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Enrolment in educational institutions, by provinces, school year 1944 to 1945
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| Canada | Prince Edward Island | Nova Scotia | New Brunswick | Quebec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | |||||
| Provincially controlled schools | |||||
| Ordinary and technical day schools | 1,997,098 | 17,391 | 116,587 | 92,275 | 548,8381 |
| Evening schools | 68,238 | 225 | 3,218 | 2,101 | 14,5971 |
| Correspondence schools | 34,292 | 141 | 1,805 | 2,250 | 4201 |
| Special schools2 | 4,811 | 0 | 328 | 0 | 1,1191 |
| Normal schools | 7,912 | * | 145 | 147 | 5,2321 |
| Privately controlled Schools | |||||
| Ordinary day schools | 101,122 | 754 | 3,913 | 2,843 | 61,8281 |
| Business training schools | 271,365 | 104 | 684 | 816 | 6,2561 |
| Universities and colleges | |||||
| Preparatory courses | 26,931 | 536 | 618 | 727 | 18,993 |
| Courses of university standard | 59,436 | 214 | 2,660 | 1,052 | 16,212 |
| Other courses at university3 | 25,099 | 260 | 2,751 | 102 | 10,741 |
| Dominion Indian schools | 16,4384 | 23 | 398 | 324 | 1,323 |
| Total | 2,371,1105 | 19,618 | 133,107 | 103,237 | 685,559 |
| Population, 1945 (estimated) | 12,119,0006 | 92,000 | 621 | 468,000 | 3,561,000 |
| Ontario | Manitoba | Saskatchewan | Alberta | British Columbia | |
| number | |||||
| Provincially controlled schools | |||||
| Ordinary and technical day schools | 650,979 | 118,390 | 174,971 | 152,532 | 125,135 |
| Evening schools | 33,109 | 2,049 | 2,518 | 354 | 10,067 |
| Correspondence schools | 2,600 | 2,666 | 10,446 | 8,960 | 5,004 |
| Special schools2 | 2,314 | 510 | 141 | 292 | 101 |
| Normal schools | 953 | 239 | 970 | * | 226 |
| Privately controlled schools | |||||
| Ordinary day schools | 15,911 | 4,593 | 3,544 | 2,032 | 5,704 |
| Business training schools | 11,141 | 3,532 | 1,200 | 2,726 | 2,906 |
| Universities and colleges | |||||
| Preparatory courses | 3,754 | 969 | 816 | 518 | 0 |
| Courses of university standard | 23,471 | 3,256 | 4,933 | 2,797 | 4,241 |
| Other courses at university3 | 8,005 | 1,517 | 1,288 | 431 | 4 |
| Dominion Indian schools | 3,852 | 2,187 | 2,339 | 1,925 | 3,650 |
| Total | 756,089 | 139,914 | 203,166 | 172,567 | 157,038 |
| Population, 1945 (estimated) | 4,004,000 | 736,000 | 845,000 | 826,000 | 949,000 |
| * Included with "Universities and colleges"—preparatory courses. | |||||
| Note: 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. | |||||
| 1. 1944 figures; later statistics not available. | |||||
| 2. Schools for the blind, deaf or mentally defective. These are boarding schools and many of the pupils are from provinces other than the one in which they are at school. Based on estimates. | |||||
| 3. Includes also those in the departmental summer schools for teachers in British Columbia, not held at universities or colleges. | |||||
| 4. Includes 417 in Dominion Indian schools for Yukon and the Northwest Territories. | |||||
| 5. Includes 785 in ordinary day schools for Yukon and the Northwest Territories. | |||||
| 6. Includes 17,000 population for Yukon and the Northwest Territories. | |||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947. | |||||
