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SESSIONAL PAPERS.
VOLUME XV.-PART III,
FOURTH SESSION OF THE FOURTH LEGISLATURE
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.
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1882-3.
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LIST OF SESSIONAL PAP
VOL. 15, SESSION 1882
ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.
Agriculture and Arts
Agricultural College
Algoma Revenues
Asylums
Births, Marriages and Deaths .
Bonds and Securities of Office .
Boundaries of Ontario
Chancery, Court of
Common Gaols
Coroners
County Court Judges
Criminal Cases
Crown Lands
Crown Lands and Timber . . . .
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Division Court
Education
Elections
Estimates
Experimental Farming
Forestry
Fruit Growers' Association
Juries
Health
Herds and Flocks
Idiot Asylum
Immigration
Incurable Patients
Industries Bureau .
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Insurance
Kent Voters' Lists
Library
Lieutenant-Governor
Local Masters
Market Fees
Mimico Farm
Municipal Bonuses
Do Expenditure
Do Statistics
Muskoka and SaultSte. MarieRy
Ontario and Quebec
Parliament Buildings
Parry Sound Timber Limits
Police Magistrates
Practical Science
Provincial Secretary
Public Accounts
Public Works
Registrars
Rivers, Streams and Creeks
Schools, Public
Sheriffs
Statutes
Stipendiary Magistrate
Tavern and Shop Licenses
University College
University, Toronto
Upper Canada College
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SESSIONAL PAPERS.
ARRANGED NUMERICALLY.
No. 1.
No. 2.
No. 3.
No. 4.
No. 5 .
No. 6.
No. 7.
No. 8.
No. 9 .
No. 10.
No. 11.
No. 12.
No. 13.
No. 14.
CONTENTS OF PART I.
Public Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1882.
Estimates for the year 1883.
CONTENTS OF PART II.
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, on Agriculture and Arts etc
for 1882.
CONTENTS OF PART III.
Report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the year 1 882.
Report of the Minister of Education for the year 1882.
Report of the Department of Immigration for the year 1882.
Report of the Commissioner of Public Works for the year 1882.
CONTENTS OF PART IV.
Annual Reports of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities, on the
Asylums for the Insane and the Asylums for Idiots, of the Province, upon
the Ontario Institutions for the education and instruction of the Deaf and
Dumb, Belleville, and upon the Common Gaols, Prisons, and Reforma-
tories of the Province, for the year ending 30th September, 18S2 in three
parts. See N'os. 27, 28 and 38.
CONTENTS OF PART V,
Report of the Registrar-General for the year 1881.
Report of the Inspector of Division Courts for the year 1881.
Report of the Provincial Secretary on the working of the Tavern and Shop
License Acts for the year 1882.
Report of the Librarian respecting the Legislative Library.
Report of the Provincial Board of Health for the year 1882.
CONTENTS OF PART VI.
Return of all Fees and Emoluments received by the Registrars of Ontario for
the year 1882.
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Return from the Queen's Printer relating to the disposal of the Ontario
Statutes for 1882. (Not prirntt d. J
Report of the Bureau of Industries for the year L882. (Purl of No, S.)
Report of the Council of University College, Toronto, for 1881-2.
Report of the University of Toronto.
Report of the Board of Management of the School of Practical Science.
Report of the Fruit Growers' Association for the year 1882. (Pari of No. 8.)
Report of the Inspector of Insurance for the year 1882.
Return from the Records of the Elections to the Legislative Assembly, since
the last Return, shewing the aggregate number of Votes polled for each
candidate in each Electoral District in which there has been a contest, the
total number polled in each Division, and the number of names on the
Voters' Lists of the same respectively, the number of Voters remaining
unpolled, and the population of each Constituency, as shewn by the last
Census.
Correspondence with the Federal Government, and accompanying papers re-
specting the Provincial Boundary since last Session.
Copies of Orders in Council commuting the Fees of certain Local Masters and
Deputy Registrars of the High Court of Justice.
Copies of Orders in Council commuting the Fees of certain County Court
Judges under the Surrogate Courts Act.
Report of the Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario for the year 1882
(Part of No. 8.)
Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities upon the Ontario
Institution for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, Belle-
ville, for the year ending 30th September, 1882. (Part of No. 8.)
Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities upon the Common
Gaols, Prisons and Reformatories of Ontario, for the year 1882. (Part of
No. 8.)
Return to an Address to the Lieutenant-Governor, praying that he will cause
to be laid before the House a copy of His Honour's Commission as Lieu-
tenant-Governor of this Province, and of any instructions since issued to
His Honour.
Return shewing the number of incurable harmless patients confined in each
of the Lunatic Asylums of the Province, and the number of such patients
of each Asylum who are paying or non-paying patients.
Return shewing the number of Bills in Chancery and Writs of Summons issued
out the High and County Courts during the year 1881, and the number of
said Bills and Writs served by the Sheriff. (Not printed.)
Annual Statement of Upper Canada College to 30th June, 1882.
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Return to an Address of the Legislative Assembly for a copies of all corres-
pondence subsequent to that already brought down, between the Govern-
ment of Ontario, or any Member thereof, and the Government of Canada
or the Government of Quebec, with reference to settlement of financial
matters between the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec and the Dominion
of Canada, from 1876 to 1881.
Return shewing (1) all Clerks of Division Courts appointed by the Govern-
ment, during the years 1880 and 1881 ; shewing in each cases whether
such appointments were to fill vacancies caused by deaths or resignation ;
(2) all Bailiffs of Division Courts appointed during the same period, specify-
ing the cause of such appointment, giving residences and dates in all cases.
Return shewing the number of Coroners' inquests on deaths, held in the Prov-
ince in the years 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881, with the amounts paid for
the same in each county, and the total amounts of such costs refunded by
the Government to the counties in each year.
Report on the Herds and Flocks of Ontario. (Part of No. 3.)
Rp port of the Council of the Agricultural and Arts Association for the year
1882. (Part of No. J.)
Report on the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions of Ontario aided by
Provincial Funds. (Part of No. 8.)
39 Report on part of the Basin of Hudson's Bay belonging to the Province of
Ontario.
Return to an Address to the Lieutenant-Governor, praying that he would
cause to be laid before the House a Return of all Official Correspondence
with regard to Chapter 13 and 42 Victoria, respecting Grand Juries, as to
submitting the question to the Supreme Court.
Return shewing the Conditions of Sale under which the four hundred and
eighty-seven square miles of Timber Limits in the Parry Sound and Muskoka
Districts sold in 1871 were sold ; names of the persons in whom the licenses
of the said Territory stood in the years 1876 and 1877, and the names in
which they now stand, and copy of the Order in Council reducing the rate
of dues payable in respect of the timber cut upon the said lands.
Return shewing the Appointments of Police Magistrates made since 1871 ; the
names of the persons appointed ; the places for which they were appointed ;
the population of such places ; the annual or other salaries or emoluments
attached to such offices, and the dates when the appointments were made.
Return shewing in a tabulated form the total amount paid by the Government
for Public, Separate and High Schools for each year since Confederation,
to each County and City in the Province, including in the total for each
County the amounts paid to Towns and Villages therein.
Copies of Orders in Council and Regulations respecting the management of
Crown Lands and Timber which are now in force either in whole or in
part.
5. . Report of the Agricultural College and Experimental Farm for the year 1882,
(Part of No. S.)
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No. 55 .
Report on Experimental Farming. (Pari of No. S.)
Statement shewing the applications of the new Act respecting Market Fees to
the City, Town and Village markets of the Province as reported December,
1882.
Return of Correspondence having reference to the disallowance of an Act of
the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, passed in the 44th year of Her
Majesty's reign, chapter eleven, and intituled " An Act for protecting the
Public Interest in Rivers, Streams and Creeks."
Statement of amount of Fees and Emoluments earned and disbursements made
by Sheriffs of the Province of Ontario for the year 1882.
Return shewing the number of Municipal Bonuses granted in aid of any in-
dustry or industries by county, city, town, village and township munici-
palities in the Province since January 1st, 1879 ; the dates upon which
the by-laws were passed ; the amount of each bonus, and the object for
which it was granted, and the number of such industries now in operation.
Also, how many industries have been established in the Province with the
aid of such bonus. Also, how many by-laws of Tax Exemption have been
passed by the several municipalities of the Province since January 1st,
1879 ; the nature of the property exempted ; the time for which exemption
has been granted in each case, and the number of industries created under
such exemption. (Not printed.)
Return shewing for the years 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881, in each county, the
number of Criminal Cases tried at each sittings of the Assizes and Quarter
Sessions ; the number of such cases when the commitment for trial of the
party charged was at a period more than ten days before the sitting of the
Court ; the number where the commitment was within ten days of such
sitting, and the number of cases tried before the County Judges' Criminal
Court. The number of Civil Cases tried at each sitting of the Assizes and
County Court, shewing the number tried with and without a Jury. Also,
the expenditure for Jury purposes in each county, giving the amount paid
to the Clerk of the Peace, to the Sheriff, to the County Selectors, and also
the amount paid to Grand and Petit Juries respectively. (Not printed.)
Return of all applications made by any Railway Company for the subsidy or
grant in aid of a Railway from Muskoka to Sault Ste. Marie granted by
the Act, 44 Vic. Cap. 23, and of all correspondence with reference to such
application or the appropriation of such grants.
Return of copies of any Correspondence and Reports made by the Judge of the
County Court of the County of Kent to the Government relating to frauds
in respect to the Assessment or Voters' Lists in any Municipality or Muni-
cipalities in said County for the year 1882, as provided by the 17th Section
of the Voters' Lists Act.
Report of the Provincial Secretary and Registrar of the Province of Ontario
for the year 1882.
Copy of an Order of His Honour the Deputy of the Governor-General in
Council, disallowing an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of
Ontario, intituled " An Act for protecting the Public Interest in Rivers,
Streams and Creeks," passed the 10th day of March, 1882, together with
copies of the correspondence thereon.
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No. 56 . . Return shewing in detail the amounts heretofore expended in the Preparation
of Plans for or otherwise respecting new Parliament Buildings, and the
amounts, if any, remaining unpaid on account thereof, giving the dates of
the several payments made and the names of the persons to whom payments
have been made, and to whom the moneys remain due, and the amounts
paid and payable to them respectively.
No. 57 . . Return of all Correspondence and other documents connected with the proposed
erection of Parliamentary and Departmental Buildings to present time, and
not brought down to this House in any previous Return.
No. 58 . . Return shewing the Revenues derived from the District of Algoma, including
the sub-district of Thunder Bay, shewing under separate heads the amounts
received in each year from timber dues, taxes, land sales, sale of timber
berths, or otherwise, from December, 31, 1877, up to December 31, 1882.
No. 59 . . Return shewing the amount of the Purchase Money which is overdue and by
whom payable, and for how long the arrears have remained due in respect
of any parts of the Mimico Farm which have been sold ; the parts of the
farm rented, and to whom and on what terms the same now arc or have
been let.
No. 60. . Return shewing the style and nature of Cases in the Superior Courts in which
Jury notices were, at the trial of such cases, struck out during the years
18S1 and 1882, and by what Judge, and for what reason, if reason as-
signed ; and also all such cases in which Jury notices have been struck out
upon special applications in Chambers. < Not printed.)
No. 61 . . I Return shewing by county, township, town, village and city municipalities
in the Province of Ontario, the total Expenditure for Municipal purposes
for the years 1881 and 1882.
No. G Statement of the Assets, Liabilities, Revenues, Expenditures, etc, of the munici-
palities within the Province for the year 1881. (Not printed.)
No. 6 . Return shewing the Amounts Paid out by the Government in each County
under the following heads : — Education ; The Administration of Justice ;
The encouragement of Agriculture and Arts ; Hospitals and Charities ;
Colonization Roads ; Railroads ; Public Works and County Gaols, in each
year from 1871 to 1872, both inclusive.
No. 6' . Report of a delegation appointed to attend the American Forestry Congress,
held at Cincinnati, April 25th to 29th, 1882, and subsequently at Mon-
treal, August 21st to 23rd, 1882. (Part of No. 8)
No. 6 . Detailed Statement of all Bonds and Securities registered in the Provincial
Registrars Office since last Return submitted to the Legislative Assembly.
( Not printed.)
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REPORT
COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
FOR THE YEAR
1882.
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1883.
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CONTENTS
PAQB.
ommissioner's Report : —
Sales — Crown Lands v.
" Clergy Lands v.
" Common School Lands vi.
" Grammar School Lands vi.
Collections and Revenue vi.
Disbursements vi.
Revenue arising from Crown Timber vi.
Free Grants vi
Crown Surveys vii.
Municipal Surveys vii.
Mineral Surveys vii.
Colonization Roads vii.
General Observations — Woods and Forests viii.
Mines and Minerals viii.
Appendices : —
Return of Officers and Clerks in the Department I
" Crown Land Agents for sale of lands 3
" " " disposal of Free Grants 4
Statement of lands sold and amounts, sales and collections 5
" Gross Collections 6
" Receipts considered as Special Funds a 7
" Gross Disbursements 8
" Letters Received and Mailed 11
" Timber and amounts accrued from Dues, etc 12
" Revenue collected from Woods and Forests 14
Return of Crown Timber Agents, etc 15
" Locations, etc. , under Free Grants Act 10
Reports on Mining R. Macpherson 20
Win. Coe 22
" " Chas. J. Pusey 24
Statement of Crown Land Surveys completed 27
" " " in progress 28
" Municipal Surveys ordered 20
" " " confirmed 30
" Mineral Lands Patented in Unsurveyed Territory 31
" Work performed in Survey Branch 33
" Candidates who have passed Board of Examiners 34
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Surveyors' Reports : —
District of Nipissing — Timber Berths north of French River
" " Township of Dunnett
Hugel
Ratter
Kirkpatrick .
Field....
Dryden .
Wilkes .
Report on Colonization Roads : —
North Division 47
West Division 51
East Division 57
Summary of Expenditure 67
Recapitulation 70
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REPORT
OF THE
COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS
OF THE
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
FOR THE YEAR 1882.
To His Honour the Honourable John Beverley Robinson,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario .'
May it Please Your Honour,
I have the honour, in conformity with the provisions of the Act respecting the Sale
and Management of the Public Lands, to submit to Your Honour the following Report
of the proceedings, transactions and affairs of the Department of Crown Lands for the
year 1882, commencing as usual, with statistical details, and concluding by general
observations.
CROWN LANDS.
There were sold of the Crown Lands during the year 1882, 98,814 acres. The sales
amount to $96,641, and the collections to $109,072, being nearly double the amount
realized from the same source during the year 1881. (See Appendix Yo. If, page 5.)
The increase in the amount of collections may be attributed to some extent to the
improvement in the money market which has afforded former purchasers greater facilities
for obtaining money to pay up the sums owing by them to the Department, but it is also
partially due to the increased sale of mining lands on the north shores of Lakes Huron
nd Superior, and of iron and phosphate lands in the Counties of Peterboro', North
Hastings, Lennox, Addington, Frontenac, and Renfrew.
CLERGY LANDS.
There were sold of the Clergy Lands during the year 1882, 4,693 acres. The sales
amount to $5,595, and the collections to $25,785. (See Appendix No. 4, page 5.)
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The only revenue now derived from Clergy Lands is confined to the receipts on
account of sales made from year to year of the few scattered lots remaining unsold, and
to the sums collected on former sales. As might be expected, the revenue derivable
from this source continues to diminish.
COMMON SCHOOL LANDS.
There were sold of the Common School Lands during the year 1882, 555 acres. The
sales amount to $2,055, and the collections to $29,635. (See Appendix No. 4, page 5.)
The Common School Lands being nearly all»sold, the moneys collected from this source
are derived almost exclusively from collections made on account of former sales. This
source of revenue therefore diminishing from year to year.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL LANDS.
There were sold of the Grammar School Lands during the year 1882, 1,959 acres.
The sales .amount to $2,001, and the collections to $6,365. [See Appendix A'o. J/., page 5.)
COLLECTIONS AND REVENUE.
The total collections of the Department during the year 1882 amount to $1,095,152.
(See Appendix No. 5, page G.)
DISBURSEMENTS.
The gross disbursements of the Department for the year 1882 amount to $203,444,
(See Appendix No. 7, page 10.)
REVENUE ARISING FROM CROWN TIMBER.
The accounts for timber dues, ground rents, etc., during the year amount to $547,103,
and the total collections on account of timber dues, ground rents and bonuses, amount to
$894,052. (.See Appendices Nos. 9 and 10, pages 13 and llf.)
FREE GRANTS.
At the date of my last Report there were open for location under the Free Grants
and Homestead Act, 122 townships, and during the year 1882 the Township of Gal way,
in the County of Peterboro', was added, making a total of 123 townships now open for
location. During the year 932 locations were made on 129,535 acres of land, and 5,562
acres were sold to 150 locatees.
During the same periods 624 lots located in former years were resumed for non-per-
formance of the settlement duties, and 502 Patents were issued to Free Grant Settlers.
(See Appendix No. 12, page 19.)
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CROWN SURVEYS.
The undermentioned surveys have been performed during the year 1S82, that is to
say:
The Townships of Biggar, Canisbay, Devine, and Pentland in the District of
Nipissing, in the Huron and Ottawa Territoi'y, have been subdivided into farm lots of
100 acres each, and the Townships of Awrey, Dryden, Dunnet, Hagar, Hugel, Kirk-
patrick, Lewis, Ratter, and the residue of Shedden, in the Districts of Nipissing and
Algoma, on the North Shore of Lake Huron, into lots of 320 acres each.
The returns of the above named surveys, so far as they have been received, have
been examined and closed.
The returns of the surveys of the Townships of Wilkes, in the Huron and Ottawa
Territory, and of Badgerow and Field, in the District of Nipissing, and of certain base
and exploration lines, north of Lake Nipissing, not having been closed at the date of my
last Report, have been examined and closed during the present year.
The surveyor, to whom was entrusted the survey of the base and exploration lines
above mentioned not having completed his operations in the field last year, has been
actively employed thereon during the present season.
The outlines of a number of Timber Berths, on the North Shore of Lake Huron,
have been also run out.
The particulars, in relation to the surveys with the Reports, so far as they have
been received will be found in Appendices Nos. 16 and 17, pages 27 and 28.
MUNICIPAL SURVEYS.
Two Municipal Surveys have been confirmed during the year, consisting of the
establishing of part of the town-line between the Townships of King and East Gwillim-
bury, and the planting of monuments at the angles of certain lots in the Township of
Enniskillen.
Instructions were issued for five Municipal Surveys during the year.
The particulars in relation to the Municipal Surveys will be found in (Appendices
Nos. 18 and 19, pages 29 and SO.)
MINERAL SURVEYS.
Patents have been issued during the year for 12,073 acres in the unsurveyed terri-
tory on the north shores of Lakes Huron and Superior, the purchasers having furnished
the required plans, field notes, and descriptions. (See Appendix No. 20, pages 31 and 32.)
COLONIZATION ROADS.
There has been expended on Colonization Roads during the year the sum of
$111,060, the particulars of which will be found in the Superintendent's Report.
(Appendix No. 32, pages 47 to 70 inclusive.)
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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
Woods and Forests.
The sawn lumber and square and waney timber business has been active and remu-
nerative during the past season. In my Report for 1881, I mentioned the fact that the
former article had realized greater value than for years past, and that prices obtained for
square and waney pine, of good quality and fair average, were higher than during any
former period. It is satisfactory to be able to state that during the season just closed
there has been no falling off in prices, and that the demand for all kinds of wood goods
continues brisk.
The year 1882 has offered no special points for comment in connection with the
administration of the Woods and Forests Branch of the Department.
It may not be out of place here to mention that a meeting of the " American Fores-
try Congress " was held at Montreal in August last, at which the Government of Ontario
was represented by gentlemen qualified to note proceedings and deal with points brought
forward by the several speakers with regard to Agriculture generally, Practical Husbandry,
Fruit Growing, Tree Planting, etc., and the officer in charge of the Woods and Forests
Branch was detailed to give special attention to matters relating to timber, and to means
which might be suggested or proposed for the Preservation of Forests from Fire. This
subject, in the original programme, was committed to a special section of the Congress
to deal with, but on account of its great importance it was decided that it should be dis-
cussed at a sitting of the whole Congress. At this sitting various opinions were advanced
as to the best means of preventing forest fires, and a committee composed of gentlemen
from the United States and Canada, connected with the lumber business, was appointed
to make such recommendations on the subject to their respective Governments, as might
be deemed expedient. No intimation as to the measures the Committee had resolved to
recommend has yet readied the Ontario Government, but when made known they will
receive the most careful consideration.
MINES AND MINERALS.
Gold and Silver.
I regret my inability to report much progress in mining for the precious metals
during the year. Some progress has been made, however, in mining for silver, and it is
said that some rich veins of silver and of gold-bearing quartz have been discovered in
different parts of the Province during the year.
Iron.
Since the date of my last Report, extensive explorations for iron have been made in
the Counties of Peterboro', Hastings, Addington, Frontenac, and Lanark, and a consider-
able number of valuable deposits of iron ore have been discovered. Some of these
deposits have been opened up and are found to be very extensive, and the quality of the
ore is said to be of the best description for the manufacture of Bessemer Steel.
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The want of facilities for sending the ore to market has been seriously felt by those
engaged in the development of our iron mines, and has been the cause of a comparatively
small quantity of ore finding its way to market during the year, but now that railways
are being constructed in different directions through the Mining Districts, it is hoped
that some of them will be in such a state of completion as to facilitate the shipment of a
large quantity of ore during the next summer.
Notwithstanding the want of railway facilities in some of the localities, the under-
mentioned quantities have been sent to the United States, during the year, that is to say :
From the Wallbridge Mine, by rail, to Belleville, about. . . . 30,000 tons.
" Ottawa Section, by the Canadian Pacific Railway . . 1,000 ''
" " " by the Rideau Canal 7,053 "
" , Caldwell Mine, in Lavant, by K. & P. Railway. . . . 1,235 "
" Bethlehem Iron Companies' Mine, in Lavant, by
K. & P. Railway 16,589 "
" Mississippi Mine, in Palmerston, by K. & P. Railway 15,754 "
" Glendower Mine, in Bedford, " " 291 "
Total shipment during the year 71,922 tons.
In addition to which a large quantity of ore has been raised at the different mines
and is ready for shipment by water in the spring, and by rail when the roads now in the
course of construction shall have been completed.
Messrs. Parry & Mills are busily engaged in the erection of a Coal Blast Furnace,
for smelting ore, in the Township of Snowden, and expect to have a furnace capable of
producing 30 tons of Pig Iron per day, in active operation, early next spring.
Phosphates.
The high prices obtained for phosphates, last summer, have induced several parties
to engage in phosphates mining, and the consequence is an increased production. The
undermentioned quantities have been sent forward and shipped at the ports of Kingston
and Brock ville, during the year, that is to say :
From Loughboro' and Storrington, by teams, to Kingston. . . 2,116 tons.
" Bob's Lake, in Bedford, by K. & P. Railway 790
" The Renfrew Mines, by Canada Pacific Railway 216
" North Burgess, " " " 120
" " " " Rideau Canal 1,460
" Opinecon Lake, " " " 515
Total quantity shipped 5,227 tons.
In addition to which, the undermentioned quantities have been mined and are ready
for shipment in the spring :
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In North Burgess 1,500 tons.
" Oso, at Irwin & Hopper's Mine 500 "
" A mine opened by the late J. Gould, near Cobden 10 "
Total quantity mined and ready for shipment. . 2,810 tons.
Mica.
Mica of a very superior quality has been discovered on the line between the Town-
ships of Clarendon and Palmerston, in the County of Frontenac, and is now being worked
by an American Company.
My information about mines and minerals has been chiefly obtained from the
interesting letters of Messrs. William Coe, C. J. Pusey and Richard McPherson, which
will be found in Appendices Nos. IS, 1J/. and 15, and pages 20 to 26, inclusive, and which
are well worth a careful perusal.
Respectfully submitted,
T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crovjn Lands.
Department of Crown Lands,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
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APPENDIX No. 4.
Statement of Acres of Land Sold, Amount of Sales, and Amount of Collections
for the Year 1882.
Amount of
Sales.
Amount of
Collections.
Crown Lands
Clergy Lands
Common School Lands .
Grammar School Lands
Total ....
$ cts.
$ cts.
98,814
96,641 15
109,071 89
4,693
5,595 29
25,785 63
555
2,055 25
29,635 77
1,959
2,000 84
16,365 27
106,021
106,292 53
170,858 56
D. GEORGE ROSS,
Accountant.
THOMAS H. JOHNSON,
Assistant Com inissioner.
Department op Crown Lands,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
46 Victoria.
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A. 1883
APPENDIX No. 5.
Statement of the Collections of the Department of Crown Lands for the Year 1882.
Land Collections.
Cruwn Lands
Clergy Lands
Common School Lands
Grammar School Lands
Rent
In Suspense
Wood! and Forests.
Timber Dues
Ground Kent
Bonus
In Suspense
» lasual Fees
Inspection Fees
Settlers' Homestead Fund
Destitute Settlers' Refund
Surveyors' Fee Fund
1,095,152 24
D. GEORGE BOSS,
Accountant.
Department of Crown Lands,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
THOMAS H. JOHNSON,
Assistant Commissioner.
46 Victoria.
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A. 1883
APPENDIX No. 6.
?ATEMENT of the Receipts of the Department of Crown Lands for the year 1882, which
are considered as Special Funds.
Clergy Lands ;
Principal
Interest .
Common School Lands
Principal
Interest
•Grammar School Lands :
Principal
Interest
16,961 77
8,823 86
14,849 48
14,7S6 29
5,074 10
1,291 17
29,035 77
D. GEORGE ROSS,
Accountant.
THOS. H. JOHNSON,
Assistant Commissioner.
Department of Crown Lands,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
46 Victoria.
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A. 1883
APPENDIX No. 7.
Statement of the Gross Disbursements of the Department of Crown Lands
for the year 1882.
Agents' Salaries of Disbursements.
tssions.
.1. McKibbin
A. McNabb .*
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A. Wright
Agents1 Salaries. — Timber.
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A. 1883
APPENDIX No. 7— Continued.
Statement of the Gross Disbursements of the Department of Crown Lands
for the year 1882.
SERVICE.
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T. C. Taylor
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1,314 45
1,307 15
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A. 1883
APPENDIX No. 1— Concluded.
Statement of the Gross Disbursements of the Department of Crown Lands
for the year 1882.
SERVICE.
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424 75
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2,921 14
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3,181 31
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1,180 79
290 00
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§203,444 63
THOS. H. JOHNSON,
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D. GEORGE ROSS,
Accountant.
Department of Crown Lands,
Toronto, December 30th, L882.
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Sessional Papers (No. 4).
A. 1883
APPENDIX
WOODS AND
Statement of Timber and Amounts accrued from Timber Dues, Ground
QUANTITIES AND DESCRIP
Area
covered
by
Timber
License.
Saw Li »gs.
(A Standard is 200 feet B.M.)
Oar
Logs.
White Pine.
Red Pine.
AGENCIES.
White Pine.
Other.
Piecs. Piecs.
Feet.
Piecs.
Square
miles.
pieces.
Stnds.
piees.
Stnds.
Feet.
Ottawa Timber Dis-
BeUeville Timb D
Western Timber Dis-
7,204
L,961|
1,744,985
1,270,504
1,452,118
1,103,112
604,707
3,943
L5.659
737
1;691
7,564
566
3,837
88,717
3,702
20,201
4,388,696
207,426
1,100,272
31,724
25
5
1,088,331
928
256
Total
17,989
4,473,6071 58,594,787
20,339
9,821
3,837
112,020
§,696,3941 31,754
1,089,515
GENERAL STATEMENT OF
QUANTITIES AND DESCRIP
Cordwood.
Tamarac Piles.
Cedar.
Tele-
graph
Poles.
No.
Trav-
erses.
Binders.
AGENCIES.
Hard
Cords.
Soft
Cords.
Pieces.
Stand-
ards.
Pieces.
Feet.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Ottawa Timber Dis
444
228
685
878 411
157
3.301
081
Belleville Timber Dis-
13
679
687
Western Timber His-
196
T. ital . .
411
150
G. B. COWPER,
Chief Clerk in Cliarge.
Department of Crown Lands,
\\ oods and Forests Branch,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
12
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A. 1883
No. 9.
FORESTS.
Epnt and Bonuses, during the year ending 31st December, 1882.
TIONS OF TIMBER.
I'm h,!M
and Dimension
Timber.
Elm, Ash,
Maple, < Iherry,
and White Wood.
Oak.
Tamarac.
Rail-
way
Ties.
Birch, Hemlock
and Spruce.
Butternut and
Basswood.
Pieces.
Stnds.
Pieces.
Feet.
Piecs.
Feet.
Piecs.
Feet.
1,393
208
Pieces.
Pieces.
Feet.
Pieces
Feet.
79,557
73,463
(A 136
< M 1
5,188
31
177
2,149
18,195
30
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36
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118,299
54,267
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14,732
13,513
25,860
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1,601
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TIMBER, Etc. — Oontii I.
TIONS OF TIMBER.
Lineal feet
of Cedar.
Cedar Posts.
Cords, Bolts.
Amounts Accrued.
Feet.
Cords.
No.
Trespass, etc
Timber Dues
Ground
Rents.
Bonus.
Total.
S c.
2,458 82
1,504 65
3,529 26
$ c.
247,830 10
99,825 73
153,384 91
9 c
14,538 00
4,226 00
19,743 00
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29 00
10 00
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264,850 92
105,585 38
176,667 17
327,608
2,229
1,190 200
39 1 3,751
329,837 1,229 4,011
1 1
7,492 73
501,040 74
38,507 00
63 00
547,103 47
THOS. H. JOHNSON,
Assistant Commissioner.
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46 Victoria.
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A. 1883
APPENDIX No. 10.
Woods and Forests.
Statement of Revenue collected during the year ending 31st December, 1882.
Ottawa Timber District.
Collected at Ottawa
Collected at Quebec
Belleville Timber District.
Collected at Belleville and Department
Collected at Quebec
Western Timber District.
Collected at Department
Collected at Quebec
Collected on sale of Limits, of 6th December, 1S81 .
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112,773 74
2,590 09
111,630 68
13,568 92
115,364 73
125,199 60
482,740 54
411,311 65
G. B. COWPER,
Chief Clerk in Charge.
THOS. H. JOHNSON,
Assistant Commissioner.
Department op Crown Lands,
Woods and Forests Branch,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
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APPENDIX No. 13.
Crown Lands Agency,
Kingston, 25th December, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour to report for your information the following in regard to
mines and minerals in the Counties of Frontenac and Lanark during the year 1882, viz. : —
Phosphates.
Fr. >m Loughboro' and Storrington, by teams to Kingston . . 2, 1 1 G tons.
" Bob's Lake Mine, in Bedford, by K. and P. Railway 790 "
" Renfrew Mines, by C. P. Railway 219 "
" North Burgess Mines, by C. P, Railway 120 "
" do do Rideau Canal 1,460 "
" Opinieon Lake, in South Crosby, by Rideau Canal . . 515
Quantity shipped, chiefly to Great Britain .... 5,217 tons.
Quantity mined in North Burgess, not yet
shipped 1,500 "
Total quantity mined 6,717 tons.
The market value of which is about $16 per ton.
Ikon Ore.
From Ottawa District, by C. P. Railway 1,000 tons.
" " " Rideau Canal 7,053
" Caldwell's Mine, in Lavant, by K. and P. Railway . . 1,235 "
" Bethlehem Iron Co.'s Mine, in Lavant, by K. and
P. Railway 1 6,589 "
" Mississippi Mining Co., in Palmerston, by K. and
P. Railway 15,754 "
" Glendower Mine, in Bedford, by K. and P. Railway 291 "
Total quantity shipped from mines 41 ,922 tons.
Quantity mined ready for shipment 2,500 "
Total quantity mined 44,422 tons.
The market value of which is about §4.50 per ton.
The present working capacity of the Mississippi Mine, in the Township of Palmer-
ston, is about 100 tons magnetic ore per day, employing from 60 to 75 men, with six
compressed air .hills constantly working. Depth of shaft, 173 feet ; width of vein, 60
feet ; length now open, 300 feet. It is the intention to nearly double the out-put of ore
at this mine during the coming year. The mine is considered almost inexhaustible, and
the deeper it is worked the better the quality proves ; that now obtained bring about 60
per cent, metallic iron, and I am informed it is at present worth about §6 per ton deliv-
ered at Charlotte, N. Y., to which place it is all shipped, being equal to Swede or Nor-
way ores, and considered the best for the manufacture of Bessemer steel, having little
or no sulphur, phosphorus, or titanic acid. The working of this mine has caused a
flourishing village to spring up of nearly 300 inhabitants, where three years since was a
rocky wilderness. Shipments from this mine during the present year are 15,754 tons.
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The out-put of the Bethlehem Iron Company's Mine, in the Township of Lavant,
1 is now about 50 tons per day, employing 50 men, with three compressed air drills con-
I stantly working. Depth of shaft about 140 feet. It is the intention to largely increase
j the out-put at this mine during the coming year by adding extra machinery and employ-
I ing more men. The ore is most suitable for the manufacture of Bessemer steel, the
I quality being similar to that obtained from the Mississippi Mine in the Township of
I Palmerston, which has been described ; and this mine, like that at Robertsville, is not
I troubled by water flowing. All the ore from this mine is shipped to Bethlehem, Penn-
sylvania ; quantity forwarded this year is 16,589 tons.
The Caldwell Mining Company, at Wilbur, in the Township of Lavant, is similar
and adjacent to that of the Bethlehem Iron Co., but has not been so extensively worked.
Mining was not commenced this year until the month of September. The shipments
have been 1,235 tons, with about 700 tons mined, but not yet sent forward. The present
out-put is about 30 tons per day, employing 25 men.
Work performed at the Glendower Mine, in the Township of Bedford, during the
year 1882, has been more for the purpose of ascertaining the probable extent ami value
of the mini' than for tin- quantity of out-put. It has, however, changed owners lately,
and will be extensively worked next year, employing similar drills to those used in the
Palmerston and Lavant Mines, with a large number of men, as the present owners intend
pushing the work at this mine as much as possible, and the heaviest machinery will be
used.
At the Caldwell-Gildersleeve Mine, on lot 22, in the 4th concession of Lavant, two
pits are sunk, 25 and 27 feet deep. It is the intention to sink a shaft to the depth of
100 feet, and put in steam drills, etc., and work it to a large extent during the coming
year. The out-put of ore has been about 500 tons, employing some twelve nun.
The Radenhurst Mine is situated on lot 22, in the 3rd concession of Lavant, the
out-put of which is estimated at 1,000 tons. Steam drills are now being used, and a
large quantity of magnetic ore will be shipped from this mine, the quality being 60 per
cent, of metallic iron. Fifteen men are now employed, but it is the intention to double
this number in a few weeks.
The Calabogie Lake Mine, in the Township of Blythfield, in the County of Renfrew,
is now worked to the depth of about 20 feet. The out-put of ore is estimated at 300
tons. The mine is owned by parties in Perth and in the United States. I am told it is
the intention to push the work at this mine.
Phosphate op Lime.
While speculation and enterprise have done much to draw attention to the phos-
phate deposits of the Province of Quebec, it is becoming evident that those of these
counties are scarcely less valuable. The phosphate-bearing formation in tie- County of
Frontenac seems to be bounded by Opinicon Lake on the east, and the 2nd concession of
Bedford on the west, and extending from near Sharbot Lake on the north to the 9th
concession of Loughboro' on the south. Within these limits phosphates are probably
distributed over an area of about 200 square miles. The mines on the properties of
Messrs. Nicholson, Poole, and the Canada Company, near Opinicon Lake, yielded during
the present year about 600 tons of first-class phosphates.
At the westerly end of the 14th concession, on the property of Messrs. Bawden &
Machar and the Canada Company, about 150 tons have been mined, and operations are
in progress for the more extensive development of these properties. It is lamentable
that this most valuable fertilizer should all be sent out of the country, when it might be
used on the lands of this Province with most beneficial results.
Mica.
A very superior quality of mica has been recently discovered near the boundary
line between the Townships of Palmerston and Clarendon, and the mine is now being
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worked by an American company. Mica has also been discovered in the Township of
Lavant of a darker colour than that above alluded to, but the sheets are of considerable
size, and the mine will be worked during the year 1883.
Plumbago.
A land of crystalline limestone, on the northern boundary of Birch Lake, in the
Township of Bedford, has for some years been known to be traversed by one or more
plumbago veins. An old working on lot 2, in the 6th concession, was, during the last
summer, tested for the owners, and I am informed the quality compares favourably with
the plumbago of Tyconderoga, samples of which were shown at the Toronto and King-
ston Exhibitions. The length and width of the vein would indicate an extensive deposit.
Galena.
The extensive works of the Frontenac Lead Mining Company, in the 9th concession
of Loughboro', have been idle for the last two years. It is to be regretted that the
apparently extensive galena deposits on the Hunt property, in the Township of Bedford,
should remain undeveloped. Galena has been brought by rail from near Almonte during
the present month and smelted in the Kingston smelting works, which experiment, I
understand, has proved satisfactory.
Charcoal.
The Kingston Charcoal and Iron Company's Works at Sharbot Lake, in the Town-
ship of Oso, are now in operation with a capacity of 700 bushels of charcoal per day. It
is Loped that smelting works will be established, but this has not yet been finally settled.
I am informed that about $35,000 have been expended by this Company, and that the
by-products will nearly cover the cost of carrying on the works without the charcoal ;
or, in other words, leaving the charcoal nearly free. If this be the case there should be
no trouble in raising capital in connection with these works for the manufacture of
charcoal iron of a superior quality.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) R. Macpheeson,
Crown Lci7ids Agent.
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
APPENDIX No. 14.
Madoc, Ontario,
10th December, 1882.
Snt, — Knowing that your Department is greatly interested in the progress of the
mining industry of this Province and having an opportunity of being acquainted with
the facts in relation thereto in this section, I beg to address you on the same.
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Madoc.
In this township the Wallbridge Hematite Mine is still being worked by the Bethle-
hem Iron Company, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. They are now down in the shaft some
eighty feet and continue to find very excellent ore. The mine is equipped with every
requisite in the shape of machinery for hoisting with elevated pockets, for securing the
ore and dumping the same into the railway cars. They have taken out about 30,000 tons
during the past season. This ore has been proved to be equal to anything on the conti-
nent classed as hematite ore.
On lot twelve in the sixth concession of Madoc work is being prosecuted by Stewart
& Co., who are sinking on a deposit of hematite. Their shaft is down forty feet, one half
of that distance is in ore. They view their prospects as very encouraging.
On lot thirteen in the fifth concession of the same township, H. H. Sutton, M.D., has
been exploring very vigorously all summer, and his expectations are that in a few weeks
he will be able to show a very fine bed of ore.
On lot sixteen in the fourth concession Messrs. Guzzot <fe Co. are opening up what
appears to be a very nice deposit of specular ore.
Lot eighteen in the third concession of Madoc is also being worked by Lewis & Co.,
of Ohio, and they are meeting with very fair success.
A very large amount of ore is being stacked at the Dufferin Mine awaiting the com-
pletion of the Central Ontario Railway which runs across the lot and near the mine for
shipment.
The following mines in the northern townships are being worked by the Coe Mining
Company :
The Baker Mine, situated on lot eighteen in the eighteenth concession of Tudor, pur-
chased from Palmer Baker, is showing up well. Work has been carried on at this mine all
summer, and there are at present twenty-five men and teams employed here. The. necessary
buildings are being erected as fast as possible for the permanent working of the mine, and
the ore is now being put in stock awaiting the completion of the Central Ontario Railway.
This mine is composed of a large bed of magnetic ore, fully half a mile in length, and of a
very superior quality, in every way adapted for the making of Bessemer steel.
The Emily Mine, also situated in Tudor, was purchased from H. McCoy, Esq. This
is an immense deposit of magnetic ore, exceptionally clean, being free from sulphur,
phosphorus and titanium and running up to sixty-nine per cent, in metallic iron. The
texture is as soft as hematite ore which makes it so much more valuable on this account
as it is easily mined. The daily output is being put in stock awaiting the arrival of the
Central Ontario Railway.
The Wollaston Mine, situated on lots fifteen and sixteen in the eighth concession of
Wollaston, was purchased from John & Thomas Batchelor. This mine has been extensively
worked, and has borne out the expectations formed of it by Professor Chapman at the time
of his visit, who declared it to be the finest body of ore he had yet seen. The location of the
mine is beginning to assume the proportions of a village. The contract has just been
let for the completion of the mining of 100,000 tons of ore by the 1st of August next.
Perhaps it would not be saying too much in making the statement that this is the best
defined bed of ore that as yet has been found in Ontario, being 2,000 feet long and from
65 to 120 feet in width. The ore is very high graded, being perfectly free from phosphorus
and other injurious substances, giving sixty -eight per cent, metallic iron, and considered
by furnace men and chemists who have experimented on it as being a number one Besse-
mer steel ore. A furnace is contemplated being built at the mine to manufacture char-
coal iron. This project when carried out will prove of immense advantage to the settlers
of the northern townships by giving employment to a large number of operatives and
turning into practical use the hardwood timber scattered over these bleak hills, now con-
sidered worthless and of no value to the State.
In connection with the last mentioned mines the Central Ontario Railway is in every
way identified. This enterprise has been started within the past year, commencing with
the purchase from me of an interest in the above mentioned mines in Tudor and Wollas-
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ton, as also by the purchase of the Prince Edward Railway, running from Picton to
Trenton, it has developed into the running of a branch from that line to Weller's Bay*
as well as the construction of a main line, which, when completed, will extend to the
township of Wollaston, making direct communication with the other mines above men-
tioned. Ffty miles of this road have already been graded and the steel rails for the track-
laying for the whole ninety miles are now in Trenton. The ties for sixty miles are al-
ready made and on the track. Track-laying has commenced and about fifteen miles have
been laid. The bridges for the entire road are made of the best steel and the abutments
are constructed of the best building stone that could be procured. This is the largest
enterprise ever undertaken in connection with the mining business, as it is being built
mainly to se^ve the purpose of developing the mineral resources of North Hastings.
When this road is built and in running operation the success of the mineral operations
which have been pursued by myself for years past under very disadvantageous circum-
stances will be assured beyond a doubt. The ores are now being eagerly enquired after
in the American market, and it only requires transportation facilities to ensure
success.
Referring to Madoc village I may state that its prosperity has been greatly advanced
through the development of the above named mining industries, and the merchants and
business men are now beginning to understand that the mineral resources of this section
may yet prove the back-bone of their success in the future. The growth of this place
warrants the hope that at a day in the not far distant future it may become the county
town of North Hastings.
Yours truly,
William Coe.
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
APPENDIX No. 15.
Madoc, Ontario,
18th December, 1882.
Dear Sir, — Referring to the development of the Iron Mining of this Province, I
beg to say, that since my last report we have done but little mining in the Madoc district,
not having shipped any ore from the Seymour mine this year, the developments there
showing the necessity of a large outlay in aditional work to reach the main body of ore,
we decided to suspend operations until we could fully develope the mine with a diamond
drill which we will use on that property and our other mines in that district during the
coming summer.
Our operations have in the meantime been confined to exploring and developing the
mines in what is known as the Snowdon district, with such results as seem to justify the
belief that it will be one of the most important mining and manufacturing districts in
the Province.
From the developments already made we find two distinct ranges or belts of iron
ore, known in our explorations as the north and south ranges, what is known as the
south range of the district has been traced eastward as far as the Ottawa River and in
which some very large mines are being developed in the townships reached by the Onta-
rio Central and Kingston & Pembroke Railways, a few miles to the north of this range,
is the north range or belt which we have explored for a distance of fifty miles eastward
from the township of Snowdon, through Glamorgan, Monmouth, Cardiff, Faraday and
Dungannon. The character of the ore at each end of the territory explored, as well as
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at many intermediate points, is of precisely the same character, showing a line crystal-
line structure with scarcely any variation in the percentage of metallic iron.
The results of these explorations I deem of very great importance, having demon-
strated the existence of two distinct ranges or belts of iron ore, extending from the
Ottawa River in a general south-west direction through the Province of Ontario. A.nd
from the experiments made there is no doubt but that in these two ranges there exists a
great many very large and valuable deposits of iron ore, almost all of which are of great
value, on account of the absence of phosphorus.
I append a statement showing analysis of ore from most of the deposits now being
worked, or which are known to be workable deposits, in order to show the value of the
Canadian ores generally, as compared with ores from the various districts in the United
States and from foreign countries upon which the Bessemer works are obliged to rely for
their supply of ores.
I find on a careful comparison with other districts that the Canadian ores are gener-
ally much richer in metallic iron, and are without a rival in any other country so far as
freedom from phosphorus and other deleterious substances in objectionable quantities
is concerned.
The shipment of iron ore from the Snowdon district has been greatly retarded on
account of there being no railway connection to the mines, though some half dozen mines
are already sufficiently developed to warrant a large tonage as soon as the railway is built.
This will no doubt be done during the coming year, when it is believed the shipments
from the Snowdon district will be very large.
It is intended to build a railway from the Victoria branch of the Midland Railway,
at a point a few miles north of Kinmount, and extending eastward between the north
and south ranges of ore, through the townships of Snowdon, Glamorgan, Monmouth,
Cardiff, Faraday, and Dungannon.
By this line in connection with the Midland Railway the ore can be delivered
cheaply either to Toronto or Midland City for shipment on the lake?, or, what is better,
the ore can be sent by all rail via. Toronto and Buffalo to many of the furnaces in the
United States, in this way enabling shipments to be made throughout the entire year in
return coal cars at low rates of freight.
The development of mines in the various districts in the Province may seem to those
who are not accustomed to the difficulties to be encountered, to have been very slow, but
I find upon an examination of the official records that in 1879 the entire shipment was
only 2,699 tons with a steady increase ever since, until the present year they are 51,758
tons, a much larger increase, and under greater difficulties than were experienced in
opening up the Lake Superior mines in the United States.
The prospects of a large increase of shipments during the next few years are justified
by the completion of the railways to the mines in the Snowdon district and to points on
the same ranges reached by the Ontario Central and Kingston k Pembroke Railways.
The satisfactory development of the iron mines in the Snowdon district along with
the rapidly increasing demand for charcoal pig iron, and the abundance of hardwood
suitable for making charcoal has resulted in attention being called to the fact that char-
coal pig iron can be made more cheaply in that district than in the most favoured localities
in the United States. In this connection I may add that Messrs. Parry & Mills, of Chicago,
are erecting a charcoal furnace on lot eighteen in the first concession of Snowdon, near to
the Victoria mines, and expect to have it in operation early in the coming spring, and
the Toronto Iron Company are also preparing to erect a large charcoal furnace on their
property netr their Imperial mine during the coming year.
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Analysis of Iron Ores from the Province of Ontario.
Name of Mines.
Kiml
of ore.
Madoc District—
Seymour
Dominion -
Brooke
Wallbridge
Moore
Dufferin M
Nelson I "
Bentliff I S .
Mullett H
Sexsmith M
Ortou ! "
Baker I "
Wollaston I "
Snowdon District —
Paxton M
Swamp Lake
Victoria
Howland
Imperial > H
Ledyard .
Pine Lake .
New York.
Monmouth
Cardiff ...
Thompson
Huron ....
Bancroft District-
Coulson
Dungaxmon
York Branch . . .
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Kingston District—
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Chaffer "
Roberts "
Wager I "
Ottawa District—
Forsyth M
Haycock '
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57-81
68-37
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64-99
64-60
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60-30
62-20
6052
55-12
62-60
61-02
61-48
45-82
55-00
53-60
70-38
70-50
62-10
67-11
64-60
66-13
69-77
50-49
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7-91
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Trace.
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None.
2-34
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The above analysis only shows the percentages of metallic iron, phosphorus, and
Titanium, but in each case they were analyzed full and complete, but in no case was there
ound any other deleterious substances in objectionable quantities.
Statement of Ore Shipments in detail for 1882.
Port Hope 300 tons.
Whitby 376 "
Belleville 16,376 "
Kingston 27,874 "
Cfvwa 6,832 "
Total 51,758 "
I have the honour to remain,
The Hon. T. B. Pardee, Your obedient servant,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, Toronto. Chas. J.
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APPENDIX No. 21.
Statement of Work performed in the Survey Branch during the year 1882.
No.
1. — 16 Instructions and Letters of Instructions for Surveys prepared and entered.
2. — 11 Crown Surveys examined, completed, and closed.
3. — 11 Surveyors' accounts for Surveys audited and closed.
4. — 7 Reports to Council relative to Municipal Surveys drawn up and entered.
5. — 5 Instructions for Municipal Surveys prepared and entered.
6. — 2 Municipal Surveys examined and confirmed.
7. — 25 Plans of Mining Locations examined.
8. — 140 Plans of Private Surveys examined.
9. — 560 Plans compiled and copied.
10. — 49 Plans to accompany Instructions prepared.
11. — 662 Letters relative to Surveys prepared, written, and entered.
12. — 85 Letters relative to Mining prepared, written, and entered.
13.-1,956 Pages of Field Notes copied.
14. — 66 Railway Plans and Books of Reference examined and certified.
15. — 1.491 Patents issued during the year ending 30th December, 1882.
Note. — The foregoing Statement does not account for the time spent in furnishing information to
parties applying personally at the Survey Branch, who are unable to obtain the information they require
without assistance; much careful research into the old correspondence, plans, field notes, and other
documents, being necessary in order to ensure reliability in the information given, which is frequently used
as legal evidence in Courts of Law in disputed cases.
THOS. H. JOHNSON,
Assistant Commissioner.
GEORGE B. KIRKPATRICK, P.L.S.,
( hie/ Clerk in Charge.
Department of Crown Lands,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
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APPENDIX No. 22.
Statement of the Names of Candidates who have passed their Examinations before the
Board of Examiners of Land Surveyors for Ontario during the year 1882.
PRELIMINARY CANDIDATES PASSED.
Archibald William Campbell. George Devere Curtis.
Charles James Crowley.
Vaughan Roberts.
Joseph Tiernan.
Henry Lionel Esten.
John Fletcher Apsey.
FINAL CANDIDATES PASSED AND SWORN IN AS PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYORS.
Charles Albert Bigger, Ottawa.
Hume Blake Proudfoot, Toronto.
Thomas Speight, Concord.
Alfred Paverly Walker, Toronto.
Louis Beaufort Stewart, Toronto.
Charles Edward Stuart Booth, Odessa.
William A. Ducker, Port Elgin.
Daniel Leavens Sanderson, Willowdale.
Arthur Jabez Van Nostrand, Aurora.
The Board of Examiners of Land Surveyors, for Ontario, meets at the office of the
Commissioner of Crown Lands, on the first Monday in each of the months of January,
April, July, and October, in every year, unless such Monday be a holiday (in which case
it meets on the day next thereafter, not being a holiday). Section 6, Chapter 146,
Revised Statutes of Ontario.
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.
All persons, before they can be apprenticed to a Provincial Land Surveyor, must
pass a satisfactory examination before the Board of Examiners in the following subjects,
viz.: — Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Extraction of Square and Cube Root, Practical
Geometry, Euclid, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Mensuration of Superficies, and
the use of Logarithms ; correct Spelling and good Writing required.
FINAL EXAMINATION.
Final Candidates, before obtaining a License to practise, undergo a strict and search-
ing examination before the Board of Examiners as to their proficiency in Euclid ; Plane
and Spherical Trigonometry ; Calculations of Areas by means of the Traverse Tables,
etc. ; Laying out and Dividing up of Land ; the adjustment and use of the Transit or
Theodolite ; Astronomy, including the calculations necessary to determine the Latitude
by meridian altitude of the sun, moon, or stars, or by double altitudes ; Method of deter-
mining Time ; of finding the time when any star passes the Meridian, with the time of
its Elongation, Azimuth Angle, and Variation of the Compass ; the Method of Keeping
Field Notes ; Drawing up Descriptions by Metes and Bounds for insertion in Deeds ;
taking Affidavits in the matter of Disputed Boundaries ; the Law regulating Surveys :
Geology ; and also as to their proficiency as Draughtsmen.
GEORGE B. KIRKPATRICK, P.L.S.,
Chief Clerk in Charge.
Department of Crown Lands,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
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THOS. H. JOHNSON,
Assistant Commissioner.
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SURVEYORS' REPORTS.
(Appendix JYo. 23.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Timber Berths North op French River.
Toronto, Ontario,
4th December, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour to report that in obedience to instructions received from
the Crown Lands Department, and dated July 14th, 1882, I proceeded to the field and
made a survey of certain Timber Berths north of French River, that is to say, I ran the
south boundaries of Timber Berths numbers sixty-seven, fifty-nine, fifty-one, forty-three,
thirty -five, twenty-seven, nineteen and eleven ; the boundary lines between numbers
forty-three and fifty-one, between nineteen and twenty-seven, between twenty and twenty-
eight, and between twenty-one and twenty-nine. I also produced the line from the south-
east angle of number eleven due east to strike French River, and ran a line due south
from the south-east angle of number twenty-seven, to the township of Blair ; the total
number of miles run being seventy-seven miles ten chains. The lines were all run astro-
nomically, and corrected from time to time, during the progress of the survey, by observa-
tions of Polaris at its eastern elongation ; the chaining was done with a Chesterman's
steel tape.
I began my survey at the south-west angle of Berth number sixty-seven, being a
point on Salter's Meridian Line at the distance of sixty chains seventy-seven links south
from his eighteen mile post, and running due east astronomically, at five miles one chain
forty two links, I established the south-east corner of Timber Berth number sixty-seven;
six miles further on established the south-east corner of number fifty-nine ; and made
each succeeding Berth six miles wide, excepting number twenty-seven which was made
seven miles. From the south-east angle of number fifty-one I ran north between fortv-
three and fifty-one, to the south-west angle of Berth number forty-four, where I found
an old post marking the position of said south-west angle ; this line between numbers forty-
three and fifty-one came out eighteen chains fifteen links short of the six miles. The
line between nineteen and twenty-seven, etc., came out on Salter's Base Line sixty chains
sixty links west of the post planted during the present season to mark the south-west
angle of the Township of Dunnet, and the boundaries between number twentv-one aud
twenty-nine came out twenty-eight chains fifty-two links short of the six miles. This
discrepancy between the theoretical and the actual distances between Salter's Line and
the one run by myself is abnormally great, even after making due allowance for the con-
siderable length of the lines and the general rough nature of the country. The result is,
of course, that some of the included Timber Berths will have less than their normal area.
This circumstance is, however, of comparatively small consequence practically, as from
all I could gather from my own observation and from information received from persons
evidently well acquainted with the region, all the timber has been killed by the fire
which swept through some years ago. There is thus no pine nor timber of any other
kind of any commercial value on the Berths specially affected by the error in question.
I shall now describe as concisely as I can, the tract of country that came under my
observation during the survey. The geological formation is the Laurentian as is well
46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 4). A. 1883
known. The rock is gneiss principally ; on the south boundary of Timber Berths number
twenty seven, however, a few belts of syenite, or syenitic gneiss were observed. The
gneiss is of the ordinary micaceous character, and in many places it is very distinctly
foliated, presenting a regularly banded aspect. The rock west of the Wahnapitae River
contains a larger proportion of feldspar than the rock further east. Towards the west
side of Timber Berths number forty-three the strike is about north twenty degrees east,
and has changed to north thirty-live degrees west, a few miles further east. Along the
lines between numbers nineteen and twenty-seven, etc., the strike is more nearly east and
west, being north of west, and south of east. Everywhere the strata appears to dip at a
high angle. Along Timber Berths numbers sixty-seven, fifty -nine, fifty-one, forty -three,
thirty-five and about a mile and three quarters over upon number twenty-seven, most of
the surface is rock, and is generally rough and broken and is quite unfit for settlement,
containing as it does but a very small per centage of arable land. The small areas of
good land over the distance named, occur on Timber Berths number fifty-one and thirty-
five, as shown in the field notes, and in small areas along the Wahnapitae River. East
of this stream, all along number forty-three, and for a mile over upon number thirty-five,
the country is almost totally barren of soil, the .surface being almost exclusively occupied
by bare gneiss rock, or mossy swamps. In going east, as a point one mile and three
quarters east of the south-west angle of number twenty-seven is reached a marked change
may be noticed in the topographical features of the country ; the surface becomes level,
or gently undulating, the rocks appearing to have been by glacial action, planed down to
a more or less uniform surface. This character of country prevails, with a few excep-
tions, as far east almost as Wolseley River, and north to Salter's Base Line.
From the point above mentioned, one mile and three quarters east of south-west
angle of number twenty-seven, as far east as almost to the end of the third mile on num-
ber nineteen, there is excellent land interspersed occasionally by small patches of rock
cropping out. The soil is chiefly a brown clay loam of good quality. This tract of ara-
ble land extends south to the gorge of French River, but it is doubtful whether it extends
very far to the north. To the east and to the north of this tract of good land, as far as
my survey extended, the land is rocky and unfit for settlement, the percentage of good
land being very small.
The line going south from the south-east angle of Timber Berths number twenty-
seven, to the south channel of French River, passes over nearly level or gently rolling
land all the way, interrupted of course by the north channel of the stream last mentioned.
The soil is a clay or a sandy loam of good quality.
The timber plan indicates the distribution of the various kinds of timber. It is
thus seen that the greater part of my line passed through a burnt country, the fire having
gone over some parts a second time. The first fire appears to have occurred about fifteen
years ago. Over this burnt country all the timber has been killed, and the burnt district
extended as far as the eye could reach north of the line along the south of Timber Berths
fifty-one, forty-three, etc., and on both sides of the line between nineteen and twenty-
seven, etc., up to Salter's Base Line, and from information received from the Indians, I am
led to believe that there is very little if any green timber, except perhaps towards the
north-west, near the Wahnapitae River and close to Salter's Base Line. Over some parts
of this burnt district there has been very good pine, as is evidenced by the dead trees
still standing ; the prevailing timber has been white birch, poplar, balsam and cedar ; there
is now a young growth of small poplar, white birch, red cherry and willow coming up.
In reference to the portions of my survey covered by green timber, I may say that the
only place where pine of much value was seen, was between the Manzenazing River and
the second mile post on the south boundary of Timber Berth number fifty-one. The
trees, however, are rather under than over medium size, and much of the timber was
valueless for lumber under present circumstauces. Near the south-east corner of Timber
Berth number eleven there is a small grove of very good pine, and farther west, between
that and Wolseley River, there are some groves of white and red pine ; the trees, how-
ever, are of small diameter, although of thrifty growth. In the green woods along the
south boundaries of numbers sixty-seven, and fifty-nine at various points, scattering pine
occurs among the other timber ; there is some also at different points around Tyson Lake.
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Besides the pine, the other kinds of timber seen were white birch, balsam, poplar,
cedar, hemlock, maple, black birch, yellow birch, basswood, iron wood, black ash, etc.
Between the south boundary of Timber Berth twenty-seven and French River, and along
the line running south from south-east angle of number twenty-seven, to the south chan-
nel of French River there is some very fine timber, hemlock, black and yellow birch,
maple, basswood, etc. Around Tyson Lake there is much evergreen, hemlock, balsam
and cedar. The Wahnapitae River is a fine stream with an average width of about one
hundred and fifty feet ; it is broken by numerous rapids, but is still a fine river for
floating rafts. The water is good and palatable, although of the dark colour common to
the streams of the country ; among the fish found in it are the black bass, pike, pickerel,
etc. The Manzeuazing River is a stream of sufficient capacity for floating sawlogs,
although those who lumbered upon it some years ago, found it advisable to erect dams
across it at several points between Collins' Inlet and Tyson Lake. Mullin and Pictou
Rivers, as far as my observation extended, might each be described as a series of narrow
lakes connected by a small stream broken by many rapids, and capable, perhaps, during
a freshet, of floating small sized sawlogs. These streams flow in the direction of the
strike of the strata, through grooves formed by the erosion of a stratum softer than those
on either side of it. Wolseley River is a stream large enough to float timber at any
season almost ; it has numerous expansions along its cour'se. The water in all the streams
crossed, except the mere brooks, was dark coloured, although sweet and wholesome.
Tyson Lake and Manzenazing River contain pike and black bass.
Partridges abound in the woods, and some prairie chickens were shot in the brule
north of French River. I saw numerous traces of bear, red deer and moose.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) John McAree,
Provincial Land Surveyor.
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
(Appendix No. 24-)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township op Dunnet.
St. Maky's, Ontario,
December 21st, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following report of the survey of the town-
ship of Dunnet, instructions for which were issued from your Department on the 15th
of May, 1882 :—
Proceeding by way of Rosseau and Nipissing, and crossing Lake Nipissing by
steamer, I reached the eastern boundary of the township, near the rear of the fifth concession,
on the 19th of July, by canoeing up the Veuve or Widow River. Finding that Provin-
cial Land Surveyor Bowman had already run the boundary between the townships of
Kirkpatrick and Dunnet, and having checked his measurements of the concessions along
said boundary, I laid off my concession lines two and three, three and four, and four and
five at right angles to this boundary, and after running one mile west on each of them, ran
the side line between lots two and three at right angles to the different concession lines.
On the night of the 21st of July, the first clear night after my arrival in the town-
ship, I obtained an observation of Polaris at its eastern elongation, at the south-east
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angle of the sixth concession, and on the following day ran west astronomically on the
sixth concession line. Finding that the boundary of Dunnet and Kirkpatrick at the
place of observation was running too much west, I proceeded to the southern boundary
of the township, and after retracing Provincial Land Surveyor Salter's base line from
the south-west angle of Kirkpatrick, a distance of two miles west, I ran the side line
between lots four and five north astronomically, from the south to the north boundary
(already run by Provincial Land Surveyor Francis Bolger), with what result will be seen
upon my plan. The survey was then carried west from this line, the side lines being
run north astronomically, and the concession lines west astronomically, according to
instructions. The depth of concession one was made eighty -two chains and seventy-five
links on side lines four and five, the same as I found it to be on the east boundary.
The soil of the township is for the most part clay, and about two-thirds of the whole
is fit for settlement. About one half will make excellent farming land, there being large
tracts of it almost level, and free from stone. Over one-half of this township has been
burnt ; nearly the whole of concessions one, two, and three being within the burnt area.
There is some valuable pine timber in the township, the best being in the central
part as shown by timber map. A small area of maple was found on lots four and five,
concessions four and five. The remaining green bush is balsam, spruce, tamarac, cedar,
birch, and poplar. On what is known as brule, a thick growth of white birch, poplar,
cherry, etc., has sprung up.
The township is well watered by creeks, and the River Veuve runs through it from
west to east, the main branch entering at lot nine, concession six, and leaving it near
the north-east angle of concession five. A branch also enters at lot twelve, concession
five, and joins the main river on lot seven, concession six.
The formation where exposed is granite, and no indications of valuable minerals
were met with. The variation of the magnetic needle was very uniform throughout the
township, averaging about 5° 45' west. The settlement of this township will of course
take place from the Canadian Pacific Railway, which runs through it as shown upon my
plan. There being no squatters in the township there is no inspection return.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) H. R. McEvov,
Provincial Land Surveyor.
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
{Appendix No. 25.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township of Hugel.
Whitby, Ontario,
October 18th, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit to you my report of the survey of the township
of Hugel, in the district of Nipissing, surveyed according to instructions from your
Department, bearing date the 15th day of May, 1882.
From Toronto, I proceeded to Lake Nipissing, and thence by canoe up the Veuve or
Widow River to the west boundary of the township of Caldwell," which I followed until I
found the north-west corner of that township.
Here I obtained an observation of Polaris, and then ran my south boundary, which
I used as a base line, laying off the lots forty chains in width with the exception of lot
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twelve, which is somewhat larger, and making the concessions eighty chains in depth. I
then worked northward to the north-east corner and finished the survey at the north-
west angle of the. township.
I found one large lake called Deer lake, and two much smaller ones of each of which
I made a survey.
The greater portion of this township has been overrun by fire and the timber
destroyed. Some of the north part has also been burnt again last year.
The north-west corner of the township, however, is green bush, and contains a con-
siderable amount of good pine, but the other timber is not of marketable value, being
mostly white birch, small spruce, balsam, tamarack, and some poplar.
The basin of Deer Lake and the land east of it may be considered as good for
farming purposes, the soil consisting of heavy clay, covered in places with a thin coat of
sand ; its value will be enhanced by its proximity to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which
is not more than two or three miles to the south, and will give easy access to it, and by
the numerous beaver meadows which will afiord an abundance of good hay for wintering
stock. Deer Lake also will be a benefit to the settler on account of the quantity of ex-
cellent fish it contains. The water of the lake is very dark and discharges into the
Veuve River.
The remainder of the township is rather rocky and broken, the prevailing rock being
gneiss, with thin veins of poor looking quartz. I saw no valuable mineral, although
slight traces of iron could be seen in some places.
Throughout the whole township there are a great many small clay flats, which,
although good land, can hardly be available for farming purposes on account of their
isolation.
This whole township is, I think, more adapted for a grazing country than for farm-
ing, as the backward springs and early frosts are not conducive to good crops, while the
numerous creeks, swales, and beaver meadows would be a great advantage in stock raising.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
(Signed) W. O. Johnston.
Provincial Land Surveyor.
(Appendix No. 20.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township op Ratter.
Penetanguishene, Ontario.
November 16th, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour to inform you that, in accordance with your instructions of
the 15th of last May, I have sub-divided the township of Ratter into farm lots of three
hundred and twenty acres each, and beg leave to submit the following report together
with the plan and field notes thereof.
I reached my starting point, the south-east angle of the township, as established by
Provincial Land Surveyor, C. D. Bowman, on Thursday, the 21st July, where I observed
Polaris the evening of that day, and on the following day proceeded with my work.
The township is generally level throughout and contains little good land. The face
of the country is rocky and stony, with light sandy soil. The prevailing timber being
white and red pine, balsam, poplar, white birch, with scattered groves of hemlock and
tamarack.
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Towards the centre of the township pine predominates of a merchantable quality.
The westerly part of the township has been burnt over, all the timber being utterly
destroyed, about one-sixth of the township has thus been devastated.
There is only one stream of any significance in the township, and that is found on
the east boundary, it has a sluggish current, and has a depth of about two feet six inches
and an average width of fifty links.
The Veuve, or Widow River crosses the south-west angle of the township. This is
a good size stream, averaging in width from one and a half to two chains. The Canadian
Pacific Railway follows its north bank. There is only one lake in the township and that
is found on the west boundary. It contains great quantities of black bass and pickerel.
Extensive hay marshes were met with.
Beavers are very numerous ; many parts of the township are flooded from the opera-
tions of that busy animal. The country may be considered a " happy hunting ground " for
sportsmen. Moose are found in abundance.
There are no settlers or any improvements whatever in any part of the township.
There was no local disturbance of the magnetic needle observable.
The contractor of the Canadian Pacific railway, Mr. Worthington, is pushing on the
works of construction vigorously. He informed me that he hopes to have the railway
open for traffic by the 1st of July, 1883. He has a force of upwards of two thousand
men working west of Lake Nipissing.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) Francis Bolger,
The Honourable T. B. Pardee, Provincial Land /Surveyor.
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Toronto.
(Apjjendix No. 27.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township of Kirkpatrick.
West Montrose, Ontario,
October 19th, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour, in accordance with instructions from your office, dated
May 15th, 1882, to submit the following report of the survey of the township of Kirk-
patrick, in the district of Nipissing : —
I commenced the survey, as instructed, at a post shown to be planted on Salter's
base line, at the south-west angle of lot number twelve in the first concession of the
township of Caldwell, but not being able to find any trace of Salter's line, either east or
west of said post, I made an observation of Polaris, and produced the line from said post
due west, expecting after getting into country where it had not been so much burnt to
find the original line, but failed doing so, until after I had run the whole of my south
boundary and established the south-east angle of the township of Ratter, when Provincial
Land Surveyor McEvoy, after producing my south boundary one mile on the south
boundary of the township of Dunnet, informed me he had found Salter's base line, well
blazed, at a distance of two chains seventy-five links south of the production of my line.
I then, in accordance with tl.e information received, retraced Salter's line back along the
south boundary of Kirkpatrick, and found the true line to be south of the line I had
first run two chains seventy-five links all along my south boundary, but as Provincial
Land Surveyor McEvoy had commenced his work, and also Provincial Land Surveyor
Bolger, we thought best to leave the first concession eighty-two chains seventy-five
links in depth.
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Nearly the whole of the township has been burnt over, there being only about eighty
: chains of unburnt land found along the lines run, the balance being thickly grown up
I with small poplars, birch, alder, etc., with occasionally the trunks of large dead pines,
i while in some places there was no trace of the original forest left.
Along the Veuve or Widow River, varying from ten to eighty chains north and
south from the same, there is land which might probably be used for farming purposes,
I the soil being a hard grey clay, which will likely make good grazing land, and being close
i along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway will be desirable. The soil elsewhere
throughout the township being somewhat of the same nature, but not in large enough
. quantities to make it desirable for farming purposes.
That portion of the township lying south of the river is poorly watered, there being
no spring creeks, but a number of small streams, with deep, sluggish currents and
stagnant water.
Moose deer, and also a few red deer, were seen, as well as bears, beavers, and musk-
rats, the two latter in abundance along the river and small streams.
The rock is of the granite formation, mixed with mica in places. No indications of
copper or iron were seen.
There being no squatters or improvements in the township no inspection returns will
be required. The whole of the township, with the exception of about twenty chains on
the west boundary and a few chains on the front of the sixth concession, being brule, no
timber plan will be necessary.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) C. D. Bowman,
Provincial Land Surveyor.
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
(Appendix No. 28.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township op Hagar.
Eganville, Ontario,
November 20th, 1882.
Sir, — In accordance with instructions, dated 15th May, 1882, I proceeded by way
of Toronto and Nipissing to survey the township of Hagar into farm lots of the three
hundred and twenty acres each. Procuring supplies at Sturgeon Falls, I canoed up the
La Veuve or Widow River until I struck the north boundary of the township of Dunnet,
then followed the said boundary westward until I found the post planted by Provincial
Land Surveyor McEvoy, in the north-west corner of the said township of Dunnet. I
began the sub-division of the township of Hagar at said post, making it, as per instruc-
tions, the south-east corner of my township. I then ran the south boundary due west,
nearly across the township, and one half the east boundary due north astronomically ;
after which I proceeded with the sub-division according to instructions, making the line
between lots six and seven, and the line between concessions three and four, my base
lines. Repeated observations were taken during the survey to ensure accuracy.
The township of Hagar is well watered by numberless small creeks, but more
especially by the La Veuve or Widow River, which enters it by three different branches.
What appears to be the main stream crosses the north boundary in lot nine, from thence
it flows south-westerly to lot thirteen, concession three, it then turns and flows south-
easterly, leaving the township in concession one. What is known as the north-east
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branch crosses the north boundary in lot one, flows south-westerly through lots one, two,
three, and four, concession six, and lots five, six, seven, eight, and nine, concession five,
joining the main stream in lot nine, concession five. Another branch, known as the
north-west branch, crosses the west boundary in concession four, flowing south-easterly
across lots fourteen and thirteen, joining the main stream in lot thirteen, concession three.
The river valley is generally narrow, and in places over one hundred feet deep. The
average velocity of the current is about one mile and one-half an hour. I made a
traverse of the river from the east boundary to where it is joined by the north-west
branch. Above that it, as well as the two other branches, is very shallow, and full of
rapids and flood-wood jams, and not navigable for canoes. The average depth of the
part traversed would be less than six feet.
The La Veuve River appears to be well stocked with small fish.
That portion of the township of Hagar lying south of the river, excepting a few
small flats in the river valley, is practically worthless for any purpose whatever, being
rocks and mountains. North of the river, although much broken by rocky hills, about '
one-half of the area is fit for settlement. The soil being a heavy rich clay loam, free
from stone, and well adapted for agriculcural purposes. I consider about forty per cent,
of the township of Hagar good arable land.
Bush fires have destroyed nearly all the timber. The only pine, or in fact any timber
worth mentioning, left standing is on lots one and two, concessions one, two, and three.
There is a small island of timber at the junction of the north-west branch with the La
Veuve River, and another in lot eight, concession five. That portion of the township
lying south of the river is a brule, with scattered red and white pine, with some tamarack,
balsam, and white birch, and is covered with dense undergrowth and fallen timber.
No economic minerals of any kind were found during the survey. The prevailing
rocks are granite and gneiss. Veins of feldspar and quartz were frequently met with,
also a few small boulders of pudding stone.
The located line of the Canadian Pacific Railway follows at an average distance of
less than two chains, the north shore of the river, across the township, crossing the main
stream immediately above the forks in lot thirteen, concession three.
Moose deer, bears, and beavers were frequently met with during the survey.
Trusting that the plans, field notes, and report will prove satisfactory.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
(Signed) Frank Purvis,
Provincial Land Surveyor.
(Appendix No. 29.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township op Field.
St. Mary's, Ontario,
December 31st, 1881.
Sir, — I have the honour to inform you that I have completed the survey of the town-
ship of Field, under instructions from your Department, dated May 18th, 1881, and have
to report thereon as follows :
I. laving Toronto on the 15th of June, I proceeded to the the township, via Rosseau
and Nipissing, crossing Lake Nipissing by the steamer Inter-ocean to Sturgeon Falls. I
then proceeded by canoes up Sturgeon River to the north-east angle of the township of
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Springer, and having obtained on the 21st of June an observation of Polaris on east
elongation commenced my survey by running the east boundary of Field on a course
astronomically north, making the concessions one mile in depth, from one to six ; the
lots were laid out forty chains in width along the south boundary by retracing the
northern boundary of the township of Springer from numbers one to fourteen inclusive,
and I found only twenty-seven chains, twenty-five links left for lot fifteen to the north-
west angle of Springer, instead of thirty-seven chains as shown on sketch furnished me.
From the post at the north-west angle of the township of Springer, the west boundary
was drawn on a course north astronomically as per instructions. In carrying out the sur-
vey I ran the line between concession two and three from the east to the west boundary,
on a course west astronomically making the lots forty chains in width to lot fifteen re-
turning to side line between lots ten and eleven. I ran north astronomically to the north
boundary. The western portion of the survey was then completed in the manner set
forth in instructions, and finally I worked east completing the work at the north-east
corner of the township.
The latitude of south boundary I assumed as north 46° 27' 16". The variation of the
needle was found to be west 6° 15'. Astronomical observations were taken frequently
during the progress of the work, the details of which will be found among returns of survey.
I have to report about one-third of this township fit for settlement. The valley of the
Sturgeon River, which traverses this township from south-east to north-west, is clay soil
with an occasional vein of sand, which when cleared will make excellent farming land ;
while a fair portion of the township may be described as sandy loam, the best land is
along the Sturgeon River and northern or central portion of the township, the other por-
tion being rocky and generally unfit for settlement.
Considerable White Pine is scattered over the whole of the township, the south-
west quarter is a very valuable limit of timber, the pine being of large growth and good
quality, some very good pine was also found in the north-west quarter of the township,
and the township generally is covered with a thick growth of white birch, balsam, spruce,
cedar, tamarack, etc., here and there a few maples, some very good groves of cedar suit-
able for telegraph poles, and tamarack timber suitable for railway ties being met with.
As before stated the Sturgeon River traverses this township from north-west to
south-east, eventually falling into Lake Nipissing. It is a stream about three chains in
width and fifteen feet in depth, very suitable for driving purposes. The Tomiko River
is the principal stream coming in from the north-east, and various creeks from other
portions of the township — some of them being outlets of lakes — find their way into the
Sturgeon River ; a few lakes, as shown on my plan of township, were met with.
The general character of the township is undulating, but not broken, here and there
a cliff, but no very high hills are met with. The formation is granite and is but scantily
covered with soil in many places, especially in the south-west, north-west, and north-east
portions. I did not observe any traces of valuable minerals, and saw no rock but ordi-
nary granite.
Access to this township is at present by Lake Nipissing and the Sturgeon River, but
the Canadian Pacific Railway will doubtless afford the means of settlement at an early
day.
There being no squatters in the township no Inspection Returns are necessary.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
(Signed) H. R. McEvoy.
Provincial Land Surveyor.
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(Appendix So. 30.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township of Dryden.
Belleville, Ontario,
December 19th, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour to report that on receipt of instructions for the Survey of
the Township of Dryden, I proceeded to carry out the same. Having, after some diffi-
culty, arrived at my starting-point on Salter's Base Line, I ran due north six miles, thus
establishing the south-west corner of the township. Then running due east, carrying
along the south half of the work, and then due west, I completed the township.
As will be seen from my notes, the country in Dryden is rough, broken, and rocky,
and as a whole unfitted for agricultural purposes. Some flats of fair land are to be
found, and along the line of the Canadian Pacific Bailway a few farms may be culti-
vated, but no settlement of any size can be formed. Its timber resources are also very
limited, the greater portion of it having been destroyed by fire. Along the northern
boundary — in several instances extending over the sixth concession — some good pine
exists, either in groves or in a scattered form.
The only stream calling for notice is the Wahnapitae River, which has a large and
constant flow of water, admirably adapted for the driving of logs and timber, although
much broken by falls and rapids. Pike and other fish are found in it, but not in large
quantities. Not a solitary lake exists in the township. Fur-bearing animals are scarce,
a few beaver being about all. There are few traces of valuable minerals to be found in
the rock, which is chiefly granite. It is needless forming an estimate of land fit for
settlement, the percentage being so trifling.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Thomas O. Bolger,
Provincial Land Surveyor.
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
(Appendix No. 31.)
DISTRICT OF NIPISSING.
Township of Wilkes.
Peterborough, Ontario.
January 10th, 1882.
Sir. — I have the honour to submit herewith the field notes and plan of survey of
the township of Wilkes, performed under your instructions, dated 18th May, 1881.
This township lies east of the township of Ballantyne, and south of that of Boulter
within the watershed of the Mattawan River.
It is situated very nearly on the height of land which divides the watersheds of the
Maganetawan River flowing into the Georgian Bay, South River flowing into Lake
Nipissing, and Mattawan River, which empties into the Ottawa.
It is divided almost diagonally from the south-west to the north-east corner by two
fine lakes — Tea and Manitou Lakes — which are connected by a narrow chute a little more
than a quarter of a mile long.
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These lakes flow north-easterly into the Mattawan by the River Aniable du Fond,
which is itself a stream of some importance. With the exception of the two beautiful
lakes referred to the general aspect and character of the township are about what is
known of the Ottawa and Huron Territory, viz., partially broken by rough undulating
tracts of hardwood upland, interspersed with low-lying patches of swamp-land yielding
tamarack, spruce, cedar, etc., and the usual percentage of small lakes, ponds and marshes
scattered between.
On arriving in the township and having taken the necessary meridian observations,
etc., I commenced the survey of the line between concession two and three at its inter-
section with the west boundary.
This line I ran as a base to the east boundary, carrying through simultaneously the
south boundary, concession line four and five and extending at the proper points the side
lines north and south.
Returning to the west side of the township, further observations were taken at the
intersection of concession line six and seven and side line ten and eleven. The latter was
surveyed to the south boundary of the township of Boulter, and the concession lines
started from it at the proper points east and west. On this general system of procedure
the survey of the township was carried out and completed.
That part of the township lying south and east of Tea and Manitou Lakes and north
concession ten can only be described in a general way, as a tract more or less broken by
ridges of hardwood and mixed green timber separated by swamp valleys in which the
prevailing timber is tamarack. In the uplands where maple, beech, and birch predomi-
nate the land is stony in many places to such a degree as to render cultivation impossible.
There are, however, occasionally met with patches of kind soil composed of sand
loam of fair depth and fertility.
The swamps, which make up probably ten to fifteen per cent, of the total land area,
present the usual characteristics, in some places soft and peaty, at others of a firmer con-
sistency, especially where found resting on a clay or gravel sub-soil. There is no pine in
quantity in this division of the township, and excepting black birch, it contains no timber
of marketable value. '
Along the west boundary, from a point near Tea Lake to the north end there is a
strip of heavy hardwood about one block (one and a quarter miles) in width.
The soil too, is of fair depth and quality, and tolerably free from rock and stone in
many places.
East of this strip of land, extending to Manitou Lake, and from Tea Lake to the
north boundary, comprising about eight thousand acres, is a tract of rolling land covered
with hardwood and green timber through which is scattered in considerable abundance
some very fine pine and spruce.
The pine, in size, form, and quality, compares favourably with any that I have seen
during several years' experience in northern Ontario.
Its value too is enhanced by its proximity to Manitou Lake and the capacious stream
flowing out of it. The Canadian Pacific Railway also runs within twelve miles by water
of this place, thus affording additional advantages and facilities for its removal to market.
The soil is not inferior, being of the usual kind of sand loam and the proportion of
arable land is comparatively large. The north-east part of the township is rough and
broken by low rock bluffs and ridges of granite rock enclosing stony flats and valleys of
considerable extent. There are no large unbroken areas of cultivable land, but occasional
patches of fair soil are often met with. The timber is very mixed and mainly consists of
hemlock, spruce, tamarack, white birch, poplar, balsam, etc., mostly under average size.
There is but little pine scattered over this part, although tamarack and spruce of fair
dimensions are occasionally seen.
It may be worthy of remark here that although the country for miles north, east,
south, and, I believe, west of this township has been lumbered over for thirty years or
more, not one stick has yet been cut in it for that purpose.
The township also is singularly free of fallen timber. Excepting along the north
shore of Long Lake on the south boundary, and for a distance of about half a mile east
of it no evidence of fire or fallen timber to any extent was met with on the survey.
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At the outlet of Manitou Lake, and on the north side are two half-breed settlers who
have resided there some twenty years, and from whom the river Amable du Fond gets
its name. They have an old clearing of some thirty acres on which they grow good crops
of oats, beans, potatoes, turnips, and hay in abundance, for all of which they get double
prices from the lumbering companies who come up the Ottawa in the direction of which
all connection and communication is held. These settlers informed me that Tea and
Manitou Lakes abound in salmon trout, white fish, bass, pickerel, etc., of large size.
Salmon trout of thirty pounds weight having been sometimes hooked. In the river
Amable du Fond some of my party caught speckled trout weighing two and a half pounds,
and I understand that all the streams from this district flowing into the Ottawa are fairly
stocked with this delicious little fish. The shores of Tea and Manitou Lakes, especially
the latter, are deeply indented by bays which are shallow with flat sand bottom at the
heads, but out towards open water the shores are lined with rock and stone sometimes
dipping into the water at sharp angles. Reviewing the township as a whole, I do not
consider it above the average for settlement, and, but for the pine tract I have described
the timber product also would not come up to an average yield.
The proportion of arable land of the total land area I estimate at from twenty-five
to thirty per cent.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) J. W. Fitzgerald,
Provincial Land Surveyor.
The Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Toronto.
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APPENDIX No. 32.
REPORT
ON
COLONIZATION ROADS
FOR THE YEAR 1882.
To the Honourable T. B. Pardee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Ontario.
Sir, — I have the honour to present the usual annual report of the works and opera-
tions of the colonization roads branch of the Crown Lands department for the year 1882,
which will, I trust, be satisfactory to yourself in its detail, and to the public, as shew-
ing a large amount of work accomplished for the expenditure made.
Among the many works hereafter enumerated I may specially mention that of the
Nipissing Road which has now been extended to the vicinity of Callender station on the
line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, thus opening to the public a new inlet to a fine
area of land in the townships of Ferris, Nipissing, Himsworth, and others south of the
railway, and which must ere long become the centre' of an industrial region as yet in its
infancy, thousands of acres of which, I can testify from personal observation, are scarcely
inferior to those of " Old Canada West," not only for general agricultural purposes, but
for the culture of the usual assortment of Canadian" fruits.
Special attention was also directed to the improvement of main leading roads, such
as the Muskoka Road, Rosseau and Nipissing, and others in the east, and I submit that
the efforts of the department in that direction have been successful for the amount of
money at its disposal, as will I am sure be attested by those who may travel over the
roads since the recent repairs upon them ; and it is gratifying to report a most favourable
season of fall weather, which greatly aided our efforts in respect of road-making, being,
unlike that of the general fall season, practically dry, up to the time when frost set it.
As regards the general expenditure this year upon roads and bridges I may state,
that in consequence of the extensive lumber operations and the great demand for the
same throughout Ontario, wages have been unusually high, and labour correspondingly
scarce, which had the effect of reducing in some degree the amount of work accomplished
for the outlay, but which, notwithstanding, will bear a favourable comparison with pre-
vious years.
The works are as follows, a summary of the expenditure of which will be found at
the end of this report : —
NORTH DIVISION.
1. Batchewaning Road,
Leading from Sault Ste. Marie to Goulais and Batchewaning Bays, is now produced to
the latter named bay, and at present ends on or about lot 54 of P. L. S., Abrey's survey,
and sub-division of his road survey, made in 1872.
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This year three miles of road were made, besides repairs over portions previously
built, to the extent of about $500. The portion made this year is through a rough sec-
tion of the district, and which is likely to continue for some miles beyond.
The Dominion Government made the usual grant of §1,000 towards the work.
2. Bury Road.
This road is in the Indian peninsula, in the County of Bruce, and is intended to
reach Tobermory Harbour, as a trunk road through the district.
This year, work was begun on lot 26, between concessions 4 and 5, E. B. R.
in the township of Lindsay, being the end of last year's work, and continued to lot 35 ;
i long the 35th side line, and to within a few rods of the old Bury Road — length
made, 4f miles.
Nearly $300 were used in repairing a large quantity of crossway on the old road,
which the bush fires of the previous season had entirely destroyed, so that altogether, a
large amount of work has been effected for the expenditure of §1,500.
3. Barrie Island Road,
In the Township of Jordan, on Manitoulin Island, begins on lot 23, and ends on lot 29,
between concessions 8 and 9. Being through a heavy black ash swamp, the work was
necessarily expensive, but, the outlay of §635 has made it one of the best pieces of road
on the island, and one particularly required by the Barrie island settlers.
4. Bidwell Branch Road,
Also on Manitoulin island, reaches from Little Current and West Bay road, in the 10th
concession of Bidwell, southerly between lots 24 and 25, to the 4th concession, and from
thence westerly to lot 26, a length of 3| miles.
Prior to the opening of this road settlers were confined to ice or water communica-
tion, so that the road was an apparent necessity.
The cost of the road was §540, but to it may be added $173.28, which was spent in
reducing a heavy hill on the Manitouaning Road, and was a difficulty too great for the
municipality to encounter, while they gave $75 in addition to the above to assist the
work.
5. Centre Road.
This is practically the centre road northerly and southerly of St. Joseph island,
extending from " Richards' dock " to Tenby Bay ; it and " Hilton Road " being at present
the principal roads of the Island.
The work this year was opening through concessions H. I. K. L., between lots 10 and
11, to connect with the Hilton Road.
The work was heavy, being mostly swamp, but an excellent job is reported — length,
2J miles.
6. Coffin Road.
Work was begun at the termination of last year's work on lot 2, concession 1, of
Coffin township, and was produced three-fourths of a mile.
The expenditure includes the building of a bridge over Thessalon river, 73 feet long
en the line of the road.
7. Coffin Additional Road.
A production of one mile northerly was effected in this case from the Great Northern
Road, from lots 3 and 4, in the 5th concession of Johnson township ; and in addition,
1^ miles of the old road received repairs which were absolutely required.
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8. Gore Bay Road
Is built to open a way to market for the large number of settlers in the Township of
Mills, at the south-east end of Lake Wolsley, on Manitoulin Island.
The course of the road is from the town line between Gordon and Mills, southerly
on the line between lots 10 and 11, to the road allowance between concessions 6 and 7,
and from thence westerly to the town line of Burpee — 6 -J miles.
9. Gore and Providence Bay Road
Is also on Manitoulin Island, and begins on the town line between Carnarvon and
Campbell, at the 14th concession of the last named township — 1| miles made this
season of rather expensive work, including several large culverts, and a large quantity of
cross-waying.
10. Great Northern Road.
The money was used in this case chiefly in repairing culverts and wooden structures
between Sault Ste. Marie and Echo River. The road had become dangerous for want of
these repairs.
11. Galbraitii Road.
This road passes through the Townships of Rose and Galbraith. This year three
miles were made northerly from last year's work into the latter named township, passing
through a hilly and broken district.
12. Kakabeka Road,
Which is one of the roads in the Thunder Bay district, passes Murillo Station on the
Canadian Pacific Railway and westerly towards the Kaministiquia River ; it is not yet
completed, but this year two miles were chopped out and 3£ miles graded besides some
repairs upon the older sections of the road. Some necessary repairs were also made upon
bridges in the vicinity of the road.
13. Long Bay Road
Is on Manitoulin Island, and in the Township of Campbell, beginning at the first conces-
sion between lots 25 and 26, and ending at the 5th concession — a distance of over two
miles (2| miles).
This work opens a road for a great many settlers in the south-west part of the town-
ship, and must therefore be of great advantage to them.
14. Leproy (or Kirkwood) Road
Was extended from the Bruce Mines Road (or perhaps more properly, the " Thessalon
Road " from a point near the north-east angle of section 22, of Kirkwood, easterly through
the Gore of Kirkwood, (lots 8, 9, 7, 6, 5,) and striking, approximately, the line between
the 3rd and 4th concessions, a distance of 2J miles. In addition, a bridge was built over
a creek of considerable proportions, requiring a main span of 40 feet, and total length
of 75 feet. A large amount of work was accomplished, therefore, for the expenditure.
15, Mudge and West Bay Road
Begins on the shore of West Bay between the 14th and 15th concessions of Billings, and
continues on to lot 26 on the same concession line. The work was heavy, a black ash
and elm swamp, which is now chopped, cleared and grubbed.
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1(3. Mudge and Gore Bay Road.
The work in this instance was continued from the end of the work of the previous
year to lot 1 6, in the Township of Allan. A further portion was also made from lot 20
to lot 24, passing round the end of Ice lake — If miles made, mostly swamp, and there-
fore expensive.
17. Oliver Road.
After completing his work on the Kakabeka Road, the overseer began upon this,
cleaning out ditches along the muskegs from the 1st to the 4th concessions, besides re-
pairing the distance between Prince Arthur's Landing and the Oliver town line. Al-
together 10 miles were repaired, including many culverts and structures. The road is
now reported an excellent one.
18. Port Finlay Road.
As mentioned in last year's report, only about $500 were spent upon this road in con-
sequence of a delay in obtaining from the Dominion Government a promised grant of a like
amount. This year, however, the money was obtained, and, with the Ontario grant, was
expended in producing the road northerly from the end of last year's work, to Bar-
river, a little north of the south-west angle of the north-west, quarter section of section
four, Township of Laird, or to within less than half a mile of the south town line of
Macdonald — over three miles. The work is well reported of, and it is expected that an-
other similar grant will be spent next year in its further production towards the Great
Northern road.
19. Sandfield and West Bay Road,
Which is another of those on Manitoulin Island, was commenced where the operations of
last year were ended, near Big Lake, on the 8th and 9th concessions of Sandfield township ;
thence round the end of the above lake, and to the line between lots 25 and 26 ; thence
northerly to Manitou Lake ; thence westerly along the blind line between concessions 9
and 10 to the town line between Carnarvon and Sandfield ; and from thence northerly to
the corners of the four townships of Billings, Bidwell, Sandfield and Carnarvon, a length
of 3i miles, and gives roadway to the Sandfield Mills.
20. Second Line Road.
The original object of this road was to reach " Gros Cap " on lake Superior, and
which was accomplished this year. Work was begun at the north-east angle of the north-
west quarter section of section 34 of the Township of Prince, and from thence half a mile
to the north-west angle of said section ; thence south half a mile to the centres of sections
33 and 34, and thence westerly to strike the lake. There were 3i miles built and 2 re-
paired.
21. Silver Islet Road.
Fifty miles of this road have been cut out about ten feet wide for the purpose of
making a winter road or trail from the south side of Thunder Bay to Silver Islet.
At certain seasons of the year, chiefly in spring and fall, it was impossible to get
across the peninsula with the mails, but teams will now find no difficulty in making the
journey.
The expenditure for the work is about SI, 400.
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22. Thessalon River Road.
The Dominion Government has joined in the cost of making this road to the extent
of $500, and it will be found a good investment, for, if produced as contemplated, it will
open up the Thessalon River reserve, and add materially to its value.
By agreement with the Indian Department at Ottawa the selection of route was left
to the overseer appointed by this Government, and he reports a good location thus far,
and one satisfactory to all interested in it, who live in its vicinity.
This year three miles of the road were made, beginning on what is known as the
Bruce Mines, or Thessalon Road, at the south-west angle of lot 5 of the Thessalon River
survey, and making the highway easterly following approximately the south side of the
said lot five, and continuing on the same course to the south-east angle of the south-west
quarter section of section twenty-five.
A further extension of this road easterly is extremely desirable. The portion made
is well done.
23. W. and 14th Concession Road.
The work on the line indicated by its name (on St. Joseph island) is two miles in
length, and was begun on lot 1 and ended on lot 10 of concession 14.
Settlers gave §100 in labour in addition to the Government work.
WEST DIVISION.
1. Alsace Road
Begins at the Rosseau and Nipissing Road, on lot 191, and is produced two miles easterly
to the 2nd and 3rd concessions of Nipissing, to reach a settlement very much in need of
an outlet. It is chopped out sixty feet wide and well graded. Its farther production is
required.
2. Bridges on Nipissing Road.
These are two in number, and have been named Wistiwasa and Burford's Creek
bridges, the former being 76 and the latter 78 feet long. The first named cost $548.41,
and the other $432.52, both excellent bridges, and built strictly in accordance with plans
furnished by the Department. Main span in each case 60 feet.
3. Baxter Road and Bridges.
The object of this undertaking is to let settlers in Baxter out to Port Severn and
Waubaushene. Without this work the people were entirely at the mercy of the water
route, having no road.
Two bridges are required upon the road, one of which is completed, and the other is
in course of construction.
4. Bracebridge Road
Is on the north town line of Draper from lot 10 to lot 16. Owing to the generally rough
condition of the South Macaulay Road north of it, this road, being a better line will largely
be used instead of it, and might with advantage be produced still farther easterly.
5. Brunel Road.
Work begun one and a half miles east of Port Sydney and repairs made five miles
easterly. The road was impassable before the work of the present season.
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6. Carling Road.
This is a new road running from the north-west road into Carling Township. The
full returns are not in (though the work is completed), so that a full description is yet
wanting.
7. Chaffey Bridge and Road.
The bridge is over East River on lot 30 of the 6th concession of Chaffey ; a sixty
feet span with approaches, making a total length of about 10-t feet.
These bridges are great aids to settlers and settlement ; in many instances they are
able to make their roads but cannot manage so large an engagement as a bridge.
The Chaffey Road is made along the road allowance between concessions 2 and 3 of
Bethune, and the length accomplished this season is 2| miles. It reaches a good settle-
ment hitherto without a road.
8. Christie. Road.
Altogether about fourteen miles of this road were repaired, although the chief re-
pairs were at the east end of the road, and included some bridging.
The road reaches from the Rosseau and Nipissing Road at Seguin Falls to the Parry
Sound Road. It is now in a fair condition and should in my opinion be kept in future
by the municipalities.
9. Christie and McDougall Junction Road,
From South McDougall road to Christie Road in Foley. The work was from lot 16, con-
cession 2 of McDougall easterly to lots 10 and 11, and from thence southerly to the
Christie Road, on lots 10 and 11, concession 10 and 11 of Foley.
10. Commanda Road
Is one of considerable age, running from the Rosseau and Nipissing Road towards Com-
manda and Restoul Lakes. It was very much out of repair, and the small grant of $500
was given to make it at all passable.
For the money 2J miles were put in very good condition. A further grant is asked
for to repair and extend the work.
11. Draper and Ryde Town Line Road
Is the opening of the town line between Draper and Ryde through lots 16, 17, 18 and 19
to meet the side road between lots 10 and 11 of Draper. This was accomplished, as also
about one half mile of the aforesaid side line, so as to meet an old settlers road in the
2nd concession — 1A- miles made in all.
12. Draper and Gravenhurst Road
Is a work from the 3rd concession of Draper northerly between lots 5 and 6. It was a
quarter of a mile of heavy crosswaying.
13. Denville Swamp Road.
This expenditure was the opening of a road from the Muskoka Road westerly
through the 4th concession of the township of Strong to make a way for ingress to
Nichol's mill — about half a mile made.
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14. Distress River Road.
This is an important road, requiring more money upon it to make it adequate to the
wants of the district. Two miles were constructed this season, beginning at or about the
line between lots 10 and 11, and between the 8th and 9th concessions of Strong, and
working westerly.
There were also 100 rods of crossway made upon the old portion of road opposite
lots 5 and 6 in the 8th and 9th concessions of Chapman, with other important repairs.
This road should be extended at least to the head of Stony Lake, so as to reach
Dunbar's mills.
15. East Armour Road.
Five miles of this road received general repairs and a great improvement effected.
It was a small grant very well expended.
16. East River Road
Is that between Huntsville and Hoodstown, and was in a wretched condition. The work
done upon it this season is of a permanent character, and extends over three miles in the
Township of Stisted.
17. Eagle Lake Road,
Produced from the Eagle Lake Bridge in the 5th concession of Machar easterly to the in-
tersection of the Muskoka Road location, between lots 20 and 21, con. 4, 1| miles. Half
a mile of repairs were also made over a rocky ridge which had only been chopped out pre-
viously, so that 2£ miles of new road may be said to have been made, and an excellent
job effected.
18. Gurd Road.
It was intended to extend this road, but the condition of the portion made was such
that its general repair was found to be the more advisable ; 9 miles were therefore well
repaired from the Rosseau and Nipissing Road to the west boundary of Himsworth. It
is an important road, leading, as it does, into a prosperous settlement, largely German.
19. German Settlement Road.
This is a small work, the grant being to assist in opening a swamp to enable the in-
habitants to get to the Rosseau and Nipissing Road. It is 3 miles East of Mecunoma,
terminating on lot 133.
20. Gravenhurst and Draper Road.
The appropriation enabled the overseer to repair 8 miles of this road, 5 of which are
reported as very well done. The work was commenced at the "Finger Post," three miles
north of Gravenhurst and continued easterly along the old road, It was a much needed
work.
21. Himsworth Road.
This work was let by contract to those living in the vicinity of the road. It was the
chopping out of the road allowance in Himsworth, between lots 20 and 21, through con-
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cessions 7 to 16 inclusive, for the purpose of reaching the Nipissing Road. Some of the
jobs are not yet completed and therefore the accounts are unsettled, but $200 have been
paid upon it.
22. Junction No. 1 Road.
Ten miles repaired, beginning 4 miles north-easterly from McKellar Village, and ex-
tending to Spence on the Rosseau and Nipissing Road. The road, for want of labour
upon it, had become quite impassable. More money is still required in this case, it being
an important east and west road and still far from first class in character. The country
through which it passes is very rough and broken.
23. Junction No. 2 Road.
This was a small job let by contract, and was a diversion from the old road to avoid
the necessity of rebuilding a long, high and expensive crossway. $125 is the cost of the
work.
24. Kearney Branch Road
Is also called Sand Lake Road, but more properly Kearney No. 2 Road. It has been pro-
duced 2 J miles, beginning on lot 4, concession 14 of Bethune ; thence north and east to
the bridge over the Maganetawan River on the town line between Bethune and Proud-
foot, and on to opposite lot 13. Two and a half miles of the Kearney road proper were
repaired also, from Kearney P. O. to the 14th concession. This latter may be called new
work as the former opening of the road was simply chopping it out, at a very cheap rate,
some years ago. The improvements are very satisfactory.
25. Lorimer Lake Road.
As intended, this road is now produced to the North Road from Parry Sound.
This season the overseer began his operations on lot 1, con. 9 of Hagerman, and ended on
lot 38 of the road survey, the course of the road being north easterly. The amount ac-
complished is 3| miles which the inspector reports as admirably done, and that a large
settlement is now supplied with road accommodation who previously were quite shut in.
26. Lake Shore and Danes Roads.
On the Lake Shore Road about 2 miles have been very permanently repaired, between
lots 5 and 6 and on 4th and 5th concession line of Monck, to the west side of lot 10 in the
6th concession. On the Danes road opposite lot 20, cons. 10 and 11, 80 rods of crossway-
ing repaired.
27. Menzies Bridge.
This is a structure having a main opening of 56 feet, and total length of 92 feet. It
is now in course of erection, and will, when completed, open the only road the residents of
Armour township have of reaching the Muskoka Road, Bulk's Falls, and the markets
generally. It is over the south branch of the Maganetawan River, on the line between
cons. 8 and 9, and upon lot 7 of Armour. There has been paid on account of the work
$536,63 or about its cost.
28. Musquosh Road.
There were 5 miles in this instance, well repaired. The work was begun 2 miles
north of Gravenhurst and extended northerly and westerly along the road. Two bridges
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were built to replace others which had been swept away by flooding, the structures being
somewhat low. Toward these bridges Mr. Mickle gave $100. The Huston Lumbering
Company $100 and the Muskoka Council $50, which, with the Government appropria-
tion, enabled the overseer to complete an excellent work.
29. Macaulay Road.
The money in this case was spent in reducing the gradient of two heavy hills and
building a large stone culvert.
30. Missionary Road.
One and a quarter miles repaired, from lot 37 Rosseau and Nipissing Road easterly.
An excellent job done.
31. Muskoka Road.
The Government contributed $150 towards the repairs of bridges on this road in
the Township of Morrison. Very excellent repairs were made between Huntsville and
Cyprus, over a length of 6 miles ; and the road was extended northerly 4 miles, reach-
| bag to the 10th and 11th cons, between lots 15 and 16. Another 4 miles are logged
; out and made as a winter road as far as the 4th and 5th concessions of Machar, meeting
i the Eagle Lake road.
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32. Milne's Mill Road
I Is from the Muskoka Road westerly along the blind line between the 1st and 2nd conces-
sions of Strong, westerly, nearly one mile to the mills.
33. Nipissing Road.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has now been reached with this road, striking it at
' or near Callender Station on lot 32, con. 15, of Ferris. Portions of the road are not yet
i sufficiently well made for general traffic, but a good winter road will be found. The work
was commenced on lot 15, con. 21 of Himsworth : thence northeasterly to the 26th and
27th concessions at South East Bay and thence northerly to the railway, following ap-
proximately the line between lots 32 and 33 of Ferris, some 8 miles in all. On this route
are Burford and Wistiwasa Bridges before described.
34. North Chaffey Road.
This is a small work on the line between concession 12 and 13 of Chaffey, the repair-
ing of crossways and bridges,
35. Oka Road.
This is constructed chiefly in the interests of the Oka Indians now settled in Gibson
township, to afford a road from the "reservation" to Bala. The road is 4 miles long aDd
reaches from a point south of the dam at Musquosh or Bala, south-westerly to the Indian
settlement. The country over which it passes is rough and rocky.
36. Peninsula Road,
Produced from lot 12, concession 14 of Humphry north-easterly, to intersect the Parry
Sound road at Ashdown, 1£ miles north of Rosseau. This 3£ miles completes the road
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and gives a highway from Rosseau to Gravenhurst, via Bala and the Musquosh Road, and
to Bracebridge by way of Port Carling and the Lake Joseph Road, or the Lake Shore
Road. The road was cheaply built, is through a broken country, and therefore not one of
the best.
37. Perry and Monteith Road.
This road was repaired in two sections. It was repaired from the Stisted Road on
lot 15, con. 12 of McMurich, westerly, and again from Emsdale, westerly. Some excel-
lent work was done, including important diversions for the purpose of improving the loca-
tion and to follow original road allowances. One and three-quarter miles also constructed,
the extension of the road easterly from lot 19, con. 10 of Bethune, to lots 25 and 26 —
altogether 5 miles of repairs and 3f miles of new work.
