Separate schools in Nova Scotia

In 1864–65 the Nova Scotia government led by Charles Tupper instituted a system of non-denominational public schools supported by compulsory taxation. Roman Catholics, who opposed the schools’ secularizing influences, resented what they saw as the tyranny of the Protestant majority in the province. A compromise was reached, enabling Catholic-run schools to be eligible for the public-school grant. In the legal sense, Nova Scotia has no separate-school system. Yet the arrangement, which still prevails, remains free of the conflicts that have plagued more formal arrangements in other parts of the country.