Ottawa public school. I am old enough to remember starting the morning by signing ‘O Canada’ and ‘God Save The Queen’. This was followed by reciting, ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. In my class, one boy was Jewish and he was excused for the prayer and went into the hallway during the recitation.
We always started our school day with the Pledge of Allegiance. That was in the 50’s, and we may have said a prayer, but I’m so old I can’t remember. I do remember one classroom from grammar school that had a sign under the clock that said: “Time will pass...will you?”