38. Parry Sound Road.
This is the rebuilding of a crossway at the outlet of Whitefish Lake. A complete
stoppage of traffic was threatened, and thus the work became a necessity.
39. Poverty Bay Road
Was produced If miles from the line between lots 5 and 6 of Croft township, westerly to
lot 13. The country pierced by this road is a good agricultural district.
40. Peninsula Creek Bridge
Is near the town line, about lot 28 of Brunei, and is over Peninsula Creek. The require-
ments of the settlement demanded this work, a large section of country being in a condi-
tion of suffering for want of a passage over the creek.
41. Rosseau and Nipissing Road.
A large amount of work was done this year upon this road and is of a very perma-
nent character. The repairs extend from 5 miles north of Rosseau to within 4 miles of
Maganetawan Village, 28 miles ; at least 7 of which were exceedingly well done, the
balance consisting chiefly of repairs and renewals of bridges. Other repairs were made
near Commanda to keep the road in a passable condition.
42. Red River Bridge.
This grant was used in connection with a similar sum given by the residents in re-
newing an old Government structure which time had rendered unsafe. It is now an
excellent bridge.
43. Ryde, and Ryde Centre Roads.
Ryde Centre Road is on the road between lots 5 and 6 in 10 and 11th concessions of
Ryde township, and the work consisted of GO rods of crosswaying, and in all 1 mile of
work.
"Ryde Road" is repaired between Daltonand Washago Road, and Housey's Rapids
from the 8th concession south on old line between lots 25 and 26 to the 3rd concession.
The money was well expended on both works.
44. Seguin River Bridge.
This is the renewal of one almost entirely destroyed by tire last year. It is on the
McDougall Road and over the Seguin River. The work is not yet quite completed.
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45. Sinclair Road
Was produced 3 miles from the end of last year's work, namely, from lot 2, concession
13 of Sinclair to the 3rd concession of Bethune between lots 25 and 26. This road as a
whole is not a good one, having been at the first very cheaply constructed. Any further
grant made upon it should be for its general improvement throughout before any new
work is undertaken.
46. Stisted South T. L. Road
Is between the Muskoka and Stisted Roads on the town line after which the road takes
its name. The distance is about 5 miles and has been with the appropriation about
completed through the township, while the amount was of course insufficient to make it
a first-class work.
Another expenditure of about $250 was made in Stisted in opening two miles of
road from the 5th concession, northerly between lots 10 and 11, to a creek in the 8th
concession where a bridge is required as well as the further production of the road to the
Cardwell Road.
47. Savage Settlement Road.
This work is more properly on what has been designated the Chaffey Road, though
running into the Savage Settlement. It was produced this season 2i miles from the
line between lots 23 and 24 near the blind line between the 1st and 2nd concessions of
Perry, easterly to lot 28, and from thence north-easteriy in almost a right line to that
between lots 30 and 31, and between the 2nd and 3rd concessions of the same township.
The road should now be turned northward and extended towards McGill's Mills to
make it of the full value contemplated.
48. Stephenson 4th Con. Road.
Repairs over 2 miles of the road, but chiefly upon a rough rocky hill in the 8th
concession of Stisted.
49. Whitestone Lake Road.
This is the opening of a road from the North Road between lots 25 and 26 of Hager-
man, southerly to connect with the Ah-mic-lake Road in McKellar.
EAST DIVISION.
1. Anstruther Road.
From last year's work extended to lot 36, concession 11 of the township of An-
struther, 2^ miles.
2. Addington Road.
This year's work was a diversion of 7i miles to avoid a very rough section of the
original road. The grant was insufficient to complete the work properly, but the road is
passable and a great improvement on the old road.
3. Anglesea Road.
This road is eight miles long, and was this year repaired throughout its entire length
and with the repairs made is now a good road.
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4. Alice and Indian River Road
Commences between Wilberforce and Alice on the road allowance between lots 20 and 21
and continues from thence easterly along the said road allowance 1^ miles. It is a new
road cut 40 feet wide and graded well throughout.
5. Arden Road.
The work of this season upon the road in question was in the township of Kennebec
and began at the termination of last year's work on the 11th concession, and was con-
tinued southerly to the south boundary of the aforesaid township, connecting with a
settlers road, in Hinchinbrooke, leading to Parham Village.
The work, though partly repairs, may be regarded as new work.
6. Algona Road
Is on the 9th concession of the township of the same name and extends from lot 2
to the town line. The work of the season began on lot 24 and continued westerly
I mile ; new work, chopping out and grading.
7. Algona South (3rd Line), Road.
This road is on the town line between Grattan and Algona, extending westerly be-
tween the 2nd and 3rd concessions of Grattan — H miles of new road.
8. Algona 6th Line Road,
On line between lots 25 and 26 in the 8th concession of South Algona, commencing at the
line between 8th and 9th concessions — about f miles of new work.
9. Admaston Bridge and Road.
The bridge is on lot 21 concession 8 of Admaston, a new structure 100 feet long
entirely of cedar.
The road is from the east side of the 6th concession on the road allowance between
lots 18 and 19, proceeding from thence westerly along or near said road to the 13th
concession ; a length of 6 miles. The work upon the road is, for the expenditure, very
satisfactory.
10. Bolsover Road.
These repairs are through the township of Garden. The work consisted of one quarter
mile of swamp, raised 3 feet or thereabout, approaches of considerable length made
to bridges along the route, and grading also done, the whole being reported as very satis-
factory and much required in the public interests.
11. Burleigh Road.
Repairs were made 2 miles north and two miles south from the Monck Road,
making 4 miles, and again between Apsley and a point 7 miles north, making in all
II miles of repairs.
12. Buckhorn Road
Repaired from the Monck Road north 7 miles, and from Buckhorn north 4 miles. The
country is rough and the road is consequently rough, stony, and irregular.
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13. BOBCAYGEON ROAD.
Repairs began at Kinmount and extended 4 miles southerly. This is a rougli
road requiring repairs both north and south.
14. Barrie Road
Extends from the Addington to the Frontenae Road. The first 6 miles were made by the
residents, and the last li miles also. The intermediate space being opened by the
Government. Nine miles were improved this year. ■
Another work was on the line between the 4th and 5th concessions of Barrie, be-
ginning where the said concession line intersects the Addington Road, and from thence
easterly 1J miles. A new bridge occurs on the work, span 20 feet. The mile and a half
was graded throughout.
16. Bagot Road.
Work began on lot 25, concession 8, of Bagot, and was extended westerly along the
old Madawaska Road 5 miles. Whole distance graded and culverts repaired. This road
is also known as the Ashdad Road.
16. Cameron Road.
This appropriation was spread over 6 miles, extending from the Rosedale Locks to
Village of Ooboconk. A good deal of rock blasting was done, this element being the
chief difficulty with this as with many other colonization roads.
17. Cavendish Road.
The following is a full description, namely, commencing on the line between con-
cessions 10 and 11 of Galway, and about 5 chains east from the north-west angle of lot
22 in the 10th concession. Thence easterly along the 10th concession and along the
south side of Trout Lake, crossing Nogies Creek about 50 rods south of said lake and
near the limit between lots 23 and 24 ; thence easterly along the south side of said lake
to the west boundary of Cavendish, intersecting the same where the road allowance be-
tween concessions 10 and 11 of Cavendish intersects the said town line ; thence easterly
along said last named concession line to lot 8, there meeting a waggon road which
leads to the Buckhorn Road, length, 6 miles. The bridge over the creek above named is
90 feet long with main span of 30 feet, and height 1 2 feet.
18. Chandos Road.
Two portions of roads — the first being repairs from lot 23 in 13th concession of
Chandos, easterly to the boundary line — 2i miles ; and the second from 2 miles east of
the Hastings road westward 4 miles — several deviations made.
19. Carlow Road.
Five miles of the old portion of the road repaired, and 4 miles of the new, or
extension, chopped out and partially made.
20. Cobden and Eganville Road.
Repairs began 5 miles east of Eganville, and extended easterly to the 5th line of
Bromley 4 miles. This road is mostly over a limestone flat, requiring the filling in of
rock crevices, etc.
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21. Chalk River Road.
This is an uncompleted work in the township of Wylie. $500 drawn on account of
the road.
22. Crottie Meadow Road
In South Algona, begins on lot 32, concession 5, and extends in a south-easterly direction,
crossing lots 31 in the 4th and 5th concessions, 30 in the 4th and 3rd, 29 in the 3rd, 28
in the 2nd, and ending on 26 in the 1st concession. Length 3 miles. Work consisted
in removing old timber and logs, making culverts, covering crossways, etc.
23. COMBERMERE ROAD.
This is in reality that portion of the Peterson Road between " Brudenel Corners "
and Combermere Village on the Madawaska River. The repairs were very much re-
quired, the culverts and crossways being entirely decayed and dangerous.
24. Culls Road.
Two and a half miles repaired. The road begins on the " Opeongo," where the road
allowance between lots IF and 16 intersects the same, and thence northerly along the said
road allowance.
25. Deer Lake Road.
Repairs commenced at Monck Road, on lot 16, concession 12, of Cardiff, and extend-
ed to lot 25, concession 18. Three and three-quarter miles of very rough road were made
with the present repairs a very good one.
26. Douglas and Haley's Station Road
Is in the township of Bromley on the north side of the Bonnechere, and is 8 miles
long. Two and a-half miles were improved very materially, the work consisting chiefly
in elevating the road-bed, which was too low and wet for general use, loaded teams be-
ing unable to pass over it.
27, Douglas Road.
This road being exceedingly rough and hilly, the work was largely in reducing them
to a practical slope. Its course is as follows : Commencing at Douglas on lot 4, conces-
sion 8 of Bromley ; thence east to concession line between 7 and 8 ; thence northerly along
concession line to that between lots 12 and 13 ; thence east to line between concessions
6 and 7 ; thence northerly to line between lots 15 and 16, or to the Eganville and Cobden
Road, 4i miles.
28. District Line Road,
Between Stafford and Alice townships. The line had been opened previously in a very
rous;h manner, but required the outlay upon it to make it at all passable as a good road.
The work was from the south-east corner of Alice northerly 3 miles.
29. Donegal Road.
Repaired from Eganville to Delaney's Creek — 5 miles — crossways repaired, stones
removed, etc.
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30. Eighth Line Alice Road.
This work was begun on the boundary between Alice and Stafford, on the line be-
tween 21 and 22, on ranges A and B of Alice ; thence westerly along the said line to the
8th concession, 1A miles ; graded 16 feet wide throughout and a large number of pine
stumps removed.
31. Frontenac Road.
Repairs from Ompah to Playfair's Corner— 8 miles. Work said to be exceedingly
well done.
32. Frontenac Junction Road.
This work is from the Frontenac Road to Clarendon Station on the Kingston and
Pembroke Railway — 18 miles repaired.
33. Fermoy and Sydenham Road
Described as follows : Commencing at Sydenham Village, on lot 5, concession 4, of Lough-
boro' ; thence north to the 6th concession line ; thence east along said last mentioned con-
cession line to that between lots 6 and 7 ; thence northerly along said last named line to
the 8th concession ; thence north-easterly across concessions 8 and 9 to the 10th conces-
sion, intersecting the same on lot 10 ; thence in a north-westerly direction around the
west end of Otter Lake to the north end of lot number 7 in the 12th concession —
total length, 10 miles. The repairs began 2 miles north of Sydenham and were ex-
tended 8 miles. Phosphate mines in the vicinity of this road causes heavy traffic
over it, hence the repairs became an absolute necessity.
34. Flinton Road.
Four miles repaired, making it a very good road throughout its entire length.
35. Fifth Line Bromley Road.
The route of this line is so low and flat that brushing and ditching were required
throughout the greater portion of the 2 miles made. The work was from the south
side of lot 10, in the 5th concession of Bromley, northerly along the said concession to
lot 15.
36. Glamorgan Town Line Road,
Being the boundary line between Glamorgan and Monmouth, and extending frcm the
Monk Road to reach settlements in the 8th, 9th and 10th concessions of Glamorgan —
2 miles made.
37. Glastonbury Road.
This road begins on the Addington Road, and at present ends at the north-east
angle of Kaladar township — 7 miles.
38. Grattan and Algona Road
Commences on the 22nd concession of Grattan, at lot 26, and extends westerly to lot 36
in the 24th concession — 4i miles. The greater portion graded and many hills reduced.
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39. Haliburton and Doyle's Road.
Fifteen miles repaired, from a point 8 miles east of Haliburton Village easterly.
40. Haliburton and Guilford Road.
There were 6 miles of this road repaired between the Peterson Road and Halibur-
ton. The road commences at the village on lots 17 and 18, concession 8, of Dysart, and
from thence north-easterly to the line between concessions 9 and 10, intersecting the
same on lot 20 ; thence westerly along the last mentioned road allowance to lot number
17 ; thence north-westerly to the Peterson road on lot 7, concession 13, of the aforemen-
tioned township, a total length of 7i miles.
41. Harvey Road.
This road commences at; the Bobcaygeon Road on lot 16, concession 9, of Harvey,
and continues from thence easterly along the north-west side of Pigeon Lake and ending
on the Buckhorn Road about 4 miles north of Buckhorn Village. This year the work
was begun near the line between concessions 10 and 11 and continued westerly 3
miles. The ground was very low generally, and required raising and ditching over a
considerable portion of its length.
42. Hastings Road.
A large amount of work was done upon this road. In addition to the 10 miles re-
paired, a bridge was built over Egan's Creek 100 feet long, having a main span of 30
feet — the structure being 12 feet high and covered with two-inch planking. The repairs
were from Egan's Creek to York River, and included a deviation 1 mile in length from
free grant lot 40 to lot 49, east of the road in Dungannon.
43. Herschel and Faraday Town Line Road.
Work commenced on lot 25 and continued westerly 2^ miles to Cardiff township.
44. Hag arty Road.
The length of the work is 1J miles which was graded throughout and all crossways
covered. It is from lot 1 in the 6th concession of S. Algona, westerly along the conces-
sion line
45. Horton and Ross Road.
Improvements made from the north boundary of Horton, where line between conces-
sions 3 and 4 intersects, southerly along said concession line to the road between lots 20
and 21,3 miles. One mile of work was also performed on the side road between lots 20
and 21 in the 4th concession.
46. Kirkfield Road.
Altogether 13 miles of this road were repaired, and it was also extended 1 mile to
connect with the Monck Road. The outlay also includes building a bridge, towards which
the municipality contributed about one half its cost. Another bridge 66 feet long was
also erected, so that a large amount of work has been managed for the $550 expended.
47. Kennebec Road.
Repairs from Cross Lake Bridge in Kennebec, westerly, to the Glastonbury Road, a
length of 4 miles.
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48. Lutterworth Road.
Some excellent repairs were made over several (8) miles in this instance, the rough-
est sections of the road being selected for operations.
49. Lavant Road.
Twelve miles of this road repaired and 5 on a branch of it called "Joe Lake," in
Lavant, from lot No. 6 in the 5th concession to the rear of the township.
50. Lonsdale and Bridgewater Road.
This road is in three sections and is made to complete communication between Lons-
dale on Salmon River in the Township of Tyendinaga, Bogart's Mills, and on to Bridge-
water in Elziver township. The first section is in Tyendinaga, and the other two sec-
tions in the township of Hungerford, the combined length being some 7 or 8 miles.
51. Monmouth Road.
A road begun last year and made a distance at 3^ miles. It was extended this year
3 miles, crossing lot 9 con. 1 of Dudley ; 8, 9 and 10 in con. 16 of Monmonth, and lot
10 in 15th con., ending on the side line between lots 10 and 11 on the road allowance
between concessions 14 and 15 ; 3 miles made. A further extension of the road is being
strongly urged by those interested.
52. Monck Road.
Repairs were begun 7 miles east of Bobcaygeon Road, and extended easterly 5 miles
to what is known as Devils Creek, where a substantial structure 200 feet long was built
to replace the old bridge. Other repairs were made east of Norland. Annual repairs
are still required upon this road, it being the chief east and west artery of the district.
53. Methuen Road.
Work commenced on the Chandos Road upon the road allowance between lots 25 and
26, and on the line between concessions 2 and 3, from thence the road was made north-
erly 1] miles.
54. Mississippi Road.
East of the Hastings Road two bridges were renewed, and the balance of the grant
spent in general repairs. East of Addington Road, about 15 miles were improved very
much. The principal operations were between Ompah and Vennacher.
55. Monteagle Road.
Two miles added to this road, being from last year's work southerly on the road
allowance between lots 10 and 11 to the line between the 8th and 9th concessions of
Monteagle. It is intended eventually to unite this with the Hastings Road.
56. Mississippi and Frontenac Junc. Road.
The first 3 and last 2 miles of this road were very good, the middle portion
being rough. The whole length is about 7i miles and has been very much benefited by
the expenditure upon it, and it is now in very good shape for general traffic.
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57. Mississippi and Addington Road.
This is practically a diversion of the MississippiRoad to avoid what is called and known
in the locality as " Eagle Hill." This new road, which is 2i miles long, is an excellent lo-
cation, and, with some additional work upon it will be found of untold advantage to the
people, enabling them to escape passage over the hill mentioned, and in lieu thereof to
get an almost level line.
58. Muskrat River Bridge.
Over Muskrat River, on lot 23, of the first concession of Stafford. When com-
pleted it will be 130 feet long, main span 50 feet, and remaining portion 15 feet spans
supported by bents.
59. McNab Road.
The work was confined to the reduction of some heavy clay hills and filling in a deep
ravine over a stone culvert. The work was let by contract by the overseer at a good
bargain, and the work was well done.
60. Opeongo Road,
Repaired in three sections, as follows : — 1. From 2 miles west of where intersected by the
Peterson Road, 2 miles westerly. 2. Along the 16th concession of Brudenel, over a very
stony portion ; and 3. From Renfrew westerly, 6 miles. This last section was also rough
and stony.
61. Osceola and Pembroke Road.
Commencing at the north boundary of Bromley where the 3rd concession line inter-
sects, the road was repaired '2\ miles southerly, along the 3rd line. The work was heavy
ditching and grading, well done.
62. Portland and Hinchinbrook-e Road.
This road is through a poor section. It begins at the boundary between Camden
and Portland, where the 9th con. of Camden intersects the road. From thence it is made
north-easterly, crossing 27 in the 13th, and 27, 26, 25, in con. 14 of Portland, meeting
the south boundary of Hinchinbrooke, where the road allowance between lots 10 and 11
intersects it ; thence northerly along said 14th con. line to Chippego Lake on lot 8, cons.
10 and 11, the length being 5 miles. For the outlay ($300), a good work was effected.
63. Pembroke and Eganville Road.
An old road. The work wa^ about Lake Dore and includes Z\ miles of grading,
brushing and gravelling, besides 20 new culverts made in the distance.
64. Pembroke and Stafford Road.
Repairs from lot 24, con 3 to line between lots 18 and 19, li miles — work, blasting
rock, building bridges and grading roadway.
65. Palmer Rapids Road.
A road in the township of Raglan, leading to the Madawaska River. Through a
delay in the receipt of provisions, etc., this work was delayed and the final report is not
yet received.
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66. Packenham Road Bridge.
This work is not yet completed.
67. Perrault Settlement Road.
A mile and a half made and repaired. The road is in Grattan in the 12th and 13th
concessions.
68. Peterson Road.
There were over 5 miles repaired on the Peterson Road, east and west of the Hast-
ings Road, and included a new bridge over Papineau Creek 195 feet long, together with
a diversion of 2i miles to avoid a hilly district.
69. Sharbot Lake Road and Bridge.
This is a work to be completed during the coming season. It is to be a floating
bridge 800 feet long at the Sharbot Lake Narrows, and in connection with it, about 4
miles of road to complete the work. There is now no means except by water, of reaching
Sharbot Village, even on foot, without trespassing upon railway property. The bridge
is on lot 11, con. 4 of Oso.
70. Sheffield Road.
Work from Tamworth easterly on or near the road between lots 5 and 6 to con. 10 ;
thence northeasterly across lot 6 in concessions 10 and 11 to that between the 11th and
12th concessions.
71. Snake River Bridge.
This is a work not finished. The bridge is over Snake River on the town line
between Westmeath and Bromley and on the last lot in Bromley.
72. Sebastopol Road.
This is usually called the Clear Lake Road. Six years ago it was made passable,
but imperfectly finished. This year the many stones which were upon the read we
removed, and the culverts and bridges repaired.
73. Shamrock Road.
These operations were from lot 1 in the 11th concession of Admaston, northerly to
the Village of Shamrock, on lot No. 10, the work being the removal of boulders and
stones, the repairing of culverts and crossways and general grading.
Tamworth and Oso Road.
The chief difficulty in this case is steep hills along the line, and on account of a large
amount of railway traffic, or rather traffic owing to the construction of railways near
Arden, the road was much destroyed. The repairs were extended pretty well over the
road and very much improved it.
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75. Tudor Road.
This year's work is described as follows: — Commencing on lot 15, con. 16 Oashel ;
thence north in the township of Mayo to "The Narrows" on lot 18, con. 3 of Mayo ;
thence continuing on the same course to lot 24 in the 7th concession, there to intersect
the Mississippi Road. Settlers had already made a portion of the road and the munici-
pality had located it from the narrows.
76. VlCTORIAVILLE AND CoBOCONK ROAD.
These are 4 miles of repairs of the road between Victoria Road Station and Coboconk.
77. Victoria Road.
The Victoria Council and the Government gave each $100 for this work. The money
was spent upon the road south of Portage Road. A bridge was also constructed over
Black Creek, about 8 miles north of Uphill, to replace one which had been completely
destroyed by fire and thus rendering the road useless. A lot of crossway was also
destroyed.
78. Vennachar Road.
This road crosses from the Mississippi Road to the Hyde Chute and Frontenac Road
in the townships of Abinger and Denbigh, some 6 miles long. Only $900 have been
spent altogether upon the work, so that a good road cannot be expected, but it is pretty
well opened and is advantageous to settlers in the District.
79. Wilberforce 23rd Line Road
Begins where line between concessions 22 and 23 of Wilberforce intersects the Pembroke
and Eganville Road, and from thence it is continued westerly along the line 3 miles. A
good deal of rock blasting was done along this route besides several deviations.
80. Westmeath and Pembroke Road.
These are repairs over a sandy hill and plain, which required much labour in reducing
gradients and improving the road generally. The length wrought over is 1} miles. The
road itself was originally an old stage route.
31. Wollaston Road.
A small work began at .the Hastings Road between concessions 8 and 9 and ended
upon lot 11 in the same concession, and in the township of Wollaston.
82. Wollaston and Faraday Town Line Road.
Three miles of repairs effected for the outlay. The labour was from the rear of the
Free Grant lots to lot No. 11, the road being along or near the boundarv.
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SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURE ON COLONIZATION ROADS IN 1882.
I.
North Division.
1. Batchewaning Road $895 40
2. Bury " 1,500 00
3. Barrie Island " 635 00
4. Bidwell Branch " 71 3 28
5. Centre " 1,250 00
6. Coffin " 300 00
7. Coffin additional " 720 01
8. Gore Bay " 1,595 00
9. Gore and Providence Bay " 740 00
10. Great Northern " 300 00
11. Galbraith " 1,038 46
12. Kakabeka " 1,400 00
13. Long Bay " 430 00
14. Lefroy (or Kirkwood) " 1,159 50
15. Mudge and West Bay " 369 35
16. Mudge and Gore Bay " 635 00
17. Oliver " 1,461 60
18. Port Finlay " 466 02
19. Sandfield and West Bay " 621 12
20. Second Line " 625 94
21. Silver Islet " 1,436 98
22. Thessalon " 809 60
23. " W " and 14 concession " 225 27
$19,327 53
II.
West Division.
1. Alsace Road $912 84
2. Bridges on Nipissing " 980 90
3. Baxter Road and Bridges " 1,147 13
4. Bracebridge " 402 05
5. .Brunei " 550 00
6. Carling, Nos. 1 and 2 " 1,258 61
7. Chatfey Bridge and " 1,028 00
8. Christie . . " 1,423 06
9. Christie and McDougall Junction " 307 50
10. Conmianda " 499 36
11. Draper and Ryde " 200 00
12. Draper and Gravenhurst " 200 00
13. Denville Swamp " 353 85
14. Distress River " 1,100 00
15. East Armour " 225 00
16. East River " 458 10
17. Eagle Lake " 500 38
18. Gurd " 1,510 00
19. German Settlement " 100 00
20. Gravenhurst and Draper " 1,000 00
21. Himsworth " 200 00
22. Junction No. 1 " 1,997 45
23. " " 2 " 125 00
24. Kearney " 1,044 59
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25. Lorimer Lake Road
26. Lake Shore and Lanes '
27. Menzie's Bri
28. Musquosh Road
29. Macaulay "
30. Missionary "
31. Muskoka, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 "
32. Milne's Mill "
33. Nipi.ssing "
34. North Chatfey "
35. Oka "
36. Peninsula "
37. Perry and Monteith, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 "
38. Parry Sound "
39. Poverty Bay "
40. Peninsula Creek Bridge
41. Rosseau and Nipissing, 1 and 2 Road
42. Red Bridge '. "
43. Ryde and Ryde Centre "
44. Seguin River Bridge
45. Sinclair Road
46. Stisted, No. 2. and S. S. T. L "
47. Savage Settlement "
48. Stephenson, 4th concession ■ "
49. Whitestone Lake "
III.
1 $1,145
76
579
00
536
63
763
03
200
On
250
08
4,445
21
350
1.0
2,006
58
200
00
915
66
910
15
2,828
16
100
00
497
19
249
95
2,468
87
500
00
350
00
600
00
923
20
707
i;o
1,010
58
200
00
225
po
), 486,47
East Division.
1. Anstruther Road $639 14
2. Addington " 838 90
3. Anglesea " 424 56
4. Alice and Indian River " 559 93
5. Arden " 500 00
6. Algona " 353 37
7. Algona South " 403 67
8. Algona 6th line " 325. 38
9. Admaston, Nos. 1 and 2 " 767 87
10. Bolsover " 500 00
11. Burleigh, Nos. 1 and 2 " 942 95
12. Buckhorn, Nos. 1 " " " 723 00
13. Bobcaygeon " 219 05
14. Barrie, Nos. 1 and 2 " 739 95
15. Bagot " 970 29
16. Cameron " 200 00
17. Cavendish " 717 15
18. Chandos, Nos. 1 and 2 " 570 39
19. Carlow " 463 00
20. Cobden and Eganville " 600 15
21. Chalk River " 500 00
22. Crottie Meadow " 350 00
23. Combermere " 545 83
24. Cull's " 476 06
25. Deer Lake " 554 55
26. Douglas and Haley's Station " 500 00
27. Douglas " 500 00
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District Line Road
Donegal
Eighth Line Alice +
Frontenac
Frontenac Junction
Fermoy and Sydenham
Flinton
Fifth Line, Bromley
Glamorgan
Glastonbury
Grattan and Algona
Haliburton and Doyle's
Haliburton and Guilford
Harvey
Hastings _.
Herschel and Faraday
Hagarty
Horton and Ross
Kirkfield
Kennebec ...
Lutterworth
Lavant
Lonsdale and Bridgewater
Monmouth .
Monck, Nos. 1, 2 and 3
Methuen
Mississippi, Nos. 1 and 2
Monteagle
Mississippi and Frontenac
Mississippi and Addington
Muskrat River Bridge
McNab Road
Opeongo, Nos. 1, 2 and 3
Osceola and Pembroke
Portland and Hinchinbrooke
Pembroke and Eganville
Pembroke and Stafford
Palmer Rapids
Packenham Road Bridge
Perrault Settlement Road
Peterson, Nos. 1 and 2 "
Sharbot Lake Road and Bridge
Sheffield Road
Snake River Bridge
Sebastopol Road
Shamrock "
Tamworth and Oso "
Tudor "
Victoriaville and Coboconk ' "
Victoria Road and Bridge
Vennachar Road
Wilberforce "
Westmeath and Pembroke "
Wollaston "
Wollaston and Faraday "
69
$500 00
503 16
150 00
601 94
664 04
300 00
550 09
501 12
299 58
462 I'd
476 50
904 33
300 00
304 32
844 51
200 00
400 00
750 04
550 00
488 36
302 07
1,505 17
760 92
817 23
1,384 24
649 04
1,109 02
295 72
475 15
451 20
500 00
500 00
1,787 19
668 85
300 00
462 76
500 00
445 72
400 00
497 71
1,101 88
911 33
300 53
800 00
800 00
448 14
350 00
485 00
500 00
1,080 09
311 81
250 00
550 00
175 00
500 00
17,011 21
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RECAPITULATION.
I. North Division $19,327 53
II. West " 40,486 47
III. East " 47,011 21
IV. Inspection 3,410 52
V. Balances of 1881 825 00
Total Expenditure $111,060 73
Legislative Grant 110,650 00
Refunds 410 73
$111,060 73
HENRY SMITH,
Supt. of Col. Roads,
Department of Crown Lands,
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
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REPORT
MINISTER OF EDUCATION.
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
REPORT
MINISTER OF EDUCATION
(OUSTT-^-IRIO),
FOR THE YEAR 1382,
WITH THE STATISTICS OF 1881.
PART /.—RESPECTING THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, 1882.
1. PROCEEDINGS OF THE EDUCATION 0EPAK1
2. Provincial, Normal and Model S.
3. County Model Schools.
4. Teachers' Associations.
5. Departmental Examinations.
6. Public School Teachers' Certificates, etc.
7. Inspection of Public, Separate and High Si b .s,
PART II.— STATISTICS OP PUBLIC, SEPARATE AND HIGH SCHOOLS FOR
THE YEAR 1881.
PART III.— GENERAL, 1882.
1. Normal Schools, and Secondary and Elementary Education in the United States
(Special Report).
2. The Kindergarten System (Special Report).
PART IF.— RESPECTING TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND MECHANICS' INSTI-
TUTES.
i'rintcrt Ini Orrtrr of tin* fgfegfclativt Assembly.
Toronto :
PRINTED BY C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, 5 JORDAN STREET.
1883.
46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. A. 1883
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, 1882.
PAGB.
DivisiuN L— Proceedings of the Education Department, 1882:
1. Legislation 10
2. ( Orders in Council 12
3. Minutes of Department 24
4. Circulars to Inspectors, Trustees and Teachers 26
5. Opinions and decisions of the Minister of Education '. 40
0. Confirmation of By-laws (15
7. Commissions of Enquiry (>7
8. Financial and Business Transac t ions 08
Division II. — Provincial Normal andModel Schools, 1882:
1. The Toronto Normal School G9
2. The Ottawa Normal School 72
3. The Model School, Toronto 75
4. The Model School, Ottawa 75
5. Directions as to nature and extent of instruction in the Normal and Model
Schools 75
C. Expenditure, Normal and Model Schools, 1881-82 77
Division ni.— County Model Schools, 1882:
1. Report of Messrs. Ross and Tilley, Inspectors 78
Division IV. — Teachers' Associations, 1882:
1. Ontario Teachers' Association 01
2. Lanark " " 04
3. Peel " " 95
4. S. Simcoe " " 96
5. S. Grey " " 90
6. Dufi'erin " " 06
7. X. Huron " 0(1
8. W. Middle's" " '.»;
0. London " " 07
10. Financial Statement 08
46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (Xo. 5). A. 1883
Division V. — Departmental Examinations, 1882:
1. Admission of Candidates, Collegiate Institutes and High Schools 100
2. Intermediate Examination 104
Division VI.— Public
1. Third Class Professional Cert i: ity Board) 103
2. Second " " " Department) 105
3. First ■• •• " •• 109
4. Nominal List of Provincial Certi rated by the Department 100
5. Third Class Certificates extended by the Minister during the year Ill
G. Temporary Certificates authorized by the Minister of Education during the year. 112
7. Superannuated Teachers 113
(1) Pensions -ranted during the year 113
(2) Summary— 1876 to 1882 *. 114
8. Teachers retired from the Profession during the year 114
Division VIL — I,t.<i< ; Separal wols.
1. ." Hon.
i List of Inspectors (1882) 115
(2) Extracts from Reports of Public School Inspector., 1881) 116
1. Prescott and Russell llo
2. Lanark 117
3. Hastings — North 120
4. Haliburton 121
5. Ontario 122
6. South Simcoe and District of Muskoka 123
7. Brant 125
8. Dufferin 120
9. District of Algoma 120
10. District of Parry Sound 128
2. Unman Catholic Separate School Inspection 1882 .
Report of Roman Catholic Separate School Inspector 130
3. Collegiate Instituii and High School Tnspeci m 18 12 .
Reports of High School Inspectors 130
■■ART II.
STATISTICAL REPORT, 1881.
Stati tic ' Pi ■■. Sej '< and High Schools for tht Year 1881.
1. Public Schools.
(1) Receipts and Expenditure 145
(2) School population, Average attendance, etc 140
(3) Number of pupils in the different branches 147
(4) Number hi Teachers, Salaries, Certificates lis
1,5) School Boards and Rural Schools 14S
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l'.VGE.
2. Roman Catholic Separate Schools.
(6) The Roman Catholic Separate Schools 149
Report of Inspector on Special Examinations in Algoma and Parry Sound 129
3. High Schools.
(7) Comparative Statement — years 1881 and 1882 150
(8) Receipts and Expenditure — Pupils — Cost 150
(9) Number of pupils in the subject of study 151
(10) Accommodation and Miscellaneous 151
4. General Statistical Abstract.
(11) General Statistical Abstract— 1872 to 1881 151
Tables.
1. Public Schools.
I. Table A. — Receipts and Expenditure 154
II. Table B —Pupils attending 100
III. Table C. — Pupils in different branches 166
IV. Table D.— Public School Teachers 172
V. Table E. — Public School Houses 174
l'. Roman Catholic Separate Schools.
VI. Table F. — Roman Catholic Separate Schools 176
3. High Schools.
VII. Table G. — High Schools comparative statement, 1880, 1881 178
VIII. Table H. — Receipts and Expenditures 180
IX. Table I. — Pupils iu the different branches 180
X. Table K. — -Miscellaneous, Head Blasters' names, Salaries and Uni-
versities 192
4. ffi leral Statistical Abstract.
XI. Table L.— General Statistical Abstract, 1872 to 1881 198
PART 111.
GENERAL, 1882.
Divw m I — Normal Schools, and Secondary and Elementary Education in the United
States, Special Report by Dr. McLellan 203
(1) State Normal School, Albany, K.Y 20:.;, 214
(2) State Normal School, Worcester, Mass 205, 214
(3) State Normal School, Farmingham, Mass 207
(4) State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass 208
(5) Boston Normal School 210
(6) State Normal School, New Britain, Conn 213, 215
(7i City Normal College, New York 213
General Discussion 216
Summary of Conclusions L'2(i
Divimon II.— The Kindergarten System, Special Report by J. L. Hughes, Esq 229
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PAJiT IV.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
PAGE.
Preamble — Instructions respecting Mechanics' Institutes 237
1. Association of Mechanics' Institutes 239
2. Mechanics' Institutes 241
3. Report of Superintendent (Dr. May) Ontario School of Art 243
4. Report of 'Western School of Art and Design, London Jt»0
5. Report of Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society 261
6. Report of French-Canadian Institute, Ottawa 263
Annual Report of Board of Management, School of Practical Science 264
APPENDIX.
Containing Details of Condition of ba< h Mechanics' Institute in 1882, Arranged
Alphabetically 271
' Ionclusion 353
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5). A. 1883
REPORT
OP
THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION (ONTARIO),
FOR THE YEAR 1882,
WITH
THE STATISTICS OF 1881.
To the Honourable John Beverley Robinson,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario :
May it Please Your Honour: —
As Minister of Education I respectfully beg to submit my Report for the year 1882,
with the statistics of the year 1881, under four Parts and their several Divisions,
namely : —
Part I. Proceedings^ the Education Department during the Year 1882.
" II. Statistics of Public, Separate, and High Schools for the Year 1881.
" III. General.
•' IV. Technical Education.
PART I.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
Division I.
1. LEGISLATION.
Certain amendments in the law relating to Public Schools, as well as High Schools,
were made in the Session of 1882, by the Act, 45 Vic. cap. 30, to the effect following,
namely : —
as to public schools.
1 . That holders of Third Class Certificates awarded by County Boards of Examiners,
after attending and passing the professional examination at a County Model School,
might be employed as teachers in any county in the Province, without the requirement
of the Inspector's endorsement.
2. It was made the duty of the County Inspector and of the Public School Board or
Trustees to send in annually to the Department a separate report as to the fitness, aptness,
and success in teaching of each teacher employed by such Public School Board or Trus-
tees respectively, as additional evidence for the Minister's consideration on any application
for an extension of such teacher's certificate.
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3. For granting, by the Board of Examiners therein mentioned, Third Class District
Certificates, subject to the regulations of the Department, in the territorial and remote
districts following, namely, Thunder Bay, Nipissing, Algoma, and Parry Sound, also in
the northern parts of the counties of Victoria (including the district of Muskoka), Peter-
borough, (including the county of Haliburtou), Hastings, Frontenac, Lennox and
Aldington, and Renfrew, as might be defined by the Education Department.
AS TO HIGH SCHOOLS.
4. In confining the Board of Examiners for the admission of pupils to High Schools,
composed of the Public School Inspector and the Head Master of the High School, to
cities and towns separated from the county, and establishing as the Board of Examiners
for High Schools situate in towns, villages or townships, the County Inspector of the
district in which the High School was situate, the Public School Inspector of the town
(if any), the High School Head Master and the Chairmen of the High and Public School
Trustees, respectively, and of the Separate School (if any).
5. The repeal of the condition under which a High School could become a Collegiate
Institute, namely, when it employed not less than four teachers, and the daily average of
male pupils studying Latin or Greek was not less than 60, and substituting therefor the
following provision : " The terms and conditions on which existing Collegiate Institutes
may be continued or discontinued, and new ones established, shall be subject to and in
accordance with the Regulations of the Education Department at any time passed for the
purpose, and approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council."
" Any such regulations shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly within the first
seven days of the session next after the Order in Council is made for its ratification or
rejection, and no such order shall be operative unless and until the same has been
ratified by resolution of the Legislative Assembly."
2. ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
I. — Appointment of Andrew L. Parker, M. A., as Temporary Inspector of Schools
in Algoma, Etc., during the ill-health of P. Alvin Switzer (18th January, 1882).
II. — Appointment of James F. White as Inspector of Roman Catholic Separate
Schools (25th March, 1882).
III. — Surrender of Lands by Galt Collegiate Institute (25th March, 1882).
IV. — Normal and Model Schools — Toronto and Ottawa.
Inspection by Dr. McLellan (20th May, 1882).
That High School Inspector McLellan be authorized to visit the two Normal and
Model Schools in order to obtain specific information on every point which may tend to
make the Provincial Normal and Model Schools more effective, in so much of the practical
work of training teachers as respects professional instruction, and that he be also author-
ized to require from the Principal and masters and others concerned, all such information
as he may think necessary therefor.
V. — Roman Catholic Separate School Inspection.
Discontinuance of visits oj High and Public School Inspectors (20th May, 1882).
An Inspector having been appointed for all the Roman Catholic Separate Schools it
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lias become unnecessary that this duty of inspection shall any longer be performed under
the regulations of the Education Department heretofore in force, and that each Roman
Catholic Separate School be inspected by the Inspector so appointed, and that the High
and Public School Inspectors be relieved from the further performance of such duty.
VI. — Appointment of John E. Hodgson, M. A., as High School Inspector (18th
July, 1882).
In place of the late Samuel Arthur Marling, M.A., deceased, such appointment to
begin from the 1st day of July, instant.
VII. — Regulations Approved (31st July, 1882).
These regulations relate to the following : —
1. Public Schools — Course of Study.
2. Public Schools — Text Books In Elementary Physics and Principles of Agriculture.
3. High Schools — Course of Study.
4. High Schools — Text Books In Booany and Principles and Practice of Agriculture.
5. High Schools — Distribution of Legislative Grant.
6. Collegiate Institutes. — Conditions required.
7. Training of Teachers — Amended Conditions.
(1) Non-Professional Examination for Third and Second-class Certificates separately.
(2) Professional Training of First-class Candidates.
8. Training of Teachers — Improved Means of Professional Instruction.
( 1 ) Provincial Normal Schools for Second-class Candidates. Longer Sessions.
(2) Session at the Education Department for First-class Candidates. Scope of
professional instruction for Second and First-class Candidates extended, includ-
ing a course of Psychology.
(3) High School Head Masters — Assistant Masters.
(4) County Model Schools for Third-class Candidates. Longer Session.
1. Public Schools. — Programme or Course of Study.
1. The Programme or Course of Study shall be according to Schedule A herewith,
as far as the circumstances of the particular school will allow of the same being followed ;
and where these circumstances require it, such modifications are permitted as thereupon
become necessary.
2. Special suggestions for the guidance of Public School Boards and Trustees, and
for the benefit of Teachers, will be prepared by the Central Committee of Examiners,
and read as explanatory of the subjects comprised in the Course of Study, and as to the
methods of teaching them.
3. The subjects in the first Four Classes are kept distinct from those in the Fifth
and Sixth Classes, and are arranged for separately, as Part I. of the Programme, while
those of the Fifth and Sixth Classes appear under Part II. thereof.
4. The subjects therein respectively comprised are to be taken as obligatory upon
all Public School Boards and Trustees, so far as the circumstances of their schools, in
the judgment of the respective Boards or Trustees, will allow.
5. Public School Boards and Trustees are authorized to require any teacher in their
employment to give occasional lessons in Elementary Physics and Principles of Agriculture.
6. The foregoing will take effect on and from the end of the Summer vacation.
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Pari II. — For Fifth and Sixth Classes.
Reading — Fifth Reader, and eiitieal reading from selected standard English works.
Spelling — Prefixes, Affixes, and Roots. Verbal distinctions.
Writing — Miscellaneous and business forms.
Arithmetic — 5th — Interest, discount, percentage, stocks, loss and gain, square root.
6th — Stocks, partnership, alligation, cube root, etc.
Drawing — Object drawing, shading, drawing animals and plants ; perspective.
Geography — Geography of the world. Political geography. Physical and mathema-
tical geography.
Music — Musical notation. More commonly occurring keys. Singing sacred written music.
Transposition trom one key to another.
Grammar — Analysis and parsing. Transposition. Writing essays.
History — 5th — Outline of Canadian and British history.
6th — Outline of Grecian and Roman history ; British and Canadian history.
Algebra — 5th — Four elementary rules. Easy simple equations.
6th — Simple equations and easy quadratics. Problems.
Geometry and Mensuration — Euclid, Books I., II. Areas of rectilinear figures.
Volumes of prism, cone, sphere, etc. Areas of simple surfaces.
2. Public Schools. — Elementary Science and Agriculture.
1. Public School Boards and Trustees are now authorized to require teachers in
their employment to give occasional lessons in Elementary Physics and Principles of
Agriculture. The following text books are therefore recommended and authorized >*or
their use, as well as that of pupils receiving such instruction.
2. In Elemental-!/ Physics— Science Primers, fol-
lowing—
(1) Introductory. By Huxley |
(2) Chemistry. By Roscoe j
(3) Physics. By Stewart -j
Any Canadian or English editions thereof.
3. Agriculture—
(1) First Principles of— by Henry Tanner,
F.C.S., Examiner in Principles of Agri-
culture, under the Government Depart-
ment of Science, England.
Where
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High Schools. — Course of Study, as amended by Regulation of 13th Novem-
ber, 1882.
/.mrer School.
1. The subjects of study which are obligatory upon all High School Boards are as
follows :-
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1. English Grammar.
2. English Literature.
3. Composition.
4. Dictation.
5. History and Geography.
G. Arithmetic and Book-keeping.
7. Drill and Calisthenics.
2. The subjects of study which are optional with High School Boards are as
follows : —
1. Algebra and Euclid.
2. Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and Botany.
3. Latin and Greek.
4. French and German.
5. Music.
6. Drawing.
7. Physiology and Hygiene.
8. Principles of Agriculture.
9. Household arts — as Sewing, Cooking, and Housekeeping.
3. While all High School Boards are required to afford secondary instruction in
classes in the obligatory subjects above prescribed, each Board may arrange, according to
the particular circumstances of its school, the order in which such subjects are taken up,
the amount of work and time to be given, and the number of classes.
4. High School Boards are not required to provide means of instruction in all of
the optional subjects of study above authorized, but only in such as in the judgment of
each Board the occasion or circumstances of their school render expedient.
Intermediate Examination.
5. The true object of this examination being to test the fitness of each pupil to pro-
ceed from the Lower to the Upper School, it shall be regulated so that any pupil of mode-
rate capacity may, after the requisite period of study, pass in the most essential of secon-
dary branches in the Lower School. The obligatory subjects of such examination are
therefore limited to the following : — -
1. English Grammar.
2. English Literature.
3. Composition.
4. Dictation.
5. Arithmetic, and
6. To one of the following subjects or groups of subjects at the option
of each pupil, viz. : —
(a) Algebra and Euclid.
(b) History and Geography.
(c) Any two of the following three : —
Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany.
(d) Latin.
(e) French or German, with, when selected by the parent or guardian
of such pupil, Music or Drawing.
6. The Education Department will prescribe by Regulations the principles to
govern in the preparation of questions, the reading and values of answers, the conditions
of passing, and the time and mode of conducting the examinations.
Upper School.
7. The subjects of study in the Upper School shall be those prescribed for the
Non-Professional Examination for First-Class Public School Teachers' Certificates, and
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for Junior and Senior Matriculation in the Provincial University, in the case of pupils
preparing for any such examination. In the case of other pupils, any parent or guardian,
after consultation with the Head Master, and with his approval, is at liberty to select for
his child or ward one or more of the following subjects, as may best suit the purposes of
such pupil, viz. : —
1. English Language and Literature.
2. History.
3. Arithmetic and Algebra.
4. Any of the following :
French, Greek,
German, Geography,
Latin, Natural Philosophy,
8. Head Masters are at liberty to continue in the Upper School any subject of
the Lower School which they may think fit.
9. High School Boards are not bound to provide instruction in all the authorized
subjects of study in the Upper School, but are entrusted with full discretion to afford
instruction in such subjects only as they may consider necessary in the particular circum-
stances of their school.
Chemistry,
Botany,
Geology and Mineralogy.
10. The foregoing shall take effect at and from the end of the summer vacation.
4. High Schools. — Text Books.
1. High School Boards are now authorized to provide means of instruction in Botany
and Principles of Agriculture as optional subjects. The following text books are there-
fore recommended and authorized for use in High Schools, as well as in the 5th and 6th
classes of the Public Schools :
The Elements of Structural Botany, with
Special Reference to the Study of Canadian
Plants. By Professor Macoun and H. B.
Spotton, M.A.
3. In Agriculture—
(1) First Principles of — by Henry Tan-
ner, F.C.S., Examiner in Principles of Agri-
culture, under the Government Department
of Science, England.
(2) For advanced pupils only —
Elementary Lessons in the Science of
Agricultural Practice, also by Henry Tanner.
Where
Published.
England ,
England .
W. J. Gage & Co.
Macmillan & Co.
Macmillan k Co.
Maximum
Retail Prick.
Is. stg.,
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3/6 stg.,
or S1.05.
4. Fleming's Analysis of the English Language being no longer suitable, is recom-
mended to be struck off the schedule of text books in both Public and High Schools.
5. High Schools. — Distribution of Grant.
The principle of the Regulations of the 31st July, 1882, which regulates the distri-
bution of the grant beyond the fixed sum of $500 to each school, according to the an-
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nual amount paid by each for Teachers' Salaries has been generally recognized as sound,
ibut modifications appear to be necessary in order to adjust this principle, in its practical
'application, fairly and equitably to the present condition of each High School, and its
'application is therefore deferred until further necessary information is obtained ; in the
meantime as the grant now payable for the last half of 1882, will be distributed on the
basis of the former Regulations. It is accordingly unnecessary to introduce the text of the
Regulations of the 31st July, 1882.
6. Collegiate Institutes.
I. The following conditions are required from each Collegiate Institute now existing
for its continuance, and for the establishment and continuance of any new Collegiate
Institute, namely : —
1. Suitable School buildings, out-buildings, grounds, and appliances for physical
training.
2. Laboratory, with all necessary chemicals and apparatus for teaching the subject
of Chemistry properly.
3. Four Masters at least, each of whom shall be specially qualified to give instruc-
tion in one of the following departments : — English, Classics, Mathematics, Natural
Science, and Modern Languages ; the teaching staff of the Institute being such as to pro-
vide the means of thorough instruction in all the departments mentioned.
4. The excellence of the school, as required by the foregoing, must always be main-
tained to justify the special grant in each year.
II. No new Collegiate Institute shall be established unless all of the above condi-
tions are complied with ; and unless the yearly salaries of the four specially qualified
Masters required by condition (3) amount in the aggregate to the sum of [$4,500] at least.
III. In case it shall appear, after due inquiry, that any Collegiate Institute has
made default in the performance, observance, or fulfilment of any of the conditions of
these Regulations, or in maintaining the proper standard of efficiency, the Lieutant-Gov-
ernor in Council may withdraw its status and rights as a Collegiate Institute.
IV. The foregoing are intended to apply to each Collegiate Institute now existing,
or newly established, on and from the 1st of January, 1883, or as soon thereafter as
these Regulations may be ratified by Resolution of the Legislative- Assembly.
7. Conditions for Obtaining Public School Teachers' Certificates, and Subjects
of Examinations.
1. For Third Class Certificates.
1. The existing Regulations shall continue in effect, except as hereinafter varied.
2. Every Candidate for a Non-Professional Third Class Teachers' Certificate must
pass the Intermediate Examination prescribed by the Amended Regulations respecting
the course of study in High Schools, and an additional examination in the following
subjects : —
(1) Mental Arithmetic.
(2) Two of the optional subjects or groups of subjects so prescribed for the
Intermediate Examination, in addition to the one taken by such
Candidate at his Intermediate Examination, provided that the groups
of Algebra and Euclid, and of History and Geography, must be taken,
either at the Intermediate or additional examination.
2. For Second Class Certificates.
3. Every Candidate for a Non-Professional Second Class Teachers' Certificate, who
has passed the examination for the Non-Professional Third Class Teachers' Certificate,
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may present himself at the next or any other subsequent yearly examination for Non-
Professional Second Class Teachers' Certificates.
4. The subjects for the Non-Professional Examination of Second Class Candidates
shall be the same as those required to be taken by Candidates for Non-Professional
Third Class Certificates, but the questions shall be separate and distinct, and of a higher
standard.
5. The times of these Non-Professional Examinations shall be in the same week,
and, as far as may be, concurrent with the Intermediate.
6. A female Candidate may, at either of the above-mentioned examinations, substi-
tute for Algebra, one of the subjects of French, German, Music, or Botany, in which she
has not been examined for the Intermediate.
7. The foregoing shall take effect at and from the end of the summer vacation.
3. For First Class Certificates.
8. Whenever the Session for the professional training of First Class Candidates at
the Education Department is established, each "Candidate will be required to attend and
to pass an examination in the work of the Session, and this condition shall apply to all
grades of First Class Certificates.
8. Training of Teachers.
1. As to Second Class Certificates.
The present Regulations in the " Compendium of School Law " (1878, pages 189 to
191) are to remain in force, excepting where varied by the following : —
1. There shall be two sessions in each of the Provincial Normal Schools in each
academic year for the professional training of Candidates for Second Class Public School
Teachers' Certificates : the first session shall begin on the forenoon of the second Tuesday
of September, and continue until the afternoon of the first Friday in February following
(excepting during the High School Christmas vacation) ; the second session shall begin
on the forenoon of the first Tuesday following the first Friday in February, and shall
continue until the afternoon of the third Friday of June.
2. The subjects of instruction shall include the principles and theory of education,
school organization, discipline, and government. A Course of Lectures shall also be
delivered in the Elements of Psychology, where requisite arrangements can be made.
3. In addition to such strictly professional training, instruction shall continue to be
given, as provided for in the existing Regulations, in Mental Arithmetic, Practical
Chemistry, Music, Drawing, Hygiene, Drill and Calisthenics. And generally the Masters
shall aim at developing the partial and imperfect attainments of the students in different
departments of learning, into a higher and more complete knowledge.
4. The regular Masters in each Normal School shall consist of three, being the Prin-
cipal, Science, and Mathematical Masters, whose respective duties will be defined by the
Education Department ; and the supervision and direction of the work of the Principal
and Masters of each Normal School is hereby entrusted to Dr. McLellan, one of the High
School Inspectors, subject to the instructions of the Education Department.
2. As to First Class Certificates.
5. Whenever the requisite funds are supplied by the Legislative Assembly, there
shall be a session for the professional training of Candidates for First Class Public School
Teachers' Certificates, at the Education Department, from the second Tuesday of Septem-
ber until the Christmas vacation.
6. Such Candidates shall receive instruction in the branches of professional study
prescribed in the existing Regulations contained in the "Compendium of School Law" (pages
192 and 193), according to the Course or Syllabus from time to time approved by the
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Education Department. They are also required to attend the Course in Psychology
(except those who may have done so previously).
3. As to High School Teachers.
[By Order in Council of 22nd September, 1882, so much of the Regulations of 31st
Julv as respects the professional training of Teachers for First Class Certificates in the
Normal School, and also the Qualifications of High School Teachers, has been suspended
until the end of the year 1S83, and in the meantime the former Regulations as to the
Qualification of Candidates for First Class Teachers' Certificates, and also as High School
Masters and Assistant Masters shall be continued, and apply to them.]
4- County Model Schools.
1. Besides the existing County Model Schools now established, when, from the large
area and population of any county, it is necessary to establish more than one Model
School therein, a further Model School or schools may also be established by the County
■Council, with the approval of the Education Department.
2. In the case of two or three contiguous counties, of small area and population
(respectively, and for this reason it may be unnecessary that a Model School should exist
in each county, the Councils thereof may mutually agree to establish a Union County
Model School for such counties, subject to the approval of the Education Department.
3. No Public School shall become a County Model School unless the following requi-
sites are complied with :
(1) Every Head-master must hold a First-class Provincial Certificate, and there
must be three assistants at least, each holding a Provincial Certificate; but any Head-
Imaster who has hitherto efficiently discharged the duties of a Model School Principal
shall not be affected in his present position.
(2) In all cases where County Model Schools are established in Union Schools, the
Public School classes must be conducted so as to be practically independent of the High
jSchool classes, and the Head-master of the Public School department and his assistants
]shall respectively hold the qualifications above prescribed.
(3) The Public School should be provided with one room for each class or division
ithereof, and also with all requisite educational appliances, so soon as the Public School
I Board can do so conveniently, having regard to the resources of their school.
(4) A room should also be supplied, in which the Head-master may give professional
instruction to the teachers-in-training, and as it may be separate from the Public School
itself, such room can, in most cases, be obtained for the session, without expense, in some
public hall in the municipality. As the professional instruction to be so given by the
Headmaster, in his capacity of Principal of the County Model School, is essential to the
'training of students therein, it shall be the duty of the Public School Board to leave him
free to give at least two hours each day to the supervision of the teachers- in-training
while they are engaged in actual teaching.
4. Instead. of two terms of two months each, as at present, there shall be one session
lof three months in each year, beginning on the morning of the second Tuesday in the
month of September, and thence continuing into the month of December for the period
of about thirteen weeks.
5: As the Third-class Teachers' non-professional certificate should, under the amended
(Regulations, represent sufficient knowledge in the subjects of the High School course,
the work of instruction in the County Model School is to be deemed the professional
[complement requisite for a full third-class certificate.
The professional work of the County Model School is intended to develop the imper-
fect knowledge of the student into the more logical knowledge of the teacher, and shall
include :
(1) Special reviews of the branches taught in the first four classes of the Public
Schools, especially Reading and Mental Arithmetic.
(2) Physiology and Hygiene.
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(3) Principles of Education, School Organization, Management and Discipline.
(4) Methods of Instruction. — The best methods of teaching the various subjects pre-
scribed for the first four classes in the Public Schools, especial attention being given to
the best methods of giving the first lessons in these subjects.
(5) Observation and Reporting. — (a) Observation of methods illustrated in the
Principal's model lessons ; (b) observation — -under the Principal's supervision, when pos-
sible— of methods illustrated by the assistant Model School teachers. And reporting to
the Principal the results of their observations, especially as to the (a) object of the lessons
observed ; (b) steps by which this object was attained.
(6) Practice in Teaching. — After proper instruction and examples in methods, each
teacher-in-training shall have practice in applying the methods exemplified (a) by using
his fellow-students as a class ; (b) by teaching a class of pupils — say 10 or 12 — before
the Principal or some other competent critic ; (c) by teaching in the several divisions of
the school. No teacher-in-training should be required to practice as (a) in actually teach-
ing any subject till the best method of presenting the subject has been explained and
actually exemplified by an experienced teacher. Also, practice as in («) should precede
practice as in (b), and practice as in (b) should precede practice as in (c).
6. The teachers-in-training should employ their whole time, during the term of the
Model School, according to a time-table to be drawn up by the Principal and approved
by the Minister ; and the Principal shall keep a register to show the actual progress of
each teacher-in-training ; and it is also the duty of the Principal to see that every teacher-
in-training is thoroughly instructed and trained in the work of the course as prescribed
in Regulation 5.
7. The present syllabus of lectures, at page 245 of the Compendium, is intended to
be revised, but it should, in the meantime, continue to form the ground work of the
Principal's instruction, except where, in his judgment, it would conflict with the course of
training prescribed in Regulation 5.
8. In any county where there are two or more Model Schools the County Board will
assign to each such number of applicants as the capacity of the School will permit of,
and in cases where there may be a deficiency of room in any Model School to accom-
modate all the applicants, the County Board may give preference of admission to such
candidates as have gained the highest number of marks at the non-professional examina-
tion for Third Class Certificates.
9. The Principal shall report to the County Board of Examiners, at the close of the
session, on the fitness of each candidate, according to a form to be provided by the De-
partment. The teachers-in-training shall be subjected to oral and written examinations
at the end of the session by the County Board of Examiners, who shall, upon the Prin-
cipal's report and the results of the examinations, taken together, decide to whom certifi-
cates shall be awarded.
10. All County Boards of Examiners are authorized, by resolution of such Board, to
require from teachers-in-training in their County Model School the fee of five dollars per
session for instruction therein.
11. The Legislative and Municipal Grants, as well as all sums from fees for intruc-
tion, shall be payable to the Public School Board, to be applied for the satisfactor
maintenance of the County Model School, according to the conditions and standards
prescribed by these regulations, for the professional training of candidates for thinl-clas;
public school teachers' certificates.
12. The inspection of the Model Schools shall be governed by the Regulations of the
30th September, 1879, but the Minister is authorized, with the approval of the Education
Department, to appoint any one or more Inspectors, in order, through him or them,
secure a uniform standard and system of operations, as well as to afford useful informa-
tion to County Boards, Public School Inspectors and Principals, in regard to the conduct
of such schools, and other matters relating thereto.
13. The foregoing shall take effect on and from the end of the summer vacation.
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"VIII. — Appointment of Edgar A. Dickinson as Drawing Master at Ottawa Nor-
mal School, provisionally (7th September, 1882).
IX. — Appointments
Of William Scott, B.A., as Master, in Ottawa Normal School (22nd September, 1882).
Of Charles Clarkson, M.A., as Head-master of Boys' Model School, Toronto ; Mr. S. H.
Preston as Assistant Music Master in Toronto Normal and Model Schools, till the
end of the year, and Richard Lewis as Teacher of Reading and the Methods of
Instruction to students for Second Class Professional Certificates, till the end of the
year.
X — The Departmental Examinations and Public School Teachers' Certificates.
Regulations approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, the 29<A day of November,
1882.
1. For passing the Intermediate Examination, every Candidate is required to obtain
twenty per cent, of the marks attainable on each subject taken by such Candidate, and
forty per cent, of the aggregate of marks of the whole of such subjects.
2. For passing the additional examination for non-professional Third Class Certifi-
cates, every Candidate is required to obtain thirty per cent, of the marks attainable on
each subject taken by such Candidate, and fifty per cent, of the aggregate of marks of the
whole of such subjects.
3. For passing the examination for non-professional Second Class Certificates, every
Candidate is required to obtain, for Grade B, thirty per cent, of the marks attainable on
each subject taken by such Candidate, and fifty per cent, of the aggregate of marks of the
whole of such subjects, or, for Grade A, thirty per cent, on each subject, and sixty per
cent, of the aggregate.
4. Any Third Class Public School Teacher, whose Certificate was granted since the
Regulations of July, 1877, came into force (" Compendium," Part IV., chapter 7, page
166), and whether or not the same has been extended, or has expired, may present himself
and is eligible as a Candidate at the non-professional examination in July, 1883, for Third
or Second Class Certificates, as he may select. Any Candidate who presented himself (or
herself) at the Intermediate examination in July, 1882, and whether passed or not, but
not otherwise disqualified, is similarly eligible as a Candidate at such examination in
July, 1883.
5. A Candidate for any non-professional Teacher's Certificate, but not for the Inter-
mediate, may claim to have his papers re-read, under the following conditions : —
(1) Such appeal or claim must be in the hands of the Minister on or before the 15th
day of September ; and the ground of the appeal or claim must be specifically stated.
(2) A deposit of two dollars must be made with the Department, which deposit will
be returned to the Candidate if his appeal or claim is sustained, but otherwise will be for-
feited.
.(3) The Central Committee of Examiners shall meet as early as possible after the
15 th of September, and shall dispose of all the appeals without delay ; and no appeal
shall subsequently be entertained on any ground whatever.
(1) In dealing with appeals, the Central Committee of Examiners shall base their
recommendation on the merits of the answers alone, without taking into view any other
considerations that may be alleged.
6. The subjects of Physiology and Hygiene, prescribed for Third Class Public School
Teachers' Certificates, being professional, will be examined upon at the end of the County
Model School Session.
7. At the professional examination of Candidates for Second Class Certificates, the
Examiners will submit, in a separate report, for the information of the Education Depart-
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merit, the names of the Candidates who may fail at such examination, and have not been
permitted to come up again, together with the extent of the failure, the nature of the
subjects, and the view taken in the Principal's report in each case.
8. The session for the professional training of First Class Candidates at the Education
Department not having been yet established, a professional examination will be held in
July, 1883, for Candidates who have passed the First Class non-professional examination,
and having taught successfully for two years on a Second Class Certificate, may wish to
qualify, by passing such examination, for a full First Class Certificate.
9. Any person who can furnish satisfactory proof that he has taught successfully,
for two years at least, on a Second Class Certificate, will also be permitted to present him-
self in July, 1883, at such examination as the Minister may prescribe, in order to test his
fitness for a First Class Certificate ; and if he passes such examination he will be exempt-
ed from attendance at the proposed Session for the professional training of First Class
Candidates.
3. MINUTES OF DEPARTMENT.
I. Cancellation of Certificate of William Robert Armstrong (5th January, 1882).
II. Central Committee of Examiners. Appointment of New Members (23rd
January, 1882).
That Maurice Hutton, M.A., Professor of Classical Literature in the University of
Toronto, and Nathan F. Dupuis, M.A. (Edinburgh), Professor of Chemistry and Mathe-
matics in the University of Queen's College, be appointed members of the Central Com-
mittee of Examiners, in place of Professor Watson and John C. Glashan, whose terms of
office have expired, and that William Dale, M. A., of the University of Toronto, be appointed
for the residue of the period for which High School Inspector Marling was appointed ;
and that the two High School Inspectors be and become ex-officio members of the said
Central Committee, for considering the subjects of study, and questions for the High
School Intermediate Examinations, and for all consultative purposes on such educational
matters as may be referred to such Committee from time to time by the Minister ; and
that it be an instruction to the Central Committee that while two Examiners should
always be concerned in and responsible for the several questions in the respective sub-
jects, their names or that of any Examiner should not in future be printed thereon or
published.
III. — Cancellation of Certificate of James Slater (30th January, 1882).
IV. — Appointment of Nathaniel Gordon as Public School Inspector in Town of
Orangeville, approved (8th February, 1882).
V. — Appointment of John Dearness as Public School Inspector in Town of
London East, approved (15th February, 1882).
VI. — Appointment of William Carlyle as Public School Inspector in Town of
Ingersoll, approved (8th February, 1882).
VII. — Appointment of Gilbert D. Platt, B.A., as Public School Inspector in Town
of Picton, approved (2nd March, 1882).
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VIII. — Further Regulations as to the Examination of Candidates for Public
School Teachers' Certificates (31st March, 1882).
This is published as a Circular, and will also appear in the Compendium.
IX. — Sub-Examiners appointed for 1882 (4th April, 1882.)
X. — Appointment of Edmund B. Harrison as Public School Inspector in Town
of Dresden, approved (16th April, 1S82).
XL — Appointment of Edmund B. Harrison as Public School Inspector in Town
OF RlDGETOWN, APPROVED (14 th April, 1882).
XII. — Appointment of James B. Grey as Public School Inspector in Town of
Niagara, approved (22nd April, 1882).
XIII. — Pickering College allowed the privilege of holding High School Ex-
aminations therein (3rd May, 1882).
That the application of the General Committee of Pickering College to be allowed
the privilege of having the High School Intermediate and Entrance Examinations held
within the College, subject to the appointment of the presiding Examiners by the De-
partment, and upon the papers of the Department for sucli examinations respectively, the
Committee being prepared to meet all the expenses of the examination, as in the case of
the High School Board, be granted.
XIV. — Additional Sub-Examiners appointed (llthMay, 1882).
XV. — Additional Sub-Examiners appointed (22nd June 1882).
XVI. — Loretto' Convent, Lindsay, allowed privilege of Intermediate Examin-
ation (21st June, 1882).
That the privilege of having the papers for the ensuing Intermediate Examination sub-
mitted to such lady students of the Loretto Convent, Lindsay, as desire to obtain Public
School Teachers' Certificates, in the Convent itself, under such substitute as may be re-
commended for the approval of the Education Department by the County Public School
Inspector, and subject to the payment of any expense incurred thereby, be extended to
the said Convent.
XVII. — Additional Sub-Examiners appointed (7th July, 1882).
XVIII. — Appointment of Peter MacLean as Temporary Inspector of Public
Schools in Algoma and Parry Sound (24th July, 1882).
XIX. — Additional Sub-Examiner1 appointed (24th July, 1882).
XX. — Appointment of G. W. Ross as Inspector of County Model Schools.
That George W. Ross, the holder of a First Class Public School Teacher's Certificate,
ind that of a Public School Inspector, be temporarily appointed as Inspector of County
Model Schools fc(in accordance with [the following recommendation of the Minister of
Waoation) : —
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1. Under the twelfth of the new regulations, approved by Order in Council of the 31st
of July last, it is provided that the Minister is authorized, with the approval of the De-
partment, to appoint any one or more Inspectors, in order through him or them to secure
a uniform standard and system of operations, as well as to afford useful information to
County Boards, Public School Inspectors and Principals, in regard to the conduct of such
schools, and other matters relating thereto.
2. Now that the new regulations are about to become applicable to the County
Model Schools, the undersigned considers that this duty could be most usefully and bene-
ficially discharged if it is entered upon at once, and continued to the close of the present
session, and if this were effectually done during this period, it would probably secure such
uniform standard and system of operations in each of such County Model Schools, as
would render any such special inspection unnecessary in the future.
3. The undersigned therefore recommends that this duty be entrusted to George W.
Ross, being the holder of a First Class Public School Teacher's Certificate, and that of a
Public School Inspector, and with experience gained in such capacities and as member
of the Central Committee of Examiners of this Department.
His success in originally organizing the larger number of the County Model Schools
in 1377, is an additional reason for this recommendation.
It is also desirable that Mr. Ross should be instructed to hold a Teachers' Institute
meeting at the same time and in the same place where he is visiting the Model School.
XXI. — Appointment of John J. Tilley as Temporary Inspector of County Model
Schools (31st October, 1882).
That John J. Tilley, Public School Inspector, be temporarily entrusted with the
inspection of the Eastern County Model Schools.
4. CIRCULARS TO INSPECTORS, TRUSTEES, AND TEACHERS.
I. — As to use of Unauthorized Books in Public Schools.
It is again my duty to call your attention to the provisions of the Public School Law
with respect to the use of Text-books. Public School Inspectors are required to see that
no unauthorized books are used in the Public Schools. Trustees who permit such will
lose their share of the Public School Grant, and Teachers substituting any such book for
an Authorized Text-book are liable to be convicted and fined for such offence.
W. J. Gage & Co's " New Series of Readers for use in Canadian Schools " is unauthor-
ized in the Province of Ontario, and therefore subject to the above provisions of the law.
5th January, 1882.
11. — General Information as to Text-books.
1. There appears to be still much misapprehension on the subject of Authorized
Text-books in the Public and High Schools, and with respect to the duties of this depart-
ment, School Corporations, Inspectors, and Teachers, and as to the rights of publishers.
2. The duty imposed upon the late Council of Public Instruction, by the Act of 1871,
of approving of Text-books in £he Public and High Schools, has since continued. It is
not a matter of discretion, but an imperative statutory obligation. It recognizes the
salutary principle which has protected the schools in this Province from being Hooded
with Text-books — an evil found in almost every State of the Union ; and the absence of
any departmental control in England is considered a defect there.
3. In the practical discharge of this duty the objects to be secured are — (1) educa-
tional merit ; (2) good mechanical execution ; (3) reasonable economy in price ; (4) no
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innecessary changes or additions. Such essentials would fail to be secured if the depart-
ment had not full control under this power of authorization.
4. Experience has, however, justified the conclusion that in the production of needed
?ext-books the business enterprise of competing publishers can be well relied upon for
heir preparation, and that the possession by the Department of the copyright is less
ffective in control, than the conditions imposed upon the authorization of any Text-book
>r any new edition.
5. To secure competition it is necessary that two or more Text-books should be
mthorized in elementary subjects, and the improvement in all new Text-books since 1877
woves its practical success.
6. The only subject in which this principle was not applied in 1877 was that of
[leading, and the then Canadian Series of Readers was left the only authorized series,
rom hesitation to make any change, the copyright being in the Department, and assumed
;o govern as to price and quality. These Readers had been prepared in 1868, and dissat-
sfaction with them prevailed in 1877, and has now become general.
7. One or more new series of Readers have thus become necessary, and the depart
nent can probably best secure reasonable satisfaction in their production from the com-
Detition, which has arisen amongst the publishers under which three series of Readers are
;o be submitted for the approval of the Department. One has already been published and
ihe other two are in course of preparation. It may be necessary to repeat that the re-
sponsibility rests with the Department of determining what series of Readers will ade-
quately meet the special requirements and conditions of the schools of this Province, as
listinct from those of any other province or country.
8. While the efforts of publishers in meeting the wants of our schools are to be en-
30uraged, they cannot anticipate the authorization by the Department, or introduce 'un-
luthorized books into the schools without being prevented by all the means in the power
of this department, and while School Trustees can exercise a choice between Authorized
rext-books, any change of Text-books must be gradual, and no Teacher is permitted to
make any change unless with the written approval of the School Board and the Public
School Inspector, and also with the sanction of the Minister, and then after the full period
of six months has elapsed.
9. The Amended Regulations, approved 5th February, 1881, fully explain the re-
ations between this Department and publishers, and the conditions to be complied with
oy them in order to obtain the authorization of any Text-book and as to any new edition
thereof.
25th January, 1882.
III. — Further Circular as to Text-books.
The public will please take notice that my first circular referred only to W. J. Gage &
Company's new series of Readers, but not to the Authorized Readers, editions of which
oy that firm and other publishers can be lawfully used in the schools.
It is necessary also to state that such circular did not apply to any Authorized Text-
books published by such firm, all of which can be lawfully used by School Corporations
jind Teachers.
The advertisements and circulars of the Canada Publishing Company as to their pro-
posed series of Readers, must not be understood by the public as in any way warranting
heir authorization, which can only be granted in any case by the Education Depart-
uent after due consideration.
7th February, 1882.
IV. — Union School Sections.
1. Union School Sections are such only as (1) comprise parts of two or more town-
hips, or (2) part of one or more townships, and a town or incorporated village ; and
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are distinguishable from unions of sections within the same township, and from Union
School Divisions, which latter arise solely by operation of law, on a village becoming
incorporated, and including within its limits any part of one or more School Sections of
the Township, when so much of each section without such limits also becomes a part of
the village for school purposes under the 83rd section of the Public Schools Act. So on
a village becoming a town with extended limits, or a town, a city.
2. Union School Sections, as well as Unions within one Township, and Union
School Divisions, are governed with respect to their formation, dissolution or alteration
by the special statutory provisions of the Public Schools Act (Revised Statutes, chap.
204) and the amendments thereto.
3. The basis or principle on which this whole legislation rests is the duty incumbent
upon every township, city, town, and village municpicality to supply efficient element-
ary schooling to all children of school age within such municipality, by the exercise of
the powers committed to their respective councils, and by co-operation in the functions
entrusted to the School Corporations themselves.
4. The first duty of every Township Council is to form the township into school
sections, and by section 81 power is given to the council to pass by-laws to alter, divide
or unite sections within the township ; and any such alteration, division or union is sub-
ject to appeal under the 88th section to the County Council by its Committee ; and also
the refusal or neglect of the Township Council to do so, when requested by the Trustees
or Inspector. It is to be borne in mind that the decision of the Committee continues in
force for five years at least, and until afterwards duly changed by the Township Council.
5. Such appeal to the County Council is confined to sections within the same town-
ship, and the County Council has no jurisdiction under the 88th section over Union
School Sections or Divisions.
6. In any such case of alteration, division or union by the Township Counoil,
express provision is made by the 85th section through a reference, for adjusting all claims
consequent thereupon between the respective portions of the Township affected.
7. The formation of Union School Sections is provided for by section 137, and the
mode clearly expressed. It is requisite that each council concerned should pass a by-law
to appoint its referee, at the first step, but any council may refuse to do so in its discre-
tion, and in such event the proposed union cannot be formed. In case each council
appoints its referee, the report of the referees should show the expediency of such
union, the location of the school-house, or any change of site, and the term or period
during which the union is to exist, with provisions for renewal. Under the 3rd section
of the School Act of 1880, the referees, in case the councils do not agree, should deter-
mine an equalized basis of assessment, on which the school rates in each year are to be
levied in every part of the Union for its proportionate share, as well as the proportion
to be contributed towards the erection of a school-house, if also reported upon by the
referees, under sub-section 3 of section 137.
8. Any alteration in the boundaries of a Union School Section, or the dissolution
thereof, is provided for by the 1-tOth section, as amended by the 17th section of the
School Act of 1879, and the 9th section of the School Act of 1880. Their effect is that
the council of any municipality in which part of the union is situate can alter or with-
draw any part, or dissolve the union, subject to these conditions, viz. : (1) Council cannot
add to the Union ; (2) previous petition of majority of ratepayers of part to be dealt
with is neeessary ; (3) the passing of by-law three months before 1st January next follow-
ing ; and (4) that such by-law should provide for either forming a new section of the
parts withdrawn, or adding them to some existing section or sections of the Township.
Wlien the by-law for sueh alteration, withdrawal, or dissolution has been passed, a
reference is provided by the 140th section (as amended by the School Act of 1879), under
which any disagreement between the Municipalities concerned as to the terms of such
alteration, withdrawal, or dissolution is to be determined ; and by the School Act of 1880
the provisions of section 150 are extended to the case of any dissolution of a Union Sec-
tion for any cause, under which the referees are competent to value and adjust all rights
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and claims consequent upon such disunion, and determine by what Municipality or
portion thereof, and in what manner the same shall be settled, and the disposition of the
of the Union, and any payment by one portion to the other.
9. While the 9th section of the Act of 1880 provides that the 140th section of the
Public Schools Act is not to be construed to authorize such alteration by the council of
either municipality as would add any further portions of such municipality to such
Union School Section, it is competent for the councils of both municipalities in their
discretion to agree thereupon and to pass by-laws for giving effect thereto by appointing
referees, with the like powers as in the case of the formation of unions.
10. When Union School Divisions arise by operation of law, as hereinbefore men-
tioned, the council of the township, by section 7 of the School Act of 1880, is competent
to withdraw any portion of its School Section not within the municipal limits of the
Village or Town, by by-law to be passed before the 1st day of October in any year, which
by-law should provide for either forming a new section of the parts withdrawn, or adding
the same to any section or sections of the township. Any disagreement as to the terms
of such withdrawal is to be determined by the like reference as is provided for in the
case of the alteration or dissolution of Union School Sections.
11. So long as Union School Sections or Union School Divisions exist, their rela-
tions are governed by the provisions of section 3 of the School Act of 1880 in the several
particulars therein mentioned, including an equalized basis of assessment for school rates ;
and in case of any alteration, withdrawal or dissolution of the portions comprising Union
School Sections or Union School Divisions, any municipality concerned possesses the
right, in case of any disagreement, to have the terms settled by the referees, and this would
include any matter in difference arising upon or from such proposed alteration, with-
drawal or dissolution.
12. It is also to be noticed that the effect of the 85th section is to authorize the
Township Councils, in the case of formation, alteration or dissolution of a Union School
Section with another municipality, as well as of any school section in the same town-
ship, to appoint valuators as therein provided for adjusting all claims consequent thereon
between the respective portions of the Township affected as amongst themselves.
31st March, 1882.
V. — Instructions as to the Duration, Renewal, and Endorsement op Third Class
Public School Teachers' Certificates and their extension ; also as to the
granting of tliird class district certificates and of temporary certificates.
1. The changes made in the School Act of last Session with respect to Third Class
County Board Certificates, and Third Class District Certificates, render some modification
of the Instructions to Public School Inspectors in the Compendium, at page 241, Appen-
dix D, necessary.
2. It will be seen that under the first section of this Act, the holder of a Third
Class County Board Certificate (when awarded by the Board after passing through the
County Model School) becomes entitled to be employed as a duly qualified Public School
Teacher in any county of the Province, without being required to obtain the endorsement
of the Public School Inspector thereof.
3. The effect of this section is therefore to dispense with the necessity of obtaining
the endorsement of the Public School Inspector of the county, when school trustees therein
desire to engage as their teacher the holder of such Third Class Certificate so granted by
the Board of another county.
4. The result of this amendment will therefore be to give greater value to such class
of Certificates, which, owing to the uniform examination questions and values assigned
through the Central Committee on the results of the non-professional examination, and
by the County Boards as to the professional examination, have since July, 1881, become
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of nearly equal value throughout the Province. There is the further advantage in the
liberty given to Public School Trustees to engage such teachers, and thus affording to
each teacher better chances of employment, as well as to better adjust the supply of
teachers relatively to the demands therefor.
5. It will also be seen that under the second section of the Act the respective
powers of Public School Inspectors and of the Minister of Education in granting an
extension of a Third Class County Board Certificate are defined as to their exercise in
each case, being now made dependent upon the fitness, aptness, and success in teaching
of each teacher applying, according to the separate and independent reports of the School
Trustees employing him, and of the Inspector, to be made to the Education Department
by the 1st of June in each year. The teacher is thereupon entitled at the expiration of
the term of his Third Class Certificate to apply for an extension, and for such period as
the circumstances of his case may justify.
6. In reference to the former Regulations and Instructions to Inspectors, as to the
extension of Third Class Certificates, it was provided that extensions should only be
granted in two classes of cases : —
(1) To enable* the candidate to qualify for a Second Class Certificate and to attend
the Normal School, but not to exceed two years.
(2) In the case of a Third Class Teacher, who had many years' experience, and was
of proved ability as a teacher, or of special fitness for the school in which he was en-
caged, his Certificate might be made permanent, or extended for such period as the
Minister might deem advisable.
The recommendation of the County Inspector in both class of cases was necessary,
and also his judgment as to the ability, qualifications, and efficiency of the applicant ;
also certificates as to satisfactory teaching from Trustees ; while the Regulations reserved
to the Minister full liberty to form his own judgment upon these recommendations.
7. The object of this amendment is to furnish the Minister with more information
of the actual teaching record in each year of each applicant for an extension, but it does
not alter in any particular the conditions on which extensions can only be granted, under
the Regulations, which are still in force in their integrity, and which apply to the two
classes of cases above mentioned, and require the special recommendation of the Inspector
with every application before the Minister is in a position even to consider it ; but with
the additional information to be supplied under this amendment, he will be better enabled
to deal with each application on its merits, and, if an extension is granted or refused, the
record on which the conclusion is based is open for the information of the teacher and
the public.
8. Under the third section of the Act, Third Class District Certificates may be
"ranted, subject to the Regulations of the Education Department, but only valid for the
territorial and remote districts named in the third section, and in the northern parts of
the Counties of Victoria, Peterborough, Hastings, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington,
and Renfrew. These certificates will take the place of the Temporary Certificates,
authorized under the present Regulations, and will be confined to districts so poor in
resources that the Trustees are not able to employ County Third Class Certificated Teachers.
This change will do away with a large proportion of Temporary Certificates, which were
sanctioned owing to the poverty of such sections. A Board of Examiners is to be con-
stituted for each district, and the result should be to secure more efficient Teachers in
such districts than are now found.
9. The former Regulations as to the granting by Inspectors of Temporary Certificates
with the sanction of the Minister continue in full force, and govern each application.
10. It will be seen from the foregoing that the powers of County Boards in granting
Third Class Certificates, and in renewing the same, have not been altered or affected by
any of the provisions of the School Act of last Session.
24th April, 1882.
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VI. — As to Application of Teachers' Subscriptions to Superannuation Fund.
(To Public School Inspectors).
1. With respect to the two half-yearly payments of $2 each for the compulsory
yearly subscription of 84 from all male Public School Teachers, it is desirable that your
deductions in respect thereof from each such Teacher's salary, should be made in the
orders you may give during each half-year of such Teacher's service, and that in your
return of such payments each subscription of 82 should be credited to its respective
half of the calendar year. All deductions of $2 made from the salary of any Teacher
between the 1st January, 1882, and the 30th June, 1882 (or to summer vacation),
should be returned for such half-year; and so from the 1st July, 1882, to the 31st
December, 1882 (or Christmas vacation).
2. In order that this arrangement may begin and take effect from the 1st January
last, any sums since that date paid and reported as applicable to the last half of the year
1881, will be transferred! in the accounts of this Department to the credit of the half-
year ending on the 30th June.
3. In order also to secure uniformity throughout, in this mode of keeping the
accounts of all such subscriptions, it will be necessary for Public School Inspectors to
make the deductions half-yearly in the intervals between the beginning of the Christmas
and of the summer vacation, and vice versa.
June 26, 1882.
VII. — Regulations op 31st July, 1882. General Circular.
1. In distributing to those officially concerned in the administration of our Public
and High Schools, the Regulations recently approved by His Honour the Administrator
in Executive Council, I am also desirous of showing generally their probable effect in
accomplishing further beneficial results in these branches of our system.
2. With this object, I submitted in my last Report, as inferences from the facts and
experiences of the last five years, such recommendations as would contribute to the
improvement of the means necessary for securing every child elementary education suffi-
cient for any career in life, as well as a system adapted to meet the wants of all classes.
3. The amendments introduced by the new Regulations will give effect to such
recommendations, and should exercise a useful and wholesome influence upon the general
education of the Province, which, as stated in my Report (p. 242), " is as much concerned
in the rearing up of a moral as well as an intelligent population, and securing honesty
and fair dealing as essential qualities of every citizen, as well as mental culture."
4. Elementary education can become more efficient and thorough when proper prin-
ciples and methods are known and practised by the teacher, and the studies are adapted
to the natural growth of each child in mind and body.
5. With respect to Public Schools, the Regulations accordingly provide for a clear
distinction between the elementary and secondary subjects, in placing them in the first
four classes, and 5th and 6th respectively, and also for the following : — -
(1) The subjects in the Course are not to be taken as obligatory upon all Public
School Boards and trustees without discrimination, but only so far as, in their judgment,
the circumstances of their schools will allow ; while, in order to secure in some measure
practical results, they are authorized to require the teacher to give occasional lessons in
Elementary Physics (including Mechanics) and Principles of Agriculture. Science
Primers by Huxley, Roscoe, and Stewart, and Professor Tanner's (F.C.S.) Principles of
Agriculture have therefore been authorized as lesson-books for these purposes.
(2) It is also made the duty of the Central Committee of Examiners of this Depart-
ment to prepare special suggestions for the guidance of Public School Trustees, and for
the benefit of teachers, as explanatory of the subjects in the Course of Study, and as to
the methods of teaching them.
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(3) While it is the Inspector's important duty to inspect and report upon the condi-
tion of each school to the Department, and from his experience and special knowledge
to advise and aid trustees and teachers, the new Regulations recognize the trustees
chosen by the ratepayers, as the local officials who are entrusted with full powers of
management of the schools, and their teacher, as the competent instructor of the pupils.
Hence changes in the Course of Study, formerly permissible with the Inspector approving,
as well as the time of teaching, are now left to the judgment of the trustees, in concert
with their teacher, according as the circumstances of their school will allow.
(4) While larger educational benefits can be obtained through improved methods of
teachin" and discipline, yet success and useful results depend mainly upon the knowledge
of the teacher, and his capacity to efficiently teach the several elementary subjects. The
training, therefore, of every teacher in the best methods of giving the first lessons in the
subjects of the first Four Classes of the Public School, is essential ; and since 187" oppor-
tunities for gaining professional instruction, in addition to general education, have been
afforded to every candidate through the County Model Schools and the two Provincial
Normal Schools. The experience of the last five years has proved the practical success
of this principle, which is a distinctive feature, if not a discovery, in our system.
(5) The new Regulations respecting County Model Schools and the Provincial
Normal Schools are framed to secure greater efficiency in Third and Second Class Public
School Teachers for the elementary subjects of the first four classes of the Public Schools,
by longer sessions and improved professional instruction on the part of Principals and
Masters, in order to develop the capacities of the student into the fuller knowledge of
the teacher.
6. It is also proposed to establish an Autumn Session at this Department for the
Professional Instruction of candidates for First-class Provincial Certificates, and thus
five them the opportunity of acquiring more advanced professional and scientific know-
ledge for their duties as teachers of higher positions, and as Inspectors, Head Masters,
and Assistants in High Schools.
7. The Regulations as to High Schools hare been amended with the object of
extending their usefulness, as a necessary component part of our Provincial system, and
removing any injurious tendencies in their work of secondary education, which may have
been observed during the last five years, and especially such as have been attributed to
" the Intermediate." Hence the following desirable provisions : —
(1) In the Lower School, the course of study has been made more flexible. The
obligatory subjects are now confined to such as are essential in Secondary Education,
viz. : English Grammar and Literature, with Composition, History, and Geography,
Aritmetic and Book-keeping, Drill and Calisthenics. While a list of the optional sub-
jects, is given for the guidance of High School Boards, they are not required to provide
means of instruction in all of them, but only in such as, in the judgment of each Board,
the occasion or circumstances of their school render expedient.
The High School Board can also arrange, without reference to the High School
Inspector, the order in which the essential subjects are taken up, the amount of work
and time to be given, and the number of classes, according to the particular circum-
stances of its school.
(2) The former Intermediate Examination, with its four obligatory group of sub-
jects, practically determined that Algebra and Euclid, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry,
or Latin, or French, or German, should be taken up in the Lower School by every can-
didate, without reference to sex ; and as the condition on which Collegiate Institutes
could alone be established or continue to exist, demanded 60 male pupils studying Latin
or Greek, it was evident that in their case an artificial and injurious stimulus was given
to the study of Latin in the Lower School by a large number of pupils, to the loss of
much needed Secondary Education in English and other useful studies.
This Intermediate also served as the non-professional examination for Third and
Second Class Public School Teachers' Certificates, and for entrance to the Ontario College
of Physicians and Surgeons. From its first institution by the late Council of Public In-
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struction until 1880, the large sum of $14,000 was distributed from the Annual Legis-
lative High School Grant, as " Payments upon its Results," to the different High Schools.
The injurious tendencies referred to would appear to have been occasioned by the
nature of this examination, and the objects to be directly gained by successful results.
(3) The new Intermediate Examination has been made a test only of the fitness of
each pupil to proceed to the Upper School ; and the obligatory subjects are now confined
to three groups instead of four, and limited to English Grammar and Literature, Com-
position, Dictation, Arithmetic, and one of the following subjects or groups, at the option
of each candidate, viz. : (1) Algebra and Euclid; (2) History and Geography ; (3) any
two of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany ; (4) Latin ; (5) French or German [with,
when selected by the parent or guardian of the pupil, Music or Drawing].
(4) In the Upper School, while the subjects may be as high as required for First
Class non-professional Teachers' Certificates, and for Junior and Senior Matriculation,
yet the parent or guardian of any child is at liberty to select, with the approval of the
Head Master, any authorized subjects which will best suit the purposes of such child.
(5) High School Boards can, if they choose, provide instruction in Botany, and Prin-
ciples and Practice of Agriculture, and appropriate Text-books are authorized for these
purposes.
8. In the distribution of the High School grant, any payments upon the results of
the Intermediate are no longer to be recognized, and instead, each school will receive a
fixed grant, and in addition an amount regulated by amount of salaries paid to teachei-s.
Collegiate Institutes will receive, in addition, a special grant.
9. The new Regulations with respect to Collegiate Institutes require the following
conditions to be complied with, viz. : Suitable buildings and premises ; laboratory and
apparatus for teaching Chemistry practically ; four masters, specially qualified in English,
Classics, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Modern Languages ; and the excellence of
the school thus required must be always maintained. No new Collegiate Institute is to be
established unless all these conditions are fulfilled, and unless the yearly salaries of the
four masters shall amount in the aggregate to [$4,500].
10. While the Regulations provide separate and distinct Examinations for the Third
and Second Class Public School Teachers' Certificates, candidates for the Third Class must
have also successfully passed the new High School Intermediate, which will count pro
tanto in their examination.
The non -professional examination for Second Class Certificates, after 1883, can only
be entered upon after an interval of a year from passing that required for the Third
Class. Any female candidate at either of the Teachers' examinations may substitute for
Algebra, one of the subjects of French, German, Music, or Botany, as she may desire,
and which she has not taken at the Intermediate.
Candidates for First Class Certificates are required to attend the Autumn Session,
when established, for professional instruction at this Department, and obtain a certificate
as one of the conditions for a full First Class Provincial Certificate.
11. The general principle which will be found underlying these amendments is to
leave with School Boards and Trustees, Public and High, with their Teachers, a large
Bcope in providing instruction according as the occasion or circumstances of the parti-
cular-school make it desirable in their judgment ; as well as full authority to give effect
to their conclusions. At the same time the necessary means, especially in the training of
teachers for improving the standard and increasing their qualifications, thereby securing
larger benefits to their pupils, will be made more effective by the Education Department
with little increase of expenditure.
August 2nd, 1882.
VIII. — Information as to County Model Schools.
1. The Regulations of the Department which have been in force since 1877, by
virtue of the Act passed in the Session of that year, require, amongst other conditions
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for obtaining a Third Class Teacher's Certificate, that each candidate must have attended
for one session at a County Model School for professional instruction, and at its close be
examined in the work of the session and upon subjects connected with the practice of
teaching. If the candidate is successful in obtaining his Professional Certificate, as the
result of such attendance at the County Model School, and has also passed the examin-
ation required in the non-professional subjects, including those prescribed for the High
School Intermediate, the County Board of Examiners may then lawfully grant such can-
didate a Third Class Certificate, which will constitute him a Public School Teacher of the
Third Class, and thereupon legally qualified for employment by Public School Trustees.
2. The County Model School is therefore a necessary institution in each county
throughout the Province, and the requisite supply of Third Class Teachers in each county
cannot be adequately provided for or maintained in the absence of such school.
3. It is now obligatory upon every County Council to provide the like amount as
the Department in each year, up to 8150, for County Model School purposes, and the
County Board of Examiners can require the further payment of $5 from each student
With this larger remuneration all occasion for dissatisfaction on the part of any Public
School Board should disappear, especially when there is but one session in the year. The
County Boards have had no difficulty in the past in arranging with the Public School
Boards for the use of one of the public schools for this purpose, possessing the necessary
teaching staff and other requisites required by the Regulations of the Department, and
these have since been made easier for School Boards to comply therewith.
i. The experience of the practical working and benefits of the County Model
Schools, since their establishment in 1877, as county institutions, for the professional
training of Third Class Teachers as one of the requisite conditions to their being allowed
to teach in any school, has fully justified their establishment, and their increased profi-
ciency for this work, is proposed to be obtained under the new Regulations on this sub-
ject, approved on the 31st July, 1S82, which will also supply further information.
21st September, 1882.
IX. — High Schools.
information for the guidance of High School Boards and Head Masters as to Instruction
in the Subjects of Study, under the Regulations now in force.
1. The Course of Study has been made so flexible that High School Boards may in
their judgment decide upon what subjects should be taught, having regard to the circum-
stances of their schools, so long as instruction in the most essential subjects of secondary
education is aflbrded. Drawing has also been removed from the obligatory list to the
optional.
2. The nature and extent of instruction in the obligatory subjects are as follows : —
(1) English Grammar. — Review of Elementary work ; Orthography, Etymology and
Syntax ; Derivation of Words ; Analysis of Sentences ; Rendering of Poetry into Prose.
(2) English Literature. — Critical Reading of portions of the Works of Authors, to
be prescribed from time to time by the Department.
(3) Composition and Reading. — (a) Composition — The Framing of Sentences ;
Familiar and Business Letters ; Abstracts of Readings or Lectures ; Themes ; generally
the Formation of a good English style, (b) Reading and Elocution — including the learn-
ing by heart and recitation of selected passages from standard authors.
(4) Dictation.
(5) History and Geography. — (a) Leading Events of English and Canadian History;
also of Roman History, from the commencement of the Second Punic War to the death
of Augustus. (6) A fair course of Elementary Geography, Mathematical, Physical and
Political.
(6) Arithmetic and Book-keeping. — (a) Arithmetic — Simple and Compound Rules;
Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ; Proportion ; Percentage in its various applications ;
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Square Root. (b) Book-keeping— Single and Double Entry ; Commercial Forms and
j Usages ; Banking, Custom House and General Business Transactions.
^7) Drill and Calisthenics.— (a) Drill— The following portions of Squad drill ; Posi-
i tion of the soldier ; standing at ease ; dressing a squad with intervals ; turnings ; exten-
: sion motions ; saluting ; instruction in marching ; balance step, without advancing ; ad-
| rancing ; the slow march ; the halt ; stepping out ; stepping short; marking time ;
i stepping back ; changing feet ; quick march ; side, or closing step ; turning when on the
i march ; squad drill in single rank ; marching and turning ; marching in file ; diagonal
I march. (6) The boys to be ranged in companies, sized from both flanks, and told off in
! companies, half-companies and sections, and practised in the marches and variations of
| step which have been taught in single rank ; the formation of fours ; increasing and
diminishing front ; wheeling ; forming company square, (c) Calisthenics for girls.
3 The nature and extent of instruction in any of such optional subjects, as the High
i School Board may select and direct in their judgment, are as follows : —
(1) Algebra and Euclid. — (a) Algebra — Elementary Rules; Factoring; Greatest
Common Measure ; Least Common Multiple ; Square Root ; Fractions ; Surds ; Simple
Equations of one, two and three unknown quantities ; Easy Quadratics, (b) Euclid —
Books I. and II., with easy exercises ; Application of Geometry to the Mensuration of
Surfaces ; Volumes of Parallelopipeds and Prisms, and of the Sphere, Cylinder, and Cone.
(2) Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and Botany. — (a) Natural Philosophy — Compo-
sition and Resolution of Forces ; Principle of Moments ; Centre of Gravity ; Mechanical
Powers ; Ratio of the Power to the Weight in each ; Pressure of Liquids ; Specific Gravity
and modes of determining it ; the Barometer, Siphon, Common Pump, Forcing Pump and
I Air Pump, (b) Chemistry — Cumbustion ; the Structure and Properties of Flame ;
i Nature and Composition of ordinary Fuel. The Atmosphere — Its Constitution ; Effect
I of Animal and Vegetable Life on its Composition. Water — Chemical peculiarities of
! Natural Waters, such as Rain-water, River-water, Spring-water, Sea-water. Preparation
I and properties of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Chlorine, Sulphur, Phosphorus,
; and of their more important compounds ; Combining Proportions by weight and by vol-
I ume ; Symbols and Nomenclature, (c) Botany — -The Elements of Structural Botany,
, with special reference to the study of Canadian Plants.
(3) Latin and Greek.— (a) Latin— The Accidence and the Principal Rules of Syntax
| and Prosody ; Exercises ; portions of Works in prose and verse, as prescribed from time
! to time ; Learning by heart selected portions ; Re- translation into Latin of easy passages.
(b) Greek — Elementary Grammar and Exercises.
(i) French or German. — (a) French — The Accidence and Principal Rules of Syntax ;
' Exercises ; portions of De Fivas' Introductory French Reader and French authors, as
i prescribed from time to time ; Re-translation of easy passages into French ; Rudiments
of Conversation. (6) German — The Accidence and the Principal Rules of Syntax ; Exer-
cises ; portions of Adler's Reader and German Authors, as prescribed from time to time ;
Re-translation of easy passages into German ; Rudiments of Conversation.
(5) Music — Elementary Principles.
(6) Drawing — Linear and Freehand — Elementary Principles.
(7) Physiology and Hygiene — Elementary.
(.8) Principles of Agriculture — Elementary.
(9) Household arts — as Sewing, Cooking and Housekeeping.
4. Intermediate Examination — The obligatory subjects for such examination are as
follows: (1) English Grammar ; (2) English Literature; (3) Composition; (i) Dictation;
(5) Arithmetic ; and (6) one of the following subjects or groups of subjects at the option
of each pupil, viz. : (a) Algebra and Euclid ; (b) History and Geography ; (c) any two of
the following three : Natural Philosophy, Chemistry. Botany ; (d) Latin ; (e) French or
German, with, when selected by the parent or guardian of the pupil, Music or Drawing.
5. Candidates for Third Class Certificates are required to pass in the following sub-
jects prescribed at the Intermediate Examination, viz.: (1) English Grammar; (2)
English Literature ; (3) Composition ; (4) Dictation ; (5) Arithmetic ; (6) one of the
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optional subjects or groups above prescribed ; and at the additional Examination pre-
scribed by the Amended Regulations respecting the obtaining of Public School Teachers'
Certificates, and in the same week with the Intermediate, the following: (1) Mental
Arithmetic ; (2) Two of the optional subjects or groups of subjects prescribed for the In-
termediate Examination, in addition to the one taken by such Candidate at his Intermedi-
ate Examination, provided that the groups of Algebra and Euclid, and of History and
Geography, must be taken, either at the Intermediate or additional examination. A
female candidate may, at such Examination, substitute for Algebra any one of the sub-
jects of French, German, Music, or Botany, in which she has not been examined at the
Intermediate. The subject of Physiology and Hygiene being professional, is examined
upon at the end of the County Model School Session.
6. The subjects for the Non-Professional Examination of Second Class Candidates
are the same as those required to be taken by Candidates for Non-Professional Third
Class Certificates, but the questions are to be separate and distinct, and of a higher stan-
dard. This examination is to take place in the same week, and, as far as mav be,
concurrently with the Intermediate.
7. The works or portions thereof prescribed for instruction during the School year
1882-3, and for Candidates at the Departmental Examinations in July next, are as
follows : —
English Literature. — Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (Bonn's
Edition), Vol. II., from "I find a preacher" to "Early Church:" also Goldsmith's
Traveller, or Scott's Marmion, as the parent or guardian of any pupil or candidate may
select.
(The edition of Goldsmith's Traveller published by Copp, Clark and Company is recommended— retail
price, in paper. 10 cents ; in cloth, 15 cents.)
Latin.— Ctesar, Bellum Britannicum (B. G., B. IV., cc. 20—36 ; B. V, cc. 8—23);
Cicero, Pro Archia ; and Virgil, ^-Eneid, B. V, vv. 1 — 361.
French. — Reader pp. 49 to end ; Emile de Bonnechose, Lazare Hoche.
German. — Reader, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Parts ; Schiller, Belagerung von Antwerpen,
Der Taucher.
8. The subjects for Non-Professional Examinations of First Class Candidates are as
follows : —
I. — For Grade C.
English Language and Literature.
Grammar. — A thorough acquaintance with the subject is required.
Composition. — Candidates are required to show, by passing an examination on this
subject, and by the character of their answers in other subjects, that they are in the habit
of writing the English language correctly.
Etymology. — Candidates are required to know the prefixes, the affixes, and the prin-
cipal Latin and Greek roots, and to be able to analyze etymologically the easier words in
the reading books.
Literature. — Candidates are required to have a general acquaintance with English
Literature and its history, and specially with the portions above prescribed, together with
Shakespeare's Richard II. and Maeaulay's Dumont's Recollections of Mirabeau.
History and Geography.
History. — A special knowledge of the history of England between 1688 and 1820,
as presented in Green's Short History of the English People, and in Hallam's Constitu-
tional History, chapters 15 and 16.
Geography. — North America, Europe, and the British Empire.
Mathematics.
Algebra. — Fundamental Operations ; Involution and Evolution ; Resolution inte
Factors ; Principle of Symmetry ; Theory of Divisors ; Fractions ; Ratio, Proportion,
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and Variation ; Theory of Indices ; Surds ; Arithmetical, Geometrical, and Harmonical
Progression ; Scales of Notation ; Permutations and Combinations ; Introduction to
Binomial Theorem ; Simple and Quadratic Equations, with relations between Roots and
Co-efficients ; Problems.
Arithmetic and Mensuration. — To know the subject in theory and practice. To be
able to solve problems with accuracy, neatness, and despatch. To be familiar with rules
for Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids.
Geometry. — Euclid, Books I. to IV. (inclusive), Book VI., and definitions of Book
V. Exercises.
Elementary Mechanics.
Statics. — Equilibrium of Forces acting in one Plane ; Parallelogram of Forces,
Parallel Forces, Moments, Couples, Centre of Gravity, Virtual Work, Machines, Friction,
Experimental Verifications.
Dynamics. — Measurement of Velocities and of Accelerations ; Laws of Motion,
Energy, Momentum, Uniform and Uniformly Accelerated Motion, Falling Bodies, Ex-
perimental Verifications.
Hydrostatics. — Pressure of Fluids, Specific Gravities, Floating Bodies, Density of
Gases as depending on Pressure and Temperature, Construction and use of the more
simple Instruments and Machines.
Physical Science.
Chemistry. — Definition of Chemistry and of Chemical Action. Indestructibility of
Matter. Simple and Compound Substances. Laws of Chemical Combination by Weight
and by Volume. Principles of Chemical Nomenclature. Symbolic and Graphic Notations.
Classification of Elements into Metals and Non-metals, into Positive and Negative
Elements.
Theory of atoms and molecules. Empirical, molecular, and constitutional formulae.
Absolute, latent, and active valency. Classification according to valency. Atomic and
molecular combination. Graphic formulae. Definition of simple and compound radicals.
Chemical equations.
French and English systems of weights and measures. Their convertibility. Ex-
pansion of gases by heat. Reduction of gaseous volume to standard pressure and
temperature. Calculation of the weight and volume of gases. Calculation of chemical
quantities by weight. Calculation of empirical formula; from percentage composition.
The preparation and properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, chlorine,
bromine, iodine, fluorine, sulphur, silicon, boron, phosphorus, and arsenic.
The allotropic modifications of oxygen, carbon, sulphur, boron, and phosphorus.
The preparation, properties and composition of water, hydrogen, peroxide, the com-
pounds of nitrogen with oxygen and with hydroxyl, ammonia and the ammoniac salts
carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, the carbonates, light carburetted
hydrogen, acetylene, heavy carburetted hydrogen, hydrochloric acid, the oxides and
oxyacids of chlorine, bromine, and iodine, hydrobromic, hydryodic, and hydrofluoric acids,
the oxides and oxyacids of sulphur, hydrogen sulphide, hydrogen disulphide, carbon
disulphide, silica, silicic acid, silicic hydride, boron trioxide, boric acid, phosphuretted
hydrogen, the oxides and oxyacids of phosphorus, arsinuretted hydrogen, arsenious and
arsenic acids, and the arsenic sulphides.
