardenview School
  • Gilson School - NDG
  • Delormier - Gilford and Chabot
  • Devonshire
  • Dufferin School
  • École Glencoe
  • École du Grand Chêne
  • Guy Drummond
  • Hampstead School
  • Herbert Purcell School
  • École Iona
  • Keith School
  • École Laurentide
  • École Louisbourg
  • École Maisonneuve
  • Hochelaga School on Prefontaine.
  • John Jenkins - Mercier district.
  • Lansdowne School
  • Logan School
  • Lorne School
  • McLaren School - Notre Dame Street East
  • MacVicar - on Hochelaga St.
  • Meadowbrook School
  • Merton School
  • École Montrose
  • Nesbitt School in Rosemont
  • East Hill (formerly Nesbitt School Annex)
  • École Ogilvie
  • Parkdale School
  • École Perce-Neige
  • École des Rapides de Lachine
  • Riverview School
  • École Riviére des Prairies
  • Roslyn School
  • Royal Vale School
  • Russell School (TMR)
  • Sarah Maxwell on Prefontaine
  • Sinclair Laird School
  • Sir Arthur Currie School - Rosedale Ave
  • Somerled School
  • Strathearn School - Jeanne Mance St.
  • École Tetreaultville
  • École Westminster
  • Westmount Park School
  • Westpark School
  • Willingdon School
  • Woodland School

High schools

History

The Government of Quebec reorganized the province's public school boards in the mid-1990s. School boards in Quebec had been organized along confessional lines, Catholic and Protestant, since before Canadian Confederation. In fact, Quebec was guaranteed a confessional public school system by the British North America Act, 1867, now known as the Constitution Act, 1867. The provincial government was therefore required to ask the federal government to amend the Canadian Constitution if it were to reorganize school boards along linguistic lines, English and French. The amendment was passed without much debate by both the House of Commons and the Senate, notwithstanding the unresolved constitutional debate between Quebec and the rest of Canada.

The PSBGM held the 1996 PSBGM 150th Anniversary Logo Contest. Debra Shapiro-Lambersky, then a 6th grade student at the Willingdon School, designed the winning logo, showing a group of books surrounding a red heart.[6]

English Montreal School Board and the other new linguistic school boards began operations on July 1, 1998. The English sector of the PSBGM and the English sectors of the Montreal Catholic School Commission, the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer and the Commission scolaire Sainte-Croix were amalgamated to form the EMSB.[7] The French-language sector became a part of the Commission scolaire de Montréal.

Labour relations

The board's teachers were represented by the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers, a union and professional association which later merged with its English-language Catholic counterpart, the Provincial Association of Catholic Teachers, to form the Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers.

Leadership

School board members were originally appointed, but this gave way to elections, originally restricted to property-owners.

References
  1. Roderick MacLeod and Mary Anne Poutanen (2004). A meeting of the people : school boards and Protestant communities in Quebec, 1801-1998. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
  2. School Council of the Island of Montreal (1982). The School boards of the Island of Montréal : their role and their achievements.
  3. Researchers of The Museum of The Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. "The Jewish Community of Montreal". The Museum of the Jewish People. Beit Hatfutsot. Retrieved 16 February 2020. In 1969 there were about 5,000 children attending the Jewish day schools in Montreal ... and the Jewish children attending the Protestant elementary and high schools in 1969 numbered 17,000.
  4. "GAZETTE OFFICIELLE DU QUÉBEC. 14 julliet 1979. Il le année. n° 28" (Archive). p. 7030 (PDF p. 88/172). "The Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal 6000. avenue Fielding Montréal (Que.) H3X IT4"
  5. "Schools" (Archive). Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. January 17, 1998. Retrieved on November 24, 2014.
  6. "The 150th anniversary of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal." Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. January 17, 1998. Retrieved on March 22, 2011.
  7. "EMSB Home." Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. April 22, 1999. Retrieved on March 22, 2011.
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