The action of matriculating or of being matriculated; esp. formal admission into a university or college.
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Interviewer: What subjects did you take in high-school? Speaker: I took my j-- my matriculations. Interviewer: Do you remember any of your teachers? |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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I went to high-school in Colbourne, Ontario. My father and mother, at that time living in the village of Smith-Field just west of Brighton. I took the senior matriculation or now known as grade thirteen in the Napanee-Collegiate. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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You just called it the high-school. And I went to Saint-Agnes and got my matriculation from Saint-Agnes was a private school, do you know where it was? |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
It was quite a good sized school. We had- they had- they started with the- with kindergarten and they- they had classes right up through to matriculation, right through the collegiate and I got my matriculation from Saint-Agnes and then I went to Guelph. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
Interviewer: How did you um manage to get into an Anglican school. Speaker: It was no trouble getting in, I passed into the high-school and then I went to Saint-Agnes and got my matriculation from Saint-Agnes, I was there for five years. Interviewer: So that- um your religion was not a deciding factor when you applied for the school. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
Interviewer: Do you know how then how Saint-Agnes might have differed from the public-school? Speaker: Well it was a church school, that's all I know about it, but the- the course, we had to try the examination, the matriculation, we had to try it from the collegiate, we didn't have the exam at the school. But we took the- they- they taught, they had the teaching, they- they- they had the ah collegiate. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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And I once asked a bank manager why he preferred boys for their matriculation rather than boys who taking the commercial course. He said, "if they got their matriculation at seventeen, I know they have got a certain amount of mentality, I know that they have worked hard to get some work that is disagreeable, and that is what you need in business." |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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When you got to the high-school the various classifications were called forms. Now of-course it's all grades but you went from first form to third, senior third, form which was the matriculation form. And then for people who wanted to have another year before going to university there was a fourth form which was very small. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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... I didn't do the studying I would have done if I'd been at home so I failed one subject, didn't get my senior- matric 'cause back then it was senior-matriculation set by the province. Everybody- you could only graduate if you wrote that grade-thirteen exam and passed. And it wasn't at the school, it was down at the U-of-T as a matter of fact, in some great big gymnasium. Miles and miles of desks. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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I still like (inc) and can still smell them. The smell in that subway. Yeah. But I went to Oakwood-Collegiate and got my senior matriculation and um- what else? |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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About that time, um wh-- see, what ah- yeah, I ah- I was old enough- ah, I was- oh, in fact, I- I quit- I was finished with school, Runnymede-Collegiate. I had my junior matriculation and that's all that you went to- the only time you went and took grade-thirteen or senior matric is if you were going to university. And out of the class that I was in, at Runnymede, there would be about twenty of us and only two went to university. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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Speaker: And I w-- I went to what we called, in those days, tech. Interviewer 2: Tech? Speaker: Yeah as opposed to matriculation or commercial. Interviewer 2: Right. Speaker: Ah tech mostly the boys went and that was sort-of leading you to be m-- an electrician or-something. Commercial, the girls were going to be secretaries. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
Speaker: Commercial, the girls were going to be secretaries. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: They were only going to go to a-- go to grade-twelve. They weren't- that w-- matriculation went to grade-thirteen. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: We called it matriculation then and those- those people were boys and girls were mostly destined for university. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
Speaker: Well you-know, you're- you're dealing ah- I-guess we were dealing a lot with the- the tech kids. Th-- we call them the four-year kids as opposed to being fi-- the five-year at the time. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Ah we didn't call them matriculation and tech anymore, we called them four-year kids and the five-year kids 'cause the five-year kids were- the boys and girls mixed pretty much. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |
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But our dad thought we should all take matriculation and you can go on to s-- well for girls then you- if you got a job, you got about fifteen dollars a week. Were you going to save to go to university? No way. (Laughs) Boys- they'd work in the mine, get a little bit. |
The completion of a high school program, occurring at the end of Grade 13 for university-streamed students, but only Grade 12 for all students in vocational streams (thus resulting in five- and four-year programs respectively). |