Manufacture of hydrochloric, nitric, and sulphuric acids. Composition and manu-
facture of bleaching powder. Theory of bleaching. Structure of flame. Suitability of
water for domestic purposes. Causes of temporary and of permanent hardness of water.
The atmosphere, its constitution ; effects of animal and vegetable life upon ite constitution.
Names and formuhe of some of the more important silicious minerals.
The chief properties of the following named metals ; their reduction from their ores ;
and the preparation, properties, and composition of their more important compounds : —
The monad metals, especially potassium, sodium and silver ; the dyad metals, barium,
strontium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, cadmium, mercury, and copper; and gold, aluminium,
lead, platinum, nickel, cobalt, iron, manganese, and chromium.
Manufacture of soda-ash, glass, porcelain, and earthernware.
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Heat. — Definitions of heat and of temperature. Construction and use of the
mercurial thermometer. Centigrade and Fahrenheit scales, and the conversion of the read-
ings of either into those of the other. Correction for change of zero. Dilatation of solids.
Definition of co-efficient of expansion. Linear dilatation — methods of Lavoisier and
Eamsden. Cubical dilatation of solids. Relation of cubical to linear expansion. Dilata-
tion of liquids. Apparent and real dilatation. Determination of the co-efficient of
expansion — 1st, by the thermometer; 2nd, by the specific gravity bottle; and 3rd, by
wei<*hin<* a s0^c' in tne liquid- Method of Dulong and Petit for the determination of
the absolute dilatation of mercury. Dilatation of water. Dilatation of gases.
Relation between pressure and temperature of air whose volume remains the same. Air
thermometer. Application of the laws of dilatation. Graham's mercurial pendulum and
Harrison's gridiron pendulum. Expansion and contraction of solids. Illustrations of
precautions which changes of volume by heat and cold render necessary in the arts.
Liquefaction and solidification. Laws observed by substances which do not change their
composition in passing from the solid to the liquid state. Change of density produced in
the act of melting. Latent heat of fusion. Influence of pressure on melting-point.
Freezing mixtures. Laws observed by substances which do not change their composition
in passing from the liquid to the solid state. Regelation, vaporization, and condensation.
Various methods of vaporization. Influence of pressure. Of the nature of the vessel
and of substances dissolved upon the boiling point. Leidenfrost's phenomenon. Sub-
limation. Condensation of gases. Density of gases and vapours. Dewpoint instruments.
Daniell's, Regnault's, and Mason's wet and dry bulb hygrometer. Radiant heat. Re-
flection, refraction, and absorption. Theory of exchanges. Heat equilibrium of surfaces
of plates. Formation of dew. Conduction of heat. Definition of conductivity. Forbes'
method of determining conductivity of solids. Difference between transmission of heat
and transmission of temperature. Safety lamps. Conductivity of liquids — Guthrie's
method. Convection of liquids. Convection in gases. Trade winds. Specific heat — 1st,
method of mixture ; 2nd, method by fusion of ice (Bunsen's calorimeter) ; and 3rd, method
bv cooling. Regnault's method for determining specific heat of liquids. Regnault's
method for determining specific heat of gases. Influence of the state of a substance on its
specific heat. Facts covered by the term Latent Heat — The latent heat of water and of
steam. Relation between heat and mechanical effect — -Davy's, Rumford's, and Joule's
experiments. Definition of mechanical equivalent of heat. Derivation of mechanical
equivalent of heat from the condensation of gases. Nature of flame.
II. — For Grades A and B.
I. — Department of English Language and Literature, with History and Geography.
The English Language :
Composition.
History and Etymology of the English Language.
Rhetorical Forms.
Prosody.
Books of Reference ; Earle's Philology of the English Tongue ; Abbot and Seeley's
English for English People ; Bain's Composition and Rhetoric ; Marsh's English Language
and Literature, Lectures VI. to XI. inclusive.
English Literature :
(1) History of English Literature, from Chaucer to the end of the reign of James I.
Books of Reference : Craik's History of the English Literature and Language. Marsh's
English Language and Literature, Lectures VI. to XI. inclusive.
(2) Specified works of standard authors prescribed for July 1883 : —
Chaucer — The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ; The Nonne Prestes Tale. Shake-
speare— Antony and Cleopatra. Candidates are recommended to consult some such
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work as Dowden's Mind and Art of Shakespeare, or Gervinus's Commentaries. Pope
Prologue to the Satires. Addison — The Selections from Addison's Contributions to the
.Spectator, made by J. Arnold, under the headings (1) Manners, Fashions, and Humours ■
and 1 2) Tales and Allegories (Clarendon Press Series). Wordsworth — Sonnets, in
! Matthew Arnold's Selection. Macaulay — Life and Writings of Addison.
History :
Greece. — The Persian to the Peloponnesian War inclusive — Cox's History of Greece
(unabridged).
Rome. — From the beginning of the Second Punic War to the death of Augustus.
Moninisen's History of Rome.
England — The Tudor and Stuart Periods, as presented in Green's Short History of
the English People, Macaulay's History of England, and Hallam's Constitutional History.
Canada — Parkman's Old Regime in Canada.
I Geography :
So much Ancient Geograph}- as is necessary for the proper understanding of the
, portions of the Histories of Greece and Rome prescribed.
2. — Department of Mathematics.
Candidates who take Mathematics are also required to show, by passing an examina-
tion in Antony and Cleopatra for 1883, that they have read the play carefully, and that
they are in the habit of writing the English language correctly.
Algebra. — Multinomial Theorem, Exponential and Logarithmic Series, Interest and
Annuities, Indeterminate Co-efficients, Partial Fractions, Series (Convergency and Diver-
gency, Reversion, Summation), Inequalities, Determinants, Reduction and Resolution of
Equations of first four Degrees and of Binominal Equations, Relations between Roots
and Co-efficients of Equations, Indeterminate Equations, Problems.
Analytical Plane Geometry. — The Point (including Transformation of Co-ordinates),
the Right Line, the Circle, the Parabola, the Ellipse, the Hyperbola, the General Equation
of the Second Degree, Abridged Notation, as in Puckle's Treatise.
Trigonometry. —Trigonometrical Ratios, General Values of Angles, Functions of
Sum and Difference of Angles, Multiples and Sub-multiples of Angles, Trigonometrical
Equations, Solution of Triangles, Measurement of Heights and Distances ; Inscribed
Circumscribed and Escribed Circles of a Triangle ; Quadrilaterals, Description of Vernier
and Theodolite, Trigonometrical and Logarithmic Tables, Demoivre's Theorem.
Dynamics. — Moments of Inertia, Uniform Circular Motion, Projectiles in Vacuo,
Collisions, Simple Pendulum, Experimental Verifications.
Elementary Geometrical Optics. — Reflection and Refraction of Light at Plane and
Spherical Surfaces, including Prisms and Lenses (aberration not considered) ; the Eye :
Construction and use of the more simple Instruments.
The following are recommended in addition to books prescribed for Grade C ; —
Algebra. — Gross.
Analytical Geometry. — Puckle ; Refer to Salmon's.
Trigonometry. — Hamblin Smith's ; Refer to Colenso's or Todhunter's.
Dynamics. — Kinematics and Kinetics. — Gross.
3- — References to Regulations.
Grade C must be taken before any Candidate is eligible for Grade B or A.
For Grade B or A an option is permitted between the two Departments, (1) of
English Language and Literature with History and Geography, and (2) of Mathematics.
Grade B or A may also be obtained by the University equivalents prescribed by the
Regulations in that behalf.
25th November, /
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5. OPINIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION.
The following extracts of recent opinions are gi^en as being of general interest :
I. School Meetings and Elections in Rural Districts.
1. Mode of Taking Votes at School Meetings.
Under the 47th section of the Public Schools Act, the Chairman is required to take
the votes in the manner desired by a majority of the electors present, but on the request
of any two electors, he is called upon to grant a poll.
In the present case, it appears that the Chairman did take the votes in the manner
desired by the electors present, and that was by a division, as to which no objection was
made. The Minister is clearly of opinion that it is too late to demand a poll after a
decision of the meeting has been thus arrived at.
2. Election Must be Completed on t/ie Proper Day.
In the case of a rural school trustee election there is now but one meeting, namely,
on the last Wednesday in December in each year. No adjournment of any kind is con-
templated, and whatever number of candidates may be proposed, the meeting must elect
the necessary number. It is only in cases of cities, towns and incorporated villages that
there is a nomination day.
3. On Poll at Annual Meeting.
Due notice having been given of the meeting under sub-section 25 of section 102
of the Public Schools Act, the proceedings under sub-section 25 (a) must follow the mode
prescribed in the forty -fifth and three following sections of the Act, and will be governed
by section 41 as to the time of proceeding. A poll, if demanded, should be proceeded
with at once, there being no power to postpone the voting.
4. On Form of Notice oj Meeting.
The statute requires that a copy of the proper notice should be put up in at least
three public places in the section six days before the meeting. The omission to sign the
notice does not impair the lawfulness of the meeting held pursuant to the terms of the
notice.
5. Memorandum as to Electors Entitled to Vote.
Questions have arisen as to the right of those who are placed upon the Assessment
Roll under the farmers' sons' franchise, or as income voters, to vote at school elections.
The provisions contained in sections 57 and GO of the Public Schools Act have been
enlarged by sections 2 and 3 of the School Act of 1879, so as to comprise, in addition to
the persons entitled to vote under said section 60, every person named upon the Voters'
List of the municipality, and whether entitled to vote at municipal elections, or at elec-
tions for the Legislative Assembly, but the same condition is retained, viz. ; that those
persons who become entitled to vote, as being on the Voters' List, shall have been assessed
for and have paid the rate imposed for Public School purposes within the last twelve
months in the ward, town, village or school section in which the person proposes to vote
at such election.
Before the passing of the School Act of 1879, the elector at school elections must
have been rated on the Assessment Roll as a freeholder, householder or tenant, but in the
declaration provided by section 3 of the School Act of 1879, and which is in substitution
for that provided by the 52nd and 60th sections of the Public Schools Act, the elector is
not required to do more than to declare hi:-, identity with the person whose name is on the
Voters' List, or that he has been rated on the last revised Assessment Roll, and that he
is of the age of twenty-one years, and that he has the right by law to vote.
The effect of section 2 of the Act of 1879, is to extend the right of voting in school
matters to all persons named on the Voters' List, in addition to those formerly entitled by
law, and this therefore necessarily includes voters who are on the list either as farmers'
»oas or as income voters.
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The 20th section of the Assessment Act makes it clear that any person coming
within the farmers' sons' franchise, assessed as a joint owner, as such becomes liable for
^school rates, and when paid by any one of the joint owners the payment is payment in
law by each, and so would strictly fulfil the condition of the law as to the payment of
school rates.
When the school rates assessed against the property, in respect of which the farmer's
son's name is on the Voter's List, have been paid by any of the persons assessed as joint
owners, such farmer's son can properly take the declaration prescribed, that he has the
right by law to vote. The same reasoning would also apply to any one who is a tenant
or occupant, and who is assessed as well as the owner, and consequently liable for school
rates, whether he or the owner actually pays the same.
The income voter would also be entitled to vote, should he have been assessed for
and paid a school rate imposed within the last twelve months, and he could in such cir-
cumstances properly make the declaration that he had the right by law to vote.
6. Right of Farmers' Sons to Vote.
The Farmers' Sons' Franchise only gives a vote in respect of the property out of
which it arises, and cannot be construed to give a vote except in the school section in
which such property is actually situate.
There are farmers who own village lots of about the value of $10 each, having two
or three sons living in another school section, but who came into, and voted at the
election of a trustee in this section, and, by means of such votes, gave the trustee elected
his majority.
If the sons of these farmers did not appear on the list of freeholders and householders
for the school section, they would have no votes ; and if on the Voters' List under the
I farmers' sons' franchise, this could only have been in respect of their respective fathers'
I farms, which, under the law, must at least represent a value of $200 for the farmer
and each son claiming to vote in respect thereof.
The value of the lots referred to, at the most, would only suffice to give the farmer
himself a vote as an assessed freeholder in the section.
7. On Bight of Freeholder and Tenant to Vote.
The freeholder and his tenant are both entitled to vote if assessed, and if the school
|tax in respect of the property has been paid ; and it is immaterial whether it has been
paid by the freeholder or the tenant.
8. Municipal Loan Fund — Power to Borrow.
The power of the trustees to borrow money from the township, out of the Municipal
Loan Fund moneys, is provided for by sections 93 to 96 of the Public Schools Act, and
96 provides that this can only be done after a special school meeting.
9. Site being once Chosen, no new Meeting Necessary.
A site was chosen properly for new school-house on 22nd April, 1879. The matter
ay in abeyance till 1881, when the ratepayers wanted to proceed. On this, the opinion
was given that the resolution of the meeting of 1879 was still in force as to the selection
)f the school site, and that the resolution of the recent annual meeting to approve the
jroject is a sufficient compliance with sub-section 3 of section 29 of the Public Schools
A.ot of 1879.
10. The Majority May Decide as to New School House.
The majority referred to is that present at the meeting of the ratepayers, called for
he purpose of considering the proposal of the trustees for building, and if such meeting
s properly summoned the action of the majority will legally bind all other ratepayers.
11. Benalty for Illegal Vote — when not Becoverable.
In a new section where several new residents became proprietors in October, not
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being included on the Assessment Roll, they attended the Annual Meeting (28th Dec,
1881) and voted. Irregularities occasioned the meeting to be set aside. It was followed
by a special meeting on 11th January, prior to which the parties were assessed, having
already paid the taxes for 1881. Having acted in good faith they are not liable to penalty
under the Public Schools Act, sec. 244.
12. Re-consideration of Question of School Site.
It appears that if, in the actual selection of the site authorized by the meeting of
the ratepayers, manifest inconvenience would arise, the Trustees would be justified in.
asking a new meeting of the ratepayers for re-consideration.
13. Assent of Ratepayers necessary, where Additional Land required for School Site.
Any money required to be raised or borrowed for the acquisition of additional land
for the School Site, would appear to the Minister to come within the requirements of
Section 29, of the Act of 1879, and to require the assent of the ratepayers.
14. Proposal to Build — Particulars required for approval of School Meeting.
By the 3rd sub-section of section 29 of the School Act of 1879, in the case of rural
School Sections, the Trustees are prohibited from borrowing, or buying, or collecting any
rate for any sum of money for the erection of a School-house, unless a proposal for the
same has been first submitted to and approved of by the duly qualified school electors of
the Section.
Such a proposal necessarily includes information as to the plan and specifications, as
to the amount of money proposed to be expended and the mode of raising the same, and
the period within which any debt to be contracted is to be repayable, also the rate of
interest to be provided for.
'15. A Meeting to select a School site can refer the matter to Arbitrators unanimously
appointed.
The first meeting was inoperative and also the second in consequence of the failure
to appoint arbitrators as expressly required by Section 121 of the Public Schools Act.
This condition was first fulfilled at the third meeting, when the Arbitrators were duly
appointed and their award will be valid and legally settle the new site,^on which only the
School-house can be lawfully erected.
16. Wlien Ratepayers Refuse to Assent to erection of School-house — Liability of Trustees*
The School Corporation is liable to provide adequate accommodation and if the rate-
payers are not willing to assent to the borrowing of money for the erection of a School-
house the Trustees can lawfully rent a building for this purpose, and would probably be
compelled to do so upon an application for mandamus by any ratepayer of the Section.
II. — Powers and Duties of Township Boards and Rural Trustees, with Respect to
School Accommodation and Property, and also as to the General Manage-
ment of School Affairs.
1. Arbitrators are Allowed to Decide According to tfa ir own Judgment.
In arbitration, the finding of the Arbitrators cannot be reviewed or questioned by
any Court, except for fraud or admitted mistake, and they are at full liberty to decide
according to what is right and just in their judgment, and are not bound by am
rule of law as to weight of evidence or otherwise.
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2. School Arbitrators and Referees are Exempt from any Oath of Office — May settle costs of
Parlies.
Referees, valuators or arbitrators, under the Public Schools Act, derhe their author-
ity from the By-laws appointing them and do not require to take any oath of office, nor
is any such condition imposed upon them.
So far as cases come within Section 85, the valuators have the fullest jurisdiction to
adjust, in an equitable manner, all rights and claims consequent upon any action under a
by-law of the township, and if individual ratepayers are entitled to equitable considera-
tion, in the judgment of the valuators, they may award this and determine by whom the
same shall be settled.
It would follow that if in their judgment costs or witness fees are necessary to do
justice, they can properly so decide.
3. Vacant Land of a Church not in Use may be taken for School Site.
Vacant land owned by Trustees for a church was required as an addition to thi
playground of the school and being unoccupied for church purposes, the question is
whether it is within any of the exceptions which would preclude the School Trusti es
acquiring it by compulsory proceeding under the Public Schools Act, if the legal owners
refused to sell.
The Trustees for the church are "owners" within the meaning of the Public
Schools Act, and the proper notice can be served upon them, and they can make a good
title to the school site by a conveyance if they agree, otherwise it may be acquired
through an award, which when registered would be a good title itself.
4. Exception of Orchard, etc., as Site.
It appears from the letter and accompanying diagram, that the Trustees are able to-
secure a' site from the owner on one side of the travelled road, sixty-six feet wide, but
that this site would be within one hundred yards of the orchard owned by another person
upon the other side of this travelled road, and the question is whether the consent of such
owner is necessary.
Section 123 of the Public Schools Act has reference to this state of circumstances
only, namely, when the owner of the land selected for a School Site refuses to sell the
same or demands an unreasonable price. In such a case arbitrators may be appointed to
value the same and upon tendering of the amount the land can be taken and used by the
Trustees.
Sub-section 4 contains a limitation on the exercise of this authority, when the pro-
posed site is within one hundred yards of the orchard of the owner of such proposed site
should he refuse his consent.
This appears to the Minister to apply expressly to the orchard of the owner of the
site selected, but not to the orchard of any other owner of lands in the Township.
His opinion therefore is that the owner of the orchard across the travelled road from
the School-house has no valid legal ground for objecting to the erection of the School-
house on the proposed site selected from the other owner.
5. Neglect of Trustees.
Besides the application for a mandamus in case of neglect of the Trustees to erei
the required School-house and open School therein, any ratepayer may proceed against
them before a Justice of the Peace for penalties, on account of their refusing and neglect- .
ing to perform the duties of their office under Section 237 of the Public Schools Act.
6. Protection against Nuisance.
A Trustee Corporation can lay an information before any Magistrate against the
owner of the cheese factory for what is a public nuisance, and for which, if proved, the
said owner should be heavily fined by the- Court of General Sessions of the peace.
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If the facts are as stated, the remedy can be made effectual by repeated convictions,
should the nuisance not be abated.
There is also the further remedy by an injunction and damages in the High Court of :
J ustice.
7. As to Fences of School Site.
(1) The Trustees were justified in raising the legal question as to the liability of
their Corporation, and are therefore entitled to be indemnified for their costs.
Trustees should, however, take care not to give any occasion for any other suit ;
it having been decided by the Judge that they were liable to the whole expense of keep-
ing up and maintaining the fence between the Trustees' property and that adjoining.
Unless they do this, and by their neglect put the ratepayers to any expense, they
could be compelled to refund the costs personally.
The decision of the Judge was that the Line Fence Act of Ontario does not apply
to school ground, and this is probably a correct view of the law. The Minister does not
therefore consider this a matter for an appeal by him.
(2) The opinion has since been definitely formed by the Minister that the Line Fence
Act has no application to property occupied for school sites, which require fencing, in-
applicable to that which is subject to the Line Fences Act, and the jurisdiction conferred
thereby on fence viewers.
The Minister is therefore of opinion that School Trustees are obliged to fence, and
to maintain in good repair, the fence surrounding their school grounds, and cannot call
on the fence viewers, or take any other advantage of the Line Fences Act, so as to com-
pel the adjoining proprietor to contribute to the expense of maintaining the school fence.
8. Payment of Compensation for Site to County Treasurer, token good title unattainable.
The 133rd Section applies to any case, whether the compensation is either agreed
upon between the Trustees and the owner in possession, or whether such compensation
has been settled by arbitration ; the effect, therefore, is to authorize the Trustees to de-
posit the amount of the compensation with the County Treasurer, or in such other manner
as may be directed, with interest for six months, together with a certified copy of the
proposed conveyance from the owner to the Trustees. This will constitute a good title
to the Trustees as against all persons interested, including the mortgagees. The convey-
ance itself should be registered in the Registry Office, as provided in section 133. The
Minister would recommend that the payment of the compensation should be made to the
County Treasurer.
9. Trustees failing to engage Teachers liable to penalty.
Under Section 102 of the Public Schools Act, it is the imperative duty of School
Trustees to contract for and employ teachers for their school sections, and if they fail in
such necessary duty, they are liable to be proceeded against before any Justice of the
Peace by any two ratepayers under section 237 of the Public Schools Act, and so on from
time to time until this duty is fully discharged.
It will be no justification for them to show that they could not secure a teacher at
the small sum of $200, as offered by them. The Minister considers the neglect of these
Trustees to have been so injurious, that he is prepared to sustain any action of the rate-
payers against them in the premises.
10. Employment of unqualified Teachers. — Liability of Trustees.
If the Trustees employ a teacher not possessing any lawful qualification they should
not only forfeit their right to any share of the Legislative Grant, but also to the County
equivalent and any taxes levied by the Township Council on behalf of their section.
Thev can also be restrained by an injunction at the suit of any ratepayer.
11. As to the Fifth and Sixth Class in Public Schools.
The Minister had this question placed before him for consideration in April, 1881,
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in the case of Kingston Public School Board and the City Council. He then considered
that, under sub-section 18, of section 104 of the Public Schools Act, which requires
Public School Boards to provide adequate accommodation for all children of school ag<
in the municipality, and (under sub-section 24) to see that the schools under their charge
are conducted according to the authorized Regulations, it would follow that the Regu-
lations of 1877, establishing the programme or course of study for the Public Schools,
and prescribing six classes and the subjects to be taught therein respectively, were obli-
gatory upon School Boards, (excepting in rural schools) or where circumstances would
justify the Inspector in recommending modifications of the programme.
Regulation 6 as to the High Schools, chapter 5, shows that it is at the option of
parents of pupils whether the pupils shall enter the High School or not before they com-
plete the whole programme of studies in the Public Schools. (See also page 55.)
The Minister considers that any undue efforts to withdraw pupils in the Public Schools
from the Fourth Class only into the High School would result in the Fifth or Sixth
Classes being given up, to the probable injury of pupils and parents. This question has
since been settled by the Regulations of the 31st of July, 1882, by which the programme
or course of study in Public Schools is made more flexible, according to the schedule
therewith, as far as the circumstances of the particular school will allow, and while it is
the duty of all School Boards and Trustees to afford efficient instruction in the essential
gubjecf of elementary education, prescribed in the schedule for the first four classes of the
Public- Schools, School Boards and Trustees are at liberty to consider what other classes
or subjects are to be taken as obligatory in the judgment of the l'espective Boards and
Trustees, having due regard to the circumstances of their schools.
12. Purchase of Prize Books.
Since the Depository has ceased to be a branch of this Department, School Trustees
are at liberty to purchase any books for prizes which they may think desirable.
13. Township Board and Municipal Council can each appoint an Auditor.
Inasmuch as Township Boards have all the authority of Public School Boards and of
Rural School Trustees, they can exercise the power of appointing two Auditors, and there
being no annual meeting at which another Auditor can be appointed, it would be within the
power of the Municipal Council to appoint this one.
14. Trustees improperly loan School Moneys.
Where trustees have improperly loaned moneys, the Inspector has no jurisdiction
under section 194, sub-section 11, to deal with the charge.
The amount in question, being §330, is beyond the jurisdiction of the County Court.
The most complete remedy would be by a bill in Equity at the instance of a ratepayer,
I when the trustees in default would be ordered to account for both principal and interest.
If it was established in fact that the provisions of the 225th section have been violated,
the general law which governs the relation of all trustees would also apply.
15. Improper Payment by Secretary-Treasurer.
As to the course of proceeding requisite for compelling the late treasurer of the school
section to pay over to the trustees the amount of the extra tax levied for the purpose of
covering his expenses of contesting the validity of a by-law in which he was defeated, the
County Court Judge, on an application under section 232 of the Public Schools Act, could
order a refund to the trustees.
16. Time for applying to Municipal Council.
The period mentioned in section 79 of the Public Schools Act for an application by
rural trustees to the Council is only directory and not a condition, and therefore the school
rates on the collector's roll of the Township can be legally recovered from all ratepayers
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in the section liable to pay the same, and any objection of illegality on this ground
cannot be sustained.
17. Municipal Council liable to pay over School Moneys notwithstanding a Pending
Dispute.
Notwithstanding any pending discussion, the Municipal Council is bound to pay over
to the School Board all moneys provided under their requisition authorized by sub-section
10'of section 104, Public Schools Act.
' """There is a summary mode of compelling this by mandamus on application to one of
the Superior Court Judges sitting in Chambers.
18. Resolution of School Meeting assuming the liability of the Trustees for a Debt ^o a
Teacher.
The ratepayers are quite right when they assume the liability imposed upon the
trustees personally by the Judge's decision, from the agreement not being in writing, and
this should be acquiesced in without further question.
19. Refund of Taxes — illegal.
On a person leaving his farm, it is proposed to remit to him the amount of taxes paid
by him for the school building.
The trustees have no legal power to remit any school taxes which have been actually
paid. This is a matter for the tenant and his landlord to arrange according to the terms
of the lease between them. The trustees have no other legal duty than to require the
township clerk to make the requisite assessment upon every ratepayer, and if they should
remit any taxes properly collectable they would be personally liable.
20. Trustees are to exercise their discretion as to the amount of Funds required for
Current Expenses.
The trustees are the only body for determining the extent of the wants of their school
section for current expenditure year by year, and they can have this amount collected
through the municipal machinery. They would be liable to refund the ratepayers any
improper excess in the amount required, but are entitled to exercise such discretion as would
be prudent under the circumstances as to the probable amount required in each year.
21. Assessment of an undivided lot assessed in two Sections.
The question between the trustees of the two sections as to the application of the
school taxes levied on an undivided lot can be decided by a suit in the Division Court
between the trustees of the two sections.
The Township Council cannot proceed otherwise than according to the Assessment
Roll, and that will continue to govern until the County Judge of the Division Court decides
differently, in a suit brought for the amount of the taxes which, under the Assessment Roll,
have been appropriated to the wrong section.
22. All Children between Seven and Thirteen years of age are prima Jacie bound to attend1
the Public Schools — exceptions, when allowed.
Any such excuse for children not attending the Public School, of the nature referred
to in this letter, to the effect that their parents are teaching them at home, or that they
are being taught elsewhere, is no legal answer to the demand of the trustees.
The 4th Section shows that the only exception in this particular is where such child
is under efficient elementary instruction in some other manner, and this is a matter of
fact which the Justices of the Peace are competent to settle upon the evidence before
them. The onus of proof that the instruction is efficient will be thrown upon the parents-
of the children, as prima facie it is their duty to see that their children attend the Public
School on the demand of the trustees.
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23. Suspension of a Pupil cannot be for an Indefinite Time.
The suspension of a pupil must be for a limited and reasonable time, and the trus-
tees are not justified in depriving the child for an indefinite period of his school privi-
leges, and they will be responsible to the parent in damages in the Division Court for
any unreasonable deprivation of the child's schooling, this not being a case for expulsion.
24. Trustees cannot legally pay School Fees of Pupils attending in another Section.
There is no authority under which trustees can, even with the consent of a majority
•of the ratepayers at a special meeting duly called for the purpose, assume to pay any
tuition fee for children of the Section attending the Public School of the town.
It is the duty of trustees to provide adequate accommodation for children of all
residents in their Section.
25. What Children are Resident.
A brother, being a resident ratepayer, cannot be considered as standing in the place
of the parent, notwithstanding the fact that the sister his been more than a year with
Mm. The question is one of fact whether she is or is not a resident pupil, which would
bs proved by her being shown to be the child of a resident ratepayer, or under the legal
guardianship of such. The Minister considers that the sister would be liable to pay the
school fees imposed upon non-resident children, and that, as this arises by implication, a
formal demand by rate bill is unnecessary. The liability is co-extensive with the period
■during which she may have been deriving any benefit from the school.
26. On Right of the Sisters of a Ratepayer to Attend.
The question of the right of two sisters, who are living with another sister, a resi-
dent, to attend the Public School free, depends upon whether they are resident or not
with such sister in the true relation of a guardian. If their father is living elsewhere,
then they must be considered as the children of non-residents, but if they are under such
sisters' guardianship in fact, in place of their father, then they should be considered as
resident children.
27. On School Census.
The express provisions of the School Acts of 1880 and 1881 for taking the census,
have repealed those which formerly existed for the like purposes.
28. Case of Legal Incapacity of a Majority of Trustees.
The best course for the remaining Trustee is to consider that two vacancies exist,
and to supply these at the next annual meeting. Any sums paid to the Trustees for
services can be recovered back by a suit at the instance of any ratepayer, in the Division
Court.
29. Trustees' Right Forfeited by Non-attendance.
The two sections — 17 and 38 — of the Public Schools Act are to be read together, and
the general tenure of office provided for in section 17 is necessarily subject to the condi-
tion for its earlier determination in the state of things provided for in section 38, and by
section 13 of the School Act of 1881.
Absence for three consecutive months, without leave, as prescribed by section 38,
avoids the office, and requires no further act. The former Trustee can assert no claim to
be a legal Trustee, and the further cause under section 13 of the School Act of 1881 also
avoids the election ipso facto.
SO. School Act of 1S81 Forbids Sale of School Site by a Trustee to the School Corporation.
The effect of section 13 of the School Act of 1881 would be to prevent a Public
School Trustee, while hqlding office, from entering into a contract for the sale of the school
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site to the corporation of which he is a Trustee. The exception in section 225 of the
Public Schools Act is abrogated by the express terms of section 13.
It is only in cases of a compulsory proceeding that the appointment of arbitrators,
becomes necessary, but this involves a proceeding against strangers, and not a case where
one of the Trustees himself is the person from whose land the school site is to be taken.
Any practical difficulty can be overcome if this land is actually required for the site,
by the Trustee resigning his office and another being appointed to the vacancy.
31. Remuneration to any Trustee is Illegal although Voted by the Ratepayers.
The language of section 13 of the School Act of 1881 is large enough to prohibit the
receipt, by the Trustee, of the sum of $20 voted by the ratepayers for services as
secretary-treasurer while holding the office of School Trustee. The payment of this would,.
ipso facto, avoid the Trustee's seat, and the money could be recovered by any ratepayer.
32. School Accommodation — Regulations to be enforced where the need is made clear.
The regulations of the Department with reference to school accommodation have been,
made more flexible than the former regulations on this subject, but only to protect the
school sections from being unduly burdened by requirements which could conveniently,
and without detriment to the pupils, be postponed in certain cases.
In one case the Minister finds from the Inspector's statements, that the area of the
school section comprises 6,000 acres of the best land in the County of Middlesex, and that
it contains 150 children of school age ; that the teacher employed receives a salary of
$460 ; that for a portion of 1877 an assistant was employed, but taught in the same room
with the master. The average attendance for two years shows the following : —
First half, 1876, average number in attendance 68
Second half, 1876 " " , 72
First half, 1877, " " 76
Second half, 1877, " " 82
This establishes, firstly, the necessity of a second or assistant teacher ; and, secondly,
the necessary accommodation of two rooms, and the Minister is rather surprised that any
of the ratepayers should have made any complaint when the Inspector called their atten-
tion to those matters.
The Minister's conclusion is that the Inspector is quite right under the circumstances
mentioned, and will uphold him in requiring you at a convenient season to comply with
his requests.
33. County Council Committee has no power to direct Trustees to build a second School
House, but the Trustees are required by a Court to do so if necessary.
The only jurisdiction conferred upon the committee of appeal of the County Council.
under section 88, is to review the action of the Township Council in respect of any By-law
for the formation, division, union, or alteration of school sections within the Township.
The Public Schools Act makes it obligatory upon the Trustees, when the circumstances-
of the section require it, to build or rent and to maintain two or more school houses in th«
section. See sub-section 10, of section 102.
A Superior Court Judge can, in Chambers, grant a peremptory mandamus to compel
Trustees to do so on proper affidavits sufficient to show that this is a case in which the
Trustees are neglecting their statutory duty.
III. Settlement of Boundaries.
1. Adjustment of Claim, or Alteration of Sections.
The words of the 85th section of the Public Schools Act are very comprehensive, and
expretsly apply to the competency of the Township Council to appoint the County In-
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spector and two valuators to value and adjust all rights and claims consequent upon the
formation, dissolution or alteration of any union school section, as well as of any section
in the township itself.
2. Jurisdiction of Valuatcrs — Dechion of Valuators is final.
The decision of the valuators is conclusive, and cannot, under the circumstances, be
disturbed by any of the parties.
3. Iu Union Sections no appointment of Referees can be made after the withdrawal by the
Township of its portion from the Union.
As to whether a demand can be made for the first time, after the withdrawal by the
Township of its portion from the union with the village has actually taken place, — the
140th section of the Public Schools Act (as well as the 17th section of the School Act of
1879, and the 7th section of the School Act of 1880), contemplates a disagreement as to
the terms of the withdrawal between the two municipalities concerned, before such
actualh' takes place on the first Monday of January following after that period ; and it
is too late then for either municipality to assume to appoint a referee, there being no basis
on which he can act. Either municipality can properly, therefore, refuse to appoint a
referee or otherwise recognize the appointment by the other.
4. When, within the same Township.
Any By-law passed by the Township Council under the authority conferred by section
81 of the Public Schools Act, would be legal, notwithstanding that it contained no pro-
vision under section 85 for appointing valuators to adjust and value the claims arising
in consequence of any division of the school section. Any omission to do so can be
supplied by the appointment of valuators by the Council within a reasonable time, either
by resolution or by-law.
5. Expense oj Appeal to Committee of County Council.
The County Council would be liable for the payment of the expense of the committee
appointed by them in pursuance of their duty, under the 88th section of the Public Schools
Act, upon the principle that when a statutory duty is to be imposed upon such a body it
cannot refuse to discharge it, and consequently must provide the necessary means directed
for this purpose, namely, "a committee of competent persons."
The County Council is therefore liable to any expense attending this, including the
personal remuneration of the committee.
Sub-section 2, of section 190, has no application whatever to such appeal, but refers
to other duties of the School Inspector.
6. When an Appeal does not lie to the County Council.
If the Township Council neglects or refuses to act, as it appears from the proceedings
which have taken place, that neither Trustees nor Inspector ever requested the Township
Council in writing to take any such proceeding as the committee of the County Council
has assumed to deal with, its determination is altogether void, as having been made on a
matter in respect of which it has no jurisdiction.
All that section 82 authorizes to be appealed to such committee, is the neglect or re-
fusal of the Township Council in any proceeding, at the request in writing of the Trustees
or Inspector, and the 88th section is equally explicit in defining this neglect or refusal of
the Township Council to be "on application being made to it by the Trustees or Inspector."
The proceeding being void ah initio, and the determination of the committee a nullity,
the Minister has no authority to confirm it. It is, however open to the parties to begin
again.
7. By-law to withdraw! Lots from a School Section must add them to another Section.
The Minister considers the by-law of the Township Council to be illegal in assuming
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to withdraw certain lots from a school section, and omitting to place them in another
section ; these lots are still within it, and the Trustees have a right to demand from the
Township Council, and to sue them for such school rates as should have been collected from
such lots.
8. Question as to true line — a Fence being wrongly placed Twenty years since.
The ownership of the Trustees is similar to that of any other corporation, public or
private, and is governed by the statute of limitations as private persons now are. The
legal title of a street or public square is in the Crown, although the possession may be in
the Municipality, and the legal maxim, nullum tempus occurrit regi applies, that is, that
time does not run against the title of the Crown.
IV. — Union School Divisions.
1. School Population not a Basis of Distribution in Union Sections.
This question is now governed by section 3 of the School Act of 1 880, and while
this authorizes an agreement between the Councils of the respective municipalities being
made on or before 1st August in any year, yet it is an agreement for an equalized basis
of assessment which otherwise would have to be settled by the referees provided for by
this section.
The only legal basis for school rates which this section recognizes is that of an
equalized assessment, and any other which might be adopted would be invalid if disputed
by any municipality concerned.
2. Union Section — Alloicance to Township which provides Funds by its own Investments-
As to the principle of assessment which should govern in the respective portions of
a union school section composed of parts of townships in two separate counties, the
School Act of 1880, 43 V. c. 32 (page 93 of O. S.), s. 3, makes clear provision for arriving
at an equalized basis of assessment upon which the school rate is to be levied by the
municipal officials of each township municipality in which portions of the union are
respectively situate. Under sub-section 2 the clerk of each municipality is required
to place upon the Collector's roll of his municipality the amount which, acccording to this
equalization, is to be contributed as its share, but if, as a fact, the township or the school
section has funds invested for school purposes, it would be the duty of the Clerk to deduct
so much of the interest upon these funds as would be available to the section for this
purpose before placing the rate upon the Municipal Collector's Roll, which would then
represent a rate reduced by such interest. The union as such is not entitled to the benefit
■of school funds belonging to the other township or section under the Municipalities or
Surplus Distribution Acts.
3. On Dissolution of Union — Formation of Section with less than the Required Area.
When, from special circumstances, it becomes necessary to form a school section
where there is not the full number of fifty resident children between the ages of five and
sixteen, as directed by sub-section one (a) of section seventy-eight of the Public Schools
Act, yet if, in the judgment of the township council, the school interests of these portions
could be best secured by their being erected into a new section, this would justify the
Minister in confirming the by-law under the provisions of section eight of the School Act
of 1880.
When confirmed, the by-law would be absolutely legal and valid and no Court would
have any jurisdiction to question the same.
Any objection upon the ground of the number of children being less than fifty does
mot prevent the township council exercising its general duty and jurisdiction in regard
to school sections within the township, and at the utmost such an objection might afford
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i grounds for moving to quash the by-law before the Minister's confirmation, but not after
this had been obtained.
4. A Township Council may add part of a School Section, without its consent, to a Union
School Division if the Municipalities to which the Union belongs are Consenting Parties.
It is competent for the municipal councils of a village and township to unite a
. portion of a school section with the village for school purposes, under the provisions of
i section 137 of the Public Schools Act, having regard to the provisions thereof as amended
i by the third section of the School Act of 1880, and clearly set forth and explained in
I paragraph seven of the Minister's Memorandum upon the different questions connected
with Union School Sections and divisions.
5. Formation of Union Sections Jrom parts of Different JJounties.
Where the union relates to township municipalities lying within two counties the
inspector of each county under sub-section three of section 137 of the Public Schools Act
is necessary to constitute a legal tribunal thereunder.
The senior county court judge, to be added in case of an even number, is to be
, determined by priority of his original appointment or commission.
Each township council is liable to pay its own referee, and the county council that
of its inspector and also of its county judge, if he is selected under the sub-section of
section 137.
6. Part of Union Section may be Withdrawn — A Petition of Majority in such Part — A By-
law should Provide for Attaching the Part Withdrawn to another Section or Establish-
ing it as a Section.
(1) The petition, which is a necessary condition to support the by-law of the town-
ship council for withdrawing part of the township from the union, is required to bo that
of a majority of the ratepayers of the portion proposed to be so withdrawn and not of the
whole portion united.
(2) The by-law is effectual for withdrawing such part of the township from the
union, and would take effect on the 1st January following its passing, but it should have
also provided for attaching the part withdrawn to some other section of the township.
It is competent for the council now to pass an independent by-law for this purpose
before the 1st May next, which would take effect on and after the 25th December next ;
but it would not be competent for the new council to repeat the former by-law so as to
restore the part withdrawn to the former union.
It is competent, moreover, for both township councils to agree for the re-union of
this part with the former union, by by-law to be passed before the 1st October next, taking
effect on the 1st January following.
V. — Public School Assessments. — Debentures. — Collections.
1. Liability for Uncollected Rates — Negligence.
As to the liability of ratepayers whose taxes for the year 1881 have been allowed to
remain unpaid, the Minister is clearly of opinion that if these taxes were legally imposed
so as to be legally payable in that year, they continue to be a debt against the ratepayers,
and recoverable as such for any period not exceeding six years.
The Trustees of every School Board are also personally responsible for any loss of
money which is caused by any neglect of their official duty.
2. Correction of Error.
It is competent for the Council to correct the errors which occurred in 1880 in rais-
ing the school rates for that year by making the requisite deduction from Section 9 and
adding to Section No. 11, in adjusting the amount to be allowed for the school rates of
1881, and amending the assessment and collector's roll accordingly.
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3. Application of an Amount Wrongfully Levied by tht Trustees.
The proper course for the Trustees to pursue, is to take the requisite steps for
obtaining the approval of the ratepayers to the total expenditure required for the new
school, and then to obtain a loan by debentures through the Township Council. The
material on hand can then be paid for from the debentures, but otherwise the Trustees
would become personally liable.
As it appears that §400 have been collected without authority, and are in the hands of
the Trustees, the proposal at the meeting of the ratepayers should include their sanction
of this amount, as if legally raised and on hand for this purpose ; and then to require the
Township Council to raise only the balance required.
4. Collection of Arrears — Liability of Toionship Council — Fees of Arbitrators.
The Township Council is liable to the School Trustees in case of any default on^the
part of their collector in the collection of school rates, and if it is a fact that thev have
allowed any ratepayer's taxes to remain uncollected, the School Trustees can sue the
Township Corporation in the Division Court. In default of the Trustees acting, a rate-
payer could probably compel both Trustees and Township Council to do their duty, in one
suit in the Division Court.
So far as any ratepayers are over-charged, they would have a right to a return of
such over-payment.
Where an arbitration is properly resorted to, in which the Inspector is one, he
is entitled, under Sec. 190 of the Public Schools Act, to the same remuneration per diem
for the time employed as the members of the Municipal Council at council meetings. The
Arbitrators' fees should not exceed §2 per day, and with travelling expenses actually
paid would be reasonable, but there is nothing to justify any mileage charge if not
actually expended, and if the case of more than one school had to be considered, then'the
charge for such should be regulated by the time employed.
The Arbitrators' fees should under no circumstances exceed those fixed by statute
for the Public School Inspector, namely that of the members of the Municipal Council
per diem.
5. In Unorganized Township — No Authority to Sell Lands for School Tax — Distress War-
rant— Limit to Collector's Power.
It appears that as Chaffey is an unorganized Township, there is no Municipal Clerk
to whom the return of uncollected taxes can be made, and the Minister does not find any
provision in the School Act which would authorize Trustees themselves to sell lands
under their warrant.
In executing a Distress Warant the collector has no right to break open any door
forcibly to levy for taxes ; but if he can enter quietly in any way, it would not be a
breach of the law.
6. On Exemption for Indigence — Collectors Liability — Information for Assessor in case
of a Union- — Collection of Arrears.
(a) The Township Council has no power to exempt indigent persons from school
taxes, but this jurisdiction rests in the Trustees under sub-section 5 of Section 103 of the
Public Schools Act. Their resolution to this effect would bind the Township Council
and its officers.
(b) The collector is entitled to be paid by his own township. A registered letter
would be at his own risk, but such risk practically would be infinitesimal.
(c) In the case of a Union, the township applying to another township for its pro-
portion of taxes should furnish all such information as would enable such township to
ascertain whether the demand is justifiable, and this would involve a statement of all
particulars needed for ascertaining this. Until then the township called upon can
properly refuse taking any action.
(d) In case of any arrears of school taxes not collected, the Township Council would
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have authority to collect them, and, if necessary, place them on the collector's roll for the
following year.
7. On Remedy where Assessment is Made in Wrong Name.
The proper course would be to appeal to the Court of Revision in case the assessors
should assess the property in any other name than that of the true owner, but if this is
not done then the collector must be governed by his roll, which would correspond with
the assessment.
8. Conditions oj Loan — Repayments.
By sub-section 4 of section 29 of the School Act of 1879 (-42 V., Chapter 34) the power
of Municipal Councils for issuing debentures for any loan of money for school purposes,
was extended so that debentures may be for a term not exceeding 20 years, as the Muni-
cipal Council might think lit ; and the Council may also in its discretion make the principal
repayable by annual or other instalments, as provided by section 332 of the Municipal
Act.'
The By-law is, therefore, in the opinion of the Minister, correct in providing for the
raising of annual sums by way of principal, in addition to the interest, according to the
claim appearing in the second recital of the By-law sent him.
There is, however, an objection to the annual payments for principal and interest
being so unequal in the later years.
Section 332 is express in requiring that the annual payments for principal and
interest should be nearly equal in their aggregate amounts, and this objection, the
Minister considers, would be fatal.
The By-law should be repealed and a new one introduced, with total amounts in each
j year as nearly equal as may be.
9. Authority to Raise a Certain Sum — Also Covers the Necessary In'erest Payments.
The resolution carried at the public meeting of the ratepayers of the section, held on
| the 6th March last, in which the Trustees are instructed to raise and expend a sum on
'capital account, not exceeding $3,600, for a new school house, authorizes also whatever
interest may be necessary in order to give effect to the further resolution under which
such amount of $3,600 was to be extended over a period of three years, by issuing deben-
tures of the township.
The Minister thinks that the authority to raise the full sum of $3,600 of capital by
such debentures, and to make them payable with interest, is free from legal question.
10. Township Council to Provide Funds.
The Township Council is bound, upon the requisition of the School Trustees, pro-
vided that they have the approval of the duly qualified school electors under sub-section
3 of the 29th section of the School Act of 1879, to provide the amount of money which the
trustees require by virtue of the authority given by sub-sections 9-10 of section 78 of the
School- Act.
11. Premium as well as Principal of School Debentures Belongs to School Corporation.
The Minister has considered the questions as to whether the Municipal Council, as
such, or the School Corporation, is entitled to any premium which may be realized upon
the debentures of the township, issued for school purposes, and upon the security of
school rates liable for the payment of principal and interest of such debentures. The
proceeds, whether in excess of par or under, strictly belong to the School Corporation,
ind the Municipal Corporation is merely their agent in giving legal shape to the transac-
tion.
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VI. — Cities, Towns, and Villages.
1. Public School Trustee in City, Town, or Village may Resign.
A Public School Trustee can resign his position as one of the Board of Education,
and if his resignation is accepted by the Board there will be a legal vacancy under sub-
section 10 of section 7 of the School Act of 1S79.
2. Audit of Village School Accounts — Expense.
The proper Auditors of the School accounts in Cities, Towns, and Villages are the
Auditors required to be appointed under the Municipal Act, Sections 25 I to 258.
Inasmuch as the School rates are required to be collected as other Municipal taxes
by the Municipal Collector, without expense to the School Board, the auditing of so much
of his collections as represent School rates, and which it is his duty to pay to the Village
Treasurer, will come within the accounts required to be examined by the Auditors under
Section 255 of the Municipal Act.
It is also competent for the School Board to employ the Village Treasurer, or to
appoint their own Treasurer as they may think fit in their discretion.
3. Municipal Clerk as School Treasurer — Security.
The objection to the Clerk of the Municipal Council also acting as Treasurer for the
School Board, inasmuch as he cannot himself be the custodian of his own bond of security,
can be readily got over by a resolution of the Public School Board requiring his bond to
be placed in the custody of the Treasurer of the Municipality.
The Clerk of the Municipal Council is not disqualified from acting also as Treasurer
of the Board of Trustees. The custody of the bond by the Treasurer of the Municipality
under the authority of the Public School Board will be as effectual as if the law were
technically complied with.
4. Town Incorporated as a City— Number of Wards Increased — New Board Electfimv
Necessary.
The Minister has considered the questions arising from the new division of the
city into six wards, in place of the four former wards. As it now appears- that
the division into six wards was made upon the town becoming incorporated as a«. city,
it seems to him a clear case within Section 58 of the Public Schools Act, which provides
that on the incorporation of any city, and the division thereof into wards, two fit- and
proper persons shall, at the first election of School Trustees, be elected School Trustees of
every ward, etc. By carrying out the provisions of the 5Sth section and sub-section the
Board's course would be strictly legal, as the necessary effect of the incorporation and
division into six wards is to cause a vacancy in the tenure of office of the old members...
and their resignation would be unnecessary.
5. New Election of Board in a Town where. Five Wards have been Formed Instead of Three
as Formerly. .
Inasmuch as there has been altogether a new division into wards, the Minister con-
siders that the proper legal effect of the creation of new wards in place of the old would
be to cause a vacancy of all the members of the former Board, and therefore require a
new election as provided by sub-section 2 of section 58. Of course their voluntary resig-
nation would remove all question.
6. City Inspector may Teach the County Model School and Perform other Duties.
Questions were raised as to the right of a Board to appoint the City Inspector Prin-
cipal of the Public School used as the County Model School.
The County Inspector and the County Board of Examiners are altogether responsible
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for the conduct of this Public School, so far as concerns its use as the County Model
School.
While section 22G of the Public Schools Act prohibits an Inspector being the Teacher
or Trustee of any Public or High School while he holds the office of Inspector, this is of
general application, but must be construed as limited to such cases where no special
authority has been granted under which other duties may be prescribed for certain classes
of Inspectors.
In approving of the arrangements made by the Board the Minister was governed by
sub-section 40 of section 194 of the Public Schools Act which expressly provides that,
in the case of a City or Town Inspector, it shall be his duty to perform such other duties
as may be required of him by the Public School Board appointing him, or by the Minister
of Education. This express authority having been exercised by your Board in the case,
of the City Inspector, withdraws him from the application of what otherwise might be
the general eflect of section 226.- The question of the extent and nature of the additional
duties to be discharged by your City Inspector depends entirely upon the judgment of the
Public School Board, and all that the Minister has done is to explain the law which, in
his opinion, governs this question, and the Minister has no power or duty to interfere in
any matter such as this, which comes within the Statutory jurisdiction conferred upon
the Public School Board. ,
This will apply to another objection urged, of your Board having appointed the City
Inspector as drawing master in the Central School.
7. County and Toton Inspectors' Salaries.
Under sub-section 3 of section 110 of Public Schools Act, it is plainly the duty
of the County Treasurer to pay over to the Public School Board of any Town within the
County such amount as may have been collected within such Town for the payment of the
salary of the County Inspector, which the Minister construes to mean money collected
for that object, and payable to the Public School Board of such Town where they have a
Public School Inspector of their own.
The Town Board should also be entitled, upon general principles of law, to a refund
of this amount from the County Treasurer, should they choose to employ a Public School
Inspector of their own and not the County Inspector or the Inspector of the Electoral
District in which the Town is situate.
8. School Age — Right oj Admission.
The interpretation of the School Law has uniformly been that all persons between
the ages of 5 and 21 have the right to attend some School, and in Cities, Towns or
Villages the School Boards are bound to provide adequate accommodation for all such,
while in rural School Sections the extent of the accommodation required is two thirds of
such number. It would follow that the Board has no discretion with reference to any
age between 5 and 21.
The Public School Board of Toronto have expressly recognized this, and have passed
a resolution favouring a change of the law to the minimum age of 6, and this also was
the subject of a resolution passed at the last meeting of the Ontario Teachers' Association.
But after considering these proposals the conclusion of the Government was that no case
had been made out for any change in the law in this respect.
9. Discretion of Public School Board as to Maintaining 5th and Oth Classes.
A question has been raised as to whether the Public School Board of the City can
compel the City Council to raise the requisite amount for paying the salaries of such
teachers as the Board in their discretion may employ for the fifth and sixth classes in the
Public Schools.
Under sub-section 9 of section 104 of the Public Schools Act, the Public School
Board has full authority to determine the number, sites, kind, grade, and description of
schools to be established and maintained in the City, and also with respect to teachers to
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be employed ami their duties, and the City Council is bound to provide such sums as may
lie required for these purposes.
If the Public School Board determine that fifth and sixth classes shall be main-
tain :d in the Public Schools of the city, then the City Council is liable for raising the
necessary funds for this object. (See also page -44.)
The regulations of the Department as to the course of study cannot interfere with
this jurisdiction, and must be taken as recommendatory.
The Collegiate Institute Board can only admit such pupils as have passed the
entrance examination, and it is optional with their parents to send them up from the
Public School to this examinatio l or to continue then in the Public School, if the
requisite classes are provided by the Public School Board.
10. Model Schools for Cities and Towns.
On referring to section 89 of the Public Schools Act, sub-section 7, it appears that a
County Model School may be established by the County Council in any city or town
separated under such agreement as may be made by the School Board of the city or
town. This is only permissive, and in case the County Council has taken no such action
and has made no such agreement with the School Board of the town, any Model School
in a town.cannot be considered to be a County Model School, and as such entitled to the
statutory contribution from the county.
There is no provision by which the Public School Board of a town separated may
establish a Model School for itself, although a city may by section 1 of the School Act of
1879.
VII. Public School Inspectors and Examiners.
1. Inspector's Duty as to Proceedings of School Meeting — No Appeal to Minister.
The Annual Meeting is competent to regulate its own proceedings as to adjourning
the poll till one o'clock, and even if clearly irregular, if there was an election in substance
and fact it should have been allowed to stand.
The Minister deprecates any exercise by Inspectors of their jurisdiction in setting
aside any school meeting for anything which does not go the root of the matter.
He has also held that he has no power to revise the decision of any Inspector in
either confirming or setting aside a school meeting, and that this is not a matter of
appeal to him, as it lies altogether, under the Act, within the discretion of the Inspector.
On these grounds the Minister cannot give any directions, and least of all assume
himself any responsibility with respect to proceedings over which he has no legal
jurisdiction.
2. On Duty of Inspector as to Proceedings of an Annual Meeting.
Public School Inspectors should be extremely cautious in setting aside elections,
unless the legal grounds therefor are perfectly clear and the facts undoubted.
There is always more or less mischief and irritation caused by setting aside an election
and holding another meeting, and when, as in this case, it was doubtful whether a poll
was legally demanded or not, such demand should have appeared on the report of the
proceedings of the meeting, as well as the names of the parties, and failing this, then
a written protest ; no evidence short of this, in my judgment, should have been accepted
or acted upon. It is a safe rule for Inspectors never to set aside the proceedings of an
annual meeting upon any technicality whatever.
3. Time Allowed for Inspector to Decide Election Complaints.
Twenty days is the period in which the County Inspector may receive complaints,
but his decision need not necessarily be given within such time. The language used does
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not imply a decision within that period, but merely gives him jurisdiction over any
■omplaint made within twenty days.
4. Special Duties of Inspector.
The provision in the Public Schools Act as to an annual lecture by the Public
School Inspector has never yet been the subject of regulation by the Education Depart-
ment, and until this is done the Public School Inspector would not appear to be under
any obligation in this respect.
A teacher who is in receipt of a superannuation allowance, being over sixty years of
age, and who has resumed teaching, is not entitled to be paid his retiring allowance
.vhile so engaged. The Public School Inspector should report this circumstance to the
'Department.
5. County Inspector — When Disqualified as Presiding Examiner.
The only course which is open to him is to select the one position or the other on
account of the apparent conflict with the rule which is to be invariably complied with,
namely, that a County Inspector, if appointed a sub-examiner in connection with the
Central Committee, cannot also preside at the local Intermediate Examination.
6. No allowance for Sickness of a Candidate at an Examination.
It would be quite inconsistent with our whole system of certificates to allow of any
ixamination being considered as passed under an cegrotat.
VIII. Public School Teachers and their Certificates.
1. Endorsement of Certificate — When necessary — Extensions.
The effect of the Act of 1882 is not to make all Third Class Certificates, or extensions
hereof, Provincial, but only to authorize School Boards and Trustees to employ a Third
Jlass Public School Teacher whose certificate has been awarded, after having passed the
Professional Examination at any County Model School, by any County Board of Exam-
ners, instead of this right being confined to those holding such certificates gained in their
iwn county.
The extension of any such Certificate granted in the past does not come within the
uthority of this Act, although when extensions are granted in the future, under the
econd section of the Act, they would be valid in any other county.
2. Old First Class Certificates, if Cancelled, cannot be Revived.
While the County Board had power to cancel a County First Class Certificate it
unnot revive it, as the law does not appear to confer any such power upon them. The
;tmost that can be done would be to issue a temporary certificate, but upon the same
jnditions as would apply to any new application of that nature.
3. Experience in Public or High School Essential.
The present regulations, which require two years' teaching on a Second Class Certi-
cate, are to be understood as applying to teaching in a High or Public School, and
ould not, therefore, include teaching in any college of a private nature.
4. On Substitute Teachers, and Endorsing Certificates.
It rests with the Trustees to permit of a substitute being engaged while a teacher
undergoing an examination or attending the Normal School. But if the Trustees
fused unreasonably or capriciously, then the teacher would probably have an action of
images in the Division Court against them. The Minister has no power to endorse
lird Class Certificates.
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5. Inspector's Right as to Endorsing Certificates — Action of the Minister.
The school law and regulations place in the hands of the County Inspector the
whole responsibility of either endorsing or refusing to endorse a certificate from another I
county ; and it is not intended that the Minister shall interfere with his discretion in a
matter which is purely within the jurisdiction of the Inspector. The Minister can, how-
ever ask him to report the grounds of his refusal to see whether they are reasonable or
unreasonable.
6. Failure at Examination Through Illness.
As to the case of Mr. , where there has been a failure, it is impossible for
the Minister to make any alteration in the conditions of any of the examinations,
although he personally regrets that the candidate should have failed in reaching the
requisite standard by so few marks, and that by the bad state of his health during the
examination. The Minister has been obliged reluctantly to come to this conclusion in
all similar cases, the judgment of the Central Committee on the papers having been
reported.
7. Inspector's Power to Suspend an Old County Board Certificate.
The Inspector has full power to suspend any certificate under sub-section 26 of
section 194. Where the certificate is a provincial one, then the suspension is to be
reported to the Minister ; but in case of all other certificates — which would include those
granted by the County Board, and continued valid by the Act of 1871 — they will come
within the class which are to be reported, in case of suspension, to the County Board of
Examiners.
8. On the Propagation of Infidel Opinions by Teachers.
Our whole school system, as well as the whole political and social fabric of the Province,
rests upon Christianity as its recognized basis. It consequently follows that where it is
satisfactorily proved in any given case that a teacher not only holds infidel views but
expresses them, this would be a sufficient cause for withdrawing his certificate.
In the case of a Third Class Certificate, upon satisfactory proof, the Inspector would
be authorized to suspend the same and the County Board to withdraw it entirely.
As to Provincial Certificates, the case is to be reported by the Public School Inspec-
tor and decided by the Minister.
The- Public School Inspector has authority to suspend as to all classes of certificates.
9. Breach of Discipline — Board to Deal with such Cases Finally.
The Board is altogether competent to deal with a case of discipline, and the Minister
is not called upon to interfere.
10. Discipline — Objectionable Punishments.
The regulations, to be found in the Compendium at p. 178, define the powers of the
teacher and Trustees in any matter of School discipline, and the mode of exercising the
same will be found at p. 247, while it points to corporal punishment as one of the means, j
it must be qualified by a regard to all the circumstances, and should not be the result of
hasty or passionate action ; moreover, no punishment should be of a degrading character,
and generally, it should be suited to the nature of the offence.
Regulation 4, at p. 178, prescribes the case in which a teacher has power to suspend.
Suspension at any time, by any teacher, is subject to appeal to the Trustees, who have full
power to remove the suspension, and in any case to review the action of any teacher in
matters of school discipline.
11. Beading Jor Higher Classes — Discretion as to Books.
As to " critical reading for selected standard English works," for 5th and Gth
classes, it is quite open to the Trustees and the teacher to exercise their judgment upon the
subject matter which they may think desirable in promoting improved tastes and modes
of reading.
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12. Teacher to be Promptly Paid.
Where there is difficulty in a teacher collecting money by order on the Municipal
Treasurer, the Trustees should themselves obtain it from the Treasurer and pay it over
without delay. The teacher can insist on their doing so, and refuse to accept their order
on the Municipal Treasurer, in such a case.
13. Shortened Vacation — Notice by Trustees.
Notice given by the Trustees to the teacher that the school was to be opened in four
weeks from the closing, was not such a proceeding of the Trustees as comes within section
1 of the Schools Act of 1880.
Any such action on the part of the Trustees to be effective must have taken place
before the beginning of the summer vacation, at such a time that the teachers, parents,
and pupils would have reasonable notice before the vacation begins.
IX. Separate School Questions.
1. Share of Rates on Incorporated Companies for Separate School purposes.
The question put is one of some difficulty ; how far the proprietory interest of sup-
porters of Roman Catholic Separate Schools in incorporated companies can be made avail-
able, so as to be subject to a school rate for the support of the Separate Schools, as the
ordinary real, or personal property of such supporter plainly is in Ontario. A change was
however made by the Act of 1880, 43 Vic, chap. 27, section 8, by which the definition
of personal estate in section 2, sub-section 8 of the Revised Statutes, chap. 180, was
amended, under which the dividends on shares, or stocks, of incorporated companies
became the personal property of the proprietor, and assessable against the individual pro-
prietor to the amount of any dividend, in the case of a Separate School supporter, and so
subject to the Separate School rate, as his other personal property is.
2. Separate School Supporters in Village — How ascertained — Street Railway Comjiany.
The Trustees of the R.C. Separate School of a Township, have submitted for my
decision under sub-section 3 of section 6 of the Revised Statutes, chap 203, two questions
which have arisen between them and the Municipality, the first being as to their right to
all school taxes levied from R.C. ratepayers as shown upon the Assessment Roll, and
secondly, the taxes of one of the proprietors of the Toronto Street Railway Company. I
understand there is no dispute as to the amount but as to the application of the Law. I
have therefore to state that section 78 of the Public Schools Act, sub-section 7 a, makes it
clear that the Municipality is bound to ascertain, at the request of the Separate School
Board, their supporters within the Municipality, and to collect and pay over the taxes
payable from such. It is also the duty of the Assessor, under section 26, sub-section 3
of the School Act of 1879, to place the names of all such supporters in the proper column
of the Assessment Roll without any list or other directions on the part of the R.C. Sep-
arate School Trustees being necessary. Under the amendment made to the Assessment
Act by section 1, sub-section 2, and section 8 of chap. 27, 43 Vic. (Ontario), the stock or
shares of the proprietor mentioned in this Railway Company became, for the first time in
1880, assessable against him individually, and as a Separate School supporter resident in
the municipality, the school taxes upon any Income derived from this would be piyable
to the R.C. Separate School Trustees.
3. On Refund of Taxes Illegally Collected.
Separate School supporters, ever since the Roman Catholic Separate School Act of
1863, have been legally exempt from all school rates for Public School purposes, and
would be entitled, in strict law, to a return of rates paid in previous years, for at least six
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years, as having been paid under a mistake of law, and therefore recognized by the legal '
decisions upon the subject as money paid under pressure, and therefore recoverable.
4. Only one School Tax in the Year — Landlord and Tenant.
There is a practical difficulty in the way of Separate School Trustees making a second
requisition upon the Municipal Council for collecting any deficiency — the only course is
to add it to the amount required for next year.
The 10th section of the School Act of 1881 clearly declares the application of taxes
when the landlord is called upon to pay in default of the tenant. The option in such a
case is with him to apply the taxes to either Public or Separate School purposes, fift""^ ■
5. Claim to Refund of Illegal Taxes Should be Made Within Six Years.
The following is the decision on the reference between the Trustees of the Roman
Catholic Separate School Section No. 2, of the Township of Hullett, and the Municipal
Council of the said township, by indenture dated the 22nd day of December, 1881 ; the
dispute between these two corporations having reference to the sum of $300 money
assessed, levied and collected from the supporters of such Separate School under the
County School rate, during the period of twenty years, from 1859 to 1878, both inclusive.
While the Township Council admits this, yet they are in doubt as to whether it
would be lawful to refund such sum to the school corporation, inasmuch as it was not
paid under protest by any of the supporters of such Separate School, and they there-
fore mutually agreed to leave this question to the determination of the Minister,
under the provisions of section 44, chapter 206, of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, sub-
ject nevertheless to an appeal to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, as also provided by
the said section.
Having considered the question in dispute, the Minister is of opinion that the j
moneys so paid were paid under such mistake as to be recoverable back by the School
Corporation from the Trustees in an action for money had and received, but that the
usual period prescribed by the Statute of Limitation would preclude the School Corpora-
tion from recovering, except for such amounts as were paid within six years from the !
commencement of any such action. The undersigned accordingly finds and determines i
that so much of the said sum of $300 as was paid by the School Corporation and i
received by the Township Council within the period of six years up to and prior to the
22nd day of December, 1881, is legally and justly due and should be paid by the Town-
ship Corporation u< the School Corporation, and that as to the residue of the said sum of
$300 the Township Corporation is to be taken and considered as fully discharged from
any le«al or other liability to the said Separate School Corporation in respect of such
residue.
6. Municipality Not Liable to Separate School Trustees for Uncollected Rates except such as j
are on Real Property.
For the first time, under the provisions of section 26 of the School Act of 1879, the
provisions of sub-section 16, a, b, c and d of section 102 of the Public Schools Act were
made applicable to the Separate Schools, and if the collector appointed by the Trus-
tees is unable to collect any school rate charged on land liable therefor by reason of no j
person being resident, or no goods thereon, the Trustees may make a return to the clerk, ;
who shall make a return to his Treasurer of such lands and arrears thereon, which !
are to be collected as arrears of other taxes.
Under sub-sections 5, 6, 7, and la of section 78, and by section 11 of the School Act
of 1879, all the Trustees' powers and duties are to be discharged by the Municipal Coun-
cils through their own officials, and it is for them to arrange for the collection of arrears
of school taxes as in other cases.
The liability of the Municipal Council is defined by sub-section \6d of section 102, i
as follows : " Shall make up the deficiency arising from uncollected rates on land liable
to assessment, out of the general funds of the municipality." Applying the proper legal
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rule of construction, inasmuch as this liability is expressly confined to uncollected rates
on land liable to assessment, it would extend the Act beyond the language used in it if it
were construed to apply to any portion of school taxes assessed against personalty.
It is the opinion of the Minister that it is only in respect of school rates assessed
upm real estate that this section of the Public School Act applies, and if so, the Separate
School taxes would be in the like position.
7. Protectant Separate School Supporter may Withdraw His Support — Court, of Revision.
A supporter of the Protestant Separate School would appear to have power to with-
draw at any time, under section 9 of chapter 206 of the Revised Statutes ; but in order
to be exempt from the payment of school rates therefor, it would be necessary that his
name should be transferred by the Court of Revision from the Separate School column to
that of the Public School before the Assessment Roll is finally revised.
8. On Withdrawal of Supporter from Separate School.
It is necessary for him to notify in writing the Assessor of his having withdrawn
as a Separate School supporter, and in the event of his being put upon the Assessment
Rill to appeal to the Court of Revision, otherwise if left upon the roll he cannot escape
the payment of Separate School rates.
9. Separate Schools and Assessment Boll.
In the Assessment Act, Revised Statutes, chapter 180, section 12, the Assessor is
jdirected to prepare his Assessment Roll, which shall contain in separate columns certain
particulars, column 7 being the school section of the person assessable, and whether
a Public or Separate School supporter, and column 27 being the religion.
By the 88th section, the Clerk is required to make out the Collector's Roll, which
;shall contain the columns thereby provided, and the special rates (amongst others) for
school purposes, which are to be calculated separately and placed under the respective
columns as " Public School rate," " Separate School rate," etc.
While under section 78 of the Public Schools Act, it is optional with the Separate
School Trustees to take advantage of the provisions of that section, and if so, are directed
to give a notice to that effect, it would not appear to be a requisite condition before the
Assessor and the Clerk of the municipality are respectively called upon to carry out the
;lear instructions appearing in the Assessment Act, but they would be excused from being
;harged with any neglect of duty if the trustees failed to give the notice provided by the
Act.
Should the Assessment Roll, however, be prepared in accordance with the provisions
)f section 78, it would be perfectly valid, notwithstanding that no notice had been
jiven on the part of the Separate School Trustees.
In default of this machinery being resorted to, then section 31 of the Separate
Schools Act must be complied with before a legal list of Roman Catholic Separate School
supporters can be said to govern, should any question arise as to the destination of the
ichool rates of such supporters.
.0. Protestant and Roman Catholic Separate Schools to Share in Public Grants to Schools.
The Municipal Council of the Township of Puslinch, having legal authority to appro-
bate surplus funds to the school sections in such municipality, such an appropriation
vould include a Protestant Separate School as well as other School Corporations.
11. Inspectors of Separate Schools in Cities, Toions, and Villages.
Since the Separate Schools Act has bsen placed amongst the Revised Statutes, it
fould appear that the authority formerly conferred by section 7 of the Act of 1863,
nd which conferred upon Trustees all the powers in respect of Separate Schools which
he Trustees of Common Schools had under the provisions of the then Act relating to
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Common Schools, has been changed to provisions of the Public Schools Act, which would '
mean the Revised Statutes, chapter 204.
The Local Superintendents of the Public Schools were discontinued by the Act of
1871, when Inspectors were appointed instead, whose duties would comprise those for-
merly discharged by the Local Superintendents.
The Minister's conclusion would, therefore, be that the Roman Catholic Separate
School Boards of Cities, Towns, and Villages have the right to appoint a Local Inspector
for their schools, and that this power has not been taken away or interfered with by the
appointment of a Provincial Inspector for Roman Catholic Separate Schools whose func-
tions would be similar to those of the High School Inspectors.
X. High School Questions.
1. On Discontinuance of a High School District.
The law gives the County Council full power to decide upon the discontinuance of
any High School within the County with the concurrence of the Governor in Council,
and the Council is responsible for considering all such grounds as may be urged.
2. On a Town. School becoming a County School.
By section 23, High Schools Act, the county and a town separated may voluntarily
form a union for High School purposes, so as to make the High School a County School.
When a town becomes separated from a county, it becomes for educational purposes
a county, and thus takes upon itself the obligations of a county with respect to High
Schools.
It is only by voluntary agreement under section 23 of the High Schools Act, that
the High School of a town separated can become as well the High School of the county.
3. Local Aid to High Schools — The Statutory Requirement to be Observed as to Amount.
The Minister has no discretion to permit any less sum being raised from the local
Municipality than the equivalent at least to the Legislative Grant. Should the amount
be in excess of the requirements of the school, this may be a consideration for diminishing
the Legislative Grant, when the Municipal Grant could be lessened pro tanto, but not for
the reverse of this proposition.
Any debenture debt for school accommodation is quite distinct from the amounts
required for annual maintenance.
The tuition fees cannot be taken into consideration at all with respect to the muni-
cipal equivalent.
4. Collegiate Institutes Entitled to Local Grant.
The 30th section of the High Schools Act, Revised Statutes, chapter 205, was re-
enacted by the School Act of 1879, and the terms made clear and explicit.
There can be no misapprehension now as to the liability of counties and local muni-
cipalities for each respectively raising an equivalent to the Government grant, which
includes in the case of Collegiate Institutes the $750 special grant as well.
5. Entrance Examination — Position of Assistant ^fas!ier.
The Head Master of the High School is the only one of the High School masters
who has any statutory duty to fulfil in these examinations.
The Board, of course, has the usual authority to make such internal arrangements
as to management, either during the Entrance or otherwise, as they may think proper,
with reference to the time or mode of employment of their teachers until the period M
tin statutory holidays, but, at other times all High School masters, other than the Head
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Master, are at perfect liberty, when requested to act as such substitutes to decline, and
it is no part of their duty under their agreement with their High School Board to under-
take any duty, and still less one without remuneration, in the actual conduct of the
Entrance Examination itself.
6. Option to Omit Certain Subjects — How Allowed.
The High School Board would be competent to exercise its discretion with respect
to the case of any boy on whose behalf a parent might desire, for reasons assigned, to be
exempted from any obligatory subject under the General Regulations.
A Headmaster has no power to dispense with the attendance of any pupil at drill
or other instruction unless authorized in each case by the Board.
7. Pupil may take Upper School Subjects before passing the Intermediate Examination.
Under regulation 21 of the late Council of Public Instruction, to be found in chapter
5 of the Compendium at page 207, it would appear that the pupils may be advanced
from one division or class to another with reference to attainments, without regard to
time, according to the judgment of the Head Masters, but subject to the regulations for
the Intermediate Examination.
On referring to this at page 210 it would appear that passing the Intermediate is
necessary to constitute a pupil of the Upper School.
The Minister, therefore, thinks there is no objection to any candidate taking any
part of the Upper School course, if deemed fit by the master, but he cannot be counted
otherwise than as within the Lower School until the Intermediate has been passed.
8. Authority of Head Master.
At page 203 of the Compendium it is stated that the powers and duties of High
School Masters are to be governed as far as possible by the regulations in reference to
Public Schools to be found at page 177 of the Compendium (chap. 11).
The conclusion of the Minister of Education is that the Head Master of a High
School or the Principal of a Collegiate Institute occupies relatively to his Assistant
Master the same position as the master of a Public School occupies towards his assistants.
Having regard to the position and duties of a master of a Public School and the
Principal or Head Master of a High School, it is clear that with him rests the entire
responsibility for the control, management, and discipline by the different teachers of
their respective classes, and also as to the performance by each teacher of his particular
duty.
The Minister considers that it would be injurious to the best interests of Public and
High Schools alike if the authority and responsibility of the Master or Principal were
not complete. Each Assistant Master should be responsible to him for the proper and
due performance of his duties as such. It is provided in sub-section 2 of regulation 3,
page 178 of the Compendium, that it is the Head Master, with the assent of the Trustees
who is to prescribe the duties of the several teachers in his school, and is expressly
declared to be responsible for the control and management of the classes under their
charge. It would not be possible to give effect to this principle of the regulations
unless this view of the Head Mater's authority were everywhere recognized in Public and
High Schools alike.
9. On Qualification of a High School Trustee as to Residence.
Under section 18, the County Council can appoint three Trustees, and under sub-
section 2, the Council of the town or village in which the High School is situate can also
appoint two. Under section 20, the Councils of the county and of the town and village
can respectively appoint one Trustee to fill annual vacancies within their respective juris-
dictions. Under section 25, an occasional vacancy, arising from death, resignation, re-
moval from municipality or otherwise, would be filled up by the County Council or other
municipality as the case may be.
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It would appear, therefore, that in the case of the Trustee appointed by the county,
he must be a resident within the county, and when the appointment is by a Town or
Village Council, then he must be a resident of the town or village ; the condition as to
residence being regulated by the extent of the jurisdiction possessed by the County, Town
and Village Councils respectively.
Where an incorporated village and a portion of the adjoining township have
formed themselves into a High School District, under the provisions of section 32 of the
School Act of 1S79, the Council of the village have the power of appointing three Trustees
of the High School, and such Trustees need not necessarily be residents of the village, if
they reside within the High School District thus formed or proposed.
10. On Board of Education — Qualifications — Members have equal Powers.
Under section 33 of the School Act of 1879, the powers and duties of a Board of
Education are defined so that the High and Public School Trustees constitute together
one Board, with full powers in respect to both Public and High School matters. Those
who are Public School Trustees must possess the qualification required for such, while
those who are High School Trustees are governed by such qualifications as the High
School Law requires. Section 18 of the High Schools Act authorizes the County Council
to appoint such persons as Trustees of the High School as they may think fit and proper,
and they are not restricted in this by any special place of residence within the county.
The powers of the Trustees appointed by the County Council are, like those of all
the other Trustees, co-extensive with the duties of the Board, namely, for both Public
and High School matters, without any separation.
11. Appointment of High School Trustee in December void.
A Council was under a legal mistake in filling vacancies at their meeting in Decem-
ber instead of January, and such proceedings are, therefore, legally void although the
appointment was in fact made.
Any Trustee de facto can act as a legal Trustee so long as he is not disturbed
by legal process.
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8.— FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS, NATURE AND EXTENT.
The following Table shows the volume of business clone in the Department during
the years 1879 to 1882 inclusive :
(a) Moneys Received by the Department.
Receipts.
Expenditure.
Year.
Depository
Keceipts.
Model School
Receipts.
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Miscellaneous
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Total Receipts
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1880
1881
1882
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High and
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Normal
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Mechanics'
Institutes.
Art
School.
Total
Letters
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Total
Letters
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1879
7,518
6,921
7,345
9,692
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2,363
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20,683
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658
1,589
1,605
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1881
1882
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644
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Trustees' Blank Half-yearly Reports
" " Annual "
Public School Financial Statements
Inspectors' Summary Reports
" Township "
High School Inspectors' "
" Annual "
" Financial "
" Half-yearly "
Roman Catholic Separate School Half-yearly Report
" Annual
Minister's Annual Eeport
Examination Papers, Regulations, etc
Various forms
Circulars, about
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750
70
500
420
105
105
500
800
200
2,000
195,500
10,000
70,000
Total 299,950
* Circulars, etc., were included up to 18S0 in the total number of letters despatched, but since that date
they are not so included.
+ In addition to 15,548 Letters received there were about 4,000 Reports and Returns.
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Division II.
PROVINCIAL NORMAL AND MODEL SCHOOLS.
I. The Toronto Normal School.
1. Staff of the Toronto Normal School, 1882.
H. W. Davies, D.D Principal.
Thomas Kirkland Science Master.
James Carlyle, M.D Mathematical Master.
Samuel Clare Writing Master, and in Model School.
Wm. Armstrong, C.E Drawing " " "
H. F. Sefton, and for part of year, S. H. (_ -w- . ,, „ ,,
Preston J
D. C. Bell, and for part of year, Eichard | ,,, ..
T . ' r ' ' > Elocution "
Lewis j
C. R.'Dearnaly Gymnastic " " "
2. Students in the Toronto Normal School, 1882.
Admitted.
Certificates Granted.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Second Session from 11th April to 27th June
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34
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40
35
21
42*
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90
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II. The Ottawa Normal School.
1. Staff' of the Ottawa Normal School, 1882.
J. A. MacCabe, M.A Principal.
Geo. Baptie Science Master.
Wm. Scott, B. A , Mathematical Master.
Daniel Sawyer Writing Master, and in Model School.
E. A. Dickenson Drawing " " "
W. G. Workman Music " " "
D. C. Bell Elocution " " ■'
E. B. Cope Gymnastic " " "
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III. The Model School, Toronto.
1. Staff of the Toronto Model School, 1882.
Charles Clarkson, B. A Head Master, Boys' Model School.
Jno. L. Davison, B.A First Assistant, " "
S. M. Dorland . Second " " "
P. N. Davey Third
M. Cullen Head Mistress, Girls' Model School.
K. F. Hagarty First Assistant, " "
M. E. Hunt Second " " "
J. Meneilley Third
2. Xumber of Pupils in 1SS2.
Boys, 197 Girls, 189 Total, 386.
IV. The Model School, Ottawa.
1. Staff of the Ottawa Model School, 1882.
Edwin D. Parlow Head Master, Boys' Model School.
David McArdle First Assistant, " "
Samuel W. McCready Second " " "
Adeline Shenick Head Mistress, Girls' Model School.
Maggie Cusack First Assistant, " "
Mary G. Joyce Second " " "
Annie Mac Lardy Third "
2. Number of Pupils in ISSj.
Boys, 201 Girls, 212 Total, 413.
V. — Directions as to Nature and Extent of Instruction in the Normal and
Model Schools.
By Dr. McLellau, Director.
1. As there are but a few applications from candidates for first-class professional
training, it will not be necessary to make provision for such training during the current
session. The consideration of a detailed course for such professional work may, therefore,
be postponed for the present.
Statf' and Distribution oj Work.
The stall' to remain unchanged, except that Mr. 11. Lewis be employed to train the
Students in the best practical method of teaching reading, and that Mr. S. H. Preston be
placed in charge of the department of music, in the Toronto Normal and Model Schools.
(a) Principal.
Psychology — and general principles of education, school organization and discipline,
moral culture.
English Language and Literature. — Under this head it is recommended :
(1) That for the purpose of improving the students' knowledge of formal grammar,
and of the best methods of teaching it, some suitable book, e.g., " Whitney s Essentials <>t
English Grammar,'' be made the ground work of instruction in this di
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(2) That some work, such as a play of Shakespeare, be studied, not so much for
the purpose of dealing with knotty points in analysis, parsing, etymology, figures of
speech, as for the purpose of putting the students in possession of the poet's thought,
awakening a genuine taste and love for his poetry, and thus opening up their way to a
higher knowledge and culture.
(3) That specific instruction shall be given in the most approved methods of educa-
ting the power of expression in young children, by means of "oral and written lan-
guage lessons," as prescribed in the programme of Public School studies. " Whitney's
Elementary Lessons in English " might be taken as the basis of such instruction.
(Note.) In case of a special lecturer in Psychology being hereafter appointed, the
Principal may be relieved of this portion of the work.
(b) Science Master.
Chemistry — Theoretical and practical.
A course in elementary physics.
The principal object of the science master, in the instructions he gives in the above
subjects, shall be to place on a proper foundation the knowledge obtained in preparing for
the norr-profession&l examinations, and to qualify students to give instruction in the sub-
jects in which they have already been examined.
(c) Mathematical Master
Physiology and Hygiene — Including lessons on temperance.
Geometry.
Arithmetic.
History and Geography.
(d) Drawing.
The drawing master to make the students thoroughly familiar with the course in this
department, as laid down in Walter Smith's " Teacher's Manual for Freehand Drawing,
in Elementary Schools," and "Teacher's Manual for Freehand Drawing in Intermediate
Schools."
(e) Employment of Instructors in Sewing for the Female Teachers Teachers in both
Normal Schools.
Left for further consideration.
(f) Course of Observation and Practice in Model Schools.
(1) In accordance with the general instructions given in the " Compendium," pp. 189,
■et seq., every Model School master in teaching a subject shall, as far as possible, make
his lesson a model lesson in that subject, giving its divisions and sub-divisions, in logical
arrangement, so that the student-teacher may learn both how to prepare the subject
matter of such lesson, and how to present it to a class.
(2) The Normal School master in charge of any subject, whether a regular or a
special master, shall give detailed instruction in the most approved methods of teaching
that subject.
(3) He shall also, from time to time, practically exemplify his methods by actually
teaching a class (10 or 12 pupils) from the Model School.
(i) Teachers-in training shall observe, under the supervision and direction of the
Normal School masters, the methods of teaching followed by the Model School teachers,
the results of their observations to form the ground-work of criticisms and instructions
by the Normal School masters, and by the Model School teachers, if desirable.
(5) The teachers-in-training shall practise the methods which they have seen illus
trated, (and in which they have received instruction) (a) by using their fellow-students as
a class ; (b) by using a class of pupils (10 or 12) from the Model School.
iij) The foregoing (1, 2, •"■. t, 5,) having been attended to, the Normal School
students shall have actual practice in teaching classes or sections, in the Model School,
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during the last (say) eight weeks of the session, each student having at least one (two if
possible) practices per week during this period.
Such practices shall be had under the direct supervision of the Normal or the Model
School teachers.
(Note.) It is believed that if the foregoing instructions be in the main carried out,
the disturbance of the regular work of the Model Schools, resulting from the " practice "
of the students, will be reduced to a minimum, and will interfere in no appreciable degree
with the real efficiency of these schools.
(g) Course of Study in Model Schools.
(1) The designation of the " classes" in the Model School shall be harmonized with
that of the classes in the Public Schools.
(2) The course of study shall be re-arranged to correspond with the Public School
course, the entrance (High School) and the intermediate examinations being kept in view
as standards of attainment.
(3) The course of instruction in drawing and music to be systematic. In drawing,
W. Smith's " Primary Manual " to be followed for the lower classes, and his " Intermedi-
ate " for the higher classes.
(4) A systematic series of object lessons, form, colour, etc., shall be arranged for the
primary classes, with instructions as to methods of teaching.
(5) These changes shall be made by the Normal School masters, in conjunction with
the Model School teachers.
VI.— Expenditure, 1881, 1882.
Normal find Model Schools, Toronto : —
1881. 1882.
Salaries $19,300 00 $19,858 34
Expenses 3,424 55 .... 4,634 04
$22,724 55 $24,492 38
Normal and Model Schools, Ottawa : —
1881. 1882.
Salaries ' $15,119 98 $16,023 00
Expenses 3,963 90 4,388 98
$19,083 88 $20,411 98
Receipts from Fees of Model School Pupils : —
Toronto, at $2.00 per month $7,755 00
Ottawa, at $1.50 " 6,028 50
$13,783 50
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Division III.
COUNTY MODEL SCHOOLS.
Report of Messrs. G. W. Ross and J. J. Tilley, Inspectors.
The undersigned have the honour to submit the following Report on County Model
Schools for the year 1882 : —
I. — Statistics.
Schools and Students.
Number of Model Schools in operation during the year 16
Decrease since last year 4
Total number of Student Teachers S82
Number of males 367
Number of females 515
Total increase over last year 293
Number who withdrew during the term 15
Number rejected by Boards of Examiners 30
Number who received certificates 837
Increase over last year 287
Lectures and Instruction.
Average number of lectures delivered by Principal in each school for
education 34
Average number of lectures delivered by Principal in each school on
School Law 8
Average number of lectures delivered by Principal in each school on
hygiene 10
Average number of lessons in reading 23
Average number of lessons in mental arithmetic ; 24
Average number of lessons taught by each student 34
Music and Brill. — Besides the subjects presented by the Regulations, music and
drill were taught in the following schools : Brantford, Clinton, Hamilton, London, and
Stratford. Music alone was taught at Owen Sound, and drill alone at Brampton, Cale-
donia, Forest, Goderich, Port Perry, Sarnia, Strathroy, St. Catharines, Walkerton, and
Woodstock.
For full details regarding each Model School see Schedule A.
Six Years' Work. — The following comparative statement shews the attendance and
the number rejected at the County Model Schools since 1877 : —
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
Total.
Number of Students in attendance
Number nf Students rejected by Co.
1,237
22
1,391
52
1,295
78
1,413
96
589
39
882
30
6,807
Boards
317
Schools Closed. — The following schools were closed during the year, viz. : Belleville,
Brockville, Lindsay, and New Edinburgh. The reasons given for closing were, so far as
we could learn, dissatisfaction of trustees, and, in one case, neglect or refusal of county
council to make an apportionment.
Requirements of the Regulations. — In thirty-nine schools the Principal held a First
Class Provincial Certificate. The additional room required by the Regulations was pro-
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■ded in thirty-nine schools. In the case of four schools temporary accommodation had
to be provided by the trustees for Model School purposes. Thirty-four schools complied
with the Regulations requiring at least three assistants to hold Second Class Provincial
Certificates. In six schools the Principals were relieved from all Public School work
during the Model School term, while in twenty-four schools the greater portion of the
Principal's work, such as lecturing and criticising, was done outside the regular school
hours.
For full details see Schedule B.
II. — Organization op Model Schools.
Position of Principal. — As already stated, the Principals of six schools were
Believed, during the whole of the Model School term, from Public School work. The
advantage of this to the student teacher is very great, (a) The Principal is able to give
more time to the preparation of his lectures. (6) His energies are not exhausted by other
duties, (c) He has ample time for " criticism" and supervision of the student teachers.
(d) He has a better opportunity to judge of their attainments, and can, therefore, report
with more confidence to the Board of Examiners, (e) His criticisms would be of more
value to the student teachers, because made with a more thorough knowledge of their
attainments and progress. (/") The marking of the student teachers would then be
mainly entrusted to persons of well accredited skill and experience. We believe it would
largely conduce to the efficiency of Model Schools if Boards of Trustees that have not pro-
vided for the relief of the Principal during the whole of the Model School term would do
so at once.
The following different systems of organization have been formed : —
(1) The Principal entirely free. — On this plan the Model School at Port Hope is
organized. His position is simply that of Principal of the Public and Model School,
without a class of his own. His duties are (a) supervising the work of the other teachers
Bad securing uniformity of methods of instruction in all the divisions of the Public School.
(6) Examining and classifying the pupils who enter school from time to time, (c) Direct-
ing the regular promotion examinations, (d) Supplying the place of sick or absent
teachers, (e) Corresponding with parents and others in regard to school matters. (/')
Teaching special subjects (when qualified), such as music and drawing. (</) Taking charge
of classes requiring special attention, and lastly, acting as Principal of the County Model
School. This system is, we believe, exceedingly profitable to the Public School. It
furthermore enables the Principal to give his time to Model School work, without, in the
least, deranging the existing organization.
(2) The Principal Relieved onhj during the Model School Term. — On this system the
Model Schools at Stratford, Brampton, Chatham and some other places were organized.
So far as Model School purposes are concerned, this system is equally as effective as the
other, and the results as satisfactory.
(3) Principal Relieved for a portion of the Time by mi Extra Assistant. — This was the
system adopted in the majority of the schools — an assistant was employed during the
time the Principal was engaged in lecturing to the studentteachers, and, as the Principal
was not required to do any work outside of school hours, his class received the benefit of
all his energies.
(4) Principal Relieved by one of the Regular Staff: — Under this system a junior class
was dismissed at 11 a.m. and at 3 p.m. The teacher whose pupils were dismissed was
placed in charge of the Principal's class, and the Principal was thereby enabled to do Model
School work during school hours.
(5) Principal Not Relieved. — Under this system the Principal delivered his lectures
before and after school hours. We cannot condemn this system too strongly. It is
physically impossible for any man to make the requisite preparation for his classes and
teach with vigour from S a.m. till 5 p.m. The effect upon both the Public and Model
School is unfavourable. Trustees should be required, in all cases, to provide an assistant.
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If an assistant were employed the whole year considerable expense would be incurred.
In such cases an additional grant of $100 out of the sum appropriated by the. Legisla-
ture for Model School purposes might be made. Where an assistant is provided for the
whole of the Model School term, an additional grant of 850 might be made. This
would certainly be carrying out the system of "payment by results," which is, to a large
extent, the basis of all school grants. In cases where the Principal gives a portion of his
own time, that is, time outside of school hours, the Legislative grant, or at least a part of
it, might be paid direct to the Principal.
III. — The Syllabus.
The syllabus of lecture's adopted in 1877 was prepared in view of the short course of
eight weeks. It is now urged that, owing to the extension of the" course to thirteen
weeks, the syllabus should be revised and enlarged. We believe that by the addition of
a few lectures on methods of teaching, and by such a revision as will bring it into harmony
with the course of instruction existing in the Normal Schools, its universally admitted
usefulness would be materially enhanced, and we, therefore, recommend this matter for
early consideration.
IV. — Uniformity in Management.
From our inspection we find that there was great diversity in the methods pursued
b} different Principals, and in the distribution of the student teacher's time. In some
cases great attention was paid to lecturing and very little to actual teaching and via versa
In other schools the students began actual teaching very early in the session, and before
they had an opportunity of acquiring anything like definite ideas of what they were going
to do from the previous illustrative teaching of the Principal. This evil we attempted to
remedy as far as possible by dealing personally with each case. But as it is impossible
for the Inspector to visit every school early in the term, the evils complained of are not
corrected in many cases until the term has so far advanced that the remedy is all but
valueless. As a pai-tial guide to Principals, and with a view to harmonize and unify the
whole system, we suggest the following routine as being in accordance with the spirit of
the Regulations, and best calculated to produce satisfactory results : —
In opening the Model School the Principal should explain to the student teachers
the organization and classification of the Public School with which it is connected : the
necessity of observing carefully the methods of teaching practised by himself and assist-
ants, the points on which they are marked in the Training Register, the importance of
careful prepartion for each day's work ; the necessity of regularity and punctuality, with
such other hints in regard to their deportment towards each other, towards the teachers
on the statT, and the pupils with whom they come in contact, as may be considered
requisite.
(1) Teaching by Principal. — For the' first two weeks of the session, the principal
should teach in the separate room provided for this purpose, those subjects which he in-
tends the student teachers subsequently to begin with. This we believe to be preferable
to an introductory course of lectures. In teaching a class as above, the principal should
first lay clearly before the students the principle on which he will proceed, and illustrate
that principle by his method of teaching. He should also require them to take notes of
his methods, and in the " criticism " hour these notes would furnish a basis for many
practical hints. In this way — say ten lectures — combined with illustrative teaching
might be given on the best way to teach reading, arithmetic, spelling, and literature to a
primary class. During this time the student teacher should not be required to visit the
different departments of the Public School for observation, as we believe no person can
observe intelligently or with profit until he has first some idea of the object to be attained
by the teacher.
(2) Teaching by Student*. — The student teachers having observed and taken notes of
the Principal's methods of teaching, are now prepared for actual teaching, as well as for
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more extended observation elsewhere. It would be well, therefore, during the second
two weeks of the session to employ them in teaching a class as above, in the separate
room used for the purpose, the subjects previously taught in their presence by the
Principal.
While the student teacher is thus engaged in the work of active teaching in the pre-
sence of the Principal and his fellow-teachers, he is acquiring that self-possession requisite
to his future success, and in practising methods under that kind of criticism which will
most readily secure the exposure of his errors. It might even be necessary to suspend
teaching altogether in order to correct some serious error, or to discuss some practical
matters suggested by the work in hand.
(3) Observations. — The next thing for the Principal to do is to prepare the student
teachers for taking observations in the different rooms set apart for training purposes.
They should have learned at least by this time that no lesson can be well taught unless
•both the matter of the lesson and the method of presenting it to a class have been care-
fullv considered. In Shelton's work on Elementary Instruction this point is fully dis-
cussed, and some excellent model lessons supplied — as for instance, the lesson on " Cork."
pp. 108.
The assistant teachers should also be instructed to explain the plan and purpose of
each lesson taught in the presence of the student teacher before they begin work. As
the object of the student teacher in visiting different rooms at this stage is simply to ob-
serve methods of teaching and discipline, it is desirable that he should be taught how
to observe intelligently. Although required under the Regulations to enter his observa
tions in a note-book to be kept for that purpose, we have found a remarkable want of
uniformity in the extent and value of the observations made. Indeed in many cases we
found that he was a mere visitor, and except the mental impressions received, to be ascer-
tained by questioning, there was no record of what he saw either as to teaching or discip-
line. In order to secure uniformity and press this matter upon the attention of principals,
we suggest the following hints on the subject of "Observation:" —
1. Matter.
{ 1 i Whether suitable to the class ; proper amount for one lesson ; whether exer-
cising observation, conception, reason, or all of these.
(2) Lesson — whether bearing on one point ; into what heads divided.
(3) Whether in a lesson involving a moral lesson, the proper applications be made.
3. Method.
(1) Whether the purpose of the lesson was properly outlined at the beginning.
(2) Whether the connection between the lesson and previous work was shown when
possible.
(3) Whether the error of telling too much was guarded against.
(4) Whether good illustrations were used, specimens distributed, and diagrams
drawn.
(5) Whether appropriate and definite questions were given.
(6 1 Whether the black-board was used, and new terms written upon it.
(7) Whether errors in answering were thoroughly corrected, and special attention
given to pupils who were backward.
( 8 1 Whether pupils were allowed sufficient time to think.
(9) Whether the attention of all in the class was secured or of only a fev) Jorward
pupils.
(10) Whether the lesson was properly summarized.
3. The Class.
(1) Whether respectful, attentive, interested, and, if so, how secured.
( 2 I Whether pupils seemed weary, if so, why ?
(3l Whether likely to carry away the lesson as a whole.
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We would suggest that the preceding " points," or something to the same eft'ect, be
printed on a quarter sheet of foolscap, with the following heading on the opposite side,
under which the student shall be required to enter daily his observations covering the
points suggested.
County Model School.
Name of assistant teacher
Date
Subject of lesson
Xotes by student teacher as follows : —
Signature of Student.
rhese •• observations " should be submitted to the Principal for consideration during
the " criticism hour," who will find ample material in the notes made, and in the discus-
sion of the more theoretical part of the course, such as " management, discipline, organ-
ization," etc., to occupy all the time at his disposal.
V. — Teaching by Students.
This brings us to the fifth week of the Model School term. The student teacher has
already seen the Principal teach a number of subjects ; he has furthermore taught these
subjects himself under the direction and criticism of the Principal ; he has observed how
classes are taught by the assistant teachers ; he has some idea of the " matter " and the
"' method " of a lesson, and should now be able to take charge of a class in the subjects
already illustrated. As preliminary to this step, the lesson to be taught should be assigned
the previous day, and thoroughly prepared. The assistant teacher with whose class he is
entrusted should leave him as much as possible to his own resources, and should take
notes for subsequent entry in the Training Register. We have found, however, that
assistant teachers are very reticent in reporting their criticisms, particularly if the work
is badly done. In many cases they simply give a general statement, such as " You taught
a pretty good lesson," or, " That was not so bad." This sort of criticism we believe to be
of little value. What is required is definiteness. In order to secure uniformity as well
as greater fullness of detail, we suggest the following : —
Let the Department furnish each Model School with a number of small slips i say
quarter cap.) on the plan here given: —
County Model School.
Report of lesson on
Taught by M
The faults most worthy of notice in your lesson were : —
1. Your positions
2. The plan of lesson
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3. Your management
4. Your language was
for instance
5. In energy you
6. Your mode of questioning was
for instance
Note. — Besides the above, other matters worthy of criticism should be repoited.
Date Assist/nil Teacher
The assistant teacher should be making entries on the slips while the lesson was pro-
gressing, and at the close of the lesson hand it to the student teacher, who should hold
ihimself ("ready to be criticised on the points noted by the Principal, whenever neces-
sary. The marks assigned by the assistant teacher for the lesson should be given im-
mediately after the lesson is concluded, and may be communicated to the student teacher,
at the option of the Principal. All lessons should be assigned to student teacher by the
Principal, on consultation with the assistant in whose room the lesson is to be taught,
and a record kept of each lesson in the Training Register, so as fairly to afford equal
practice in every subject in the Public School curriculum.
VI. — No of Lessons in Actual Teaching.
By schedule A it will be seen that the practice in actual teaching varies largely. In
iome cases as low as twelve lessons were taught, and as high as seventy. We would
•ecommend that the minimum be thirty, as we believe that number quite sufficient to
est the ability of any teacher. As eight weeks are by this course herein suggested, at
■he disposal of the student teacher for actual teaching, we see no reason, unless the class
s very large, why each student teacher should not teach at least one lesson per day, for
our days in the week. This would leave one day in the week for reviews in special work.
VII. — Final Examinations.
From the Principals' Reports there is an evident want of uniformity in the tests ap"
ilied by the different Boards of Examiners at the final examinations. We find that in
ourteen schools there was no examination at all in practical teaching. This is not only
mfair to the student teacher, but to the public as well. Since Third Class Certificates
re Provincial and of equal value non-professionally it is but fair to the public that some
"uarantee shall be given of their uniform professional value. Complaint is also made that
he written examination is as various as the different Boards of Examiners by which it is
onducted. To remedy both of these grievances we would recommend : —
1. That an examination in practical teaching similar to that now required at the
'rovincial Normal Schools of Second Class Teachers be made obligatory.
2. That examination papers in every subject taught in the County Model School be
repared by those who prepare the papers for the Normal School examinations.
3. That it shall be the duty of the Principal at the close of the Session to furnish
fie Board of Examiners with a detailed report on each student, setting forth work done
uring the Session, his general deportment and ability, with the Principal's opinion as to
is probable success as a teacher.
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VIII. — Training Register.
Much fault is found with the Training Register now in use. The analysis which I
it is supposed to make of the teacher's qualifications is not quite clear on many points,
and the sub-divisions so numerous as to entail unnecessary labour upon the Principal.'
We believe it can be simplified and improved, and we submit the following plan for con-
sideration : — See Schedule C.
IX. — Text Books.
Hygiene. — The text book prescribed for the course in Hygiene is much complained
of. The general opinion expressed regarding it is, that it is better adapted for the
nursery than for a Model School. Besides, it does not deal with the subject from a
school-room standpoint. What is wanted for Model School purposes is a small work od
Hygiene, with only so much of Physiology, Anatomy and Chemistry as will enable the
students to comprehend clearly the Hygienic principles discussed. We had the honour
of calling the attention of the Secretary of the Provincial Sanitary Bureau to the want
of a suitable text-book on this subject, and suggested the following as some of the sub-
divisions under which the subject might be treated for Model School purposes : —
Chapter I. — The Teacher.
How to preserve his health ; hours for study ; rest ; recreation ; sleep ; dietetics.
Chapter II. — The Pupil
Under this chapter discuss the brain and nervous system. Lessons should be suited
to the age and physical strength of the child ; danger of over study ; when should home
lessons be relaxed ; necessity for variety ; recreations, etc.
Chapter III. — The Spinal Column.
Under this chapter discuss the Anatomy and Physiology of the spinal column, ch
lungs, heart, stomach, and show the evil effects of leaning oyer a desk, stooping, walking
on the toes, etc.
Chapter IV.—Tte Eye.
Discuss the Anatomy and Physiology of the eye ; how to light a school room ; how
to regulate lights by means of blinds ; diseases of the eye caused by bad lighting ; how-
to remedy ; near-sightedness ; how to place pupils with reference to blackboards ;
windows : slate ; copy, etc.
Chapter V. — Heating.
How to prevent draughts ; where to place the stove ; how to regulate heat ; ther-
m tmeter, and where to hang it.
Chapter VI. — Ventilation.
Importance of ; how to secure- when not provided for in the erection of the school
building ; simple way of ventilating by doors ; windows ; effects of bad ventilation ;
symptoms of, etc.
Chapter VII—The Play Ground.
Dangerous games ; what to prohibit and what allow ; winter games for boys ; winter
ga aes for girls; summer games ; drill, value of.
Chapter VIII. — School Accidents.
How to deal with fainting, bleeding of the nose, broken limbs, severe cuts or bruises,
drowning.
Chapter IX. — Infections Diseases.
How to detect whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, skin diseases ; care
of out-houses.
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This brief outline merely shows the line which it is desirable the student teachers
should take in order to proiuote their own health and that of their pupils. To ask them
.o master the structure of the human frame, with all the technical terms which this
Knowledge implies, would be absurd. Nor is it necessary for the purposes of the school
ffoom What is required is such general instruction as will enable the teacher to guard
pis pupils against the ordinary dangers of school-room life, and also, by teaching him how
to preserve his own health, enable him to labour more successfully in his profession.
X. — Music, Drill, and Drawing.
Although the subjects of Music, Drill, and Drawing are not yet on the prescribed
Model School course, there is no reason why an effort should not be made to have them
iiaught. As already shown, they have been voluntarily taken up in many schools. In
order to recompense schools for any outlay in teaching these subjects as well as to
encourage others to introduce them into the course, we would suggest the pa3'ment of the
sum of $50 to each school that provides suitable instruction in any two of them. We
need not discuss their importance as that is universally admitted.
XI. — Equipment of Model Schools.
It is very much to be regretted that the equipment of Model Schools has, so far,
Received so little attention. Although in most cases the school room is comfortably
furnished and tolerably well supplied with the ordinary school-room maps, the facilities
of the Principal for illustrating his work are very limited. Beyond what may be drawn
from Trustees, who often dread the complaining taxpayer, no other source of supply has
hitherto been available. Annual grants are made to the Provincial Normal Schools for
looks, maps and apparatus, but no similar grant has yet been made to the County Model
pchools, although their work is by no means of secondary importance. The small sum of
«ven $50, judiciously expended, would be a great boon to many a school. We would
therefore recommend an appropriation of this amount at least. The following supplies for
?ach Model School, which could be procured for the sum named, would aid materially in
securing greater efficiency : —
Worcester's Dictionary (unabridged).
Lippincott's Gazetteer (edition 1883).
Jewel on School Government.
Wickersham's two works.
Sheldon's Elementary Instruction.
New York Manual of Methods.
Morrison on School Methods.
Hasley's Physiology.
Playter's Hygiene.
Bell's Elocution.
