Posted by Felicity Pickup
on September 22, 2009, 10:18 pm, in reply to "Qotw: What, and how, did you learn about our monarchy in High School?"
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I remember getting a teacher who was from Ontario, near the beginning of my high school years (my high school was in the Greater Montreal area). She seemed to equate Canadian Monarchy with British Conquest! We learned to sing The Maple Leaf Forever. Also seemed to think that English Canadian culture was superior to Quebec's.
Near the end of high school I got a teacher who hated the "opening exercises" (anthem, flag salute, prayer) and dropped the anthem and flag. I think the prayer was compulsory; we learned it in French.
I really can't remember what was taught officially, but I remember an official picture of the King & Queen in parliament in Ottawa on THE royal tour in one of our textbooks.
I guess we learned in history class how the British monarchy became less absolute and more consitutional.
But I must have learned about the Canadian constitutional monarchy somewhere. Maybe it was in Library School when we did the course on government documents and had to know things like Privy Council and Governor (General)-in-council and royal assent and the passage of legislation in Commons and Senate.
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