Between the second half of the 19th century and the reform of the education system in the 1960s, five religious congregations taught in Charlesbourg. The 1909–1910 Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction reveals that Charlesbourg ranked second out of 29 parishes in the Québec City region in terms of the quality of schooling offered to children.

1904 - 1953

The Collège Saint-Charles and the Marist Brothers in Charlesbourg

The Académie de Charlesbourg was founded in 1904. The Marist Brothers found refuge in Quebec after the separation of the Church and State in France at the turn of the century. With their reputation as good teachers, they were recruited by the parish priest of Charlesbourg, Monsignor Louis-David Gosselin, who was looking for an institution to educate the peasants’ sons. The school was enlarged in 1943. Apart from the period between 1914 and 1922 when they aided France in the war, the Marist Brothers remained in Charlesbourg until 1962, when they were replaced by lay people.

Quality teaching

Auteur inconnu Between the second half of the 19th century and the reform of the education system in the 1960s, five religious congregations taught in Charlesbourg. The 1909–1910 Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction reveals that Charlesbourg ranked second out of 29 parishes in the Québec City region in terms of the quality of schooling offered to children.

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Depicted period: 1937

Source: Société d’histoire de Charlesbourg Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Société d'histoire de Charlesbourg - Date: 1937

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