Common menu bar links

Institutional links

CYB Historical Collection
- Site map
- Search options

Browse by

Chronology

Tools and reference

About the collection

Page content follows

Summary of education in Canada, by province, 1926 or latest year reported

Archived Content

Information identified as archived is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. Please contact us to request a format other than those available.

Summary of education in Canada, by province, 1926 or latest year reported
	Manitoba	Sask.	Alberta	B.C.	Total
	number
Ordinary day schools under public control	148,279	213,404	148,245²²	101,688	1,998,579
Agricultural, commercial, industrial and other technical schools, including all evening schools	3,355²³	1,474²⁴	4,178²⁵	8,879²⁶	96,655
Schools for teacher-training	636²⁷	1,655	739²⁸	849²⁹	9,720
Indian schools	2,263	1,892	1,283	2,852	14,782³⁰
Schools for the blind and deaf	93	68	46	79	1,627³¹
Private business colleges	2,222	442	2,739	1,153	17,818
Private elementary and secondary schools	646	2,712	2,281	1,092	70,959
Preparatory courses at universities and colleges	115	34	44	521	3,593
Short, special and correspondence courses at universities and colleges	1,821	14,361	203³²	168³³	26,165³⁴
Classical colleges	-	150	-	1,453	9,904³⁴
Affiliated, professional and technical colleges (regular courses)	420	1,037	167	-	6,301³⁴
Universities (regular courses)	2,118	-	1,051	-	21,327³⁵
Grand total (excluding duplicates)	161,968	237,229	160,976	118,744	2,272,415³⁵
Population in 1921	610,118	757,514	588,454	524,582	8,788,483
Population In 1926	639,056	821,812	197,581	-	-
Elementary grades³⁶	137,173	197,129	137,295	92,751	1,915,703
Secondary and higher grades³⁴	23,375	25,589	21,359	19,701	289,733
Notes: - Many terms used in the Canada Year Books are no longer used today for reasons such as their offensive connotations, changes in place name or organization name or terms becoming obsolete. These terms have been left as they appear in the original yearbooks. - To avoid the confusion that would result from giving totals different from those given in the provincial reports, the figures for 1925 are used throughout for Quebec. In all cases except the primary and nursery schools, the figures for 1926 are also published in the provincial reports, although the 1925 figures are used to make their summary. The 1926 figures are used for each of the data in the above table except "Ordinary day schools under public control" and "Private elementary and secondary schools," which are as follows: - Technical and night: 15,334; Monumnet national lectures: 836, Teacher-training: 1,854; Historic guides: 60; Blind and deaf: 661; Schools of fine arts: 901; Classical colleges: 10,430; Dairy schools: 281; Other Colleges: 7,795; Ranger's school: 20; Universities (regular): 8,478; Total: 46,650. - Further, to avoid confusion, the short courses for teachers at universities and colleges are entered under Short special and correspondence courses at universities and colleges instead of Schools for teacher-training. Approximately 2,700 teachers took these short courses and could be added to the 9,720 in schools for teacher-training, making approximately 12,400 in all teaching-training. There were in all approximately 64,000 teachers in Canada.
1. Including 493,560 in primary schools and approximately 5,467 in nursery schools under the control of commissioners and trustees.
2. Including day courses at public, separate, continuation and high schools and collegiate institute. Figures are for the calendar year 1925 for public and separate schools and for the school year 1925 to 1926 for the other schools.
3. Including all the students of the technical college, except those following regular degree courses and including 35 males and 156 females in the Victoria College of Art, Halifax.
4. Including 561 in day, 296 in correspondence and 1,433 in evening technical schools.
5. IncIuding 5,776 in night schools, 2,318 in dressmaking schools, 3,894 in schools of arts and trades, and 32 in Ranger's School. Figures are for 1924 to 1925.
6. Including 1,520 in day full-time courses, 2,743 in day part-time courses, 1,705 in day special courses, and 35,226 in evening courses at industrial, technical and art schools, 1,832 in night elementary schools, and 3,547 in night high schools. Figures are for 1925 to 1926.
7. Including 327 in normal college and 363 in summer teacher-training courses.
8. Including 376 in normal school and 48 in vocational teacher-training courses.
9. Including 2,299 in normal schools, 214 in model schools, 144 in vocational teacher-training, over and above extra-mural students not counted and excluding the "College of education" figures, which are included with those of universities.
10. Not added in the totals of Quebec or the grand total of all schools below, as it is not certain whether or not they are included elsewhere.
11. In institutions at Halifax, Nova Scotia, but supported by the province.
12. Including 54,959 in independent primary schools (i.e., independent of the control of commissioners and trustees) and approximately 628 in independent nursery schools.
13. Included with the figures of classical colleges and private schools.
14. Including 1,424 in evening courses at technical schools, 246 in special courses at technical schools, 555 in short courses at agricultural colleges and 431 at evening courses in the School of H.C.S.
15. Of these, 2,798 were in degree courses.
16. Including 9,363 in classical colleges and 541 in classical independent schools.
17. Including 267 in dairy schools, 742 in regular courses at the technical schools, 140 in regular courses at the colleges of agriculture, 132 in regular courses at the School of H.C.S., 409 in independent schools where superior education is given, 1,253 in the schools of fine arts, 111 in Polytechnic School, 195 in Protestant theological colleges, 984 in Monument National School and 40 in School for Historic Guides, 1924 to 1925.
18. Excluding preparatory and short courses and such other figures as hare already been included in "Classical colleges" and "Affiliated, professional and technical colleges (regular courses)."
19. In calculating the numbers in elementary and secondary grades, night, special and part-time technical schools and schools for the blind and deaf are left out of the reckoning, except where the night schools were known to be high schools. The numbers in elementary grades in public and private ordinary schools, also in schools for Aboriginal peoples are known. Business college courses are assumed to be of secondary rank, also preparatory and short courses at universities and colleges, except in the case of certain affiliated schools in Ontario where allowance was made for the number in elementary grades.
20. Approximately. As Grade 8 in New Brunswick includes high school subjects, the enrolment in this grade (about 3,800) might be added to "Secondary and higher grades" and deducted from "Elementary grades," in which case the number in elementary grades would read 72,600 and in secondary and higher grades 10,650.
21. Approximately.
22. In later tables, the total given includes 2,281 in private schools not included here.
23. Including 2,028 in day and 1,327 in correspondence and evening technical schools.
24. Including 826 in day and 648 in evening technical schools.
25. Including 1,902 in day and 2,122 in evening technical schools, and 154 in the correspondence department.
26. Including 2,667 in day, 6,017 in evening and 65 in correspondence vocational courses.
27. In normal schools, not including 1,301 who are included under Short, special and correspondence courses at universities and colleges.
28. Not including 99 who are entered under Short, special and correspondence courses at universities and colleges.
29. Including 453 in regular normal schools, 50 in vocational teacher-training, and 346 in the departmental summer school for teachers, but not including 441 who are included under "Short, special and correspondence courses at universities and colleges."
30. The total includes 254 in Northwest Territories and 192 in Yukon.
31. Including 483 blind and 1,144 deaf.
32. Exclusive of courses included in "Agricultural, commercial, industrial and other technical schools, including all evening schools."
33. Including 151 at Victoria College not elsewhere specified.
34. The number of students of university standard in rows "Short, special and correspondence courses at universities and colleges," 'Classical colleges," "Affiliated professional and technical colleges (regular courses)" and "Universities (regular courses)" was 29,975, to which 600 might be added for colleges that didn't report in 1926.
35. Excluding business colleges and schools for Aboriginal peoples in Quebec and including schools for Aboriginal peoples in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1927/1928.