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Nadia Turbide. Musicologist, teacher, translator, broadcaster, b Montreal 12 Jun 1945; BA music (Montreal) 1965, ARCT 1966, B MUS (McGill) 1969, MMA musicology (McGill) 1976, PH D musicology (Montreal) 1986.

New Brunswick Registered Music Teachers' Association. Organized in 1950 as the New Brunswick Music Teachers' Association, it affiliated with the CFMTA in 1954 and in 1961 incorporated and changed its name.

In May 1871, the government of New Brunswick, under George Luther Hatheway, passed the Common Schools Act. This statute provided for free standardized education throughout the province, the establishment of new school districts, the construction of schools, and stricter requirements regarding teaching certificates. This law also made all schools non-denominational, so that the teaching of the Roman Catholic catechism was prohibited.

Newfoundland Registered Music Teachers Association (NRMTA). Incorporated in July 1987, the NRMTA had its beginnings in 1986 when 10 teachers from St John's joined the Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers' Association (NSRMTA).

Newfoundland and Labrador Music Special Interest Council (previously known as the Music Council of the Newfoundland Teachers' Association). One of 20 special-interest councils of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association. It was formed in 1960 and affiliated with the CMEA in 1975.

It was a classic dustup - one that some wags dubbed "the premier versus the Pope.

Normal Schools were first established by provincial departments of education in mid-19th-century British N America as institutions to train teachers for the rapidly expanding tax-supported public education systems of the day.

The North-West Schools Question was a conflict between church and state for control of education in the North-West Territories (now Saskatchewan and Alberta) in the late-19th century. The controversy was similar to other educational crises across Canada, and reflected the larger national debate about the future of Canada as a bilingual and bicultural country.

In 2012, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College merged with Dalhousie University, becoming the University’s Faculty of Agriculture.

The first degree-granting art school in Canada, through the 1970s it was on the cutting edge of the international art world; for the 21st century, the school has adapted to the more complex and diverse needs of artists and designers in the digital age.

Nursery School, as part of early childhood education, refers to group experience for 3 and 4 year olds and includes DAY CARE as well as various types of "nursery" programs.

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Ontario Music Educators' Association (OMEA). A non-profit organization that represents music educators in Ontario. Its main objective is to "provide leadership in establishing and maintaining high standards of school music throughout Ontario and Canada.

Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association (ORMTA) - Ontario Music Teachers' Association (OMTA) 1936-46. Organization formed in Toronto in 1936 to promote and maintain high musical and academic qualifications among its members. An earlier OMTA (Canadian Society of Musicians) was founded in 1885.

The Ontario Science Centre is located in the Don Valley, Toronto. It was opened (1969) as one of Ontario's projects for the Canadian Centennial, funded both provincially and with a federal grant.

Over the past few weeks, Jamie McAlpine and his wife, Ann, had several intense and emotional discussions across the kitchen table about the provincewide teachers' strike that gave 2.1 million Ontario children an unscheduled holiday.

The Open Learning Agency (OLA), located in Burnaby, BC, is a fully accredited public educational institution, committed to providing lifelong learning opportunities to British Columbians and learners around the world.

The Orff method, also known as Orff-Schulwerk or Music for Children, is an approach to music education conceived by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982). It was developed in the 1920s and 1930s while Orff was music director of the Günther-Schule, a school of dance and music in Munich.

Palaeontology is the study of fossils, gives us knowledge of past life, helps us understand the nature of ancient organisms and provides information about the composition of the biomass of past times.

Parasitology is a branch of biology dealing with organisms (animals or, rarely, plants) which live in or on other species (hosts) from which they derive nourishment.