The Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM, 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.[5]
Schools operated
This partial list includes some schools that are still in operation and others that have closed or been put to other uses.[6]
Elementary schools
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Ecole Peace Centennial
Aberdeen - across from Carré St. Louis
Alexandria School - Sanguinet below Ste Catherine.
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.[8]
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.
^School Council of the Island of Montreal (1982). The School boards of the Island of Montréal : their role and their achievements.
^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.
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