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, Canada. It served the South Shore region and it was headquartered in St. Lambert. The district operated elementary and secondary schools that served students from the St. Lawrence School Board and the South Centre School Board areas. The Richelieu Valley School Board operated its own elementary schools but secondary students from that board attended South Shore. In 1967 the board of education of the school district had nine members. One of the ''Working papers on English language institutions in Quebec'' of 1982, by Alliance Québec, stated that the district was one of the first in North America to create a

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program targeting Anglophone students.

History

The school board was formed in 1965.MacLeod, Roderick and Mary Anne Poutanen. ''A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998'' (Volume 15 of Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Quebec Series). McGill-Queen's Press (MQUP), 2004. , 9780773527423. p
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It went into effect on July 1, 1967. The district had 23 schools when it opened on September 5 of that year, and at that time it had over 450 teaching employees and over 9,000 students.South Shore Protestant Regional School Board
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on November 23, 2014. In 1992, all areas of the Richelieu Valley and the South Shore were incorporated into the board's territory. The board was dissolved in 1998.MacLeod, Roderick and Mary Anne Poutanen. ''A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998'' (Volume 15 of Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Quebec Series). McGill-Queen's Press (MQUP), 2004. , 9780773527423. p
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Area served

As of 1965, the municipalities within the school board were: Beloeil, Boucherville, Brossard, Candiac, Chambly, Douville, Fort Chambly, Greenfield Park, Iberville,

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, Preville, Richelieu, Rougemont, Ste. Angele de Monnoir, Ste. Anne de Sabrevois, St. Basile le Grand, St. Blaise, St. Bruno de Montarville, St. Cyprien of Chaudière-Appalaches (including Napierville V.), Ste. Famille de Boucherville, St. Hilaire, St. Hubert, St. Hyacinthe, St. Johns, St. Jean Baptiste, St. Jean l'Evangeliste, St. Joseph, St. Joseph de Chambly, Ste. Julie, St. Lambert, St. Luc, St. Marc, Ste. Marie de Monnoir, St. Mathieu de Beloeil, St. Michel de Rougemont, St. Patrice de Sherrington, St. Paul de l'ile aux Noix and St. Valentin. It also served a portion of St. Bernard de Lacolle. When it opened in 1967, the district served schooling in all grade levels in the school boards of Chambly-Richelieu, Greenfield Park, Lacolle, Longueuil, Pinehurst-East Greenfield, Rougemont, St. Hubert, St. Hyacinthe, St. Johns, and St. Lambert. In the St. Hilaire and Richelieu Valley school boards the district served grades 7 through 12. In the Candiac school board it only served grades 8 through 12.

Schools

Secondary schools: * Centennial Regional High School (Greenfield Park) ** It opened in 1972; it was designed to be the regional high school for the entire school board Primary schools: * Harold Napper Elementary School (Brossard)Semenak, Susan.
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(p. 1/111) on October 22, 2014. * St. Lambert Bilingual School - St. Lambert **In the early 1960s the school board did an experimental program on students in the school by putting Anglophone children in classrooms where only French was used.Tucker, Richard G. "St. Lambert Immersion Study." In: Gonzalez, Josue M. (editor). ''Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education'' (Gale Virtual Reference Library). SAGE Publications, June 5, 2008. , 9781452265964. p
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(Google Books PT850). * William White School (Longueuil)

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