Page 146 - Annuaire Statistique Québec - 1918

C-SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
For teaching purposes, the Province of Quebec is divided into school
districts, whose limits are fixed by the commissioners or schooI trustees
and must not exceed five miles in length or in width. A school district
may be established wherever there are twenty children in a locality,
between the ages of five and sixteen years. There is generally a school-
house in each of these divisions. The Department of Public Instruction
supplies free plans, on demand, to the school corporations for the con-
struction of school-houses; when the plans are not supplied by the Gov-
ernment they must be approved by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction. This rule was adopted in order to prevent the construction
of unnealthy class rooms. It is necesary for the health of pupils and
teachers that the classes should contain a certain volume of air and
ventilation. For this purpose, the height from Boor to ceiling should
be at least tÊm feet. The' windows must be large enough to allow sufficient
lighting and the light must enter from the pupWsleft or from both sides.
A perm9nen~ system of ventilation mU3t be ill3talled in each cllss room.
In order to assist rural corporations in building their schools, the
Secretary of the Province may, according to an Act passed at the last
session of the Legislature, (1) pay the total cost of a building provided
it does not exceed $1,200 when such a school is being erected in a
coLonization centre. When the cost is above this but does not exceed
$2,500, the Secretary of the Province is authorized to contribute up to
two thirds of this amount.
School inspectors are obliged to report the cost of repairs and of
new buildings in their respective districts. Table 55 was compiled from
these reports. In the course of the year ending the 30th June, 1926,
there were 361 new schools built at a cost of $2,737,907.

55---Number of Schools Constructed or Repnired nccording 10 approved plans and cost
of construction.

Oo.t of
YEARS Number of 8cho018
constructionH
]825-26 . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. • .. 391 2.'37,!l07
1~24-25 . 340 2.599,!->'>o
1923-24 " .. .. .. . ........•.......... ~Jl {,051.S42
]922-~3............................................•.... 315 2,784,842
1921-22.. . . . . . . . . . . • . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •. . . . . .. . . 310 3,274.204
Hl~0-21. .................•............ , •..•..............•. 227 3,102,74.4
19J!}--20 .........•........•.............•....•............•. 170 1,322,7117
1918-lQ .......................•........•.................•. 247 2,387,{33
1917-18.. . . .. .. . . 200 2,405A85
191&-17....................•......................•........ 237 2,258,03e
1915-10 . 2?6 2,0~0,287
191{-15.... . ...•..•.......•..•.......•..•..•..•..... 292 3,006,278
1913-14 .................................................•.. 305 1,117,895
1912-13........•......................•.................•.. 269 M9,.-,93
1911-12 . 291 1,150/,1)3
1910-11..............................................•..... 294 UOO,881
190!}--10 ....••......................•.............•......... 332 S75,338
190&-09 ..................................•... " . 234 882,308
1907-08.........................•.......................... 299 688,407
190&-07. .. . . .. .. ....•. .. . . .....•... n8 69:1,903
190"",06.. . . • . . . . . . . . . . . ...•..•........•.. _ 236 397,257
19()4--{)/i .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. ........ 187 263,084
(1) 17 Geo. V. ch. 39.
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