Hughes on Drill.
Smith's Intermediate Drawing Lessons.
Physiological Charts.
National Music Charts.
XII. — Fees Payable by Students.
Under section 10 of the Regulations of August last, the County Boards are enrpow-
•ed to impose a fee of not more than §5 on each student teacher. We would recommend
lat this section of the Regulations be amended by making the fee compulsory. If this
e not done the power of imposing fees should be transferred from the Board of Examin-
's to the Board of Trustees, inasmuch as the latter is held responsible for making due
rovision for the Model School.
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XIII. — Provincial Institute for Principals of County Model Schools.
The great diversity in the methods of organization and instruction prevailing in the
Model Schools deserves attention. The Principals are men of varied attainments each in
his own way, as a rule, working with commendable zeal, and often at a personal sacrifice
and without fee or reward, for the welfare of the student teacher. As Model Schools are I
so far removed from each other, it is very difficult for Principals to meet in convention
for the mutual interchange of opinions and discussion of advanced methods of teaching
and school organization. If provision were made for a Model School Principals' Institute,
many of the existing irregularities could be removed, new methods of instruction discussed,
and the whole system unified. We have attempted to accomplish this, and have, we
believe, aided in securing greater uniformity by our inspection, but much remains yet to
be done. Before holding such an Institute efforts should be made to re-open the schools
that have been closed, and satisfactory provision should be made in every case for placing
ample time at the disposal of the Principal for the proper discharge of his Model School
duties. When all the schools have been properly and permanently established we would
recommend the following plan for an Institute : —
1. A meeting of all the Principals of County Model Schools at Toronto during the
mid-summer vacation, for a session of four weeks.
2. The payment of their travelling expenses and maintenance l>y the Education
Department.
3. The employment of the best talent on the continent to give a series of lectures
with a view to further qualify them for their work.
4. The line to be taken by the lecturers to be suggested by the Department of
Education.
5. The lectures to be free to the Teachers of the Provincial Normal and Model
Schools.
We have carefully estimated the expense of such a Convention, and believe it need
not exceed the sum of $2,500.
XIV. — Review of Literary Subjects.
We believe it is very desirable that the students-in-training should be required to
keep up and supplement their knowledge of some of the principal subjects which they
will hereafter be required to teach, for example, grammar, composition, arithmetic and
literature. For this purpose some standard author might be read with profit by the
students during the term, and the master might give a few lectures upon these subjects,
and by oral or written examinations test the students' knowledge of matter as well as
method of instruction. We do not believe it is wise to entirely divorce literary work
from professional training. We know from experience that the students have plenty of
time for this work, and although many Principals, who have not yet been sufficiently ;
relieved, cannot give the necessary time to it, yet if they were fully relieved during the
Model School term, they would have ample time to devote say one hour a day to the
review of literary subjects, and thus to supplement the students' knowledge as is now J
being done in the Provincial Normal Schools.
XV. — Conclusion.
In closing this Report we beg to acknowledge our obligations to the Principals, I
Teachers and Boards of Trustees by whom many obstacles to the success of the system of
County Model Schools were so readily removed, and by whose courtesy, what would other-
wise have been a difficult duty for us to discharge, was rend red pleasant.
Toronto, January 9th, 1883.
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SCHEDULE A.
NAME OF
MODEL SCHOOL. 2
Barrie
Berlin
Bradford
Brain) 'ton ....
Brantford
Caledonia
Chatham
Clinton
Cobourg .
Cornwall .. ..
Durham
Farmersville . . .
Forest
Gall
I Goderich
I Hamilton . . .
Ingersoll
Kincardine . . . .
Kingston
, London
Madoc
Martintown . . .
Milton
M< nrisburgh . . .
Mount Forest. .
Napanee
Newmarket . . .
Owen Sound. . .
Perth
Pict"ii
Port Ho) it- ....
Port Perry ....
Renfrew
Sarnia
Simc"e
Stratfoi
Stoathroy
St. Catharines .
St. Thomas....
Vankleekhill . .
Wal erton ....
Welland
Whitby
Windsor
Woodstock ....
Yorkville
12
13 I
11
8
11
7 j 13
15 I 9
IS I 115
16
I 27
22 | 18
2
10
6
7
i
8
S
l
IB
32
. . i
10
21
l
12
20
11
16
6
5
2
•
14
1
12
10
4
9
6
2
5
15
347
515
15
20
20
50
30
34
60
25
12
70
30
30
35
i 20
40
30 : 15.50 | 334
5
8
L2
12
10
19
22
9
(i
21
23
20
20
53
35
24
33
33
22
49
47
49
40
53
21
20
20
I 50
! 30
, 35
! 35
l 22
73
30
20
30
30
38
:;i
12
40
50
25
23
48
26
30
33
43
42
35
45
25
12
20
39
36
40
12
43
40
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A. 1883
SCHEDULE B.
NAME OF
SCHOOL.
bog
0
Barrie
Berlin
Bradford ....
Brampton* . . .
Brantford . . .
Caledonia
Chatham
Clinton ....
Cobourg
Cornwall.
Durham . .
Farmersville
Forest
Gait . . ....
i roderich
Hamilton
1.5 i 15
yes
Inger8oll
Kincardine ..
Kingston
London
Madoc
Martintown .
Milton
Morrisburgh .
Mount Forest
Napanee ....
Newmarket . .
I \w en Sound
Perth I
Picton I not furnished
Port Hope i yes
Port Perry j
Renfrew |
Sarnia I
Simcoe |
Stratford
Strathroy . . .
St. Catharines
3t. Thomas . .
Vankleekhill .
Walkerton
Welland
Whitby
2 hours
A hour
whole time
2J hours
yes
yes
whole time
2 hours
2* hours
2J "
whole time
SJ hours
3
2* "
2| '•
2
2.', hours
250 00
150 00
50 00
i 00
4 I
3 I
H hours
1 hour
whole time for
months
2i hours
2| hours
200 00
2-12 00
all day for 2 wk'l
4 hours
whole time
2 hours
1} hours
2 hours
I whole time
2 hours
2 hours
Windsor ...
Woodstock .
Y6rkville(a)
yes, but too
small
yes
8
3
i
7
4
4
:;
4
2
7
4
18
;;
"
a
yes
no
yes
whole time
2 hours
as no division
whole time
1 hour
whole time
1 hour
whole time
A hour
100 00
50 00
50 00
ioo'oo
25 00
100 00
100 00
:, 00
20 00
73 00
50 00
75 00
150 00
85 00
35 i 0
150 00
70 00
125 "i
lv i CO
200 00
too 00
100 00
LOO 00
125 00"
* Principal of Model School i mplbyed for this work only.
(a) Assistant's room used between 1 1 a.m. and 12 m., and betwei n
88
and I p.m
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SCHEDULE C.
County Model Schools of Ontario.
TRAINING KECJISTHH.
Special Report of Classes Taught.
Lesson.
ivision.
Governing
Power.
Teaching Power.
Manner.
Remarks.
excite interest
ain attention.
including dis-
of enunciation,
one of voice,
ition andgram-
ccuracy.
» 5p
"bo o
a
13
i CO"
d ° o
o
ft
C3
s g
£ 3
1 '1
1
Language
tinctness
fluency
pronunci.
matical a
m 5 ^
0 o
•£"3
jrsonal a
ergy, an
pathy, s
tact.
R
OQ
O
<j
1 ^
s
Q
Cm
Note. — Maximum Mark for "Governing Power," 60.
" for each of the sub-divisions of "Teaching Power, " 20.
" for " Manner," BO.
It shall be the duty of the Principal at the end of the session to furnish the Board
of Examiners with a detailed report on each student setting forth work done during the
session, deportment, attention, with Principal's opinion upon his probable success as a
teacher.
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SCHEDULE D.
Names of Model School Masters and Class of Certifcates held by them.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
NAME OF MASTBE.
CLASS OF CERTIFICATE.
Barrie
Berlin
Bradford
Brampton
Brantford . . .
Caledonia
Chatham
Clinton
Cobourg
Cornwall
Farniersville . .
Forest
Gait
Godericb
Hamilton
Ingersoll
Kingston
London
Madoc
Martintown . .
Milton
Morrisburgh ..
Mount Forest
Napanee ......
Newmarket . .
Owen Sound . .
Perth
Picton
Port Hope
Port Perry . . .
Renfrew
Sarnia
Simcoe
Stratford
Strathroy
St. Catharines
St. Thomas . . .
Vankleekhill . .
Walkerton
Welland
Whitby
Windsor
"Woodstock. . . .
Yorkville
W. B. Harvey..,
J. Suddaby
]■'. W 1
L. Welch
W. Wilkinson . .
R. Hill
W. H. Colles . . .
D. M. Malloch
G. kirk
G. .Milden
J. S. Rowat ...
M. Ferguson . . .
1\. Alexander ...
W. R. Miller . . . .
G. W. Johnston .
J. S. Deacon . . ,
.1. W 1
W. J. Carson. .
W. F. Seymour .
A. Kennedy
H. Gray
H. McDiarmid . ,
S. Westervelt
J. Bowerman....
W. Rannie
J. Greig
T. 0. Steele ...
R. Murray
1). J. Goggin
Alex. Rae
E. A. Stevens . .
A. Mark
G. Grant, B. A...
W. Hodgins
J. Dunsmore
J. H. McFaul . . .
N. Campbell ....
D. Marshall
W. Teeford
R. Grant
Jas. Br< iwn
Jas. Duncan
Jas. Dennis
W. J. Hendrie...
1st B Provincial.
1st Class "
1st " "
1st B
M.A., Victoria University.
1st B Provincial.
1st. A
1st A
1st Class "
2nd A
1st A
1st B
1st Class "
2nd A
2nd A "
IstB
1st Class "
1st A
IstB
1st Class "
1st " "
1st "
1st O.C.B., and 2nd A Provincial.
2nd Class Provincial.
1st "
1st " "
1st " A "
1st " "
1st " A, O.C.B.
1st Class Provincial.
1st " C Provincial.
1st " B
Head Master of High School.
1st Class B Provincial.
1st " C
1st A
1st Class
1st " B "
1st " B "
1st " "
1st " C
1st " "
1st " C
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Division IV.
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS.
Proceedings of 1882.
1. Ontario Teachers' Association, 1882.
Extracts from the Proceedings of Convention held on the 8th, 9th, and 10th August, 1883.
The Convention met on Tuesday, August 8th, 1882. The President, Mr. A. Mac-
Murchy, in the chair.
Reports were received respecting County Associations from —
Mr. Fotheringham North York Representing 70 Members.
" J. H. Smith South Wentworth.. . . " 190 "
" G. E. Wightman. . . .South Essex " 65
" Munroe South Perth " 80 "
" Jas. Ferguson East Huron " 50 "
" O. S. Hicks South Hastings " 120 "
" T. Girardot North Essex " 100 "
" R. Coates Halton " 71 "
" Parlow Ottawa " 50 "
" Sneath West Huron " 70 "
" Mitchell Lanark " 140 "
" Ritchie West Bruce " 1 00 "
" Robt. Grant Welland " 100 "
" W. Mcintosh North Hastings " 65 "
" G.D.Lewis ...... Waterloo " 100 "
" Forrest South Simcoe " 35 "
" Henstridge Frontenac " 145 "
., t, , ■ f South Wellington I , orv .,
" Petrie { jniu i 120 "
| and Guelph J
" J. Dearness London " 113 "
" Spence Toronto " 150 "
" J. Millar Elgin " 100 "
" J. S. Carson Middlesex " 113 "
T t, f Lennox and Ad- ) , Ari ,.
" Jas. Bowerman ..{ ,. . } " 100 "
( dington j
" C. K. Newcombe. . . .East Lambton " 85 "
An address on " How to Make Teachers' Associations More Useful," was delivered
by Mr. G. W. Ross, M.P.
Resolutions Adoptbd.
" That the clause granting an option of opening Public Schools on the 3rd of August
should be repealed."
Resolved, — (1) That the disadvantages arising from the uncertainty of the Teacher's
tenure of office in rural schools are to be deplored ; the remedy suggested in the Address
is in accordance with the form of agreement prescribed in Appendix F of the Compendium
of the School Law. U
(2) That in view of the very great evils which are seen to have resulted in many
parts of the United States and other countries from the introduction of politics into
educational matters, your Committee trusts that all true friends of our school system will
unite in discountenancing every influence tending in that direction.
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(3) That the number of schools opening with religious services is happily on the
increase ; and, with the object of attaching greater importance, in our High and Public
Schools, to good moral training based on Christian principles, your Committee is of the
opinion that it is desirable that a suitable selection of Scripture lessons should be incor-
porated with our Readers, and that the sentiments of the President's Address are strongly
endorsed, "that any one who could not reverently, humbly, and lovingly read the Word
of God, was not fit for a teacher."
Resolved, — That the death, in the providence of God, of Dr. Ryerson, ex-Superinten-
dent of Education for Ontario, is to the members of the Ontario Teachers' Association a
matter of profound regret. His well-nigh irreparable loss reminds us of the eminent
services which, for more than half a century, he rendered to our country, beginning at a
time when the importance of laying, broad and deep, the foundations of a free, enlightened,
and prosperous nation occupied the attention of few, and seemed far beyond the reach of
any. But, grasping the noble idea, and possessing the breadth and tenacity of purpose,
he chose as liis life-work the lofty design of giving to our country a unified and har-
monious system of free and universal education for the poorest and the richest, the
humblest and the highest, which should be surpassed by none, if equalled by any, in the
world. How wisely conceived, how nobly achievied, this purpose was, our present system
of public, high, and collegiate instruction stands, a lasting and lofty monument.
To the family of this princely pioneer educationist we tender our sincerest sympathy
in their sad loss, and are happy to believe that their sorrow is alleviated by the con-
sciousness that he has been gathered as a shock of corn, fully ripe, into the garner.
Resolved, — That the topics for discussion at the annual meetings of this Association
be prepared and printed as early as possible in the year, and that a copy be sent to each
Local Association not later than the 1st of March, in order that the teachers of the Pro-
vince may express their opinions on any proposed changes in the School Law and Regu-
lations.
Resolved, — That in view of the appalling extent of the evils of intemperance, and the
special dangers and temptations to which young people of the present day are exposed,
this Association earnestly urges upon all the teachers of the Province the duty of per-
sistently and carefully impressing upon their pupils the stern facts of science in relation
to the physiological effects of alcohol, and the advantages of absolutely securing them-
selves by, as far as they possibly can, habits of true temperance, from the awful moral and
physical degradation to which the drinking customs of to-day so often lead.
Public School Section.
Resolved, — That oral examinations on public examination days are a benefit in our
Public Schools ; but that they should not partake of the nature of exhibitions which have
no educative value, and should be confined to the work gone over during the term.
Resolved, — That in the opinion of this Section, after a teacher has obtained any class
of a certificate he shall, after five years' successful teaching from the time of obtaining his
certificate, be entitled to have his certificate raised one grade ; and on a further service of
three years' successful teaching, be entitled to have his certificate raised another grade ;
but every teacher must pass from class to class by examination.
Resolved, — That in reference to the power conferred upon Public School Boards to
make changes in the course of study, this Association approves of the pi-inciple embodied
therein, but would respectfully recommend that no option be permitted in the subjects of
Reading, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, Drawing, Geography, Grammar and Composition,
History, Temperance and Hygiene, Algebra, Geometry, and Mensuration ; and that in
case of difference between the Teacher and Trustees upon any proposed changes, the
Inspector should be appealed to for his decision.
High School Masters' Section.
Resolved, — That this High School Section call the attention of the Miuister of Educa-
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tion to the fact that the Intermediate is generally concurrent with the Pass and Honour
Examinations of Toronto University Junior Matriculation, and Women's. Local Exami-
nations, and it is the opinion of this Section that it would be better otherwise, as then-
are a great many High School students who wish to try both examinations.
Mr. G. H. Robinson, Principal of Whitby Collegiate Institute, read a paper on
"The Proposed Changes in the Intermediate."
Members present at this session : Messrs. McHenry, MacMurchy, Knight, Strang,
Millar (St. Thomas), Miller (Bowmanville), Bryant, Petch, Clark, Dr. Forrest, Williams,
Hunter, Robinson, Morgan, Smith, Hunter (Barrie), Oliver, Worrell, Wightman, Ellis,
Sinclair, Grant.
Resolved, — That in view of the short time the new Regulations have been before
Masters for consideration, your Committee do not feel disposed to express a properly
matured opinion on the general question of the influence of the amended programme of
study in the secondary schools, but at the same time would beg to report the following
Resolution : — That the Secretary be authorized to communicate with the Minister and
represent to him that in the opinion of this Section, in the Intermediate programme,
History and Geograpy should be removed from the optional to the obligatory list, and
that inasmuch as it will be difficult for the present for schools to provide properly quali-
fied teachers in Drawing, that Drawing be included in 7 (e) so as to read : " Any two of
the following form: French, German, Music, and Drawing;" one of which should be
French or German, and that the clause numbered 2 (2) on page 19 be amended in har-
mony with the foregoing.
Mr. Knight, Principal of Kingston Collegiate Institute, read a paper on Legislative
aid to secondary education.
Resolved, — That inasmuch as the proposed scheme will bear hardly upon the smaller
schools, and also upon many of the larger schools, which have been doing work worthy of
Government aid, therefore, the High School Section would respectfully recommend that
the Minister of Education should modify his proposed scheme as follows : —
(1) Every High School to receive a fixed grant of $500.
(2) Every High School employing two (2) teachers to receive in addition 25 per cent.
of excess of salaries above $1,500 to $2,000, i.e., $125 for maximum allowance under this
head.
(3) In addition every High School employing three (3) teachers to receive 40 per
cent, of excess of salaries above $2,000 up to $4,500, i.e., $1,000 as a maximum under
this head.
(4) Every Collegiate Institute to receive a fixed grant of $500.
(5) In addition every Collegiate Institute to receive 20 per cent, of salaries in excess
of $5,000 up to $6,500, i.e., $250 as a maximum grant under this head.
Furthermore, that if the Minister cannot see his way to the adoption of this scheme,
the Section is of opinion that it should be adopted in spirit, so that the grant should be
distributed in recognition of the claims of the smaller schools, and that the encourage-
ment given by the Government should be continued from the smallest to the largest and
best eqnipped schools.
Public School Inspectors' Section.
Present — J. S. Carson, Chairman ; Messrs. Grier, Clendenning, Summerby, Smith.
Barnes, Knight, Scarlett, Hughes, and Maxwell.
Mr. Carson introduced the subject, " How to make Teachers' Associations more use-
ful."
Mr. McKinnon introduced the subject, " Uniform Promotion Examinations."
Resolved, — That in view of the helpful discussion on Uniform Promotion Examina-
tions, this Section, on the whole, feels that these examinations are well calculated to help
the systematic and uniform education of the Public School children, and should be
adopted generally, avoiding, however, the danger of making success at them, instead of
the development of the intellect and character of the children, the great end and aim of
teaching.
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Resolved, — That in the opinion of this Section the subjects of Reading, Spelling, Writ-
ing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Composition, and Geography should be made compulsory in all
public schools.
Resolved, — That in the opinion of this Section, the recent regulation of the Educa-
tion Department, giving local Boards of Trustees power to determine what shall, and
what shall not be taught in the Public Schools, will have a very injurious influence on
these schools, and should be rescinded.
Resolved, — That the School Fund should be apportioned by the Inspectors, who should
notify the Treasurers and Trustees of the amounts apportioned to the respective School
Sections, and that the Treasurer be then empowered to pay these respective amounts on
the order of the Trustees.
The following report on Teachers' Associations was received and adopted : —
I. In order to secure a full and regular attendance at these Association Meetings,
(a) The programme should be made interesting and eminently practical.
\b) Inspectors should use every suitable opportunity, in meeting with Trustees
and Teachers, to impress the usefulness of these meetings on those who attend them, and
to urge on the Teachers their duty to themselves and their profession, in contributing to
the work of these meetings.
(c) Some means should be adopted to bring the absence of the teachers from
the regular meetings of the Association to the knowledge of the Trustees.
(d) Periodicals or books, on professional work, should 'be supplied to the mem-
bers, in whole or in part, from the funds of the Association.
(e) In counties where a central point is not easily reached, a County Convention
should be held once a year, and a local Convention, in each township, once a year.
II. Also in regard to the programme,
(a) The non-professional part should be subordinated to the professional.
(b) It is desirable that classes of pupils from the Public Schools should be brought
to the meeting for the purpose of practical illustration of methods of teaching ; where
this is impossible, a good alternative is to form classes of the teachers in attendance.
(c) The Association should provide means for assisting members in their individual
difficulties by opening a question drawer. The interest seems to be best maintained
when questions are admitted up to the end of the first day of the Convention, and
answered at some time on the second day.
((/) If Inspectors would aid each other, both by their personal assistance and
by recommending those Teachers who have shown their fitness for discussing certain
subjects, a conductor of institutes would not be required.
Resolved, — That, in the opinion of this Section, it is advisable that the Professional
Examination of Third-Class Teachers should be uniform throughout the Province, and
that the questions should be prepared by a Committee of Public School Inspectors.
Resolved, — That whereas frequent changes in the School Law and Regulations are
found to have an unsettling and injurious effect upon our Public Schools, this Section
would respectfully suggest that the proposed changes should be published one year before
their adoption, thus affording an opportunity to County Councils, School Board Inspectors,
and Teachers to express their views as to the probable practical effect of such proposed
changes, and thus secure greater efficiency and permanency in our legislation.
2. Laxark Teachers' Association.
The annual meeting of the County Lanark Teachers' Association was held in the
High School building, Almonte, on the 25th and 20th days of May, 1S82. A programme
was provided by members of the Association. A practical lecture on the subject of
electricity, by Jno. Fawcett, B.A., made up the evening session. The attendance at each
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session was large and regular, and much practical work was done and fully appreciated by
the members present.
Programme as follows :
Thursday, May 25th.
9 to 9.30 — Reading minutes.
9.30 to 10 — President's address.
10 to 11 — Grammar.
11 to 1 2 — Book-keeping.
Afternoon :
2 to
3 to
Evening Session :
Public Le
Friday, May 26th.
9 to
10 to
11 to
Afternoon:
2 to
3 to
4 to
3 — How I teach writing.
4 — Composition.
10 — General business and election of officers,
to 11 — Physical education.
12 — Arithmetic as an art.
3 — Railways of Ontario.
4 — Our Model Schools.
5 — Spots on the Sun.
3. Peel Teachers' Association.
During the year 1881, the County Peel Teachers' Association has been conducted
efficiently.
The Mid-summer Convention was attended during one or more of its sessions, by all
but twelve of the Teachers employed in the County Schools ; the December meetings
held at Bolton, Streetsville, and Brampton, were not so well attended, owing to the very
bad state of the roads; the proceedings however, were exceedingly interesting.
It is to be regretted that a large number of the teachers look upon attendance at
these conventions as a matter of duty rather than of pleasure, and the increased attend-
ance at the July meeting was in part owing to the insertion by the Secretary in the an-
nouncement sent out of the first clause of sub-sec. 5 of Regulations 17, "Duties of
Masters and Teachers," p. 182 of the "Compendium," with a notification that this regulation
would be enforced. It would seem a rather arbitrary measure to compel the attendance
of every teacher at every " convention " or " institute " ; but at the same time the County
Associations are almost an essential feature of the school system, and should be supported
by all teachers to some extent, at least. A suggestion was thrown out by the Principal
of our County Model School, that if each teacher in the County were to be required to
pay (say), §4 per annum to the support of the Association, and were to receive from the
funds of the Association (say), % 1 for each day's attendance, it would do away with the
difficulty now so often complained of — the expense of attendance at conventions. Those
teachers who attended would lose nothing, and those who found themselves unable to
attend would have the satisfaction of knowing that they had contributed pecuniarily, if
in no other way, to the success of the Association. Were this plan adopted, the attend-
ance at conventions would be very much larger than at present. Most teachers enjoy
the conventions, and are absent only on economical grounds.
It is also probable that if the $50 per annum, now granted to each County Associa-
tion, were rather given to the Provincial Association for the purpose of engaging the
services of one or two first-rate men, who should visit every association in the Province
the money would perhaps be expended to better purpose than now. A new man might
be employed each year — some master or inspector to whom change of labour would be
rest — and thus the freshness and interest of the meetings could be kept up much better
than by the appointment of a permanent officer.
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4. South Simcoe Teachers' Association.
The Association only had one meeting during last year. The Spring Meeting was
omitted owing to troubles between the Inspector and teachers. The Fall Meeting, when
the Association was re-organized, was admitted by all who were present to be the best
meeting ever held by the Association. It was the good fortune of the Association to
secure the services of Mr. Hughes, P. S. Inspector for Toronto. He lectured in the
evening in the town hall on School-Room Honour to about 900, who were delighted. He
also occupied some of the time, on Saturday, illustrating the best methods of teaching
drawing, drill, and music, in connection with Public Schools. He also placed before the
Association the leading features of the Kindergarten.
A meeting was held in May, this year, at Beeton, which was still an improvement
on the Fall Meeting. Fifty dollars have been received from the County Council this
year, and it is hoped that the Government will deal with the Association liberally.
5. South Grey Teachers' Association.
The first semi-annual meeting of the above association for the current year, held
in the Town Hall, at Flesherton, on the 25th and 26th days of May last, was well attend-
ed, as well as interesting and successful. The President, M. N. Armstrong, Esq., gave
an interesting and comprehensive lecture to the members of the Association, on their
work, etc. Various items of school work were illustrated and discussed. The head
master of the Collingwood High School gave an instructive lecture on " English Litera-
ture," and at the evening entertainment, Dr. Christie, of Flesherton, gave an excellent
lecture on " Health, and the Prevention of Disease."
Illustrative teaching, text-books, grammar, etc., were discussed with much interest
the second day.
6. Dufferin Teachers' Association.
The semi-annual meeting was held in Shelburne, on the 25th and 26th May last, and
a full attendance of teachers was present, all in the County, excepting four. Nearly all
the teachers are members of the Association, and take part in its proceedings, each
teacher reading an education periodical, and contributing freely to carry the Association
on in an efficient manner. The grants from the Department and County Council are ex-
pended in purchasing books for a library, which is kept in the Inspector's office, and the
books are on educational subjects, and much sought after.
7. North Huron Tf.achers' Association.
The Teachers' Institute for north division Huron, held its annual meeting in Brussels,
May 25th and 26th. The attendance was scarcely as large as usual, being only about 50.
The work was all of a practical character, and the meeting taken in all was quite success-
ful. The evening of Thursday was occupied by a Mr. Robertson, from Toronto. The
lecture treated on education generally, and was listened to by a large audience ; even
some country people remained in town until the lecture was over. >^J
There is great difficulty in getting the books required for the library, the booksellers,
not having them in stock, are not very good at getting what is asked for.
8. West Middlesex Teachers' Association.
Our Teachers' Association met on the 25th and 26th days of May, of. the current
year.
About 100 out of 110 were present, and took active part in the discussion'of the
programme.
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The Association is doing good work. Its influence on the schools for good is
acknowledged by all the teachers.
No outside help is employed but husband resources for the expenses of Promotion
Examinations.
Among teachers there is the best of feeling. They work together like brothers and
sisters to promote the welfare of the schools. A more faithful and devoted class of men
and women cannot be found anywhere in the Province.
9. Loxdon Teachers' Association.
The first meeting was held on the 28th and 29th May last, two sessions each day.
The first subject, after preliminary business, was a practical exercise in simple addi-
tion, by Miss Menzies, with her class, in the First Book, Part II., while the theory was
illustrated by Mr. Carson, master of the Model School. The rapidity and accuracy of the
work performed by these little children was a cause of admiration and wonder to many
of the junior teachers, and there is no doubt an honest emulation will follow.
In the afternoon an able essay was read by Miss Buckle, on some of the difficulties
of the teacher's profession, and an admirable address was delivered by Dr. Hutchinson
on " Hygiene or Sanitary Science," which was highly appreciated by the assembled
teachers, and was exceedingly well adapted to the circumstances of those for whom it was
prepared.
On Saturday a well written and well digested essay on " Regularity and punctuality
of attendance at the city schools," was read by Miss V. Drury, vthose lucid remarks on
irregularity, and especially on truancy, were listened to with marked interest by the
teachers. This was followed by a lesson on " The Theory and Practice of Decimals" by
Mr. Woodburne.
Miss M. Drury read a very able and interesting essay on " Politeness in School,"
and the President gave an address on " The necessity for moral training for the youth
attending the city schools." On the whole the meeting was an agreeable one, and it is to
be hoped that the result will be profitable to the teachers, and advantageous to the work
in which they are engaged.
97
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Division VI.
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
1. Third Class Professional Certificates, by County Boards.
This item appears in Division III., under County Model Schools.
2. Second Class Professional Certificates, by Department.
Teachers who had taught three years prior to August
18,1877
Ottawa Normal School
Toronto Normal School
19 33
54 122
105 I 208
3. First Class Professional Certificates, by Department.
Male.
Female.
Total.
|
•
6 1
7
8 10
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
4. — Nominal List op Provincial Certificates granted by the Education
Department.
Certificates granted 28th December, 1881, to Candidates who have taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
No.
1 Ji
' Name. 1 O
1 No.
Name. | 5
5589
' 5590
Certificate granted 5th January, 18S2, to Candidate who has taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5591 | Cyrus M. Rowe I B | ]
Certificate granted 9th January, 1882, to Candidate who has taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5592 | Charles W. Peets | B ||
Certificates granted 5th January, 1882, to Candidates who passed the Professional Examination.
TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL.
551)3
5594
5595
5596
5597
5598
5599
5600
5601
5602
.-,r,ii.;
5604
5605
5006
5607
5608
5609
5010
5611
5612
5613
5614
5615
5616
5617
5618
5619
George Henry Armstrong A
Henry Becker A
Isaac Day A
David Duff
Thomas Henry Follicle
William J. Glassford
William Edward Groves
John McLellan
Mary Martha Corbett . .
Lizzie Delmage ...
Harriet Grace Langlois .
Charlotte McLeod A
Mary Ella Vrooman | A
George Allen , B
Malcolm Black B
George Milne Brodie B
William Callin ! B
Arthur Thompson Emmerson j B
John W. Franks
Duncan Hay
John Hood
William Henry Johnson.
Jame3 H. Kerr
Charles H. Lapp
Robert G. Montgomery.
Robert H. McDonald.
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
Frank Newman ! B
.-,620
5621
5622
5623
5624
5625
5626
5627
562s
5629
5630
5631
5632
5633
I 5634
| 5635
5636
5637
5638
5639
5640
5641
5642
5643
5644
5645
John Percy Ogden
Thomas Nixon Rogers . .
Alexander Smith
George Wright
Barbara Begg
Annie Bimie
Jessie Eliza Brown
Sarah Chittick
Cecilia Gray
Janet Hamilton
A deline Jenkins
Mary Johnson
Janet Kersell
Mary Theresa Maher . . .
Catherine Maley
Martha Martin
Isabel Eleanor Shorman
Martha Smith
Annie McKinnon
Jessie Malcolm Niven ..
Ida Phillips
Margaret Ann Reid
Martha Rose
Mary Jane Agnes Rowe .
Helen Barbara Wilcox . .
Aggie McDougall
OTTAWA NORMAL SCHOOL.
5646
5647
564S
5649
5650
5651
5652
5653
5654
5655
5656
5657
565S
5659
566(1
5661
5662
5663
5064
James Crawford
M. Harrington
G. E. Henderson
James A. Hutchison . .
K. Allen Lee
Charles E. Living
Edwin Longman
James H. Smith
Sarah E. Folinsbee . . .
Anna Patterson
Mary Agnes Robinson
Henry Miller Bawden
Edward Byfield
James Corrigill
Francis Flannagan
James T. Foley
William T. Good
Thomas A. Gorman. . . .
William Inman
A
5665
A
5666
A
5667
A
566S
A
566!l
A
5670
A
5671
A
5672
A
5673
A
5674
A
< 5675
B
5676
B
5677
B
5678
B !
5679
B 1
5680
B
5681
B
5682
B 1
5683
Hartman Jones
Herbert John Leake. . . .
Daniel T. McAinsh
Samuel McCusker
Martin O'Brien
W. S. Rose
Herbert James Sangster
Armstrong M. Spence . . .
Louis E. Staples
Thomas Steele
James C. Turner
Milton W. Vandewater .
David E. Williams
Cyrus H. Zeigler
Frank Zwick
Elizabeth Bonsfield
Margaret S. McDonald .
Sarah A. Brown
Elizabeth Byfield
10<i
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Provincial Certificates — Continued.
5686
5687
56SS
5690
5691
5693
5694
56! r,
Edith Caldwell
Mary • 'hurch
Kate M. Correll
Emily A. Crawford
Madeline Givens
Lucilla A. Huffman
Mary Hutton
Madeline Jelley . .
Nellie Keough
Mary < '. Mayer | B
Lizzie McFaul
Belli McSteven
Maria Oldham B
Annie Berry B
E. M. Ridgeway | B
Maggie Rowe i B
Letitia Shaver B
Jessie D. Taylor B
Mary Turnbull B
Jane Wodden | B
Alice M yera B
Mary Cope a
Grace Alexander j B
Certificate granted 23rd January, 18S2, to Caiviidate who passed the Professional Examination.
5707 ! Mary J. Gray | B ||
I \ rtifi-cate granted 23rd January, 1882, to Candidate who tavghtZ years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5708 | Thomas W. Kennedy | B 1 1
Certificate granted 28iA March, 1882.
5709 | Thomas Campbell (1st Class A)| 1 1
Certificates granted 2Wh April, 18S2, to Candidates who passed the Professional Examination, March, 1882.
TORONTO NOKMAL SCHOOL.
5710
5711
5712
5713
5714
5715
5716
5717
57 IS
5719
5720
5721
5722
.-.7i\;
5721
572.5
572*1
5727
5728
5729
5730
5731
5732
5733
5734
5735
5736
5737
5738
573!l
574H
5741
5712
1743
5741
Frederick Augustus August
John A. Albright
Matthew Goetz
Claudus A. C. Jennings
James Joseph McNamara. . .
Charles Ramage ... ....
James Russell Stewart
John Wallis
John Stirling
Margaret Fraser
I Elizabeth Jane Hardy
> Harriet Johnston
J Helen MacMurchy
j Mina Rose -
; Margt. Grace Sheppard
Clara Louise Telfer
! Chloe Wilson
John Douglas Alexander
William James Allison . .
Alexander Anderson
David Archer
I John G. Coram
Marcus H. Crosby
William -lames Dixon
| Benjamin Forster
James Phoenix Hare
William Henry Haight
Robert Augustus Hagen
James A. Marshall
Lucy Bowes
Laura Catley
Ruth Jane Clendening
Mary Cooey
Edith Isabel Dnrdeu
Adeline Maxwell Harries . . .
A
1 5745
A
5746
A
5747
A
1 5748
A
5749
A
5750
A
5751
A
5752
A
5753
A'
5754
A
5755
A
5756
A
5757
A
5758
A
5759
A
1 5700
A
1 5761
B
5762
B
5763
B
5764
B
5765
B
5766
B
5767
B
5768
B
5769
B
5770
B
5771
B
3772
B ;
5773
K I
5774
B 1
5775
B 1
5776
B
5777
B
5778
B 1
5779
Laura Amelia Harrison I B
Charles McKay B
William Lyon MacKenzie | B
Hesse AUanson Nicholla I B
Robert A. Newman I B
William Pendergast | B
Solomon Reist j B
Joseph Henderson Stewart... B
Marshall P. Tailing B
Walter R. Vrooman B
John Ewart Irvine | B
George Robinson Jarvis R
Mary Bissell B
Kebi oea 1; Mi-Kenzie ! n
Jessie I. McDiarmid B
Margaret A. McCoy B
Rachael E. Purdie B
Annie Robertson : B
Asenath Robinson B
Jennie Thompson , . . j B
Mary Walker I B
Harriet Julia Hart I B
Elizabeth Hearst \ B
Agnes Inglis i B
Hannah Lund B
Malena Ann Mabee I B
Caroline Martin .... B
Mary Jane Merritt B
Frances Sophia Warren I B
Margaret H. White I B
Jane Isabella Whitelaw B
Henrietta Wilson B
Lizzie Janetta Wrighton B
Louise Garwood I B
Margaret L. ( i. Hager | B
OTTAWA NORMAL SCHOOL.
5780 ! Frank'Andrews
5781 I Robert L. Marsales . .
5782 ! Alexander D. Menzies
5783 James McLachlan
5784 ! John A. Rapp
A i
5785
A
5786
A 1
5787
A !
5788
A I
5789
Frank Shoff | A
John Robert Watt
William D. Welch
Emma Connor ....
Jessie K. Monro. .
107
46 Victoria.
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A. 1883
Provincial Certificates — Continued.
No.
Thomas H. Alton
George Clarke .'....
Alfreil Devitt
Thomas B. Lapp
William McKay
J ohn Straehan
Charles P. Wawanosh Wells
Annie M. Calder
Adelaide Doyle
Charlotte L. Eckhart
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
Mary J. Todd | B
No.
5801
5802
5803
5804
5805
5801!
5807
5808
5S(I'J
5810
Ada Halliday
Agnes Morison
Frances M. Misner. . . .
Carrie L. Nelles
Elizabeth O'Neil
Margaret Fidgeon
Eliza Robertson
Emily Steadman
Annie Thompson
Jessie Osgoode White
5790
5791
5792
5793
5794
5795
5796
5797
5798
5799
5800
Certificate granted 22nd April, 1882, to Candidate who passed the Professional Examination, March, 1882.
5811 | Rebecca Mary Church | A 1 1
Certificate granted 26th April, 1882, to Candidate who passed the Professional Examination, March, 1882.
5812 | Margaret Jane Ross Boys | B 1 1
Certificates granted 18th May, 1882, to Candidates who passed the Professional Examination, March, 1882.
5813 | James S. Eagleson | B | j 5814 | Andrew Scott I B
Certificate granted Sth Jane, 1882, to Candidate who passed the Professional Examination, March, 1882.
5815 | Thomas Henry Furlong | B ||
Certificates granted 24th July, 1882, to Candulates who passed the Professional Examination, Jane, 1882.
Toronto Nokmal School.
5810
5817
5818
5819
5820
5821
5822
5823
5824
5825
5826
5827
5828
5829
5830
5831
5832
5.s.: ;
5834
5835
5836
5837
58 18
5839
5840
5S41
5842
:,s4 :
5S44
.
5846
i 17
1848
5849
5850 I
5851
1852
5853
5854 I
Joseph Armstrong
William Henry Alexander
Andrew Christie
Enoch Emerson
Archibald Graham
Ezra J. Lehman
William Manson
James Nathan McDonald .
Isabella Kirklaud
Georgina Linn
Isabella McKim
Isabella Somerville
Jane Thomas
Alexander Butchart ........
William Bicknell
George Bell
Donald C. Cameron
William Chambers
Amos Dale
Charles Elliott
Herbert VV. Foster
i lharles Gordon Eraser... ,
Alexander Gillespie
George Harrison
John Gibson Hackney
Thomas R. Hogg
James Harris
John James M. Keirman. . .
Charles James
Charles Robert Kilkenny ..
John Matthews
Archibald McViear
Robert McColgan
Clement Mcllhargy
Angus A. Sfcickenzie
Joseph William Rowan
Frank Reid
James William Smith
John Alexander Sangster. . .
A
5855
A
5850
A
5857
A
5858
A
585'. I
A
5860
A
5861
A
5802
A
5803
A
5864
A
5865
A
5800
A
5807
B
5808
B
5809
B
5870
B
5871
B
5872
B
587.;
B
5871
B
5875
B
5870
B
5878
B
5879
B
5880
B
5881
B
5882
B
5883
B
5884
B
5885
B
588.;
B
5887
B
5888
r.
5889
B
5890
B
589]
B
5892
B
B 1
William Thornton Smyth B
John Torrance B
David J. Weismiller B
John Ferris Walker B
Orlando White I B
John Woods B
Robert Wade B
William York B
Maria August B
Annie Maria l'.ax B
Minnie Beaver B
Margaret Pi ingle Barbour. . B
Margaret Halliday Black B
Phoebe Jane Cronk B
Jessie Craigmill B
Nina Rebecca Conger B
Ada M. ( 'ullen B
Jeannie Davidson B
Nazarine H. Dalley B
Sara 1 mnean B
Elizabeth Dunham B
Christina Field B
Martha Wallace Hogg B
Margaret 1 1 arris B
M;i-'.;u- I lolisoii 15
Jeanie Knox B
Annie Matheson B
Alfaretta Marshall B
Estella Markle I B
Ella McKinney. 8
i ' - tughtou B
Annie McQuarrie.. B
Margaret Macdouald ... B
Catharine Patton j B
Mary .Samson B
Annie Walker Troup ' B
Amelia F. Wisser j B
Jennie Foote B
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Provincial Certificates — Continued.
Ottawa Normal School.
No.
Name.
M
o
■o
c
No.
Name.
1
o
5894
A
A
A
A
B 1
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
5908
5909
5910
5911
5912
5913
5914
5915
5916
5917
5918
5919
5920
5895
5896
William Cook
B
5897
5898
B
5899
5900
B
5901
B
5902
B
5903
Herbert M. Faul
B
5904
B
5905
B
5900
B
5907
James H. Sanderson
Certificates granted 24th July, 18S2, to Candidates who passed the Professional Examination, June, 1882.
5921 | John McMaster | A 1 1 5922 | Emma D. Fawell | A
Certificate granted 17th August, 1882, to Candidate who has taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5923 | Jennie Rogers ....| B ||
Certificates (/ranted 31st August, 1882, to Candidates who have taught 3 years prior to Vlth August, 1877.
5924 I Maggie P. Symington I B
5925 | Florence H. Sangster I B
5926 I James M. Nicol
5927 I Neil A. McGillivray .
Certificate granted '31st August, 1882, to Candidate who passed the Professional Examination, December, 1881.
5928 | Luellen Williams | A 1 1
Certificates granted 3\st August, 1882, ta Candidates who passed the Professional Examination, July, 1882.
5929 | Thomas Jas. Walrond. . (First Class A) I II 5932 I Harriet Johnston (First ClassC)
5930 John McLaughlin (First Class A) 5933 John Elliott (First Class ( ') .. ..
5931 | WelbernAtkin (First Class A)| || 5934 | William K. Lough (First Class C)|
Certificate* granted nth September, 1882, to Candidates who hare taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5935 I Maggie Sinclair Eeid I A 1 1 5936 | Alice Baker | B
' ''' granted 5th September, 1882, to Candidate who passed the Professional Examination, June, 1882.
5937 | Robert B. Horsburgh | B ||
Certificate granted 7th September, 1882, to Candidate who has taught 3 yean prior to 17th August, 1877.
5938 | Adeline Graham | A 1 1
Certificates granted loth September, 1882, to Candidates whj have taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5939 | John B. Shotwell | A 1 1. 5940 | Annie Shea j B
Certificate granted 21st September, 1S82, to Candidate who has taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5941 | John Mcintosh | B ||
Certificate granted 2<Jth September, 1882, to Candidate who has taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5942 | R. J. Trumpour | B ||
Certificates granted ith October, 1882, to Candidates who have taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5943 | Jas. S. McNamara [ A 1 1 5944 | C. C. Collins I B
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Provincial Certificates — Continued.
i ', rttificatea granted 20lh October, 1882, to Candidates who have taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5945 Thomas W. Kennedy A I 5947 I Jessie Fraser. .
5946 Helen Louisa Garner B | 5948 | John A. Young
B
Certificates granted Wth November, 1882, to Candidates who have taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1SS2.
5949 | Annie E. Fuller | B || 5950 | Mary Stuart ,| B
Certificate granted 21st November, 1882, to Candidate who has taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1882.
5951 | Julia M. Smith | A 1 1
Certificate granted 22nd November, 1882.
5952 | Mrs. Amy Guthrie | B 1 1
Certificate granted 29th November, 1882, to Candidate who has taught 3 years prior to 17th A itrjust, 1S77.
5953 | Margaret Jane Mills | B 1 1
Certificate granted 5th December, 1882, to Candidate toko has taught 3 years prior to 17th A ugust, 1S77.
5954 | Christina Somerville Clarke | B 1 1
Certificates granted 12th December, 1882, to Candidates who have taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5955 1 John H. Moffatt.
5956 Janet E. Sinclair .
B II 5957 I Mary Bell.
B
B
Certificates granted l&th December, 1882, to Candidates who have taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5958 | Alex. H. Watson | B 1 1 5959 | Janet Cameron | B
Certificate granted 29th December, 1882, to Candidate who had taught 3 years prior to 17th August, 1877.
5960 | Lizzie Stirton | B ||
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
5. — Third Class Certificates Extended by the Minister of Education during
the Year 1882.
Glengarry .
Stormont .
Dundas . . .
Preseott . .
Russell . . .
Carleton .
Grenville .
Leeds
Lanark
Renfrew
Frontenac
Lennox and Addington.
Prince Edward
Hastings
Northumberland
Durham
Peterborough
Haliburton
Victoria
Ontario
Halton
Wentworth
Brant
Lincoln . . .
Welland . . .
Haldimand
Norfolk ...
Oxford.....
Waterloo . . .
Wellington
Dufferin . . .
Grey
Perth
Huron
Bruce
Middlesex .
Elgin
Kent
Lambton . .
Essex
District of Algoma
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
6. — Temporary Certificates Authorized bt the Minister of Education during
the Year 1882.
COUNTIES.
Glengarry
Stormont .
Dundas . .
Prescott . .
Russell . . .
6
4
23
9
2
21
11
10
2
13
2
34
15
4
18
4
21
York
3
22
23
5
25
26
2
28
6
31
Oxford
1
2
1
34
35
12
4
Bruce
4
39
2
40
41
2
6
43
5
1
249
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A. 1883
7. Superannuated Teachers.
Continued from last Report.
1. Pensions granted during 1882.
654
662
663
664
665
666
667
668
669
670
671
672
673
674
675
676
677
678
679
680
68 L
682
683
684
685
691
692
693
694
William Fleming
Catharine H. Gould
Samuel Megaw
Noah Herring
John McLean
Mrs. Phrebe W. Biggar. .
Miss Martha Bullock. . . .
Michael M. O'Brennan
Emma R. Regan
Robert B. Walker
F. S. B. Wonch
John Rogers
Thomas Watson
Alfred W. Dinsdale
Hugh Armstrong, Sr . . .
Win. R. Bigg
Alexander Stewart
Duncan C. McKinnon..
D. L. Hankinson
Hugh Lucas
William McXaughton . .
William M. Kiernan
David Baptie
Stewart Moag
Robert McMillan
Samuel M. Logan
Edward T. Croule, M.A
William Skelton
William McKee, B. A . .
Jonathan Varcoe
Jane Longworth
William Henry Finney . .
Dougald McAlpine
Martin Gormley
62
58
57
53
61
43
46
45
53
75
56
51
66
60
57
61
49
57
63
44
60
59
34
604
61
63
61
51
59
65
57
'''-V
m
27
32
14
32
15
30
18
27
13
23
26
33
19£
26
26J
13
284
134
304
10
184
31"
25
12
204.
24
144
10
22
18
37
284
122 50
162 00
219 00
84 00
192 00
90 00
ISO 00
108 00
162 00
78 00
138 00
136 50
198 00
117 00
156 00
175 50
78 00
171 00
81 00
183 00
00 00
126 50
lsii no
150 00
Si 00
123 00
168 00
87 00
70 00
132 00
108 00
222 00
171 00
90 00
During 1882, 83,660.10 were returned to subscribers withdrawing from the Fund, being one half of
amount subscribed, by virtue of section 168 of the Public Schools Act.
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A. 1883
2. Summary for Years 1876 to 1882.
Ykak.
No. of
Teachers on
List.
Expenditure
for the year.
Gross
contributions
to the Fund.
Amount
refunded to |
retiring
Teachers. |
Net contributions
and what per cent, of
payments.
1876
266
293
339
360
391
399
422
S c.
31.768 82
35,484 35
41,318 95
43,774 50
48,229 13
49,129 43
51,000 00
$ c.
12,647 25
14,283 25
13,767 12
14,064 84
15,816 45
14,197 75
13,501 08
$ c.
1,252 83 |
1,576 07
1,591 64
2,237 79
3,252 92 I
2,872 13 |
3,660 10
S c.
11,394 42
12,707 18
12,175 48
11,827 05
12,563 53
11.325 62
9,840 98
Per cent.
35
1877
35
1878
29
1879
1880
27
26
18S1
23
1S82
19
8. Teachers Eetired from tue Profession during
Counties.
Teachers
retired.
Counties.
Teachers
retired.
Glengarry 1
Stormont 3
Dundas 4
Prescott and Russell 2
Carleton 11
Grenville 2
Leeds 2
Lanark 5
Renfrew 8
Frontenac 6
Lennox and Addington 2
Prince Edward 10
Hastings 13
Northumberland 6
Durham 8
Peterborough 4
Victoria 10
Ontario 17
York 24
Peel 7
Simcoe 13
Halton 3
Wentworth 9
Brant ' 7
Lincoln 9
Welland 9
Haldimand 5
Norfolk 12
Oxford 12
Waterloo 12
Wellington 14
Dufferin 5
Grey 12
Perth 11
Huron 21
Bruce 12
Middlesex 17
Elgin 5
Kent 15
Lambton 14
Essex 7
Algoma 1
Muskoka 3
Total .
374
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A. 1883
Division- VII.
TNSPECTION OF PUBLIC, SEPARATE AND HIGH SCHOOLS.
1. — Public School Inspection.
1. List of Public School Inspectors.
NAME.
Donald McDiarmid, M.D.
Alexander McNaughton . .
Arthur Brown
Wm. J. Summerby
( jdilon Duford
Rev. John May, M.A
Rev. George Blair, M.A...
William R. Bigg
Robert Kinney, M.D
F. L. Michell. B.A
R. G. Scott, B.A.
John Agnew, M.D .
Frederick Burrows
gilbert Ii. Piatt. B.A
William Mackintosh
John Johnston
Edward Scarlett .
John J. Tilley...
James Coyle Brown
C. D. Curry, B.A
James H. Knight
Henry Reazin
James McBrien
John Hodgson..
David l-'"t.li.'iiii'_-ham
Donald J. Mclvinnon
Rev. William McKee, B.A.
James C. Morgan, M.A
Robert Little....
Joseph H. Smith.
Michael Joseph Kelly, M.D
James B. Grey
James H. Ball, M.A
Clarke Moses
James J. Wadsworth, M.A., M.B
William Carlyle
Thomas Pearce
David P. Clapp, B.A
J. J. Craig
Thomas Gordon
William Ferguson .
Andrew Grier
William Alexander
John R. Miller
Archibald Dewar . . .
JURISDICTION.
W. S. Clendening. ..
Alexander Campbell
John Dearness ,
Joseph S. Carson . . .
POST OFFICE.
Glengarry
Stormont
Dundas
Prescott and Russell
" Assistant for French Schools
Carleton
Grenville and Town of Prescott
Leeds No. 1
Leeds No. 2, and Town of Brockville
Lanark and Towns of Almonte, Perth and
Smith's Falls .
Renfrew, Town of Pembroke, and District of
Nipissing
Frontenac
Lennox and Addington, and Town of Napanee
Prince Edward and Town of Picton
N. Hastings
S. Hastings, and City of Belleville and Town I
of Trenton '
Northumberland and Town of Cobourg
Durham, and Towns of Bowmanville and
Port Hope
Peterborough
Haliburton
E. Victoria and Town of Lindsay
W. Victoria
Ontario and Town of Whitby
S. York
N. York and Town of Newmarket
Peel and Town of Brampton
S. Simcoe and District of Muskoka
N. Simcoe, and Towns, of Barrie, Orillia and
Penetangnishene
Halton, and Towns of Milton and Oakville . .
Wentworth, City of Hamilton and Town of
Dundas
Brant, City of Brantford and Town of Paris. .
Lincoln
Welland and Town of Thorold
Haldimand
Norfolk and Town of Simcoe
Oxford, and Towns of Ingersoll, Tilson burgh
and Woodstock
Waterloo, and Towns of Berlin and Gait
N. Wellington, and Towns of Harriston,
Listowel and Mount Forest
S. Wellington and Town of Orangeville
W. Grey and Town of Owen Sound
S. Grey and Town of Durham
B. Grey
Perth and Towns of Palmerston and Stratford
S. Huron and Town of Goderich
N. Huron and Towns of Clinton, Seaforth
and Wingham
E. Bruce and Town of Walkerton
W. Bruce and Town of Kincardine
E. Middlesex and Town of London East ....
W. Middlesex
Athol.
Newington.
Monislmig.
Russell.
Curran.
Ottawa.
Prescott.
Brockville.
Perth.
Pembroke.
Kingston.
Napanee.
Picton.
Madoc.
Belleville.
Cobourg.
Bowmanville.
Norwood.
Minden.
Lindsay.
Linden Valley.
Myrtle.
Yorkville.
Aurora.
Brampton.
Barrie.
Acton.
Ancaster.
Brantford.
St. Catharines.
Thorold.
I 'alni Ionia.
Simcoe.
Woodstock.
Berlin.
Harriston.
Fergus.
Owen Sound.
Priceville.
Thornbury.
Stratford.
Goderich.
Seaforth.
Walkerton.
Kincardine.
London.
Strathroy.
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List of Public School Inspectors. — Continued.
NAME.
JURISDICTION.
POST OFFICE.
A. F. Butler
Elgin
E. Keut, and Towns of Bothwell, Dresden
Kidgetown.
Blenheim.
Wilmot M. Nichols, B. A . . . . ...
W. Kent
Lambton No. 2, and Town of Sarnia
Sarnia.
Essex No. 2, and Town of Amherstburgb . . .
City of
Amherstburgh.
Milton.
Toronto.
Guelph.
Kingston.
W. G. Kidd
4.
J. B. Boyle
<<
John H. MoFaul
Kev. A. McColl
Rev. R. Rodgers
Collingwood.
Cornwall.
Rev. Geo. Washingto
John M. Moran . .
John Rogers
Rev. James Gordon, M.A
Rev. S. H. Eastman
James Stratton
G. W. Ross, M.P
Thomas H illiard
Richard Harcourt, B.A., M.P.P.
J. C. Patterson, M.P
Meaford.
Mitchell, ) Stratford
St. Marys, )' P. 0.
Niagara.
Niagara Falls.
Oshawa.
Peterborough.
Strathroy.
Waterloo.
Welland.
Windsor.
Roman Catholic Separate School Inspector,
James F. White, Trenton.
2. Extracts from Reports of Public School Inspectors for 1881.
United Counties of Prescott and Russell.
Extract from Report of W. J. Su
rby, Esq., Inspector.
Teachers' Salaries and Certificates. — The figures shew a slight increase under the
head of salaries, but I find that the average salaries paid in the counties are still only
about three fourths of the average for the Province. Labourers and domestic servants
are paid higher wages than many of our teachers, and as a consequence, we are continu-
ally losing the most progressive members of the profession, who either " go west " or turn
their attention to some more lucrative employment.
To keep up our supply of qualified teachers, we should have each year about forty
candidates for the Model School course. Instead of this, -we had in 1881 just four
teachers-in-training. Formerly, many of our teachers received their literary training at
the best Public Schools of the counties, but since the new subjects have been required
from Third Class teachers, few of our Public Schools are able to do the work, and in future
it will have to be done by the two High Schools.
These schools, which are both situated in the eastern part of the inspectorate, are
largely local ; I know of but one pupil from the County of Russell. The inducements
in the way of salary are so small that parents will not incur the expense of paying a
pupil's board for the time that would be necessary for him to attend the High School to
prepare himself for passing the Intermediate.
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Our Model School has been doing excellent work, but we have not the material for that
institution to work up into teachers. There is no denying the fact that we are educa-
tionally a decade, at least, behind the western part of the Provinee. Relatively we are
further behind than we were in 1871. The Third Class Examination, as held prior to 1878,
with the Model School training would, I think, do more for the cause of education in
these counties than the present system is doing or is likely to do for years to come. We
are not educating half enough teachers to keep up the supply, and as our salaries are
about a hundred dollars below the average we cannot induce teachers to come from other
counties.
French Schools. — We have now over sixty French schools. The teachers of these
schools hold either temporary certificates or extensions, and are nearly all untrained. As
our French population does not generally take advantage of the education offered by our
High Schools, we have to depend on the Province of Quebec for our supply of French
teachers, and the standard of education there is so much lower than it is in Ontario that
few of them are able to pass our Third Class Examination. It is highly desirable that
some provision be made for the education and training in the counties, of our French
teachers.
School Houses, etc. — Four new school houses, two brick, one frame and one log, were
built during the year, and trustees are making preparations for building several this
year.
The houses are in general poorly ventilated, proper outbuildings are rarely provided,
and but few of the yards are fenced.
School Grants, etc. — So great has been the difficulty in obtaining qualified teachers
at the usual salaries, that there has been, I am sorry to notice, on the part of some trustees,
a disposition to engage an unqualified teacher and forfeit the grants. The amount
received from the School Fund by the weaker sections is so small that in some of them
the engagement of an unqualified, cheap teacher would be quietly acquiesced in by the
people.
Until the introduction of Township Boards, or the equalization in some way of
school taxation, it would, I think, be no more than justice to small schools to divide the
school grants equally among the schools of a township.
School Work. — Most of our teachers who have received a professional training are
doing fair, some of them excellent work, but I am every day more and more persuaded
that much of the money paid to teachers holding " permits " is wasted.
Teachers' Associations. — Our Teachers' Associations — we have one for each county —
are doing a good work. Dining the year we received valuable aid from Mr. Buchan,
High School Inspector, and the Rev. J. May, M.A., Inspector of Carleton.
In conclusion I may say that it is my intention to hold, during the course of the year,
. a series of meetings in the counties for the purpose of discussing the educational out-
look.
County of Lanark.
Extract from Report of F. L. Michell, Esq., B.A., Inspector.
The Financial Condition of the schools of the county may be represented as follows :
Total receipts from all sources, 1881 $44,187 10i
Total payments, 1881 39,542 28-
The highest salary in the county ($650) was paid to the head master of the Carleton
Place Public School. The lowest was $150. The average annual salary for male teachers
for 1881 was $267 ; and for females, $184.
Teachers. One hundred and forty-two teachers were employed in the schools of the
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townships and incorporated villages of this county during 1881. These may be classified
as follows :
Provincial First Class 2
" Second Class 11
Old County First Class 5
New County Third Class 120
Temporarily certificated -1
142
We shall require about sixty additional teachers for 1883. Our High Schools will
do well if they pass forty, and the remaining twenty will have to be made up by granting
extension Third Class Certificates or permits. The standard at present is so high that few
pass with less than a year and a half or two years' attendance at a High School. This en-
tails expense and shuts out many who would, under more favourable circumstances, be
candidates for teachers' certificates. Our small rural schools could be conducted by teach-
ers of a lower grade. As it is at present, the small salary which the trustees are able to
offer is a poor inducement to many years of training and a final severe examination test.
School Accommodation.- -One hundred and thirty-three is the number of school
houses in the county for 1881. These may be classified as follows : — Brick, 7 ; stone, 17 ;
concrete, 2 ; frame, 70 ; log, 37. They are all freehold with one exception, and generally
well adapted for the purpose intended. Large and well ventilated rooms are the rule
rather than the exception, but due attention is not paid to the matter of cleanliness. I
am happy to state, however, that a better order of things is rapidly taking place, many
trustees having secured, and more having promised to secure, better seating accommoda-
tion as soon as possible. The desks and seats can be characterized " very bad " in only
five schools in the county.
The school sites have, in too many cases, been ill chosen, the only factor which seems
to have had weight with those who located them being cheapness.
School Population and Pupils. — The entire school population of the county for 1881
was reported as 7,008. As to sexes, there were 3,734 males and 3,274 females. The report
shows five hundred and thirty-six children of school age who have not attended any school
during 1881.
Attendance. — The total number of legal teaching days for 1S81 was 222. The aver"
age for the whole county was 215. In justice to our county it must be remembered that
many of the schools were closed during the earlier part of the year, owing to the prevalence
of measles and other contagious diseases.
We see that 3,114 of the pupils, entered upon the daily register, have not attended
four months. Irregular attendance is undoubtedly the weak point of our school system.
I have taken special care to bring this matter before the local School Boards, and as a
consequence it was made a subject of discussion at many of the annual meetings and in
not a few cases notice was given that the compulsory clause would be put into operation,
if found necessary, during the current year (1882).
( 'lassification of Pupils. — The pupils in attendance at the Public Schools during 1881
may be grouped as to their respective classes, thus : Number in First Reading Book,
2,231 ; number in Second Reading Book, 1,604 ; number in Third Reading Book, 1,976 ;
number in Fourth Reading Book, 1,053 ; number in Fifth Reading Book, 144; total, 7,008.
The comparatively small number of Fifth Class pupils is accounted for by the fact
that a great number leave the Public for the High Schools as soon as they pass the En
trance Examination — a test equivalent to an admission examination to the Fifth Class. The
recognized efficiency of the three High Schools of the county and of the Collegiate Insti-
tute of the Town of Perth forms an additional incentive whenever pupils are desirous of
pursuing a more extensive course of study than that usually given in a Public School.
The Second and Third Readers of the present series are, in the main, fairly ndapted
for the purpose ; but the Primer and Fourth are not satisfactory. Frequent change of
text-books is productive of much discontent and confusion ; nevertheless if circumstances
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5). A. 1883
really warrant a change, it is better, for obvious reasons, to make it as soon as possible.
Some seem to incline towards the authorization of more than one series, but such a step
would be undesirable, because in Ontario, as in almost every country of small proprietors,
change of abode is frequent, and a corresponding change of text-books would prove a bur-
den. Besides, the poorer classes are most subject to these " Sittings," and these are the
ones whose interest should be considered in any contemplated change.
The opinion seems nearly general that too many subjects are taught, or rather
attempted, in our schools. Like many other popular errors, this one vanishes as soon as
the test of facts is applied.
Physical and Moral Training. — The importance of this matter cannot be overesti-
mated. We are often told that the pupils in our rural schools get sufficient training at
home. Exercise they may receive, but not such as to produce% physical development.
The body, like the mind, can be abnormally developed in certain directions. How often
do we see the powerful, muscular man a prey to consumption or other pulmonary com-
plaint, engendered it may be by a neglect or ignorance of the simplest rules of health.
The importance, nay, the necessity of having a regular supply of fresh air, well ventilated
dwelling and sleeping rooms, etc., should be especially dwelt upon by the masters of Model
Schools to the teachers-in-training, and by these in their turn to their pupils. A course
in drill and calisthenics should be required from candidates for Third Class Teachers' Certi-
ficates. The erect head and manly, upright carriage are too often taken as evidence of
conceit, whereas these are the conditions under which the important though unseen
organs of the body can most readily and effectually discharge their functions. When
visiting the Normal School recently, I was much struck with the upright, manly appearance
of the pupils of the Model School in connection with that institution. I was informed
that this very desirable result was due to the custom which prevails there of frequently
performing the extension motions, sometimes in the midst of the recitations.
No direct attention is paid to the moral education of our children in the Public
Schools. In this county 117 schools are opened and closed with prayer ; in 69 the Ten
Commandments are repeated weekly, and in one only is religious instruction given by a
clergyman. In undenominational schools like ours dogmatic teaching would be out of
place, but the careful teacher is ever ready to drop the wise and seasonable word. Society
is becoming more convinced that the future character of the people depends, to no small
extent, on the present character of our schools. Our great practical educationists are
commencing to look upon the Public School system as the " hope of the age," if it educates
not merely in letters and figures, but in right habits, moral and industrial, and in correct
principles, moral, social, and civil.
The Public School Libraries are in a wretched condition. They consist of 3,036
tattered volumes, which are seldom read. A pupil's education is not completed when he
takes leave of the school master and school discipline. Under the most favourable cir-
cumstances, he has simply acquired the power of making use of his faculties. But the
means to this end are books, and books of the right sort are not available. Hence the
fondness, in too many cases, for "street corner meetings," and finally bar-room convivi-
alities.
Prizes. — It might not be out of place to insert a few practical hints which should be
followed by those to whom this important matter is entrusted, (a), Make no presents ;
let every prize be merited, (b), Avoid general prize-giving ; let the prizes be not too
many, and carefully selected, (c), Give ample notice — the longer the better — of the fact
that prizes will be distributed at a certain date, (d), Keep an honest and careful record
of the marks, and let the record be open to the occasional inspection of the pupils
interested.
School Visits. — It is to be regretted that trustees, parents, local clergymen and others
interested in the cause of education, do not visit our schools more frequently.
Shortened Vacations. — Only a very few schools in this locality were opened on the
third of August, although the amendment of 1880 was duly published in all the county
papers. In these cases the attendance was very small, and the teachers very dissatisfied
at being submitted to additional expense for boarding, etc., for no additional recompense.
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(Jram. — -Whatever may be the condition of the schools in other counties, I can safely
atlirm that this evil (if evil it be) has no existence within this Public School Inspectorate.
I have yet to see the pupil whose health has been impaired by a severe course of systema-
tized study. It is a maxim in life that, in order to accomplish certain results, prolonged
and constant effort is necessary. I am certain that trustees and parents, cognizant of the
facts of the case, would be well pleased at seeing a little more pressure brought to bear in
our Public Schools.
Grading and Promotion. — The pupils of our rural Public Schools are seldom pro-
moted by a test examination. The system of "uniform promotion examinations" would
work very well in our more prosperous townships, but could not be very satisfactorily
carried out in backward and sparsely peopled localities.
Model School. — Nineteen teachers-in- training attended the Model School during 1881,
and received certificates. This school is doing a good work for the county, and is, I
believe, deservedly popular. The curriculum of study might be made to include drill and
calisthenics with advantage — subjects not generally taught in our Public Schools.
Teachers' Association. — Two meetings were held during 1881, one in May and one in
October. Both sessions were well attended, and instruction was given and received in
theoretical and practical work by the reading and discussion of papers on various matters.
In order to secure full attendance, and enable every teacher in the county to participate,
the meetings of the Association are held in Perth and Almonte alternately.
In conclusion, I beg to submit a few words explanatory of the manner in which I do
the work of inspection. I endeavour, so far as time will permit, to examine the various
classes in all the subjects prescribed. I do not demand a critical knowledge or a readiness
to solve " catches," but insist upon a good, thorough drill on the work undertaken. The
examination of the more advanced classes is mainly conducted on slates, whilst the junior
classes are submitted to an oral test. At the close, a written report is sent to the Secre-
tary of the Board of Trustees.
County op Hastings — North.
Extract from Report of William Mackintosh Esq., Inspector.
Schools. — The number of schools and departments in operation was 97.
Salaries. — The salaries paid were as follows : —
Average salary paid to male Teachers for 1880 $347 29
Decrease $ 13 60
Average salary paid to female Teachers for 1880 $242 14
Decrease $ 4 95
Qualification of ' Teacliers. — Of the teachers employed in these schools, 1 had a Provin-
cial First Class Certificate, 16 had Provincial Second Class Certificates, 56 had Third Class
Certificates, and 24 had special certificates.
Scholarship, matured and disciplined judgment, thorough acquaintance with child-
nature knowledge of the principles of education and the best methods of instruction,
are but some of the possessions which the real teacher must have. These he does not
receive by inheritance. They can only be obtained after years of study, discipline and
experience. Our schools are rapidly falling into the hands of young men and women.
Teachers of experience and well-earned reputation are rapidly going into other and
more remunerative professions. The schools can never attain to a high state of excellence
until men of high character and teaching force are induced to make the work of teaching
a life work.
Time for which the Schools were kept open. — The average time in the whole district
was 185 days.
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School Population and Attendance. — The number of persons between the ages of 5
and 16 resident in the Riding was 5,517. Five thousand three hundred and twenty -seven
pupils of all ages attended our schools during the year.
Irregularity of attendance is the greatest of the many hindrances to the progress of
our schools. The evils which result from it cannot easily be exaggerated. That so much
progress is made in spite of it speaks volumes for the ability of the pupils and for the
industry, perseverance and skill of the teachers.
Classification. — As announced in my last report, a system of Uniform Promotion
Examinations has been instituted in connection with the schools, in the southern town-
ships of the Riding. In July and December, examinations for testing fitness for promo-
tion to the Junior Third, Senior Third, Junior Fourth, Senior Fourth, and Fifth classes
were held. In the examination for promotion to the Fifth class, the papers set for the
examination for admission to the High Schools are used. For a supply of them we are
indebted to the kindness of the Minister of Education.
These examinations are not competitive in their character. Their primary object is
to test fitness for promotion to a higher class, but, in doing this, they also, in the most
effective manner, gauge the character of the work done in the schools. The expenses
connected with the examinations have been defrayed partly by the school furnishing
candidates and partly by the Teachers' Association. The success of the system is due to
the intelligent interest taken in the examinations by the people and the hearty and, in
many cases, self-sacrificing support given to them by the teachers. No little good has
already accrued from the system.
Financial. — A good deal has been said about the expensive character of our school
system. A close examination of the subject proves that the charge is not well-founded. Is
$5.51 — the average for this county — too much pay for a year's schooling for a child 1 Is
it enough 1 Omitting from the calculation the sums received from the Legislature, the
average cost was but $4.91 per pupil. No right-minded and intelligent person will say
that this is burdensome when the important object for which it was expended is borne
in mind.
Upon the nature of the work done in our schools depends, to a greater extent than
is generally admitted, the character of the next generation of men and women and the
future status of the country. These colleges for the common people should be liberally
sustained. We are all proud of our school system, and yet, in 1880, the whole sum
granted to the Public Schools of the Province by the Legislature was but 51 cents per
pupil. Twice that sum would not be too much. Should not the subject of increased
Legislative aid to Public Schools be agitated 1
Teachers' Examinations. — Owing to the greatly increased difficulty of the teachers'
non-professional examination, only four candidates were successful, and, of these, three
were, on account of youth and other causes, not eligible for certificates.
Model School. — Six teachers received professional training in the Madoc Model
School in 1881, and were awarded certificates at the professional examination.
I had much reason to be pleased with the character of the work done during the
session.
In spite of the obstacles to which i have referred, the majority of the schools made
progress of a very satisfactory kind during the year, and the visits I have made in 1882
warrant the belief that the rate of progress will not be lessened.
County of Haliburton.
Extract from Report of C. D. Curry, Esq., Inspector.
It affords me pleasure to state that during the year school matters have worked with
;olerable smoothness, there being but two cases in which personal matters hare been
illowed to interfere with the success of the schools.
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The chief point of interest during the year has been the working of the Township
Board system in the Township of Lutterworth. After careful consideration and consulta-
tion the newly elected Board of Trustees determined that in order to provide for the
educational wants of the township, it would be necessary to establish three new schools.
Three neat frame school houses were accordingly erected at a cost of about $750, inclu-
sive of furniture. These were opened for a short period during the year, and as a conse-
quence of the action of the Board, sixty-seven children have now the opportunity of
acquiring an education, who, under the old state of affairs, would most likely have grown
up without any school training whatever. If the life of the School Board should not
exceed the shortest period permitted by statute, it will nevertheless have accomplished a
good work for Lutterworth. Although this result has not been brought about without
considerable feeling between the Board and the people, I have reason to believe that the
action of the Board would be upheld by the majority of the ratepayers to-day.
Notwithstanding the efforts that have been made to provide educational facilities, the
report shews a large number of children between the ages of seven and twelve, either not
attending school at all or attending for less than four months in the year, while in many
instances, the inability of parents to clothe their children properly, especially during the
winter months, may be reasonably alleged as an excuse for such non-attendance ; there
are many others in which carelessness and indifference on the part of parents is at the
root of the trouble. In order to lessen the evil as much as possible, I have prepared, and
will shortly forward to the Trustees of each school, a circular giving a concise summary
of the compulsory clauses of the Schools Act, and calling upon trustees to enforce the law
where in their judgment this should be done.
Two meetings of the Teachers' Association have been held during the year, at each of
which the attendance has been fair, and the work done of a character to profit the
schools. The Association Library (supplemented by the grant of books from the depart-
ment) has been fully used.
The supply of duly qualified teachers is at present not equal to the demand. The
meagre salaries paid in most of the rural sections of this county are not sufficient to in-
duce teachers from the more settled portions of the Province, to accept situations in this
county. I regret that I shall be obliged to issue "permits," in a few cases in order to
fill the schools,
I cannot conclude this report without thanking the department for the very liberal
manner in which it has treated the schools of this county, in the way of aid from the
Poor School Fund. Without this aid many of our schools could not be opened, and
others could be kept open for a short period only, and at considerable sacrifice. I have
also to bear testimony to the interest taken in the schools by all connected with their
management, whether parents, teachers, trustees or municipal councils. It is to be hoped
that this interest may continue, as much remains to be done before our schools will
■occupy their proper position in the community.
County of Ontario.
Extract from the Report of James McBrien, Esq., Inspector.
I am glad I can report progress in every department of education. There is very
much more intelligent attention paid to ventilation, temperature, cleanliness, and
manly sports ; therefore the conditions necessary to promote physical education are
being secured to a great extent. The idea is fast coming to the front that the know-
ledge of the hygienic laws is infinitely more important than that of Latin, Greek, or even
of Mathematics.
^Esthetic education is creeping along inch by inch. Maple trees, evergreens, and
flowers are planted out more in the play-ground ; and thus the school house and its sur-
roundings are more attractive. The children delight to attend such schools.
Entrance Examinations. — My own experience is that success at these examinations
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is the result of intellectual teaching, and failure that of cram, for it is blind, deaf and
dumb. I think it is quite practicable to make these examinations subservient to the
cause of education by framing questions adopted to the average candidate. In my
opinion to hold them annually is sufficient.
The Bible in Schools. — The course of moral instruction pursued in the Public
Schools at present is too fitful and haphazard. It is good, as far as it goes, but does not
meet the full demands of the subject. The true educator feels the need of the motives,
the principles and the ideals which the Bible furnishes, in order to lay the foundation of
morality.
It is manifest that we have no right to interfere with any man's creed or views.
This would tend to rend in pieces our Public School system. There is a common plat-
form of belief between the churches. Let there be a conference of the leading men of
the different denominations to determine the common subjects ; these can be incorpor
ated in the new readers ; thus the teacher will be furnished with ample means to found and
perfect the moral education of his pupils, and cause it to move abreast with the other
departments.
The cause of moral education can be vastly promoted by discarding certain parts of
history now taught, and limiting consideration to the social, religious and political aspects
of the subject. Let these be compared with each other in the different periods, and the
subject will become " philosophy teaching by example " in the right direction. In view
of the short time children attend school in rural sections, more historical area is taken up
than can be cultivated to practical advantage.
Professional knowledge is being rapidly and widely diffused through the instrumen-
tality of the sixty Model Schools, aided by Teachers' Associations. The experience and
skill of the best teachers are fast becoming common property. Hence the different sub-
jects taught are much better understood, better remembered and better applied to the
business of life.
County of South Simcoe and District of Muskoka.
Extract from Report of Rev. Thomas McKee, Inspector,
During the year I visited every school in Muskoka twice, and some of them oftener.
I found it necessary and profitable, very often when inspecting, to give an exhibition of
teaching. I found this well received by the young teachers especially, and I believe it
will do good. I find the great difficulty with a good many of our teachers, trained and
untrained, is to make their work tell to the best advantage. I find defects of this kind
especially manifest in the teaching of English Grammar and Arithmetic.
In Muskoka I have eight Townships. In one of these, Oardwell, there is no school
in operation yet This defect, I hope, will be remedied before another year. In the
remaining seven Townships, including the Village of Gravenhurst, there are 26 schools
with 27 teachers. Four of these were trained at a Normal School, five were trained at a
Model School, and the rest are holders of District Certificates. The highest salary paid
to a male teacher is $420, the lowest $240. The average for males, $292 ; for females,
$231.
Twenty of the schools were open all the year, the remaining 6 were open from six
to eight months. The average time was 194 days for all (the school year consisting of
221 days).
Of the school houses 1 3 are frame and 13 are log; 22 are freehold and 4 rented.
One was burned during last summer when the district, in common with many other
places, was swept with the terrible scourge of fire. The schools on the whole are pretty
comfortable and fairly provided with maps and tablets. The people, on the whole, take
a great pride and interest in their schools. I expect to see some better school houses take
the place of the old ones before long.
I find it difficult to secure qualified teachers for this district, for several reasons : —
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1st. The salary paid is small. 2nd. The accommodation is poor. 3rd. Teachers from
the more popular districts, when transported there, complain of loneliness. 4th. The
snows are generally very deep in winter.
Mr. Reazin, the Inspector for the Eastern part of this district, and I have had
many an earnest conversation about this matter. We are both exceedingly anxious to
raise the standard of qualification for teachers in the district, and we are succeeding
slowly but surely ; but we believe the time has not come yet when we can dispense with
District Certificates. It will come, however, we have no doubt.
We hold an examination at Bracebridge annually at Christmas, at which we. grant
certificates, good only for one year. Each year we raise the standard a little. This year
we added Algebra and Geometry. In connection with the Examination we hold an In-
stitute which serves in some measure as a substitute for Model School Training. We
get valuable assistance from year to year from the Reverend Mr. Cole, English Church
Clergyman of Bracebridge, a gentleman of high culture, and an ardent and enthusiastic
lover of education. Mr. Neilly, too, the late Head Master of the Bracebridge Public
School, a man who has perhaps done as much for the advancement of Education inSiracoe
as any other man in it, gave us his valuable services. His board exercise on Commercial
Arithmetic was highly prized by all.
I now close these somewhat lengthy remarks with a few words concerning South
Simcoe. In these municipalities there are 81 Public Schools and 1 Roman Catholic
Separate School, St. James, in No. 10, Adjala. In these schools there are 93 teachers,
20 trained at the Normal School, 61 trained at the Model, and 12 not trained
Of these 1 hold First Class Provincial, 26 Second Class, 1 First Class old County
Board, and the remainder hold Third new County Board. As a class they are anxious,
persevering, and attentive. A few of them are eminently successful, while a few, on the
other hand, have evidently mistaken their calling ; but a short time will weed them out.
The highest salary paid to male teachers in South Simcoe is $800, and the lowest
8200 : the average $382. The highest paid to female teachers, $400, and the lowest 8215 ;
the average $281.
In the Riding there are 82 school houses, 15 of brick, 1 of stone, 1 of concrete, 62
frame, and 3 log. The log ones, I believe, will not last much longer. I will try and per-
suade the Trustees and people of the section in which they are that they have served their
purpose. Two very fine brick school houses were erected during fast year, one in No. 12,
Innisfil, took the place of a weather-beaten frame building that had done good service,
but was some years behind the age ; the other in Beeton, a rising Village in Tecumseth,
is a school house in a new section which was only formed about a year ago. The section
is No. 20, Tecumseth. This is a very handsome building, and not only an ornament to
the village, but a credit to the County. It cost, site and all, about $7,000, and is very
fine for the cost. It has all the most modern appliances and conveniences.
The Model School, under the able management of Mr. Wood, aided by three able
assistants, continues to do good work. Its influence is more and more felt from year to
year. It is now indispensable. Here we have real Model teaching.
Our Teachers' Association has been reorganized and, I believe, placed on a more solid
basis then before. Owing to troubles concerning which I need not speak, we had no
meeting last spring. We had a meeting last fall at Bradford where we reorganized and
held an Institute for two days. Every one that had anything to do with it, or was present
said it was the best and most satisfactory Association meeting yet held. We had
the assistance of James L. Hughes, Esq., Inspector for Toronto, whose services were of the
very highest value. His services will not soon be forgotten by either the teachers, In-
spector, or any others whoso good fortune it was to hear him. We had also valuable aid
from J. C. Morgan, Esq., Inspector of North Simcoe, H. B. Spotton, Esq., Head Master,
and the other masters of Barrie Collegiate Institute.
Altogether I have to report a year of satisfactory and material progress.
I cannot close without noticing the bestowal of Special Aid or Poor School Grant to
needy sections. The people of my weak and poor sections are deeply grateful, and are
aroused by this kindly and much needed help to greater efforts themselves.
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County of Brant.
Extract from Report of M. J. Kelly, Esq., M.D., Inspector.
In the matter of school accommodation there has been a remarkable change for tho
better over the whole Province. Take the County of Brant as an example. In South
Dumfries, since 1S71, new brick school houses of-a very superior class and of varied styles
of architecture have been built, so in Brantford Township, in Onondaga, in Oakland, and
in Burford. Many others have undergone repairs. The school grounds, too, have for the
mnst part been enclosed and much improved by the planting of maple and evergreen trees.
1 considered it my duty at the outset of my official work to direct public attention
to the importance and the necessity of establishing school libraries as a means of extending
and supplementing the instruction of the schools. For it is in this way that the youth of
any country bpcome the heirs of all the ages — the companions, the intimate acquaintances
of the choice spirits of the past, the great original thinkers of our race, the epochal men,
and of
"Those bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo through the corridors of time."
In carrying on this good work the heartiest co-operation has been extended from
nearly all quarters in town and country. New libraries have been established in many
school sections. The equipment of the schools, outside of the libraries, has also been
much improved ; clocks and bells, better maps and globes have been furnished, and books
of reference.
The entrance examination to the High Schools, conducted ten years ago in a some-
what loose and perfunctory manner, is now made uniform, and constitutes an excellent
test of the work done in the Public Schools. The Intermediate Examination in the High
Schools, and which has done so much to test their work and improve their efficiency, marks
the passage from what is called the Lower to the Upper School. In addition to these, in
many counties uniform promotion examinations have been established, and ought to im-
prove, materially, the status of the schools. Thus it will be seen that under the existing
regime there is no lack of examinations. As a result of these the cry of " cramming " has
been raised, but has not, I believe, yet extended to the rural schools. Where there are
regular stated oral or written examinations, " cramming " is inevitable, as every student
knows, but judicious "cramming" is not an unmixed evil. The mischief is more likely
to be in the " crammer " than in the " cramming."
County Teachers' Institutes first received Legislative recognition in 1877. Ours has
been in existence since 1872. These are by statute entitled to $100 per annum — $50
from the Provincial revenue and $50 from the County. We have not, thus far, asked
the i ounty for any assistance beyond $25 granted for the purchase of books for the
teachers' professional library.
It has been urged by some that the boys and girls of the country are being ov< r
educated ; that the mental strain, especially in High Schools, is too great, and that the
general effect is pernicious. Education, it is true, is a plant of slow growth, and to be
sound it must be symmetrical. To force mental growth in the case of the young is as
hurtful and unnatural as it is to force a plant, and the result is in both cases unhealthy
fruit. " A sound mind in a sound body " was the prayer of an ancient poet, to which, to
make the maxim perfect, he ought to have added, " a sound moral nature." But the real
danger is not in " over," but in " under " and "one-sided" education — the shadow with-
out the substance.
Imperfect education is the fruitful parent of self-conceit, assurance, endless verbiage,
without thought or definite meaning, and fluency without pith or information. Already
it has been shown that in the matter of school accommodation and school libraries there
has been a very marked improvement. Let us now briefly mention a few more. There lias
been an appreciable advance also in school organization, in classification of pupils, in
methods of instruction. Problems in mathematics that were wont to puzzie High School
pupils ten years ago, are now readily solved by the Fourth, and even by the Third Classes
in our Public Schools. Questions in history and geography, sentences in analysis and
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parsing, which would have appeared difficult then, are considered comparatively easy now.
School houses and school equipment, then deemed amply sufficient, are now discovered to
be behind the age — of a truth this is an age of improvement. Coming now to particulars,
I find that in the city and county there are 5,630 volumes in the libraries of the public
schools. Of these 5,493 were taken out by the pupils in 1881. The Mechanics' Institute
library at St. George had, on the 11th of May last, when inspected by me, 572 volumes,
to which considerable additions have been made since. The Paris Mechanics' Institute
library has 3,329 volumes, and that of Brantford about 4,300 volumes. The reading
rooms connected with the libraries of Paris and Brantford are well supplied with maga-
zines and newspapers, and are open to subscribers and strangers every week day, and are
well patronized.
Teachers' Certificates and Salaries. — Of the seventy teachers employed in the rural
schools of the county during the year, four held First Class Provincial Certificates, twenty-
nine Second Class, three First Class Old County Board Certificates, and thirty-four Third
Class ; twenty-eight received a Normal training. The highest salary paid a male teacher
$600 ; a female teacher, $400. Average salary of former, $430 ; of latter, $277.
Attendance, etc. — The number of pupils enrolled in the rural schools in 1881 was
4,588 — boys 2,461, girls 2,127. The aggregate attendance for first half year was 270,-
783, average 2,167 ; for second half year 193,659 aggregate, and 2,018 average.
Visits. — One hundred and forty-six visits were paid the schools by the Inspector'
besides those in attendance at examinations ; by trustees 180, by others 927 — total,
1,253.
City of Brantford. — Of the schools of the city there is nothing of special importance
to record since the date of my last report. The number of pupils enrolled was 2,083 — of
boys 1,078, of girls 1,005. The average attendance for first half year was 1,120, for
second half year, 1,204.
Town of Paris. — There are nine divisions in the Public Schools. Each one of these
was visited and examined by me four times, and a report was sent to the Board on each
occasion. They are all in a satisfactory state. I am glad to be able to assure you that
our Public Schools generally are doing well — that the teachers, as a whole, are performing
their arduous and responsible duties honestly and successfully, and that the greatest har-
mony has characterized the administration of the school affairs of the county, not only
during the past year, but since 1871.
County of Dufferin.
Extract from Report Jrom Nathaniel Gordon, Esq., Inspector.
I would, however, like to call attention to the large number of children, as shown
by the returns, as not attending school ; and in explanation may state that it is impos-
sible for them to do so on account of the distance many of them have to travel to reach
a school, the sections being so large.
Districts of Algoma and Parry Sound, by P. MacLean, Esq., Inspector (for 1882).
I. — District of Algoma.
Number of Schools in Operation.. — The number of Public Schools in operation at
the time of my visit (Sept. and Oct.) was 45, namely : 23 in the Great Manitoulin, 7 on
the north shore of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, 5 in St. Joseph's Island, 6 in the
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municipality of Sault Ste. Marie, and 5 in the Thunder Bay region, making a total of 46
schools in working order, besides the Separate School at Prince Arthur's Landing.
Schools Closed. — The following schools were closed at my visit, namely : No. 4,
Carnarvon ; No. 1, Mills ; No. 1, Spanish River ; and No. 1, Cockburn Island. I have
learned that they have all been opened since, with the exception of the school at Spanish
River.
New Sections. — Three new sections formed by the late Inspector have not as yet
opened their schools, but will do so during the present year. I have formed six new
sections in the District since September last — one of them at Keewatin Mills, near Rat
Portage, is already in operation — -and there is a prospect of several more being formed
next summer. In all these new sections schools will be opened almost immediately, as
the settlers are becoming very anxious to take steps for the education of their children.
There are thus in all 59 school sections in the District, besides some four or five Indian
Mission Schools.
Teachers. — There were employed 26 male and 23 female teachers during the first
six months, being a total of 49 teachers for 46 schools. One teacher holds a First Class
Provincial Certificate, Grade C, hold Second Class Provincial, and the remaining
40 Third Class District Certificates.
The Teaching. — The quality of the teaching in the schools of this District is,
generally speaking, not of a very high order, although there are some worthy exceptions,
and on the whole, it is perhaps, fully as good as could be expected in a new district. The
greater number of the teachers are mere beginners, and have never had the advantage of
a professional training. Another disadvantage is the irregular attendance of pupils, caused
chiefly by long distance from school — many of them having to walk three miles — bad roads
at certain seasons of the year, and in some cases, lack of suitable clothing. These two
evils — irregularity of pupils and inexperience of many of the teachers — retard the progress
of the schools very much.
Aim of my Visits. — I anticipate that the attendance at the schools will be very much
improved in a few more years as the country becomes more closely settled, and the muni
cipal councils will have reorganized the sections, making them much smaller than at present.
As to the other evil, namely, inexperience of teachers, I may say that I have endeavoured
to do all the good I could in my short visits to the schools, by devoting my whole time to
teaching classes, conducting recitations, and giving hints on school organization, manage-
ment, class drill, methodical arrangement of work, etc., etc. And while I naturally shall
look for some good results from my labours, I would still like some more effective means
to be adopted
District Model Schools. — I would most respectfully press upon your consideration
the propriety of establishing, at an early day, two District Model Schools — say one on the
Manitoulin, and another at Sault Ste. Marie — in which candidates would receive a pro-
fessional training, similar to that given in our County Model Schools, before obtaining their
certificates as teachers. The outlay on the part of the Government would be but very
small — a few hundred dollars — and the results in the schools would, in a short time, be
most gratifying.
School-Houses. — The school-houses for the most part are hewed log buildings, fairly
comfortable, and generally furnished with black-boards, maps, and other necessary appa-
ratus. There is, at Sault Ste. Marie, a most excellent brick building, thoroughly furnished
and equipped in every respect. In fact, I have seen but very few in the older portions of
the Province that would favourably compare with it. The school-houses in No. 2 Howland,
(Shequiandah) Bruce Mines, Prince Arthur's Landing, and a few others deserve honourable
mention. In a few years there will doubtless be much improvement in this respect,
as the people become able to build new ones.
Government Grants. — In the matter of Government aid to the schools of this District,
I would recommend that the sum granted yearly be increased, so as to admit of each
school receiving at least $ 100, between Poor School Aid and Legislative Grant. The Poor
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School Aid might, after a short time, be gradually decreased, as the settlers become more
able to support their schools, and get rid of the burden of building school-houses.
The Legislative Grant for this whole District, with 46 schools in operation, was last
year (1882), only §1,107, while many single townships at the Front, with not more than
one-third the number of schools, receive nearly, if not altogether, as large a sum. I think
the Grant might very reasonably be made $1,500.
Thi'. District. — I may further add, that I believe this Districi I d, no very
distant day, to become a most important portion of ourProvinc ite is admitted
by all to be eminently healthy and bracing; its resources of valuable timber and minerals
are almost inexhaustible ; and besides, there are large tracts of very fertile lands, well
!, easily cleared, and capable of producing every variety of agricultural product in
large abundance.
It is now being rapidly settled, and I know of no better policy for inducing immigra-
tion, and rendering the people happy and contented, than giving a generous support to their
schools and roads. In fact, I believe their school facilities, even now, to be superior to
what tie youngest child will live to see in the Great North-W
II. — District of Parry Sound.
So. of Sections. — There are altogether, as far as [ can ascertain, about 50 Public
School Sections in the District, besides one or two R.C. Separate Scl > of these
have had their Schools opened, and 4-t sent in half-yearly returns for the first six months.
I have not formed any new sections here yet, but si m r :'"/- are in course of
formation.
■J. — At the time of my visit in November, I found eight schools
which had been open during at least three of the first six months. The cause, I ascertained
to be, in the great majority of cases, the utter inability of the people to pay teachers for a
longer period than a few months in the year. The country is so sparsely settled — much
of even the located land being still in the hands of non-residents — that the school tax
becomes a very serious burden to many of the poor settlers, who, to my own knowledge,
have much ado to obtain the bare necessaries of life. The school rate, in many sections,
runs as high as 25, and even 30 mills in the dollar. I found the people generally alive
and anxious about the education of their children, but in very many cases quite unable to
help themselves.
The quality of the work done in the schools of this District is very poor, with
few exceptions — the same hindrances exist here, as I mentioned in my Algoina report,
and to a still greater degree.
Irregularity of Pupils. — The sections necessarily have to be very lai include
settlers enough to support a school. Pupils have thus to walk very long distances to
school, in some cases from three to four miles, and some are practically net of reach of the
school altogether.
Then again, the roads are so bad, during Spring ami Fall, as to lie nearly impassable.
When I visited the District last November, the roads in most places were simply a long
continuous bog-hole. Irregular attendance of pupils is the natural result, and, of course,
unsatisfactory progress at school.
Teachers. — Many of the teachers are mere novices teaching on permits,
having little or no knowledge of the art of teaching. I find Trustees, in many cases, are
obliged to engage them rather than regularly certificated teachers, ' ause (hey can obtain
their sea-vices for less money. The lack of professional training is but too evident in the
great majority of the teachers of the District, and is a sad drawback to the success of
the schools.
My Visits. — At my visits I followed the same course I did in Algotna, believing that
in this way I could do far more good in rousing the teachers and scholars, and imparting
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to them some practical hints and ideas about their important work, than by merely asking
questions and recording results.
District Model School. — I would advise the opening, at an early day, of a training
school, say at Parry Sound : I am certain it would be a great boon to the District, and
that its beneficial effects would soon be apparent, in a more efficient class of teachers
throughout the District.
School-Houses. — The school-houses are nearly all log-buildings, but rather inferior to
those in Algoma. Most of them are provided with black-boards, maps, and tablet read-
rds. The school-houses at Parry Harbour, Parry Sound, and Burk's Falls are very
fair, being far superior to the others.
Teachers. — There were 10 male, and 36 female teachers employed during the first
halt year, being a total of 46 teachers for 49 schools. Some two or three of them hold
lass Provincial, the others, third-class District, and temporary Certificates.
There is a Teachers' Association which meets twice a year, and is, I believe, doing
good work, although I cannot speak of it from personal knowledge, there being no meet-
ing held sin •■ my appointment.
Gov 'Is. — I would here urge the same liberality in the matter of Govern-
iiH i t Grants that I did in my Algoma Report.
The Legislative Grant for 1S82 was only $426 for 44 schools ; the Township of
:tlton), with 16 schools receives §664. In fact, the apportionment to each
mall that in some cases I found it a difficult matter to deduct $2 for male
superannuation subscription, the appropriation being, in some instances, barely
that sum. I would like to see the Legislative Grant for this District increased to $1,000.
The District. — This District is chiefly valuable for its tirriber and lumbering interests.
The land is good, what there is of it ; but tillable land exists only in small patches, here
and there, so that the District will never ln-come noted as an agi'icultural country.
However, I believe it will yet become valuable for stock-raising and grazing purposes,
for which it seems admirably adapted by nature, being excellently watered and yielding
abundance i if grass.
Report of J. E. Hodgson, Esq., Inspector, on Special Examinations in Algoma and
Parry Sound.
~>\k, — I beg to present the following report of the recent examinations of Public
School Teachers, in the Districts of Algoma and Parry Sound.
In accordance with your instructions, papers were prepared of about the same
standard as those for High School Entrance, School Law being substituted for the
'■ Fourth Book Lessons," as per Schedule of last year's examinations conducted by the
late Mr. Switzer.
The Board of Examiners agreed that those candidates who secured a percentage of
sixty-five of the aggregate marks, should be granted a certificate valid in Algoma and
Parry Sound for three years ; whilst those securing fifty per cent, of the aggregate should
be granted a certificate valid in the same district for one year, subject of course to the
usual conditions as to age and moral character. In the case of several teachers of ex-
perience who had secured engagements as teachers for the coming year, however, the per
centage test was not rigidly applied, the Board being of the opinion that a poor teacher
is, perhaps, better than none.
At Manitowaning Mr. MacLean and myself were joined by the Hon. Walter Mac-
■I udge of Algoma, a statutory member of the Board of Examiners.
His Honour took part in the Examinations at Manitowaning, Sault Ste. Marie, and
Prince Arthur's Landing ; and I feel constrained to testify to the great assistance derived
from his cooperation, not only in reading and valuing the answers of candidates, in which
work Mr. MacCrea's long experience as a member of the Board of Examiners for Kent
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County, has rendered him extremely proficient, but also, and especially, as regards an ac-
curate knowledge of the district, and its educational requirements.
Manitowaning is a thriving village with a good trade and well-to-do inhabitants ; but
the fact that one and the same room is made to do duty as a school-room, court-room,
crystal-palace, town-hall, and resting-place for a number of vagrant sheep of the neighbour-
hood, does not afford strong proof that educational advantages are at a premium there.
Thirty-five candidates presented themselves, of whom seven had been prepared at
the schools of the Frontier Counties, and the remainder at those of the District. Thirteen
received sufficient marks to entitle them to a certificate valid for three years, and eleven
sufficient to entitle them to one valid for one year.
At Sault Ste. Marie seventeen presented themselves for Examination, and of them
five were found worthy of certificates valid for three years, and eight succeeded in passing
for a certificate good for one year.
The Public School building at Sault Ste. Marie is fully equal to that of any village
in Ontario of the same population ; it is of brick ; two stories' high ; has four large, well
ventilated class-rooms, board-room, cloak-rooms, etc.
If practicable, I think it very desirable that this school be "erected" into a "model
school" for the district.
At Prince Arthur's Landing we found only four candidates, two of whom were under
legal age ; one of the remaining two obtained marks sufficient to entitle him to a certifi-
cate valid one year.
At this point also school accommodation is highly satisfactory ; the building is frame ;
two stories, and well equipped with maps, etc. Mr. Laird, Stipendiary Magistrate,
joined us here, and afforded us all the assistance in his power. From Prince Arthur's
Landing we made our way to Parry Sound, Judge MacCrea leaving us at Sault Ste. Marie.
Here were twenty-seven candidates, of whom four were found entitled to certificates
valid for three years, and thirteen to certificates valid for one year, among the latter being
two Indians (females), employed as teachers in the schools of the reserve.
Owing to the absence (on circuit) of Mr. McCurry, Stipendiary Magistrate for Parry-
Sound, he was unable to take part in the Examination.
On the whole I am pleased to be able to say that I was favourably impressed with the
Educational out-look in both Districts. Salaries are not large, but are improving. All of
which is respectfully submitted.
2. Roman Catholic Separate School Inspection".
Report of J. F. White, Esq., Inspector.
Sir, — I have the honour to present to you my first general report on the Separate
Schools visited by me during the present year, and to submit a few observations suggested
mainly by those visits.
In the discharge of my official duties, begun in April of the current year, I have
travelled about 500 miles by carriage and 4,500 miles by rail or water. The district ex-
tends from Windsor to the eastern boundary of the Province, and north as far as Mat-
tawa, excepting the counties of Haldimand, Durham, Dundas and Russel, in which na
Separate Schools exist. In this district I have visited 135 schools, comprising 266 de-
partments, each presided over by a separate teacher, and having a registered attendance of
19,783 children. There remain to be visited 58 schools, with a staff of about 115 ceachers.
Their inspection will occupy more than two months of hard work, and will necessitate my
travelling about 2,500 miles. The actual duties of inspection comprise not nearly all the
work attendant on the position. A voluminous correspondence has to be attended to,
several detailed reports to be given of each school visited, Trustees to be consulted regarding
their school, etc. To discharge properly all these duties, is too great a labour for one
officer. I beg, therefore, to suggest the appointment, at an early date, of a second Inspec-
tor to share the work.
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In examining classes, my chief aim has been, not to try how far teachers and pupils
can go without breaking down, but rather to find out the methods of instruction pur-
sued, and the steps taken to secure order and attention. Generally a few minutes
suffice to furnish me the means of testing the teacher's capacity, and of ascertaining his
system of instruction. Frequently it happens that by the presence of a strange examiner,
and especially of an Inspector, children become very timid and unable to answer with
their customary ability. To prevent this, I usually request the teacher to proceed with the
ordinary work of the class. The children, finding that they are dealing with their own
teacher, and that the stranger is merely looking on, are put at their ease, and afterwards
answer with more confidence than otherwise they would, the questions proposed by the
Inspector.
French and German Schools. — In Waterloo County there are many sections where
German is the language of both teachers and pupils. Generally, in those schools, one-half
of the day is devoted to teaching in the mother tongue, and the other part to English
studies. In these, thanks to the energy and proficiency of their teachers, they have made
very great progress ; in some cases doing quite as well as the pupils of schools where
English alone is taught.
In several places in Essex, and in the counties adjacent to the Ottawa, French is the
language of the people and of the schools. Though the attention paid to their own tongue
is highly praiseworthy, and the progress made therein very fair, it is much to be regretted
that English, the great language of the country, is so frequently neglected. In some of
the places in Eastern Ontario, it is quite unknown to teachers or pupils. This necessitates
the carrying on in French of the examination of the classes, and of the whole work of
inspection.
Financial Condition.— In some cases the financial standing of Separate Schools in
rural sections is very low. From year to year they lead a struggling existence, but there
is no guarantee of their permanency. Many seem in danger of extinction at the end of
each year, for their supporters of one year may next year pay their taxes to a Public
School. Often where a few persons have made a brave struggle to establish a school, and
have taxed themselves heavily to maintain it, the withdrawal of a few supporters has
caused it to die out. Witness the great fluctuation, from year to year, in the number of
Separate Schools, chiefly those in rural sections :
Year - 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881,
Number of Separate Schools, 160, 171, 170, 166, 156, 167, 185, 177, 191, 196, 195.
That this change, this falling off of so many, does not commonly happen in cities and
towns is shown by the following table of the schools in 1872 and in 1881, taken from the
reports for these years :
Cities. Towns. Rural Sections.
1872, 22, 35, 114.
1881. 46, 43, 106.
In some cases — happily very few — the supporters though wealthy are unwilling to
raise sufficient money to pay a good teacher and to maintain their school in an efficient
state. To give a case in point. In Leeds County, a rural school which I visited a short
time ago, had on its register seven pupils, with an attendance of five, four of whom were
in the primer. This year the school had been kept open for three months, the first time
that it has been in operation for the three years now closing. The Trustees allow this
state of affairs because their taxes are very light, are almost nothing in fact, for two
years out of three. I strongly advised amalgamation with its neighbour across the way,
a Public School with an attendance of four. Fortunately there are few, if any other of
the schools under my charge in so low a condition as this one. Where a school has to
struggle hard for a mere existence, and is not likely to have assured to it a fair revenue
to pay a good teacher and to equip respectably the building, I have generally recommended
union with the Public School in its neighbourhood.
School Accommodation. — Though during late years much has been done to provide
adequate accommodation, in many places a great deal is still required. In several rural
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districts are to be seen the old schools, put up at a time when there seemed to prevail the
idea that any location would do, and that any building was good enough for a school. In
these no provision has been made for proper ventilation or lighting. During the winter
especially, the air is almost stifling to breathe, and the pupils lack that vivacity and
sprightliness peculiar to children with healthful surroundings. Every one knows that a
house damp, poorly lighted, badly ventilated and exposed to unwholesome exhalations is
dangerous to live in. Placed in the same unfavourable condition a school is still more
fatal to the health of the children therein assembled ; first, because a child is much
more susceptible than a man to unwholesome influences ; secondly, since no other inhabited
house can be compared with a school, where there are often assembled and crowded to-
gether so many children. Therefore more minute and rigorous precautions should be
exercised for the hygiene of the school than for any other building, since the age of the
subjects and their number multiply the dangers to be incurred. Our watchfulness should
increase in proportion to the importance of the interests to be guarded.
Not all the fault rests with the Trustees ; the teacher does not always make proper
use of the limited means at . hand. Though he have at his disposal no costly system of
ventilation, nor the best means of lighting and heating, what there is should be turned to
the best account. By the watchful teacher two evils can be guarded against, at least to
some extent, myopia and improper positions of the pupils. The first, which is becoming
alarmingly prevalent, espeeiallv in town and city schools, is caused by thesm;ill and often
blurred print of the text-books and the dead whiteness of the paper used ; by improper
positions in holding the book, and by the badly arranged systems of lighting. Though the
greatest, the pupils are not the only sufferers. Many teachers have had their sight greatlj;
injured, in fact nearly destroyed, by facing the light while conducting their classes.
I feel certain that Boards of Trustees are very willing, nay anxious to do everything
possible to improve the hygienic condition of the school buildings. But to direct them in
making these changes, to ensure their effecting real improvement, they have as yet no re-
liable guide. I venture to suggest that the Honourable the Minister of Education issue a
manual showing the best known methods of lighting, heating and ventilation ; the im-
proved styles of seats and the modes of arranging them ; the conditions to be observed in
caring for the health of the pupils ; in a word, all that relates to the building and furnish-
ing of the school, and to the health of its inmates. On hygiene, teachers should have
special lessons, that in familiar lectures to their pupils they may give much important in-
formation, and may carefully guard against injury to their health.
