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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

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, Canada - Book link: '' A Meeting of the People'' 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

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. Quebec's Protestant school boards served all non Catholics, so that the city's Jewish students generally attended schools operated by the PSBGM. The PSBGM's headquarters was located at 6000 Fielding Avenue in Montreal, 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.

Elementary schools

* Ecole Peace Centennial *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 *Crawford Park School *Carlyle School *Cecil Newman School *Cedarcrest School *Connaught School - Ville Emard *Coronation School *Cote-des-Neiges *Courtland Park School *École Crawford Park *Dalkeith School in

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*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 *Mountrose School *Morison School *Nesbitt School in

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*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 Elementary School Roslyn Elementary School, located in Westmount, Quebec, Canada, is a coeducational public school for children between Pre-K and grade six/WINGS (Special Ed). The school opened in September 1908 and is currently operated by the English Montreal Sc ...

*Roxboro Elementary School * Royal Arthur 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 *Van Horne *Westbrook Elementary *École Westminster *Westmount Park School *Westpark School *Willingdon School *Woodland School

High schools

Baron Byng High School Baron Byng High School was an English language, English-language State school, public high school on Saint Urbain Street in Montreal, Quebec, opened by Governor General of Canada Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy in 1921. The school was atte ...

Malcolm Campbell High School Malcolm Campbell High School was a high school in Montreal operated by the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal The Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM, Commission des écoles protestantes du Grand Montréal, CEPGM) was a P ...

*École secondaire Cardinal *Sir Winston Churchill High School, later merged with St. Laurent High School to become LaurenHill Academy *Connections *Académie de Roberval *École secondaire Dorval *Dunton High School The building was later used for Doran High School, then

Aime Renaud High School Aime Renaud High School was a Catholic public English and mixed Junior High School in the east end of Montreal. It was initially located in the then City of Saint-Leonard and then later in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough in the City of ...

, and now Academie Dunton *École secondaire Eureka * F.A.C.E. III & IV *Girls' High School *

John Grant High School John Grant High School () is a high school located in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada and a part of the English Montreal School Board (EMSB). It was previously a part of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal The Protestant School Bo ...

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*Lachine High School *LaSalle Extended High School *École secondaire La Voie *Le Relais *M.I.N.D. *Monklands High School - NDG *

Montreal West High School Montreal West High School was a school located in Montreal West, Quebec, Canada. It operated from 1894 to 1983, when it was merged into Royal West Academy. History It originally opened as the Aberdeen School of Coteau Saint-Pierre, or Aberdeen ...

, later renamed

Royal West Academy Royal West Academy (commonly referred to as Royal West or RWA; ) is a public alternative English-speaking Quebecker, anglophone secondary school in Montreal West, Quebec. Royal West has limited enrollment, and prospective students are only admit ...

*École secondaire Mont-Royal, English until 1985, French thereafter *

Northmount High School Northmount High School is a defunct English-language secondary school which was operated by the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal in the Côte-des-Neiges area of Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in th ...

*Northmount Alternative High School *Options I School *Options II School *Outreach *École secondaire Outremont *Programme Mile-End * Riverdale High School *Riverside Park Academy *Rosemount High School in

*Royal Vale High School *Shadd Academy *Strathcona Academy *Sumerlea Centre *Verdun High School, later renamed Argyle Academy *Venture High School *Vezina High School * Wagar High School *Ecole secondaire Wentworth High School - English school with a French immersion component. *

Westmount High School Westmount High School () is a public co-educational anglophone secondary school located in Westmount, Quebec, Canada, located near Alexis Nihon Complex Shopping Mall. Westmount High is Quebec's first and only public school to offer Advanced ...

West Hill High School West Hill High School was the name of two former schools in the neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The first West Hill High School was opened in 1919 by the Coteau St. Pierre School Commission on West Hill ...

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History

The

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reorganized the province's public school boards in the mid-1990s. School boards in Quebec had been organized along confessional lines,

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, since before

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. In fact, Quebec was guaranteed a confessional public school system by the

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, now known as the

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. The provincial government was therefore required to ask the

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to amend the

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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.

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

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'' and the ''

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'' were amalgamated to form the EMSB.EMSB Home
" Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. April 22, 1999. Retrieved on March 22, 2011. The French-language sector became a part of the

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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

External links

* (Archive)
Création du Bureau métropolitain des écoles protestantes de Montréal
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