text: Van i cannot speak for the rest of Ontario but in Toronto this is the history.
  Being old as i am i remember distinctly the Toronto School Board cancelling what was then the mandatory Lord's prayer.  Up until 1953-54 the standard for Toronto schools was an opening exercise in every class which included, at that time, God Save the King and the Lord's Prayer. In 1953 or 54, i was 11-12 at that time, when our home room teacher, who was also a devout Christian, informed us that the Toronto Board had dictated that the Lord's Prayer was dropped from the opening of the day.  He then proceeded to make a class assignment of writing out the prayer and submitting it , for marking, stating that he would make it part of his class study. 
  That lasted one day as i presume someone complained as it was never mentioned again by him.