When a new school house is to be built, the Trustees should be required to send to
the Inspector, for his approval, the plans of the proposed building, to describe the means
for heating and ventilation, the furniture to be used and its arrangements, etc. In most
eases this would ensure that the building would be suited for a school, and that the health
and comfort of teachers and pupils would be properly cared for.
Text-books. — In the matter of text-books for Separate Schools a change is urgently
nei ded. Public Schools are strictly prohibited from using any but books duly authorized,
while in Separate Schools there is, in reality, no limitation, but they have whatever books
they may choose ; for the Education Department has authorized, for their use any series
e'd for this purpose by Separate School Corporations. Instead of a just use, there
in an abuse, of this privilege. The result is that we have too great a variety of
books on nearly every subject ; of Readers half a dozen kinds, four or five Grammars,
as many Geographies, and so through the entire list. Not all these are good : many are
inferior for the purposes served by a properly arranged text-book.
At this time it requires no elaborate arguments to show the gain from using but one
good series. It is a great aid to proper classification and an essential element in secur-
ing uniformity in the schools. Besides it will do away with the flagrant evil of which
many parents justly complain, in being compelled, at the desire perhaps of some new
(e.teher, to lay aside books little used, and to buy another complete set.
So general is the complaint from teachers, from trustees, and from parents, that I beg
to suggest that the Honourable the Minister of Education enact a regulation to correct
this mischief. After a sufficient time, a year or two, has been given for the present
books to become worn out, none but those, authorized should be allowed in Separate
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For such subjects as Algebra, or Geography, the series used in the Public
Schools might, with advantage, be adopted. For History and Reading a different scries
would be required.
QiK bee Certificates. — Another question worthy of careful consideration is that regarding
rs holding Quebec Certificates. The school law amendments of 1879, in dealing
with this matter, rendered legal only those certificates obtained before the passing of the
British North America Act. This regulation has not as yet been enforced. Of the
thirty-four teachers in our schools having Quebec certificates, but very few obtained them
previous to 1877. There are two principal reasons why these certificates should not be
recognized here. So low is the standard for examinations, that a First Class Certificate
from that Province ranks scarcely equal to a Third from pur own. Attendance at a train
ing school and the passing of a professional examination, are not requisite before obtain
ing a certificate. Thus it results that most of these teachers have no system of teaching
except that which each one evolves for himself. The inspection of their schools proved
that many of them are totally unqualified for their positions. Their examinations were
passed in Quebec, solely because it isa matter of no difficulty to obtain a certificate there.
In favour of schools requiring French teachers, provision may be made that persons hold
Log Quebec certificates be legally qualified for such positions. But in schools engaging
English-speaking teachers, none but those having certificates obtained in this Province
should be considered qualified.
Heading. — Reading aloud, considered as a fine art, is much neglected, especially in
the advanced classes of boys. So greatly are underrated its importance as a means of
culture, its value in refining taste, and intelligence, that it is rare to find leading to
which it is a treat to listen. Consider what a powerful means for educating the house-
hold, is expressive reading, and how much is added to the charm, the happiness and the
intelligence of home by a fine reader. By fine, reading is to be understood that which is
so clear, so easy, and so natural that it is a pleasure to listen to it by the hour ; and that
no word nor any of the true shades of the author's meaning are lost to the listener. This
accomplishment, used the most frequently and therefore to be done the best, is often sadly
neglected.
The evil begins in the primary classes, where a monotonous and drawling tone is
allowed to go uncorrected. The child pronounces one word after another, apparently not
thinking that any meaning lies in them. Simultaneous exercises, so useful in early stages,
are not at all common. The faults suffered to go unchecked at first, it is nearly impossi-
ble to correct afterwards. The mistakes most frequently noticed are (1) a want of clear
utterance of every syllable and especially of every consonant, (2) inaccurate pronuncia-
tion, (3) a lack of just expression and intonation.
Frequently not a wise choice is made of the lessons best suited for teaching the dif-
ferent styles of reading. Often, indeed, there is no selection, but the lessons are read in
the order of the text-book arrangement. Then too -much work is attempted : many
teachers appear to think it a duty to lead their pupils through the whole book, in a term
or two. This prevents the teacher's giving such attention to the preparation of the lesson,
as will ensure that his own rendering of it, shall be a model well worthy of imitation by
his pupils.
Grammar. — In few instances is this most important subject well taught. To pupils
of a tender age, it is introduced with all its difficulties of definitions and classification.
The order and matter of the text book are slavishly followed, without the clear oral ex-
planation essential to make the study plain and interesting. Even to smooth over all
difficulties, to choose only what is simple, thus suiting it to the child's undeveloped intellect,
is not to teach the subject properly.
Many teachers now see the mistake of commencing the study of regular Grammar
with pupils of eight or nine years of age. For at the very beginning of the subject are
presented its subtleties — " generalties couched in technical language " — which cannot well
be avoided without rendering valueless the whole study.
It is supposed that from the very first day the child enters school, the common errors
of his speech are corrected, without, however, entering into the delicacies of syntax.
Then exercises on equivalent forms, on the filling up of ellipses, on the arrangement of
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words and clauses, have still further prepared him for entering on the subject. These
oral exercises should be supplemented with much practice in the composition of sentences
— a most invaluable discipline in correct speech.
It is a popular but very erroneous notion that the study of Grammar from books, as
usually pursued in our schools, will enable us to speak correctly. " The faults which
occur in speech, the confusions, the clumsy constructions, the misuses of words, their mis-
pronunciation, are not, as a rule, sins against Grammar ; and are not to be set right by
learning English accidence or syntax." Only when the true value of Grammar in im-
proving speech is well understood, and when its teaching has been good and sound, will
it be of much much assistance in enabling us " to speak and to write with propriety."
History. — In general, the teaching of History has been attended with but small
scientific or intellectual value to the pupils. So unsatisfactory, indeed, have been its
usual results, that many educationists advocate its omission from the list of school studies.
It may be well here to point out some of the grave mistakes frequently made in teaching
it, and to enquire how it can be so taught that it will serve a real educational purpose.
English History is generally begun by plunging the pupils into the account of the
Druids and of Julius C;esar. The next part learned is the struggles of the Anglo-Saxons
with all the minuteness of names and dates. As in the text book, the unimportant events
are frequently treated with the same elaboration as the important, so in teaching but little
attempt is made to show their relative importance. Thus the story of " Alfred and the
cakes " is often deemed by the pupil at least as important as the invention of printing,
and is more easily remembered. Many teachers follow blindly the course of the text
book, and give their pupils no more than is therein contained. Sometimes they allow,
and it may be expect, the children to narrate, word for word, an account as it has been read.
In this way most prominence is given to a confused narrative of alliances, of wars, of the
struggles of rulers — " a mere tissue of names and dates and dead unmeaning events."
The child thus receives a mass of facts that are meaningless and valueless.
Oral teaching should occupy the most important place ; the text-book to be supple-
mental and used mainly for reference and home study. After a short series of lessons
has been devoted to such subjects as dynasty, parliament, civil war, there may be given
a general outline of the period to be studied, that events, as they are treated of, may be
localized.
Biography receives too little attention ; its value as an adjunct to History is not
sufficiently regarded. Every one knows the greater attractiveness in the life of an im-
portant personage, than in the mere account of dry events. A good teacher will some-
times interrupt the ordinary routine of study to select some representative man of the
times. Then after he has gathered, from all sources, important facts concerning him, he
will give some very interesting and instructive lessons on his life.
It is not requisite that a child should know all the facts in the history, but it is very
important that he should acquire a taste and desire for historical reading, so that in after
life he may pursue its study with pleasure and advantage. This end will be attained,
rather by judiciously choosing and dwelling upon important epochs, than by giving a
superficial knowledge of the whole history.
It is all important that the class should receive clear ideas of the Government and
Constitution, and of their own duties and rights as citizens. It seems absurd to have
children talk learnedly of the Heptarchy and the Feudal System, and yet know nothing
of the constitution of their country's Parliament, of its duties and functions.
General Work of Separate Schools. — In school are laid, in great part, the first principles
of the child's future conduct, and its will, heart, conscience, and whole character formed.
There it is taught its duties, of which, as all Christians are agreed, the moral and religious
are the most important. Catholics think, further, that religion, to be solid and effective,
must be instilled throughout the child's entire education. Therefore, content with no mere
secular instruction, and believing that education without religion is impossible, thflj
asked for and obtained Separate Schools in which to give their children a religious train-
ing. In many instances they have not taken advantage of the privilege thus conferred.
Frequently where the Catholic ratepayers are greater than, or equal in number to, the other
supporters, no effort has been made to separate. Again in places where nearly all the
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population is Catholic, as in French, and some German, settlements, there exists no need
for such schools. It thus happens that most of the Catholic children of the Province
receive their training in Public Schools. That many of the latter are, in their character,
as distinctively Catholic as Separate Schools, is shown by the establishment, in some sec-
tions, of Protestant Separate Schools.
The Trustees' returns of school population show that there are 484,224 children of
school age. Of these, according to the ratio of population, at least 85,000 are Catholics.
By the report for the present year, the number attending Separate Schools is 24,767.
Allow for 2,000 at colleges, private schools, etc., and for non-attendance at any school 2
per cent, of the total school population ; the remainder, 56,533 (two thirds), is in atten
dance at Public Schools. It must be remembered that about 30,000 of these attend
school in Catholic settlements. The work of the Separate Schools is much the same in
character as that done in Public Schools. Frequently it is assumed that the education
.given in the former is, of necessity, inferior to that imparted in other institutions. Facts,
however, will not bear out this assumption. It is not to be supposed that a poor and
sparsely attended school will bear comparison, as to its results, with a wealthy school
having a large attendance. But, where the conditions have been at all equal for the two
systems, Separate Schools show results in no way inferior to those of the Public Schools.
The mark of inferiority cannot be attached to such schools as have, year after year,
passed pupils for Second and Third Class Certificates, and whose work, in a few cases,
compares favourably with that of some High Schools.
One of the chief obstacles in the way of the rapid progress of most schools, is the
apparent indifference of parents regarding their children's attendance. Among teachers
one of the evils of which complaint is most frequently made, is irregular attendance. To
those of them who take a conscientious interest in their work it is a very serious detri-
ment. To ensure that all their pupils have a thorough knowledge of a subject, they must
several times repeat it expressly for those who occasionally absent themselves. Thus the
interests of the regular pupils are utterly sacrificed to the irregulars ; and the work dur-
ing a term is but a small part of what would have been done had all been regular atten-
dants. That the attendance is gradually becoming more regular is shown by the fact that
while in 1881 the registered pupils were 492 Jewer than in the previous year, the aver-
age attendance was greater by 278. The subjoined table gives the percentages for the
Public and Separate Schools during the last two years. Instead of an average of 52 per
cent. I hope to see, in a few years, an attendance of 75 per cent, of all registered children.
1880.
1881.
Public.
Separate.
PCBMO.
Separate.
43
57
55
48
50
S3
42
58
54
45
54
55.5
45.5
50
45
52.5
Cost of Education. — It will be of interest to determine how much per pupil education
in the Separate Schools is costing the ratepayers, and to compare it with the cost in the
Public Schools. The report for the present year furnishes the following figures : —
Countifs.
Public Schools $5 70
Separate Schools $4 70
In every instance the cost per pupil is much less than in other schools. This is most
noticeable in Cities where, for Public Schools, the rate is the highest, nearly doubly that
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Cities.
Towns.
Average.
$9 30
$6 20
$6 02
|4 78
$5 66
$4 99
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for Separate Schools in the same places. The difference is due mainly to the employment
of the religious orders at salaries far smaller than those usually paid to lay teachers, and
to the greater economy necessarily exercised in the building and equipping of their schools.
Though these results are favourable to the Separate School system, yet economy should
not be carried too far in education. Its interests being among our highest, any amount
of money really needed to secure for our children a liberal education, should not be
thought too much, if only expended with proper care and prudence.
Though the teachers increased from 344, in 1880, to 374, in 1881, with a still fur-
ther addition to their ranks this year, there is yet a scarcity, especially in the eastern
part of the Province. Efficient male teachers, who have received a Normal School train-
in" are "reatly in demand. Most of the teachers have had the advantage of attending
Model or Normal Schools, and have been greatly benefited thereby. Some few, however;
have not been thus favoured, and by their crude methods of teaching, sadly show their
need of training. But, as a body, Separate School teachers are earnest, skilful, and full
of enthusiasm for their noble work. Among the religious orders especially there are
many ladies whose finished education, zeal, and devotedness render them truly excellent
teachers.
When the increased number and efficiency of the teachers, the more regular atten-
dance of the pupils, and the greater zeal shown by School Corporations at the present
time, are compared with the state of affairs ten years ago, the result is most gratifying. If
a like advance continues to be made, as there is every reason to hope it will, the outlook
for the Separate Schools is most encouraging.
Toronto, December, 1882.
3. Collegiate Institute and High School Inspection.
2. Report of J. A. McLellan, Esq., LL.D., Inspector.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit a few remarks and suggestions in reference to
Hi"h Schools and Collegiate Institutes. I have not thought it necessary to prepare a
long report, as I have elsewhere discussed certain important matters pertaining to High
School work and Normal School training.
The Entrance Examination. — 1. In some cases the Local Examiners do not read and
value the answers of candidates with sufficient care. Imperfect answers are marked too
high, and occasionally even wrong answers are liberally marked.
2. The penmanship of candidates is generally bad, a good deal of it very bad. Surely
something can be done to improve the schools in this particular. In the examination and
training of teachers, greater weight must be given to penmanship and the teaching of
penmanship, and then the Public School Inspectors must do the rest.
3. The work of the candidates is very badly put down — without neatness, without
method. There is evidently a serious lack of proper training in this direction. There
appears to be too much telling on the part of che teacher and too little doing on the
part of the pupil. It is not what is poured into a pupil that educates him, so much as
what is drawn out of him. He is to be taught to think, but expression is of as much
value as thinking. It is surely difficult to form habits of logical thinking when habits of
illogical expression prevail. Neatness, precision, logical order in answers reveal clearness
and logical order in thought. What can be said of answers that obey no law of neatness,
or method, or logical order ; in which confusion of thought is worse confounded in a
hodge-podge of fragmentary propositions?
Course of Study. — 1. The new curriculum is, on the whole, favourably received. Some
are of opinion that we have gone a little too far in the way of giving options. It is be-
lieved that nowhere, out of Ontario, would it be possible for a pupil to graduate from a
Hi»h School, without having some knowledge of mathematics, history and geography.
2. It is to be regretted that Drawing has not been given at least the rank of an
option. For a time it was believed that drawing was to be an obligatory subject, and en
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ergetic masters at once made provision for giving the necessary instruction. If any one
thinks that it is impracticable, or impossible, to have drawing taught in the schools
until a " supply of teachers of drawing has been produced" I refer him to Dr. Purslow,
of Port Hope, whose course in this matter gives an excellent example of the good old
adage " where there's a will there's a way." The demand will soon bring the supply.
3. (a) If the Normal Schools had been what they ought to have been in this department
(Drawing) there would be even now a goodly number of teachers properly qualified to
teach elementary drawing. Something is to be hoped from their improvement in this
particular, and
(b) I believe the Ontario School of Art is destined to do a good work in turning out
teachers of Drawing, teachers who will do a great deal, I hope, in making the school a
preparation for the workshop, since we cannot take the workshop into the school. I
anticipate most excellent results from the connection of the Art School with the Educa-
tion Department. Students of the Normal School may be greatly benefited by the train-
ing the school affords, and I believe that with a little effort, its influence may be still
more widely felt. I am so thoroughly convinced of the value of Drawing, both as a
means of training and its bearing on the industrial life of the nation, that I should like to
see every encouragement given to the School of Art.
Could not the instructors be induced to hold a summer session of the School, mainly
for the benefit of teachers of Drawing, and could not local examinations be established in
connection with the Departmental Examinations, on the results of which certificates of
the various grades issued by the Society should be awarded 1
Science and Literature. — 1. In many of the High Schools, but little attention is
given to reading ; it is taught incidentally, and this means imperfectly.
2. The teaching of literature is too often the teaching of parsing and analysis, and
nothing more. I do not see how a love for literature, a taste for good reading can be
developed by a ceaseless round of analysis and parsing. The wisdom, the eloquence, the
humanity of a noble writer cannot make way into a boy's intellect and heart through the
medium of grammatical hair-splittings. Y"ou cannot " parse " a boy into the love of the
true, the beautiful and the good. Will the spirit of the "Great Dramatist" ever breathe
upon the soul of the man who reads one of his plays, only to find illustrations of the
" Shakespearean Grammar t "
That the wrong course is pursued in the teaching of literature may be gathered from
an examination of some of the text-books. They are dictionary, grammar and rhetoric all
in one, besides giving explanations on things that need none, and leaving unexplained the
things that ought to be explained. It is desirable, I think, to discourage the use of
books which follow wrong methods, and tend to produce intellectual paralysis on the part
of both teacher and pupil.
3. As yet there is not much good science-teaching. Science is an optional subject.
Latin or French may be taken instead of Science, and as it is easier to find crammers of
Latin than teachers of science, the tendency is to neglect science.
1 have elsewhere said something on the worth of science and good science-teaching
in Public and High Schools. I hope that in a few years we shall see science more highly
valued and much better taught.
Distribution of Grant. — The plan which formerly prevailed of giving (1) a fixed
grant ; (2) a sum on average attendance ; (3) a part on the results of the Intermediate
Examination ; and (4) a part on the results of inspection, was substantially a just one,
and with a few modifications would have proved successful. But as it has been thought
desirable that a change should be made, the scheme proposed in the Order in Council of
July 31, 1882, will, I think, meet with general approval. Some modifications in the
details of the plan seem desirable.
1 . In the interest of some of the best of the two-master schools, a percentage of the
aggregate of salaries above $1,500 should be allowed.
2. As it is impossible to devise a plan that will fairly meet every case, the Minister
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of Education should have power to give a grant, not exceeding 880, in special cases where
the working of the general rule would fail to do justice.
3. The salaries of special teachers of Music, Drawing, etc., should be taken into
account in calculating the aggregate of salaries.
4. As a more than ordinary outlay has been incurred in the establishment of Collegi-
ate Institutes, it would be well to give each of these an additional fixed grant of $250.
5. For the present, the 85,000 limit, in the case of Institutes, is a little too high ;
the limit might fairly be fixed at 64,500.
In view of these facts I recommend the following scheme of apportionment : —
(a) high schools.
1. Every High School, satisfying the requirements of the law, shall receive a mini-
mum grant of $500.
2. Every High School employing two masters, the aggregate of whose salaries is in
excess of $1,500, shall receive an additional grant equal to 33^ per cent, of such excess.
3. Every School that has at least three qualified instructors shall receive, in addition
to the fixed grant, a sum equal to the excess of the aggregate of salaries over $2,000.
4. To meet special cases, an extra grant, not exceeding $80, may be made.
(b) COLLEGIATE INSTITUTES.
Every Collegiate Institute shall receive : —
(1) The fixed grant of $500, plus an additional $250, or a total fixed grant of $750.
(2) An additional grant of 45 per cent, of the amount by which the aggregate sum
annually paid in teacher's salaries shall exceed $2,000 ; this grant not to exceed $750.
(3) An additional grant of 33V per cent, of the amount by which the aggregate sum
paid for salaries shall exceed $4,500 ; this grant not to exceed $250.
I think that this plan will secure justice to all classes of schools. The $1,500
limit in the case of schools employing two masters, is not too high. The letter,
as well as the spirit of both law and regulations, requires that the town or village in
which a High School is situated should bear one-third of the annual cost of the school.
Places unwilling to do this do not need, and do not deserve a High School. As matters
now are, some of these schools cost their " supporters " little or nothing, and in the great
majority of cases, I believe that the High School is a saving to the municipality. Such
schools receive $500 from Government, and $500 from the county (in some cases more),
a total of $1,000, or more, and pay from $1,000 to $1,400 in salaries. If there were no
High School, an additional Public School teacher, at a cost of $500 or $600, would be
necessary, and there would be no $1000 bonus. From this any one can see that a High
School may be an actual saving to a municipality.
Training of Teachers. — In Primary Education the teacher makes the school. In
Secondary Education, too, the teacher makes the school. The untrained teacher, or the
rule-of-thumb man has an inefficient school ; so far as the high purposes of education are
concerned, he is a delusion and a snare, if not something worse. This is universally ad-
mitted in Primary Education. There are none so far behind the age as to deny the necessity
of trained teachers for the Public Schools. But it seems to be thought that the Second-
ary schools may be safely left to take care of themselves. This is a serious mistake, for
no Secondary school can produce its best results if placed under the management of an un-
trained teacher. It is pre-eminently a serious mistake in our case for our Secondary
Schools educate our teachers. And as our teachers are taught so they themselves will
teach. They cannot entirely free themselves from the methods which have been followed
in their own education. If they have been taught by proper methods, they will, when they
become teachers, use such methods ; if they have been taught by imperfect or absolutely
hurtful methods, they will be slaves of these. This is the great defect in our High
Schools now ; there are undoubtedly good teachers, become so perhaps after the experi-
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ence of many failures ; there are some bad teachers who will remain so in spite of many
a failure — " hide bound pedants," crammers of " dead vocables," into wearied and di^
gusted minds. They know nothing of the laws of mind nor of the order of development of the
mental faculties, nor of the mysterious yet certain influence of spirit upon spirit ; they have
but little knowledge of human nature, especially of child nature. They do know, perhaps,
that there is a " faculty called memory, which can be acted on through the muscular integu-
ments by appliance of birch rods." The fruits in such cases are what might naturally be
expected when one of the most complex problems that can engage the heart and intellect of
man is undertaken by those who have scarcely bestowed a thought on the principles that
underlie its true solution. The popular or accepted notion seems to be that any young
man who has managed to get a B.A. at some University, is qualified to do the most im-
portant educational work for which the State provides. Will mere education make a man
a poet or an orator,_or a doctor to administer nostrums for our bodily ailments? Yet, it
is assumed that mere knowledge will make a teacher, that no natural aptitude cultivated
by careful training, is necessary for the work of the most arduous and the most important
of all human callings. "One learns to play on the harp by playing on the harp," said an
old writer ; yes, but how many harps will he spoil before a high degree of skill is reached I
What sort of sounds will his callow fingers wrench from strings capable of sweetest
melody ? In a word, the foremost educators strenuously maintain the necessity of pro-
fessional training for teachers in Secondary (High) Schools. Says Matthew Arnold : " In
Secondary education the importance of the principle of supply and demand is as signal as
in elementary education. The mass of mankind know good butter from bad, and tainted
meat from fresh ; and the principles of supply and demand may perhaps be relied on to
give us sound meat and butter. But the mass of mankind do not so well know what dis-
tinguishes good teaching and training from bad, they do not here know what they ought
to demand, and therefore the demand cannot be relied on to give us the right supply ; even
if they knew what they ought to demand, they have no sufficient means of testing whether
or not this is really supplied to them." And Dr. VViese, the famous German educator,
points out as amongst the reforms upon which all other real reforms depend, the necessitv
"of a proper method of ascertaining the qualifications (professional) of a person before
he is allowed to undertake the functions of a teacher. Hitherto the possession of a certain
amount of knowledge has been thought sufficient, and the degree of B.A. or M.A. is gen-
erally considered satisfactory evidence of a man's possessing the qualifications necessary
to undertake the education of the young. But there is no lack of examples to show
that a man may possess any amount of learning or knowledge and yet be a very indiffer-
ent teacher." The qualities of the (true) teacher cannot be discovered by an examination
for a degree. In Germany accordingly education has taken the rank and importance of a
science, and the application cf the laws which govern the mental activities to the actual
work of the school room, has exercised an immense influence on national education and
national life in that " land of learning."
If, then, the importance of trained teachers is recognized in Germany, it should be
so pre-eminently (I repeat) with us in Canada, if we are to have a really great system of
National education. For, as I have said, our Secondary Schools train our teachers.
In Germany there are about 180 Normal Schools where the literary and the professional
training of teachers are carried on concurrently ; but with us the literary training is
separated from the professional. Now, as before remarked, a teacher will teach as he
has been taught. Taught after good methods, he will teach well if possessed of fair natural
aptitude ; taught badly, he will prove a failure. It is true we have Model Schools and two
Normal Schools to give professional training, but from the shortness of the courses in these
schools, the evil effects of previous bad teaching cannot be remedied in the professional
training, and the teacher will naturally go back to the methods by which he has himself
for months or even years been taught, rather than follow the methods he has been told
to follow. So great and marked is this tendency that many leading American educators
(as well as those in France and Germany) maintain that the literary and professional
training must go hand in hand.
However this may be, it is certain that if our system (remarkable for its cheapness and
simplicity) is to be a complete success, the teaching in our High Schools where our
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teachers receive their education, must be of good quality. But much of it is not of good
quality and cannot be of good quality until we provide some means of teaching the teach-
ers, of giving them at least a fair professional training. The Rev. Dr. Ryerson saw and
recognized this long ago, even when our Normal School was not confined to professional
training alone, and hence he established a " Model Grammar School." This was not con-
tinued for reasons which it is not now necessary to examine, — but his views were
thoroughly sound, they were in accord with those of the ablest educators that this age
has produced.
Under a judicious system of Professional training our teachers would be turned out,
I think, more like what they ought to be — something like the " God-ordained priests of
education" rather than man-made or law-made schoolmasters. The influence of such
teachers on the intellectual, moral and industrial life of the nation, who can measure 1
For, to quote the sentiment of a celebrated French report, " the greatest nation will
be that which is the greatest producer, and the greatest producer will be that which is the
best educated, and therefore capable of utilizing all the means of action which science
places at man's disposal to aid him in triumphing over matter."
And Education depends on the schools and the scliools on the teachers, therefore we
must, in the language of Mill, endeavour to overcome " the great preliminary difficulty
of fashioning the instruments, of teaching the teachers"
Toronto, January, 1883.
'2. Report <>J ./. E. Hodgson, Esq., M.A., Inspector.
Sir,- — In presenting this, my first, report of High School inspection I wish to pre-
mise that I visited schools west of Toronto only, and therefore my opinions or impres-
sions need not be received as true of the whole Province.
I am glad to be able to affirm that I found the masters and teachers almost uni-
formly energetic and anxious to advance the best interests of their pupils ; I likewise
found almost uniformly that the masters complained of being hampered in their efforts by
the money value which has heretofore attached to securing " Upper School " pupils.
This complaint is made to do duty as an explanation of the all but total disregard of
such every-day subjects as reading and writing.
There are very few schools in western Ontario in which adequate attention is paid
to these subjects ; there are some in which neither is taught except incidentally. English
orthography is proverbially difficult, but I am convinced that a great part of the bad spell-
ing is due to bad writing : the girls in the schools spell better than the boys : they also
write better.
For the neglect of reading no excuse can be accepted ; a pupil's ability to read a
passage appreciatively is one of the best proofs that he understands it.
If it be true, as Whately has it, that any one who understands a sentence will read
it intelligibly, there are a great many High School pupils in Ontario who do not under-
stand simple passages of Goldsmith's "Traveller " or Scott's " Marmion." Indeed judg-
ing from the style and grammatical forms used by both masters and pupils, I fear that
the study of English generally does not receive the attention it merits.
Such sentences as follow do not sound well from the lips of prominent masters, but
they were uttered in my hearing : —
"There will one road run now."
"They had'ntgot to work hard."
" He ended it up with a smile."
" What had she ought to say 1 "
" Those (pupils) will learn this up."
"I'm not done with that."
In the teaching of English too much time is spent on analysis ; too little, on synthe-
sis. We shall not have accurate English spoken or written in the schools, so long as this
is the case. The department taught best and most is Mathematics ; that taught worst •
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and least is English. The languages (other than English) are fairly handled ; in some
schools the linguistic attainments of the more advanced pupils are high : but as most
candidates for University matriculation select Mathematics as their " Honour " subject,
Mathematics is the most prominent feature of the programme.
Physical science as taught in the schools has little educational value except as a
means of training the memory ; to give it an educational value it is necessary that ex
perimt Ms h performed and investigations made by the pupils : as a rule the supply of
apparatus and appliances is so meagre as to preclude the possibility of this.
I was pleased to notice that those schools in which the teaching staff has remained
unchanged for some time seemed to be pervaded by the most healthy spirit : and the
payment of higher salaries which is certain to result from the proposed new method of
distributing the Legislative Grant, may be relied on as a means of securing and retaining
the services of more accomplished teachers.
The introduction of the regulation requiring High School assistants to obtain some
knowledge of approved educational methods tends, I think, in the same direction. It will
not be so common in the future as it has been in the past, for young graduates to take
temporary positions in High Schools as stepping stones to something else. This practice.
has been responsible for not a few of the frequent changes of teachers so greatly and so
justly complained of.
Toronto, January, 1883.
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IP^IRT II.
STATISTICAL REPORT,
BEING
STATISTICS OF PUBLIC, SEPARATE AND HIGH SCHOOLS
FOR THE YEAR 1881.
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PART II.
STATISTICAL REPORT,
BEING
Statistics of Public, Separate, and High Schools for the Year 1881.
1. Public Schools.
I. — Receipts and Expenditure, also Comparisons with the Year 1880.
Receipts. — 1. The amount apportioned from the Legislative grant was $258,297,
being $244,228 for Public Schools, and $14,069 for Separate Schools— decrease of $5,156.
The apportionment is made to the several Counties, Townships, Cities, Towns and Incor-
porated Villages, according to the ratio of the population in each, as compared with the
whole population of the Province, as shown by the last annual returns from the respective
Counties, Cities and Towns separate. The principle of distribution amongst the respec-
tive Schools in each Municipality is according to the average attendance and the time of
keeping open the Schools, Public and Separate, in each such Municipality.
2. The amount from County Rates was $896,808, showing an increase of $18,092.
3. The amount available from Local Municipal Rates was $1,455,747, increase,
$12,534.
4. The amount from the Municipalities Fund, Surplus Distribution, and other like
sources, applied to School purposes in 1881, was $648,385, decrease, $21,061.
5. The total receipts for all Public School purposes for the year 1881 amounted to
$3,259,238, showing an increase of $4,409 over the total receipts of the year 1880.
Expenditure. — 1. The amount paid by Trustees for salaries of Teachers in 1881 was
$2,106,019, decrease, $7,161.
2. For maps, globes, prize books and libraries, $14,022 — decrease, $11,199.
3. For sites and building of school-houses, $280,460, increase, $31,070.
4. For rent and repairs of school-houses, etc., $443,769, increase, $9,508.
5. Total expenditure for all Public School purposes, $2,844,271, increase $22,218.
6. Balance of school moneys not paid at the end of the year when the returns were
made, $419,967, decrease, $17,809.
7. The average cost per pupil, based on total expenditure, was $5.69 for rural dis-
tricts, $8.12 for cities, $6.13 for Towns, being for the whole Province $5.92. In 1876,
these figures were $5.98, $8, $6.10, and $6.15 respectively. The cost per pupil is
therefore 29 cents for counties, 12 cents for cities, 2 cents for towns, and 23 cents for the
Province, less than in 1876.
8. The cost per capita of each pupil based on expenditure for Teachers' salaries was
$4.43 ; on maps, apparatus, etc., 3 cents ; on capital account, 59 cents ; all other sources,
87 cents.
9. Tables showing the progressive increase or decrease in the Total Receipts and
Expenditure, covering a period of eleven years, are also given.
10. Particulars in detail will be found in Table A.
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II. — School Population — Ages of Pupils — Pupils Attending Public Schools — ■
Average Attendance.
The School Act of 1881 requires every Municipal Council, after the first of January
in each year, to cause its Assessor to set down on the annual assessment-roll, in separate
columns, the number of children of the ages, over 16 and under 21, and between 7 and 13,
in addition to the column between 5 and 16.
The law at present requires that the Trustees returns of school population shall in-
clude the whole number of children resident in their school division ; and confers the
equal right of attending the schools upon all residents in such division, between the ages
of five and twenty-one years.
1. The school population (comprising only children between the ages of five and
sixteen years) reported by Trustees was 484,224, decrease, 5,700.
2. The number of pupils between the ages of five and sixteen years attending the
schools was 459,826, decrease 4,569. Number of pupils of other ages attending the
schools, 16,442, decrease, 2,203. Total number of pupils attending the schools, 476,268,
decrease, 6,777.
3. The number of boys attending the schools, 251,661, decrease, 4,016. The number
of girls attending the schools, 224,607, decrease, 2,761.
4. The number reported as not attending any school for four months during the
year is 29,143, decrease, 1,052. These were between the ages of seven and twelve years,
during which School Boards and Trustees were required by law to see that all the
children in their school districts attended school for four months in the year ; but by the
School Act in 1881, now in force, the parent or guardian of every child between the ages
of 7 and 13 is required to cause such child to attend a Public School for eleven weeks in
each of the two terms of the Public School Year, and the attendance must be during the
whole time, in each week, except in cases where half-time is allowed.
5. The following is an estimate of the total number of children of school age who are
probably not attending any school : —
The total school population (5 to 16) of the Province of Ontario 484,224
" No. of pupils attending (5 to 16) Public Schools. . . 459,826
No. of pupils attending High Schools (deducting 25 per cent.
"for ages over 16) 9,852
No. of pupils at Universities, Colleges, Private Schools, ifce.
(deducting 50 per cent, for ages under 5 and over 16) . . 5,750
475,428
Estimate of number not probably attending any school .... 8,796
Or, 2 per cent, of the total school population.
(2) Estimate of Total No. of Children between 7 and 12 years of age not probably attend-
ing any School.
According to data in Table, the No. of children between 7 and 12 years
of age should be at least one-half of the total school population (5 to
16), viz. : 242,112 ; but to this there has been added 20 per cent.
= 48,422, for the prevailing ages (7 to 12), thus making 290,534
children between those ages ; 2 per cent, of this would give the total
number of children from 7 to 12 not attending any school as 5,810
Or 2 per cent, of the total number of children (7 to 1 2).
It is to be remembered that under the provision of the law in force during the year
1880 and for the first half of 1881, while the principle of compulsory attendance was
recognized and any parent was liable in penalties for the non-attendance of his children
between 7 and 12 years of agt during four months of the year, yet, inasmuch as no pro-
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ceeding could be taken until after such default had occurred, these provisions were prac-
tically inoperative. The School Act of 1881, 44 Vic, chap. 30, however, provides efficient
machinery for securing the attendance of each child during the respective periods of 11
weeks in each of the two Public School terms, by similar provisions to those in compul-
sory by-laws under the elementary English Act and under the compulsory clauses of the
Scotch Act. The Provincial Act took effect during the last term of 1881, and it is now
time that School Boards and Trustees should put into practical execution the efficient
provisions contained in it, in order to secure the. attendance at school of every child
within these years.
6. The average attendance viz., the aggregate daily attendance divided by the number
of legal teaching days in the year, being 222 for Rural and 211 for Urban Schools, was
215,264, decrease, 4,804.
7. The per centage of average attendance, as compared with total number attending
school, is for Rural Districts, 42 per cent. ; Cities, 58 per cent. ; Towns, 54 per cent. ;
Province, 45 per cent.
8. The percentage of pupils under 5 to the total number attending school is T3^y ; for
pupils between 5 and 16, 96r,"T ; for those between 17 and 21, ST^ ; and for those over
21, rife- Boys constitute 53 per cent, and girls 47 per cent, of the attendance.
9. 9 per cent, of the pupils attended for less than 20 days during the year.
18 " from 20 to 50.
25 " " " 51 to 100.
22 " " " 101 to 150.
21 " " " 151 to 200.
5 " " " 201 to whole year.
10. The average attendance of pupils is 1 1 .V per cent, of the total population,
ticulars in detail will lie found in Table B.
Par
III. — Number of Pupils in the Different Branches of Instruction.
This table shows the number of pupils as classified under the present system.
The following summaries show :
1. The percentage in the several classes, as compared with the whole number of pupils
attending school.
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whole number of pupils attending school.
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3. Particulars in detail will be found in Table C.
IV. — Numbkr of Teachers — Annual Salaries — Certificate.
1. Number of Teachers, Male and Female. — In the 5,238 schools reported, 6,922
teachers have been employed, increase, 175 ; of whom 3,362 are male teachers, increase,
98 ; and 3,660 are female teachers, increase, 77. There are 198 more female than male
teachers.
2. Annual Salaries of Teachers. — The highest salary paid to a male teacher in a
County, $900— the lowest, $120; in a City, the highest, $1J00— the lowest, $400 ; in a
Town, the highest, $1,000 — the lowest, $275. The average salary of male teachers in
Counties was $384 — of female teachers, $240 ; in Cities, of male teachers, $755 — of
female teachers, $330 ; in Towns, of male teachers, $562 — of female teachers, $261. The
number of teachers who had attended the Normal Schools at Toronto or Ottawa was
1,799, an increase of 163.
3. Teachers' Certificates. — Total number of certificates or licensed teachers reported,
6,928, increase, 181 ; Provincial Certificates, 1st class, 258, increase 19 ; 2nd class, 1,970,
increase 95 ; County Board Certificates of the Old Standard, 1st class, 265, decrease, 14 ;
2nd class, 89, decrease, 15 ; New County Board 3rd class Certificates, 3,828, increase,
122 ; Interim Certificates, 321, decrease, 35 ; other Certificates, 197, increase, 9.
4. Particulars in detail will be found in Table D.
V. — School Boards and Rural School Corporations.
1. The number of Urban School Boa iris was as follows : — In Cities, 20 ; in Towns,
97 ; in Incorporated Villages, 133, being a total of 250.
2. The number of Urban School-houses was as follows: — In Cities, 133 : in Towns,
195 ; in Incorporated Villages, 186. Total, 514.
3. The number of Township School Hoards was 6, that is to say, in the following
Townships — Enniskillen, Tuckersmith, Macaulay, Morrison, McKellar, and Christie.
4. The number of Rural School Sect ions was 5,102, increase 96. The number of
Rural Schools reported as kept open was 5,052, increase 104.
5. The increase in number of Rural School-houses was 91.
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6. The whole number of School-houses reported is 5,278, of which 1,695 are brick, 52 1
stone, 2,372 frame or concrete, 690 log.
7. Titles to School Sites. — Freehold, 5,119, increase, 105 ; Rented, 159, decrease, 9.
8. School Visits. — By Inspectors, 13,917, increase, 499 ; by other persons, 58,138,
increase, 1,027. Total school visits, 92,396, increase, 2,353. Trustees especially are
bound to show their zeal and interest in Public School Education by personal visits to the
schools.
9. School Lectures — By Inspectors 530, increase, 56 ; by other persons, 174, decrease,
28.
10. Time of' keeping t/ie Schools open. — The average time of keeping the Schools
open, exclusive of holidays, vacations, and Sundays, was two hundred and eight days in
1881. The actual number of legal teaching days was 222 for Rural and Urban Schools
not united, or in the same City, Town, or Village, with High Schools: and 211 for
Urban and Rural Schools united and in the same City, Town, or Village with High
Schools.
11. Public School Examinations. — The whole number of Public School Examinations
was 9,242, increase 266. In each school a public quarterly examination is required to be
held, and the teacher is directed to give notice to trustees and parents of pupils, and to
the school visitors resident in the Section. It is intended that such examinations be
tests of efficiency on the part of teachers, and of the progress of pupils. •
12. School Prizes and Merit Cards. — The number of Schools in which prizes are
reported as having been distributed is 1,393, decrease, 109.
13. Prayers and Ten Commandments. — Of the 5,238 Schools reported, the daily
exercises were opened and closed with prayers in 4,501 of them, increase, 12 ; and the
Ten Commandments were taught in 2,802, increase, 76. While the Public Schools Act
provides that " No person shall require any pupil in any Public School to read or study
from any religious book, or to join in any exercise of devotion or religion objected to by
his or her parent," the Department has framed regulations of a recommendatory nature
on the subject, with forms of prayers, in the earnest hope that School Boards, Trustees, and
Teachers may thus be better enabled to impress upon their pupils the principles and duties
of our common Christianity. In 4,501 out of 5,238 schools, religious exercises of the
kind recommended by the Department are voluntarily conducted.
14. Maps. — Maps are used in 4,740 schools, decrease, 12. Total number of maps
used in schools, 39,719, decrease, 385.
15. See Table E.
2. Roman Catholic Separate Schools.
VI. — The Roman Catholic Separate Schools.
1. The number of Roman Catholic Separate Schools is 195, decrease during the
year, 1.
2. Receipts. — The amount apportioned and paid by the Department of Education
from the Legislative Grant to Separate Schools, according to average attendance of pupils
as compared with that at the Public Schools in the same Municipalities, was $14,069,
decrease, $33. The amount of School rates from the supporters of Separate Schools, was
|93,422, increase, $2,689. The amount subscribed by supporters of Separate Schools,
and from other sources, was $29,582, decrease, $2,455. Total amount received from all
sources was $137,073, increase, $200.
3. Expenditure. — For payment of teachers, $75,860, decrease, $1,424 ; for maps,
prize books, and libraries, $1,083, decrease, $1,235 ; for sites and building School-houses,
$21,084, increase $1,210 ; for other School purposes, $25,696, decrease, $3,289.
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4. Pupils. — The number of pupils reported as attending the Separate Schools was
24,819, decrease, 492. Average attendance, 13,012, increase, 278.
5. The whole number of teacliers employed in the Separate Schools was 374,
increase, 30 ; male teachers, 105, increase, 5 ; female teachers, 269, increase, 25.
6. The following table shows the class and number of Roman Catholic Separate
School Certificates held by the teachers of these schools : —
Ontario Certificates.
1
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Religioi 3
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+ Of this number many belong to Religious Communities, and hold Certificates in addition ; while others
again hold more than one Certificate, making the total number of Certificates 451.
7. Tabla F also shows the branches taught in the Separate Schools, and the number of
pupils in each branch ; the number of schools using maps, etc.
S. Hiijh Schools.
VII. — Comparative Statement — Years 1880 and 1881.
1. A comparative statement will be found in Table G, of the progress or decline of
each High School in 1881, as contrasted with the work of the previous year, 1880, under
the respective headings of total number of pupils, average attendance both total and in
the Upper School, percentage of the pupils attending in the Upper, percentage in the
Lower School, admission and intermediate examination, apportionment of Legislative
grant and expenditure.
2. The percentage of average attendance to total number attending
Collegiate Institutes was 57 per cent.
The percentage of average attendance to total number attending
High Schools was 54 "
The percentage of average attendance to total number attending
Collegiate Institutes and High Schools 56 '•
3. The percentage of (average attendance) Upper School to total "\ For Coll.
number attending, is for Collegiate Institutes 10 p.c. I lusts- and
The percentage of (average attendance) Upper School to total I Schools,
number attending, is for High Schools 5 " ) 7 per cent.
The percentage of (average attendance) Lower School to total \ For Coll.
number attending, is for Collegiate Institutes 47 p.c. (_ lusts, and
The percentage of (average attendance) Lower School to total | Schools,
number attending, is for High Schools 49 " ) 49 per cent.
VIII. — Receipts and Expenditure — Pupils — Number of Schools.
1. Receipts. — The amount received by the High School Boards from Legislative
"rant, for the salaries of teachers, was $83,288, increase, $383. The amount of Muni-
cipal Grants in support of High Schools was $200,814, decrease, $21,819. The amount
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received for pupils' fees was $30,891, increase, §2,362. Balances of the preceding year
and other sources, $56,256, decrease, $41,986. Total receipts, $371,250, decrease, $61,059.
2. Expenditure. — For salaries of masters and teachers, $257,218, increase, 9,323 ;
for building, rent, and repairs, $23,703, decrease, $42,713 ; for fuel, books and contin-
gencies, $62,768, decrease, $35,223 ; for maps, prize books, apparatus and libraries,
f2,160, increase, $534. Total expenditure for the year, $345,850, decrease, $68,079.
Balance of moneys not paid out at the end of the year, $25,399, increase, $7,019.
3. Number of Pupils, 13,136, increase, 226.
4. Number of Schools, 104.
5. The cost per pupil, based on total expenditure, was for —
Collegiate Institutes $33 00
High Schools 25 00
Collegiate Institutes and High Schools 26 00
6. Thirty-five High Schools charge fees ; 69 are free ; 52 are united with Public
■Schools.
7. Particulars will be found in Table H.
IX. — Number of Pupils in the Subjects op Study.
1. The details appear in Table I, and the following is a summary of the principal
subjects of the total number, as well as the respective percentages of the whole number
of pupils attending : —
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X. — Accommodation and Miscellaneous.
For particulars as to school accommodation, maps, globes, etc., see Table K ; also for
names, university and degrees of Head Masters, numbers of Assistants, etc.
4. — General Statistical Abstract.
Table L is a general Statistical Abstract, exhibiting the state and progress of Educa-
tion in Ontario from 1872 to 1881 inclusive.
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TABLES
REFERRED TO IN FOREGOING
STATISTICAL REPORT.
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I.— TABLE A.— The Public
RECEIPTS.
COUNTIES.
(Including Incorporated
Villages, but
not Cities or Towns.)
Tor Teachers' Salaries
(Legislative Grant. )
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2427 00
2095 00
2556 00
2469 00
1483 00
4146 00
2471 00
4017 00
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2247 00
689S 25
4269 50
3691 00
3129 oi)
2244 '.in
6271 60
6033 00
7915 00
2779 00
9197 00
2591 00
3606 00
2270 00
2317 00
3194 00
3275 mi
3972 00
4574 00
3722 00
6219 00
2109 00
7932 5ii
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7283 75
8785 mi
4656 00
5016 50
5537 00
4048 00
5759 37
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250 50
52 50
301 00
260 00
28 mi
12 50
260 50
127 50
60 50
62 mi
inr, 50
173 50
27 00
132 00
"26 66'
154 50
167 50
2 :,n
29 50
139 511
232 00
261 1111
84 50
97 i"i
76 00
136 00
168 mi
',14 511
137 00
•s 0.
L'677 60
2147 50
2556 00
2771) on
1483 00
HHi
2499 Oil
4029 50
3744 00
5998 50
3128 .,1'
2247 mi
6898 25
4531 50
3691 00
3235 -11)
2244 911
6271 60
6033 on
suss 50
2806 mi
1 129 mi
■ . . . 1 1 DO
3626 on
2270 00
2471 50
3361 5o
3277 50
4001 50
1574 00
3861 50
0451 00
2109 on
8193 50
1878 50
7885 no
7359 75
soil no
4656 00
5184 50
565 1 50
41S5 00
5759 37
$ e.
2380 22
2097 11
5132 84
I 6191 87
6183 07
5697 02
7414 82
7505 95
9021 47
4745 64
4633 23
2802 79
0169 65
7501 01
6238 75
5963 00
670 69
9691 06
10272 01
L5920 60
4075 84
12561 17
6834 99
4239 75
2846 35
9625 54
6816 07
7406 25
5619 98
6374 90
9549 89
13553 38
3159 09
7563 35
4580 83
13233 60
19490 09
29541 56
9713 65
1 105O 93
12818 97
7330 24
4001 87
S c.
15235 30
14351 45
17750 42
23631 88
36240 15
13308 14
31466 48
28090 38
20774 89
22979 25
41344 57
34252 17
33815 J2
21560 87
6060 19
32558 10
451150 84
59092 30
24661 88
69918 92
18973 55
28603 41
18484 51
193S9 S3
25867 06
24640 55
29922 13
49250 07
37507 19
48764 75
16355 34
64217 42
43701 91
67732 08
56420 53
74258 07
35451 10
46069 17
52497 26
36272 67
19001 13
$ c.
2378 32
2053 12
3312 31
6150 64
7074 63
10752 04
7261 68
71so 61
8972 88
8646 57
821 1 37
12175 50
9722 95
5426 78
3844 36
2517 25
12599 09
15443 14
28852 61
9651 01'
■J J 100 99
8280 54
12752 24
1 1058 06
12909 15
150.;-, 61
9754 31
16246 39
13869 58
L9506 1 1
18470 68
5125 SS
i 1866 38
10031 62
15304 18
15339 92
18071 04
8710 43
25544 12
26506 72
14684 26
5818 02
■S c.
22680 34
2(1609 IS
28751 57
Carleton
40227 39
53058 33
2017S 79
53662 84
14308 54
Renfrew
.-,0200 96
12610 54
Lennox and Aldington
Prince Edward
57183 19
36243 39
69587 '.'7
Northumberland
55867 6 :
10171 85
34603 75
11293 03
61119 85
York
111954 01
Peel
12095 64
L13919 08
36680 08
49221 38
37658 02
Welland
44396 02
51980 24
15078 61
Norfolk
. 1790 30
74068 55
70424 72
87239 81
24740 31
94840 65
Perth
63188 86
104154 86
98610 29
130791 67
Kent
58531 18
91738 72
07544 45
112472 17
34580 39
Total
191564 37
3653 50
195217 87
346070 07
1455747 52
500710 66
2497740 12
CITIES.
1200 00
1417 00
1207 00
4160 00
I486 (10
2433 00
1655 00
1173 00
1070 00
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306 50
196 50
247 5(1
902 00
602 50
481 :,ii
171U 50
408 00
152 50
1767 mi
1506 50
1613 50
1454 50
5062 00
2088 50
2914 50
3365 50
1581 00
1222 50
10622 00
16254 21
12438 86
11615 92
38991 65
15238 48
32991 73
31955 26
15514 98
11430 67
115150 00
979 05
2176 31
167 97
24088 21
3006 66
5957 02
25005 19
1407 45
2183 32
19103 29
18739 76
16228 67
68141 86
20333 64
H863 25
60325 95
St. i latharines
16503 43
14845 40
144875 29
24056 00
6774 50
31430 50
299590 76
....
84074 47
415005 75
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Schools of Ontario.
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774 87
2300 78
20330 55
2549 79
3 81
16182 21
6 25
900 52
1930 40
19019 38
1629 80
4 13
1911 1 57
23 00
2375 28
2715 50
24528 95
4222 62
4 50
26884 80
147 31
3807 12
44S4 09
35323 38
4904 01
4 12
36992 19
549 34
3531 98
0512 73
46586 54
6471 79
5 16
21531 46
27 95
1750 02
3010 51
26319 94
2858 85
5 25
36745 80
118 74
2513 55
6978 95
46357 04
7305 80
5 71
32153 73
252 45
1859 14 '
39542 28
4766 00
5 04
34681 88
107 24
2739 10
5445 23
151155 i;,
7267 51
5 23
30041 89
141 97
1732 52
5040 93
369 >\ 31
5653 03
5 29
27274 82
104 55
617 81
4479 10
32470 34
4706 85
5 43
26048 69
18 55
1189 71
3590 81
30847 76
5395 63
6 88
4877U 48
139 31
1622 01
8280 01
58817 81
10770 16
5 66
39818 88
204 84
2118 08
5995 36
48137 70
7729 87
5 47
36228 62
193 26
2316 28
1369 80
43107 96
6053 89
r. 87
53 17
426 86
3449 27
31331 00
3271 73
5 55
7i>sti 05
41 05
1310 14
L035 35
9672 59
1020 44
6 54
39698 80
307 12
10888 49
6416 12
57310 53
3809 32
5 81
.112 39
0153 15
L0211 68
67321 05
8366 94
6 05
72995 06
571 35
7784 80
15786 98
97138 19
14815 82
5 92
227 92
1651 94
4781 05
35651 03
0144 61
5 88
75003 66
401 72
13879 96
11188 03
100532 87
13386 21
5 75
27251 54
41 95
1332 30
3707 22
32393 01
4287 07
6 31
31792 67
285 20
1271 81
5262 86
41612 ..1
7008 84
6 31
23979 86
130 83
3077 60
4724 68
32512 97
5145 95
1 09
25206 36
137 31
1721 73
5284 76
32350 10
12045 86
6 87
27943 15
117 58
20!il 73
5784 83
36537 59
15442 65
6 05
30269 88
81 77
2541 47
4701 60
37654 72
7423 89
5 69
33898 27
140 00
3582 95
5002 42
43290 21
12500 00
4 95
50277 7.".
455 53
3401 14
9744 81
63879 23
10189 32
6 42
40384 65
306 29
968 32
6278 31
53! 137 57
16487 15
6 53
59421 41
296 17
6758 05
9892 49
70308 12
10871 69
5 44
18045 05
150 45
1568 14
2584 03
22347 07
2401 64
4 60
66787 79
671 08
7520 43
8555 60
S3534 90
11305 75
4 65
45802 83
188 58
1852 25
6682 23
54525 89
8662 97
5 43
79941 ; 02
244 87
3683 24
9822 35
93696 48
10458 38
5 17
69723 97
442 00
7376 05
9502 20
87044 22
11566 07
5 17
85378 71
478 40
14200 14
14505 57
114622 82
16168 85
6 70
40861 77
205 10
1943 44
7031) 36
50640 73
7884 45
5 93
50366 81
237 18
11004 30
11057 54
75325 S3
18402 89
6 17
54637 56
007 91
16452 88
10773 70
82472 05
15072 40
7 00
■ 38489 82
403 01
7572 80
8111 13
54036 82
7835 35
6 13
22818 11
201 00
5115 17
5448 85
33583 13
997 26
6 68
1681179 23
10054 00
180039 93
280043 24
2151316 40
346429 72
5 69
9530 7'.
10 00
2832 72
5171 26
17544 74
1195 02
7 35
9897 39
1100 90
5090 89
4550 82
16095 18
13031 51
133 49
206 88
6 71
8458 00
i6 69 1
6 22
35540 96
047 25
14955 SO
16483 98
67627 99
513 87
9 07
10523 35
305 48
766 67
6024 62
17680 12
2053 52
5 20
16601 50
83 88
5749 02
11020 87
33455 27
8407 98
6 88
24130 19
159 63
13118 03
14728 67
52142 52
8183 43
9 67
10913 85
34 05
4167 57
1383 34
30702 77
15115 47
14755 87
143373 51
1387 96
89 62
1501 78
6 39
5075 73
8296 80
31888 13
8 54
80138 30
644 31
8 94
210810 03
3051 50 1
77623 86
99330 79
390822 18
24273 55
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A. 1883
I.— TABLE A.— The Public
RECEIPTS.
TOWNS.
For Teachers' Salaries
(Legislative Grant.)
Municipal School
Grants.
©
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it 1
111
Public
Schools.
R. C.
Separ'te
Schools.
Total.
Total Recc
allPubli
Purpose
273 00
162 no
568 00
575 00
145 00
488 00
550 00
922 00
981 00
438 00
073 III)
008 00
482 00
36S 00
249 00
692 00
662 00
245 00
745 00
470 00
584 00
380 00
244 00
343 00
277 00
414 00
566 00
293 00
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102 00
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369 00
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2268 29
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2707 50
2079 25
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5304 48
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4677 51
3896 70
2687 58
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496 91
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488 70
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874 96
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1821 98
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79 22
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826 85
402 95
2804 14
437 89
2041 27
152 45
2707 66
178 15
737 12
998 85
134 16
641 95
359 68
513 70
2307 57
543 17
1488 49
1S02 21
367 03
2008 65
308 15
071 87
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3554 51
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x-207 04
7551 72
0087 94
2369 75
5195 21
4078 89
10071 56
22726 44
3754 68
6356 87
5324 94
5593 30-
5006 64
2083 48
9543 34
5922 57
2380 50
6568 94
50S5 29
9231 37
3241 05
2359 11
3207 55
3918 79
3590 56
4368 24
5026 98
1934 83
Oakville
5507 84
2185 38
5147 02
Orillia
13556 61
6811 55
6130 20
2231 16
8283 51
5126 55
Perth
3585 03
10040 87
5196 89
7246 43
7553 45
6736 01
2276 15
0208 62
3129 85
2847 82
4731 20
10072 77
5170 70
5028 40
2842 28
3517 89
5514 61
3043 03
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2921 65
5326 67
9934 10
2529 87
8548 65
Total
28008 00
36<1 00
31049 00
251147 41
03000 20
34(5390 01
156
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Schools of Ontario.
EXPENDITURE.
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2249 69
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214023 85
916 67
22796 61
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302132 83
44263 78
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157
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
I.— TABLE A.— The Public
RECEIPTS.
TOTALS.
For Teachers' Salaries
(Legislative Grant.)
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'3 a
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o
1 1
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H
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O
O.OT
Public
Schools.
R. C.
Separ'te
Schools
Total.
111
Pi £•
Total Counties, etc . . .
$ c.
191564 37
24656 00
28008 00
$ c.
3653 50
6774 50
3641 00
$ c.
195217 87
31430 50
31649 00
$ c.
346070 07
299590 76
251147 41
9 c.
1455747 52
8 c.
500710 66
84074 47
63600 20
S c.
2497746 12
415095 73
346396 61
Grand Total, 1881
" 1880 ,,.
244228 37
249352 13
14069 00
14102 00
258297 37
263454 13
896808 24
878715 96
1455747 52
1443212 69
648385 33
669446 65
3259238 46
3254829 43
18092 28
12534 83
5123 76
33 00
5156 76
21061 32
Note. — All moneys reported in this or any of the following tables represent actual payments made
Tables A, B, C, D, E, include the statistics of the Roman Catholic Separate Schools. These
158
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Schools of Ontario.
EXPENDITURE.
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1081179 23
10054 00
180039 93
280043 24
2151316 40
346429 72
5 69
210816 03
3051 50
77623 86
99330 79
390822 18
24273 55
8 12
214023 85
916 67
22796 61
64395 70
302132 83
44263 78
6 13
2106019 11
14022 17
280460 40
4437C9 73
2844271 41
414967 05
5"! >2
2113180 19
25221 59
249389 74
434261 05
2822052 57
432776 86
5 85
31070 66
9508 68
22218 84
0 07
7161 08
11199 42
17809 81
between the 1st of January and the 31st of December,
statistics are, however, given in detail in Table F.
159
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5.)
A. 1883
II.— TABLE B.— The Public
1 •
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PUPILS ATTENDING
COUNTIES.
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5
Glenearrv
5051
1726
5820
9266
8942
4931
7785
7504
8318
6865
5922
4150
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8561
6946
570S
1607
9500
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16004
5995
17304
5000
6328
4629
41117
5881
6660
8475
9500
8227
13650
5025
169S4
9969
18006
17310
16755
8150
11510
11555
9506
5826
30
9
23
72
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7
14
17
41
18
26
14
20
11
26
39
16
23
24
127
14
131
9
21
8
11
13
21
27
4
5
28
6
126
26
61
31
35
102
36
28
19
16
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4403
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6836
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68 12
5732
4134
9996
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6942
5424
1414
'J 178
10566
15692
5820
16822
4898
62: 14
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17.21
5805
6328
8341
9337
8105
13491
4573
16795
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17427
16361
16380
S046
11410
11455
8571
4813
149
128
187
130
300
L'2:i
321
146
171
170
223
327
378
442
367
180
48
327
502
576
219
533
217
278
193
177
214
259
366
598
142
488
265
943
273
614
424
660
396
436
300
312
190
3
4
7
19
4
11
9
8
4
1
5
8
8
11
4
3
14
25
21
8
13
4
5
3
3
4
19
16
5
15
10
84
7
32
20
25
4
9
8
8
8
5232
4603
5453
8583
9032
5019
8008
7008
8231
6:1:11
5982
4480
10402
8S02
7346
5647
14S1
9742
11117
16416
6061
17499
5128
6598
4588
4712
6035
6612
8753
9955
8257
14022
4S54
17948
10034
18134
16836
17100
8548
11891
11791
8910
5027
2806
24:,:,
2S58
4327
4806
2665
4199
3734
4242
3595
3049
240S
5494
4811
4065
1028
784
51 12
1,1 is-,
8833
3215
2770
3657
2161
2522
3177
3520
4578
5378
4509
7643
2664
9649
5280
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8952
9177
4701
6359
0151
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2618
2426
2148
2595
4256
4226
2354
3S09
3274
3989
3399
2933
2072
4908
3991
3281
2619
697
4630
5032
York,
IVrl
2846
8104
2358
2941
2127
2190
Welland
2S58
4175
Oxford
2190
Grev
Perth
Bruce
7884
Elgin
3847
5640
4111
Total
375698
1387
363204
1379S
482
378871
202184
CITIES.
2610
2948
2397
7500
4100
4900
6500
2500
1750
18500
5
4
3
3
2376
2394
2089
7438
3357
4835
5344
2314
1720
15943
6
4
4
12
45
25
49
48
9
89
1
4
2387
2398
2093
7458
3402
4864
5396
2365
1729
16036
1234
1223
1072
3846
1716
2586
2605
1244
864
8235
1153
3612
1686
2278
1121
865
Total
53705
22
47810
291
5
48128
24625
160
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Schools of Ontario.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
NUMBER
of Pupils Attending School.
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571
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1384
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824
253
665
2099
40
531
970
1184
995
780
143
257
18S8
40
533
912
1257
1293
1198
260
909
2501
46
1081
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2367
1665
1413
279
1703
3529
41
934
174:,
2452
1972
1528
401
703
3650
40
559
947
1279
1094
959
181
147
2238
44
832
1437
2019
1820
1535
365
278
3345
42
810
1160
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1007
1533
454
536
2984
43
1049
1823
2144
1633
1424
1 58
871
3153
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982
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1187
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282
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383
723
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272
2076
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2078
2675
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4288
41
717
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1960
1769
481
615
358 1
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753
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363
248
3127
43
630
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KIDS
202
699
2322
41
255
407
394
257
144
24
239
483
33
1077
1937
2496
2080
1599
553
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612
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6942
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560
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43
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3379
4392
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3000
850
995
6661
38
191
928
1342
1089
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201
655
2310
45
630
1155
1803
1559
1202
249
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2904
44
312
788
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1116
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252
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45
423
799
1217
10S9
960
224
120
2190
46
679
1129
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1259
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315
205
2510
42
586
1085
1711
1583
1347
300
732
3053
47
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1863
2454
1836
1310
213
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3387
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1694
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2260
2138
636
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487
926
1906
2051
2258
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299
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1185
2502
3718
3073
3026
518
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6081
43
624
1087
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990
638
217
520
1820
38
2078
3994
4941
3667
2631
037
1502
6075
38
656
1576
2536
2343
23 14
579
310
4740
47
1378
3056
4508
4022
3984
1126
920
8326
46
1783
3202
4175
3511
3341
824
1672
7237
43
1493
2750
4118
4021
4007
711
558
7949
46
771
1574
2056
2022
1064
461
70
3888
45
1384
2461
3137
2733
1912
264
1042
4549
39
1209
2040
2842
2616
23S5
639
926
5271
45
1120
1578
2396
1918
1632
266
669
3668
41
740
1000
1375
910
701
301
682
1910
31
39673
70567
97424
82557
72225
16425
27809
1605G1
42
186
342
285
249
526
■586
432
500
513
521
738
814
747
35
51
21
1197
1307
1143
50
149
54
123
150
54
341
810
364
834
1570
785
1148
1347
734
1037
3068
1144
1332
322
189
02
4735
1926
2319
63
186
56
451
511
48
418
673
296
1193
503
1154
529
1372
869
586
21
3074
1299
57
147
18
55
123
271
1630
378
3521
367
2625
575
5549
16
2019
920
9854
53
692
62
2816
5754 '
10642
9387
L6208
3321
679
27774
58
161
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
II.— TABLE B.— The Public
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Pad
PiW .
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&
PUPILS ATTENDING
TOWNS.
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3
688
720
1300
1002
350
861
890
1700
2100
700
1200
1252
1150
1000
320
1300
1250
430
1100
III.-,.!
1500
640
500
650
353
698
950
650
353
670
560
800
1025
1050
1150
443
850
735
600
1800
1025
770
1200
684
300
1267
637
600
1000
1860
950
700
540
800
729
535
424
900
1034
700
1226
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1
5
3
7
"2
6
1
4
5
2
10
1
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"i
529
609
1038
740
281
7117
721
1577
2019
672
995
1145
1061
940
288
1065
422
982
926
1332
620
481
578
347
020
881
517
287
468
437
675
824
949
1007
441
767
651
454
1735
925
677
1092
649
259
1153
580
549
925
1780
849
618
477
730
621
508
418
815
1344
032
1196
1
13
10
2
8
1
530
626
1054
748
289
7H7
721
1580
2028
673
1002
1174
1079
942
301
1155
1075
436
982
932
1348
620
503
579
359
628
890
517
292
471
449
685
829
962
1009
451
767
657
468
1745
933
693
1096
672
272
1165
583
549
928
1780
855
622
481
740
626
508
423
299
351
506
397
154
3:14
379
717
1027
327
527
598
552
508
158
577
585
206
468
459
631
318
264
28".
198
307
450
269
156
223
245
381
446
476
521
237
385
321
2l£
893
479
365
533
349
124
577
285
314
457
935
438
363
254
371
300
272
210
435
631
334
613
231
275
548
351
Both well
135
373
342
3
7
1
6
23
18
2
13
S
" .
3
14
2
1
2
'2"
763
1001
346
576
527
143
Gall
578
490
230
514
473
302
15
11
2
7
1
1
239
Mitchell
294
161
321
440
5
3
12
4
5
12
2
8
2
136
248
204
304
Orillia
383
488
214
382
5
10
5
8
14
4
23
3
11
3
1
336
250
852
454
328
563
323
148
588
298
235
471
845
5
4
4
9
5
1
417
259
227
369
326
236
Welland
5
10
5
17
213
Windsor
1 825
1 1350
1 649
390
719
315
1196
583
54821 1 54
48812
388
15 1 49269
i 24852
24417
162
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Schools of Ontario.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
NcMBER
of PuprLS Attending School.
No. of children be-
tween 7 and 12
years of age not
attending any
school for four
mos. of the year.
Average attendance
of pupils.
s°i
5?g
5 to
O
O
•a
o
o
-3
C
o
I
o
O e3
o
Percentage of av
age attendance
1 total number
tending school
37
105
81
88
84
66
86
70
216
329
81
105
214
213
141
48
138
135
68
140
128
160
112
70
37
35
88
121
75
58
52
61
112
110
138
122
82
89
106
38
246
126
90
94
100
52
155
71
48
89
177
113
62
74
119
98
42
57
79
201
71
109
171
203
141
173
77
13S
124
358
565
139
234
330
292
276
76
273
250
94
176
307
269
148
100
98
59
137
221
144
94
104
116
149
166
188
204
93
167
129
94
485
201
116
217
US
58
253
114
114
262
380
184
145
107
220
145
110
126
177
311
198
291
162
121
176
1S2
52
150
152
354
476
159
245
222
206
227
85
280
209
80
241
234
320
145
114
159
65
127
200
104
57
106
125
191
190
209
224
86
168
128
83
351
205
145
253
170
43
236
118
136
268
422
250
127
89
163
144
127
90
176
394
149
330
55
170
579
245
55
317
327
587
507
249
334
286
234
199
61
355
388
1211
352
185
423
130
140
237
158
219
263
152
60
145
118
139
254
304
403
110
273
225
212
557
260
236
489
239
88
412
239
204
257
635
237
214
115
187
190
179
78
308
360
143
370
19
12
222
334
692
459
lis
453
417
868
1021
310
557
541
460
494
140
638
579
380*
535
388
752
425
270
349
213
338
454
276
125
263
227
366
468
540
590
207
431
375
310
966
470
394
670
433
132
606
333
300
478
1067
425
338
239
369
320
289
194
476
820
322
603
42
27
60
24
10
7
9
35
1
53
66
57
30
23
61
41
41
58
47
58
65
55
151
50
36
9
32
18
4
20
5
IS
18
27
11
16
77
54
31
23
29
12
2
8
46
52
56
104
46
130
43
79
52
26
85
74
44
83
46
55
54
38
62
75
87
55
62
42
99
56
31
48
10
68
53
25
60
13
45
83
30
4S
59
54
51
34
23
12
53
43
28
34
63
57
56
50
78
16
52
67
10
37
28
26
15
7
51
51
54
57
56
56
46
58
46
56
57
66
55
50
56
61
28
17
2
2
5
4
11
66
1
48
60
1
4
29
14
64
41
107
• 36
43
47
100
70
60
6
52
57
55
52
60
50
54
36
50
49
12
50
51
21
72
64
57
6
46
21
57
81
61
41
94
47
2
49
50
3392
6475
11411
11200
15576
1215
655
26929
54
* This is according to Report, but it is doubtful.
163
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
II.— TABLE B.— The Public
I •
PUPILS ATTENDING
"S
T3
-73
"S
m so
•° *$
s
C3
c3
£
Co
10 Si
TOTALS.
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■~ =3
■= 8
s
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^
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cs §
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p.to
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'H. hp
'aw
.3 >>
3«
>
o
£,
4S
to
C
CM
&4
Pm
Eh
M
O
375698
13S7
363204
13798
482
378871
202184
176687
53705
22
47810
291
5
48128
24625
23503
54821
54
4S812
388
15
49269
24852
24417
140,3
1221
14477
16759
502
670
476268
251661
224607
489924
464395
483045
255677
227368
242
5700
4569
2282
108
0777
4016
2761
Percentage of Grand Total as
compared with total numbei
96iV,
3t<t
tVo
53
47
164
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Schools of Ontario.
THE IT I! LIC SCHOOLS.
Number
of Pupils Attending School.
Number of children be-
tween 7 and 12 years
of age not attending
any school for four
months of the year.
Average attendance of
pupils.
11.5
O QJ
"-a
£ M
1-1
■a
o
o
o
55
13
O
O
>>
cs
■o
o
o
T3
O
o
*» 03
O
Percentage of aver
! attendance to t
number attenc
school. *
39673
2816
3392
70567
5754
6475
97424
10642
11411
82557
9387
11200
72225
16208
15576
16425
3321
1215
27809
679
655
160561
27774
26929
42
58
54
45881
44973
82796
85453
119477
121357
103144
101557
104009
105032
20961
24673
29143
30195
215264
220068
45
46
908
1587
2657
1880
1023
3712
1052
4804
1
18
25
22
21
5
6
165
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
III.— TABLE C— The Public
NUMBER OF PUPILS IN THE
Reading.
5
3
ha
l§
m
1
a
<
COUNTIES.
(Including Incorporated Vil-
lages, but not Cities or
Towns.
5
O
S
5
3
J3
5
J3
5
J3
%
0
rS
1853
1502
1638
3881
2607
1493
2321
2231
3208
2472
1753
1219
1358
2696
2123
598
3329
3271
5242
2316
6473
2025
1925
1273
1359
1724
2108
266
286!
2781
4715
1565
5520
2778
572S
6295
5481
220,
411b
4679
4447
1977
973
976
1211
1092
1927
1096
1778
1604
2039
1723
1 ...
948
2495
2239
1653
1363
424
2349
2257
3446
1422
I., .i
1335
1356
1057
1141
1290
1548
1720
2329
1726
3242
1229
4275
2188
378E
4164
4468
1437
2722
2702
2016
1297
1261
1104
1381
1705
2304
1255
2219
1976
1838
1908
1843
1037
2350
2319
1966
1385
352
2127
2: i'J7
1406
4074
1349
1778
1172
1273
1454
1471
2305
2794
2362
3583
1291
5008
3237
5204
4331
4247
2109
2962
2700
1587
1110
1086
962
1147
1136
1553
995
1621
1053
1024
70S
968
1126
968
1322
1294
733
107
1529
2421
2948
875
22.se,
419
1377
898
779
1265
1213
1794
1697
878
2126
703
2948
1241
2682
1885
2412
2032
1754
1519
709
581
59
59
72
169
599
180
09
144
109
33
75
145
202
196
164
43
'ioi
171
405
42
110
'ioo
188
160
283
272
254
256
319
338
61
195
454
677
149
479
646
312
185
91
58
""i
42
"i3
"'&
5
29
30
6
'"4
"l2
""o
"is
"17
5232
3791
4510
5203
6487
3754
6229
5i 171
5604
5684
4982
3827
8538
7407
5954
4540
1312
7273
8603
12090
5325
12107
5120
5077
45SS
3784
4803
6278
5901
4004
:, ,.-:;
4394
5521
7120
3870
6113
5528
5928
55 1 1
5 49 1
3894
8536
7557
004.X
4833
1184
7984
9400
13:194
5320
14203
5124
5958
4570
; 140
5090
6491
7890
7330
L1867
1! j
1 I57t
lll'll
1 1, 9
L0281
95 1.
7080
3751
,ii:;.s.-„
4562
3546
4703
5854
6940
4097
0681
5752
0208
5757
5159
1002
9472
7785
6243
4813
1258
8767
9098
l:i590
5267
14290
5104
0107
4523
4098
5154
5717
6863
8480
7345
12407
H89
1 1887
90 15
16822
10125
L5355
7 Si 1:1
10022
10910
83K5
3727
320708
2589
2304
3254
Prescott 1
Russell J
Grenville
2099
3493
2493
5o70
3981
4080
4413
Lennox and Arlington . . . .
.■1507
5222
Hastings
5884
6582
3970
Haliburton
4006
747
0154
5932
York
68S3
3532
9511
2015
3914
1491
2561
5747
4393
3852
10
8616
5882
186
18
"2
136
58
12
14
58
25
6
"4
6817
11524
3707
1290L'
8256
15895
14321
13S0.S
5S5:
10103
9371
8102
3381
303004
5316
8005
2705
10033
5817
12114
-o
10310
9042
4987
6696
6997
4552
2481
127085
86535
96922
58924
8683
722
CITIES.
1027
76!
622
3049
1065
1672
1915
671
702
5755
502
507
396
1408
524
1077
1074
414
392
3665
507
74:
054
179S
791
1231
1380
66S
317
3424
328
317
387
1019
535
662
637
427
318
2133
14
5b
"isi
377
150
351
182
'662
9
"34
107
07
39
6
'397
1924
2398
lsoi
724!
293;
3688
4163
2326
1729
15201
43472
2120
iso-
1. &
0951
2811
351)
■1177
1691
172:
15081
lls.'.l
2283
1S95
1S99
7204
3130
4178
4531
2217
1729
1 55S2
1539
1721
1250
5553
2 193
oil 7
2470
L5! •
13 17
15089
Total
17247
9959
11524
6763
1976
659
4404S
36180
1C6
46 Victoria,
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Schools of Ontario.
DIFFERENT BRANCHES OK INSTRUCTION.
635
382
586
1317
1090
1385
1474
545
3317
1110
'
618
268
2703
7178
1492
3967
2157
2189
903
693
2008
2157
1176
1619
4458
3901
2133
51S5
3015
7862
5131
6281
1216
3051
3974
2734
1519
2097
2398
1566
4229
1029
3991
3680
2300
1294
15102
2549
855
909
2645
973
1093
L338
2458
15 11
1888
1728
1779
;ioo:!
2262
1007
002
167
2104
4130
7645
22:. I
5297
3781
2249
1038
884
1952
1140
670
3162
4008
3792
1645
4986
3619
10:7.-.
6422
8768
3059
4876
5799
4515
2000
1810
2239
1202
5873
1779
2732
3092
1234
1004
11695
35162, 38586 32750
2350
■Jims
2433
2514
3215
1831
3710
5070
.1714
2751
2524
2577
3352
4214
51 OS
2756
364
3976
1803
7433
2367
6873
2106
3203
2257
2171
3115
2940
2914
4233
3757
6393
2188
7146
4S52
9089
6605
7514
3763
5075
4723
2679
1792
160404
873
1146
879
3551
1S02
2122
2432
1186
1426
11181
2659 s
891
369
1097
541
499
1319
648
582
770
441
704
1224
983
436
280
40
614
858
1582
1106
1007
947
956
1205
272
70s
442
244
1325
1552
2674
585
2291
2053
5126
4129
3017
807
1386
2720
1569
565
52616
453
594
207
2091
769
183
864
403
219
2627
8410
1099
805
14 85
'522
960
05.7
8 !2
870
soo
1150
1015
525
66
1032
1720
2703
771
2150
495
1259
1085
698
1139
1230
996
1 180
1147
2151
608
2265
2492
3121
1669
2426
1152
1663
1540
695
491
328
476
500
1365
760
1088
667
546
171
2275
8176
194
63
305
L68
69
79
11!
3
166
173
187
"oil
248
314
631
465
lis
110
178
lir.
116
193
126
150
86
610
416
5,69
164
502
190
246
216
105
Hil
24
68
174
165
181
21
267
310
120
187
0
58
83
216
4S5
1298
159
1520
295
194
185
442
115
319
414
1274
356
55S
451
3S2
3421
1150
432
354
812
604
187
127
17568
569
122
132
133
115
70
104
147
221
192
21
4!
11
193
293
341
95
271
75
158
131
61
192
182
156
360
243
386
80
450
427
763
328
39;
222
318
230
95
78
19
210
20
60
354
180
332
100
i340
2615
305
126
112
136
103
73
110
121
199
196
187
39
5
180
431
346
125
271
75
157
103
65
181
152
138
327
472
447
122
380
480
624
50
38
41
14
63
1
115
32
10
30
12
120
19
149
27
50
34
56
58
20
201
76
100
24
26
20
99
1
25
18
"u
32
21
46
23
66
15
76
41
151
38
70
23
81
58
37
18
20
20
221
76
1132
1509
6
60
160
18
36
'409
26
214
4
125
35
18
9
"i<5
35
63
106
143
573
289
39
51
222
93
150
121
142
163
281
134
18
'178
321
481
75
25,;
46
199
261
144
311
110
336
433
235
254
50
470
119
561
296
431
284
313
171
112
52
353
258
109
515
12
151
646
768
525
805
695
2581
1916
1225
451
111
1877
1264
3690
820
4221
257
1047
189
547
630
688
219
916
1555
1403
804
2117
950
4887
2512
3415
516
1608
2373
2650
421
52595
182
29
102
374
246
555
145
2065
2083
1734
900
499
2205
2449
1808
167
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
III.— TABLE C— The Public
NUMBER OF PUPILS IX THE
Reading.
T3
§ g
.9 5
_g
1
530
613
900
602
253
651
532
1486
1879
501
952
1036
910
873
301
1108
1075
112
810
738
908
440
351
446
359
392
796
447
246
409
439
541
661
853
754
272
767
604
423
1427
695
677
1096
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636
626
508
423
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1278
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1196
530
355
652
433
210
499
418
1296
1271
405
687
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814
704
640
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301
565-
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250
641
604
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773
440
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316
350
206
242
639
350
177
258
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261
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464
432
626
728
230
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565
396
313
1044
419
594
715
430
180
878
373
292
611
1221
360
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398
297
382
465
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341
307
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511
1024
510
433
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45
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Sessional Papers (No. 5)
A. 1883
III.— TABLE C— The Public
NUMBER OF PUPILS IN THE
Reading.
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42912
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44648
46352
417708
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215450
30180
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31430
Grand Total, 1831
Do. 1880
161463
156527
107458
109065
120725
126758
73754
75564
11442
13619
1426
1482
390170
396353
283000
289378
1936
11307
0033
1810
2207
56
0183
82
1269
84
816
6318
Percentage of Grand Total
as compared with Total
34
22
25
10
3
87
60
170
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Schools of Ontario.
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
IV.— TABLE D.— The Public
PUBLIC SCHOOL
Total.
Annual
"3
TOTALS.
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s
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Highest Salary paid.
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3091
2595
900
$
120
384
001
116
485
1100
400
755
635
155
480
1000
275
562
Grand Total, 1881
6922
3362
3560
1100
120
6747
3261
3483
1000
120
175
98
77
100
172
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A JS83
Schools of Ontario.
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108
1487
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76
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290
12
330
297
601
90
251
25
5
69
10
151
261
201
635
60
232
40
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34
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265
89
3828
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1636
6747
239
1875
279
104
3706
356
188
163
181
19
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122
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15
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1833
V.— TABLE E.— The Public
TOTAL.
SCHOOL-HOUSES
TITLE.
o
c
%
TOTALS.
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89
135
462
34
25
2327
10
35
690
4950
133
195
4799
132
188
151
1
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Grand Total,
1881
5288
5238
50
1695
521
2372
600
5278
5119
159
Do
1880
5195
.-.137
58
1666
513
2297
706
5182
5014
168
93
101
8
29
8
75
16
96
105
9
174
A. 1883
175
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
VIII.— TABLE H.— The
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Al«andria .-...
Wiliamstown. .
Conwall . ...
Irquois
Mrrisburg . . . .
Hwkesbury . . .
Vmkleek Hill .
Kmptville ....
Prscott
Bnckville
Fa"niersville
Ginanorrue . . .
Aluonte
Caleton Place .
Pxenham
Peth C. I
Smth's Falls . .
Anprior
Penbroke ....
Eeifrew
Svlenham
Nqjanee
Nwburgh . . . .
Piiton
Trnton
Btghton
Canpbellford .
CcbourgC. I...
CMborne
B'Wnianville
K wcastle ....
P.rt Elope.
Norwood
Feterboro' C. I.
lindsay
Oakwood
Omemee
ishawa
5 >rt Perry
fxbridge
■vi, iti iy c.I ....
\larkham
Newmarket
Richmond Hill..
Weston
Brampton
Streetsville
MONEYS.
c.a
U Jt
'&S
Barrio C. I.
Bradford
S c.
502 65
540 mi
520 L5
576 30
611 45
527 90
.'.44 20
546 35
.Ml 96
<;u 7".
646 81
551 15
635 27
573 82
251 25
1271 51
.V21 '2(1
7,24 40
7,4'.l 95
577 40
631 51
575 25
5i is 85
634 .50
558 00
555 96
608 7",
1636 11
516 55
775 57
507 20
795 4! 1
514 DO
1745 64
803 41
534 57
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680 24
71 ; 4 55
721 42
1206 55
635 7ii
604 17
616 12
51 1'. I 50
760 17
501 50
1637 70
571 65
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570 mi
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1555 00
850 00
650 00
1052 00
541 20
895 68
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2000 00
881 03
754 15
2185 45
1077 11
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1041 35
1014 57
537 95
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1400 00
1867 75
930 87
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1012 96
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1600 00
1116 55
2100 00
1114 95
2100 00
468 65
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3324 73
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520 55
2129 71
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1521 42
2104 69
700 00
700 00
800 00
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2290 17
747 50
2337 76
771 65
$ c.
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22 50
143 00
130 50
5 75
252 00
0
1295 50
839 17
1007 75
201 59
315 00
568 25
11 89
712 13
63 90
305 19
S67 04
532 35
217 52
425 07
2207 22
577 02
1525 1 17
47 24
781 5S
16.5 55
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575 64
109 2fi
25 38
475 00
551) 25
552 04
741 00
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10SO 70
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1081 50
200 00
74 57
287 01
955 51
61 46
408 51
748 36
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14 45
550 00
1 45
720 50
759 22
374 00
186 10
96 62
356 14
612 81
2S2 05
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1640 88
2147 70
2787 28
1563 26
1261 45
1885 99
1777 94
1574 38
1871 68
5170 32
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4264 35.
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1704 40
2052 92
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2140 77
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1906 70
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22.7 20
3701 35
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27S3 89
1976 22
1655 92
5II5U 51
1605 14
4789 77
1940 35
EXPEXDITIRKS.
1375 00
1790 90
1750 00
13)1)1 oil
1090 00
1158 66
1208 00
1550 00
1400 33
2609 98
2205 00
1600 00
2000 00
1359 00
251 27
2X62 42
1400 00
1400 00
1500 00
1200 00
1550 mi
2043 52
1221 15
1683 34
1300 00
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5201 67
1150 00
2x110 nil
1502 5)1
2062 511
1178 05
5211 38
3720 00
1250 00
1523 11
2100 00
2125 00
2010 Ml
3081 53
14(32 00
L546 00
1500 00
1400 00
2512 41
1225 Oil
3650 03
1840 50
180
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
High Schools.
MONEYS
Charges per Term.
Free
Free
Free
S1.00
Free
Free .*.
si. 50
Free
Non-res. $1 per m'th
Non-res. SI per m'th
Free
Free
Free
Free
-res. 814,
$4.00 . . .
Free ...
Free . .
Free ...
Free . . .
Free .
Free . .
Free ..
Free ...
Free . . .
Free . . .
Free . .
Res. $12,
I Free
Free
Free
$9 res., $11 non-res.
Free
$2 res., $8 non-res..
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
$3.on
S4.00
$2.00
Free
Free
Free
82 to all obtaining
less than 00% of
entrance marks.
$2.00
1 =
•P'S
9 c.
34 00
31 00
32 00
19 00
14 00
25 00
17 00
26 00
25 00
18 00
27 00
24 00
24 00
24 00
21 00
20 00
20 00
18 00
24 00
23 00
24 00
35 00
lit 00
20 00
21 00
19 00
33 00
40 00
36 00
44 00
23 00
21 00
32 00
23 00
30 00
33 00
25 00
17 00
19 00
18 00
19 00
18 00
20 00
24 00
10 00
33 00
23 00
29 00
181
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
VIII.— TABLE H.— The
MONEYS.
MONEYS.
Receipts.
Expenditures.
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Hi
a
&
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'2
3
£
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Orillia,
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1814 44
571 12
526 54
564 86
714 08
540 55
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Sessional Papers (No 5).
A. 1883
Hiirh Schools — Continued.
MONEYS.
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
VIII.— TABLE H.— The
MONEYS.
MONEYS.
Eeceipts.
Expenditures.
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Legislative Grant for
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M unicipal Grant.
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2850 00
777 86
1094 45
6192 91
4S44 00
112 69
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1790 10
1555 00
5491 97
5422 01
514 00
1673 15
660 39
7 62
8456 46
8657 78
6499 99
5131 67
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289 63
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2733 11
6043 S7
2074 25
.v.i 59
10911 12
8420 54
1247 38
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1702 87
1600 00
19 00
2156 33
5478 20
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6100 00
5833 25
302 38
14472 58
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2402 67
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
High Schools — Continued.
MONEYS.
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
K.— TABLE I.— The
NUMBER OF PUPILS IN THE VARIOUS
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Alexandria
Williamstown
Cornwall . ...
Iroquois
Morrisburg
Hawkesmiry . . .
Vankleek Hill..
Kemptville
Prescott ....
Brockville ....
Farmersville . . .
Gananoque
Almonte
Carleton Place
Perth
Smith's Palls . ,
Arn prior
Pembroke
Renfrew
Syndenham . .. .
Napanee . . . .
Newburgh
Picton
Trenton
Brighton ..
Campbellford. . ,
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Colborne
Bow manville . . .
Newcastle
Port Hope
Norwood
Peterborough . .
Lindsay
Oakwood. . .
Omemee
Oshawa
Port Perry
Uxbridge
Whitby
Markham
Newmarket
Richmond Hill
Weston
Brampton
Streetsville
Barrie
Bradford
119
90
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53
111
44
63
63
73
92
53
78
77
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119
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70
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
IX.— TABLE I.— The
NUMBER OF PUPILS IN THE VARIOUS
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Collingwood . . .
Orillia
Oakville
Dundas
Waterdown ....
Paris
Beamsville
Grimsby .......
Niagara
Smithville .. .
Drummondville .
Thorold
Welland
Caledonia
Cayuga
Dunnville
Port Dover
Port Rowan . . .
Simcoe
Ingersoll
Woodstock
Berlin
Gait
Elora
Fergus
Harriston
Mount Forest . .
Orangeville
Owen Sound . .
Listowel
Mitchell
Stratford
St. Mary's ... .
Clinton
Goderich
Seaforth
Kincardine
Walkerton ... .
Parkhill
Strathroy
Wardsville
Ayhner
Vienna . . ....
Chatham
Sarnia
Windsor
Belleville
Brantford
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269
87
45
76
109
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44
46
56
44
63
86
103
164
48
84
53
51
100
144
109
122
126
112
92
96
125
129
202
103
117
222
247
112
192
120
102
219
55
106
67
175
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98
195
280
107
104
48
65
53
51
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144
109
122
126
112
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129
262
103
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110
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
High Schools.
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
IX.— TABLE I.— The
NUMBER OF PUPILS IN THE VARIOUS
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Guelph . :.. .
Hamilton . .
Kingston
London
Ottawa
St. Catharines
St. Thomas . . .
Toronto
Total, 1881
Do. 1880
I mi ea "
I >,T|, ■,!-,■
1884
1818
Percentage op Total Number Attending
Collegiate Institutes
High Schools
Total, Coll. Inst, and High Schools
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510
510
410
163
163
163
379
379-
379
191
182
127
464
464
464
316
316
316
406
406
406
13086 13050 L2290
12765 I228S 121-28
110
410
90
379
127
112
117
406
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7115
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117
243
1595
2397
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12825
46 100
34 100
245
510
163
379
191
464
316
406
13032
12667
100
99
190
16 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1S83
High Schools.
BRANCHES OF INSTRUCTION.
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191
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
X.— TABLE K.— The
MISCELLANEOUS
HKJH SCHOOLS.
Alexandria ....
Williamstown .
Cornwall
Iroquois
Morrisburg
Hawesburv ....
Vankleek Hill
Kemptville . . . .
Prescott
Brockville —
Farmersville . .
Gananoque ....
Almonte
Carleton Place
Perth
Smith's Falls . .
Arnprior
Pembroke
Renfrew
Sydenham ...
Napanee
Newburgh . . .
Picton
Trenton
Brighton
Campbellford . .
Cobourg
Colborne
Bowmanville . . .
Newcastle
Port Hope
Norwood .
Peterborough .
Lindsay
( takwood
< hnemee
1 1, haw a
Port Perry. . . .
I xl nidge
Whitby
Markham
Newmarket
Richmond Hill.
Weston
Brampton ....
Streetsville ....
Barrie
Bradford
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F.
K.
F.
H.
F.
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F.
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
High Schools.
INFORMATION.
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W. D. Johnston, B.A.. Certificate.
1
4
2
6
2
800
Thomas Scales, B.A. , Toronto.
2
4
1
5
4
2
2
1000
800
15
W. A. Whitney, M.A., Victoria.
2
5
5
8
2
850
John O. McGregor, M.A., Toronto.
3
4
6
5
6
2
2
2
1
3
850
800
900
1000
1200
F. O. Page. B.A.. To,;„,t„.
2
4
8
2
1
6
8
M. McPherson, M.A., Victoria.
2
6
P. C. McGregor, B.A., Queen's.
2
3
2
1000
1000
A. Bowerman, M.A., Victoria.
1
0
2
1
2
Clare L. Worrell, B.A., Trinity.
14
13
4
17
3
850
Robert Whittington, B.A., Victoria.
1
10
5
4
34
2
900
J. S. Jamieson, M.A., I ictoria.
2
4
2
1000
900
I. J. Birchard, B.A., Toronto.
2
3
7
J. A. Clarke, M.A. , Victoria.
9
3
13
2
800
F. F. McNab, B. A., Queen's.
1
3
4
4
1
2
2
700
750
Alexander McKillop, B.A., Queen's.
Charles McDowell, B.A., Queen's.
1
5
4
1
17
2
1100
J. E. Burgess, M.A., Queen's.
10
22
3
1200
Cortez Fessenden, B.A., Toronto.
4
' 2
7
4
2
3
2
800
900
850
David Hicks, B.A., Toronto.
Robert Dobson, B.A., Victoria.
1
5
9
18
H. M. Hicks, M.A., Toronto.
2
2
900
1000
Robert K. Orr, B.A., Toronto.
3
:;
6
20
A. G. Knight, B.A., Victoria.
1
4
1
5
29
'68
5
1200
D. C. McHenrv, M.A., Victoria.
1
2
12
2
750
6
6
4
3
2
1200
700
2
2
2
1
John McBride, B.A., Toronto.
3
7
3
1
6
36
4
2
5
5
1200
725
1100
1200
Adam Purslow, M.A..LL.D., Victoria.
Matthew McKay, B.A., Certificate.
1
25
12
2
W. E. Tilley, M.A., Victoria
2
1
2
2
750
John H. Brethour, B.A., Victoria.
12
7
6
5
3
2
3
850
1200
8
25
W. W. Tamblyn, M.A., Toronto.
3
6
12
10
3
1400
D. McBride, B.A.. Victoria.
4
4
5
1
34
3
1200
John J. McGee, B.A., Toronto.
9
17
6
8
33
6
1400
George H. Robinson, M.A., Toronto.
1
2
5
2
2
900
900
3
3
10
30
J. E. Dickson, B.A., Toronto.
6
9
4
11
13
2
1000
William McBride, M.A.. Toronto.
2
6
S
1
6
2
1000
George Wallace, B.A., Dublin.
3
0
5
10
17
3
1000
Henry J. Galton, B.A., Oxon.
3
1
2
750
W. H. Law, B.A., M.D., Victoria.
4
16
8
23
7
5
1250
H. B. Spotton, M.A., Toronto.
2
4
7
7
11
2
1000
William Forrest, M.D.,B.A., Toronto.
193
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
X.— TABLE K.— The
MISCELLANEOUS
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Collingwood
Orillia
Oakville
Dundas
Waterdown
Paris
1 teamsville ...
< rrimaby
Niagara
Smithville
Drummondville
Thorold
Welland
Caledonia
Cayuga
Dunnville
Port Dover
Port Rowan . . . .
Simcoe
Ingersoll
\Y Lstock
Berlin
Gait
Elora
Fergus
Harriston
Mount Forest . .
Orangeville . .
Owen Sound
Listowel
Mitchell
Stratford
St. Mary's
Clinton
Goderich
Seaforth
Kincardine . . .
Walkerton .. .
Parkhill
Strathroy
Wardsville
Aylmer
Vienna
Chatham
Sarnia
Windsor
Belleville
Brantford
B.
B.
B.
B.
S.
B.
B.
F.
B.
F.
F.
B.
B.
B.
B.
F.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
S.
s.
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K.
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B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
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B.
B.
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B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
23
10
6
17
18
25
15
14
16
14
25
26
12
19
15
12
30
12
40
17
S
16
30
18
2
18
14
20
20
15
20
30
12
12
1
41
23
17
-1
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13
12
20
30
18
12
13
30
1
1
1
1 1
2
1 1
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
.... ....
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
5
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
3
1
3
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
111 4-
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
High Schools.
INFORMATION.
2 g
a 8
3 o
1200
950
800
1000
1000
1100
800
1000
900
700
SCO
1050
1100
800
700
850
700
950
1076
1000
1050
1200
2000
1000
800
1100
1100
900
1300
800
900
1100
1200
1100
1000
1200
1000
1000
800
1000
775
900
800
1140
1000
1100
1000
1750
Head Masters and their
Universities.
William Williams, B.A., Toronto.
George B. Ward, M.A., McGiU.
N. J. Wellwood, B.A., Toronto.
J. D. Bissonnette, B.A. , Certificate.
1 1. II. Hunter, B.A., Toronto.
J. W. Acres, B.A., Trinity.
A. W. Reavley, B.A., Certificate.
Edward L. Curry, B.A. , Cantab.
A. Andrews, Certificate.
A. C, Crosby, B.A., Albert.
H. C. Sells, B.A., Toronto.
Alexander McCulloch, M.A., Queen's.
J. M. Dunn, LL.B., Toronto.
Robert Eadie, B.A., McGiU.
H. E. Kennedy, B.A., Mt. Alison, N.B.
C. W. Harrison, M.A., Victoria.
G. F. Metzler, B.A., Albert.
W. W. Rutherford, B.A., Toronto.
Rev. George Grant, B. A. , Toronto.
F. W. Merchant, B.A., Albert.
George Strauchon, B. A., Albert.
James W. Connor, B. A. , Toronto.
John E. Bryant, M.A., Toronto.
Sylvanus Phillips, B.A. , Victoria.
M. M. Fenwick, B.A., Toronto.
James McMurchie, B.A. , Toronto.
Joseph Reid, B.A., Toronto.
Alexander Steele, B.A., Toronto.
W. O'Connor, M.A., Queen's, Ireland.
A. B. McCallum, M.A., Queen's.
O. J. Jolliffe. B.A., Victoria.
Charles J. McGregor, M.A., Toronto.
J. E. Wetherell, B.A., Toronto.
James Turnbull, B.A., Toronto.
Hugh I. Strang, B.A., Toronto.
C. Clarkson, B.A., Toronto.
Benjamin Freer, Certificate.
.1. Morgan, B.A., Toronto.
Edmund M. Bigg, M.A., Toronto.
L. E. Embree, B.A., Toronto.
W. G. McLachlan, B.A., Toronto.
John McL. Bell, B.A., Glasgow.
C. R. Gunne, B.A., Toronto.
D. S. Paterson, B.A., Certified.
William Sinclair, B.A., Toronto.
Angus Sinclair. M. A., Toronto.
R. Dawson, B.A., Dublin.
J. Hodgson, M.A., Toronto.
195
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5.)
A. 1883
X.— TABLE K.— The
MISCELLANEOUS
a
a
-c
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g
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Rent
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DO
co
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s
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HIGH SCHOOLS.
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CO
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acres.
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4
1
20
1
1
S. F.
80x250
60
4
1
1
S. F.
a
17
2
1
1
B.
F.
2h
1
16
2
1
1
S.
B.
F,
F
3
14
2
36
55
1
3
1
1
B.
F.
1
14
1
1
1
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2
26
2
1
1
B. S. F.
F. R.
Total, 1881
7S 20 6
98 G
167
62
2039
151
48
92
" 1880
79 19 7
98 7
167
57
2009
151
53
87
1
30
5
1 .. 1
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5
5
196
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Hi"h Schools.
INFORMATION.
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3
30
14
10
2.S
5
4
18
9
1050
1600
William Tytler, B.A., Toronto.
25
120
George Dickson, M.A.. Victoria.
13
30
1
8
5
7
6
1300
1200
1400
Archibald P. Knight, M.A., Queen's.
2
Francis L. Checkley, B.A., Dublin.
4
25
4
5
48
J. Thorburn, LL.D., McGHU.
21
18
25
9
92
11
1800
John Seath, B.A., Queen's, Ireland.
4
30
34
5
100
6
1200
John Millar, B.A., Toronto.
15
55
15
20
74
11
2250
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GENERAL
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PART III.
GENERAL.
Division I.
NORMAL SCHOOLS, AND SECONDARY AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
IN THE UNITED STATES.
Special Report by Dr. McLellan, Inspector of High Schools.
Part I. — General Description of Schools Visited, Courses op Study, etc., with
OCCASIONAL REMARKS.
Letter of Instructions.
In your letter of instructions, dated 3rd November, 1881, I was specially directed to
obtain specific information with the view of comparing educational results in our Provin-
cial system with similar matters in some of the States of the Union, and especially to
examine into the following subjects: —
/. Normal Schools. — (1) The extent and modes for the separation of the professional
from the general training. (2) The means of inculcating the principles of education as a
science. (3) The practical application of such principles in the pursuit of education as an
art. (4) The details of the course in use for the professional training of teachers, and
especially through schools of actual practice.
//. Secondary Education. — (1) The course of study in some of the best High Schools,
and the modes of instruction in the various branches. (2) Staff of teachers and
appliances.
///. Intermediate and Elementary Schools. — -(1) The subjects, standards, and modes
of instruction and the teaching staff employed in such schools, both in urban and rural
districts. (2) As to discipline and the means employed for obtaining it. (3) Also as to
the attendance and means for securing it. (4) As to the practical beneficial results pro-
duced by the teaching and methods employed.
Acting under these instructions, I visited Normal Schools in New York, Massachu-
setts and Connecticut, ami, so far as the limited time at my disposal permitted, gave some
attention to Primary and Secondary education, and have now the honour to report the
results of my observations.
1. Normal Schools.
1. State Normal School, Albany.
S00 Students in Attendance.
Staff. — Joseph Alden, D. D., LL.D., Principal and Professor of Moral and Mental
Philosophy, and ten (10) assistant professors and teachers.
The course of study and practice occupies two years, embracing Arithmetic, Algebra,
Geometry, Trigonometry and Surveying, Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry,
Physiology, Botany, Geology, Penmanship, Book-keeping, Geography, and Map Drawing,
English Grammar, Elocution, Rhetoric, History, Criticism, Mental and Moral Philosophy,
Science of Government, English Literature, Evidences of Christianity, Free-hand and In-
dustrial Drawing, Vocal Music, Composition.
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Candidates for admission must, if ladies, be at least sixteen (16) years of age, if gen-
tlemen, seventeen (17) years of age ; must pass an examination (quite elementary I be-
lieve) in Reading, Spelling, Arithmetic and English Grammar, and must subscribe a de-
claration of their intention to follow the profession of teaching in the State.
It may thus be seen that the literary attainments required for graduation are quite
extensive — perhaps too extensive if thoroughness be taken into account. The students,
however, receive a thorougli drill in all the subjects of the Public School course, while
they are instructed in the branches as carefully as time permits. It is justly assumed
that the minimum course for the Public School pupil should not determine the maximum,
course for the Public School teacher.
The appliances for teaching science are very good, and methods of instruction are
excellent.
(1) Professional Training. — Tim Professional training, it will be noticed, is not distinct
from the Academic (or " General ") ; they are carried on simultaneously. Dr. Alden is
of opinion that, under present circumstances in that State, the two courses must go on
together. Teachers (candidates for the teaching profession) must acquire correct habits
of thinking, must learn how to think, and how to acquire knowledge with the best results in
discipline. If the modes of instruction in academic work have not been such as to secure
this in the student, he will inevitably follow wrong methods of instruction when he him-
self becomes a teacher. The force of habit will prove too strong for him, and he will
teach as .he has been taught, not as he has been told how to teach. Under the vicious in-
fluence of bad teaching in the Public School, strengthened by bad teaching in the High
School, the student becomes, as it were, saturated with wrong methods. These will be
followed in spite of a theoretical lecturing, in a brief Normal School course, on different
and better methods.
(i) In the teaching of all the professors the ultimate calling of the students is kept
in view. They teach subjects not merely to impart literary and scientific facts and prin-
ciples, but so as to give them the highest educational value, and leave upon the mind
the impress of the best educational methods. In their own methods they reveal and
illustrate the true methods which, in all essentials, the students are afterwards to observe
in the work of the school room. Students become habituated to the true path by being
constantly kept in the true path under the guidance of those who are familiar with it ;
they learn to think correctly by being constantly taught to think correctly ; they learn
how to acquire knowledge in the best way, by being constantly trained in the best
methods of acquisition ; they learn the value of subjects as instruments of discipline, as
well as the best methods of making them efficient instruments — because they are perpetu-
ally under the influence of methods designed to secure discipline and the development
of power. Each Professor, too, keeps in view any modifications of his method, which
might be necessary in dealing with children. In a word, each Professor is expected to be
himself a true teacher — by precept it is true, but especially by example. And thus
philosophical instruction, not so much formal as material, is given at every recitation in
every branch.
(3) A course of Instruction in Mental Philosophy and its application in education
is given by Dr. Alden. There is no attempt at metaphysics, nor time wasted in fruitless
discussions of unsettled problems of philosophy. But a simple course is followed — a
course having special and practical reference to the teacher's work. Dr. Alden pursues
— and trains his students to pursue — the inductive method in the study of philosophy,
approaching the study of mind as we do the study of nature — observing particular facts
in order to arrive at the general laws which regulate the mental activities. Having
treated of the human mind in the usual three-fold division of Intellect, Emotions, Will,
he proceeds to show the bearings of the knowledge thus acquired on the work of edu-
cation.
(i) There is a Model School in connection with the Normal School, in which the
teachers-in-training observe methods of teaching and discipline, and have actual practice
in teaching during the second year of their course.
The Model School has two divisions and two regular teachers. The Normal School
students first observe the work of the Model School teachers, and by the way, they are
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examined on their notes of observation, and are thus taught how to observe — a point of no
little importance : for the inexperienced teacher will prove an unintelligent observer i.e.,
he will probably fail to note the object of the lesson which he is sent to observe, the
salient points of the teaching, etc. He must therefore be trained to observe, and to
observe closely and critically.
