separate school

1. noun, Cdn., (in Ontario) a publicly funded school for Catholic students (COD); 2. attributive

“Then we’d go to the Catholic churchyard, all the buses. And then the kids from each bus would go to the separate schools.”

“That separate school was built in 1863?”

“They were there from all the schools on the island, the separate school and the public schools.”
“They would all come together for the continuation [school].”

“That was handed over to the separate school.”
“Yeah, there was a public school there first, and then the neighbourhood got all Catholic.”

“Did you ever wonder where separate schools – how they come about?”

2.
“I’m not sure if he’s a first or second cousin, who was the separate school inspector for this area, so it was probably through him that she first found out about opportunities on the Island.”

“Yeah, the separate school team, I guess. Like the Catholic schools, they used to play the Protestant schools, eh. We’d have a big game of baseball and then a big fistfight after.”