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Subject: Canadian schools in the 1950's


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Jim (Canada)
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Date Posted: 06:14:41 12/12/04 Sun
In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "This article is very accurate - many other Canadians would agree" on 06:12:14 12/12/04 Sun
 I was looking at a 1959 Toronto newspaper on microfilm at the library and in it a British visitor to Canada said that we were more British than the British. Every school in Canada then had a Union Jack and a portrait of the Queen in every classroom and the children began every day by singing God Save The Queen. This is all gone now.
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Ian (Australia)
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Date Posted: 12:40:42 12/12/04 Sun

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 12:56:21 12/12/04 Sun
Frankly, these things have disappeared from Britain, too, so don't worry about it! Even at my rather old fashioned public school we sang the Anthem only on important public occasions, and the flag was conspicious by its absense, with the school instead flying the school's coat of arms, granted, would you believe, in 1656, and whose motto is "serve and obey". I was always rather disturbed by the fact that this was also Mussolini's national motto.

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