After a series of observations thus made they are required to do actual teaching in
presence of the Model School teachers, who take notes, and make the necessary sugges-
tions.
There are also weekly meetings of the practising students, at which the Model
School teachers discuss all the points observed during the week — the faults to be avoided
ami the excellencies to be commended. These frequent meetings are attended with ex-
cellent results.
I observe here that
(a) The Faculty of the Normal School give no /brOTaHectures on methods of teaching
the various branches. The Professor's own example in method is supposed to be enough
for the student.
(6) The Model School teachers give no formal lessons on methods, on school organiza-
tion, government, discipline, etc. The personal criticisms and suggestions, and (he
weekly meetings (above mentioned) for mutual discussion are chiefly depended on for
jtrofessional results.
(c) The Normal School Professors do not give lessons to classes drafted from the
Training School, as models for the teachers-in-training. The lessons witnessed in the
Model School under the regular teachers, are believed to be quite sufficient.
(d) They do not accompany the students to the Model School to observe their
teaching with a view to criticism and correction ; nor are classes brought in from the
Model School to be taught in their presence by the students-in-training.
2. State Normal School, Worcester, Mass.
lJfi Students.
Staff. — E. Harlow Russell, Principal, and six assistant Professors and Teachers.
Course. — Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Book-keeping, Physics, Astronomy, Chemis-
try, Physiology, Botany, Zoology, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Language, Reading,
Orthography, Etymology, Grammar, Rhetoric, Literature, Composition, Penmanship,
Drawing, Vocal Music, Gymnastics, Psychology, Science of Education and Art of Teach-
ing, School Organization, History of Education.
The following additional branches are assigned for the four years' course : —
Advanced Algebra and Geometry, Trigonometry and Surveying, Advanced Chemistry,
Physics and Botany, Drawing, English Literature and General History, Latin and French
(or German) are required.
The required age is, for young men, 17 years ; for young women, 16 years. Candi-
dates must declare their intention to complete the course and to engage in teaching after
graduation.
They must pass an examination in Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, Geography,
Arithmetic, English Grammar, and History of the United States.
Judging from the examination papers, the entrance examination is quite elementary
— a little higher than our High School entrance examination.
The appliances for the teaching of Science are very good, and the instruction given
in this department is experimental and instructive. Under such instruction, students
cannot but acquire an intelligent knowledge of at least the elements of Science, as well
as a great deal of skill in teaching the subject experimentally to children.
(1) Professional Training. — Here, as in Albany, the Literary and the Professional
training go hand in hand. In the academic work a wide range of subjects is included.
The two years' course (as given above) is imperative on all ; the four years' course is
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designed for those who wish to make a more thorough preparation, both scholastic and
professional, for the vocation of the teacher.
Special attention is paid to Music, Drawing, Elocution, etc. Drawing is admirably
taught, and the skill and power of the teacher are seen in the results produced. The
students possess no mean skill in the subjects, and an admirable facility in using it in the
work of teaching. Place a teacher thus trained before a black-board with a crayon in his
hand, note the rapidity and accuracy with which he will produce " a picture " of anything,
and it will be admitted that his power as a teacher is increased ten-fold by his skill as an
" artist."
Similar remarks may be made on the practical results of the science teaching. The
length of the course gives the Professors the means of turning out practical teachers in
this department.
Though the Professional and the General training are carried on together here,
Principal Russell is of opinion that the proper function of a Normal School is to give pro-
fessional training exclusively, or at all events, chiefly. If the schools with which it rests
to give the required scholarship are really efficient — capable of giving a thorough general
training — it would seem that there ought to be no difficulty in confining Normal Schools
to professional work. Efnei >ncy on the part of such schools for general training is, how-
evi r, essential. Sound knowledge must be given, and in a sound way, that is, the methods
of instruction followed must be thoroughly rational. This means skilled and trained
teachers in these schools. If this condition fail, a short course in a Normal School will
not correct the defects of the general education. The Normal School course would have
to be extended so that the general work imperfectly accomplished by these schools might
be completed. In fact, if the work is badly done in these " academic " institutions, the
work of the Normal Schools is made more difficult than would be the entire education of
the student. For not only would they have to give the necessary scholarship, they would
also have to eradicate the bad habits of a previous training.
In any case, the Normal School course ought to cover sufficient time to enable the
Professors to supplement the previous training, to give a connected view of the various
branches as departments of science, and to secure facility and power in specially impor-
tant subjects, as Science, Drawing, and Elocution.
(2) Here, as in the Albany Normal School, the Faculty, in all their teaching, keep
constantly in view the fact that they are teaching those who intend to become teachers.
Every Professor endeavours to be — not by occasional teaching merely — but especially by
the example set in his own daily teaching — a teacher of Didactics. Hence the students,
are trained in the direction of philosophic methods of education, inasmuch as they are
constantly subject to the influence of right methods of instruction and education.
(3) A course of instruction is given by Professor Brown on Psychology, with special
reference to applications in education.
In addition to this course in Psychology, lessons are given by Principal Russell in the
History of Education and Educational Methods, and in the practical and definite applica-
tion of the principles of Education. From what I saw of these courses, and the practical,
•ommon sense way in which they were given, I have not the slightest doubt that they are
of great value in the training of the teacher. The Socratic method followed by the Pro-
fessors clearly revealed the intelligence of the students and the undoubted worth, in a
professional point of view, of the educational psychology and history which the skill of
the instructors made constantly interesting and profitable.
There is a special teacher of methods — a lady who appears to be thoroughly qualified
for her task. This teacher of methods gives well digested lessons and practical illustra-
tions of the best methods of teaching Beading, Writing, Arithmetic — in fact every
branch which the student will afterwards be called upon to teach.
In addition to the work of practical instruction in the Normal School, there has
been established an " apprenticeship" scheme — by which the teachers-in-training make
systematic observation and are afforled practice in actual teaching in the City Schools.
After being one year in the Normal School, the student is allowed to go into one of the
Public Schools of the city to observe the work and methods of the teacher in that school -T
to take part in the instruction, management and general work of the school under the
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direction and supervision of the regular teacher. Only one student at a time is assigned
to any one teacher ; but each student serves in at least two grades of schools in the course
of his term of practical training, the duration of which is half a school year. After
finishing his apprenticeship, the student resumes his course at the Normal School, spend-
ing another year there before receiving his diploma.
During the period of apprenticeship, four days of each week are given by the "appren-
tices" to this work of observation and practice. One day of the week they spend in the Nor-
mal School, not in the ordinary work of the institution, butin the following way : They hold
such consultation»with the Faculty, and make such use of books, as may be most helpful
to them in their immediate workas "apprentices." They make informal statements to the
Normal School students of such facts of their experience — concerning methods of teaching,
cases of discipline, etc., as it may benefit the other students to hear and consider — keep-
ing in mind always, the private character of the daily life of the school in which they are
serving their apprenticeship.
Each " apprentice" keeps a diary of the occupation and experience of every day's
service, and this record is inspected by the faculty of the Normal School.
The regular teacher under whose supervision the " apprentice" is placed, makes a
report on the following points on the " apprentice's" conduct and works : —
Times late ; times tardy ; power of control ; skill in questioning ; skill in explain
ing and illustrating ; enthusiasm ; bearing ; traits of general excellence — weakness or
deficiency.
This system of apprenticeship, which has been established instead of the usual Model
School practice, is said to work very well. Students are found to " derive from their ex-
perience a fresh interest in their chosen work. They realize the practical bearings of the
principles and methods they have studied ; they acquire the courage of having done
the thing before;" they test and see tested their remedies for the school troubles, inatten-
tion, disobedience and the like, in the actual life of the schoolroom, and, generally
they acquire a practical knowledge of organization, government, etc., that is of great
use to them at the critical period, when they must take charge of their first school.
The government of this Normal School is excellent. There is no tyranny ; the stu-
dents are educated to self-government ; he only can govern others who has learned to
govern hims 'If. The most kindly relations appear to subsist between the students and
the various Professors and teachers ; there is the freedom of social intercourse tempered
with the affection and respect on the part of the pupils, which seems to spring from a
profound conviction that the commanding aim of the instructors is the highest possible
culture of the students, physical, intellectual, moral and professional.
3. State Normal School, Farmingham, Mass.
Staff". — Principal, Miss Ellen Hyde ; nine assistants.
This school is for girls only. Its design, course of study, and terms of admis-
sion are the same as for the State Normal School at Worcester. The branches pre-
scribed to be taught in the Public Schools are made the principal subjects of teaching ;
while the higher branches afford the means for a more general culture as well as a more
thorough mastery of the elementary work.
Even if the students enter with a fair knowledge of the High School "studies," a
review of these subjects is deemed necessary in view of scientific accuracy and the attain-
ment of right methods of teaching. If the subject be, e.g., the fundamental rules of
arithmetic, the class, with the subject fresh in their minds, are led to consider what are
the best methods of teaching addition, etc., to children; and are required to give under
the direction of an experienced teacher, a series of lessons adapted to the grade of schools
in which these elements are to be taught.
So with reading. An accomplished teacher of elocution instructs her class exactly
how to produce the various sounds used in speaking, and how to correct lisping, stam-
mering, slovenly articulation, etc., which are so common in the schools ; and each member
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of the class is required to make practical use of what she has learned ; and her work is
criticised and corrected till she can acquit herself well.
A knowledge of the principles of psychology is deemed essential as the foundation
of all true teaching.
During the last term of the course the students, having finished the elementary work
of the course, and having acquired some of the principles of mental science, enter upona
more connected study of principles and methods of teaching, in which they are led to
consider as fully as possible all practical questions which arc likely to present themselves
in the work of the Public Schools.
There is a Model (or Training) School in connection with the Normal School, in
which experienced teachers are constantly illustrating the best methods of teaching and
governing.
During the last term of the course, every Normal School student has constant
opportunity for observation in this school, and teaches in it as assistant for a period of
from three to ten weeks, subject to constant criticism an 1 suggestion.
There is a Boarding Hall in connection with the Normal School, in which very com-
fortable accomodations, etc., are provided at the rate of $3.75 per week. The boarding-
house is well situated, and is pleasant, commodious .and comfortable in every respect.
The Principal and some of the assistant teachers reside in the boarding house, and
everything is made as home-like as possible.
From personal observation I have not the slightest doubt of the beneficial influence
of this arrangement on the morals, manners, and general social culture of the students.
I am of opinion that the work in this Institution, in both the Training and Aca-
demic department, is well done. The regular teachers in the Model (or Training) School
appear to me to be accomplished teachers ; while the lessons given by the Normal School
teachers were excellent.
Strict attention is paid to Drawing, Music, Reading , Elocution, and Experimental
Science.
4. State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass.
17 Jf Students: Gentlemen 50; Ladies 124-
Staff. — Principal, Albert G. Boyden, M.A. ; eight assistant professors and teachers.
General and professional education carried on together.
Literary course, same as in the other Normal schools (Worcester), the object being
to make the student as far as possible an educator, to give him a definite idea of the
true objects, the principles, and the methods of education, a thorough knowledge of the
subjects he will need to teach, with such a degree of skill in the application of these
principles and this knowledge, as will enable him to organize and control his own school,
and to educate his pupils.
All lessons are conducted on the topical plan. The object, or subject, is presented as
a whole, next its parts, then the relation of the parts. The topics for the study of an
object or subject are arranged in the natural order. The lessons analytically arranged are
assigned to the class, showing them what to study and in what order, and each topic is
taught to the class at the time the lesson is assigned so far as is necessary to teach them
how to study it, so as to be able to teach or present it to a class. But nothing is done
for the pupil which he can do for himself.
After preparation, the class are thoroughly examined upon the lesson. The outline
of topics is first stated, to present the lesson as a whole. The topics are then taught to
the class by different pupils, the class and the teacher (Professor) criticising the teaching ;
or the pupil presents the topic to the class, other pupils and the teacher make addi-
tions, and the class and teacher (Professor) criticise the presentation. After the teaching
or presenting, the Professor thoroughly questions the class on all the important points of
the lesson.
Each day a review of the preceding lesson is made, in its outline and main points, to
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fix the facts in the mind by repetition, and to connect the topics with the lesson of the
day. Each main division of a subject is reviewed in its outline and main topics to teach
the relation of the topics.
The subject as :i whole is reviewed, before leaving it in its outline and main points,
to teach all the parts in their relations.
The teaching of the topics by the pupils, seems the most thorough preparation of the
lesson ; for the pupil must (a) know the subject, (b) the logical arrangement of it, and (c)
how to teach it. If he does not know these three things, he must fail. It gives the pupil
command of himself, makes him self-reliant, and develops his individuality.
Students are educated to govern themselves, and to refrain voluntarily from all
improprieties of conduct. Those who are unwilling to conform cheerfully to the known
wishes of the Principal and his assistants are pi'esumed to be unfit to become teachers.
Here again the underlying principle is, they only can govern others who have learned to
govern themselves.
There is now a Training (Model) School, one of the town schools in which the Normal
School students make observations, and have some practice in teaching. The appliances
for the teaching of science are excellent. There are two tine chemical laboratories for
teaching and learning the subject, elementary and advanced, according to the best
modern ideas ; there is one room for the Professor's use, and a larger one in which a num-
ber of pupils can work at once, each pupil manipulating the apparatus and dealing with
the substances which he studies.
There are also two physical laboratories in which the subject of physics is taught
experimentally. Each pupil prepares the apparatus, performs the experiments, observes
and records his experiments
The advanced class (taking the four years' course) do work in Qualitative Analysis,
and in Quantitative Analysis.
I saw the students, in both the ordinary and. advanced courses, at work and was
satisfied of the excellence of the methods pursued.
The pupils are taught especially how to construct their own apparatus, largely from
oommon and cheap objects. In fact the whole course and the tendency of the teaching
cannot fail to make the student thoroughly master of the elements of these sciences, and
skilled in giving oral instruction to the childern of the schools.
There is a very pleasant and commodious boarding-house on the school premises.
Two students occupy one room. Each room has two closets, is carpeted, supplied with
the requisite furniture, heated by steam, lighted by gas, and thoroughly ventilated. The
boarding-house is in charge of the Principal, who, with his family, resides in the house, and
is in fact the head of a large, well governed and quite retined family.
The boarding-house was built and furnished by the State, which appropriated in 1869,
$25,000, for the erection of a boarding hall to accommodate sixty students; in 1874, this
was enlarged at a cost of $43,600. I believe the erection of this hall by the State, was
regarded at the outset, as an experiment ; there can be no doubt of the success of the
experiment. Principal Boyden regards its erection and equipment as the most important
event in the history of the school. It has been the indispensable condition of its growth
in numbers ; it has increased and improved the amount of the work done by
the pupils, and has been decidedly beneficial to the health, manners, and morals of the
students.
The boarders are to pay the current expenses, making the cost of board to each
student about $4 per week.
I consider this boarding arrangement an excellent feature in this Normal School. It
is an infinitely better plan than the no-plan system of permitting the students to find
" homes," in cheap boarding-houses where too often little is to be seen or felt of the salu-
tary influences of a refined home, and where the powerful character-forming influence of a
kind yet firm and authoritative supervision has no place. I had the great pleasure of
witnessing to some extent, the inner workings of this home life, and I have not the
slightest doubt that the high tone of the school, the general culture and refinement of the
students, their order, discipline, and enthusiasm, were id no slight degree to be attributed
to the home life in the boarding hall.
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5. City Normal School, Boston.
A Really " Professional " School.
Staff'. — Dr. Dunton, Principal. Three assistants besides the teachers of Drawing and
Music.
The Boston Normal School has been established for the purpose of giving professional
instruction and training to young women who intend to become teachers in the Public
Schools of Boston. It is the only school that I have visited whose teaching power is
almost exclusively confined to the professional training of teachers. It is, therefore, the
only one which is really similar to what our own Normal Schools have become since the
separation of the general (or academic) from the strictly professional course.
All students who enter this Institution must have completed the course of study in
the Boston High Schools — must present a certificate that they have completed the course.
This " academic " course embraces the following subjects: — Composition, Rhetoric, Eng-
lish Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern History, Civil Government, Botany,
Zoology, Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Arithmetic, includ-
ing tue Metric system, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Vocal Music, Drawing, Latin,
or French, or German.
Candidates who have not completed the fourth year in the Boston High Schools
must pas's an examination in the above course or its equivalent.
Eighteen years is the minimum age for admission.
The professional work of the school the Principal groups under the five following
heads: — (1) Physiology and Hygiene, (2) Psychology, (3) Special Reviews, (4) Methods
of Instruction, (5) Teaching under criticism (with observation in the Training School).
The pupils, of course, study these subjects during the High School course before
entering the Normal School. But the subject is taken up again in the Normal School (as
in ours) with special reference to the work of the Teacher.
The limits of the powers of children, the physical condition of effective mental action,
and the conditions of growth and health, the necessity for rest, air, sleep, and the means
of securing these, the means of guarding children against draughts of cold air, against
excessive heat, etc., etc., all these and many other details are considered and discussed for
a special purpose, giving to the student a special knowledge acquired for application to a
particular calling. It is justly assumed that physical education is of paramount impor-
tance— that the corpus sanum is a necessary condition of the mens sana.
The study of Psychology is considered essential ; the laws of mind as those of body-
must be known. It is mere assertion to say that there is »o science of Education, because
the principles of Psychology, which must underlie the science of Education, are not fully
known or settled. But we have a science of Chemistry, etc., though all the principles
are not fully settled. Certain principles of Psychology have been settled, as in Physiology,
and, so far as these are known, we have a foundation for a philosophy which is capable
of being studied and taught.
The usual course is followed of treating the subject under the three heads : — Intellect,
Sensibilities, Will. Intellect : Presentative, Representative, and Reflective faculties — in
this their order of development.
The study of the sensibilities includes their classification, the circumstances under
which they rise, and their dependence upon the action of the intellect.
The study of the will includes an appeal to consciousness for a knowledge of its
nature, and an enquiry into the conditions of its activity, the uniformity of its action
under given circumstances, its freedom, and the means of its cultivation.
It is considered necessary to study the subject throughout with special reference to
principles of teaching and government. It is studied both objectively and subjectively.
The attention of the students is turned in upon their own minds for a knowledge of mind
in action, and then directed to the study of children for the signs of mind in action.
A course of logic is taken by the teachers in training.
Moral r!;;I05oohy, too, in its bearing upon the qualifications of the teacher, and its
applications to the development of the child's moral nature.
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Some of the following leading principles deducible from the study of mind are made
.prominent in the professional instruction of the students : —
1. (1) The object of Education is the harmonious development of all the powers, and
the acquisition of knowledge.
2. Conduct is controlled through the will, the will through the feelings, and the feel-
ings through the intellect.
3. The mental faculties are strengthened through exercise.
4. Presentation precedes Representation, and Representation precedes Thought.
5. The mind is made to know by the presence of objects of knowledge.
6. The preceptive powers should be educated first : (a) In Education as a whole ;
( b) In each branch of study.
7. Ideas should precede words: (a) Things before names; (&) Thoughts before sen-
tences ; (c) Knowledge before definitions.
8. Instruction should proceed from the known to the unknown : (a) From the simple
to the complex ; (b) From the concrete to the abstract ; (c) From the facts to principles.
9. Memory is best cultivated by learning with attention, repeating with frequency,
and expressing with accuracy ; (a) Learn in the order in which you would recall ; (b)
Recite thoughtfully ; (c) Tell the exact truth.
10. Thinking should, as far as possible, be done by the pupils.
11. Processes of education are generally incomplete till thinking is followed by doing.
In the discussion of each of these principles two things are kept especially prominent,
their relation to Psychology on the one hand, and their relation to methods on the other ;
the one in proof of its validity, the other in proof of its use.
Another branch of work in the Normal School is a Special Review of Arithmetic,
Grammar, Geography, etc., subjects which the Normal School graduates will be called
to teach in the exercise of their duties as teachers. These reviews, the importance of
which is frequently overlooked, are regarded as indispensable. A subject may have been
well learned during the student's previous (academic) course, but in order to teach it well
he must know something more about it. His knowledge must be re-examined ; it must
be analyzed into its elements ; and the logical dependence of these elements upon one
another must be clearly seen. This critical, this pedagogical examination of a subject is
not possible, perhaps not expedient, in the first mastery of it, but it is a necessary con-
dition of the thorough teaching of any subject. Besides, many of the Normal School
students learned the common branches when they were too young to acquire so thorough
a grasp of a subject as every true teacher ought to possess, and thus their first and neces-
sarily less thorough study of a subject needs to be supplemented by a later and deeper
.one.
Students are made thoroughly well acquainted with the most approved methods of
teaching the different subjects of the school course. The lessons given in this department
by the several " teachers of method " are simple, practical, yet thoroughly philosophical
in character, and seemed to me eminently calculated to put the students in possession of a
knowledge and experience which would render it impossible for them to perpetuate those
serious blunderings in the training of children which surely mark the career of the un-
trained teacher.
Observation and Practice. — The principles of education cannot be fully mastered,
especially in their relation to methods, unless illustrated by their application ; and this
can be done only where they are practised. To this end the teachers, in training, make
observations, and are afforded a good deal of practice in the excellent Training School
which is connected with the Normal School. There is systematic training in this direction.
A series of exercises is laid out in advance, beginning with the observation of the work
of the regular teachers, and ending with the independent preparation and giving of
lessons by the Normal School students. They are taught to observe — they cannot escape,
even if they would, with a mere looking on. All their powers are concentrated in the
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work of observing, because, at first, they are required to report just what they see and
hear in the lesson given by the regular teacher, then later on, they must endeavour to
ascertain the teacher's object and plan. Their teaching is all done under the eye of the
regular teachers of the classes, or of the Normal School instructors (one or more). There
is, I mean, always one, at least, of the Normal School teachers present during the " train-
ing " lesson. By this arrangement errors in method and violations of principles are at
once brought to their attention, and the means of correction pointed out. The experience
thus gained is real experience. There may be an unintelligent experience, an experience
which comes from the ceaseless repetition of wrong methods, which is, in fact, worse than
no " experience." But experience gained while teaching under wise criticism is something
really worthy of the name.
Training Exercises. — One section class of the Normal School students, accompanied
by a Normal School teacher, visit a class in tbe Training School daily, witness the regular
work of the room twenty or thirty minutes, return and report orally to the teacher accom-
panying them. This report is merely an orderly statement of what is done and said in
the room visited, their teacher making the statement complete and calling attention to
points of excellence, etc.
These visits are made at the same hour on successive days, so that the same lesson is
seen each day during the week. So far the other section Normal School pupils teach
classes from the Training School, following the regular programme of the division (or
grade) from which the children come.
One set section (of Normal School pupils) teach a class of twelve children twenty or
thirty minutes daily, under the direction of one of the Normal teachers, the same subject
being taught at the same hour to the same pupils for a week. After the teaching, the
remainder of the hour is devoted to criticisms by the Normal pupils and their teacher.
Special preparation for these lessons is made at another hour. The other section of the
Normal School pupils do the same under the direction of another Normal School teacher.
Observing and reporting single lessons given in Training Schools. This is a repetition
of exercise.
(1) Observing the work of a Division (or grade) two whole days.
One section of the Normal School pupils is distributed through the " Grammar "
Department of the Training School, three or four being sent to a room, They remain in
the same room two entire days. The first day each pupil (Normal School) reports the
programme of the room in which the observations are made ; the second day, the pro-
gramme and one lesson are reported. The report of the lesson shows (1) the object of
the lesson ; and (2) the steps by which this object was gained, as the student gathered
them from observation.
The next two days the second section does the same. The Normal School teachers
attend their pupils as far as practicable during this work.
Teaching before the class. — This is a repetition of Exercise (2), that is, teaching before
the Normal class. A class of pupils being brought in from the Training School.
Teaching in the Training School. — One section of the Normal School pupils is sent
to the Training School, two pupils to a room, to remain till recess every day for a week.
One of these two pupils teaches one lesson each day, the same subject being carried
through the week ; the other section observes and conducts physical exercises. After
recess the pupils (Normal School) change grade, those in the Grammar Department going
to the Primary School, and conversely. The pupils who taught before recess observe and
conduct physical exercises, and the others teach, following the same subjects for a week.
The Second section do similar work the next week. The Normal teachers inspect the
Normal School pupils while at their work, and assist them in preparing the lessons they
are to teach. The Training School teachers report on the work of the Normal School
students.
Teaching before the Class. — This is a repetition of Exercise No. 2, and affords a test
of the progress of the Normal School students, their gain in power, etc.
Observing and Teaching in the Public Schools. — The students of one section spend a
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week in the lower grades of the Public Schools — one pupil in a room — the room being
selected by the Principal of the school. The student (Normal School) is under the direc-
tion and supervision of the regular teachers and does as much work in teaching, caring for
the children, etc., as the regular teachers can reasonably allow. The Normal School
Teachers visit each teacher-in-training during the week to witness the work of the student.
At the end of the week the Principal of the school, after consultation with the teacher
who has had the oversight of the student-teacher, reports to the Principal of the^Normal
School.
The next week the second section does similar work. This exercise is regarded by
Dr. Dunton as a most valuable one.
Model Lessons in Teaching. — All the Normal School students go to the Primary
School for an hour and a quarter every day for three weeks, to witness Model Lessons in
teaching, and for criticisms of these lessons. Some of the lessons are given by the
Faculty of the Normal School and some by the Normal School students — one lesson every
day by each. About half the time is spent in teaching and half in criticism. These
exercises are considered of great value as illustrating principles of government and teach-
ing.
I spent about three days in this Normal School, noting some of the preceding " Ex-
ercises," and the work done by the teachers of methods, as well as the Lectures on Psy-
chology, etc., by the Principal, Dr. Dunton.
Music, Drawing, Blackboard illustrations, occupy a prominent place. And I should
judge that every student graduated leaves this institution with no small degree of power
in blackboard illustration, etc.
6. State Normal School, New Britain, Conn.
1.50 Students — both sexes.
Staff. — J. N. Carleton, M.A., Principal ; and eight Assistants, Professors and
Teachers.
It is not necessary to give a detailed statement of the work of this Institution, as
the course of study, methods pursued, etc., are very similar to those of the Massachusetts
Normal Schools. The course extends over two years — each year being divided into two
terms of nineteen weeks each. As in the Massachusetts Normal Schools there is sound
practical instruction in Psychology, and its applications in Education, (by Principal Carle-
ton,) and particular attention is given to Drawing, Elocution and Practical Science. The
Academic training and the Professional go on together.
7. City Normal College, New York.
For Girls only.
Staff. — Dr. Thomas Hunter, President; and about 30 Assistant Professors and Tutors.
Average attendance of students (1880) 1,250.
There is a large Training school in connection with the College.
The course of study, until recently, extended through a period of three years. A
four years' course is now required for graduation. The subjects studied are: — Latin,
French, Grammar, English, Algebra, Geometry, History, Drawing, Music, Physics,
Botany, Conic Sections, Physiology, Higher Arithmetic, Astronomy, Methods of Teach-
ing, Mental Philosophy, Physical Geography Ethics.
Candidates for admission are supposed to have passsed through the "Grammar"
Department of the Public Schools. They are examined in Arithmetic, Algebra, Geo-
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graphy, Grammar, History, Spelling, Drawing. Each candidate is required to obtain a
minimum of 75 per cent, in every subject.
I do not think it necessary to give a detailed statement of what I was permitted
to observe in this Institution. It is a large High School with a Training School attached ;
the professional work seems to be an altogether secondary thing — the principal object be-
ing to carry the student through a fair literary course.
//. and III. Secondary Education, Intermediate and Primary Education.
Having spent a good deal of time in inquiring into the working of the Normal
Schools, I had but comparatively little time for the investigation of Secondary and Pri-
mary Education.
However, I visited several Representative High Schools in New York, Massachu-
setts, and Connecticut ; and inspected some of the best Public Schools in the cities of
Albany, Worcester, Boston and New York. I shall have some remarks to make under
these heads, in the concluding part of this Report. Meantime I give the course of study
in some of the best High Schools.
1. "Worcester High School.
Course of study.
The course extends through a period of four or five years, and embraces the following
studies : —
Latin. — Grammar and Composition. Caesar, Ovid, Virgil and Cicero.
Greek. — Grammar and Composition. Anabasis, Homer, Herodotus.
Algebra. — Grammar, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Physiology, Geology, English
Grammar, Literature, Composition, and Rhetoric, French, German, Astronomy, Political
Economy, and Civil Government, Music, and Drawing. The course was originally four
years — a fifth year has been added to meet the special needs of those who intend to take
a college course.
2. Albany High School.
Course of Study.
ENGLISH COURSE.
First Year. — Algebra ; English Grammar and Analysis ; Physical Geography.
Second Year. — Geometry ; Natural Philosophy ; Rhetoric ; Zoology ; Critical Read-
ing— Milton.
Junior Year. — Trigonometry ; Outlines of History ; English Literature ; Chemistry;
Geology ; Botany commenced.
Senior Year. — Mental Science ; Moral Science ; Surveying ; Astronomy ; Botany
completed ; Political Economy ; Book-Keeping and Commercial Arithmetic.
CLASSICAL COURSE.
First Year. — Latin Grammar and Reader ; Ancient History — Rome ; Physical
Geography ; Algebra.
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Second Year. — Cassar ; Greek Grammar and Reader ; Ancient History — Greece ;
Geometry.
Junior Year. — Virgil ; Anabasis ; Mediaeval History ; Latin Prose Composition.
Senior Year. — Cicero ; Greek Prose Composition ; Homer— Iliad ; Book-Keeping
and Commercial Arithmetic.
LATIN-ENGLISH COURSE.
First Year. — Algebra ; Latin Grammar and Reader ; Ancient History — Rome ;
Physical Geography.
Second Year. — Geometry ; Zoology ; Natural Philosophy ; Csesar.
Junior Year. — English Literature ; Ancient History ; Chemistry ; Virgil.
Senior Year. — Mental Philosophy ; Moral Philosophy ; Political Economy ; Cicero ;
Book-Keeping and Commercial Arithmetic.
The above is only an outline of the course of study, but is sufficient to enable students
to make a choice. In addition to the branches of study specified above, general exer-
cises, including Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, Declamation or Select Readings, and
Composition, are required of the whole school. Each course is so arranged as to require
of each pupil three recitations daily. After the first year French or German may be
added, at the option of the student.
CHOICE OF COURSE OP STUDY.
On entering the High School, scholars are expected to select the course of study
which each wishes to pursue. It is important that this subject be carefully considered
before the choice is made, as, from considerations of advantage to the student, as well as
from a proper regard for the system and discipline of the Institution, when once com-
menced, the wune course must be continued as long as the student remains in the Institu-
tion, unless adequate reason for changing can be presented to the Committee on the High
School. The choice is to be made by the parent or guardian, or submitted by them to the
judgment of the Faculty.
3. New Britain High School, Conn.
Course of Study. — (a) General Course.
o £ (Summer, Arithmetic, Physiology, Latin or German.
'3j|<Fall, Algebra, Physical Geography, do
»^5 I Winter, do Book Keeping, do
"2:3 « (Summer, Algebra, Botany, Latin or Gramma*.
§ -a J <^ Fall, do Nat. Philosophy, do
,Jjg5 I Winter, Geometry, do do
«••§ „j (Summer, Geometry, Nat. Philosophy, Latin, German or French.
.S? Ss Fall, do do and Chemistry, do
^§5 I Winter, Astronomy, Chemistry, do
o »' (Summer, Astronomy, English Literature, Latin, German or French.
3 8 < Fall, Geology, Medieval and Modern History, do
fo I Winter, do Modern History, do
Pupils preparing for a Scientific Department at College take an advanced course in
Mathematics, in place of Astronomy and Geology.
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(b) Classical Course.
I Summer, Mathematics,
a S< Fall, as in the
^Q I Winter, Gen. Course,
Physiology,
Physical < (eography,
Book Keeping,
Latin Reader,
do
do
sS3
Summer, Mathematics,
Fall, as in the
Winter, Gen. Course,
Botany,
Greek Lessons,
do
Csesar and Latin Prose Composition.
do
do
^_2 • ( Summer, Geometry,
■ •a _
•S'O *
Fall,
Winter,
do
Trigonometry or Latin,
Anabasis and Greek
Prose Composition,
do
do
Cicero and Latin
Prose Composition
do
do
Anabasis and Greek
Prose Composition,
Iliad,
do
Virgil and Latin
Prose Composition.
do
do
t, . /'Summer, English Literature,
.2 | )
§ tt \ Fall, Latin and
83 V Winter, Mathematics,
Summer, Review of Studies.
The classes in each course have exercises in Reading twice a week, in Composition,
Singing and in Drawing or Penmanship weekly, in Spelling daily.
Opportunity is also given for a review of Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar
and the Study of History by weekly recitations in the successive classes.
Exercises in Reading and Declamation alternate with meetings of the Debating
Society on Wednesday afternoon from three to four o'clock.
Part II. — General Discussion.
1. Normal Schools.
Under this head I was directed to note
(1) Relation of Professional to General (or Academic) Training.
(2) Pyschology and Principles of Education, how far taught, etci
(3) Practical application of these.
(4) Details of courses in Normal Schools.
(5) All points that might be of use in Improving our own System of Training.
I shall consider these in order —
(1) Relation of Professional to General Training.
The necessity of professional training for teachers (in all grades of schools) is univer-
sally admitted. The work of the teacher is no longer regarded as of so simple and easy
a character that it may be entrusted to any man who possesses a mere smattering of the
elements of learning — or that knowledge however varied and thorough, is alone sufficient
to qualify a man for the most important of all callings.
Massachusetts has six Normal Schools, — besides the "Normal Art School" — and
New York has nine.
The Boston Normal School is the only one that illustrates Minister Crooks' idea of the
true function of a Normal School, viz., that of giving professional training alone.
In all the others, the professional and the academic training are carried on together.
But there is a general consensus of opinion amongst the educators whom I met, that
under certain conditions, not at present perhaps practicable with them, but certainly
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feasible with us — Normal Schools can be confined to their true function. These condi-
tions will be specified a little further on.
The arguments that some have advanced in support of the opposite view, viz : That
Normal Schools should give the entire training, professional and academic, are in sub-
stance the following : —
(a) The student receives more thorough and systematic drill — acquires wider and
sounder scholarship — and generally, a higher intellectual culture ; because : (1) The
Normal School Masters are generally abler men than the Masters of High and Grammar
Schools ; and (2) They have the students for a longer time under instruction than when
the Normal Schools are confined to a merely professional course.
(A) Better professional training is given — because: (1) All Normal Masters keep
constantly in view the fact that they are instucting those who are going to teach, and
direct their teaching accordingly, making every lesson — so far as aim, method, and prin-
ciples are concerned — a model lesson for the student. (2) Not only is every lesson by
every Professor a practical lesson in didactics, but the Professors have a longer time and
larger opportunities of giving practical effect to their instructions in the science and art
of teaching. (3) The student has time and opportunity, by observation and practice in
the training schools, to acquire an intelligent experience and considerable skill in practi-
cally applying the principles and methods he has been taught. He learns to do by doing ;
not by being told how to do ; and (4) The Professors are themselves trained teachers as
those who teach teachers ought to be ; so that by long training under accomplished
teachers, students become inspired with the very spirit of the true teacher.
(c) The separation of the professional from the academic course cannot be successful
because :
(1) A teacher will teach as he has been taught, and not as he has been told how to
teach. If a teacher has himself been badly taught in the Public School and in the High
School where he has received his general education, a brief session at a Normal School
will not free him from the bad habits he has acquired, and send him out an earnest and
intelligent follower of methods which he has indeed heard about, but which have not become
his own by education and training : (2) And, it is alleged, this imperfect teaching in the
schools which undertake the work of general education, is a fact. The teaching is super-
ficial— the tendency is to cram ; students are not taught to explain the reasons of pro-
cesses, to enquire why and where/ore, etc.
(d) Higher general culture is secured. There is longer intercourse with Professors.
Professors have the opportunity of studying the characters of their students, noting their
defects as well as traits of excellence — and of paying special attention to morals and
manners, and all that tends to the higher culture.
(e) Not only is there more thorough drill in the various branches of the course but the
knowledge acquired is more scientific — it is knowledge methodized ; the student is put
in thorough possession of what he knows, and of an independent power of application —
and this in addition to how to teach. While in being taught, on the other hand, in the
ordinary High and Grammar Schools whose work it is to educate pupils of less power
and maturity of mind, this result is impossible, and undesirable even if it were possible.
Now it may be admitted that if the work of national education could be carried on
regardless of expense, it might be well — it would probably be better that the Normal
Schools should give the entire education of the Teacher — -general as well as professional.
But the expense entailed by this system would be enormous. Even with the liberal pro-
vision which Massachusetts makes for the training of teachers, only about 200 graduates
annually, come from her Normal Schools, and only about 26 per cent, of her teachers
have received a Normal School training ; and in New York State the current expenses
alone of the Normal Schools amounted to $185,000 in 1880, while the number of gradu-
ates was only 271. Of the upwards of 30,000 teachers in the State only about 1,200
hold Normal School Certificates.
(a) As a matter of economy, therefore, it becomes imperative to separate the
general from the professional training, and to make the latter the chief business of the
Normal Schools. Besides, since the High Schools, etc., are established to give a
sound general education, it is a reckless waste of public money to maintain Normal
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Schools to do the same work. And here is the sufficient answer to most of the reasons
that have been advanced against the separation o^ the two course of training ; if th^
High Schools are not efficient — if they are too weak to impart sound knowledge, and
that by rational methods — make them what they ought to be. The State has the power
to make them what they ought to be — capable of giving thorough knowledge by rational
methods.
(6) By this arrangement the Professors in the Normal Schools can, in a session of
reasonable length, give more time to purely professional work, while not neglecting the
supplementing and methodizing of the students knowledge. The teaching power of the
Institution is employed to turn out trained teachers.
(c) The energies of the student are concentrated in the effort to acquire the science and
art of education, to learn how to acquire knowledge and how to impart it to others with
the best educational effects — not the matter of instruction but man and the methods by
which the matter can be applied in the education of man, are the prime objects of his
study. This undivided attention to one great object is of the highest importance. If a
student is ignorant of a subject, his all-absorbing aim is to get possession of the subject ;
and just then he has but little power to bestow on the philosophy of method, whether
given by precept or example. When I saw students wrestling with facts of " Square
Measure," the principles of the "Square Root" and the solution of a simple equation,
under the direction of accomplished Normal School instructors, the conviction was forced
upon me that such knowledge might have been acquired in less expensive schools, and
that the power of the masters might have been employed to better advantage in giving
strictly professional lessons.
(d) Reviews are indeed necessary, but in addition to strictly professional training in
methods, etc., there can be thorough reviews of all the subjects of the general course,
especially those which the student will be called upon to teach, with a view (1) to sup-
plement his knowledge of the more important branches, and (2) to methodize his know-
ledge, give it scientific value. (See description of " Reviews " in my account of the
Boston Normal School.) This is admitted to be necessary if the best results in profes-
sional training are to be reached.
(e) If the previous academic training has been thorough the student brings greater
intelligence and power to the study of man and method. There is a foundation to build
upon ; you cannot professionally train the illiterate and the unintelligent. Of course
the Normal School which has an exceptionally long course, may lay this foundation before
proceeding with the strictly professional work. But a student who has taken a full course
in a good High School and afterwards spent one year in a Normal School which is con-
fined, in the main, to giving professional training, will prove a better trained teacher,
than if he had received his entire training in two years' (the usual length of course)
Normal School course.
Conditions necessary. — As already intimated, the foregoing reasons assume that
candidates for a strictly professional training should have a thorough knowledge of all the
leading branches of the school curriculum, and that this knowledge should have been
acquired under the influence of the best educational methods. It must be at once admit-
ted that if candidates for the profession have been the subjects of long years of bad teach-
ing— bad teaching in the Primary School and bad teaching in the High School, a brief
Normal School course, a brief discussion of methods and principles, even with some de-
sultory observation and practice in a training-school, will not avail to correct the inveterate
habits which have been the steady growth of years. The student learned to do by
doing wrong, and no amount of telling of a " better way," will lead him to forsake the
beaten and familiar path. It is, therefore, absolutely necessary that the general education
should be obtained under trained teachers. The teachers of our teachers must themselves
be trained men. It is not necessary to enlarge upon this point here. But in my Annual
Report I shall attempt to show : —
(1) That the teachers in Secondary High Schools equally with those in Primary
Schools, ought to be professionally trained ; and
(2) That this is of vital importance in our system which requires the High Schools
to educate our teachers.
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Another necessary condition of success is that the course of professional training in
the Normal Schools should be of sufficient length to enable them to do well the important
work they are designed to accomplish.
In the Boston Normal School, which is concerned with strictly professional work,
the length of the course is one school year, and Dr. Dunton the Principal tells me that,
if it were practicable, he would prefer a still longer term of training in view of the work
to be accomplished. If the work of the Normal School is to be at all satisfactory, there
must be sufficient time : —
(1) For a methodical review, with the object of securing scientific unity of the
branches which the student has learned. (See under Boston Normal School.) This will
also improve the student's knowledge of subjects in which his general education may have
been defective.
(2) For a fair education in special branches which may not have been taught at all,
or taught very imperfectly in the High Schools, as, e.g., Drawing, Music, etc.
(3) For sound instruction in Mental Science and Ethics in their application to intel-
lectual ami moral education, methods founded on principles.
(4) For intelligent observation and practice in the Model or training school, in order
that the student may acquire, as far as possible, skill in the application of the principles
he is being taught day by day.
(5) For the eradication of bad habits of study, of acquisition and other consequences
of imperfect training, and the substitution of better methods of acquiring and assimilating
knowledge.
(6) For the general culture which comes from the silent, yet powerful influence of
daily intercourse with strong and cultivated men.
It is beyond question, therefor, that the proposal of the Hon. the Minister of Edu-
cation, to lengthen our Normal School course is a step in the right direction, is in fact
essential to secure the desired results.
Under these conditions I have no doubt that the plan of separating the Academic
from the Professional course can be made entirely successful. The Boston Normal School
affords a satisfactory example of this. Some of the best teaching, I had the pleasure of
witnessing during my visit, I might say some of the best I ever saw was done by gradu-
ates of this school. They had been subject to a long course of training in the City Public
Schools, this had been followed by a full course of four years in the High Schools, and this
again, by one year's sound professional training, under earnest and capable teachers. The
results were eminently good. Nature, indeed, had contributed something to these results,
for nascitur nonfit which is so often applied to the true poet, may at least in a measure,
be affirmed of the true teacher. Here was natural aptitude trained to high perfection.
The teacher had learned to play on the "harp by playing on the harp," but evidently
every touch of her finger had been directed by one who was skilled on the instrument.
In the lowest Primary grade I saw lessons given in reading, number, colour, form,
measure (the metric system), and all were given with the educative power of the true
teacher. The fundamental maxims of education, from the concrete to the abstract, from
the known to the unknown, from the idea to the word, from the thought to the
expression, etc., which are often glibly repeated and as often mere dead vocables
without a living influence, had entered thoroughly into the teachers conception of
her work and spontaneously governed every act and element in her 'teaching. She
did not "communicate" knowledge, she helped her pupils to acquire knowledge.
She never did for the pupils what they could do for themselves, the development
of their self-activity was her studied aim. She seemed to know exactly just what
the pupils could do for themselves, and what they could not do, and with admirable tact
led the little ones to recognize in the unknown that was before them, the familiar features
of the known. She knew that self-exercise on the part of her pupils, was the necessary
condition of the acquisition of knowledge, and the development of power ; and therefore
both the senses and the intellect were kept in constant activity, the children saw with
their eyes, they heard with their ears, they wrought with their hands ; and there fore they
" understood with their hearts."
It is needless to say that the discipline was admirable, only under such teaching and
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such a teacher could such discipline be secured. There was no lecturing or scolding, or
threatening, or assuming of looks "severe and stern to view," even in the lowest primary
class, the principle of self-government, was the grand power in discipline, the little ones
has learned to govern themselves.
The manner of presenting the subject matter of the lessons was so interesting, and
so thoroughly enlisted the self-active cooperation of the pupils, that there was no disposi-
tion for idleness. Order and interest, and attention were freely manifested by the pupils,
because they seemed to feel instinctively, that without order and attention the many
pleasant things which made their school hours so bright and joyous, would be lost to
them.
The teacher never went beyond the " fatigue point " (as Bain calls it) in her lesson.
At the end of each recitation, a brief time was allowed for relaxation. This freedom
would have probably shocked the old school disciplinarian. Indeed I am not sure that
the entire discipline would have been quite satisfactory to the martinet of the new
school, whose ideas of order and attention are centred in the rectilineal attitude, the
metallic rigidity of limb and feature, the staring look, and the death-like silence of the
prison-house where " all the air a solemn stillness holds." Here were rather the graceful
posture, the bright intelligent attention, the pleasant expectation of delightful things to
come— the free, natural movement of the " little child yet glorious in the might of its
Heaven-born freedom," but guided by the hand of Love along the pleasant ways that lead
to strong and cultured life.
Under such teachings and surroundings as here prevailed, the children — I was not
surprised to be informed — considered it a severe punishment to be kept away from school.
If all our schools could be made like this, the question of truancy and compulsory atten-
dance would be effectually settled, there would be no truants and none to be " com-
pelled."
2. Principles of Education.
I have given in the first part of this report, a moderately full account of what
is included under this head. In every school there is a Professor of Psychology and
Ethics — who treats these subjects with special reference to the work of education ; in
most of the schools there is also a teacher of special methods — and thus the student is
shown the best method of teaching from the very elements, every branch of the
Public School course, arithmetic, reading, etc.
There is no attempt at metaphysics ; but little time is spent over the unsolved, and
ji srhaps unsolvable, problems of the Campus Philosophorum. But a knowledge of the
different mental powers, the order of their development, and the conditions and modes of
their right action, are unfolded in a simple and practical, yet thoroughly logical
manner.
I saw a good deal of the kind of instruction given in this department, and I have
no doubt of its high value in the professional training of teachers. I noticed that every-
where— Worcester, Boston, Bridgewater, New Britain — the students shewed a living
interest, not to say enthusiasm, in the study of mind. I noticed too, that everywhere,
they seemed to be profoundly impressed with the worth of the material on which the
teacher has to operate, and with the far-reaching consequences of the teachers'
work.
3. Practical application
of these principles in the work of education. See tirnt part of this report. I shall
merely recapitulate the principal points.
(a) Observation in theTraining Schools— (1) Examination as to the results of observa-
tion— training to observe.
(2) Observation of the teaching — by Professors — of classes drafted from the Model
School.
(3) Observation and discussion of one another's work in teaching — -classes formed of
teachers-in-training.
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(i) Observation and discussion of the author's work in teaching classes from the
Model School.
(b) Practice (1) under supervision and criticism with the Normal School class.
(2) Practice under criticism in connection with classes in the Model School.
(3) Practice and criticism thereon in connection with classes taken from the Model
School into the Normal School.
(c) Apprenticeship (1) in the Model Schools.
(2) In the Public Schools — this has been described.
(</) Methods. — Professors teach and illustrate the best methods of instruction in every
branch, for every age, and stage of development. The teachers of methods, in and by
their own teaching, exhibit these methods. And the students have almost constant prac-
tice in the methods thus set before them.
4. Details of Courses of Study.
It will be seen from an examination of the first part of the report, that an extensive
course of study is prescribed in those Normal Schools in which the general work is not
separated from the academic. In all the schools, great prominence is given to Music,
Drawing, Reading and Elocution, and Science.
Candidates for admission to the Boston Normal School are required to have com-
pleted the four years' course in the High School, which embraces the following sub-
jects : —
English Grammar, Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, History (Ancient, Medieval
and Modern), Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Anatomy and Physiology, Botanj', Zoology,
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Latin or French or German, Vocal Music
and Drawing.
The course of study prescribed for the professional training is : —
Principles of Education, Methods of Instruction, Physiology and Hygiene, Natural
Science, Language. — Elementary Studies, Music, Drawing, Observation and Practice in
the Training School, and Observation and Practice in other Public Schools.
5. Points deserving Special Notice.
(a) Drawing in the Schools. — In Massachusetts, drawing is now considered essential
in Elementary Education. In the eye of the law it is regarded as one of the "funda-
mental" branches, and Public School Teachers are to be qualified to teach it just as
they are qualified to teach the "Three R's" — the "Industrial Drawing Act" of 1870,
requiring that in future every child in schools supported by public taxes shall be taught
to draw, and the " Normal Art School " was established to supply trained teachers of
Industrial Drawing. The school law of New York, too, though less mandatory than that
of Massachusetts, recognizes the necessity of Drawing in the Public Schools, as having an
important bearing in the direction of industrial education. Indeed, throughout the entire
Union, the teaching of Drawing to all classes of pupils is looked upon as of vital
importance in the future development of education.
At a recent meeting of the National Association of School Superintendents, a
resolution was unanimously adopted, affirming that Drawing should form one of the
fundamental branches of study in all grades of schools.
Educationally, the object of drawing is to train the perceptive faculties and the
imagination, thus developing a love of order and a taste for originality. Practically, it
is to lay the foundation of taste and skill in the industrial occupations in which three-
fourths of the pupils of the schools must find their employment.
I append an outline of the course in Drawing prescribed for the Primary Schools in
Massachusetts — for pupils from five to eight years of age.
(6) Science and Science Teaching. — From the first part of this report it will be seen
that science occupies a prominent place in the course of study for the Normal Schools — Ele-
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mentary Chemistry, Botany and Physics receiving special attention. As I shall endeavour
in my annual report to show the practical as well as intellectual value of these sciences, I
need not now dwell upon the topic. It is enough to say that the vast majority of the
pupils of the schools go out into one or another of the great industries ; and that whether
they become farmers or manufacturers, or miners, or mechanics, they are likely to
encounter practical questions in which a knowledge of chemistry and physics will prove
highly useful. Can these sciences, then, be taught in the schools 1
I understand that the Minister of Education proposes to give greater prominence to
science in the High and Normal Schools, with a view to render teachers largely indepen-
dent of text-books, and capable of giving valuable oral instruction in science in the Public
Schools.
From what I have observed I have no doubt that this plan is quite feasible. Our
teachers can be trained to give such instruction ; and without over-crowding the pupil, a
place can be found for it in our Public Schools, if proper methods of teaching the
" fundamental " branches are strictly followed.
The teaching of Chemistry and Physics in the Normal Schools I visited is in my
opinion what it ought to be, and is attended with the best results.
(c) Laboratory and Class-room Work go Hand in Hand. — The student from the be-
ginning experiments, observes, infers. And further : A prime object of the Professors is
to make .the student expert in constructing apparatus for himself out of the commonest
materials. This is of the last importance. • Costly apparatus is not needed for teaching
the elements of these sciences ; on the contrary it often happens that the humbler the
apparatus the more effective the teaching. I saw students working; I saw them con-
triving their own apparatus ; and noted with great satisfaction what a skilled teacher
can do in cultivating in his students the art of getting along with what some would call
make-shifts. Our teachers must be able to do this, if their oral instruction in the schools
is to be worth anything. Teaching from books alone is worthless — there is no intellectual
culture and no practical value in and through such " teaching," there is a cramming of
" dead vocables," a memoriter repetition of words — this, and nothing more. As, there-
fore, the Public Schools cannot be provided with costly apparatus, this power of the
teacher to improvise instruments for himself is indispensable.
As a distinguished American teacher has said, the student-teacher must be taught to
construct for himself out of the simplest materials the instruments for his experiments —
to make, for example, a pneumatic trough out of a wash-basin ; an electrophorus from a
tin-plate and some sealing wax ; a galvanic battery with a few bits of wire, scraps of
copper and zinc, and half a dozen tumblers.
To illustrate let me give a brief outline of a lecture by Prof. Osbun, of the Salem
Normal School, which I heard him deliver before a Teachers' Institute in Rockland, near
Boston. The lecture was entitled : —
Means and Methods in Elementary Physics. — The purpose of the lecture was two-
fold ; (1) to show how to teach the subject ; and (2) to show how the necessary apparatus
might be contrived.
First : — This science ( Physics), it was said, must certainly be taught by means of experi-
ments, rather than by means of the text-book. He showed that the simple matter of experi-
ment was worthy of very careful attention — claiming that every experiment might be
divided into three distinct parts. The first part relates to that which the teacher or
pupil does with the apparatus. A description of this for convenience might be called
the experiment. The second part of an experiment relates to that which the pupil should
see, or hear, or perceive in any way by the senses ; this part is the observation. The
third part of the experiment relates to that which the pupil is naturally led to think
after seeing what was done with the apparatus and what happened ; this part was called
the Inference.
A few model exercises, which were printed on charts, illustrating these points were
then exhibited. But in the second place : —
If Natural Philosophy is to be taught by means of experiment, of course apparatus
will be required. This being the case, what shall the teacher do in the schools wherr
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philosophical apparatus is not supplied I A consideration of this point was the second
purpose of the lecture.
The speaker then exhibited a number of pieces of home-made apparatus — make-shifts
if you will — which showed that teachers may find means about their houses, to illustrate
according to the true experimental method, a good elementary course in Physics.
A pump made with a couple of spools and a lamp-chimney ; a curious piece of appa-
ratus for showing wave-motion, constructed with some bent pins stuck through a piece of
paste-board, and made to revolve by a kind of crank ; a telegraph made with a straw, a
couple of screws and a little copper wire and a board ; a galvanic battery made with a
dinner plate and some pieces of metal immersed in a little weak acid ; some chemical ap-
paratus made with tobacco pipes joined to bottles, were examples of what may be done
in a common country school.
If the teacher had not time to do all this work, he could call upon the boys and girls
in his class, and this would be a sure means of arousing an interest in the science.
This illustrates the principal features in the Science teaching of the Normal Schools.
Of course the Science teachers of our Normal Schools do what they can in this direc-
tion ; but hitherto the time at their disposal has been too short to allow the best results
to be secured. Experimental teaching must have a place in our High Schools — the schools
that now undertake to give our teachers a sound general education — -then we may fairly
expect the Science teachers of the Normal Schools to turn out skilled teachers of the
elements of science. Meantime we must not expect them to perforin impossibilities.
(d) Time spent in General and Professional Training. — The usual length of the High
School course is four years ; and the shortest Normal School course is two years — a good
many students take the four years' course. The Americans are a progressive people —
their inventive genius has become proverbial, but they have never been able to discover a
royal road to learning, nor to invent a means of annihilating time as a necessary condition
in producing culture. They have not in any State, I believe, devised a means of givin>r;
all the teachers of the Public Schools, a fair measure of professional training. So that
many teachers are to be found with little scholarship and little skill in teaching. But
the teachers whom they do educate and train professionally, in general, do credit to their
training, and are worthy of their calling. And this is due to the fact above referred to —
they consider that a long course of literary and professional training is indispensable to.
the turning out of really efficient teachers. I cannot now enlarge upon this point ; but I
have no doubt of its importance. I observed everywhere evidences of the good effects of
a long course of training under able and enthusiastic teachers.
(e) Boarding Halls hi connection toith Normal Schools. — In the first part of my report
1 have referred to the boarding halls established in connection with the Massachusetts-
Normal Schools. The excellence of the results is beyond question. See remarks in gen-
eral description of the schools I visited.
(/) Teachers' Institutes. — These are regarded as a most important element in educa-
tional work they are everywhere regarded as valuable auxiliaries to the Normal Schools ;
and are constantly growing in favour with the profession and all others who are really
interested in the advancement of National education. The State Superintendent of Mas-
sachusetts frequently conducts Institutes himself. I attended an Institute meeting at
which some of the foremost men of the State were present and manifested a deep
interest in the work. Governor Long, Hon. Mr. Price, Secretary of State, Hon. J. W.
Dickenson, State Superintendent, Dr. Dunton, and many other prominent educators.
In New York State, the Superintendent, Hon. N. Gilmour, employs competent
professional men to conduct Teachers' Institutes. The State paid more than $15,000 in
support of these Institutes.
II. Secondary Education.
Under this head I was directed to ascertain the coarse of study m some of the best
High Schools, the appliances for teaching, etc.
Having previously given the courses of study prescribed for some of the schools, 1
shall now briefly comment upon what I observed.
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(1) The course of study is in general more extensive than ours, including su'h
branches as Political Economy, Civil Government and Mental Science.
(2) Science occupies a prominent place in most of the courses. Botany, Geology,
Zoology, Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology, are studied with greater or less thorough-
ness.
(3) The appliances for teaching science are, so far as I observed, very good. In
Worcester, for example, there is an excellent science class-room, and a well appointed
Laboratory in which thirtystudents can work. The Albany School, also, is well equipped
for science teaching.
(4) A good deal of attention is paid to Music and Drawing. Some of the work done
in drawing was of a high order of merit. Many of the pupils acquire a taste for draw-
ing in the Public Schools, and their advanced course in the High School produces excellent
results.
(5) Reading and Rhetorical exercises are a necessary part in High School education.
(6) Most, if not all, the pupils in the High Schools had received a long course of
training in the Public Schools ; and quite a large per centage of them — including those
who intend to become teachers — complete the full course of study. Nearly sixty gradu-
ated from the Worcester High School in 1880, and upwards of seventy from the Albany
High School.
A consequence of this is that the graduates give evidence of no inconsiderable degree
of culture ; and those of them destined for the profession of teaching — if they have fair
natural aptitude — cannot fail to become good teachers after receiving a professional train-
ing in a good Normal School.
The Entrance Examination is more difficult, or perhaps I should say more compre-
hensive than ours — demanding a more careful training — and therefore the High School
masters have better material to work upon. As I have said, all, or nearly all, candidates
for entrance, have had a long training in the Public School, and have acquired a good deal
of proficiency in Writing, Drawing, Music, Reading, Spelling, Geography, History and
Arithmetic.
Payment on Results. — The New York State " Preliminary (Entrance^ and Inter-
mediate," and Academic Examinations.
These Examinations were devised originally to provide an equitable basis for the
distribution of the Literature Fund (corresponding to our High School grant) amongsc
the secondary schools of the State. The Preliminary and the Intermediate correspond
very closely with our " Entrance" and Intermediate. The Examination for " Regents
Diploma" is somewhat like the Prussian " Leaving" (Abiturienten) examination, and the
Diploma is accepted by many of the colleges in lieu of their matriculation examination.
These examinations are similar to ours ; they had their origin in similar causes and
■were established to give effect to the same principle — the principle of Payment on
Results.
The Preliminary Examination. — The Preliminary Examination, like our Entrance
Examination, was established to arrest the tendency to crowd ill-prepared pupils into the
High Schools — determining what scholars alone should be classed as " Regents' Scholars,"
capable of entering upon a High School course, and entitled to be counted as bondjiile
High School pupils in the distribution of the fund granted for secondary education. As
with us, too, there seems to have been a great need for such an examination, for under
the uniform and adequate test which it has supplied, the number classed as High School
scholars was reduced from 21,947 in 1865 to about 5,700 in 1873. Since the latter date,
owing mainly to the improvement of the schools, the number has steadily increased, so
that it now reaches about 8,500. This of course is only for the schools (about 200 in
number) under the visitation of the Regents.
The subjects of examination are Arithmetic and Mensuration, Geography, English
Grammar and Spelling. For a "pass" seventy-Jive per cent, is exacted in every subject.
Two papers are set in each of the branches, Arithmetic and Grammer, and two hours are
allowed for each paper. Of the 21,000 candidates examined in 1878-9, 30.16 per cent,
passed in Arithmetic, 56.34 per cent, in Grammar, 35.15 per cent in Geography, and
32.90 per cent, in Spelling.
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At the examination for entrance into the Albany High School, June 1881, the
" Regents" questions were used : 28 (twenty-eight) questions in Arithmetic, 80 (eighty) in
Grammar 60 (sixty) in Geography, 20 (twenty) in History, and 100 words were submitted
as a test in spelling. In addition to this the candidates were examined in Music and
Drawing. There were 313 candidates from the City schools, and 200 obtained the full
number of marks necessary to entitle them to rank as "Regents' Scholars."
The average age of the 217 candidates who passed at the September Examination,
1880, was 14.6.
The Intermediate Examination. — Candidates for the Intermediate Certificates having
passed the Preliminary Examination, are examined in the following subjects : Algebra,
American History, Physical Geography, Physiology and Hygiene, Plane Geometry,
and Rhetoric. In this examination as in the Preliminary, seventy-five per cent, in
every subject is necessary for a " pass." But a candidate is credited with a " pass" in a
single subject, and he is not in any case obliged to take all the subjects at one examina-
tion. This principle might perhaps be adopted in connection with our Intermediate
"groups." A candidate might be credited with a pass in a single group, provided he
makes a percentage sufficiently high to show that he has really mastered the subject it
includes. I append the questions here set for the June Examination, 1881 : —
Examination for Regents' Diploma. — The candidates for this Diploma must hare
passed the Intermediate Examination. They are then examined in eight additional sub-
jects, four being selected from each of the following groups : —
Group I. Group II.
Book-keeping, Astronomy,
Botany, Chemistry,
Geology, English Literature,
History, Greece and Rome, History of England,
Moral Philosophy, Mental Pilosophy,
Political Economy, Physics,
Science of Government, Plane Trigonometry,
Zoology.
In both the Intermediate and the Diploma Examination certain options are allowed
in favour of Classics and French and German, to meet the requirements of students who in-
tend taking a college course.
Upon the results of these two examinations, the " Intermediate " and the " Diploma,"
the sum of $40,000 from the income of the Literature Fund, is apportioned amongst the
High Schools and Academies.
For every pupil who obtains the Intermediate Certificate the sum of five dollars is
apportioned to the school which prepared him for the examination — provided such pupil
has attended the school for a period of not less than thirteen weeks during the year.
And the sum of ten dollars is allotted for each pupil who passes the " Diploma "
examination.
The course prescribed for Intermediate examination, it will be noticed, is not so
extensive as that of ours.
These examinations, like ours, are not competitive. They are school examinations ;
and there is no limit to the number of these who may attain the standards fixed by the
examinations, nor any competitive distinctions between them.
Three examinations are held during the year (In June, November and February)
for each of the three classes of candidates. But there is no attempt at forcing ; both
teachers and pupils can take (as with us) their own time in the work of preparation. And
if the injudicious, or over-ambitious teacher aims at rapidity of preparation regardless of
thoroughness, he soon, if not hopelessly incapable, learns the error of his ways^froin the
humiliation of defeat : for no amount of hostile criticism on the part of the incompetent
or the conscienceless teacher, and of weeping and wailing on the part oE his disap-
pointed dupes, can avail to mitigate the rigour of the examiners, or to secure the lowering
of the standard to meet the requirements of illiteracy.
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Drs. Murray snd Pratt, of the Board of Regents, Dr. Bradley, Principal of Albany
High School, and other prominent educators, informed me that the effects of these examin-
ations have been entirely salutary. "The instruction (I quote from Dr. Murray) in
the elementary branches has been notably improved, and a higher standard of attainments
has been established in the State. In the advanced examinations a steady improvement
in the quality of the instruction, and a regular increase in the number of candidates, have
been observed. It is with pride that the Regents refer to these facts as to the condition
of the academies under their charge. There is no such system of secondary instruction
in any other State in the Union ; nowhere else are the schools for secondary instruction
submitted to such requirements as to their equipment, and such tests of scholarship, and
nowhere else can they show as a result such a satisfactory record."
Summary op Conclusions.
1. — General.
From what I have been able to gather by personal observation on my recent visit,
and from books, reports and documents, the Ontario system of education, as a system,
is superior to that of any State in the Union, for the following, among other reasons : —
(1) Our system is distinguished by a unity of aim and method, and a consequent
unification of educational interests, which has, I believe, no parallel in American
systems.
(2) It has determined the necessary qualifications for important educational positions,
and made the appointment to such positions independent of party influences.
(3) It has instituted an effective plan of examination to test the literary and scien-
cific attainments of all candidates for the teachers' profession.
(4) It has established a thorough system of school supervision (inspection), and
provided means to secure qualified inspectors.
(5) It has provided a simple and economical plan for the professional training of
teachers, which secures, or will secure, the children of the humblest school section in the
land from becoming the victims of incompetency.
This last element of excellence is the most important of all. Ours is the only system
on this continent, so far as I know, that demands some degree of professional training
as a necessary qualification for the teacher. I have said that the system of professional
training is economical ; it is also effective 1 The question of economy can have no
weight as against the question of efficiency. That only is true economy which secures
the best results in the best way. The system can be made, I believe, thoroughly efficient.
But to this end the Normal School, the County Model Schools, the High Schools and
even the Public Schools must, each in their proper sphere, co-operate.
. — As to tl\A Normal Schools,
now confined to purely professional work, I remark :
(a) The Normal School Masters must have good material to work upon. Good
professional training cannot be grounded on illiteracy. This means that those who enter
these institutions should possess a good degree of general education and culture, and
some aptitude for teaching, as shewn by their previous work under a County Inspector.
(b) Not only must the Normal School Masters have good material to work upon,
they must also have a reasonable amount of time in which to do the work.
At present, therefore, the session for training is too short. It must be extended if
the schools are to accomplish what they are designed to do. For in these schools.
(1) There must be a methodizing of the student's knowledge ; a review of important
anches, with a view to giving scientific unity.
(2) There must be effected, in general, some improvement in the student's knowledge
important branches — Music, Drawing, Experimental Science.
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(3) There ought to be sound instruction in Ethics and Mental Science in their
application to the work of education.
(4) There must be intelligent observation and practice, under criticism in the Model
and Normal School.
(5) There must be — at least in many cases — an eradication of vicious habits of
study, methods of teaching, etc., and the substitution of a more excellent way.
(6) There must be, as far as possible, secured that higher culture which comes from
daily intercourse with strong and cultured men.
To this desirable end " Boarding Halls," such as have been established in connection
with some of the American Normal Schools, would greatly contribute.
(c) The Normal School Masters, in connection with the professional Examiners,
ought to have power to reject for illiteracy as well as for professional incompetency
or inaptitude. For it sometimes happens that illiterates manage to score marks enough
to pass, notwithstanding all the precautions of a stringent academic examination. And,
on the other hand, good scholarship will do little or nothing for one who has no natural
aptitude for teaching.
S. — As to County Model Schools.
(1) These schools are designed to do a very important work. Here the student
teacher gets his first ideas of educational principles and methods — ideas which will influ-
ence for good or evil all his subsequent course of professional training. The County
Model Schools are really unpretentious Normal Schools, and they must lay a good foun-
dation for the latter schools to build upon.
(2) It follows then that the Principals and teachers of Model Schools ought to be
strong in their profession — -men of good scholarship, culture, earnestness and professional
skill.
(3) During the training term in these schools, the entire time of the Principals —
except for general supervision — ought to be devoted to the training of the student-teachers.
This is essential in view of the vast importance of making a good beginning in the profes-
sional training of our teachers.
(4) For reasons similar to those given above (Normal Schools, h), the term for Model
School training ought to be as extended as it is practicable to make it.
(5) If Model School Trustees are not disposed to follow this course (3 and 4), because
they are not sufficiently encouraged by the Government and County grants, let them have
a more liberal allowance. At present they receive $150 from the Government and $150
from the County — i.e., $300 in all. This does not appear to be sufficient for all that they
are required to do. Would the cost to the country exceed the value of their work, if the
Government were to contribute say $250 and the County $250 ; i.e., if $500 were given
to each school 1 Fifty Model Schools receiving $500 each would cost the country $25,-
000 a year. Is this too much for the work of giving a fair professional training to the
great majority of our teachers 1 If any one thinks so, let him note the fact that New
York State paid in 1880, for the current expenses alone of eight Normal Schools, $185,
000 and received in return 271 trained teachers. Than this $25,000, no public money
ever has been, or ever will be, expended to greater advantage to the State, or on principles
more capable of thorough vindication.
(6) Public School Inspectors, since to them are entrusted the inspection and control
of these schools, ought themselves to be trained teachers, and therefore no man ought to
be licensed as an inspector on account of scholarship and some experience gained in High
School or Collegiate work ; for such experience does not necessarily secure a knowledge
of the principles of primary education, or professional skill in their application.
4- — As to High Schools.
(1) It is plain that the successful working of our present plan of confining the Normal
Schools to professional work, depends on the power of the High Schools to give a good
academic training — to impart sound knowledge by the best methods.
(2) An essential condition is, therefore, that all High School Masters and Teachers
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should receive professional training. They must, of course, be good scholars ; but they
must know that it is not the sole, cr even chief function of the teacher to communicate
knowledge, but rather to develop self-activity and power of acquisition.
(3) Since the royal road to learning is yet undiscovered, and time is still a necessary
condition in producing education and culture, the " non-professional " (academic) examina-
tions must be of such a character as to secure the fulfilment of this condition. The
standard maintained ought to be higher than it is — high enough to defeat the schemes of
the inexperienced, or the unfaithful teacher who may attempt to palm upon the Depart-
ment and the public the spurious product of the crammer for the genuine handiwork of
the educator.
(4) Greater attention must be given to Reading and Elocution, Drawing and Ele-
mentary Science — especially Botany, Physics, Chemistry. And the teaching in science
should be experimental and inductive. If but one inspection a year be required of the
High School Inspectors, they will have somewhat more time to devote to the subjects here
referred to.
(5) The High School Entrance Examination might fairly be modified so as to in-
clude drawing. Also better reading and writing should be insisted upon, and a somewhat
wider course in arithmetic, so as to include easy cases of interest and percentage This
does not mean that the examination questions should be more difficult, or that new
principles would need to be learned ; it simply means the learning of a few new terms,
and a slightly more varied application of familiar principles.
(6) If the proposed work for the High Schools be thoroughly well done, they will
have enough to do without attempting to educate candidates for First " A " and " B "
Certificates. This could be done in the Universities with better results in every par-
ticular.
(7) The Intermediate Examinations established as a school examination, on the results
of which certain public funds were to be distributed, ought to be distinct from the ex-
amination of teachers : I think —
(a) That the present standard of the Intermediate ought to be retained, with some
options in favour of science and literature instead of mathematics.
(b) That some " value " may be given to this examination by making the possession
of the Intermediate Certificate a necessary condition to entering the teaching profession.
(c) Besides passing the Intermediate Examination, candidates for the lowest grade
of certificate (Third Class) should be examined on additional and more difficult papers in
the same " groups."
(d) The examination for Second Class (Permanent and Provincial) Certificates ought
to be entirely distinct from the others — a test of better scholarship and greater maturity
of mind ; and no one should be permitted to stand for the Second Class Examination who
has not obtained a Third Class Certificate at least one year previously. All these exami-
nations could be held in the same week, and conducted by the same presiding Examiners.
5. — As to the Public Schools.
(1) Greater attention should be paid to writing and reading.
(2) Drawing, which is named in the programme of studies, ought to be taught.
The course for each of the classes might be given more in detail.
(3) The meaning of some additional terms in arithmetic (interest, percentage, etc.)
should be taught in the Fourth Class, and a somewhat greater variety of questions given,
so as to include easy problems in interest and percentage.
(4) The elements of science should be taught in oral lessons by the teacher. With
proper methods of teaching there can be found time for this, as well as for industrial
drawing ; these will render other studies easier, and actually brighten the school-life of
the child.
( 5) Since the great work of the Inspector is to see that the best methods of teaching
prevail in the schools, one thorough inspection a year would be better than two hurried
ones. This would enable the Inspector to observe more accurately the teacher at work,
and to exert a more powerful influence on both the teacher and the scholar. If one
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inspection each year be deemed insufficient, it might be supplemented by a judicious,
uniform examination for promotion.
I give with my Report some specimens of Examination Papers used at the Entrance
Examination in some of the American schools.
For promotion to the Worcester (Mass.) High School, pupils are examined in Music,
History, Arithmetic, Grammar, and Geography.
In conclusion I wish to say that everywhere I met with the kindest reception from
American Educationists ; but for valuable assistance rendered in the prosecution of my
inquiries, I must especially mention Drs. Olden and Bradley, and Superintendent Cole,
of Albany ; Principal Russell and Superintendent Marble, of Worcester ; Miss Hyde,
Principal of Framingham Normal School ; Dr. Dunton and Hon. John W. Dickenson, of
Boston, Principal Boyden, of Bridgewater Normal School ; Dr. Carleton, of Connecticut
State Normal School ; Dr. Hunter and Miss McKean, of New York City.
Toronto, January, 1882.
Division II.
THE KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM.
Special Report by James L. Hughes, Esq., Public School Inspector.
In accordance with your instructions, I visited St. Louis for the purpose of making
an examination into the practical working of the Public School Kindergartens of that
eity. Through the courtesy of Miss Susan E. Blow, the founder of the St. Louis Kin-
dergartens, and of her associate supervisors, I was enabled to make a thorough investiga-
tion of the system, and to obtain much valuable information regarding it.
The following report contains : —
1. A brief statement of the objects of the Kindergarten.
2. The introduction and progress of the Kindergarten in St. Louis.
3. Suggestions regarding its introduction into Ontario.
I. — Objects of the Kindergarten.
The objects of the Kindergarten may best be briefly stated in Froebel's own words ;
" To take the over-sight of children before they are ready for school life ; to exert an
influence over their whole being in correspondence with its nature ; to strengthen their
bodily powers ; to exercise their senses ; to employ the awakening mind ; to make them
thoroughly acquainted with the world of nature and of man ; to guide their heart and
soul in a right direction ; and to lead them to the Origin of all life, and to union with
Him."
We have become so accustomed to regard the function of the school as limited to
the cultivation of the intellect alone, that it is difficult to form a just estimate of the real
value of a system which trains and develops the entire being morally, mentally, physi-
cally and socially. It will be quite impossible to explain in the compass of this report,
the details of the methods employed in the Kindergarten to accomplish the work out-
. lined by Froebel. It took him thirty years to complete his system, and it requires at
least a two years course to become a proficient Kindergartner. It may be of service to
state at the outset, that the Kindergarten is not a school in the ordinary acceptation of
that word. It is not a place to teach reading, writing, etc. ; but consists chiefly of prac-
tise with (1) Gifts, balls of different colours, cubes, spheres, cylinders, squares, triangles,
etc. ; (2) Occupations, weaving paper mats, cutting and pasting paper patterns, paper
folding, interlacing, stick work, slat work, peas work, perforating paper, worsted work,
moulding with clay, drawing, etc. ; (3) Games; (4) Plays; and (5) Exercise Songs. By
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means of these elements, Froebel arranged a system which reaches effectively every part
of the nature of the child, and promotes its vigorous and healthful growth.
Moral Training.
If Froebel had designed to accomplish nothing more by the Kindergarten, than the
development of the moral and religious instincts of childhood, his work would have ulti-
mately become an essential part of all national systems of education. There is no other
part of his system, that to the thoughtful mind, so clearly reveals the comprehensiveness
and philosophical basis of his methods and their wonderful adaption to the nature of the
child, and the laws of its growth.
Every one of his remarkable stories, every one of his songs, every one of his games,
and every one of his occupations, give incidentally a practical direction to the moral
natures of the children. There is in the Kindergarten, no sermonizing to children who
are not listening, no theorizing about abstractions which they cannot understand, no mere
sentiment, but a genuine acting out of the best tendencies of human nature. The child
is made to occupy in a way that is real to him, every relationship to nature, the family,
society, his country and his Creator. He practises in his games and plays those virtues
which form the only sure foundation for the family and the State. He acts submissively
to parents, lovingly towards brothers and sisters, honourably with his neighbours, kindly
to the poor, and tenderly to the aged. He learns to be grateful' for benefits, to respect
honest workers, to know that work is an advantage to the individual and the community,
to acknowledge that labour should be justly rewarded, to destroy nothing, to waste nothing,
to submit to constituted national and municipal authorities, to give hearty approval to
good actions, and to look with just indignation on mean and ungenerous conduct, to re-
strain his evil tendencies, to be unselfish, to control his tastes, even when they are pure and
good, as he cannot get everything he wishes, and to recognize God through His works as the
Creator and as the centre of the universe, the source of all power, of knowledge, of love
and of blessing. It is quite impossible to realize without a close and extended examina-
tion of a genuine Kindergarten; how a child can be placed in such a variety of circum-
stances as to make it necessary for him to develop incidentally, without a co?tscio>is?iess of
the process, all the better portions of his nature, and to practise the correct moral code for
the home, society and the State.
That Froebel was able, even after thirty years incessant study, to found a system
which naturally accomplishes this, proves conclusively that he is entitled to an honoured
place among educational reformers.
Social Training.
Closely allied with moral training is the attention constantly paid to the practice of
the courtesies of good society, and to the proper development of the emotional nature of
the child. The home, in most cases, cannot afford the child the opportunity of associating
with a sufficient number of children of his own age, to permit the expansion of his social
character. The child is to be pitied, however rich his parents may be, whose only associ-
ates are adults. It is possible for the child to obtain society on the street, but the risk is
too great there. Even at school the social intercourse between the pupils is necessarily
confined chiefly to the recesses, and then in most cases is allowed to go on without the
presence of the teacher. Froebel saw the evil effects of this, and made ample provision for
the drawing out of the social instincts of childhood, as well as for practising the recognized
rules of politeness at the table, in the drawing-room, on the street, wherever man meets<|
his fellow man.
Physical Culture.
The physical benefits conferred by the Kindergarten are second in importance only
to those resulting from its moral and religious training. The good effects of this depart-
ment of Kindergarten work are so quickly apparent and so easily recognized, that there is
in some places a popular delusion that the Kindergarten consists only of a series of games
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and plays. Tiiis is a grave error, but although the games, plays and songs do not consti-
tute the entire work of a Kindergarten, they form a most important part of it, inasmuch,
as, while accomplishing many other excellent results, they also produce most desirable
effects on the physical system of the children. The chief of the effects are :
1. By a large amount of marching in time with music they learn to walk properly —
a most important accomplishment.
2. As the plays are so judiciously arranged as to call into natural action every part
of the muscular system, the result could only be, what it uniformly is, harmonious
development and consequently perfect freedom and gracefulness of action. There is no
probability that a child in the Kindergarten will grow up with good arms and legs, and
weak loins and contracted chest.
3. The dramatic gesture practised as a visible interpretation of the thought and
sentiment of the songs while they are being sung, leads to a surprising degree of expres-
siveness and appropriateness in the movement of the hands, the head, the eyes and, indeed,
of the entire body while speaking. This is of much greater importance than at first sight
it may seem to be. The skilled elocutionist may thrill his hearers by his tone alone.
Vast audiences are frequently moved to tears by the touching gestures of a deaf mute in
reciting the Lord's prayer. Most people are more deeply affected in a Kindergarten, by the
gestures than by the singing. Dramatic interpretation is to many more touching than
vocal interpretation. Either voice or action alone possesses wonderous power of expres-
sion, but it is only when they are appropriately united, that thought is presented in all its
clearness, and feeling communicated with resistless power. It is no light matter then for
girls and boys to have their bodies trained to act in harmony with their vocal organs in
expressing their thoughts and sentiments.
4. The general health of the children is improved, and the vigorous growth of their
system promoted. One of the chief defects of the Public School system is that both
positively and negatively it interferes with the proper natural growth of the child's body.
If adequate attention were paid to the development of the body in school, there would
be no complaints about over-study. Body and brain should grow together, do grow
together until the child goes to school. The Kindergarten is unquestionably the best
means for remedying this grave defect in the school. The distinctive feature of Kinder-
garten exercise, as well as every other part of the system, is that the benefits come incident-
ally. The children are not conscious that they are performing calisthenic exercises for
the benefit of their health, they are playing for pleasure. Exercise taken merely to
improve the health does not bring such advantages as exercise taken for amusement or in
working under healthful circumstances, so in the Kindergarten there are no calisthenics
as mere exercises, but the children have to perform the best exercises of the Grecian.
Swedish and German systems of calisthenics in playing their games, and while singing
their songs. While taking his exercise the boy is not a boy moving his arms and legs to
develop his muscles, but a hopping bird, a jumping frog, a flying butterfly, a carpenter or
other tradesman at work, a farmer sowing grain, mowing or threshing with a flail, a
windmill in motion, a ticking clock, etc., etc., always practising the best exercise, but
never being drilled. Even the extension motions and balance steps of the British army,
are practised in their essential parts in the Kindergarten, not in the formal way in which
they are presented to the shuffling recruits whom they transform as if by magic into erect
and graceful men, but as necessary motions in performing certain plays.
Industrial Training.
There is another kind of physical training in addition to that which develops the
physique. It is not alone important that a man should be strong, active and graceful.
His hand, the parts of his physical system which he chiefly uses in earning his livelihood,
should be trained while he is very young, before his muscles have become fixed and his
fingers stiff. There is scarcely any limit to the development of finger flexibility and
manual dexterity, if it is begun in time, and continued systematically. It is a common
saying that " a boy's fingers are all thumbs." There is no reason why this should be the
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case. A girl's fingers are expert in proportion to the amount of appropriate exercise they
get. The boy does not usually play on the piano, or do the various kind of needlework
done by his sister, consequently his fingers become thumbs through lack of practice.
Boys have thus been allowed to grow up and enter on the work of life without having
any attention paid to the development of hand skill except that received by the right
hand while engaged in writing and drawing. This necessarily prevents their ever reach-
ing their highest possibilities in skilled labour of any kind whatever. The individual
and national loss thus sustained is too vast to be estimated. The early recognition of
this lack in Germany, Switzerland, and France, led to the establishment in these countries
of technical schools for the special training of the hand in connection with various indus-
trial pursuits. The result of this was, that in a few years England found her manufacturing
supremacy passing away, and was compelled to follow the example of her continental
rivals. Thoughtful men have for years been studying this problem and endeavouring to
find a remedy for this acknowledged defect in our Public Schools. This study has led to
the proposal to have workshop schools founded as a part of the Public School system.
There has as yet, however, been no satisfactory plan proposed for the accomplishment of
this object.
Froebel made ample provision for the training of the hand in his system. One of
the specific objects of his "finger songs," and of every one of his Gifts and Occupations,
is the development of finger power and skill.
Mental Training.
Those who can only gauge a child's mental growth by his advancement in reading,
will have difficulty in appreciating the mental advantages which the child enjoys in a
Kindergarten. Thoughtful people are rapidly learning, however, that reading, as a school
study, lias little to do with inducing mental growth. That is the reason why reading is
not taught in the Kindergarten.
There are some who scrutinize the system to find its mental results us though they
expected them all to be immediately apparent, and then because they cannot find mind nug-
gets in the only form in which they can appreciate them, they say they do not exist, and
that the Kindergarten does not promote mental development. They forget that real growth
in nature is slow, and that preliminary processes of growth may go on for long periods
without producing marked visible results. If the mental training of the Kindergarten
produced only immediate results, and if its benefits were discernible to every observer, it
would not contain sufficient truth to make it live.
The object of the Kindergarten is to expand the mind rather than make it a storehouse
of facts. It aims to set the mind in action in the exercise of every function of which it
is capable. The school only trains the mind to remember and reason, often only to
remember. The Kindergarten calls into action all the powers of the mind, and teaches
the child to observe critically, to note results, to compare, to conclude for itself. It
develops the imagination and gradually exercises the will, not accidentally but incident-
ally, as an essential part of Froebel's comprehensive scheme. Memory is developed by
exercise, not by word repetition. The child learns and remembers what a cube is, in the
same way that it learned and remembers what a spoon is, by using it.
But, while the primary object of the mental training of the Kindergarten is not to
give information, the child really acquires a vast deal of useful knowledge, especially such
as will be of value to him in prosecuting the studies of Arithmetic, Mensuration, Geo-
metry, and Architectural and Industrial Drawing. Nor does he need to wait until he
begins the systematic study of these subjects before making a practical use of the know-
ledge he gains. Two of the fundamental laws of acquiring knowledge by Froebel's
system are : 1, Children learn by doing ; 2, Knowledge should be applied as soon as it is
gained. So the extensive knowledge of form which the child receives by using the Gifts
is applied at once in the various occupations, and through them extended to an examina-
tion of all the objects of nature and art with which he daily comes in contact. The
child also receives a practical insight into the relationship of parts to wholes, and is
taught the harmony of form and colour that must be found in corresponding parts of
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symmetrical patterns and objects. This leads directly to the display of originality in
•designing by the individual children, which cannot fail to produce great and lasting benefits
both mentally and morally. It is a grand step in the growth of the human mind, when
it is convinced practically that it possesses original power and need not he a mere
imitator.
General Advantages.
In addition to what has been said it will be sufficient to call attention to the important
fact that, in his Gifts and Occupations, Froebel has so fully covered the circle of human
activities, that every child has an opportunity afforded him in the Kindergarten to show
what his special tendency or talent is. The importance of this will be seen at once, when
it is remembered that most boys leave school without having discovered or shown special
fitness or inclination for any particular pursuit, and that too often the selection of a
sphere of labour is left to chance or decided by circumstances quite outside of the indivi-
dual who is to fill it.
The general plan of the Kindergarten may be indicated in a single sentence : Recog-
nizing the fact that children grow more rapidly, morally, mentally, and physically, during
the first four years of their lives than they ever do afterwards, Froebel' tried to found a
system which, while it sustained the interested attention of children, would continue in a
systematic manner, but without formalism, the same methods of learning and development
to which they were accustomed at home. Those who best understand him, think he
succeeded in accomplishing his object.
II. — Introduction into St. Louis.
In 1873, Miss Susan E. Blow, the accomplished daughter of the late Senator Blow,
a lady of leisure and means, who had spent two years in training with Mrs. Krans-Boelte
of New York, offered to undertake gratuitously " the instruction of one teacher appointed
by the Board, and to supervise and manage a Kindergarten, provided the Board would
furnish the rooms and a salaried teacher." After considering her generous offer the
committee on Teachers recommended " that one of the school rooms be set apart for one
year for the purpose of ascertaining, by a faithful experiment, what valuable features the
Kindergarten may have that can be utilized in our Primary Schools.'' The results of
that " faithful experiment " have been greater than even the strongest advocate of the
Kindergarten expected. The one Kindergarten has, by a gradual and natural process of
growth, extended its influence and diffused its light until at the present time there are
no less than 237 ladies engaged in the Public Kindergartens of St. Louis. This result is
undoubtedly mainly due to the merits of the system itself, but is largely attributable to
the zeal and intelligence of Miss Blow, who is still the " guide, philosopher and friend "
of every lady engaged in Kindergarten work in St. Louis.
III. — Suggestions regarding the Introduction of the Kindergarten into Ontario.
I most strongly recommend the introduction of the Kindergarten in connection with
the Model Schools in Toronto and Ottawa, for the following reasons : — ■
1. Because the Kindergarten is the most philosophical system of child education
and should, therefore, be the foundation of all public education.
2. Because the physical and musical portions of the Kindergarten could, to a lar^e
extent, be introduced into the Primary Schools of Ontario, if the teachers in training had
the opportunity of becoming acquainted, practically, with them during their Normal
School course. This alone would justify the introduction of the Kindergarten into the
Model Schools.
3. Because those children who attend Kindergartens would be relieved from hard
and unattractive study during those years, when the brain is growing in size most rapidly,
and during which it is most susceptible to permanent injury.
4. Because it could not fail to be of immense advantage to the students in training
at the Normal Schools. They could not, it is true, become Kindergartners during their
short course, but they could become acquainted theoretically with the pedagogical princi-
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pies on which the Kindergarten is based, and practically with the methods best adapted
to interest childhood. The charge is often made that the graduates of our Normal Schools
are lacking in earnestness, enthusiasm, and a due appreciation of the nobility of their work
as teachers. There is no other means of remedying this defect so effectively as by intro-
ducing the Kindergarten. Its principles and its spirit will continue from year to year to
be sources of light and inspiration of growing power in the minds and hearts of those
teachers who are brought into living contact with them.
It is not indirectly alone, however, that the benefits of the Kindergarten will be
shewn. Its methods should be practised in all departments of Public Schools. The
materials of the Kindergarten belong to the little ones, the principles apply to the teach-
ing of nearly all studies, and to all grades of pupils. I do not think it an exaggerated
statement to say, that to many teachers even a short course in a Kindergarten would prove
of more lasting benefit in enlarging their mental vision, in increasing their knowledge of
the child, the laws of its development, and in deepening their devotion to the work of
teaching, than all the rest of their Normal School training.
I am confident that a Kindergarten, either in the Toronto or Ottawa Normal School,
would be fully self-sustaining if the children attending it paid the same fees paid by the
other Model School pupils. The materials used by the children cost less than two dollars
per annum for each pupil. A single trained Kindergartner, with the assistance of the
Normal School students, and volunteer assistants who would give their services gratuit-
ously in return for the training received, could take charge of fifty or even a hundred,
children. Many of the St. Louis Kindergartners have as many as one hundred pupils in
charge of one director and six or seven assistants.
Fixing the number at fifty as a basis of computation, the income at present rates in
the Model School, would be over nine hundred dollars per annum, after paying for the
materials used by the children in their occupations.
I would also urge that as a preliminary step Miss Susan E. Blow, and Mrs. Clara B.
Hubbard be invited to visit Toronto. They might be invited by the Education Depart-
ment alone, or by the department in connection with Toronto Public School Board. The
primary objects of their visit would be to give the teachers in the Model School, and the
Public Schools, and the students of the Normal School, a general idea of the objects and
principles of the Kindergarten, and a specific training in the physical and musical depart-
ments of the Kindergarten work. A public interest would also be created in the Kinder-
garten itself in this way more thoroughly than it could be in any other way.
Miss Blow could explain, in a few addresses, the principles and methods of the
Kindergarten as probably no other English speaking woman could. Her voluntary study
and labour in its cause extend over a period of about thirteen years. In addition to her
two years of training spent with Mrs. Krans-Boelte in New York, she spent some time
in Germany with the Baroness Marenholtz Bulow, the ablest of all Froebel's associates
or successors.
Mrs. Hubbard trains all the St. Louis Kindergartens in the department of physical
exercise. She is the author of the best collection of Kindergarten songs yet published in
English, and is gifted with rare intuitions regarding gesture and calisthenics. She could,
in a couple of weeks, present the physical and musical sides of the Kindergarten to the
students and teachers of Toronto in such a way as to inaugurate a new era in school
progress in Ontario. I would strongly recommend that, in case Mrs. Hubbard is invited
to visit Toronto, the opportunity be afforded to the teachers in County Model Schools, and
in cities and towns throughout the Province, to come to Toronto to share in the benefits
of her teaching.
If one teacher was sent from each city or town, she could, on her return, communi-
cate to her fellow-teachers what she had learned. Doubtless many School Boards would
be willing to allow the lady of highest special aptitude the privilege of visiting Toronto
for such a purpose.
I have, during my visit to St. Louis, familiarized myself with certain details relating
to furniture, materials, hours of attendance, etc., which I will be glad to lay before you
in case you decide to adopt any of the recommendations contained in this report.
Toronto, May 1st, 1882.
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IP^IRT I "ST.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
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PART IV.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
This subject is properly included with the other educational subjects contained in
Parts I., II. and III. of this Report, inasmuch as any system of education truly national
should comprise within the sphere of its operations technical education, as essential to its
general progress in intelligence and consequent material strength, and ic is universally
admitted that this will result in a similar ratio to that derived from the elementary,
secondary and superior branches.
In this Province, after more than forty years of effort, the difficulties attending
educational progress have been successfully overcome, and we now possess a complete and
symmetrical system absolutely free to all for elementary instruction, and practically so
for the higher and university subjects. There is, however, much yet to be done in order
to supply reasonable opportunities for gaining technical instruction in the physical and
other sciences having an important bearing upon the development of the mineral,
mechanical and industrial interests of the Province.
Remarkable strides have been taken in the last twenty-five years in the whole
domain of science and art, and these have been followed by large increases in the national
prosperity of every country which has seriously and thoroughly undertaken to supply the
great deficiencies which formerly prevailed.
While the Legislature of this Province, from its first establishment in 1792, has been
thoroughly impressed with the importance of Common and Grammar Schools, together
with a Provincial University, and has made provision for their support as the circum-
stances of the Province required, it has not been unmindful of the " importance to
its welfare that mechanics should be encouraged in the useful arts," as declared in
the Act of 1835, in which a grant of £200 was made to the Toronto Mechanics' Institute,
and also one of £100 to that at Kingston, "for purchasing instruments suitable and
proper for illustrating the principles of Natural Philosophy, Geography, Astronomy and
Mathematics." This is the first record of Legislative assistance, and several special
Acts to incorporate Mechanics' Institutes were subsequently passed, until the Board of
Arts and Manufactures was incorporated in 1857 by the Act 20 Vic, chap. 32, whose
object, as declared therein, was to " promote the development of mechanical talent among
the people of this Province by disseminating instruction in mechanics and kindred sciences,
and by affording increased facilities for the study of models and apparatus," and in that
year fifty-eight Mechanics' Institutes received grants from the public revenue. This
policy has been continued ever since, and the Acts relating thereto are contained in the
Revised Statutes, chap. 35, "for the encouragement of Agriculture, Horticulture, Arts
and Manufactures," and by chap. 168 for the incorporation of Mechanics' Institutes and
Library Associations. By the Act subsequently passed, 43 Vic, chap. 5, the Education
Department was empowered, subject to the approval of your Honour in Council, to make
regulations for instruction in physical and practical science to be given in evening classes.
in the Mechanics' Institutes, and for the apportionment of the Legislative grant upon the
conditions contained in section 77 of the Revised Statute, chap. 35. The following
instructions for giving effect to the provisions of this Act have been drawn up by me for
the guidance of Mechanics' Institutes : —
Instructions Respecting Mechanics' Institutes.
Owing to the different local circumstances in which the Institutes are found to be
placed, it is not considered desirable to adopt regulations which might interfere with such
freedom of management as each association has hitherto exercised. Instead, therefore, of
the regulations proposed in my last report, I have thought it preferable to submit the
following instructions for the guidance of Institutes, in order that each may comply with
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the provisions of the Statutes according to which the annual Legislative grant is autho-
rized to be distributed amongst them ; as well as the necessary forms which this Depart-
ment will supply in sets of three each, for each Institute to fill up as soon as may be after
the first of May in each year, one set being sent to this Department, another to " The
Secretary, Mechanics' Institute Association, Toronto," and the third kept in the Institute
itself.
1. Any new Mechanics' Institute does not share in the Legislative grant until the
year following the year of its formation, of which notice should be given to the Minister
before the first day of December in the year of its formation.
2. The business year of each Institute ends on the first day of May in each year, and
thereafter, say by the fifteenth day of June then next, each Institute should prepare and
forward to the Minister its report in duplicate, in accordance with Form A, prepared by
the Department.
3. Such report of each Mechanics' Institute, when received, will, without delay, be
sent by the Department to the Public School Inspector for his inspection of the Institute
and audit of the accounts thereof, as directed by the Statute, and, if found correct, will
form the basis for the amount of grant payable to such Institute.
4. The provisions of the Statute require each Mechanics' Institute, before receiving
its grant, to show that it has raised and expended, or appropriated from local sources in
respect of such year, a sum equal to one-half of the amount payable from the grant in
respect of any of such objects, viz. : (1) Reading Room, (2) Library of Books, and (3)
Evening Classes. The grant for all objects is $400, out of which $100 may be applied for
Reading Room purposes. The five per cent, payable to the Mechanics' Institutes Associa-
tion has ceased, and it now receives an annual grant instead, under the Act of last session.
No allowances can be made for salaries or other personal expenses of management.
Besides the sum of $100 for Reading Room purposes, any Institute may expend any
residue of the total grant payable for Library and Evening Classes, or either of them, in
such proportions as it may think proper.
5. Each Mechanics' Institute should, before the first day of November in each year,
in its application for a grant in aid, submit a statement of its position on the first of May
preceding, according to Form B, to be sent to this Department. Such statement is to be
verified by the declaration of the Secretary or Treasurer, on Form B.
6. The Statute permits Institutes to conduct classes in the following elementary
subjects, viz. : Writing (including Shorthand and Telegraphy) and Book-keeping, English
Grammar, Arithmetic and Mensuration, and to afford technical instruction in such subjects
as —
(1) Drawing: Machines, Designs, Objects, Freehand, Architectural, and Geo-
metrical.
(2) Natural Philosophy : Elements of, including Applied Mechanics, Pneumatics,
and Hydrostatics.
(3) Chemistry : as applied to Manufactures, and also to Agriculture.
7. It is recommended that the term for instruction in the foregoing subjects should
'be for at least nine continuous weeks, in classes held at least on three evenings of each
week, and for an hour at least in each subject, such term being established in the autumn
or winter, or one in each season.
8. Each Institute may, out of moneys available for Evening Classes, pay such
expenses, over and above the receipts, as may be incurred for lectures of a popular nature
on scientific subjects.
9. In order to encourage evening classes for technical instruction, and increase their
usefulness, I would recommend that each Institute which appropriates $100 from the
Legislative grant and $50 from the local sources (exclusive of pupils' fees), and conducts
evening classes in the technical subjects above mentioned, shall be entitled to receive from
the Legislative grant such additional sums as may be necessary to make the total amount
payable in respect of such evening classes in technical subjects, inclusive of the sums so
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applied from the grant and local sources, according to the following scale, namely : — For
classes of persons oyer 14 years of age from 5 to 10, $4 each person ; for each additional
from 10 to 20, $2 ; and for each additional over 20 to 40, $1. Before any such addi-
tional payment can be recommended by me, the Public School Inspector is required to
report that each such class has been satisfactorily conducted, and otherwise according to
the particulars in Form D.
10. The existing Regulations authorize a sum not exceeding twenty per cent, of the
grant for Library purposes to be applied for the purchase of works of fiction, but such
works are to be such as appear in the catalogue of the Education Department, or as may
be approved by the Minister of Education from time to time, as submitted by any Insti-
tute for this purpose. As far as possible, a separate room for the library should exist,
in order to afford regular access to members.
11. Any director or office holder in any Institute is not permitted to sell or traffic in
any books for the supply of the Library.
12. Instructions to Public School Inspectors : —
(1) The Public School Inspector shall, after he has received from the Education
Department copies of the reports furnished to it by the Mechanics' Institutes in his
inspectoral division, visit each of them with all convenient speed thereafter, and submit
the return of his inspection to the Department, which return shall include the several
particulars, and be according to Form C.
(2) He shall, at the same time, fully audit the financial affairs of each Institute, and
in this shall carefully examine all books, vouchers, and invoices relating thereto, and
ascertain what (if any) trade discounts have been allowed, and also that the entries in
the ledger or other books of account agree with the accounts and vouchers. If the
vouchers and account-books do not agree, or trade discounts have not been allowed, he
should, in all such cases, call the attention of the Department to the same.
(3) He shall see that the invoices (if any) paid after the first of May are properly
entered in the Treasurer's book, and charged up to the year ending on such iirst of May.
(4) The Public School Inspector will receive remuneration for services actually per-
formed according to the following table : —
(i.) For the annual inspection and report of each Institute, as follows : —
Institute with Reading Room, Library, and Evening Classes. . . . $10 00
" any two of above 8 00
" any one " 6 00
(ii.) In any case where the Inspector is able, in his inspection of the Public School in
the same locality, to visit Evening Classes, and to examine the same during their session
in any of the above subjects of instruction, an additional fee of one dollar for each class
in elementary subjects, and of two dollars for any class in technical subjects, will be
allowed for each class so examined and reported upon by him.
(iii.) The report of the Inspector of Evening Classes, as in Form D, is to be sent to
the Department as soon as possible after his inspection.
1. Association of Mechanics' Institutes.
The Association of Mechanics' Institutes is constituted a body corporate, the different
Institutes being associates, and represented at its annual meetings by their President and
Secretary, or other two members.
During the last session of the Ontario Legislature, the following amendments relating
to this Association were passed : —
Section seventy-four of the Act was amended by adding the following sub-sections : —
(2) The Association may act in conjunction with any other Association or Associa-
tions, whose objects are the promotion of the interests of Arts and Manufactures, and
generally may exercise such powers as are necessary to advance the Arts and Manufac-
tures of the Province.
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(3) The Association shall have power to employ competent persons to deliver lectures
on subjects connected with the Mechanical Arts and Sciences, or with Manufactures, and
to use its funds for that purpose ; and any Associate Institute is also authorized to con-
tribute from its own funds for the like object.
(4) The Association shall keep a record of its transactions, and may from time to
time publish or procure, in such manner and form as to secure the widest circulation
among the members of the Associate Mechanics' Institutes, such works, reports, essays,
lectures and other papers on subjects connected with the Mechanical Arts and Sciences,
or with Manufactures, as the said Association may consider suitable.
(5) The Association shall be entitled to receive from unappropriated moneys in the
hands of the Treasurer of the Province, a sum of not less than twelve hundred dollars in
any one year. 45 "V. c. 4, s. 1 3.
Section seventy-five of the Act was repealed, and the following substituted in lieu
thereof : —
75. The Association shall hold a meeting annually at any time during the month of
September, and at such place as the Association or its Executive Committee shall from
time to time determine upon, in each and every year ; and a report of the proceedings of
the Association shall be made to the Minister of Education within thirty days after the
holding of such annual meeting. 45 V. c. 4, s. 14.
Section seventy-six was also amended. The alterations are placed in italics.
76. Each Associate Institute may be represented at the annual meeting by its Presi-
dent and Secretary, or by any two members that such Institute may appoint in place of
its President and Secretary ; btU each Institute receiving Legislative aid, as provided for
in the next following section, shall send at least one delegate to represent it at the next
annual meeting of the Association. 45 V. c. 4, s. 15.
The fourteenth annual meeting was held at the city of Toronto, on the 12th day of
September, 18S2, 39 Institutes being represented, and a copy of the report presented
thereat, has, in pursuance of the Statutes, been sent to this Department. It refers to the
following subjects : —
(1) As to presentation of books, that the Executive Committee purchased, for pre-
sentation to the Associate Institutes, for the past year — 12 sets of Ure's Dictionary of
Arts and Manufactures, 4 vols. ; Go sets of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics,
2 vols.; and 13 copies of Johnston's Handy Koyal Atlas.
These have all been presented, except 5 sets of Ure's Dictionaries, 4 sets of Apple-
ton's Cyclopaedia, and 5 copies of the Atlas.
(2) As to Associate Institutes, 70 of the 78 who received the Legislative grant paid
to the Association their five per cent.
The number associated is stated as follows : —
Institutes associated in 1880-1 76
Failed to associate in 1881-2':: 15
Remaining 61
New Institutes associated in 1881-2 '•'
Old Institutes renewed in 1881-2 9
Under fee of $1 2
Total 79
A statistical table is submitted of the Government grants for 1S81-2 ; of revenue ;
number of members ; expenditure for books, periodicals, classes ; books issued during the
year, and stock and assets, compiled from the schedules furnished by the Education
Department to the different Institutes.
(3) As to Evening Classes, the report shows that 12 Institutes received a sum total of
S400 for prizes for conducting classes in the following subjects : — In English Grammar and
Composition, 4 ; Arithmetic and Geometry, 7 ; Penmanship and Book-keeping, 8 ; Prac-
* The Hamilton and Brockville Institutes have become defunct during the year.
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tical Mechanics, 2 ; Chemistry, 1 ; Mineralogy, 1 ; Geometrical and Decorative Drawing,
6 ; Free-hand Drawing, 4 ; the average attendance being -120, and the total of teaching
meetings 493. The Association paid $400 for prizes. The Association does not intend
making payments in future for prizes in Evening Classes.
The Treasurer's Statement shows that the receipts, including balance from previous
year, amounted to $2,593.62, the expenditure $2,055.52, and the surplus from subscrip-
tions of the Associate Institutes to be $538.10, which is now on deposit in the Bank of
Toronto.
2. Mechanics' Institutes.
A copy of the instructions respecting Mechanics' Institutes has been sent to each In-
stitute. Their object is to secure substantial compliance with the provisions of the Pro-
vincial grant and, therefore, to adjust the relative amounts applicable to each subject
aided from the grant of $400, so that it may be fairly encouraged and not prejudiced by
an undue amount appropriated for any one of such objects, and also to gradually develop
evening classes in studies not within the Public School course, and especially in elemen-
tary instruction for industrial purposes.
