By 1916, Jews made up 44% of the total enrolment in Montreal's English-language Protestant schools. History īaron Byng students take part in a victory parade in 1941.Īt the beginning of the 20th century, Quebec's confessional school system prohibited Jews from attending French-language Catholic schools, relegating them to Protestant schools.
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Baron Byng High School's alumni include many accomplished academics, artists, businesspeople and politicians.īaron Byng has been immortalized in many books, including in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, St. The school was attended largely by working-class Jewish Montrealers from its establishment until the 1960s.
45☃1′03″N 73☃5′01″W / 45.517403°N 73.583744°W / 45.517403 -73.583744īaron Byng High School was an English-language 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.
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