In Manitoba ministers of the various religious communions have the right to go into the schools at 3.30 once a week and give the children religious instruction.
In Saskatchewan and Alberta the School Board may permit religious instruction to be given during the last half-hour of the day, and may direct that the school be opened with the recitation of the Lord's Prayer.
In British Columbia no provision is made for religious instruction, but the Lord's Prayer may be used in opening and closing the school.
In most large towns and many villages of the Dominion of Canada there are well-organised Sunday schools. Some of the dioceses have in the past had Diocesan Sunday School Organisers. The Diocese of Rupert's Land was a pioneer in this direction, and the Dioceses of Toronto and Huron have also had such officials. The City of Ottawa for several years had a resident Anglican Sunday School Organiser, an ex-student of St. Christopher's College.
The religious educational work of the Church in Canada is organised under the General Synod, the General Board of Religious Education being the officially appointed body for the promotion of this work. It began as a Sunday School Commission in 1908, but in 1918 was enlarged to a Board of Religious Education.
Its work falls into five departments, namely:
1. The Department of Parochial Education.
This department concerns itself with:
(a) Religious education through the agency of the home.
(b) Religious education through the agency of the Sunday School.