Having regard to the evening classes as proposed in the Regulations, it will be seen
that their benefits may be taken advantage of by all young persons engaged during the
day, and by those intending to be mechanics or agriculturists.
The following forms will be sent to each Institute before the first of May : —
(a) Mechanics' Institute Report.
(b) Application for Legislative Grant.
(c) Report of attendance at evening classes — Elementary Instruction : and
('/) Report of attendance at evening classes — Technical Instruction.
Returns to this Department.
The following statements have been prepared in respect of the operations of the year
ending 1st May, 1882, and in the Appendix are set forth particulars of the condition of
each Institute.
Statement No. 1.
The following sums have been expended by Mechanics' Institutes during the year :- —
No. of
Institutes. Expenditure.
69 Reading Rooms (exclusive of rent and attendance) .... $4,714 35
87 Purchase of books (including fiction) 20,899 07
" expended since 1st May, 1882, but
belonging to that year 1,401 74
37 For Evening Classes 4,219 87
6 Scientific Lectures 494 18
47 General Lectures and Entertainments 2,562 87
Total receipts from all sources for 96 Institutes, $68,876.52. The total receipts
reported last year was only $48,321.14.
Statement No. 2.
Amount of Grant paid to each Institute.
Ailsa Craig $150 00 I Barrie $400 00
Ayltner 100 00 Brussels 200 00
Ayr 300 00 Blyth 60 00
Brantford 400 00 Brighton 120 00
Brockville 400 00 Chatham 400 00
Belleville 400 00 ' Collingwood 150 00
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Clinton $400 00
Dundas 400 00
Dunnville 100 00
Durham 150 00
Elora 200 00
Ennotville 80 00
Fenelon Falls 300 00
Forest 330 00
Garden Island 400 00
Grimsby 212 00
Gait 400 00
Georgetown 300 00
Goderich 400 00
Guelph 400 00
Harriston 100 00
Hespeler 200 00
Ingersoll 400 00
Kincardine 400 00
Kingston 400 00
London 400 00
Lindsay -. 400 00
Lucan 80 00
Meaford 100 00
Midland .'. 200 00
Milton 200 00
Napanee 400 00
Niagara 172 00
Niagara Falls 400 00
Norwich 100 00
Norwood 100 00
Orangeville 400 00
Orillia 400 00
Owen Sound 400 00
Paris 400 00
Parkdale 200 00
Parkhill $200 00
Peterboro' 400 00
Petrolia 400 00
Point Edward 400 00
Port Hope 400 00
Prescott 200 00
Preston 400 00
Renfrew 200 00
Richmond Hill 50 00
Ridgetown 400 00
Sarnia 400 00
Seaforth 400 00
Simcoe 400 00
St. Catharines 400 00
St. George 200 00
St. Thomas 400 00
Smith's Falls 400 00
Stouffville 230 00
Stratford 400 00
Strathroy 350 00
Streetsville 200 00
Thorold 400 00
Tilsonburg 400 00
Toronto 400 00
Uxbridge 400 00
Vittoria 200 00
Watford 300 00
Waterloo 300 00
Welland 150 00
Wiarton 150 00
Woodbridge 150 00
Woodstock 400 00
Total amount granted to 79
Institutes $23,084 00
Statement No. 3.
New Institutes.
Reports have been received from the following new Institutes
Embro.
Glencoe.
Hanover.
New Hamburg.
Perth.
Statement No. 4-
. Classification of Institutes Reporting.
1. Number with Reading Room, Library, and Evening Classes 31
2. " Reading Room and Library 33
3. " Library and Evening Classes 6
4. " Library only 2G
Total 9C»
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Alliston.
Arkona.
Arthur.
Aurora.
Berlin.
Bolton.
Bracebridge.
Brampton.
Brockville.
Clarksburg.
Columbus.
Greenwood.
Hamilton.
Listowel.
Merrickville.
Oakville.
Statement No. ">.
Institutes Not Reporting:.
Oshawa.
Paisley.
Penetanguishene.
Picton.
Port Colborne.
Port Perry.
Sarnia.
Schomberg.
Thorold.
Thunder Bay.
Vittoria.
Wardsville.
Whitby.
Wingham.
Watford.
si, i/, ,,i, Hi No. 6.
Thirty-seven Institutes conducted Evening Classes in the following subjects : —
No. ot No. of
Classes. Pupils.
Writing and Book-keeping 28 852
English Grammar, Composition and Elocution 15 374
Arithmetic, Geometry, and Mensuration 21 652
Drawing — Free-hand, Decorative, etc 20 509
Natural Philosophy, including Mechanics, Pneumatics, and
Hydrostatics 3 85
Chemistry 5 98
Phonography 3 69
Total number of Classes and Pupils 95 2,639
The total amount expended for Evening Classes was $4,219.87.
3. Report of Dr. S. P. May, Superintendent of the Ontario School of Art.
The Ontario School of Art, which was established in 1875, has, since that time, been
entirely supported by grants from the Legislature of Ontario, and the fees of the pupils.
Until recently it has been conducted in the Exhibition rooms of the Ontario Society of Ar-
tists on King Street, but the Honourable the Minister of Education, after careful consider-
ation, has now acceded to the wishes and recommendations of the Council of the Ontario
School of Art, and had the School lemoved to commodious apartments, specially fitted up
for this purpose at the Education Department, where the students will have the privi-
leges of the Library and Reading Room and be able to utilize, for practical Art studies,
the valuable collection of paintings, engravings, sculpture, models, etc., in the Museum.
This has been done with an understanding that special instruction be imparted, em-
bracing subjects of a practical character suitable to mechanics, and as bearing on their
employments, in which the arts of drawing and design may be accessories, and of benefit
in their respective occupations. Also, that classes be conducted for the training of
Teachers who may hereafter conduct drawing-classes throughout this Province. It is
considered that this will afford honourable and useful employment to women, and that
many will avail themselves of these advantages, and particularly those to whom self-sup-
port may be necessary.
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The following brief sketch of the history of this school shows that similar provisions
for educating mechanics and training teachers, for whom there is a vast field of labour
throughout the Province have, from time to time, had the consideration of the Society of
Artists.
In 1875, a deputation of members of the Ontario Society of Artists waited upon the
Hon. Adam Crooks, Provincial Treasurer, and asked for a grant from the Government in
aid of a building, to be used for the general purposes of the Society and as class-rooms for
the School of Art, the Society undertaking, at the commencement, the tuition of the
School without remuneration. In consequence of this request, a grant of SI, 000 was
placed in the estimates and voted the following session.
The first term of the School commenced on the 30th October, 1S7G.
It was decided that the management of the school be constituted as follows : —
To consist of seven members —
1. The Honourable Minister of Education.
2. The President of the Society of Artists.
3. The Vice-President of the Society of Artists.
4. The Director of the School of Art.
5. Member of the Society of Artists, representing Painters.
6. Member of the Society of Artists, representing Architects.
7. Member of the Society of Artists, representing Engravers.
The Council now includes a representative of the Education Department in place of
the Minister cf Education.
In January, 187S, a Report of the History of the School of Art was submitted to
the Lieutenant-Governor, from which the following extracts are taken : —
" Those who do ornamental work of every kind — for instance, workers in wrought-
iron, stone-cutters, wood carvers, and other trades — can only work well in proportion as
they have proper training, and it can best be given by such drawings as are practised in
our elementary classes. For those artisans, it is evident that these classes must be held
in the evening, and the terms must be low. The manufacturing skill and capacity of the
country would be enormously increased if every young mechanic could be induced to
attend them.
" That the school, in addition to its ordinary functions of Art teaching to regular
pupils, shall be used as a training school for Art teachers, who may subsequently be em-
ployed in other schools throughout the Province."
A system for branch schools, with Central Board of Examiners, was also submitted.
" The financial report of this year showing that Legislative grants had been received,
amounting to $3,200, it was then resolved to pay the teachers for their services in pro-
portion to attendance.
" In September, 1878, Mr. J. A. Fraser was appointed to take supervision of the
evening classes, and seven teachers were appointed."
In their Report to the Minister of Education, dated 17th December, 1878, they ask
for an appropriation of $500, or $600, for casts and copies, and the loan of some of the
casts from the Education Museum.
They also say that applications have been received from teachers of Common Schools,
for such instruction as would enable them to give their pupils sound preliminary teaching
in Drawing. For such teachers as have any such capacity as this, it would be advisable
to add a course at the School of Art to the teaching at the Normal School, and for this
extra certificates might be given by the Council.
In 1879, Messrs. O'Brien and Smith were deputed to visit Boston to obtain informa-
tion concerning Art Education. The following extracts are from their report : —
" That all their enquiries led them to the conclusion that, although much is being
done all over the United States in the way of practical Art Education, yet that the sys-
tem adopted in Massachusetts is the most generally followed, and is the most perfect and
best adapted to our requirements.
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" In the State of Massachusetts there are free schools exclusively for instruction in
Mechanical and Freehand Drawing, the support of which is by law made compulsory
upon the municipalites. The State system authorized by law and supplied by State and
municipal funds, is primarily intended to teach Art in its application to industry.
" It is stated that American workmen, however bright and intelligent, are not prac-
tically skilled, and that when really skilled workmen are required, they have to be im-
ported from countries where the education is of a more practical kind.
" It is claimed that the best foundation for practical education is such a system of
Drawing as has been introduced into the schools of Massachusetts. There are now in the
city of Boston alone, 30,000 children receiving an Art education of the most practical
kind, being taught Writing and Design, with a view to its application to industry.
"The effect of such training upon the generation now growing up, must be enormous,
and competition on our part, of every branch of industry, with a population so trained,
must be hopeless, unless our people are given equal advantages."
The following extract is from the Report of 1880 : —
" It is proposed that there shall be special teaching and exercises given, with the
view to training teachers, who, in their turn, may then be fitted to impart good primary
instruction to their pupils."
After the removal of the School to the Education Department, the Council decided
to establish classes specially adapted for mechanics, teachers and Normal School students,
and, to make these classes of more value, and better appreciated by those desirous of
studying for practical purposes, it was decided that, in future, students should not be
allowed to attend the advanced classes without passing an examination in elementary
subjects. It was also considered that this system would prevent the classes being over-
crowded with young persons able to pay for private tuition who might wish to attend the
Painting Classes merely for amusement or as an accomplishment.
Advertisements to this effect were inserted in leading newspapers, and the following
Circular was largely distributed : —
Ontario School of Art.
The classes in Drawing and Painting, under the direction of the Ontario Society of Artists, will be re-
opened on Tuesday, 10th October, 1882, in the commodious rooms, furnished for this purpose, at the Educa-
tion Department Buildings, St. James' Square (Church Street Entrance).
Terms. — Day Classes — Elementary and Advanced Courses, S6 per term of 36 lessons. Evening Classes
— Specially available for mechanics, teachers and Normal School students, 83 per term of 36 lessons.
The Classes will be conducted as follows : —
Morning Classes— Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Afternoon " — Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.
Evening " —Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
Fees to be paid strictly in advance.
Programme of Studies.
Elementary Course.— Freehand Outline, Model Drawing, Geometry, Perspective.
Ahvanced Course. — Freehand Shaded, Ornamental Design, Painting in Water Colours, Painting in
Oil Colours.
Mechanical Course. — Practical Geometry (Plane and Solid), Machine Drawing, Building Con-
struction. (Students in this class need not take the Elementary Course.)
Students for the Advanced Course must pass the necessary examination. This applies to Day and
Evening Classes.
The Entrance Examination for Advanced Classes will take place on Monday, 9th Oct.
An examination will be held at the end of each session, and students having passed satisfactorily in the
subjects prescribed, will be entitled to receive Certificates of Proficiency, Teachers' Certificates will also be
granted.
Students will have access to the Art Library of the Education Department, and be allowed to copy
from the paintings, sculptures, etc., in the Educational Museum.
For further information, apply to the Superintendent, Education Department, Toronto.
N.B. — Classes in Water and Oil Colours are S3 each per term of 12 lessons.
Each pupil admitted filled a printed form of application as follows : —
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The entrance examination for advanced classes commenced under the direction of the
Superintendent and the teachers, in the Public Hall, on the 10th October.
Printed examination papers, Drawing-boards, etc., were supplied to each pupil.
The following list shows the number of pupils that passed the first examination : —
No. of Students. Subjects in which they passed.
28 Freehand Drawing.
17 Perspective "
28 Memory "
21 Geometrical "
12 Model
As this was the first time that examinations had been held, and many students who
had previously attended the school were unprepared for an examination, the Council
decided to have a second examination on the 20th November. This was conducted in a
similar manner to that of the 10th October, and the following list of successful candidates
shows the excellent results of the labour of the teachers during this short interval : —
No. of Students. Subjects in which they passed.
25 Freehand Drawing.
26 Perspective "
26 Memory "
30 Geometrical "
15 Model
The following Table shows the number of Students that attended the Morning,
Afternoon and Evening Classes, their sexes, occupations, and purpose of study :
OCCUPATION.
Physician . . .
Artists
Art Students
Students
Student
Artist
School Pupil .
Student
No occupation
Students
School Pupils
Purpose op Study.
Professional . .
Improvement .
Morning Classes.
Males.
Females.
Teaching
Improvement
Professional Artist
Indefinite
Total
Afternoon Classes.
Males.
Professional Artist
Indefinite
Professional Artist
Improvement
Females.
Professional Artist
Teaching
Improvement
Indefinite
Improvement
I
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Total
No. of
Students.
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Number of Students that attended the Morning, Afternoon and Evening Classes, their
sexes, occupations, and purpose of study. — Continued.
OCCUPATION.
Purpose of Study.
No. of
Students.
Architectural Draughtsmen .
Boiler Maker
Cabinet Makers
Carpenters
Evening Classes.
Males.
Engravers
Lithographers
Piano Stool Maker
Printer
Painters and Sign Writers
Photographer
Pattern Maker
Tinsmiths
Telegraph Operator
Clerks
Cutter
Stenographers
No occupation
Normal School Students . .
Artist
School Pupils ,
Professional Artist .
Indefinite
Professional Education .
" Artist
Indefinite
School Teachers ...
Normal School Students .
No occupation
Females.
Professional Education . . .
" Artist
Teaching
Improvement
The total number of Students that attended was as follows : — Morning Classes, 28 ;
Afternoon Classes, 53 ; Evening Classes, 121; Grand Total, 202.
The following is an analysis of the purposes of study as mentioned : —
55 Students represent the various Trades and Manufactures.
44 " are studying to become Teachers of Drawing.
21 " are Normal School Students.
4 " are School Teachers.
7 " are studying to become Professional Artists.
1 " is a Physician studying for professional purposes.
The other students in attendance include those who are studying for general im-
provement and are undecided as to their future employments.
At a subsequent meeting of the Council, which has been most unremitting in its
labours and endeavours to advance the interests of the school, a Committee of Examiners
was appointed, and rules for examination of students prepared, and the following circular
issued : —
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Ontario School of Art. — Education Department, Toronto.
RULES FOR EXAMINATION OF STUDENTS.
1. Elementary Classes : —
1. Freehand Drawing from flat examples.
2. Freehand Drawing from models.
3. Practical Geometry.
4. Linear Perspective.
5. Memory Drawing.
Examinations will take place on the above subjects at the commencement and close of each session, and
Certificates of Proficiency will be given to successful Candidates for each subject. Students who hold the
first two, and one other of the five Certificates, will lie permitted to study in any or all of the Advanced
2. Advanced Classes kor Teachers' Certificates in Public or High Schools and Mechanics'
Institutes :—
1. Shading from flat example.
2. Advanced Perspective.
3. Outline Drawing from the round.
4. Shading from the round.
5. Drafting flowers and objects of Natural
History from flat examples.
G. Blackboard Drawing.
Examinations will be held on the above subjects at the close of each session. Candidates will receive
Certificates for subjects passed at each session, and need not present themselves a second time for examina-
tion on any subject for %vhich they already hold a Certificate. Students in possession of all the Proficiency
Certificates in the Elementary and Advanced Classes will be entitled to a Teachers' Certificate.
3. Technical Instruction Classes : —
Students must pass an examination in Freehand Drawing before they will be allowed to study in any of
these Classes.
1. Mechanical and Machine Drawing.
2. Plane and Solid Geometry.
3. Ornamental Design. Shading from the flat
4. Linear Perspective.
5. Plan Drawing. Building Construction.
and round.
Certificates of Proficiency will be given for each of the above subjects,
jects will be entitled to a Technical Instruction Certificate.
Toronto, January 8th, 1 883.
Students passing in all the sub-
A Conversazione and Exhibition of Students' work was given by the Students and
Council on the 18th January, 1883. It was largely attended, over 2,000 invitations
having been accepted.
The School closed on the 20th January, 1883, and the following abstract shows the
satisfactory result of the examinations during the session : — ■
Freehand I (rawing
Linear Perspective
Memory Drawing
Practical Geometry
Drawing from Models .
Shading (from Flat) . . ,
Advanced Perspective ,
Students Untitled to Certificates.
Shading (from Round)
Drawing Flowers, etc
Blackboard Drawing
Mechanical Drawing
Plane and Solid Geometry .
Building and Construction .
32
31
23
24
33
35
29
2il
15
18
Total number of Certificates 302
The Students were supplied with drawing boards, easels, etc., free, and with
drawing materials at cost price.
It is proposed that pupils in the Mechanics' Institutes, taught by qualified teachers,
be allowed the same privileges as the Art School Students in being candidates for
examination, and receive the certificates awarded by the Council. This will not neces-
sitate Mechanics' Institutes students attending the examinations at Toronto, as sealed
papers will be sent to the persons appointed to conduct the examinations.
It has also been suggested in order to increase the study of Drawing in our Pub-
lic and High Schools, that any teacher or pupil may be a candidate for examination
and entitled to certificates the same as Art School students. They must, however, be
personally examined by the Board of Examiners, on the subjects specially appertaining to
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Teaching, before a Teacher's Certificate will be granted. By this system the Prov-
ince would be supplied with a long-felt want of qualified teachers of Drawing, for whom
there is a vast field of labour, and good remuneration for their services.
The importance of training Art teachers has long had the consideration of older
countries. Immense sums are annually expended in England for this purpose, and the
success of their work, by teaching mechanics and artizans, has been repaid one hundred-
fold by increasing the value of the manufacturing products of that country.
A few years ago the attention of French manufacturers was called to the rapid
strides made by England in Art Education, as shown in the artistic finish of certain
manufactured goods. They appointed a Commission to visit England, and ascertain
particulars as to the administration and management of Schools of Art and Design, and
especially the system adopted in the training of teachers of Drawing. Some time after
their return the Municipal Art Schools of Paris were re-organized, and it was decided
to hold annual examinations for granting diplomas to teachers of Drawing capable of
teaching in the city schools.
The first examination showed the necessity of a regular systematic training and
examinations for Art teachers. Out of 171 applicants, only 27 passed on the artistic
and 13 on the geometrical subjects. In the following year, only 11 out of 90 candidates
passed.
We are no doubt in a similar position to-day. There are many teachers of Drawing
in our Province who could not pass even the preliminary examinations now required.
Our neighbours across the border were in a similar position, which they are now
trying to remedy by establishing Art Schools where teachers are trained. The following
extract is from a recent report of the Normal Art School of Massachusetts :
"The aim of the school is to provide teachers of Industrial Art, as a means of
remedying, even if indirectly, the deplorable want of skill and taste in the industries of
the State. Imported skilled labour has taken the lead. We must have Schools of Art
and Science in every city, town and village, before any reasonable hope can be entertained
of influencing most favourably our varied Institutes. These schools and classes must
have specially trained teachers, and such teachers are not self-created.
" Not only cannot our most valuable products compete with those of the more
advanced nations abroad, but they cannot hold the home markets against the raids of
foreign skill.
"The Universal Exposition just closed at Paris, while promising larger measures of
good for our country, and winning special honours for this school, has furnished an addi-
tional illustration of the popular and industrial needs among us."
They also make the following remarks in reference to the importance of mechanics
being taught Drawing :
"The Workmen's Schools at Wurtemburg are good examples of the practical
teaching of Drawing to Industrial Classes.
" They have Trade Schools, in which the teaching is adapted to artisans, and
Schools of Practical Art for Ornamental Designers, Art workmen and teachers. Those
schools are open to all "persons who can produce testimonials of good conduct and
industry, and the Government insists that such schools shall be established in every town
and village, however small, where any kind of trade is carried on.
" The drawing is adapted in the Trade Schools to the wants of the district. Thus
in Stuttgart the branches of drawing taught are specially adapted to the work of builders,
carpenters, locksmiths, saddlers, etc. In the Art Schools, the copying from the flat and
round is carried on, together with modelling in wax and clay, and casting figures and
ornaments in plaster."
The Royal Commissioners say, in th eir Report : " We are especially happy to see
the position taken by the drawing and modelling classes, and their influence on the
industries of the country. The system on which drawing is taught is calculated to educe
all the power and to awaken the interest of the pupils. Drawing from the casts is
studied at the same time as modelling from copies, the pupil thus obtaining sound notions
of the relation between the 'flat' and the 'round.' Drawing from memory is much
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practised in these schools. They do not encourage the study of subjects that require
long labour, such as finely shading a drawing from a large cast ; and whilst the projection
of shadows is taught on the most scientific principle, the mere execution is carried out
boldly and in a broad manner. Drawing thus becomes a mental rather than a mere
manual labour."
The advantages of similar art instruction in this country can scarcely be estimated.
It will develop the intellect of the people, and increase the value of industrial pro-
ducts. Manufacturers will be benefited by the skill of their workmen. How frequently
it is that only one man in a large establishment is able to make working drawings ;
during his absence, sometimes work has to stand still. The necessity of art education to
mechanics is proved by the action of English tradesmen, who frequently insert in the
indentures of their apprentices that the youth shall attend a school of art for a certain
number of nights in each year of his apprenticeship.
Appended is a Report on a brief visit I recently made to Art Schools in the United
States.
Report on Art Schools recently visited in the United States.
Annexed are detailed statements respecting the Art Schools I visited ; in addition
I obtained considerable practical information as to details of management, equipments,
etc.
Philadelphia.
The schools I visited in this city represent three grades.
1. — The Spring Garden Institute.
This Institute has Day and Evening Classes, specially adapted for mechanics and
artisans. The Directors lay great stress upon the fact that they act as employment agents,
inasmuch as applications are made to them for youths skilled in drawing, also that their
students command better wages and become more valuable to their employers after
attending the school.
2. — The Philadelphia School of Design for Women.
The chief aim of this school is to train young women in the art of design, so that
they may turn it to profitable account, and to educate those who are desirous of becoming
teachers, a regular course of study is required extending over three years. The State
Legislature has recently made an annual grant to this school.
3. — The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
This Academy is specially for the education of artists. I obtained considerable
information as to management and details from the Curator which will be valuable in
our own school. Several Canadians have availed themselves of the excellent training in
'this Institution.
New York.
There are several Art Schools in New York, but I only visited the Cooper Institute,
as I considered I could spend my limited time more profitable there than in schools of
higher grade.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
This noble Institute has free Morning and Evening Classes — fees are charged in the
•afternoon. It was my privilege to meet the founder, Mr. Peter Cooper, who has not only
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bequeathed the Union Block Buildings for Free Educational purposes, but from time to
time contributed large sums for its support and enlargement. That gentleman gave
instructions that I was to have every facility for examining the working of the Institu-
tion, and by this means I had no difficulty in obtaining all the details I required.
The Art Schools are divided into a Women's Arc School, and Evening Classes for
mechanics and others.
The Women's Art School is under a separate management or Advising Council of
Ladies.
The Morning Classes in this school are free, and are intended for the training of
young women desirous of obtaining independent employment in the industrial arts.
The school is conducted on business principles and takes orders for illustrating, designs,
wood engraving, etc. Nearly §20,000 was earned last year, all of which wa3 paid to the
pupils themselves. The importance of these classes is so much valued that Messrs. Prang
& Co., Art Publishers, contributed $750 towards the pay of one of the teachers.
The school is now so large that it occupies an entire floor of the Building. Nine
Classes are at work every day, except Saturdays and Sundays, from nine till one o'clock ;
about 300 pupils attend each session. The applicants for these classes in 1881 numbered
nearly 1,000.
The Afternoon Classes are for those who can afford to pay, these classes are largely-
patronized.
Free Night Classes.
Classes are conducted in Science and Art, these are all under the direction of Dr.
Plympton.
A sixth-storey has recently been added to the building for the Evening Classes. I
found every room full of attentive students. The following list of pupils who attended
the Free Night School of Art in 1881 shows the subjects studied, and is valuable for
reference as to those subjects likely to be most required in the Evening Classes of the
Ontario School of Art.
Pupils Admitted during the Term.
Perspective Drawing 90
Mechanical " 260
Architectural " 235
Drawing from Cast 130
Form Drawing 85
Industrial " 160
Freehand " 545
Modelling in Clay 117
Total in School of Art 1622
Out of this number 321 received certificates.
The Directors have frequent applications for young men with some proficiency in
drawing, from manufacturers, decorators, architects, and others.
In the Modelling Class, [ found middle-aged men, young men and boys diligently at
work on models applicable to their various trades and employments.
Buffalo.
As I was passing through Buffalo, having ascertained that there was a Decorative
Art Society for Women, I waited over to visit that Institution.
This Society is for the assistance of ladies desirous of increasing their means by work
of an artistic character. It is very successful. The Evening Classes are largely patron-
ized, the fees being only 10c. per lesson.
I now beg to refer you to the detailed reports on each of the schools visited.
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Philadelphia.
Sprint/ Garden Institute.
This Institute was organized in 1851, and is supported by revenues of the property
voluntary contributions, and fees from pupils.
Day Classes in Drawing and Painting.
The School year is divided into two terms of nineteen weeks each, viz. :
11th September to 27th January.
29th January to 11th June.
Open for instruction every secular day of the week except Saturday.
Charges for Tuition.
Per Season (two terms) $40 00
Per Term (19 weeks) 20 00
Single Lessons (not less than 12) 1 00 each.
Subjects Taught.
Design and Composition.
Perspective and Colour Harmonies.
Painting in Sepia, Oil and Water Colour.
China Painting, under and over Glaze.
Drawing from the flat and round.
Stained Glass Painting, etc.
Evening Classes in Drawing.
Term of six months —
Pees for one night per week, 24 lessons, adults $3 00
" " " minors 2 00
'• two " " adults 6 00
" " " " minors 4 00
Subjects Taught.
1. Freehand Drawing.
" Elementary Drawing.
" Drawing from the Flat.
" Drawing from Models.
2. Mechanical Drawing.
" Geometry.
" Scale Drawing from the Flat.
" Scale Drawing from Models.
" Conventional use of Colours.
3. Architectural Drawing.
" Drawings to Scale.
The Freehand Classes also make sketches and design ornaments.
The following statement shows the Evening Classes in operation and number of
pupils in attendance at the time of my visit.
Freehand Drawing, two nights per week.
Shading from the Flat and Round, four nights per week.
Mechanical Drawing, two nights per week.
Architectural Drawing, two nights per week.
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The school rooms provide accommodation for about 150 pupils per night. Average
attendance, about 450 pupils. The students have the use of a library containing over
12,000 volumes.
Brief lectures are given to the pupils on Architecture, Perspective, Principles of
Composition and of Design, Harmony of Colour and similar subjects.
Public lectures are also given one night each week for about twenty weeks, free to
students of the Art School, but a small charge made for admission of the general public.
Equipments and Supplies.
Students in the Mechanical and Architectural Classes are supplied with drawing
boards, T. squares, triangles, etc., and are only required to furnish drawing instruments
and paper.
Students in the Freehand Classes have to provide only paper, pencils and crayons.
Paper, pencils, etc. are sold by the Institute to students at cost price.
1. Desks. — The desks for Freehand Drawing are made to economize space, with
narrow tops, allowing the drawing board to pass underneath the stand which holds the
copy.
2. The desks for Architectural Drawing have racks to hold drawing boards, and are
placed at .such a distance apart as to allow the teachers to pass behind each pupil.
3. Seats. — The seats have revolving stands and pivots for elevating or lowering, but
are being abandoned as unnecessarily expensive.
4. Gas. — There is a light suspended over each desk, with common tin reflector.
The drawing boards are numbered and each student has to take charge of his own
board, placing it in the rack at close of lessons.
Day Classes are conducted in oil and water colours, modelling in clay, glaze decora-
tion, and other higher branches of Art.
There is a kiln-room for baking the work of pupils. Private studios are fitted up
for a limited number of artists at a charge of §100 per annum, entitling them to use of
room, attendance in the school, use of models, copies, etc.
Philadelphia School of Design for Women.
This school was founded in 1S47, by Mrs. Peter, wife of the British Consul at Phila-
delphia. It is now a corporate body, holding extensive premises on Broad Street.
The government of the school is vested iu a Board of twelve gentlemen as Directors,
who appoint, from time to time, a Board of Lady Managers.
Means of Support.
It is not self-sustaining, but supported by pupils' fees and voluntary contributions,
and aided by a grant of §3,000, from the State Fund for Education, for which in return,
forty pupils from the Public Schools are allowed to attend free.
Objects of the School.
The aim of this institution is to systematically train young women in a knowledge
of the principles and practice of the art of design ; to develop their talents in this direc-
tion and of all the connected branches of art study.
Particular attention is given to those who study for the purpose of imparting instruc-
tion. A systematic and prescribed course is exacted and certificates given only to those
who pass regular examinations.
Terms.
The tuition fee is twenty dollars per term.. The school year is divided into two
terms. To those requiring preparation for special classes there is an extra charge of five
dollars per term.
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Students desiring instruction from more than one master in the higher branches are
charged an additional fee of ten dollars per term.
Subjects Tauyht.
There are seven distinct classes :
Class A. Preparatory Course.
" B. Ornament, with its sub-divisions.
" C. Landscape.
" D. Human Figure.
" E. Modelling.
" F. Engraving.
" G. China Decorating.
Class A. — Preparatory is divided into six stages and requires the study of Practical
Geometry, Perspective, Model Drawing, Ornament from the Oast, Drawing from Plants,
Light and Shade, Line Shading, Time Sketching, Elementary Design and Water Colour*.
Class B. — Ornament is divided into three stages and embraces the study and prac-
tice of the principles of ornamentation as applied to art manufactures, with original designs
suitable for some line of industry. Instruction is also given in the main features of archi-
tecture so as to assist in qualifying students for the position of architects' assistants.
Colour is taught as applied conventionally.
Class C. — Landscape is divided into three stages, it comprises Practical Perspective,
Composition, Secondary Grouping, Individual Trees, Plants, etc., Light and Shade, Colour
as applied to Landscape and Sketching from Nature.
Class D. — Human Figure is divided into seven stages, it includes Figure Subjects
Perspective, Composition, Grouping, Single Figures (including the study of Antique Statu-
ary, Draperies, etc.) Light and Shade and Colour.
Class E. — Modelling — Modelling the Human Figure or Ornament, Vase Forms,
Flowers and Fruit, and painting on the biscuit.
Class F. — Engraving. — Wood Engraving, Drawing on Wood, Lithography and
Etching.
Class G. — China Decorating. — Landscape and Figures on China, Flower Painting,
Ground Laying, Gilding and Decorating on Glass.
The diploma of the school is granted to those students only who complete the
subjects of study and pass the examination in classes A., B., C. and D.
The regular course extends over four years.
Students have to satisfactorily complete certain requirements before they can be
promoted from one class to another.
Number oj Students.
About 3-30 students attend the two terms per year. From 12 to 15 graduate each
year.
Equipments.
The school is well litted up ; the desks have drawers for the pupils' work and racks
to hold drawing;), also rack to hold drawing board when not in use.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Objects of the School.
1. To afford facilities and instruction of the highest order to those persons, men and
women, who intend making painting or sculpture their profession.
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2. To extend, as far as possible, the same benefits as a foundation to engravers, die
sinkers, illustrators, decorators, wood carvers, stone cutters, lithographers, photographers,
etc., who have always been largely represented in the school. No advantages but those
of pure art education are offered to them, they learning outside with masters in the work-
shop or in technical schools the mechanical parts of their art or trade.
3. To let amateurs profit by the same facilities. When the classes are crowded,
preference in admissions will be given to applicants in the order aboved indicated.
In the anatomical department, the advanced students dissect, and the demonstrators
use largely, in the dissecting room, the nude living model for comparison.
A course of thirty-five anatomical lectures are given, and also a series of lessons in
perspective and composition.
Animals are also dissected from time to time, and a living horse is used in the
modelling room each season for a pose of six or eight weeks.
The hours being arranged so as not to interfere with each other, every student has
an opportunity of modelling in clay, as well as of painting, from the nude.
Terms.
The Board of Directors of the Academy having decided to change the system of the
school, and to make a charge for admission, instead of having the instruction free as
heretofore, the following rate of charges is established.
For the season of eight months, including all privileges $48 00
For one month, same privileges 8 00
" " Antique Class, day and night 4 00
« " Night Life Class 4 00
The school year begins the first Monday in October and ends the last Saturday in
May.
Admission of Students.
Any person of good character of either sex, and over fifteen years of age, giving
satisfactory evidence of ability to profit by the course of study will be admitted, on appli-
cation made in compliance with the following directions: —
Students are admitted to the Antique Class without being required to submit any
drawing for examination.
Students will be transferred from the Antique to the Life Class as soon as they have
demonstrated by their work in the Antique, their ability to profit by the Life Class
work.
Each student desiring this advance must submit to the Committee on Instruction a
specimen of his work executed in the Academy.
Applications for transfer to the Life Class must be made upon a printed form, and,
when the applicant is a minor, the permission of a parent or guardian must be signed to
it.
Life Class students only will be admitted to the dissecting room ; and the same
restriction applies to the modelling room at the hours assigned for modelling from the
living figure.
Students of the Antique, as well as Life Class students, are entitled to attend the
Lectures on art anatomy m the lecture room, and any other lectures that may be provided
for the school, unless specially prohibited. They may also use the modelling room when
it is not occupied for the regular sessions of the Life Class.
Equipments.
Students are provided with closets and boxes, drawing boards and modelling stands.
Each student on taking out his ticket, deposits one dollar, which is returned to him
when he <uves up his keys a.id returns the property of the Academy which he has been
using.
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The easels, boxes, etc., are all numbered.
The average attendance is 100 students.
In the Modelling and Life Classes the sexes are kept separate.
There is a good reference library and a collection of over 60,000 engravings arranged
in chronological order according to engravers.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science, and Art.
This institute has been established for twenty-four years. The property was trans-
ferred to the trustees by Mr. Cooper, in 1857, at the cost of §630,226. The trustees
have since that time expended over $900,000 in giving free instruction to the public.
The annual expenditure now amounts to nearly $50,000. This sum has been derived
from the rents of the building, and from the income of a special endowment of $150,000
made by Mr. Cooper for the support and increase of the Free Reading Room and
Library.
The Day and Evening schools are kept open during eight months in the year.
The Reading Room is kept open every day from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m., with a daily
attendance averaging over 2,000 in winter.
Free lectures are given two or three times a week in Natural Philosophy, Chemistry,
English Literature, Rhetoric and Elocution.
On Saturday evenings, lectures are given on popular subjects.
Evening Schools.
The Art Department of the Evening Schools embraces instruction in all branches of
Drawing, Freehand Drawing, Architectural, Mechanical and Drawing from the Cast,
also Industrial Drawing and Design and Modelling in Clay. Lectures and lessons are
given in Perspective.
Terms — Free.
The season commences 1st October, and ends on the 15th April.
Each applicant for admission must be at least fifteen years of age, and should bring
a letter of recommendation from his employer.
Ladies are not admitted to any of the Evening classes in the School of Art.
As only a limited number of pupils can be admitted to the classes, a preference is
given to those whose occupations have special reference to the studies taught therein.
Any pupil absent three times, without a satisfactory excuse, forfeits his position in
the school. Pupils absent for sufficient cause, and who wish to retain their position,
should report to the Director, either in person or in writing, before three absences have
been recorded.
No pupil can leave the school while his class is in session, except with the written
permission of his instructor.
During the second week in April, the examination of the pupils of the School of
Art are held. To those pupils who have passed through the examinations creditably and
have been regular in attendance, certificates are awarded either of the first or second
grade, according to their progress and ability.
Those pupils who have not pursued the regular course, but have successfully com-
pleted the study of any particular subject, will receive a certificate therefor.
During the last week in May, the reception of the pupils of the School of Art is
given, for which they are required to deliver, during the term, to their instructors, any
drawings which the latter may deem worthy of exhibition. The drawings, however, arc,
in all cases, the property of the pupils, and will be returned to them at the close of the
reception. The trustees reserve the right to retain at least one drawing from each pupil,
if they so desire.
Only those pupils who have received certificates are advanced at the end of the term.
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No expense whatever is incurred by the pupils, except for the purchase of text
books and drawing materials.
In order that the pupils may be able to purchase only what they need, and at the
lowest price, they are enabled to obtain all that they require at the school, at the trade
prices.
The number of applicants that can be admitted to the School is as follows : —
Architectural Drawing 200
Descriptive Geometry 50
Mechanical Drawing "220
Drawing from Copy 300
Decorative Designing 150
Drawing from Cast 60
Drawing from Form 90
Perspective 80
Modelling in Clay 100
Eleven Teachers are employed in the Evening Class of the Art Department.
Each of the Art Classes is in session from 7:30 to 9:30, and with the exception of
the Cast, Perspective, and Rudimentary Mechanical Drawing Classes, each is divided
into three sections.
The sessions of the 1st section are Mondays and Thursdays.
The sessions of the 2nd section are Tuesdays and Fridays.
The sessions of the 3rd section are Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The Cast Class is in two sections only : the first meeting Monday, Wednesday and
Friday ; the second meeting Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
The Perspective Class is in two sections : one meeting on Wednesday and the other
on Saturday.
The beginners in Mechanical Drawing form one class, meeting on Monday and
Saturday.
Women's Art School.
This department of the Cooper Union has been established by the Trustees, in
accordance with the provisions of the trust deed, for the purpose of affording instruc-
tion in the Arts of Design to women who, having the requisite taste and natural capacity
but are unable to pay for instruction, intend to apply the knowledge acquired in the
Institution to their support, either by teaching or pursuing Art as a profession.
Rules and Regulations.
The annual term commences on the first of October and terminates on thirtieth day
of May, in each year. Students are not admitted for less than one school year.
Ladies desiring to be admitted to the school must apply either in person or in writ-
ing to the Principal, and give a responsible written reference as to character, fitness and
inabililty to pay for instruction. The ages of admittance are between 16 and 35 years,
except for the Free Hand Drawing Class; applicants for this class, under 16 years, are
only admitted on showing drawings which indicate extraordinary talent. All eligible
persons will be admitted in the order of their application.
Pupils are not permitted to pay for any instruction given in the morning school, but
must provide, at their own expense, all materials required for their instruction, such as
papers, pencils, crayons, colours, brushes, and instruments, but not models or easels, which
are provided by the trustees.
The hours of attendance are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily, except Saturdays and
Sundays.
The annual exhibition will take place during the last week in May, when certificates
and medals will be awarded to deserving students.
A special teacher is provided for Engraving on Wood and a special class formed,
into which pupils are admitted as soon as they have an adequate knowledge of drawing.
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Pupils in this class are not taken for less than three years. Orders are received for
engraving, and will be executed by the pupils to whom they may be assigned by the
teacher, and the money thus earned is paid to the pupils who may be entitled to it, but
it is distinctly announced that the school is intended chiefly for instruction, and when the
number of skilled pupils becomes inconveniently large, the more advanced must give place
to learners. Orders will be received at this school, and given out to those who have
been pupils to be executed at home.
Course of Instruction in the Morning School.
Elementary Drawing from Objects.
Cast Drawing.
Life Drawing.
Normal Designing Class.
Oil Painting (for graduates of the school only).
/ (a) Retouching of Negatives,
p, . ) {!>) Retouching of Positives in Oil Colours, Water Colours,
° ' " ■ ' j Crayons and India Ink.
\ (c) Porcelain Painting.
Engraving on Wood.
The Morning Classes are free.
The average attendance at Morning Classes is about 300 pupils.
There are nine classes at work from 9 till 1 o'clock every morning, except Saturdays
and Sundays.
Course of Instruction in the Afternoon School.
Elementary Drawing from Objects.
Cast Drawing.
Life Draw ing.
Oil Painting.
China Painting.
Designing Class.
Engraving.
The following Fees are Charged in the Afternoon. Classes.
Drawing Class 30 lessons 515
Designing Class 30 " 15
Oil Painting Class 20 " 15
China Paintings 6 " 5
Wood Engraving Class for amateurs, special terms.
The Reading Room and, Library.
The average daily attendance is over 2,000.
There are over 300 foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals on tile.
From 500 to 600 books are read and consulted each day which are not permitted to
be taken from the Library Room.
Decorative Art Society, Buffalo.
This Society was established by the Ladies of Buffalo, in 1879, for the exhibition
and sale of Decorative Art, and to give instruction to those who are desirous of improving
themselves and obtaining remunerative employment.
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Rudimental Drawing, "\
Drawing from Cast, I Morning and Afternoon Classes 25 cents per lesson.
Design, V
Sketching from Life, I Evening Class 10 cents per lesson.
Out-of-Door Sketching. J
Oil Painting §0 50 per lesson.
Cincinnati Pottery 10 00 6 lessons.
Flower Painting 0 25 per lesson.
Tapestry Painting 1 00 "
China Painting 1 00 "
4. Report op the Western School of Art and Design, London.
The School is governed by a Board of Directors, consisting (at present) of Col. John
Walker, President, W. R, Meredith, Esq., M.P.P., W. Saunders, Esq., Col. R Lewis,
James Griffiths, Esq., R.C.A., James Durand, Esq., John H. Griffiths, Esq., J. R. Peel,
Esq., Hugh McMahon, Esq., Q.C., S.R. Davidson, Esq., and Charles Chapman.
The school term consists of three terms of twelve weeks each, with Evening Classes
twice each week, and afternoon classes once a week. The fees, $2 for each term, after-
noons or evenings. Also separate classes, two afternoons of each week, for porcelain
painting.
The classes and subjects taught are Free-hand, Architectural, Mechanical, and
Geometrical Drawing, Modelling in Clay or Wax, Lettering, Designing, Model Drawing
from parts of machinery or patterns, as required in the various trades of workers in
wood or metals ; also from pltster casts, etc. Painting from the figure, landscape,
plant form and still life, from copy and from nature.
The Expenditure during the year has been as follows :
Rent, fuel, light and attendance $250 00
Tuition— four teachers 700 00
Secretary and Treasurer's salary .ri0 00
Printing and advertizing, etc 43 00
Drawing boards, furniture, easels, fittings, etc 96 00
Studies and models purchased 2t>2 00
Repairs of models and sundries 21 00
Books, stationery, postage, audit, etc 14 00
$1,456 00
The Receipts during the year :
Government grant $1,000 00
Fees from pupils 651 00
Interest on deposits 4 60
$1,655 60
The number of pupils enrolled during the year was 457, being an increase of 106
over the number in attendance during the previous year.
The Directors have much pleasure in being able to report that the progress of the
pupils in their various classes has been very satisfactory, and, with few exceptions, the
attendance has been regular and punctual.
A large number of young men, also some more advanced in life, have availed them-
selves of the advantages to be derived from the Department of Mechanical Drawing and
Modelling, as in all cases the studies are made as much as possible so as to be of practical
benefit to their individual trades or professions.
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In the other classes, many of the younger teachers in the Public Schools and others
are endeavouring to qualify themselves so as to make the knowledge so obtained of
practical benefit to them in the future.
The Directors cannot but feel gratified at the success which has hitherto attended
the school, and they confidently look forward to still greater success in the future.
5. Report and Financial Statement of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific
Society.
There has been an encouraging increase in the membership during the year, resulting
in a consequent increase in the income.
The amount realized from the sale of lecture tickets is more than fifty per cent,
greater than that of the previous year, while the sum received for periodicals sold is
exactly doubled.
All accounts incurred during the year have been paid, together with some small
accounts which had stood over from previous years.
The annual grant of $100 in aid of science classes, was not received in time to be
included in the statement for the year, which had closed on the 31st ult., notwithstanding
which there is on hand, in addition to this $100, the sum of $77.04 shown by tin- an-
nexed balance sheet. Of this balance the sum of $50 was appropriated by the Council on
the 29th March, for the purchase of new books for the library.
Report of Attendance at Evening Classes. — Technical Instruction : —
Drawing — Freehand, etc 15 Pupils.
do Architectural and Geometrical 15 do
Natural Philosophy 15 do
Chemistry G do
Several others attended irregularly whose names were not recorded. The students
in attendance were chiefly clerks and mechanics.
The following is a statement of receipts and expenditure for the year just closed : —
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THE TREASURER — In Account with Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society.
Dr.
Cr.
$ c.
50 86
300 00
364 00
65 25
14 70
3S 60
52 00
6 97
15 50
285 50
-3 c.
Total
1,193 3S
By Travelling expenses — Lectures
" Subscriptions to papers, etc . . .
" Custodian's salary
" Custodian's commission
" Kent
" Expenses of classes
" Lighting
:' Fuel
" Advertising and printing
" Binding
• ' Water Rates
" Expenses of premises
" Books
* ' Sundries
" Stationery and postage
" Rent of Opera House
' ' Balance of cash on hand
Total
5 c.
93 95
109 85
260 00
23 20
150 00
17 40
119 10
38 65
121 20
24 95
9 36
3 23
1 69
45 41
18 35
80 00
77 04
Ottawa, April Hth, 1882.
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6 Report of the President of the French Canadian Institute, Ottawa.
The income for the year ending with the 30th of September last has reached $1,-
585.5 I, and the charges $1, 313.62, leaving a surplus of $271.92 for the year.
Seventy new members have been added to our list of membership. One hundred
and thirty-four, out of two hundred and six, have paid their annual fee.
•The report of our treasurer shows an increase in every branch of our income.
Four public courses were opened during the year, viz. : — Drawing, Mineralogy,
Political Economy and History of Canada.
The Ontario Government has granted an increase of $100 to our annual grant to
help us in defraying the expenses of two of these courses.
The Drawing course was attended by eighteen members ; that of Mineralogy by
twenty ; that of Political Economy by about fifty ; and that of Canadian History by over
two hundred.
The family course with lectures, music, both vocal and instrumental, was well at-
tended by our public.
Apart from these soirees we had a dramatic and concert soiree, which produced a
revenue of $205.35.
The interest on the mortgage debt, which was 8 and 10 per cent., has been reduced
to 6, thus saving $260 annually.
Many gifts were added to our historical and natural museum, and as soon as our
means will permit, it has been decided to have the whole put up in glass cases, so as to
be within the reach of every one. A stock of chemical acids and mineralogic apparatus
has been bought for the use of those who follow the Mineralogy course, which is given free
of charge to every member of the Institution who wishes to avail himself of this course.
I beg to add that we hope that you will see your way clear to help us in our efforts
to diffuse among our young people a knowledge of Drawing and Mineralogy, courses for
which we were, last year and the year previous, ordered by your representative, Dr.
May, to open.
Report of Attendance at Evening Classes. — Technical Instruction : —
Drawing — Landscape 3 Pupils.
do Ornamental 2 do
do Linear 2 do
do Industrial and Geometrical 9 do
Mineralogy 26 do
The students attending these classes belonged to the following professions and trades,
viz. : — Advocates, clerks, merchants, lumber merchants, manufacturers and mechanics.
Ottawa, November 4th, 1882.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT, SCHOOL OF
PRACTICAL SCIENCE.
The origin and establishment of this school for practical instruction in Industrial
Sciences were fully explained in my report for 1881.
This Institution was opened for students in September, 1878, and the Annual Reports
of its Board of Management exhibit its satisfactory progress and great usefulness in sup-
plying the want which formerly existed, of the proper means and appliances for affording a
thorough scientific and practical instruction in the different subjects in Physical Science,
which have an important bearing upon the development and advancement of the mining,
mechanical and manufacturing, and other industrial interests of the Province.
The following extract from the Report of the Board to your Honour for the year
1881-2, will show the progress and present condition of this Institution.
(1) Students in Attendance.
A classified list is herewith given of the students in attendance in the several subjects
during the terms of Michaelmas and Easter, 1882, also a statement of those attending
the courses of evening lectures specially designed for workingmen : —
Chemistry.
Easter. Michaelmas.
Students from University College 129 91
Regular Students in Engineering 15 18
Special Students — Veterinary 50 144
Medical 10 35
Biology.
Students from University College 25 25
Special Students — Medical 18 35
Mineralogy and deology.
Students from University College 41 84
Regular Students in Engineering 7 7
Special Students 2
Engineering.
Regular Students 13 18
Special " 2
Mathematics and P/iysics.
Regular Students in Engineering 13 18
Special " 2
This table embraces the regular students pursuing special subjects in the full courses
taught in the school, or proceeding to a Diploma in the Department of Engineering or to
a Degree in the University. In addition to those there are in attendance at the Evening
Lectures now in progress, as a part of the Winter Courses hereafter described : —
In Chemistry 28
In Engineering 55
(2) The fees of the Academic year 1882, derived from the Students proceeding to a
Diploma of the School of Practical Science in the Department of Engineering, and paid
to the Provincial Treasurer, amounted to $585.00.
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(3) With a view to testing how far the special advantages of the School of Practical
Science can be made available in carrying out this provision of the Revised Statute
respecting the School that " besides Training students in Regular Classes, instruction
shall be given to artisans, mechanics, and workmen, by Evening Classes, in such sub-
jects as may further their improvement in their different callings," a series of courses of
Evening Lectures was arranged, and given during the past winter as follows : —
1. Inorganic Chemistry; the non-metallic elements — By W. H. Ellis, M.A., M.B.
2. Applied Mechanics ; on the calculation of strains and the strength of materials —
— by Professor J. Galbraith, M.A.
3. Ethnology— By D. Wilson, LL.D., F.R.S.E.
4. Natural History ; on the minute structure of the human body — By Professor
Ramsay Wright, M.A., B.Sc.
5. Light and Sound — By Professor Loudon, M.A.
6. The Objects of Chemistry as a Science — By Professor Pike, M.A., Ph. D.
(4) The different courses of lectures were carried out with a special view to the
requirements of practical instruction in the Applied Sciences. The lectures given by
Dr. Ellis on Inorganic Chemistry were largely taken advantage of by Veterinary Students
and Druggists, as well as by workingmen in various trades in which some knowledge of
chemistry is calculated to be of practical value. The attendance numbered in all L93, of
whom 110 were Veterinary Students, and the remaining 83 Druggists, artisans and
others.
The Lectures given by Professor Galbraith on Applied Mechanics were also largely
taken advantage of, chiefly by Engineers, Machinists, Carpenters, and other skilled arti-
sans to whom such instruction is of special importance. The attendance on the course
numbered in all 55.
Tickets available for all these courses of lectures, specially designed for working-
men, were taken by ten.
An analysis of those in attendance on Evening Lectures during the past winter,
shows them to have included 110 Veterinary Students, 14 Engineers, Machinists, Black-
smiths, etc., 26 Architects, Builders, Carpenters, Joiners, etc., 4 Brass Moulders, Glass-
sdverers, etc., 39 Druggists, Salesmen, Clerks, etc.
1 5 ) Arrangements are now in progress for similar courses of Evening Lectures during
the current Academic year, on the following subjects : —
1. On the Chemistry of the Metals, and their industrial application — By W. H.
Ellis, M.A., M.B., Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
J. On the Theory of the Steam Engine — By J. Galbraith, M.A., Professor of
Engineering.
(ii) Courses of Lectures will be instituted in other departments in Easter Term,
including a series of Saturday Morning Lectures, specially for women, by Professor Ram-
say Wright, M.A., B.Sc, on one of the branches of Biological study.
(7) The work now carried on under the joint labours of the Professors and Lecturers
of the School of Science and University College has greatly increased the advantages
enjoyed by the Students of both Institutions, but the large and increasing attendance
renders the present accommodation already inadequate, and will necessitate additional
assistance in the laboratories and practical class rooms.
(8) Arrangements have been entered into by the University and College for the
establishment of Tutorial Fellowships, which will furnish the required assistants in the
departments of Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Mathematics and Physics. In the depart-
ment of Engineering the Board beg leave anew to press on the notice of your Honour the
necessity of an Assistant possessed of a thorough knowledge of Descriptus Geometry and
Spherical Trigonometry, as well as of ordinary Levelling and Surveying, including the
theory of the instruments. He must also be a good Topographical, Mechanical and
Architectural Draughtsman.
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Coursb op Instruction in the Several Subjects.
1. Engineering.
Professor Galbraith's lectures embrace Civil, Mechanical and Mining Engineering.
Practical instruction is also given in Topographical and Mechanical Drawing in surveying
and field work.
The increasing applications for admission as regular students in this department
prove the growing appreciation of the advantages it oilers. Twelve new entrants have
been admitted this term. The larger number of the present Students found remunerative
employment on City Water Works, Railway Engineering and Surveys during the long
vacation, and the Professor is in constant receipt of letters from Engineers and Surveyors
applying for young men to act as professional assistants.
It may further be added that all of the graduates of the schools are now employed in
good positions on engineering work. The facts thus set forth furnish evidence that the
value of the School of Practical Science is being more and more recognized by professional
men throughout the country. But with the increasing appreciation of the advantages
offered by the School, the necessity for important additions to its appliances for practical
instruction becomes every year more manifest. One pressing want in this department is
an adequate supply of surveying instruments and engineering models ; but, in addition
to this, it is also desirable that another very important branch of engineering equipment,
viz., the requisite apparatus for testing materials, shall be furnished at no distant date.
2. Chemistry.
The students of the School of Practical Science and those of University College
attend the Lectures and Laboratory instructions given by Dr. Pike and Dr. Ellis.
In the special work of the School Dr. Ellis has given two courses of lectures to the
Engineering students on Applied Chemistry.
1. On the Chemistry of Limes, Mortars, Cements, Building Materials, and on explo-
sives, to students of the second year.
2. On Fuel, Furnaces, and the Metallurgy of Iron, to students of the third year.
Owing to the annual increase in the number of students availing themselves of the
Laboratory instruction in Analytical and Applied Chemistry, it is indispensable that
increased Laboratory accommodation be provided.
3. Mineralogy and Geology.
Professor Chapman's irntruotions in this department include practical teaching in
the determination of Minerals, the use of the Blow-pipe and Assiyini;.
In addition to Lectures on Mining and general Geology an I the practical work of
this department, a great number of mineral samples have been examined free of charge,
for explorers, farmers and others, and much information has been given by letter or per-
sonally to numerous applicants from various parts of the Province.
4. Biology.
In this department the students of the School of Science have had the full advantage
of the lectures delivered by Professor Ramsay Wright in University College, and in
addition have had special arrangements for their practical instruction in the School of
Science.
Thirty-five Medical students from the two Medical Schools of Toronto are now
availing themselves of the opportunities afforded by this Institution, and eight hours per
week are devoted to their practical instruction.
Duriug the Easter Term of last session Professor Ramsay Wright also gave a course
of Evening Lectures, copiously illustrated, " On the Minute Structure of the Human
Body."
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5. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
Professor Loudon, M.A., and Mr. Baker, M.A., and Mr. W. J. Loudon, B.A., carry
out systematic instruction in all the branches included in the departments of Mathematics
and Physics, available to students both of the School of Science and the College.
The Physical Laboratory is now furnished with a valuable collection of instruments
of precision in the departments of Dynamics, Sound, Light and Heat. A large addition
is required in Electrical instruments, to adequately illustrate that important branch of
physics, and a public appeal is now being made for funds to supply the want.
The Elementary Laboratory has been opened since the last report, and a considerable
amount of useful work done by the students in the departments of Mathematics, Physics
and Engineering.
Two additional rooms for special experiments in Heat and Sound will be ready at
the opening of Easter Term, and will be furnished with appliances of the most complete
character.
The Optical room is also far advanced towards completion, but funds are still needed
for certain windows. Some workshop appliances are also still required in connection with
the Laboratories.
Great progress has been made, to a large extent by University College, toward the
adequate provision of means for a thorough training in all the branches of Mathematics
and Physics, The Board must now appeal to the Government, on behalf of the School, to
complete the appliances still wanting, and so place this Provincial Institution in all
respects in a state of creditable efficiency.
6. Ethnology.
This department forms a part of the honour work in the requirements for a degree
in the Faculty of Arts, and is available for Students of the School of Science. A collec-
tion of skulls, and of casts illustrative of typical race — forms are now being made — along
with Archaeological and Anatomical illustration.
The Lectures embrace Anthropology, the Physical Distinction of Ancient and Modern
Paces, and the Influence of the Ethnical Element in History. They also include the
Physological Basis of Classification of Ancient and Modern Paces.
In concluding their report the Board again call attention to the fact that, as compared
with other Technological Colleges and Schools of Science, this Institution is still imperfectly
equipped. The arrangements by means of which the services of the Professors of Mathe-
matics and Physics, of Chemistry, Biology, and of Mineralogy and Geology in University
College are made available for the Students of the School, have largely added to its
efficiency ; with their aid, in co-operation with the Instructors of the School of Science, it is
now successfully carrying on the work for which it was instituted, and as they confidently
believe is making some adequate return to the Province for the annual expenditure it
involves.
The Board trusts that their renewed appeal for additional aid in the work of instruc-
tion, anil for a more adequate equipment in the practical appliances of various depart-
ments, will meet with a liberal response, so as to place the School of Practical Science of
Ontario on a footing in all respects thoroughly creditable to the Province.
Lists of the regular Students in Engineering, and of those who attended the Evening
Classes, will be printed as a Sessional Return for 1883.
An Order in Council was accordingly passed on the 30th December, 1882, to give
effect to certain of the representations contained in the report of the Board of the School,
according to the recommendation contained in my report to your Honour of the 27th
December, 1882, as follows : —
(1) That instruction in the department of Analytical and Applied Chemistry in the
School is essential, in order to enable the students to become proficient in the application
of Chemistry to Manufactures and other industrial objects.
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(2) That such instruction cau only be adequately afforded when satisfactory accom-
modation and appliances are supplied, and Dr. Ellis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry in
the School, be specially entrusted with such instructions as are required in the School for
the Diploma in the department of Analytical and Applied Chemistry, in valuing elemen-
tary Chemistry with practical work in the Laboratory, also Applied and Organic Chemis-
try with Laboratory work, including Technical and Mineral Analysis. Also, that Dr.
Ellis should also afford instruction in courses relating to Physiology, Hygiene, and
Forensic Medicine.
(3) That in certain branches, such as in Theoretical Chemistry and in Practical Analy-
sis, the students of the School and of University College have alike availed themselves of
the instruction given by the Professor of University College and by Dr. Ellis, yet in certain
other respects the line between the subjects prescribed in the University course and in
the school is sufficiently distinct to enable the duties of the Professor and Assistant to be
separately performed.
(i) Much of Dr. Ellis' time hitherto has been required in assisting the Professor in
the work of instruction prescribed for the students of the College, but as by the Statute
of University College, passed by the Council on the 16th day of December, 1882, the
Professor will be aided by the Fellow thereby attached to the department of Chemistry,
a portion of such work can be taken by such assistant, and Dr. Ellis partially relieved
therefrojn, and enabled to give more time and attention to such branches as are specially
within the scope and objects of the School of Practical Science.
(5) The report of the Board of the School just submitted to your Honour, gives full
details of the satisfactory progress made in the several subjects taught in the School to
the regular and special students therein, and to those of University College, as well as
by the Evening Lectures specially designed for workingmen. The Board proceeds to state
" that the work was carried on under the joint labours of the Professors and Lecturers of
the School of Science and University College, has greatly increased the advantages enjoyed
by the students of both Institutions, but the large and increasing attendance renders the
present accommodation already inadequate, and will necessitate additional assistance in
the Laboratories and Practical Class Rooms." The report then refers to the establishment,
by University College, of Tutorial Fellowships as furnishing the required assistants in
Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Mathematics and Physics, and while recommending to your
Honour the necessity of appointing an assistant to the Professor of Engineering, the
Board reports that " in the department of Chemistry, owing to the annual increase in the
number of students availing themselves of the Laboratory instruction in Analytical and
Applied Chemistry, it is indispensable that increased Laboratory accommodation be pro-
vided." And the Board, in conclusion, calls attention again to the condition of the
School, "which, compared with other Technological Colleges and Schools of Science, the
Provincial School is still imperfectly equipped."
(6) The Board has further recommended that the sum of $1,100 should be provided
for fitting up an additional practical Laboratory, in order that the upper Laboratory may
be placed exclusively under the control and for the use of Dr. Ellis, in his work of
instruction. The Chairman of the Board has also recommended that in consequence of
such necessity for increased accommodation, and the growing demands for instruction,
Dr. Ellis' department in the School should be placed in the same position as that of
Engineering under a Professor, and that Dr. Ellis should be appointed " Professor of
Applied Chemistry" therein.
The undersigned, therefore, recommends to your Honour that Dr. Ellis be so appointed
accordingly, and that such additional accommodation and appliances as may be required
in the premises be provided out of funds that may be appropriated by the Legislature for
this purpose.
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^ APPENDIX TO PART IV.
CONTAINING DETAILS OF CONDITION OF EACH MECHA
INSTITUTE, IN 1882, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.
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APPENDIX.
AILSA CRAIG MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 187".
Number of Members, 109. Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during tlie year.
Balance on hand $ 20 88
From Members 104 35
ii Legislative Grant 150 00
ii Donations in money 10 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
For Salaries $ 36 00
n Works of Fiction (purchase of ) 13 67
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 2 25
ii Miscellaneous 23 30
Total §300 18
Total ' $300 18
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature t .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
tTols. in Library.
Vols, issued.
141
116
186
680
125
107
444
768
40
36
20
61
157
116
86
182
25
4
Total .
2070
1224
Assets, $1,219.65. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1878 to 1882, $900.
Remarks.
The Inspector reports that the ledger is well kept, and the officers are zealous and
i !1M ful.
Xote. — On comparing this Report with that of last year, it will be found in a few cases that the c;ik1i
balances on hand do not agree with those brought forward 1st May, 1SS2. This may be accounted for by
some Institutes having paid for books after 1st May, 1881, which belonged to that year, and others ha\ ing
received overdue fees after the annual report had been sent to the Department.
In all cases (except Mount Forest) the Reports are certified to as conect, by the Inspectors of the
deferent districts.
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ALEXANDRIA MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1878.
Number of Members, 27.
Annual Subscription, $2.
Receipts during tit
From Members $46 00
Total 8-16 00
Expend:' the year.
Not reported.
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols, issued.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama \ Not reported.
Periodical Literature I
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels |
Works of Reference J
Total
Remarks.
10
..:
56
■27
40
3
L0
Schedule B. — Requisition for Legislative grant only has been received tor Alexandria.
AYLMER MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1*74.
Number of Members, 140.
Annual Subscripl i
•iny the year.
. he year.
From Members $133 25 For Light and heating $ 4 98
100 00
d Enter-
tainments 9G 50
Salaries 47 66
Book.-, ' ■ . . . |
Works of Fiction (purcha
of) I
Magazines, Newspapers, etc. . 27 00
pal Lectures and Enter-
tainments
Miscellaneous 60 15
8329 75
Total
272
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A. 1883
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels
Not yet? catalogued
Works of Eeference
Total
in Library.
125
198
161
330
75
55
170
117
140
1454
55G4
Beading Room.
Newspapers, 2. Magazines, 5. Periodicals, 2.
Assets, $2,177.23. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1875 to 1882, $1,730.
Number of Members, 157.
AYB MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1856.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 51 00
From Members 123 25
,i Legislative Grant 300 00
m Donations in money 2 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 53 68
H Other Sources 3 30
Total $533 23
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent, light and heating . . . .$ 54 16
ii Salaries 25 00
ii * Books (purchase of) 222 61
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of) 39 19
" Magazines, Newspapers, etc. . 126 08
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 28 95
ii Miscellaneous 28 38
Balance on hand 8 86
Total $533 23
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
"Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library.
Vols, iss
231
174
600
1182
29J
132
500
218
58
37
55
1025
162
49
184
232
43
4
Total
2124
3053
* This Institute has expended S7.9G since 1st May, 1882.
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Heading Room.
Newspapers, 11. Magazines, 12. Periodicals, 7.
Assets, Not reported. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 18G9 to 1882, $2,072.84.
Remarks.
The Inspector says: "This Institute has not been in so prosperous a condition for
vears."
Number of Members, 260.
BARRIE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1854.
Annual Subscription, §1.
Receipts during the year.
From Members §210 00
„ Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Municipal Grant 50 00
ir Donations in Money 14 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 33 40
„ Other sources 172 79
Total $880 19
Expenditure durimj the year.
For Rent and Taxes $109 00
Light and Heating 42 75
Salaries 125 00
Books (purchase of) 300 55
Works of Fiction (purchase of ) 73 53
Magazines, Newspapers, etc. . 76 98
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 86 44
Miscellaneous 65 94
Total $880 19
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Books of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
191
179
570
2,717
183
128
238
165
181
66
45
31
172
111
183
1,082
32
27
Total
1,795
4,446
Reading Room.
Magazines, 6.
Periodicals, 5.
Newspapers, 16.
Assets, $1,968 59. Liabilities, $435 73.
Total amount of Government Grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $3212.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : "This Institute is doing splendid work in this town."
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BELLEVILLE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1876.
Number of Members, 216. Annual Subscription — Gentlemen, $4 ; Ladies,
Receipts (hiring the year.
Balance in hand $0 74
From Members 499 00
Legislative Grant 400 00
Municipal Grant 200 00
Donations in Money 125 00
Pupils at Evening Classes. 34 00
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 89 60
Other sources 31 89
Total $1,380 23
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $200 00
Light and Heating Ill 40
Salaries 185 00
Books (purchase of) 110 70
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 60 00
Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 113 27
Evening Classes 44 00
Apparatus therefor 14 00
Miscellaneous 491 04
Balance on hand 50 82
Total $1,380 23
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 56 200
Fiction 536 823
History 178 100
Miscellaneous 249
Poetry and the Drama .... 500
Science and Art 52 100
Voyages and Travels 83 200
Works of Reference 30 30
Total 1,184 1,953
Newspapers, 17.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 8.
Periodicals, 10.
No. of Pupils.
5
19
Assets, $2,577.82.
Evening Classes.
Technical Instruction.
Subjects.
Drawing, Freehand, etc.,
Chemistry.
Liabilities, $789.
Total amount of Government Grants paid this Institute from 1877 to 1882, $2,400.
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A. 1883
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " The class on Chemistry consisted of 19 young men, preparing
to pnss for druggists. The work was well done, and done to the satisfaction of everybody."
BLYTH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1876.
Number of Members, 58. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $58 00
n Legislative Grant 60 00
ii Other sources 26 20
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $30 00
Light and Heating 6 28
Salaries 22 25
Books (purchase of) 18 71
Reviews (subscription for) . . 16 05
Miscellaneous 50 91
Total $144 20
Total $144 20
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Books of Reference . . .
Total
Vols, in Library.
Vols. Issued
7-r>
42
144
200
67
84
242
90
51
4
60
2
53
24
69
90
15
776
536
Reading Room.
Not Reported.
Assets, $540. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1S79 to 18S2, $330.
Remarks.
The Directors did not apply for grant for this year. The Inspector reports that the
Library is in good condition, ercept some of the fiction. Reading Room is open only in
winter.
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A. 1883
BOWMANVILLE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1868.
Number of Members, 109.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
50 61
52 09
65 33
64 50
34 55
42 00
Expenditure during the year.
ii Salaries 40 00
n Unexpended balance from
ii Books (purchase of) 60 50
1880-81
H General Lectures and Enter-
M Pupils at Evening Classes . .
Balance on hand 30 63
Total . . $
309 08
Total $309 08
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Books of Reference . . .
Total
Vols, in Lib
ary.
Vols. Issued
90
90
364
364
177
177
389
389
22
22
24
24
76
76
160
160
29
29
1,3.31
1,331
Evening Classes.
Technical Instruction.
. of Pupils.
Subjects.
20.
Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Assets, $1,200. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1880, $1,775.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : ,:The requirements of the law have been fully complied with.
The Report for last year was, by a mistake of the Secretary, sent to Mr. Edwards."
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BRADFORD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1870.
Number of Members, 106. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand
$1
83
37
44
17
34
08
75
25
00
20
75
For
Bal
Expenditure during
Rent
Light and Heating
Books (purchase of)
Magazines, Newspape
the year.
$28 00-
20 53
n Pupils at Evening Class. . . .
H General Lectures and Enter
tainments
19 00
2 00
rs, etc... 50 51
70 00
27 48
inee on hand
Total
0 51
Total
$218
03
$218 03
Lnsi
tARY.
Vols, in Lib
90
rary. Vols. Issued,.
172
95
310
73
1,181
38
60
16
Total
931
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 6. Magazines, 7. Periodicals, 3.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
1 6 Writing and Bookkeeping. 5 Drawing, Free-hand, etc.
16 English Grammar.
16 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $900.51.
Liabilities, $50.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $2,254.28.
278
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BRANTFORD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1854.
Number of Members, 203. Annual Subscription, $2 ; Junior Members, $1.50.
Receipts during the year.
From Members 237
73
04
00
00
00
91
For
Bal
Expenditure during the year
Books (purchase of), including
Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
Scientific Lectures
$97 50
30 48
Municipal Grant 200
H Pupils at Evening Class . . 62
150 00
310 30
135 29
114 06
108 68
59 05
Total $1
1 32
Total $1,006
68
,006 68
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 443 81
Fiction 1,292 3,504
History ; 398 87
Miscellaneous 596 410
Poetry and the Drama 141 26
Periodical Literature 235 581
Science and Art 656 166
Voyages and Travels 262 165
Books of Reference 124 ....
Total 4,147 5,020
Newspapers, 15.
Reading Room.
Magazines and Periodicals, 15.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
30 Writing and Book-keeping.
30 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
1 2 Phonography.
Assets, $4,401.32.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils.
10
Subjects.
Chemistry.
Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1882, $4,944.38.
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A. 1883
Remarks.
The Inspector remarks that " The Library is in good condition. The Reading Room,
which is open to the Members of the Institute and strangers every week day, is well
supplied with newspapers (Canadian and Foreign) and magazines, and is well patronized."
BRIGHTON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1872.
Number of Members, 58. Annual Subscription, SI.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $24 66
From Members 57 30
.. Legislative Grant 120 00
ii Municipal Grant 30 00
>t Other sources 19 25
Total $251 21
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $25 00
n Light and Heating 6 54
n Salaries 50 00
it Books (purchase of) 69 55
n Works of Fiction (purchase of ) 19 45
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 43 91
ti Miscellaneous 9 45
Balance on hand 27 31
Total $251 21
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued,
Biography SI 27
Fiction 184 346
History 135 67
Miscellaneous 147 89
Poetry and the Drama 32 78
Periodical Literature 50 51
Science and Art 160 33
Voyages and Travels 104 106
Books of Reference 17 . . .
Total 910 797
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 12.
Assets, $752.31.
Magazines, 6.
Liabilities, $4;
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1882, $1,636.14.
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A. 1883
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " 1 would remark that this Institute is in a most nourishing
condition. The debt on current account has been paid by donations from Members.
The room at present occupied is very commodious. There has been a large increase of
membership."
BRUSSELS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1874.
Number of Members, 52. Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the yt ar.
Balance on hand $4 67
For
$50 00
From Members 41
70
ii
Light and Heating 12 58
00
00
ies 20 00
ii Municipal Grant 25
* Books (purchase of) 188 17
ii Donations in Money 50
00
ii
* Works of Fiction (purchase
n General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 12
85
Magazines, Newspapers, etc. . 12 00
il Lectures and Enter-
tainments 11 55
Miscellaneous 2] 28
Total $334
22
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Books of Reference . . .
Total .
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
130 50
100 185
113 56
308 183
33 1 3
88 16
47 82
15
585
834
Assets, !$9 : i Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1875 to
Remarks.
The Inspector says : "The books are in good condition, but I fear they suffer too
much from handling in the absence of printed catalogues for Members."
* These amounts were paid after 1st May. :
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A. 1883
CHATHAM MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Re-established 1878.
Number of Members, 346
Annual Subscription, $2.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 3 49
From Members 664 09
pi Legislative Grant 400 00
Municipal Grant ....
Donations in Money . .
General Lectures and
tertainments ....
Other sources
En-
50 00
13 00
22 70
28 91
Total $1,182 19
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent
Light and Fuel
Salaries
Books, purchase of
Works of Fiction, purchase of
Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
Total $1,182 19
$239 00
95
49
153
75
293
72
117
46
116
11
161
13
5
2:!
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama.
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
. in Library.
Vols. Issued.
174
114
471
4,132
167
235
223
248
58
57
65
608
194
155
66
352
44
Total .
1462
5901
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 13. Magazines, 20. Periodicals, 11.
Assets, $2,055.2:;. Liabilities, $20.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, $1,700.
Number of Members, 33.
CLAUDE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1877.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during
For Miscellaneous
Total
he year.
$16 75
26 81
ii Proceeds from Scientific Lec-
Total $43 56
$43 56
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Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Micellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference. . .
Total .
Vols, in Library.
Vols. Issued
60
50
85
106
74
20
209
120
18
10
65
34
66
56
12
569
396
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1878 to 1880, $406.84.
CLINTON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1869.
Number of Members, 147.
Annual Subscription, !
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $197 80
From Members 81 71
n Legislative Grant 400 00
.. Municipal Grant 100 00
n Pupils at Evening Class . . 102 00
Total $881 51
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $51 25
Light and Heating 33 95
Salaries 58 50
Books, purchase of 102 84
Works of Fiction, purchase of 25 71
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 136 63
Evening Classes 328 00
Miscellaneous 144 29
Balance on hand 34
Total $881 51
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $10.50.
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 99 311
Fiction 450 934
History 140 204
Miscellaneous 66 567
Poetry and the Drama 50 103
Practical Literature i>"i 1.257
Science and Art 118 200
Voyages and Travels 85 :i4.r>
Works of Reference 42 52
Total 1,115 3,973
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Newspapers, 12.
Elementary Instruct ion.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 12.
I\ l,MV. Gl-ASSES.
Periodicals, 5.
Technical Instruction.
Nu. of Pupils. Subjects.
1 9 Writing and Book-keeping.
14 English Grammar.
19 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $1,376.59.
If o. of Pupils. Subjects.
23 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
1 4 Natural Philosophy.
14 Chemistry.
Liabilil't,'*, £30.
Total amount of G-overnment grants paid this Insitute from 1870 to 1882, §4,, 22.58.
Remarks.
Extract from Directors' Annual Report : " The Institute is in a good position and is
doing an excellent work. No one who visits the Reading Room frequently, and wit-
nesses, night after night, the large number of young persons — -especially of the labouring
classes- -who spend their evenings in reading the newspapers and periodicals supplied,
cannot for a moment doubt the usefulness of such institutions in our midst. The Direc-
tors believe it extremely desirable to afford, by the public reading room, the means
whereby a large number who have no other facilities may keep themselves posted upon
public matters and the current literature, of the day. It has been noticed with great plea-
sure that amongst the supporters of, and subscribers to, the Institute there are all classes
of the community. The membership roll embraces the farmer, the mechanic, the mer-
chant and the professional man alike.
" The evening classes were more extensive the past season than in any previous year.
The '-lasses are well attended, and the Inspector expressed himself as well pleased with
the arrangement and the subjects and manner of teaching."
GOLLINGWOOD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1856.
Number of Members, 70.
Annual Subscription, $2.
- year.
Balance on hand .
From Members 149 30
pi Legislative Grant 150 00
., Municipal Grant 100 00
ii General Lectures and En-
tertainments 204 4 5
ii Other sources 05 10
Total .
/he year.
■ ■< 80 For Rent .
ii Light and Heating
Salaries
M Books, purchase of
ii Works of Fiction, purchase of
ii Magazines, Newspaper
n General Lectures and
tainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
163
33
17
77
84
00
118
22
53
68
51
30
98
26
83
01
3
05
Total
284
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A. 1883
LlBRAKV.
Vols, in Library. Vols, issued.
Biography 254 447
Fiction 404 1,387
History.. : ■ 377 300
Miscellaneous 570 938
Poetry and the Drama 67 356
Periodical Literature , 119 427
Science and Art 440 386
Voyages and Travels 320 927
Works of Reference 122
Total 2693 5168
Assets, $2,853.05. Liabilities, 8207.95.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1870 to 18S2, $3, 006. 84.
DUNDAS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1841.
Number of Members, 113. Annual Subscription, §2. Apprentices, $1.
========
Receipts during the
yea
r.
$106
230
400
100
33
171
00
00
00
15
For
Lai
Expenditure during tl
e year.
$100 00
Light and Heating ....
58 26
231 18
ii Donations in Money .
ti General Lectures and
En-
Works of Fiction (pure
of)
base
53 15
Magazines, Newspapers,
etc. 1 1 I 20
150 00
Apparatus for Scieiititic
Lec-
i 25 nn
General Lectures and Enter-
'J 4 31
Total
0 50
60
Lib
iARY.
Vols, iii Library.
689
Vols. Issued.
231
733
784
History
524
187
'- 800
260
1,062
177
745
422
Total
19
2!
io
128
4,681
2,061
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A. 1883
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 10. Magazines and Periodicals, 5.
Evening Classes.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
20 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Assets, $7,883.12. Liabilities, $20.75.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, §5,400.
DUNNVILLE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1864.
Number of Members, 116.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $110 00
n Legislative Grant 100 00
n Municipal Grant 10 00
n Donations in money 28 43
Total $248 43
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $65 00
ii Light and Heating 25 00
n Books (purchase of) 58 43
n Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 40 00
ii Miscellaneous 2 50
Balance on hand 57 50
Total $248 43
Library.
Vols, in Library.
■1
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and Drama \ Not classified.
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyage and Travels
Work of Reference J
Total 1,200 1,050
Assets, $967.50. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1874 to 1882, $600.
286
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A. 1883
DURHAM MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1873.
Number of Members, 106. Annual Subscription, jjjl.
Receipts during (he year.
Balance on hand $19 84
From Members 65 50
m Legislative Grant 150 00
n Proceeds from Scientific Lec-
tures 8 55
it General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 91 42
ii Other sources 433 44
Total $768 75
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating % 1 60
n Salaries 41 25
Books (purchase of) 233 60
Works of Fiction (purchase
of) • 51 40
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 9 76
n Miscellaneous 462 70
Balance on Land 19 84
Total $768 75
Is. iii Li
jrary.
Vols. Issued
187
100
453
1,293
136
122
266
228
37
54
172
154
■"'7
112
28
30
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and Drama
Science and Arts
I Voyages and Travels
Works of Reference
Total 1,336 2,152
Assets, $2,381.84. Liabilities, $210.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1881 to 1882, $300.
ELORA MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1871.
Number of Members, 174:
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand SI 27 59 For Bent
Expenditure during the year.
.$ 50 00
From Members 137 55
ii Legislative Grant 200 00
ii Donations in money 5 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 59 70
n Other sources 201 23
Total 6731 07
Light and Heating 5 00
Salaries 25 00
Books (purchase of) 484 16
Reviews, etc 10 13
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 37 85
ii Miscellaneous 58 03
Balance on hand 60 90
Total $731 07
287
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Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 517 140
Fiction 1,096 1,748
History 512 160
Miscellaneous 964 1,993
Poetry and the Drama 146 67
Periodical Literature 357
Science and Art 1,129 187
Voyages and Travels 606 462
Works of Reference 146 9
Total 5,473 4,766
Assets, §5,591.45.
Liabilities, $302.75.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $4,300.
Remarks.
The Directors report that a thorough classification and re-numbering of the books in
their extensive library has been made, and a systematically arranged catalogue published.
They further say : — •' The Elora Mechanics' Institute is now the second largest library of
its kind in the Province, and stands to-day as a worthy monument of the indomitable
and wisely directed energy and intelligent and liberal spirit of its promoters and patrons.
Its influence for good has been, and will long continue to be, felt in the community,
affording as it does such ample means for pastime, amusement and useful instruction."
EMBRO MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1881.
Number of Members, 112.
Annual Subscription, 81.
Receipts during the year.
From Members §112 00
H Donations in money 32 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 17 35
Total $161 35
Expenditure during tlie year.
For Rent $12 00
ii Light and heating 1 75
ii Books (purchase of) 71 36
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of) 9 20
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 10 00
ti Miscellaneous 8 55
Balance on hand 48 49
Total $161 35
Donations in books or specimens for museum, value of $99.75.
288
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 25 40
Fiction 66 350
History 50 50
Miscellaneous 15 42
Poetry and the Drama 20 5
Periodical Literature 5 1
Science and Art 10 7
Voyages and Travels 10 18
Works of Reference 10 1
Total 211 514
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 8. Periodicals, 3.
Assets, $245.05. Liabilities, None.
ENNOTVILLE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1856.
Number of Members, 53.
Annual Subscription, 50 cents.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $26 94
Prom Members 24 50
n Legislative Grant 80 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 2 00
ii Other sources 6 25
Total $139 69
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating $ 1 00
,i Salaries 5 00
ii Books (purchase of) 96 00
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of ) 24 00
ii General Lectures and Enter- )
tainments \ o ,-r>
-i Miscellaneous )
Balance on hand
5 19
Total $139 69
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Words of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library.
104
121
105
254
23
38
43
40
90
Vols. Issued.
75
150
80
183
40
100
60
72
20
Total
Assets, $1,086.19.
818
Liabilities, None.
780
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 18S2, $280.
289
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Sessioual Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Number of Members, 140.
Rect ip/s during the year.
From Members $140 00
ii Municipal ({rant 30 00
M Genera] Lectures and Enter-
tainments 32 63
Total $202 63
EXETER MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1879.
Annual Subscripts ■:
Expenditure during the year.
For Kent % 83 68
i, Books (purchase of) 100 20
H Works of Fiction (purchase of) 1 05
M Miscellaneous 2 85
Balance on hand 11 S5
Total $202 63
Library.
Biography
Fiction"
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library.
39
Vols. Issued
72
353
57
1,018
63
173
17
46
7
27
73
60
20
14
74
50
Total 835 1,328
Assets, $653.54. Liabilities, None. ,
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute in 1879, $400.
FENELON FALLS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 18 78.
Number of Members, 101. Annual Subscription, $1.
Family Tickets, $2.00.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 3 56
From Members 94 50
,i Legislative Grant 300 00
., Municipal Grant 50 00
ii Donations in Money 50
ti General Lectures and En-
tailments 16 04
ii Other sources 33 25
Expendittire during the year.
For Rent
ii Light and Heating
ii Salaries
ii Books (purchase of)
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of )
ii Magazines, Newspapers and
Reviews (subscriptions for)
n General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
n Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
Total .
$497 85
$60 05
58
00
10
00
73
20
33
74
101
87
2
00
71
71
87
28
Total $497 85
290
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A. 1883
Library.
V.. la. in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography
Fiction . '. 411 1,699
History ' 122 116
Miscellaneous 129 210
Poetry and the Drama 28 36
Periodical Literature
Science and Art 93 69
Voyages and Travels 47 122
Works of .Reference 42
Total 872 2,252
Reading Room.
No report.
Assets, $595.61. Liabilities, $38.20.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, $1,000.
FERGUS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1857.
Number of Members, 138. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 6 00
From Members 83 50
ii Municipal Grant 87 00
n Pupils at Evening Classes . . 39 00
■ I General Lectures and En-
tertainments 63 70
Total $279 20
Expenditure during the year.
For Salaries $13 25
ii Books (purchase of) 60 69
ii Evening Classes 120 65
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 35 40
ii Miscellaneous 43 00
Balance on hand ... 6 21
Total $279 20
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature. .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels. .
Works of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
317
125
628
1,749
414
197
473
415
89
125
438
408
417
239
19S
153
83
33
Total
291
3,057
3,444
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5)
A. 1883
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
44 Writing and Book-keeping.
44 Dictation.
44 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $4,006.21. Liabilities, §16.50.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1874 to 1879, $2,120.
FOREST MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1879.
Number of Members, 120. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts (hiring the year.
Balance on hand $ 15 09
From Members 102 50
ii Legislative Grant 330 00
,i Municipal Grant 20 00
n General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 9 05
ii Other sources 30 00
Total $506 64
Expenditure during the year.
'For Rent !j
ii Light and Heating
ii Salaries
u *Books (purchase of)
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of)
ii Magazines, Newspapers, and
Reviews (subscriptions for)
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
Total $506 64
50
00
10
00
33
75
120
47
42
94
14
35
77
09
158
04
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature . .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels . .
Works of Reference ....
Total
Reading Room.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
48
67
95
1,021
58
103
65
103
29
31
88
89
28
97
22
29
533
1,540
Newspapers, 4. Periodicals, 1.
Assets, $717.87. J.in/iifities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1S82,
* $226.74 expended for books siuce 1st May, 18S2.
292
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Remarks.
The Inspector reports that the Library and Reading Room are well patronized, and
they hope to establish Evening Classes during this winter.
GALT MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1853.
Number of Members, 277. Annual Subscription — Library, $1 ;
Reading Room, $1 50; Full Members, $2 50.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand §220 52
From Members 3:! 1 (17
„ Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Pupils at Evening Class. ... 90 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 239 95
ii Other sources 40 00
Total $1,325 14
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent
ii Light and Heating . . .
ii Salaries
n Books (purchase of) .
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of)
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
ii Evening Classes
ii Apparatus therefor
n General Lectures and Enter
tainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
$50
00
22
00
210
00
233
65
80
15
14G
30
1G0
07
20
00
270
80
31
G4
100
53
Total $1,325 It
Donations of books or specimens for Museum, value of $15.
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
ols. in Library.
"Vols. Issued
237
236
461
3,035
317
317
583
892
134
163
436
698
427
463
239
413
190
143
Total
Newspapers, 26.
3,024
6,360
Reading Room.
Magazines and Periodicals, 20.
No. of Pupils
30
17
Evening Classes.
Technical Instruction.
Subjects.
Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Natural Philosophy.
Assets, $5,300.53. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, $5,050.
293
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5)
A. 1883
Remarks.
The Secretary reports that this Institute has been remarkably successful during the
present year, the membership is increased to 500, the room is enlarged and supplied with
new cases, etc., and the prospects are good for the future.
GARDEN ISLAND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1869.
Number of Members, 134.
Annual Subscription, $1 50.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $201 00
n Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Municipal Grant 149 91
ii Donations in money 323 02
ii Other sources 40 00
Total $1,113 93
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $60 00
„ Light and Heating 89 98
„ Salaries 70 00
H Books (purchase of) 343 37
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 34 20
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 103 33
„ Evening Classes 340 00
ii Apparatus therefor 41 37
ii Miscellaneous 31 68
Total $1,113 93
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . .
Total
Library.
in Library.
Vols. Issued
51
133
172
772
346
229
198
255
103
204
19
134
615
210
411
292
91
58
2,006
Reading Room.
Magazines, 7.
Newspapers, 15.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
No.. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
Writing and Book-keeping.
2.2*7
Periodicals, 7.
28
28
28
English Grammar.
Arithmetic and Mensuration.
63 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
54 Natural Philosophy.
47 Chemistry.
Assets, $2,600. Liabilities, $398.19.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1875 to 1882, $3,200.
294
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Remarks.
The Inspector reports that Evening Classes, under a staff' of competent teachers,
were held in connection with this Institute during the months of November, December,
January, February and March. "These classes are well attended and are, in my opinion,
a great benefit, as a large proportion of the residents of the village are mechanics. They
and their sons thus receive instruction that they could not otherwise obtain. No charge
is made for tuition. The general working of the Institute is good."
GEORGETOWN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1880.
Number of Members, 92.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 84 61
From Members 115 85
„ Legislative Grant 300 00
.i Other sources 1 00
Total 8501 46
Expenditure dv.ring the year.
For Salaries $ 40 00
ii *Books (purchase of) .;
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 99 14
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 14 00
ii Miscellaneous 57 GO
Balance on hand 132 99
Total $501 46
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous'
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels
Works of Reference . .
Total
Library.
Vols, in Li
52
jrary. Vols. Issued.
143
72
211
Record kept only
■ for six months,
21
102
37
32
261
696
1,745
* $188.10 expended for books since 1st May, 1882.
295
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Sessional Papers (No. 5)
A. 1883
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 9. Periodicals, 2.
Assets, $606.85. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1881 to 18S2, $600.
GLENCOB MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1881.
Number of Members, 133. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the yeai
For Books (purchase of)
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of)
Balance on hand
Total
$387 00
12 13
13 16
10 01
$122 30
Note. — The expenditure of §289.30 was from borrowed money.
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $25.
LlBRARV.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference ..
Vols, in Library.
86 1
Total
15
97
111
33
55
27
14
■138
None issued be-
• fore 1st May.
■J
Assets, $459.14.
Liabilities, $314.30.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " This Institute has just organized. The books are beautifully
and correctly kept. I find the selections for the Library are superior. Much credit is
due to the President and Secretary for their skill and management of a work so hard to
accomplish in a small village."
296
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
GODERICH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1879.
Number of Members, 147. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts duriiu/ the year
$ 97
137
400
100
73
153
96
70
92
T">
00
00
50
00
15
40
Expenditure duriny
For Rent
the
year.
, $100 00
99 -JO
125 00
ii General Lectures and Enter
n Books (purchase of)
Works of Fiction (purchase
of)
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc
ii General Lectures and Enter-
L'.SS li.X
34 15
80 93
121 00
92 10
Total
$1
145 39
42 27
Total $1,128
72
,128 72
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $2.50.
LlBRAEY.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 79 68
Fiction 179 1,092
History 171 112
Miscellaneous 314 186
Poetry and the Drama 24
Science and Art 148 196
Voyages and Travels 88 248
Total 1 ,003 1,902
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 14. Magazines, 8.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
47 Writing and Book-keeping. 4 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Assets, $1,029.44. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from I860 to 1882, $1,200.
297
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Sessional Papers (No. 5)
A. 1883
GRIMSBY MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1871.
Number of Members, 75. Annual Subscription,
Receipts during tlie year.
Balance on hand $ 42 68
From Members 89 00
ii Legislative Grant 212 00
H Donations in Money 28 69
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 49 05
Total $421 42
Expenditure during the year.
For Bent
ii Salaries
n Books (purchase of)
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of)
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
$36 00
24
00
240
15
48
00
24
20
19
73
8
67
20
67
Total $421 42
LlURARY.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference. . .
. ill Library.
Vols. Issued
139
90
313
658
167
197
645
474
38
27
6
11
456
89
284
207
10
9
Total
2,058
1,762
Reading Room.
Magazines, 9.
Assets, $2,463.35. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $2,372.56.
Remarks.
The Inspector says, "No attempts have been made to organize Evening Classes,
otherwise the Institute is in a very prosperous condition."
208
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
GUELPH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1850.
Number of Members, 340. Annual Subscription, $2 ; Apprentices and Females,
working, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand I 4 80 For Reirl
From Members 338 00
u Legislative Grant 400 00
m Pupils of Evening Classes . . 83 50
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 71 00
ii Other sources 65 50
Total $1,002 80
Expenditure during the year.
250 00
78 40
300 00
ii Light and Heating. . .
ii Salaries
ii * Books (purchase of) |
ii Works of Fiction (purchase j
of) [-167 Gl
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. |
ii Reviews (subscription for) . . |
ii * Evening Classes
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
Total $1,001' 80
50 00
49
05
59
85
47
89
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference .
Library.
Tola, in Library.
Vols. Issued
287
211
831
2,987
310
106
839
1,556
83
38
130
1,974
239
137
158
444
3'.i4
Total
7,453
Newspapers, 19.
No. of Pupils.
Periodicals, 3.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 16.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
Subjects.
Writing and Book-keeping, Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, §3,697.89. Liabilities, $376.63.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, $4,127.34.
* $262.39 expended for books and Evening Classes since 1st May, 1882.
299
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
HANOVER MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1881.
Number of Members, 50.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
From Members §111 00
Total Sill 00
Expenditure during the yew.
*For Books (purchase of) 847 75
,, Miscellaneous 9 00
Balance on hand 54 25
Total §111 00
Biography
Fiction
History..
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama.
Science and Art
Voyages and Travel
Works of Reference . . .
Total
Assets, §102.
This is a new Institute.
Library.
Vo
s. in Lib
13
47
■ 20
30
•ary
Vols. Issued
12
9
No Report.
142
Liabilities, None.
Remarks.
HARR1STON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1873.
Number of Members, 121.
Annual Subscription, §1.
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the year.
From Members §110 26 ! For Rent
§60 00
Legislative Grant 100 00
Pupils at Evening Classes . . 28 00
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 49 14
Other sources 76 93
Total S364 33
Lighting and Heating 25 00
Books (purchase of) 85 01
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 15 00
Magazines, Newspapers, etc. . 20 78
Evening Classes 56 00
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 7 15
ii Miscellaneous 48 28
Balance on hand 47 11
Total §364 33
* $i7A'i expended for books since 1st May, 1882.
300
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library.
Biography 107
Fiction 385
History 115
Miscellaneous 32G
Poetry and the Drama 43
Science and Art 176
Voyages and Travels : 86
Works of Reference 29
Total 1,267
Newspapers, 6.
No. of Pupils.
Vols. Issued.
81
750
100
167
86
111
12.3
65
1,483
Reading Room.
Magazines and Periodicals, 5.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
Subjects.
English Grammar, Elocution and Reading.
Assets, $1,528.45. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1874 to 1882, $1,740.
HESPELER MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1870.
Number of Members, 71. Annual Subscription, $1.50.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $81 11
From Members 84 30
„ Legislative Grant 200 00
i> Donations in Money 52 50
n Pupils at Evening Classes . . 12 80
Total $430 71
Expenditure during the year.
For Salaries $50 00
Books (purchase of) 93 67
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 31 36
Magazines, Newspapers, etc. . 27 40
Evening Classes 140 00
Apparatus therefor 1 50
Miscellaneous 32 15
Balance on hand 54 63
Total $430 71
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Total ,
20
Vols, in Library.
160
208
156
313
64
234
101
25
1,201
Vols. Issued
71
763
41
495
45
925
179
305
2,818
301
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Newspapers, 2.
No. of Pupils.
42
42
Reading Room.
Magazines and Periodicals, 8.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
Subjects.
Writing and Book-keeping.
Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $2,141.63. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $2,392.
INGERSOLL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Established 1870. Re-established 1880.
Number of Members, 135. Annual Subscription, $1.
Heceipts during the year.
Balance on hand $129 55
From Members 113 75
„ Legislative Grant 400 00
,i Municipal Grant 100 00
ii Donations in Money 5 15
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 80 40
ii Other sources 7 95
Total $836 80
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $37 50
ii Light and Heating 18 07
n Salaries 33 35
ii Books (purchase of) 479 Ot
n General Lectures and Enter- -
tainments 1 2 00
ii Miscellaneous 66 29
Balance on hand 5 55
Total $836 80
Note.— S45.39 expended since 1st May, 1882.
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels.
Works of Reference . . .
in Library.
160
328
181
241
54
20
49
88
18
Total
Assets, $1,245.03.
1,139
Liabilities, $29.15.
Vols. Issued.
121
2,239
175
248
31
22
164
3,000
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1880 to 1882, $1,200.
302
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
KINCARDINE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1866.
Number of Members, 128.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $178 65
From Members 97 00
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Municipal Grant 25 00
ii Pupils at Evening Classes .. 10 50
n General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 27 70
n Other sources 0 50
Total §739 35
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $ 41 67
ii Light and Heating 10 40
,i Salaries 39 17
ii *Books (purchase of) 232 05
it Works of Fiction (purchase
of ) 50 23
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 83 98
ii Evening Classes 92 27
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 32 60
ii Miscellaneous 49 02
Balance on hand 107 96
Total §739 35
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Yu\ ag( is and Travels .
Works of Reference .
Unbound Magazines .
in Library.
Vols, issued
51
112
316
1,192
87
180
147
256
62
54
225
193
88
99
61
149
86
22
Total ,
1,123
1,442
3,699
Reading Room.
Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals, 24.
Evening Classes
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
29 Writing and Book-keeping.
29 English Grammar.
29 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $989.26. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $1,679.70.
* $69.40 expended since 1st May, 1882.
303
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
KINGSTON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1835.
Number of Members, 399. Annual Subscription, $2. Apprentices, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $401 65
From Members 630 50
n Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Donations in Money .... 110 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 126 36
u Other sources 51 29
Total $1,719 80
Expenditure during the Year.
For Rent $123 75
ii Light and Heating 109 15
ii Salaries 268 75
n Books (purchase of ) 232 89
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 60 00
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 134 49
.. Evening Classes 107 00
n General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
n Miscellaneous 359 78
Balance on hand 323 99
Total $1,719 80
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature . .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels . .
Works of Reference ....
Vols, in Library.
120
980
170
361
17
672
160
130
80
Vols. Issued.
84
7,626
123
571
54
3,676
84
327
153
12,698
Total 2,690
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 33. Magazines and Periodicals, 17.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No, <>f Pupils. Subjects.
40 Writing and Book-keeping. 37 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
48 English Grammar.
7 1 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
23 Euclid.
43 Shorthand.
Assets, $2,823.99. Liabilities, $90.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1882, $1,800.
Remarks.
The Inspector remarks that the Record Books of the Institute are not accurately
kept by the Treasurer, Secretary and Librarian.
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LINDSAY MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1879.
Number of Members, 121. Annual Subscription, $2.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $149 29
From Members 180 94
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
n Municipal Grant 100 00
Donations in Money .
Pupils at Evening Classes
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
Other sources
10 25
2G 00
269 98
33 86
Total $1,170 32
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent
ii Light and Heating
n Salaries
ii Books (purchase of )
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc
ii Evening Classes
ii Apparatus therefor
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
n Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
$100 00
59 49
41 66
348 37
88 20
17 25
36 55
300 48
134 68
43 64
1,170 32
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference .
Vote, in Library.
Vols. Issued
121
265
210
482
171
311
208
214
31
14
21
201
105
62
84
286
25
94
Total .
976
1,929
Newspapers, 11.
No. of Pupils.
74
Reading Room.
Magazines, 10.
Evening Classes.
Technical Instruction.
Subjects.
Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Periodicals, 15.
Assets, $1,192.39. Liabilities, $242.50
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1880 to 1882, $1,200.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " The books are well kept. The Reading Room is much fre-
quented. The library is much used and I think the books read. The interest taken in,
and progress of the Drawing Classes, were very satisfactory."
305
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A. 1883
LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1852.
Number of Members, 419. Annual Subscriptions, $2. Ladies and Juniors, $1.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $580 00
,i Legislative Grant 400 00
M Donations in Money .... 55 00
Other sources, including Rents,
etc 1,988 18
Total $3,023 18
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating $161 95
ii Salaries 387 53
ii Books (purchase of ) 431 03
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of ) 35 00
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 150 00
ii Miscellaneous, including In-
terest on Mortgage, etc . . 1,857 G7
Total
,023 18
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature . .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels . .
Works of Reference . . . .
Vols, in Library.
Vols. Issued
163
85
500
2,453
227
135
596
350
83
45
410
357
196
147
124
224
265
12
Total 2,564 3.S08
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 46. ' Magazines, IS. Periodicals, 6.
Assets, $25,350. Liabilities, $18,950.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1S71 to 1882, $4,700.
LUCAN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1878.
Number of Members, 50. Annual Subscription, $1. Ladies, 50 cents.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $26 54
From Members 42 00
„ Legislative Grant 80 00
Total 81 is 54
Expenditure during the year.
For Books (purchase of) $90 00
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 22 15
ii Miscellaneous 11 58
Balance on hand 24 81
Total $148 54
306
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 41 34
Fiction 86 193
History 69 52
Miscellaneous 60 42
Poetry and the Drama 31 20
Periodical Literature 8 3
Science and Art 29 4
Voyages and Travels 37 26
Works of Reference 3 1
Total 364 375
Assets, $312.81. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, $224.30.
MANITOWANING MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Notification of the incorporation of this Institute has been received and it will be
entitled to apply for Legislative Grant after 1st May, 1883.
MAEKHAM MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1878.
Number of Members, 55. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 3 20
From Members 39 50
Other sources 27 20
Total $69 90
Expenditure during the year.
For Miscellaneous $ 4 25
Balance on hand 65 65
Total $69 90
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Library.
No record.
Total
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
117]
157
96
120
29 \
5
136
105
33 j
798
Assets, $968.65. Liabilities, $40.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to IS
307
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Remarks.
The Inspector says the Committee of this Institute has now provided a Reading
Room, and the books in the Library are well arranged and in first rate condition. The
Institute promises, in the future, much better than in the past. The Reading Room and
Library are in the new hall, which is centrally situated.
MEAFORD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1868.
Number of Members, 79.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 22 05
Expenditure during the
For Rent ...
year.
... $ 36 66
From Members 29 24
n *Books (purchase of)
ii Apparatus therefor
Total
ii Pupils at Evening Classes . . 36 25
111 47
20 00
2 50
4 00
32 91
Total $207 54
$207 54
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
821
Total ,
n Library. Vols. Issued.
79]
291
78
126
34 ^
69
86
13
776
821
No. of Pupils.
29
22
29
Assets, $207.54.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
Subjects.
Writing and Book-keeping.
English Grammar.
Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Liabilities, $1,820,41.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1882, $1,707.59.
* $24.25 expended for books since 1st May, 1882.
308
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A. 1883
Remarks.
The Inspector says special efforts are being made to increase the usefulness of this
Institute.
MIDLAND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1880.
Number of Members, 50.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during
the
year.
Expenditure during the yeai
$71 50
For Rent
$ 4 00
ii Legislative Grant
... 200 00
8 00
n General Lectures and Enter-
112 32
... 16 10
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
41 25
of)
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
Total . •
28 81
26 20
45 04
104 48
Total
$328 85
$328 85
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $16.50.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature . .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels . . .
Works of Reference ....
Library.
Total
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
16]
121
15
34
1 1 j- Not reported.
13
18 J
250
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 6. Magazines, 3. Periodicals, 1.
Assets, $328.85. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1881 to 1882, $400.
Remarks.
The Inspector complains of the manner in which the books are kept, but says that he
believes everything to be perfect and reliable, so far as the officers are concerned — a
proper record of books issued was not kept until lately.
309
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
MILTON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1855.
Number of Members, 108. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the
year
S 2 30
88 86
200 00
53 77
10 53
Expenditure during the year.
For Salaries $ 40 00
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 29 90
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 38 80
ii Miscellaneous 25 00
Balance on hand 00 29
ii Donations in Money
Total
$355 46
Total $355 46
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference .
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
225]
Total .
326
372
553
96 }-
276
459
247
42
2,596
2,716
2,716
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 10. Magazines, 2.
Assets, $4,740.29. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1882, $2,580.42.
Number of Members, 106.
MITCHELL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1849.
Children and Apprentices, 50 cents.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
74
75
25
50
87
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating $ 33 00
,i Salaries 107 14
ii General Lectures and Enter-
n Books (purchase of) 6 00
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 66 35
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 37 50
ii Miscellaneous 13 35
Balance on hand 34 77
Total $298
11
Total $298 11
310
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 99 73
Fiction 313 903
History 1 47 108
Miscellaneous 233 143
Poetry and the Drama 33 24
Periodical Literature 115 342
Science and Art . 137 62
Voyages and Travels 322 756
Works of Reference 164
Total 1,563 2,411
Assets, $2,593.21. Liabilities, $60.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1880, $2,900.
MOUNT FOREST MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 18G0.
Number of Members, 52.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the year.
For
„
Books (purchase of) 31 03
.1 Municipal Grant 20 00
,,
ii Donations of Money 20 00
n
General Lectures and Enter-
n Pupils at Evening Classes . . 22 45
H General Lectures and Enter-
n
Miscellaneous 412 43
ii Other sources 304 57
Total $547 90
Total $699 84
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature. .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
in Library.
