Published
October 1, 2003
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Abstract
This study explores the complex relationships from 1863 to
1945 between the Board of School Trustees of Lochaber and Gore,
its teachers, and parents, to reveal how these different parties
influenced, resisted, and consented to changes in local
schooling. Thus, the analysis moves away from a social control
model which has dominated the literature on schooling in Quebec
to reveal the local dynamics at work in the community. The
Protestants of Lochaber and Gore were a microcosm of the larger
Protestant community in Quebec. All of the problems associated
with rural education in poor regions across Quebec, such as
teacher transiency, widespread poverty and a modest tax base,
the primitive nature of one-room schoolhouses, and conflict
between the seasonal demands of agriculture and school time,
existed here. This investigation is based on historical
documents from the Archives of the Western Quebec School Board
in addition to newspaper accounts and local histories.