106]
92
292
106
76
145
87
16J
No record.
Total
311
920
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
42 Writing and Book-keeping.
42 English Grammar.
42 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $1,400. Liabilities, $253.46.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1880, $1,966.18.
Remarks.
The Receipts and Expenditure do not agree. The Inspector says, " When I asked
for the account book none was to be found. I had nothing before me to show the amount
of the Receipts during the year ; I was unable to audit the accounts. You had better
write for necessary books and vouchers." This was immediately done, but no reply has
yet been received.
NAPANEE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1878.
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $22 50
ii Light and Heating 8 14
„ Salaries 124 00
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. . 41 60
ii General Lectures and Enter-
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
it General Lectures and Enter-
ii Other sources 1 31
Total $494 15
Total $494 15
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
' 860
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous j- Not reported. ■
Science and Art |
Voyages and Travels J
Total
144
125
69
281
1,479
Assets, $727.90.
Liabilities, $60.78.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, $1,600.
312
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A. 1883
NEW HAMBURG MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1881.
Number of Members, 50. Annual Subscription, $2.
Receipts during
the year
$1S7 00
4 00
13 02
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating $20 24
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 52 30
ii General Lectures and Enter-
ii General Lectures and
Enter
ii Miscellaneous 49 86
Total
$204 02
Total $204 02
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art . ...
"Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference .
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
10]
20
5
30
10 } No Report
5
5
10
5J
Total 100
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 15. Magazines, 3. Periodicals, 4.
Assets, $204.02. Liabilities, None.
NEWMARKET MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Number of Members, 41. Annual Subscription, $1 ; Juniors, 50 cents.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $26 00
Expenditure during tl
For Rent
n Books (purchase of)
ie year.
$14 00
25 35
32 00
tures 32 00
65 21
ii General Lectures and Enter-
Total
9 16
Total $165 72
... .'.$165 72
313
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 10 60
Fiction 246 246
History 94 94
Miscellaneous 267 207
Poetry and the Drama 33 33
Periodical Literature 19 19
Science and Art 45 55
Voyages and Travels 110 110
Works of Reference 4 4
Total 828 828
Assets, $734.16. Liabilities, $71.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1879, $671.
NIAGARA MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1848.
Number of Members, 52.
Annual Subscription, $1.50.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $37 9 I
From Members 79 73
ii Legislative Grant 172 00
>i General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 36 56
ii Other sources . .- 36 00
Total $302 23
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating $6 12
n Salaries 40 00
ii Books (purchase of) 133 79
ii Works of Ficticn (purchase of) 10 00
ti Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 89 27
ii Evening Classes 20 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 4 00
M Miscellaneous 15 43
Balance on hand 43 62
Total #362 23
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference .
Vols, in Library.
Vols. Issued
346
192
479
575
445
100
267
144
167
75
422
1,275
294
50
273
200
40
12
Total .
2,733
2,623
314
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Reading Room.
Magazines, 16. Periodicals, 6.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
22 Writing, Book-keeping. 32 Drawing, Free-hand, etc.
Assets, $4,004. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $3,129.30.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " The books are well selected, and the Reading Room is well
supplied with Magazines, etc."
NIAGARA FALLS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1878.
Number of Members, 200. Annual Subscription, 25 cents.
Receipts during the year
$189 16
48 25
400 00
300 00
9 00
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $ 50 00
n Salaries 81 00
ii Donations in money
n Books (purchase of) 431 55
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of) 146 60
ii Magazi nea, Newspapers, etc. . til Sf>
Balance on hand 117 08
Total . $946 41
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
. ill Library.
Vols. Issued
154
77
418
1,685
172
82
172
144
81
43
27
28
180
79
117
140
34
Total
1,355
2,278
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 6. Magazines, 3. Periodicals, 4.
Assets, $1,897.08. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, $1,600.
315
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A. 1883
NORWICH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1876.
Number of Members,
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 14 99
From Members 18 00
ii Legislative Grant 100 00
n Donations in money 24 75
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 18 40
ii Other Sources 9 35
Total $185 49
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $18 00
Light and Heating 5 73
*Books (purchase of) 60 42
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 20 00
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 30 50
Miscellaneous 7 04
Balance on hand 43 80
Total $185 49
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Total
Vols, in Library.
86
315
118
258
33
37
127
66
35
Assets, $1,006.80.
1,075
Liabilities, None.
Vols. Issued.
50
700
40
80
15
130
12
90
30
1,147
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1877 to 1882, $970.
NORWOOD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1872.
Number of Members, 48. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 47 68
From Members 27 50
„ Legislative Grant 100 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 24 08
,., Other Sources 3 40
Total $202 66
Expenditure during tin year.
For Rent, Light and Heating $ 25 00
ii Books (purchase of) 110 58
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 30 06
n Miscellaneous 5 00
Balance on hand 32 02
Total $202 66
* $44.45 expended for books since 1st May, 1SS2.
316
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A. 1883
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Total
Library.
Reading Room.
Vols, in Library
93 1
366
82
155
21
144
Not reported.
861
Magazines, 2. Periodicals, 4.
Assets, Not reported. Liabilities, Not reported.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1872 to 1882, $833.20.
ORANGEVILLE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1878.
Number of Members, 110.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand §17 57
From Members 107 75
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Municipal Giant 40 00
Total |565 32
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $60 00
ii Books (purchase of) 199 52
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of ) 237 84
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 14 50
ii Miscellaneous 51 06
Balance on hand 2 40
Total
55 32
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Vuls. in Library. Vols. Issued.
49
590
86
Total
218
■i 5
100
60
47
1,175
91
2,7.V>
117
242
30
202
60
57
3,554
Assets, $1,184
Liabilities, None.
Total amount <<: Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, $1,200.
21 317
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
ORILLIA MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1865. Re-established 1880.
Number of Members, 136. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $205 10
From Members 102 25
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
it Municipal Grant 50 00
M Pupils at Evening Classes . . 49 00
ii Other sources 60 05
Expenditure during tlie year.
For Rent 860 00
ii Light and Heating 23 67
., Salaries 40 00
ii Books (purchase of) 1
ii Works of Fiction (purchase > 479 32
of) I
ii Reviews (subscription for ... . 76 49
,i Evening Classes 91 20
ii Miscellaneous 91 47
Balance on hand 4 25
Total 8866 40
Total 8866 40
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Total .
81
221
120
153
47
156
40
895
36
584
83
97
56
156
86
Newspapers, 4.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 8.
Periodicals, 6.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
Number of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects,
29 Writing and Book-keeping. 5 Drawing — Freehand.
14 Phonography.
Assets, 81,134.25.
Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid to this' Institute from 1880 to 1882, $800.
318
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A. 1883
OWEN SOUND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1855.
Number of Members, 200. Annual Subscription, SI.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand . .$122 26
From Members 89 00
,i Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Municipal Grant 100 00
ii Pupils at Evening Classes . . :) 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 72 65
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $20 00
ii Salaries ' 45 00
.1 *Books (purchase of) 333 01
ii Evening Classes 40 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 07 58
-i Miscellaneous 59 30
Other sources 43 00 Balance on hand 205 02
Total
529 91
Total $829 91
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama.
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
i'ols. in Library.
Vnls. Issued
64
80 ■
322
1,400
145
210
98
245
19
42
20
45
63
62
70
200
16
25
Total 817 2,309
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
Number of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
28 Writing and Book-keeping. 14 Drawing — Freehand.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1S72 to 1882, $1,000.
PARIS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1858.
Number of Members, 230. Annual Subscription, $2 ; Ladies, $1.50; Apprentices, $1.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $317 85
.1 Legislative Grant 400 00
M • Municipal Grant 200 00
ii Donations in Money 37 05
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 4 25
ii Other sources 106 65
Due Treasurer 3 55
Total $1,069 35
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent, Light and Heating . . $73 25
Salaries 120 00
Books (purchase of) 334 99
WorksofFiction(purchaseof) 125 75
Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 93 85
Miscellaneous 321 49
Total $1,009 35
'«'207 expended for books since 1st May, 1882.
319
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A 1683
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 3 ] 6 1 "28
Fiction 452 2,798
History 454 163
Miscellaneous 540 833
Poetrv and the Drama 103 63
Periodical Literature 206 309
Science and Art 487 148
Voyages and Travels 370 474
Theology and Philosophy 371 109
Works of Reference 87 200
Total 3,386 5,225
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 10. Magazines, 7. Periodicals, 15.
Assets, $6,750. Liabilities, $3.55.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, $4,550.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " The Library is in good condition, and well kept. The several
departments contain most of the standard works, and some rare ones. For example,
there is, in Poetry, nearly all the dramatists of the Restoration, and several of the period
immediately preceding. In Theology, several of the Early Fathers, and a full sec of the
works of Swedenborg, the mystic, as well as a number of standard works in Law.
Science and Technic Art are well represented. The Reading Room is in excellent order,
and is well supplied, and seems to be well patronized."
PARKDALE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1880.
Number of Members, 122. Annual Subscription, $1.
Beceipts during the year.
Balance on hand $11 00
From Members 135 50
„ Legislative (ir.-uj. 20(1 DO
n Donations in Money 36 00
Total
iditure during th
For Rent $ 15 00
n Light and Heating
.! Salaries
ii Books-Works of Fiction (pur-
chase of) 140 84
u Magazines, Newspapers, etc 7 66
a Miscellaneous 141 16
Balance on hand -
Total ! $382 50
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value ol 120
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Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels
Works of Reference
Total
in Library.
Vols. Issued'
10
20
141
220
28
30
35
72
11
22
12
33
36
17
20
4
291
420
Eeadinc; Room.
Newspapers, 4. Magazines, 3. Periodicals, 4.
Assets, $368.84. Liabilities, $62.30.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1880 to 1882, $400.
Remarks.
The Inspector reports that " The Reading Room is well furnished, and the books in
the Library are properly arranged and in excellent condition. This Institute, being in
its infancy, needs all the help possible from the Government, and from the interest mani-
fested by its members, promises to be a great advantage to this rising village."
PARKHILL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1873.
Number of Members, 71. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
From Members . 64 00
Expenditure during
For Rent
M Light and Heating
M Books (purchase of) ,
ii Reviews (subscription
the year.
$50 00
1 0 00
m Legislative Grant 200 00
n Pupils at Evening Classes . . 6 00
for)
36 00
6 54
. . 12 00
. . 70 00
. . 78 98
Total
92 89
Total $356 41
. .$356 41
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Library.
Vols, in Library. Vol:
Biography 148 100
Fiction 339 410
History 138 120
Miscellaneous 112 80
Poetry and the Drama 74 20
Periodical Literature 105
Science and Art .• 136 50
Voyages and Travels 86 250
Works of Reference 68 9
Total 1,200 1,069
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 2.
Evening Classes. .
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
11 Writing and Book-keeping.
8 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $1,306.39. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1874 to 1882, §2,109
PERTH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1881.
Number of Members, 130.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $243 00
„ Municipal Grant 100 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 18 90
ii Other sources 1 80
Total $363 70
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $30 00
it Light and Heating 103 50
n Salaries 50 00
ii Books (purchase of) 106 05
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 41 30
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 6 65
Balance on hand 18 20
Total $363 70
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Library.
Vols, in Library.
Biography 70
Fiction 116
History 85
Miscellaneous 276
Poetry and the Drama 21
Periodical Literature 33
Science and Art 39
Voyages and Travels .... 25
Works of Reference • 7
Total 672
Vols. Issuud.
7
132
20
51
5
87
5
6
1
314
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 6.
Assets, 8605.20.
Magazines, 1.
Remarks.
Periodicals, 6.
Liabilities, None.
The Inspector says : " This Institute, though hut recently established, is already
in a flourishing condition. The railway workshops recently located here will doubtless
largely increase the number of members. I know of no reason why the Perth Institute
should not rank among the best in the country. There is an excellent Reading Room in
connection with the Institute fairly supplied with the leading magazines, periodicals and
newspapers. The Management Committee is doing all in its power to make the enter-
prise a success."
PETERBOROUGH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1867.
Number of Members, 313. Annual Subscription, $1 and $1.50.
Receipts during
the year.
Classes .
id Enter-
$54 91
372 25
400 00
100 00
52 50
115 15
84 27
For
Expenditure during the year.
Rent and Taxes .ft! 01 05
ii Legislative Grant
ii Municipal Grant.
ii Pupils at Evening
ii General Lecturc-s a
1
For Light and Heating ....
68 35
163 50
Works i >f Fiction (purchase of)
Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
275 00
47 24
136 39
100 00
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
Total .$
...$]
Bal
120 57
143 59
23 28
Total
,179 08
1,179 OS
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $2.65.
323
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Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 354 174
Fiction 512 2,424
History 263 153
Miscellaneous 2,091 2,684
Poetry and the Drama 90 79
Periodical Literature 87 87
Science and Art 358 214
Voyages and Travels 325 379
Works of Reference 128 ....
Total 4,208 6,194
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 14. Magazines, 12. Periodicals, 14.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
20 Writing and Book-keeping. 15 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Assets, $4,565,63. Liabilities, $25.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, $5,400.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : "The hooks are in excellent order. The premises are commodious
and well kept. The books are freely read by members, and the general management
good."
PETROLEA MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1879.
Number of Members, 130. Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $98 64
From Members 135 50
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
n Municipal Grant 100 00
ii Donations in Money 72 00
H Proceeds from Scientific Lec-
turcs 92 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 54 00
Total $952 14
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $72 00
ii Light and Heating 41 35
n Salaries 8] 00
H Books (purchase of) 363 67
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of) 139 97
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 43 85
n Scientific Lectures 75 00
i, Miscellaneous 113 99
Balance on hand 21 31
Total $952 14
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $30.
324
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Library.
Vols, in Library. Yds.
Biography 60 60
Fiction 484 1,256
History 63 81
Miscellaneous 172 341
Poetry and the Drama 50 42
Science and Art 77 53
Voyages and Travels 35 34
Works of Reference 25
Total 966 1,867
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 7. Magazines, 8. Periodicals, 6.
- Assets, $1,110.22 Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1880 to 1882, $1,200
POINT EDWARD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Number of Members, 53.
Incorporated 1879.
Annual Subscription, $2 ; Juniors, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the year.
27
For
Rent $160 49
05
„
00
„
94
,,
Books (purchase of) 339 62
ii Pupils at Evening Classes.. 17
25
ii
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 26 75
10
Bal
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 28 10
Apparatus therefor 9 00
Total $758
61
Total $758 61
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
in Library.
Vols. Issued
48
65
103
110
62
47
110
114
7
20
98
93
27
100
Total .
458
325
549
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Reading Room.
Newspapers, 8.
Magazines and Periodicals, 7.
Evening Classes.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils.
Subjects.
13
Drawing — Freehand.
Assets, $849
24.
Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 18S0 to 1882, 81,200.
PORT ELGIN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1870.
Number of Members, 55. Annual Subscription, $1.50.
Receipts during
From Members
the
year
$38 99
52 50
Expenditure during the year
For Salaries
ii General Lectures and Enter-
$45 13
4 00
29 75
Balance on hand ....
Total
12 61
Total
$91 49
$91 49
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature . .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels . .
Works of Reference . .
Total
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
174
164
154
362
65
14
1S5
133
10
Assets, $852.61.
1,261
Liabilities, None.
53
328
31
95
19
16
53
84
679
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1870 to 1878, $1,064.10.
326
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PORT HOPE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1874.
Number of Members, 130 Annual Subscription, §2 and
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $68 12
From Members 299 50
„ Legislative Grant 400 00
n Municipal Grant 50 00
,i TDonations in Money 32 00
H Other sources 75 75
Total $925 37
Expenditure during the year.
For
Rent
n Light and Heating
n Salaries
ii Books (purchase of)
n Works of Fiction (purchase of)
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. .
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
Total I
SSI
75
39
15
156
00
250
72
75
88
137
63
65
41
118
83
)25 37
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Political Economy — Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels
Works of Reference
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
135
86
487
1,306
145
84
187
140
27
24
6
60
105
166
104
21
Total 1,217 1,866
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 17. Magazines, 16. Periodicals, 11
Assets, $1,607.82. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1875 to 1882, $2,800.
Number of Members, 162.
PRESCOTT MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1S78.
Annual Subscription, §1.
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the year.
From Members $158 65 | For Rent and Heating $100 00
Legislative Grant 200 00
Municipal Grant 100 00
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 14 50
Other sources 2 10
Light 6 93
Salaries 40 00
Books (purchase of) 260 00
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 39 75
Miscellaneous 22 13
Balance on hand 6 11
Total $475 25
Total $475 25
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 121 126
Fiction 553 1,525
History 123 132
Miscellaneous ■. 143
Poetry and the Drama 41 59
Theology and Religion 24 54
Science and Art 69 69
Voyages and Travels 122 612
Works of Reference . . -. 31 25
Total 1,227 2,602
Assets, $1,186.27. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, $1,000.
PRESTON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1871.
Number of Members, 51. Annual Subscription, SI.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $15 56
From Members ... 51 00
„ Legislative Grant 400 00
„ Municipal Grant 200 00
it Donations in Money 50 00
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $40 00
Light and Heating 15 97
Salaries 50 00
Books (purchase of) 379 47
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 51 08
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 96 09
Miscellaneous 75 84
Balance on hand 8 11
Total $716 56
Total 8716 56
Biography
Fiction
History
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels.
Works of Reference. . .
Total
Library.
Vols, in Library.
327
257
333
644
117
930
493
3,173
Vols. Issued.
75
511
77
239
413
142
555
2,012
328
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Reading Room.
Newspapers, 8. Magazines, 6. Periodicals, 14.
Assets, §5,847.46. Liabilities, None.
(Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, $4,800.
RENFREW MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1870.
Number of Members, 67. Annual Subscription, SI.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 3."> 26
From Members 71 00
i, Legislative Grant 200 00
it Pupils at Evening Classes.. 12 50
M General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 28 60
Total $345 36
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating $ 3 00
Salaries 10 00
Books (purchase of) 110 06
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 39 00
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 23 00
Evening Classes 50 00
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 57 40
n Miscellaneous 20 50
Balance on hand 32 40
Total $345 ;«;
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $20.
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vol
Biography 70 89
Fiction 147
History 113 245
Miscellaneous 149 82
Pot try and the 1 »rama 38 32
Science and Art 67
Voyages and Tra\ els 58 91
Works of Reference 20 (J
Total 663 1,135
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Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
25 Writing and Book-keeping.
25 English Grammar.
25 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $787.40. Liabilities, $18.00.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, 8270.
RICHMOND HILL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1869.
Number of Members, 45. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 2 07
From Members 33 25
it Legislative Grant 50 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 52 16
Total $137 48
Expenditure during the year.
For Magazines, Newspapers and
ii Reviews, supplied by tender. $ 26 75
ii Miscellaneous 2 50
Balance on hand 108 23
Total $137 48
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art ....
Voyages and Travel?
Works of Reference . . .
Library.
Total
s. in Library. Vols, issued
97]
137
177
355
38 j- Not reported.
107
Si
8t
160 J
1,239
Newspapers, 1.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 10.
Assets, $1,413.23.
Periodicals, None.
Liabilities, $156.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1870 to 1S82, $1,086.92.
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RIDGETOWN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1879.
Number of Members, 157. Annual Subscription, $1.
Beceipts during the year.
Balance on hand $157 12
From Members 169 00
n Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Municipal Grant 50 00
ii Donations in money 21 11
ii Pupils at Evening Classes . . 15 50
n General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 254 25
ii Other Sources 34 15
Total .
,101 23
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $ 52 50
ii Light and Heating 7 47
n Salaries 45 00
n Books (purchase of) 266 66
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of) 43 44
n Magazines, Newspapers and
Reviews (subscriptions for) Il.'i 22
ii Evening Classes 115 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 153 43
n Miscellaneous 52 55
Balance on hand 251 96
Total $1,101 23
Library.
Biographj
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference. . .
Total .
Vols, in Library.
Vols. Issued
36
35
214
998
81
123
64
375
16
45
47
367
83
189
41
135
40
12
622
2,579
Newspapers, 8.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 5.
Periodicals, 9.
No. of Pupils.
17
6
8
Assets, $1,156,96.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
Subjects.
Writing and Book-keeping.
English Grammar.
Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1880 to 1882, §1,200.
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SCARBORO' MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1878.
Number of Members, 56.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand 3 3 02
From Members 60 61
,, Municipal Grant 25 00
Total $88 66
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent of Ground S 1 00
m Salaries 3 00
ti Books (purchase of) 51 50
n Miscellaneous 25 78
Balance on hand 7 38
Total 888 66
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History . '
Miseellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Total
. in Library. Vols. Issued.
189 |
268
184 |
•464 |
50 \ Not reported.
S9 j
151 |
165 |
30 J
1,929
1,590
Assets, $1,057.38. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, $460.64.
Number of Members, 359.
SEAFORTH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1869.
Annual Subscription, $1.
/,'. , ipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 93 84
From Members 358 00
Legislative Grant 400 00
Municipal Grant 100 00
Donations in money 31 00
Pupils at Evening Classes . . 75 00
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 61 85
Other sources 52 60
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $131 25
H Light and Heating 89 15
n Salaries 2S1 25
„ Books (purchase of) 124 32
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 25 83
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 123 20
,i Evening Classes 150 00
ii Apparatus therefor 10 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 10 00
ii Miscellaneous 138 32
Balance on hand 88 97
Total $1,172 29
§1,172 29
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value o'
332
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols, ls^uei!.
Biography 147 570
Fiction 537 3,625
History 288 916
Miscellaneous 254 721
Poetry and the Drama 53 200
Periodical Literature 176 826
Science and Art 322 359
Voyages and Travels 162 1,425
Works of Reference 30
Total 1,969 8,642
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 16. Magazines, 6. Periodicals, 7.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction. Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
10 Writing and Book-keeping. 35 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Assets, $3,748.97. Liabilities, §91 LUG.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1 882, $3,600.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " The Library is in good condition and the Reading Room well
'patronized; over 8,600 volumes have been issued during this year."
SIMCOE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1850.
Number of Members, 216.
Annual Subscription, §
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $385 04
From Members 166 50
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
n Municipal Grant 200 00
n Donations in money 5 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 47 75
" Other sources 213 30
Expenditure during the year.
For Salaries § 53 00
n Books (purchase of) 1,160 00
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 216 49
ii Miscellaneous 202 68
Balance on hand 191
Total $1,417 59
Total $1,417 59
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library.
Biography 207 ]
Fiction 988 |
History 210 |
Miscellaneous 422
Poetry and the Drama 112 -
Science and Art 202
Voyages and Travels 226
Works of Reference 63
Total 2,430
No record.
5,674
Assets, $8,895.04. Liabilities, §1,300.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1871 to 1882, .$4,000.
SMITH'S FALLS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1854.
Number of Members, 228. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 7 50
From Members 209 25
„ Legislative Grant 400 00
n Municipal Grant 25 00
ii Donations in money 45 00
it Pupils at Evening Classes . . 10 00
H General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 41 30
n Other sources 11 75
Total $749 80
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $ 68 75
H Light and Heating 47 35
ii Salaries 85 00
n Books (purchase of) 189 15
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 66 38
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 60 35
ii Evening Classes 50 00
ii Miscellaneous 182 23
Balance on hand 59
Total $749 80
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 204 207
Fiction 302 2,512
History 211 169
Miscellaneous 572 724
Poetry and the Drama 47 96
Periodical Literature 66 380
Science and Art 317 320
Voyages and Travels 208 400
Works of Reference Ill
Total 2,038 4,808
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Newspapers, 10.
Reading Room.
Magazines. 3.
Periodicals, 7.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
27 Writing and Book-keeping.
27 English Grammar.
27 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $3,124.29.
Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1882, $2,300.
Remarks.
The Inspector says : " This Institute is in a very satisfactory condition. The Library
is well patronized, the Reading Room affords every facility for information as to the cur-
rent events of the day, and all the principal magazines, periodicals and newspapers are
kept constantly on hand.
" The Evening Classes introduced last winter supplied a want long felt among the
mechanics of the town. It is the intention to continue them, and they will doubtless
increase in popularity and attendance. The membership has largely increased and the
Institute is now on a sound basis both financially and otherwise."
ST. CATHARINES MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1849.
Number of Members, 276. Annual Subscription, $2.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $272 75
n Legislative Grant 400 00
m Municipal Grant 150 00
ii Other sources 26 00
Due Treasurer 29 18
Total $877 93
Expenditure during the year.
Balance due Treasurer, 1881 .... $ 75 41
For Rent 100 00
ii Light and Heating 48 17
„ Salaries 191 07
ti * Books (purchase of) 348 19
n Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 35 40
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 59 69
ii Miscellaneous 20 00
Total $877 93
1 $37.60 expended for books since 1st May, 1882.
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library.
Biography 434
Fiction 1,299
History 493
Miscellaneous 616
Poetry and the Drama ' 146
Periodical Literature 182
Science and Art 550
Voyages and Travels 521
Works of Reference 148
Total 4,389
Vols. Issued.
245
1,639
429
414
164
2,429
286
1,183
6,789
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 5. Magazines, 5. Periodicals, 10.
Assets, .$4,762. Liabilities, $29.18.
Total amount of Government grants paid to this Institute from 1871 to 1882, §4,800.
Remarks.
The Inspector says: "The Library is in excellent order, and the Reading Room is
kept in a very satisfactory condition."
ST. GEORGE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1879.
Number of Members, 62. Annual Subscription, §1 and §1.50.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 15 25
From Members 62 30
M Legislative Grant. 200 00
ii Municipal Grant 30 00
n Donations in money 6 00
m General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 213 17
Total
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent $ 55 00
Light and Heating 14 52
Books (purchase of) 243 58
Works of Fiction (purchase of) 47 30
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 31 50
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments Ill 35
ii Miscellaneous 20 25
Balance on hand 3 22
Total $526 72
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $20.
336
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Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 77 40
Fiction 291 522
History 114 31
Miscellaneous 75 45
Poetry and the Drama 13 15
Periodical Literature 25
Science and Art 67 41
Voyages and Travels 101 128
Works of Reference 22 30
Total 785 852
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 5. Magazines, 4. Periodicals, 5.
Assets, $888.93. Liabilities, $97.50.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1880 to 1882, $800.
Remarks.
The Inspector says: "This Institute is evidently doing good work."
ST. MARY'S MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1869.
Number of Members, 139.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $156 28
From Members 133 50
n Municipal Grant 150 00
ii Pupils at Evening Classes . . 82 00
ii Other sources 304 04
Total $825 82
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent
ii Light and Heating
M Salaries
ii Books (purchase of)
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc .
ii Evening Classes
ii Apparatus therefor
ii Miscellaneous
Total
$ 84 00
26 60
100 00
202 00
120 82
184 00
54 GO
53 80
$825 82
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference .
s. in Library.
Vols. Issued
309
85
600
1,429
400
156
825
475
140
69
136
27
418
159
315
257
128
Total
3,271
2,657
337
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Reading Room.
Newspapers, 6.
Magazines, 3. Periodicals, 4.
Evening Classes.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils.
32
Subjects.
Drawing — Freehand, etc.
Assets,
$3,165
Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1870 to 1880, $3,609.
ST. THOMAS MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1873.
Number of Members, 500. Annual Subscription, $1. Boys, 50 cents.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $216 00 For Rent
From Members .
Legislative Grant
346 50
too 00
Expenditure during the year.
Light and Heating
Salaries
Donations in Mone}' ....
82
00
Pupils at Evening Class . .
38
60
General Lectures and En-
03
45
( 0
11
Total $1,250 46
n Books (purchase of )
1 1 Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
ii Evening Classes
ii General Lectures and En-
tertainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
82
300
294
125
78
71
92
132
Total $1,250 46
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $105.
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels. .
Works of Reference .
Total
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
63 ]
441
142
632
41
137
60
59
Not specified
separately.
1,580
6,324
33 s
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Reading Room.
Newspapers, 42. Magazines, 25.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
59 Arithmetic and Mensuration. II Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Assets, $1,200. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1874 to 1882, $2,000.
STOUFFVILLE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1S78.
Number of Members, 97. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year
$ 94
230
4
16
12
19
60
00
75
75
50
85
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent .«! 17 08
8 75
m Pupils at Evening Class . .
■ 1 General Lectures and En-
ii Books (purchase of)
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of)
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
ii Evening Classes
n Apparatus therefor
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand '
Total
176 93
44 00
33 63
60 00
19 95
4 25
13 60
0 26
45
$378 45
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
50
55
159
515
83
31
163
148
27
19
11
31
147
103
59
102
40
3
Total
739
1,007
339
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Newspapers, 7.
Elementary Instruction.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 4.
Evening Classes.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
39 Writing and Book-keeping.
Periodicals, 2.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subject.
8 Chemistry.
Assets, $910.26. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1879 to 1882, §886.76.
Remarks.
The Inspector says the Reading Room and the books in the Library are in excellent
order.
STRATFORD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1816.
Number of Members, 140. Annual Subscription,
Receipts during the year
Expenditure during the year.
$ 3 37
For
Rent
$ 50 00
135
50
,,
Light and Heating
52 00
400
00
,,
60 00
175
00
,,
Books (purchase of ) ....
291 82
n Pupils at Evening Classes.
51
00
„
Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
112 01
ii General Lectures and En-
116 65
31
87
n
General Lectures and Enter-
59
87
8 50
149 96
Bal
15 67
Total
Total
$856
61
$856 61
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History and Travels . . .
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Works of Reference .
Total
Newspapers, 9.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 22.
340
Vols, in Library.
Vols. Issued.
161
330
1,040
35
344
465 -
66S
107
90
280
1,784
268
250
61
7
2,912
2,978
Periodicals, 8.
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Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
18 Writing and Bookkeeping. 27 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
18 English Grammar.
18 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $2,230.67. Liabilities, $182.37.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1882, $4,025.80.
STRATHROY MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1872.
Number of Members, 130.
Annual Subscription,
Receipts daring the year.
Balance on hand $ 21 80
From Members 123 50
n Legislative Grant 350 00
n Donations in Money 118 42
ii Proceeds from Scientific
Lectures 9 68
ii Pupils at Evening Classes. 83 00
n General Lectures and En-
tertainments 75 55
ii Other sources 20 25
Total $802 20
Expenditure during the year.
For Bent $
Light and Heating
Salaries
Books (purchase of )
Works of Fiction (purchase
of)
Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
Evening Classes
Apparatus therefor
Scientific Lectures
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
Total $802 20
60
mi
20
65
100
00
185
17
48
00
110
34
44
75
31
54
9
68
77
50
69
93
44
64
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 136 ' 142
Fiction 508 2,977
History 265 237
Miscellaneous 261 274
Poetry and the Drama 69 87
Periodical Literature 53 338
Science and Art 198 104
Voyages and Travels 143 500
Works of Reference 163 1^8
Total 1,796 4,787
341
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Newspapers, 7.
Periodicals, 9.
Reading Room.
Magazines, 5.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
116 Writing and Book-keeping.
18 English Grammar.
47 Aritlimentic and Mensuration.
Assets, $2,844.64. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, §3,888.34.
STREETSVILLE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1854.
Number of Members, 120.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during tht
year.
Enter
SO 89
62 50
200 00
81 76
18 10
2 82
For
Expenditure
Rent
during the
year.
$40 00
30 00
n Legislative Grant . .
ii Donations in Money
ii General Lectures and
* Books (purchase of)
Works of Fiction (purchas
Magazines, Newspapers, i
Reviews (subscription
General Lectures and En
Total
144 87
eof) 40 00
md
for) 45 13
7 50
58 57
Total
$366 07
. ..$366 07
Library.
Vol
i. in Library.
150
458
194
279
58
283
157
29
1,608
Vols. Issued.
20
2,000
30
325
25
100
122
Total .
2
2,624
* $30 expended for boo
3
ka since 1st May, 1882.
12
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Heading Room.
Magazines, 8. Periodicals, 4.
Assets, $2,627.50. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, $2,47'
TILSONBTJRG MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1880.
Number of Members, Not reported. Annual Subscription, Not reported.
Receipts during
the
Year.
$ 4 14
54 50
400 00
$458 64
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent . $ 24 00
From Members
" Legislative Grant
ii Light and Heating 1 25
„ Salaries 20 65
ii Books (purchase of ) 225 45
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 11 00
Total
Total $458 64
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama \ Not reported. <j
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels
Works of Reference
Assets, $534.07
Liabilities, None.
10
500
20
140
5
25
100
800
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1881 to 1882,
343
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TORONTO MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Established 1831. Incorporated, 1847.
Number of Members, 1,034. Annual Subscription, $3.
Families and Clubs at a reduced rate.
Ladies, §2.50.
Receipts during the
Balance on hand
year.
$ 264 61
. . 2,132 26
Expenditure during
For Rent
the year.
.... ft
From Members
ii Light and Heating .
S53 48
ii Legislative Grant . . .
400 00
100 00
1,224 00
.. 1,550 17
1,397 96
34 50
159 82
ii Donations in Money .
ii Recreation Room
ii Books (purchase of)
n Works of Fiction (purchase
of )
§5,671 04
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc
408 38
993 94
1,751 63
Total
Balance on hand
Total
71 33
$5,671 04
Library.
Vols, in Library.
Biography 712
Fiction 3,539
History 765
Miscellaneous 642
Poetry and the Drama 218
Periodical Literature 1,699
Science and Art 570
Voyages and Travels 719
Works of Reference 1,402
Religious 234
Total 10,500
V"l.-. Issued.
494
21,462
631
513
195
2,061
501
969
88
154
27,073
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 53. Magazines, 35. Periodicals, 21.
Assets, $49,953.69. Liabilities, §20,821.67.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1868 to 1882, $5,400.
Remarks.
The Directors report that they have no evening classes on account of the Public
School Board having opened night classes.
The Inspector says : " The Directors have been exceedingly economical during the
past year, with a view to placing the Institute on a better financial basis. They are now
in a much more prosperous condition than they were one year ago."
344
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UXBRIDGE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Originally Established, 1859. Incorporated, 1873.
Number of Members, 170. Annual Subscription, $1 and $2.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $208 65
ii Legislative Grant 400 00
n Pupils at Evening Classes. . 83 50
■ ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 122 mi
Other sources 66 50
Total $1,111 55
Expenditure during the year.
For Rent
ii Light and Heating
n Books (purchase of ) ....
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of)
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc
n Evening Classes
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
122
00
91
07.',
232
30
70
48
61
57
131
50
178
51
185
61
38 50i
Total .
,111 55
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $20.
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature . ,
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels . .
Works of Reference . . .
in Library.
335
V..ls. Issued
612
1,167
249
3,864
720
206
1 20
47
84
25
64
430
371
259
520
41
Total
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 12. Magazines, 7.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
6,355
2,759
Periodicals, 5.
Technical Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subject. No. of Pupils. Subjects.
19 Writing and Book-keeping. 41 Drawing, Freehand, etc.
Assets, $3,800. 60£.
Liabilities, $123.82.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1873 to 1882, $3,800.
345
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WALKERTON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1875.
Number of Members, 126. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Expenditure during the year.
Balance on hand $ 5 33 For Rent $ 36 00
From Members 126 20 ; n Books (purchase of) 86 09
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 31 75
Deficit 9 63
Total $172 91
General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 22 50
Miscellaneous 28 32
Total
.72 91
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature. .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . .
33
19
315
1,847
75
39
310
183
29
9
6
68
44
82
4
Total : 884 2,179
Assets, $1,000. Liabilities, $9.63
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute for 1876 and 1877, $800.
WATERDOWN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1873.
Number of Members, 17. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 26 50
From Members 1 7 00
Total $ 43 50
Expenditure during the year.
For Light and Heating $ 1 25
ii Books (purchase of) 19 25
n Magazines, Newspapers, etc . . 10 00
Balance on hand 1 3 00
Total $ 43 50
346
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
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Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Fiction 65
History 360
Miscellaneous 320
Poetry and the Drama 100
Periodical Literature 104
Science and Art 114
Voyages and Travels 257
Total 1,320
Assets, $1,538. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1872 to 1879, §370.
WATERLOO MECHANIC'S' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1875.
Number of Members, 115.
Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 12
32
15
00
00
05
00
80
For
Bal
Expenditure during the year
21 05
40 00
ii Legislative Grant 300
ii Municipal Grant 50
M Donations in money 82
ii Pupils at Evening Classes.. 80
ii General Lectures and Enter-
Books (purchase of)
Works of Fiction (purchase of)
Magazines, Newspapers, etc . .
241 84
53 44
20 4 5
169 00
General Lectures and Enter-
1 75
13 80
58 23
Total $
9 76
Total $629
32
629 32
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library.
Vols. Issued
85
85
718
718
105
105
494
494
65
65
401
401
84
84
97
97
5
5
Total
2,054
347
2,054
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Sessional Papers (No. 5).
A. 1883
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils.
16
Subjects.
Writing and Book-keeping.
Assets, §2,185.71. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1876 to 1882, 82,300.
WELLAND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1875.
Number of Members, 116.
Annual Subscription, §1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 6 20
From Members 103 50
n Legislative Grant 150 00
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 41 00
ii Other Sources 60
Total 6301 30
Expenditure during the year.
For Salaries $ 10 00
ii Books (purchase of) 219 37
ii Works of Fiction (purchase of ) 7 50
ii General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 7 67
n Miscellaneous 38 69
Balance on hand 18 07
Total §301 30
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value §10.
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
Vols, in Library.
49
1,398
61
98
S
80
253
1
Total
Assets, $1,173.69.
1,948
Liabilities, None.
Vols. Issued.
49
1,398
61
98
8
80
253
1
1,948
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1876 to 1S82, §800.
348
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WIARTON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1877.
Number of Members, 90. Annual Subscription, $1.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand § 0 37
From Members . . . . : 51 00
ii Legislative Grant 150 00
ii General Lectures and En-
tertainments 25 00
Total $226 46
Expenditure during thi
For Kent § 24 00
ii Light and Heating 14 00
ii Salaries 33 00
ii Books (purchase of) 75 00
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of ) 26 00
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc. 21 54
ii Miscellaneous 32 61
Balance on hand 0 32
Total $226 47
Library.
Biography
Fiction
History
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama
Periodical Literature .
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels .
Works of Reference . . .
rols. in Libi
ary.
Vo
s. Issued.
25
30
181
336
46
35
105
50
57
5
29
6
95
40
Total • 545
Assets, $212.32. Liabilities, $4.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1880 to 1882,
504
WINGHAM MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1876.
Number of Members, 84. Annual subcription, SI. Apprentices, 50 cents.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 21 06
From Members 77 15
ii Municipal Grant 75 00
ii Donations in money 115 00
ii Pupils at Evening Classes. 29 00
General Lectures and En-
tertainments 58 25
Other sources 35 35
Total $410 81
Expenditure during the year,
For Rent ijj
ii Light and heating
ii Salaries
ii Books (purchase of)
ii Works of Fiction (purchase
of).
ii Magazines, Newspapers, etc.
ii Evening Classes
ii Apparatus therefor
ii Miscellaneous
Balance on hand
Total $410 81
35
00
13
02
25
46
175
26
21
95
3
65
100
,00
23
69
6
65
6
13
Donations in books or specimens for Museum, value of $2.50.
23 349
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A. 1883
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 147 57
Fiction 172 610
History 101 137
Miscellaneous 149 169
Poetry and the Drama 46 30
Periodical Literature 32 19
Science and Art 1 25 98
Voyages and Travels 76 258
Works of Reference 33
Total 881 1,376
Reading Room.
Newspapers, 10. Magazines, 2. Periodicals, 3.
Evening Classes.
Elementary Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
29 Writing and Book-keeping.
29 English Grammar.
27 Arithmetic and Mensuration.
Assets, $1,100.63. Liabilities, $48.50.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1877 to 1878, $800.
Remarks'.
The Inspector says a large addition has been made to the Library, and the Reading
Room is still carried on.
WOODBRIDGE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1877.
Number of Members, 35. Annual Subscription, $1.
Ladies and Apprentices, 50 cents.
Receipts during the year.
Balance on hand $ 48 00
From Members 59 50
„ Legislative Grant 150 00
Total $257 50
Expenditure during the year.
For Salaries $ 6 00
ii Miscellaneous 5 0.r'
Balance on hand 246 45
Total $257 50
350
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Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued.
Biography 40
Fiction . . 80
History 65
Miscellaneous 120
Poetry and the Drama , 20
Periodical Literature
Voyages and Travels 32
Science and Art 34
Works of Reference
Total 391
Assets $988.15. Liabilities, $95.84.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1878 to 1882, $765.42.
WOODSTOCK MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1835.
Number of Members, 268. Annual Subscription, $1.50.
Receipts during the year.
From Members $409 81
.. Legislative Grant 400 00
ii Donations in money 10 0* >
Expenditure during the gear.
For Rent $175 00
ii Light and heating 59 75
ii Salaries 144 00
Pupils at Evening Classes. 66 00 n Books (purchase of) 262 07
From General Lectures and ' n Works of Fiction (purchase
Entertainments 52 10 of) 35 40
ii Magazines, Newspapers and
Reviews (subscription for) 45 50
ii Evening Classes 94 05
n General Lectures and Enter-
tainments 38 25
ii Miscellaneous 64 :':!
Balance on hand 19 66
Total $937 91 Total $937 91
Donations in books, value of $75.
Library.
Vols, in Library. Vols. Issued
Biography 296 270
Fiction 1,403 7,500
History 313 156
Miscellaneous 877 1,572
Poetry and the Drama 71 72
Periodical Literature 28 7,926
Science and Art 316 120
Voyages and Travels 294 720
Works of Reference 200
Total 3,798 18,336
351
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A. 1883
Newspapers, 11.
Reading Room.
Magazines, •">.
Evening Classes.
Elernentarv Instruction.
No. of Pupils. Subjects.
33 Writing and Book-keeping.
l'n in. Heals, 23.
is, 83. 1 69.66. Liabilities, None.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1869 to 1SS2, §5,150.
WROXETER MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Incorporated 1872.
Number of Members — Not reported. Annual subscription — Not reported.
!i- ct i/'ts during tlie year.
Expenditure during the year.
From Members $80 78 For Rent $ 20 00
ii Legislative Grant lfO 00 i „ Books (purchase of) 199 93
ii Other sources 12 00 n Works of Fiction (purchase
of) 20 72
j ii Miscellaneous 16 41
ii Balance on hand 5 72
Total
8262 78
Total 8262 78
Library.
Vols
1
Biography
Fiction
II istory
Miscellaneous
Poetry and the Drama \ Not Reported
Periodical Literature
Science and Art
Voyages and Travels
Works of Reference
Library. Vols. Issued.
[ 59
Total
250
94
101
8
70
15
24
621
Assets, 81,125.72. Liabilities, X "one.
Total amount of Government grants paid this Institute from 1875 to 1882, $891.88.
352
46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5). A. 1883
Conclusion.
Under the foregoing heads I have presented to your Honour the proceedings of the
Department from 1st January to 31st December, 1882 (Part I), and the Statistics of the
Public, Separate and High Schools for the previous year (Part II).
In Part III is submitted the valuable information specially obtained through Dr.
McLellan in reference to the systems pursued with respect to Normal School training,
and as to Elementary and Secondary Education in some of the United States, to which
a brief allusion was made in my last Report. The Report on the Kindergarten system,
by Mr. Hughes, is also included, and arrangements are now in progress for the encourage-
ment of the Kindergarten in our own schools.
I have added, in Part IV, an account of what has been accomplished during the
year in the promotion of education of a technical character in Science and Art,
including the Report of the Board of Mangement of the School of Practical Science, the
proceedings relating to Mechanics' Institutes, the Ontario School of Art, and kindred
Institutions.
I have the honour to be,
Your Honour's obedient servant,
Adam Crooks,
Minister of Education.
Education Department (Ontario),
Toronto, January, 1883.
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REPORT
DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO,
FOR THE YEAR
1882.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Commissioner's Report •_ . ;;;,
Appkndix No. 1 — Report of Mr. Peter Byrne, Ontario Agent, Liverpool, England - - 1
" No. 2 — Report of Richard M. Persse, Ontario Agent, (Quebec ... 3
No. 3 — Report of Edwin Clay, Dominion Agent, Halifax 19
No. 4 — Report of VV. J. Willis, Dominion Agent, Ottawa 21
No. 5 — Report of R. Macpherson, Dominion Agent, Kingston - - - - 26
No. 6 — Report of John A. Donaldson, Dominion Agent, Toronto - - - 31
No. 7 — Extracts from Report of John Smith, Dominion Agent, Hamilton - - 37
No. 8 — Report of A. G. Smyth, Dominion Agent, London - - - - - 49
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REPORT
COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.
YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1882.
■To the Honourable John Beverley Robinson,
Lieutenant-Governor of tlie Province of Ontario.
May it please Your Honour :
The undersigned lias the honour to submit the following Report on the operations of
the Department of Immigration, for the year ending 31st December, 1882.
As compared with 1881, there was a large increase in the number of immigrants
landed at Quebec and in the number settled in Ontario during the past year. A con-
siderable number remained in the Province of Quebec, and there was a marked decrease
in the number of those who passed from Quebec through this Province to the United
States. Owing to the increased demand for labour, more immigrants than usual
settled in the eastern districts of Ontario.
There are many indications that the volume of immigration will be very largely in-
creased during the approaching season. The condition of the labouring and agricultural
classes in Great Britain and Ireland is such as to increase rather than diminish the desire
among the people to emigrate for the purpose of bettering their condition, while the vari-
ous agencies for the promotion of emigration have been stimulated to greater exertions
by the success attending their former operations. The appropriation by the Imperial
Parliament of nearly half a million of dollars (£100,000 sterling), to assist emigration
from the most destitute parts of Ireland, will undoubtedly be the means of sending many
persons to Canada. Major Gaskell, who recently visited this Province in connection with
the Irish-Imperial Emigration Scheme, and spent several days in Toronto, is prepared, when
the season opens, to send out any number of families up to one hundred every fortnight.
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The whole matter was fully discussed with him, and an. arrangement made whereby he
will send only such numbers as the Department advise him from time time can find im-
mediate employment.
This arrangement will entail some additional expense on the Department, but the
advantages it will secure for obtaining a greater supply of farm labourers and female
domestic servants, will more than compensate the Province for the out, ay. Major Gaskell
has also undertaken, when large families are sent out, that the greater number of the chil-
dren shall be old enough to enter upon some kind of employment, so that each family may
be entirely self-supporting.
During the season Mr. Jacob Holyoake, on behalf of the British Government,
visited the various Provinces of the Dominion, in order to gather information as to their
suitability as fields of Immigration for British labourers and mechanics : Mr. Vere
Foster, who within the past six or eight years has sent a large number of female
domestic servants from Ireland to America, visited the Dominion, and Mr. J. J. Jones,
of the London School Board, came to this Province twice in the interests of Immigra-
tion. I understand that Mr. Jones is to convey to his countrymen the results of his
observations in a series of lectures, to be delivered in the rural districts of England and
Wales. The visits of these and other influential gentlemen cannot fail sensibly to affect
emigration during the approaching season.
Female Domestic Servants.
The result of granting free railway passes to female domestic servants from Quebec
to this Province by the Ontario Government has been very satisfactory. During the
past Immigration season at Quebec one thousand five hundred and sixty-six girls received
free passes to various parts of Ontario ; and it is estimated that not less than two thou-
sand found their way to this Province during the year. This is probably double the
average annual number. All were readily engaged on their arrival at wages ranging
from $6 to $10 per month with maintenance ; but the demand still continued, especially
among the farmers, and in towns and villages. It is expected that the demand in the rural
districts may be partially met during the ensuing season by the young women be-
longing to friends coming from the country districts of Ireland. Miss E. Richardson,
who, I believe, is still in Canada, came into this Province late in the season on behalf of
the Female Emigration Society of London, to report on the condition of female domestic
servants sent out to the Dominion. She has already visited Toronto, Hamilton, London,
Kingston, Ottawa and other places, and is still in pursuance of her mission.
Fakm Labourers.
There has been little change in the demand for farm labourers since the date of my
last report. The proportion of single men among the arrivals during the past year was
smaller than in previous years, consequently the demand for that class was more pressing.
The rate of wages they obtained ranged from $110 to $180 per annum, with maintenance.
Those who reached Toronto Depot were nearly all engaged by farmers who came to meet
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them, and few were available to fill orders received by mail ; the demand for farm labourers
having been greater in the eastern districts of Ontario than in former years, manj >i
the single men were engaged before they reached Toronto. Farmers in future will be
under the necessity of utilizing the services of men .with families, as the supply of single
men must necessarily be limited.
Tenant Farmers.
Many tenant farmers settled in the Province in 1882 ; unfortunately, there are no
means for ascertaining the actual number. Many of them purchased farms through
the Canada West Land and Agency Company. The list of farms published by this I loin
#pany under the name, of the Canadian Farm Journal, contains particulars of $6,000,000
worth of property, and much valuable information regarding the various count ii of
Ontario, condensed from the Report of the Agricultural Commission. About 30,000
copies of the Journal were circulated last year, and 15,000 copies of the January
number of 1$83 have been printed. I understand that the Company have sold several
farms to gentlemen from Ceylon, and are expecting a number of others this year, owing
to the failure of the coffee crops in that island. They have also recently effected a sai>> of
two farms near Ingersoll for §50,000 cash, to gentlemen lately from Chili, South
America.
The arrivals at Quebec in 1881 and 1882 respectively, were as follows : —
1881— Steerage passengers, 26,049 : Cabin, 3,489 29,538
1882— Steerage passengers, 41,958 ; ( labin, 4,136 46,094
Increase in 1882 16,556
Total arrivals at Halifax in 1882 8,723
T ' rri ' t Quel in 18«2 46 "u I
Total arrivals at Halifax and Quebec in 1882 54,817
Total arrivals at Halifax and Quebec in 1881 32,184
Increase in 1882 22,633
The following is a statement of the number of immigrants settled in the Province of
Ontario, through the Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, and London Agencies, with
their nationalities, during the years 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1882
respectively : —
Year.
English.
Scotch.
Irish.
German.
Other Countries.
Total.
1876.
5,722
1,054
1,266
654
2,736
11,432
1877.
4,891
1,362
1,310
756
3,335
11,654
1878.
6,124
1,785
1,551
620
2,975
13,055
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Year.
English.
Scotch.
Irish.
German.
Other Countries.
Total.
187.9.
12,169
2,894
3,993
1,450
3,901
24,407
1880.
7,980
3,027
4,518
1,197
2,569
19,291
1881.
7,704
3,070
4,521
1,274
1,664
18,233
1882.
10,873
3,173
6,322
1,033
1,290
22,691
The above table shows an increase of 4,458 in 1882 as compared with 1881.
The total arrivals in and departures from Ontario, in 1881 and 1882 respectively,
were as follows : —
Via St. Lawrence.
1881—20,899
1S82— 34,020
Passed
United States. Total Arrivals, throu 'h the Province. Remained in Ontario.
58,254
66,515
79,153
100,535
60,920
77,844
18,233
22,691
Increase in 1882 4,458
The immigrants settled in this Province during the years 1877, 1878, 1879, 1SS0,
1881, and 1882 were distributed through its respective Agencies as follows : —
Year.
Ottawa.
Kingston.
Toronto.
Hamilton.
London.
Total.
1877.
431
743
2,534
6,590
1,356
11,654
1878.
416
746
4,602
6,34S
943
13,055
1879.
608
1,134
9,509
10,639
2,517
24,407
1880.
767
1,363
7,094
8,241
1,826
19,291
1881.
977
2,187
7,779
6,227
1,063
18,233
1882.
2,248
5,473
8,404
5,365
1,201
22,691
In addition to the above immigrants, the following nunibers were reported through
the Customs as having arrived and settled in Ontario : —
L87
1878. 1S79. 1880. 1881.
Ottawa and ports within
its Agency 1,029 842
Kingston do ..1,770 649
Toronto do ..1,412 837
Hamilton do 674
London do ..2,014 1,883
Total 6,225 4,885 4,420 5,435 6,967
Increase in 1882, through Customs 4,548
1882.
768
721
No return.
1,133
566
589
859
958
716
646
1,145
1,546
959
748
930
1.138
411
2,731
4,033
6,740
11,515
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The value of the effects of the immigrants reported through Customs was : —
Ottawa
Kingston and ports within its Agency..
Toronto do do
Hamilton do do
London do do
Total value in 1880, 1881 and 1882 . .
Total value in 1879, 1880 and 1881 . .
Increase in 1880, 1881 and 1882 14,301
1880.
1881.
1882.
821,517
No return.
$36,695
18,850
$3S,056
34,549
61,552
84.837
133,592
I 1,435
44,479
55,190
109,565
146,703
243,006
258,919
314,075
503,032
244,618
258,919
314,075
55,156 188,957
Table A shows the monthly, quarterly, and yearly arrivals at, and departures from
the various Agencies, the nationalities of those immigrants who settled in this Province,
and the grand totals of 1881 and 1882 respectively.
The following statement shows the number of emigrants who left the British Islands
for places out of Europe, and the percentage settled in Ontario, through Agencies,. during
the years 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1882 respectively :—
Year.
Numbers Left.
Settled in Ontario.
Perceni
1874.
241,014
25,444
10.55
1875.
173,809
17,655
10.16
1876.
138,222
11,432
8.27
1877.
119,971
11.654
9.77
1878.
147,663
13,055
8.84
1879.
217,163
24,407
11.23
1880.
332,294
19,291
5.80
1881.
392,514
18,233
4.64
1882.
22,691
The following statement shows the aggregate number of children settled in this Prov-
ince since 1868, by the undermentioned parties : —
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253
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1869
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187
194
498
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447
775
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185
134
193
321
358
279
184
163
115
68
95
114
506
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102
50
78
71
83
86
57
41
594
1S74
81
43
i
603
1875....
79
126
129
305
1876
234
1877
91
42
96
68
28
32
24
22
317
307
398
1880
11
22
407
1881
117
90
158
60
43
49
45
562
1882......
118
183
153
70
41
51
24
139
779
Total
1766
2662
647
698
314
51
84
206
6377
The number of farm-labourers, including their families, and female domestic servants
brought out through this Department, in 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1882, was as follows : —
1879. 18S0. 1881. 1882.
Farm labourers 199 273 209 398
Female domestic servants 37 121 80 165
Expenditure.
The total expenditure on account of Immigration, during the years 1878, 1879, 1880,
1881, and 1882, respectively, was as follows : —
Agencies in Europe
Agencies in Canada
Dominion Government proportion of carriage from
(Quebec
Carriage of Immigrants in Ontario
Provisions for Immigrants, including medical at-
tendance
7,653 10. 7,955 46 4,806 00
2,618 3s' 2,295 72 2,903 4S
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7,139 32] 7,000 001 20,000 00
4,817 94 8,944 48 9,321 76| 5,064 97 4,071 44
5,5.53 00 7,125 25
2,777 93 2,725 83
1 L803 55
5,610 38 11,720 57 8,513 75 5,952 84 6,547 90
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—
1878.
L879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
Assistance to Immigrants in reduction of passage
S c.
775 13
2,406 00
829 84
127 00
S c.
222 62
$ c.
$ c.
$ c.
1,511 27
939 4(1
U74 08
1,707 45
6,497 74
8,236 80
Total
31,975 09
2 44
39,050 12
1 62
52,982 19
2 74
34,826 37
1 91
30,414 67
Cost per head, including Immigrants settled
1 34
The following statement, condensed from the Reports of the Commissioner of Crown
Lands, shews the progress of the settlement of the Free Grant Districts since 1868 : —
Year.
o a
Eh *
.a P.
52
3 "
1
a
.si
Number of acres
located.
Number of pur-
chasers.
2
1
2
3
Number of lots, the
locations of which
have been can-
celled.
c
3-S
'A
1868
15
24
14
1
18
6
10
1
511
566
1,200
1,113
875
757
919
1,387
1,463
1,914
2,115
1,506
1,292
1,077
932
46,336
56,011
155,427£
153,105i
115,065
100,603i
119,070
186,807
192,858
260,801
274,238
199,500
181,745
153,764
129,535
82
52
148
139
97
79
57
89
110
149
188
123
110
155
150
2,120
956
4,585£
3.452J
2,268i
5,038
2,144
3,896
2,261
5,534
6,637
4,911
3,621
8,870
5,562
1869
1870
1871
1872
148
381
453
381
462
691
1,118
1,018
870
781
624
1873
1874
1876
570
5lo
542
1878
1879
4
1
1880
23
5
1
1881
1882
Total
123
17,627
2,324,866^
1,728
61,8564
16,927
4874
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The following statement shews the nationalities of the immigrants who arrived at
: irt of Quebec from 1876 to 188L', inclusive : —
1S76.
1877.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1S82.
li-isii
1989
808
1009
104
lir>7
289
146
74l'
799
84
1004
150
62
12
183
9
52
5335
1041
1077
238
1538
134
146
8
323
10395
1543
1448
349
2872
149
33
6
208
11000
3163
2861
2821
7395
27
3
1
70 1
13591
2624
2958
10365
23119
6621
4384
Scandinavians
French and Belgians
11970
Russian (Mennonites)
135S
20
1157
418
238
71 J
Total
10,901
7,74;;
10,258
17,241
24,872
29,538
46,094
Statement shewing the number of Immigrants settled in Ontario, through Agencies, and
reported through Customs, from 1868 to 1882.
1870.
1871
1872 . .
1873*.
1874.
1 875
1876.
L877
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881
1882
Number settled
through Agencies.
Number
reported through
Customs.
25444
17655
11432
11654
13055
24407
19291
18233
22691
6276
4096
7691
6225
48S5
4420
5435
t6967
11515
Total number
settled.
366,883
Value of the Effects
of Immigrants
reported through
Customs.
10873
No returns reportec
15893
25590
25842
28129
39184
31720
21751
Returns not com
plete.
8328236 00
19123
279138 00
17S79
305662 00
17940
311117 00
28827
244618 00
24726
258919 00
25200
314075 00
34206
503032 00
§2,544,797 00
* The immigrants settled through Agencies and those reported through Customs are included in the
totals up to the year 1874.
t Immigrants reported through Customs and settled in the Ottawa District not included. — D. S.
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The following statement shews the number of Letters and other documents received, and
the number sent out from the Department, exclusive of maps and ordinary circulars,
during the years 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1882 :—
1
Number of special letters written, copied and sent out, includ-
ing letters sent from Quebec office.
858
260
1994
99
1152
390
2803
178
!
i
sss 1602
Number of sessional letters and printographed circulars.
2600
130
1183
256
r
3211
4523
4039
2150
150U
17:;--'
2190
2100 3347
3656
6922
1
3680 : 5611
Number of Immigration accounts certified and filed in duplicate
Amount of money paid through the Department to bring out
3S7
236
§1585 10
405
394
$7444 22
348 376
289 56S
$5544 30 ' $7816 73
Further details will be found in the various Appendices to this Report.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
AKTHUR S. HARDY,
Commisxione
Toronto, January, 1883.
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APPENDICES.
Ho. 1.
ANNUAL REPORT OF PETER BYRNE, ESQ., ONTARIO IMMIGRATION
AGENT, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.
Ontario Government' Aoency,
6 South Castle Street, Liverpool,
20th December, 1882.
The Hon. A. S. Hardy,
Commissioner of Immigration, <i-c,
Toronto.
Sir, — I beg to submit the following report of the operations of this Agency for the
past year.
The correspondence of the office during the year has been much greater than usual,
owing partly to more extensive advertising, and partly to an increased interest in emigra-
tion manifested throughout the Old Country generally. Besides advertising in the
newspapers and answering the inquiries of correspondents, and persons calling at the
office, I have, as usual, pursued every other practical method of spreading information
regarding the Province. Large quantities of printed master have been distributed at
agricultural shows, on board passenger ships, and at public meetings. In this work I
have had the co-operation of shipping agents as well as several private persons actuated
.solely by philanthropic motives in their endeavours to promote emigration.
Early in the year, I put a clause in my advertisement announcing that vouths and
young men of good character, desirous of learning Canadian farming, might have situa-
tions found for them with Ontario farmers. Mr. Spence, at the same time, advertised
in the Ontario papers inviting farmers who wanted this kind of help to applv to him, the
object being to bring the supply and demand into communication with each other. In
response to my advertisement, I had a large number of hitters, but as the writers gener-
ally wanted to be engaged before leaving the Old Country, or to have situations
guaranteed, and as the result of Mr. Spence's appeal to the farmers was not encouraging,
I was able to send out only a limited number of this class, who were willing to go without
any conditions and who, I believe, were successfully placed. It ought to be known that
the supply of this kind of labour is practically unlimited, and fanners who want the
services of a respectable youth have only to make application to Mi-. Spence, or to me
direct and one will be sent them.
During the last few months I have attended and taken part in a number of emigra-
tion meetings organized by shipping agents in different parts of the country. \t these
meetings, which have been generally well attended and sometimes crowded, samples of
Ontario produce were exhibited and excited much attention and interest. Pamphlets,
etc., were largely distributed at the meetings and throughout, the districts where they
were held, and the results promise to be satisfactory. I have made appointments to
assist at several other meetings during the winter.
Some time ago I received a communication from Mr. Colmer, of the Dominion Office,
London, intimating that it was intended to issue a new emigration pamphlet treating of
Canada generally, and that it was the wish of the High < Jommissioner, Six Alexander
Gait, that I should prepare a chapter for it, specially referring to Ontario. This I did
accordingly. It occurred to me that it would be well to have this Ontario portion of the
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4-fi Victoria Sessional Papers (No r^ A. 1883
new general pamphlet separately printed for circulation through this Agency, especially
as my present stock of pamphlets will soon require to be replenished. I have, therefore,
, ,vith a request by Mr. Spence, sent a pru^f of !i foi youi consideration, lu
order that it may be altered or expanded as you may see proper. But in my letter to
Mr. Spenee 1 took the liberty of suggesting some additions that were essential to it as a
separate publication, and others that might he made with advantage ; and also that it
was very important that it be kept as small as possible, consistent with its main purpose
as a medium of conveying useful and necessary information to the emigrant ; for large
publications, besides being much more expensive to produce, are also more difficult and
expensive to distribute than smaller ones, and are less likely to be thoroughly read and
digested by those into whose hands they fall. In short, I believe that small publications
on fcho subject of emigration are, as a rule, the best every way.
I have just received from Mr. A. Blue, Secretary of the Ontario Bureau of Statistics,
a number of slips containing -most valuable information on the comparative yield of
cereals in Ontario, and several of the principal States of the Union, last harvest, the
comparison being highly favorable to Ontario. The publication as widely as possible
01 Duis information cannot fail to draw increased attention to Wie Province as a desirable
Held of emigration. I have, therefore, taken steps to have it published in as many news-
papers as possible, especially those that circulate among the agricultural classes. I will
also arrange to have it incorporated with the new publications for the season, to be
issued by- the steamship companies and distributed throughout their agencies in all parts
of the country. In this way it will receive very 'extensive publicity. The statistics
collected by the Bureau regarding other branches of industrial enterprise as well as
agriculture, will supply a long felt want. I receive many applications for information
from practical mechanics anil manufacturers, possessed of more or less capital, who are
desirous of knowing whether they would be likely to find openings for the successful
establishment of their respective industries in the Province, but hitherto it has not been
possible to give anything more than very general and indefinite replies to such inquiries.
I therefore look forward with much interest and satisfaction to a supply of the first
report of the Bureau, which the Secretary has promised to forward to me as soon as it is
ready.
This year I have l-eceived a valuable addition to my stock of emigration literature, '
specially adapted for circulation among tenant farmers, in the form of The Ga
Farm Journal, issued by the Canada West Land A Agency Company. It contains
extensive lists of improved farms which are for sale in the different counties of the Pro-
vince, giving particulars of each property, including price and terms of payment, besides
other important information. Such a publication was long needed and its circulation
among Brilish farmers who contemplate emigrating will do much to attract them to
Ontario, whilst the high character of the Company will inspire them with confidence
when they come to purchase the advertised properties. I have already a large demand
for this publication, and have been promised a regular supply by the Company.
The "assisted passage" rate of fare, was reduced this year from =£5 to £3 for farm
labourers, from £4 to £3 for female domestic servants, and from £5 to £± for other
classes of emigrants, all children between 12 and 1 year being charged for at the rate of
£2, and infants under 1 year 10s.
The number of emigrants whose passage money was paid by friends in Ontario dur-
ing thf year, and received at this Agency, chiefly through Mr. Spence, Secretary of the
Immigration Department, Toronto, was more than double that of last year, viz., 767
souls, equal to 656 statute adults, whereas the number sent for last year was equal to
only 281 statute adults. The amount of money received was £9,500 as against $6,500
last year.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
P. BYRNE,
Ayent fur Ontario.
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 18fe3
No. 2.
ANNUAL REPORT OF R M. PERSSE, Esq., ONTARIO IMMIGRATION
AGENT, QUEBEC.
Toronto, 5th January, 1883.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit for your information the following report of my
operations at the port of Quebec during the navigation season of 1882 : —
The steamship Peruvian which sailed from Liverpool on the 19th April, did not
arrive in port, owing to the vast fields of ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, until the 23rd
of May. This ship had on board, 828 passengers, all British ; 791 of whom settled in
various parts of Canada, chiefly in the Province of Ontario, the remaining 37 went to the
United States.
The number of steamships that arrived at port of Quebec, carrying immigrants under
the provisions uf ike " imperial Emigration Act," was 116. This dots not include ihe
steamships Quebec, Manitoban, Polynesian, Hibernian and Prussian, which were com-
pelled, owing to ice in the St. Lawrence, to put into Halifax, N.S., where the passengers
were disembarked and forwarded over the Intercolonial Railway to Point Levis, Quebec,
from whence they were booked to their various destinations. These steamships being
included make a total of 121, as against 126 during 1881.
The total arrival of immigrants at Quebec during the navigation season of 1882, in-
cluding the steamships that were obliged to put into Halifax, were : —
Cabin 4,1 36
Steerage 41,958
Total 46,094
The corresponding figures for the previous year, were : —
Cabin 3,489
Steerage 26,049
Total , 29,r>38
These figures show the total increase of 1882, over 1881, to be 16,556 souls.
Comparative tables of arrivals and nationalities for 1881 and 1882 : —
Nationalities.
1881.
1882.
i
Cabin and
Cabin and
Steerage.
1
13,591
2,624
2,958
23,119
6,621
4,384
9,528
3,997
L.426
19,173
M.S.;:,
34,124
11,970
14,951
1,608
C d t tal
29,538
46,094
16,556
4(3 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
Shewing an increase of 14,951 from the British Isles, and 1,605 from other
countries.
The general destination of the steerage passengers for the years 1881 and 1882
respectively, were as follows : —
18S1.
1882.
General Destination.
Adults.
Adults.
124
344
Eastern Townships . .
1,019*
1,2874
Montreal City ....
British Columbia.
Manitoba
United States . . . .
Ontario
Total adults.
Children and infants
Total number of souls
717
3,103
8,6284
11,961
7,272
13,617
19,9001
33,732
6,1484
8,226
26,049
Statement of the number of adult immigrants settled in the Provinces of Quebec and
Ontario, respectively, during the navigation seasons of 1881 and 1882 : —
Froyince of Quebec.
May
June
July
August ....
September
October . . .
N Dvember
1881. 1882.
360
328
6964
8354
407
5374
102
Province ok Ontakio.
Adults. Adults!
1,615
1,008
755J
5034
462
471J
197
May
June
July
August . .
September
October . . ,
November ,
2,1374
1,516
1,107
6514
.837
749A
223*
Total adults 3,2664 5,0124
Total adults 7,272
4,4614
2,8274
2.018J
1,565
1,352
935
4574
13,617
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
Nationality op Immigrants.
All immigrants from the British Isles are returned on the passenger lists as natives
from that portion of the United Kingdom from which they embark ; thus making it im-
possible to give a perfectly correct statement of the different nationalities of those who
arrive at Quebec.
Female Domestic Servants.
The number of female servants that arrived and settled in Ontario, as near as can be
estimated, were 2,000, exceeding that of any previous year. 1,566 of these received, from
me, free passes to various places in the Province, including 1,087 for Toronto. Notwith-
standing the large increase in domestic servants, I had, on leaving Quebec on the 17th
November, 275 applications by letter, chiefly from parties east of Toronto, which could not
he filled.
Of the 1,566 female domestic servants who received free passes to Ontario, 538 were
English, 873 Irish, 148 Scotch, and 7 were of other nationalities.
The localities to which the 1,566 female domestic servants were forwarded were as
under, namely : —
4<j Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
WEST OF TORONTO :
Destination.
No. of
Domestic
Servants.
No. of
Domestic
Servant".
Bradford .
Brampton .
Brantford
Clinton
Flesherton
Guelph
Gait
Hamilton . ,
Ingersoll . ,
London
Orange ville .
Simcoe
Strathroy .
Stratford . . .
Sarnia
| Thorndale .
I
Thorold . .
. Woodstock
Wingham . .
I Walkerton .
RECAPITULATION.
East of Toronto 404
West of Toronto "•">
Toronto City 1087
Total female domestic servants assisted 15(56
The following monthly returns show the number of domestic servants who were for-
warded by free pass to Ontario by the undersigned ; also the Grand Trunk Railway Com-
pany's charges for same, during the season of 1882 : —
May
June
July
August . .
October . .
November
Total domestic servants
The average cost being S0.28 pei servant girl.
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
The following Statement shows the number of children assisted to emigrate by
various parties, and settled in the Province of Ontario, during the season of 1882 .■ —
Sexes.
Bt Whom Assisted.
'ca
'ea
a
3
to
Homes in Ontario.
10
127
101
38
51
43
22
47
80
108
56
52
3
25
12
118
183
153
41
51
70
24
47
92
Our Western Home, Niagara.
Boys' Home, Gait.
Marehmont Home, Belleville.
Children's Home, Hamilton,
do do
E. A. Osborne.
Lindsay and Ottawa.
Ottawa Agency.
Cardinal Manning's Committee .
521 258
779
The number of children assisted out by the above parties from the United Kingdom
shows a large increase as compared with previous years.
Prepaid Immigrants.
The number of immigrants whose ocean fare was paid through the Immigration
Department, and by friends in Ontarip, was 563, as against 289 in 1881.
On their arrival at Quebec the families were forwarded free by Mr. Stafford, the
Agent for the Dominion Government, while female domestic servants and the adult
daughters of families received free passes from the Ontario Agent.
Statement A shows the monthly arrivals and destination of female domestic servants
who received free railway passes to Ontario.
Statement B shows the number, ages, and sexes of children brought out by the
various parties, and settled in the Province during the season of 1882.
Statement C shows the name of each steamship that arrived with immigrants, num-
ber of cabin and steerage passengers, with date of arrival at Quebec; also the general
destination of the steerage adults ; also the nationalities of the cabin and steerage pas-
sengers.
Statement D shows the Recapitulation for the seven months' work at Quebec, com-
pared with that of corresponding months of the previous year.
Pamphlets and Maps.
Immigrants, on their arrival at Quebec, were supplied with pamphlets and maps of
Ontario, the latter having printed matter on back, giving the fullest and most reliable
information concerning the Province.
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
Government Buildings Destroyed by Fire.
On the 2nd June a fire occurred which destroyed the whole of the Grand Trunk Rail-
w ;\ property, on which were erected the Government buildings for the reception of
immigrants. The fire broke out at 5.45 p.m., under the G. T. R. freight office and
immediately facing the river front. The buildings being all of wood and erected on crib-
work, the fire was fanned by the draught from underneath, and burned so rapidly that in
less than one hour all the buildings, including the Ontario Office, were enveloped in
11 unes and totally destroyed. I was able, with considerable difficulty and danger to my-
self, during the fire, to save all the books and important papers belonging to the Ontario
Government, but regret to report that the office furniture together with a quantity of
printed matter were consumed.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
E. M. PERSSE,
Ontario Immigration Agent.
To the Hon. Arthur S. Hardy, M.P.P.
Commissioner of Immigration,
Toronto.
Statemext A. — Showing the destination of female domestic servants who received free
passes from the Ontario Agent, Quebec, during the month of —
MAY, 1882.
Fbom Quebec to
Ottawa
Prescott
Kingston
Belleville
Cobourg
Newtonville .
Bowmanville .
( tshawa
Whitby
Trenton
Shannonville .
Lindsay
Peterboro' . .
Toronto
Flesherton . . .
Carried forward.
Number
of
Servants.
From Quebec to
! Number
of
Servants.
Brought forward
i Woodstock
Thorndale
In^ersoll
Bradford
Wingham .
Walkerton
Clinton
Strathroy
Simcoe
Stratford
Hamilton
Guelph
Brampton
London
Saraia
Total .
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
JUNE, 1882.
From Quebec to
Number
of
Servants.
Ottawa
Broclcville
Lyn
Cornwall
Kingston
Napanee
Gananoque
Trenton
Cobden
Cobourg
Pembn >ke
Port Hope
Carried forward
From Quebec to
Brought forward
Belleville
Bowmanville
Lindsay .
I tnin-eville
( 'anipbellford
Toronto
Thorold
London
Brantford
W, itock ,
Hamilton
Number
of
JULY, 1882.
Fkom Quebec to
Ottawa
Cornwall
Gananoque . . .
Carleton Place .
Belleville
Kingston
Peterbon >'
Cnbourg
Newcastle ....
Brockville
Carried forward .
Number
Oi
Servants.
From Quebec to
Number
of
Servants.
Brought forward
Perth ,
Oshawa
Pembroke ,
Renfrew
Lindsay
Port Hope
Toronto
Hamilton
Gait
12
3
143
AUGUST, 1S82.
From Quebec to
Number
of
Servants.
Feom Quebec to
Number
of
Servants.
11
3
2
18
1
1
ti
1
5
Port Hope
3
6
2
5
Toronto
134
3
Total
Ca ■ ■ led f rw rd
201
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
SEPTEMBER, 18S2.
From Quebec to
Number
of
Servants.
Ottawa 13
Brockville 3
Kingston 16
Smith's Falls I 1
Perth 2
Napanee 1
Carleton Place i 1
' 'arriixl forward
Brought forward .
Port Hope
Bowmanville
Cobourg
Pembroke
Peterboro'
| Lakefiekl
Toronto
Total
• 3
3
123
OCTOBER, 18S2.
From Quebec to
Ottawa
Lyn
Cobourg
Renfrew ....
Cornwall
Bowmanville.
Gananoque
Carried forioard .
Number
of
Servants.
From Quebec to
Number
of
Servants.
Brought forward . . !
Port Hope ! 2
Belleville I 1
Prescott 5
Brockville 5
Kingston 8
Toronto I 142
Total 1S3
NOVEMBER, 1S82.
From Quebec to
Ottawa
Cornwall
Carleton Place .
Belleville
Peterboro' ....
Perth
Carried forward.
Number
of
Servants.
From Quebec to
Brought forward ,
Lindsay
Port Hope
Kingston
Gananoque
Toronto
Number
of
Servants.
Ontario Government Immigration Office,
Quebec, 1883.
R M. PERSSE,
Agent,
10 .
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No. 3.
ANNUAL REPORT OF EDWIN CLAY, Esq., IMMIGRATION AGENT,
HALIFAX, N. S.
Dominion Immigration Office,
Halifax, N. 8., Oth January, 18S3.
D. S pence, Esq.,
Secretary,
Ontario Immigration Department,
Toronto, Ont.
Sir, — In answer to your request, I herewith send you statement of the Immigration
at this port for the year ending 31st December last.
I may say that as a general rule the immigrants were of a superior class, and
brought considerable means with them. Many farm labourers, going to Ontario, were
Duly booked to Quebec, where they either purchased tickets, or were forwarded free to
their destination.
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iltogether the immigration was very satisfactory.
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ger lists ; Mr. Stafford will be able to give destinations of those booked to his Agency.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
EDWIN CLAY, M. D,
Immigration Agent.
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16 Victoria.
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A. 1863
No. 4.
JA.NNUAL REPORT OF W. J. WILLS, Esq., IMMIGRATION AGENT, OTTAWA.
Government Immigration Office,
Ottawa, 13th January, 1S88.
Sir, — -I have the honour to submit my Annual Immigration Report for the year
•ending 31st December, 1881.
The total number of arrivals were as follows : —
European Immigrants.
NATIONALITIES.
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The following destitute immigrants received assistance in the shape of passage orders
and food to enable them to reach places where their services were required, and others to
reach relatives who preceded them into this agency, equal to 1512 adults at $1.20 per
adult : —
NATIONALITIES.
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Women.
Children.
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A. 188S
The immigrant arrivals were disposed of in the following order, viz. : —
Province of Ontario :—
City of Ottawa
do Toronto . .
do Kingston . .
do Hamilton .
do Belleville .
Town of Brockville
do Cornwall .
County of Carleton .
do Renfrew . .
Lanark
Russell
Prescott
Leeds and Grenville
Town of Stratford
County of Glengarry
do Wentworth
Province of Quebec : —
City of Montreal
do Quebec
do Sherbrooke -
County of Ottawa....
do Pontiac . .
do Argenteuil
do Soulangea
City of Winnipeg
United States
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22
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
I may state that I found very little difficulty in disposing of the arrived immigrants,
as the following table will show how far the demand exceeded the supply of the principal
classes — agricultural labourers, common labourers and domestic servants : —
Agricultural Labourers
Common do
Servant Maids
do Cooks
do Boys
Bakers
Blacksmiths
lioilermakers
Bricklayers
Butchers
Carpenters
Clerks
Cooks (male) ■ .
Coopers
Dyers
Gardeners
Grooms and Coachmen
Machinists and Engineers
Masons and Stonecutters .
Millers
Moulders
Painters
Plasterers
Plumbers and Gas-fitters .
Printers
Saddlers
Shoemakers
Tailors
Tanners
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584
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112
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$1.50 per diem without board.
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$S to $12 do do
$4 to $S do do
$9 per week without board.
$9 do do
$9 do do
$2.50 per diem without board.
$18 per month with board.
$1.50 to $1.75 per diem without board.
$26 per month with board.
$14 to $20 per month with board.
$12 to $18 do do
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$2.50 per diem without board.
$1.25 to $1.50 per diem without board.
$1.25 to $1.50 do do
$8 to $10 per week without board.
$9 per week without board.
Work by the piece,
do do
In addition to the above-mentioned arrivals, numbers have reached here through the
various customs' ports and were reported direct to the Department of Agriculture by the
customs authorities, consequently I have no account of them.
23
46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 6). A. 1883
The immigrants of 1882 were generally healthy, but a few of them needed medical aid.
The largest number of the arrived German immigrants came to join relatives and
friends who were previously settled in the counties of Renfrew and Pontiac, and who in
the most cases had sent for them and paid their passages.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
W. J. WILLS,
To the Honourable,
The Commissioner of Immigration,
Toronto.
24
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 6). A. 1883
No. 5
ANISRJAL REPORT OF RICHARD MACPHERSON, ESQ., IMMIGRATION
AGENT, KINGSTON, ONTARIO.
Government Immigration Office,
Kingston, 4-th January, 1SSS.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit for your information, my annual report, with
statements annexed, for the year ending 31st December, 1882, viz: —
Statement A. —Showing the number of immigrants arrived at the Kingston Agency,
and their nationality, the numbers assisted with provisions, and with free passes during
the past twelve months.
Statement B. — -Showing the monthly arrivals at this Agency during the year 18S2,
the numbers fed and distributed each month, also the number of meals furnished to desti-
tute immigrants.
Statement C. — Showing the number and destination of immigrants forwarded from
this office by free passes during the twelve months ended 31st December.
Statement D. — Showing the monthly arrivals within my district, their nationality,
the number of immigrants fed, also the number of free meals ami free passes granted to
indigent immigrants.
The number of settlers from the United States who have made entries at the several
ports of entry within my district during the past year does not appear in the statements
above alluded to.
The immigrants placed in this Agency during the past year were most suitable to
the wants of the country, and all in a healthy state — the great trouble being that there
were not nearly enough of them to supply the demand, more particularly of farm and
other labourers and female domestic servants — this, notwithstanding the fact that the
number placed in my district was 150 per cent, greater than during the year 1881, and
upwards of 400 more immigrants than the total of the five previous years added together,
as shown by statement herewith.
Miss Bilbrough, of Marchmont "Home," Belleville, is at present in Great Britain,
and intends returning in early spring with a large number of children. She brought out
153 last year, principally from Mr. Quarrier's "Homes," in Glasgow — a fine, intelligent,
healthy lot of children they were, and will prove advantageous to this Province.
The manufacturing industries within my district continue in a flourishing condition
and are on the increase.
The value of effects and money of the immigrants settled in my district during the
past twelvemonths amount to the very considerable sum of $110,288.00 exclusive of that
brought in by settlers reported at Custom Houses.
The quantity of iron ore forwarded from Kingston during the past season has been
greatly in excess of the previous year, amounting to 40,922 tons, chiefly from the Town-
ships of Palmerston and Levant. It is expected this quantity will be greatly increased
during the year 1883, and there will also be an increased demand for miners and labour-
ers at the several mines in these townships, as well as at the mines in Madoc and
Marmora townships, County of Hastings. There has likewise been a large quantity of
phosphate forwarded from this port during the past year, say about 5,000 tons, the mining
and handling of which give employment to a large number of men.
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 6). A. 1883
The present working capacity of the Mississippi mine in Palmerston township is 100
tons ( magnetic) ore per day, and it is the intention to nearly double the output of ore at
this mine, which is considered almost inexhaustible, and the deeper it is worked the
better the quality proves, being equal to Swede or Norway ores, and most suitable for
Bessemer steel, having little or no sulpur, phosphorus, or titanic acid.
The output of the Bethlehem Iron Co. mine in Levant township is about 50 tons per
day. It is also the intention to largaly increase the working of this mine by putting in
additional machinery and employing more men.
The Caldwell mine adjoining will be largely worked during the coming season ; like-
wise the Glendower mine in Bedford township, and several other mines of mica, Plum-
bago, etc.
From the mining interests described, the number of railways being constructed, the
vast lumbering interests, and the progress of the works at the Murray Canal, it is easily
seen that a large number of immigrants will be required in my Agency during the coming
season.
There will also be a large demand for farm labourers and female domestic servants,
and I trust those of a good class will arrive in large numbers during the year 1883.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
R MACPHERSON,
Government Immigration Agent.
To the Honowable the Commissioner of Immigration,
Toronto.
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46 "Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
Statement A. — Showing the number of Immigrants arrived at the Kingston Agency,
for the twelve months ending 31st December, 1882, and their nationality, the
number assisted with provisions, and with free passes by railways, or other convey-
ances, from this Agency to their respective places of destination.
Country from.
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England
Ireland ...
Scotland
Germany . . .
Norway and Sweden .
America
Other countries
Total . . .' 5,407
2.522
2,097
701
27
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702 I
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Eemabks. — 2 Englishmen went to Manitoba, and one Englishman went to the Province of Quebec.
Statement B. — Showing the total number of Immigrants arrived and remained to be
dealt with at the Kingston Agency, for the twelve months ending 31st December,
1882.
SS
January . . .
February . .
March . . .
April
May
June
July
August ....
September.
October . ..
November .
December
Total .
27
33
28
209
1,389
1,103
923
652
521
291
174
57
5,407
1
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41
1
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29
34
31
209
1,397
1,107
923
653
521
332
175
66
20
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126
385
359
182
115
30
55
32
12
0 5,477 1,349 742 2,353
22
63
53
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557
302
202
44
114
47
43
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
Arrivals of Immigrants at the Kingston Agency during the seven years ending 31st De-
cember, 1882, exclusive of the numbers reported through the Customs.
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
905
809
801
1,193
1,354
2,196
5,477
Statement C. — Showing the number and destination of Immigrants forwarded from this
Agency by free passes, for the twelve months ending 31st December, 1882.
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Ballantyne
Bath
Belleville
Bowman ville
Brighton
Brockville
Campbellford
Cobourg
Colborne
Deseronto
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Grafton
Hamilton
Harrowsmith . . . .
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Kemptvllle
Lansdown
Lyn
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Montreal
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Kewtonville
Northport
Oshawa
Oro
Ottawa
Palinerston
Parkham
Perth
Peterborough
Picton
Port Hope
Toronto
Trenton
Whitby
Wolfe Island
Total
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R. MACPHERSON,
Government Immigration Agent.
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No. 6.
ANNUAL REPORT OF JOHN A. DONALDSON, ESQ., IMMIGRATION
AGENT, TORONTO.
Dominion of Canada, Immigration Office,
Toronto, January 1st, 1S8S.
Sir, — I have now the honour of submitting this my twenty-second annual report,
showing the working of this agency during the year ending December 31st, 1882.
The total number of arrivals here during that period was 23,041. Of these 21,762
entered the country by way of Quebec or Halifax, and 1,279 via the United States. The
number remaining in Ontario was 8,404. Some 4,621 reported themselves us on their
way to the North-West, and the balance, 10,016, composed principally of Germans and
Scandinavians, passed through to the Western Stalls.
In addition to these numbers 1,405 souls are reported at the Toronto customs and
141 at Collingwood, thus making a grand total of 9,950 remaining in Ontario. The
value of immigrants effects through Toronto customs was $122,622 as against §83,037,
and at Collingwood $3,970 as against 81,800 in 1881.
It is gratifying to be able to state that the Immigrants were, as a rule, of a most
satisfactory class, being composed principally of farm and general labourers, for whom the
demand during the summer was very brisk. Ready and immediate employment was found
for ail comers until later in the season, when the demand for help in the farming districts
began to fall off, and but for a continuous round of visiting in every part of my division,
I could not have succeeded in obtaining employment for them.
The general health of those arriving has not been so good as in former years. Some
nine deaths have occurred, principally females, during the season.
It is my pleasing duty to state that I have been enabled to place a large number on
improved farms, and from their statements, and information already received through
our agents in Europe, and the promises of Lord Derby in his speech at Manchester, in
connection with emigration, we may safely look forward to a large increase in the number
of arrivals this coming year.
The number of settlers going to the Free Grant Districts continues to show a large
falling off over former years, principally owing to the inducements held out by Manitoba.
In my numerous visits through the principal parts of Ontario, I found the greatest
prosperity exhibited in every direction, and the people happy and contented.
The demand in Europe for cattle, sh^ep, horses, etc., has opened a wide and profit-
able field for our farmers, and they are not wanting in enterprise to take advantage of it,
as the increase in exportations shows.
■"T^rirphe rapid growth of this city is unprecedented. In every direction manufactures
are springing up, which brings in a large influx of workers, and with the addition of
Parkdale and Yorkville, the population cannot be less than 100,000, just 94,000 more
than when I first came here in 1833.
Some $262,000 in capital, and $122,920 value in effects, as far as I could ascertain,
hns been introduced into the country during the past year by immigrants.
The demand for farm labourers during the spring and harvest has been greater than
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 6). A. 1883
in former years, owing to the majority of this class of workers remaining in Uie Lower
Provinces, and farmers were glad to hire any help that came along to get their crops in.
The greatest civility and attention has been shown to immigrants by the conductors
and officials on the trains on their way up, nor has a single complaint from this cause
reached this office.
In conclusion I may state that the two delegates, Messrs. Stephenson and Birks,
who visited the country this year, were greatly impressed with its capabilities and the
advantages offered by us to immigrants and parties with capital, over other countries.
I have the honour to be, sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. A. DONALDSON,
Government Immigration .! <;.
To the Hon. A. S. Hardy, M.P.P.,
Commissioner of Immigration,
Toronto.
32
46 Victoria.
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46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
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dealt with at the Toronto Agency, for the tweive months ending December 31st,
1882.
Via St.
Lawrence.
Via
the United
States.
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Free Meals. Free
January ..
February .
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April
May
June
July
August . . .
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October . . .
November
December.
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386
403
227J
216
195
84
21,762
14,435
3,183J
Statement C. — Shewing the Number and Destination of Immigrants forwarded from
the Toronto Agency by Free Passes, for the twelve months ending December 31st,
1882.
Acton
Agincourt . . .
Ailsa I 'raig ..
Allandale ....
Alliston
Alma
Alton ..... .
Alviston
Amherstburg.
Angus
Arthur
Aurora ......
Avening
Aylmer
Baden
Bala
Ballantrae . . .
Barrie
Batteaux ....
Beeton
Belleville ....
Berlin
Bismark
Bolton
Bothwell
Bowmanville.
Bracebridge . .
Bradford
Brampton
Brantford
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109
8
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9
7
5
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34
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
Collingwood. . . .
Colwell
Cookstown ....
Cooksville
Cornwall
Craigleith
Craigvale
Davenport . ...
Dixie
Dorchester
bouglas
Dublin
Puffins Creek ..
Dundas
Dundalk
Durham
putton
] hrumbo
Eastwood
Edmonton
gldon
Flora
Essex Centre. ..
Exeter
Fergus
Fesserton
Forks of Credit.
Forrest
Fort Erie
Flesherton
Fletcher
Gait
Gananoque
Garafraxa
Georgetown —
Glencoe
Glen Huron . . . .
Goderich
1 ; ildstone
Grantham
Granton
Gravenhurst . . .
Grimsby
Guelph
Haliburton.
Hamilton
Hamburg
Harriston
Harley
Harrisburg
Haw kstone ....
Hensall
Hespeler
Hornby
fl) :"i -nil
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Islington
Jarvis
Kenilworth . . . .
Kerwood.
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35
46 Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 6).
A. 1883
Rosseau
Scarboro
Schaw
Seaforth
Seabringville . .
Severn
Shakespeare. . . .
Shelburne
Simcoe
Stayner
Stratford
Strathroy
Stouffville
Streetsville .
Stur-e,,n's Bay
St. i Catharines. .
St. ( George
St. Mary's .
St. Thoi
Stoney Point. . .
Sunderlai
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Thamesville . . . .
Thorndale .
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JOHN A. DONALDSON,
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40 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 6). A. 1883
I<fo. 7.
EXTRACTS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT. OF JOHN SMITH, Esq.,
DOMINION IMMIGRATION AGENT, HAMILTON.
Immigration Bureau,
Hamilton-, January 6th, 188S.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following annual Immigration Report and
tabular statements for the year ending the 31st December, 1882.
There has been an increase in the number arriving, as will be seen by a reference to
the different Statements accompanying the Report, a larger number having settled in the
North- West Territories: a slight decrease of those remaining in Ontario is shewn is
compared with the year previous.
During the past year there has been a growing and increased demand for all kimls
of labour, which it was utterly impossible to supply, as hundreds of applicants were dis-
appointed in not being able to secure the necessary hands, so much required, there .y
entailing loss and inconvenience to the employers of labour.
Agricultural labourers have been in great demand ; the farmers in the vicinity and
those from a distance have waited the arrival of the trains for the purpose of securing
the immigrants on arrival, and, as a rule, there were three farmers for one labour* r.
Many of them not being able to secure the necessary help, caused wages to advance to
$30 and $35 per month, with board and lodging, for harvest hands, and a number of
contracts were entered into by the year for good hands at the rate of §200 per annum,
with board and lodging.
The demand for female servants made upon the Agency was out of all proportion to
the supply, although repeated applications were made to Quebec and Toronto to meet the
daily inquiries. The great, difficulty of obtaining domestic servants has been caused by
the inducements offered by the manufacturing industries of the Province for female
labour.
Mill operatives have been eagerly sought after, the mill owners having to import
hands from the United States and the Old Country to supply the growing requirements
arising from the increased production of fabrics.
Manufacturing operatives have been in good request by the ready-made clothing
ptablishments, the boot and shoe factories, and other newly established industries.
Common and skilled labourers have met with ready employment in the foundries,
rolling mills, and upon the railways and public works in progress throughout the district.
Agriculture. — The past year has been marked by a large degree of prosperity, owing
to the heavy crops, including hay, cereals and roots, that have been secured in good con-
dition, the yield being one of the largest ever produced in Canada, and very seldom
excelled in Britain, where a state of high cultivation prevails, with the advantage of
jnderdraining and the use of expensive fertilizers. Owing to a more favourable and
productive harvest in Britain and on the Continent, and the increased supply from India,
cereals of all descriptions have met with a declining tendency in the British market —
noticeably so in breadstuff's, which have had a corresponding effect both in Canada and
the United States, until prices have been reduced to a normal point, the loss arising
from lower rates having been more than counter-balanced by the increased yield of pro-
duction.
There has been some inquiry from Britain and the States respecting the free grant
lands of Muskoka, Parry Sound and Nipissing, which are well adapted for settlement,
possessing so many advantages, being comprised of good land, fine timber and excel-
lent water, and free from ague. The country is capable of producing fine crops of cereals
and roots, and for grazing purposes it cannot be excelled.
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46 Victoria. Sessioual Pnpers (No. 6). A. 1883
With the construction of railways through the territory, and a liberal policy of
assistance to intending immigrants, these lands will become the home of a numerous and
thriving population, being within reach of all the principal markets of Ontario.
During the season the Agency was visited by Mr. George Lambe Holyoake, under
the auspices of the British Government, in the interests of Emigration. During his stay
here he closely investigated the subject of Immigration, making his own personal obser-
ve rj.-.ns by visiting the different places and institutions, including the Agricultural Col-
lege of Ontario at Guelph, for the purpose of gathering information, and satisfying him-
self of the advantages that Canada possesses as a field for the emigrant; and from his
practical knowledge, and the high standing in which he is held by the working people
of Britain and all classes of the community, and the unbounded confidence placed in his
judgment and integrity, good results may be anticipated from his visit to Canada. Mr.
Holyoake was accompanied by Mrs. Leach, who came out in the interest of National
Education in connection with the School Board of which she is a Trustee, and is the first
lady elected to the position under the provisions of the extended franchise.
Father Nugent, well known to the British public for the deep interest that he has •
taken in the working classes in connection with emigration, also visited Ontario, and was
much pleased with the advantages that the Province possesses as a field for the emigrant,
provisions and arrangements made by the Government for the reception of the
immigrants on arrival.
Miss E. Richardson also visited this district, having been sent out by the Women's
Emigration Society, of London, to investigate and report upon the subject of Female
Emigration and the provision made for the reception of this class upon their arrival.
During her stay here she thoroughly investigated the object of her mission, and received
much valuable information to aid her in the appointed work allotted to her, and her
Report will prove to be a valuable aid to this class of emigrants. As there is an
increasing and growing demand for female domestic servants, it is very desirable that a
safe home should be provided, with a female superintendent to receive them direct from
the steamers on arriving at Quebec, with the necessary arrangements and facilities for
locating and placing them in situations direct from the Home, instead of shipping them
from one Agency to another, which would reduce the expenditure and add comfort and
protection as compared wtth the present system.
Owing to the large number of farmers' sons leaving Ontario for the North- West
Territories, agricultural labourers will be in great demand during the coining year.
Many of the farmers are now inquiring for hands to be engaged by the year, and a num-
ber of them will be prepared to take married men and provide them with cottages for
themselves and families.
During the past season a large number of emigrants have been assisted to come out
by their friends remitting drafts and prepaid ocean passage certificates, and providing
situations for them on their arrival.
The contract has been let for the new Immigrant Sheds at this Agency ; the building
will add very much to the comfort and welfare of the immigrants on their arrival, large
and commodious baths and other necessary conveniences being provided, and so much
required after the ocean voyage.
By the completion of the sheds, and the amalgamation of the Grand Trunk and
Great Western Railways, arrangements may be effected to send the emigrants intended
for 'his district direct to Hamilton, which would save the expenses incurred by the
Department by the detention in Toronto, which would be of great advantage to the
immigrants, as time would be saved and the inconvenience of laying over would be
avoided; it would also instil a better feeling of independence, as the immigrants, after
thev have been cared for at more than one Agency, are too apt to trust and look to the
Government for further assistance, rather than rely on their own exertions.
Statement A shows the reported number of arrivals and their destination.
Statement B shows the reported number of arrivals in the district of the Hamilton
Agency, and the nationality of those remaining in Ontario.
Statement C shows the reported number of arrivals and their general destination ;
the increase to Manitoba being 1,391 for the year as compared with the corresponding
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period of 1881 ; the increase passing through to the Western States being 7,301 for the
same period ; and the decrease of those settling in Ontario being 693.
Statement D shows the number of children sent out by the different philanthropic
societies, all of them being settled in comfortable homes, the work being well performed
by the respective resident superintendents.
Statements E, F, CI, IT and J show the number of immigrants arriving and reported
at the Customs ports of entry in the district of the Hamilton Agency, and the value of
their effects.
Statement K shows the number of immigrants that have been assisted, with the
number of meals and lodgings, and the number of passes granted. The number of
immigrants fed shows an increase of 87, and an increase of 171 meals and 16 lodgings,
as compared with the previous year, and a decrease of 200 passes for the same period,
the decrease in the number of passes being caused by the farmers waiting upon the trains
and furnishing transportation at their own expense, thereby relieving the Department of
the expenditure.
Statement L shows the destination of the immigrants settling in the Dominion.
Statement M shows the amount of capital reported and the value of effects, the
increase for the year 1882 being $202,230 as compared with 1881.
Statement N shows the number of free passes issued, and their destination.
Statement O shows the current rate of wages paid in the district for all kinds of labour,
Statement P shows the price of the ordinary articles of food and clothing required
by the working classes.
Statement A. — Returns of Immigrants, arrivals and departures in the district of the
Hamilton Agency for the year ending the 31st December, 1882, including the chil-
dren sent out by the Philanthropic Societies.
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fj f:
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Sexes.
Nationalities. ,„ IIVATI0N.
Nationality.
Females.
Children.
Is
o
Irish.
Scotch.
6
1
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Other
Couutries.
Ontario.
Manitoba.
P
English
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670| 3849
652 2550
1
321 36972
| 1456
| 14920
6777
4519
3202
37004
1456
14920
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1 850 455
1 9241 515
1 5841 361
3607
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1 156
1 8821 574
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1882.
1881.
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2516
64480
57363
34003
32223
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6787S
59879
6777
5477
4519
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Statement C. — Showing the number of Immigrants arriving and departing in the district
of the Hamilton Agency for the year ending December 31st, 1882, including the
children sent out by the Philanthropic Societies.
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£
General Destination.
Number of arrivals < in
St. Lawrence and Hal
Number of arrivals i ia
United States.
O
Nationality.
"a
O
S8
"S
3
English
2044
4733
6777
2509
661
3007
Irish
670
652
3840
2550
4519
3202
850
924
455
515
3214
1763
32
36972
37004
584
361
36059
14020
1456
14920
8S2
30
574
335
14555
1882.
3398
'14480
67878
5779 2901
59198
1881.
2516
59879
6472 ; 1510
51897
882
7117
7999
1391
7301
693
John Smith, Government Immigration Agent.
Statement D. — Showing the number of children brought into the district of Hamilton
Agency by the respective societies engaged in emigration, for the year ending De-
cember 31st, 1882.
Name of Society
Rev. Mr. Stephenson's, Home Hamilton
Miss Rye's Hgme, Niagara
Miss McPherson's Home, Gait
Dr. Barnardo's Home, Hamilton
Earl Shaftesbury's Home, Hamilton
Total
■gfigg
a as
a s.3
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
|||
1'" c
He
§ = g
38
3
41
6
3
9
108
117
7
5
128
55
183
38
30
51
51
3
22
22
248
166
414
51
41
John Smith, Government Immigration Agent.
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Statement E. — Showing the number of Immigrants reported at the Port of Hamilton
and the value of their effects, for the year ending December 31st, 1882.
Nationality.
Value of
effects.
English
Irish
Scotch
German
United States Citizens.
Other countries
Total .
John Smith,
Government Immigration Agent.
Statement F. — Showing the number of Immigrants reported at the Port of Clifton and
the value of their effects, for the year ending December 31st, 1882.
Nationality.
Male.
Female.
5
Total.
Value of
effects.
8
7
18
46
8
6
4
3
22
55
4
7
9
9
15
87
20
18
20
15
188
1,060 00
553 00
1,010 00
450 00
2,650 00
8,867 00
87
98
131
316
14,590 00
John Smith,
Government Immigration Agent.
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Statement G. — Showing the number of Immigrants reported at the Port of Fort Erie,
and the value of their effects, for the year ending December 31st, 1882.
English
Irish ,
Scotch
German,
United States Citizens
Other Countries
Value of
Effects.
3,875 00
165 oo
750 00
1,215 00
2,587 00
2,224 00
John Smith,
Government Immigration Agent.
Statement H. — Showing the number of Immigrants reported at the Port of Niagara,
and the value of their effects, for the year ending December 31st, 1882.
Nationalitt.
"3
3
a
1
Total.
Value of
Effects.
2
4
G
1
...
12
1
3
1,500 00
300 00
2
1
000 00
3
4
10
13
9
30
1,000 00
765 00
Total
14
19
22
55
4,165 00
John Smith,
Government Immigration Agent.
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Statement J. — Showing the number of Immigrants, and the value of their effects,
entered at the respective Customs Ports of Entry in the district of the Hamilton
Agency, for the year ending December 31st, 1882.
Nationality.
8
Q
£
c3
Total.
Value of
Effects.
100
13
39
40
111
172
20
18
20
15
55
188
69
18
48
S3
07
12
1
3
201
50
69
103
258
457
13,660 00
5,118 00
4,340 00
2,445 00
9
30
12,137 00
17,490 00
475
316
292
55
1,138
55,190 00
John Smith, Government Immigration Agent.
Statement K. — Showing the number of Immigrants assisted ; the number of meals and
lodgings ; also the number of passes issued by railways and other conveyances, at
the Hamilton Agency, for the year ending December 31st, 1S82.
MONTHS.
:Number
of
Immigrants
Fed.
Number
of
Free Meals.
Number
of
Lodgings
provided.
Number
of
Free Paeses
issued.
April
IS
113
54
59
65
99
101
15
89
194
83
95
129
197
211
45
32
52
17
24
37
49
' 3S
15
11
14
14
19
16
10
28
1
Total, 1882
524
437
1043
264
248
113
Total, 1881
313
87
171
16
200
John Smith, Government Immigration Agent.
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Statement L. — Shewing the location of Immigrants in the District of tjhe Hamilton
Agency for the year ending December 31st, L882, including those sent out 1 >v the
Philanthropic Societies and reported at the Customs Port of Entry in the district.
Algoma
Bruce
Brant
Cardwell. . .
Dundae ....
Durham . .
Essex
Elgin
Frontenac . .
G-rej
Grenville . .
1 1
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Haldimand
Huron . ...
Kent
Lincoln . . .
Lanark . . .
Leeds
Lambton . . .
Manitoba . .
Cirri"! forward. ..
24
246
228
31
9
7
117
217
6
189
5
13
62
106
113
227
78
59
2901
forwa/rd. .
44.",
52
Monk
2
Norfolk
17'.'
-7
246
3
Peel
77
Perth
30
16
118
2
32
982
1882
286
43'J
York
349
John Smith,
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A. 1883
Statement M. — Shewing the amount of capital brought to Canada by Immigrants and
settled in the District of the Hamilton Agency, for the year ending December 31st,
1882.
January
February
March
April
May ,
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total
57,000
34,000
44,500
57,000
64,000
111,230
76,000
178,000
73,000
00,000
8S,500
92,500
58,000
87,500
68,000
87,500
71,000
67,500
88,000
60,500
74,000
.SI, 000
56,000
67,500
Decrease.
818,000 1,020,230
John Smith, Government Immigration Agent.
Statement N. — Showing the number and destination of Immigrants forwarded by free
passes from the Hamilton Agency, for the year ending December 31st, 1882.
Station.
No.
Station.
No.
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
I
2
i !
i
3 '
14
1
10 j
1
Bothwell
9
Clifford
4
Erie
1
Gait
2
Total
52
John Smith, Government Immigration Agent.
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Statement O. — Rate of wages paid in the district of the Hamilton Agency.
Bookbinders and printers
Blacksmiths
Bakers
Brewers
Butchers
Brick-makers
Bricklayers and masons . .
Boiler-makers
Carpenters -
Cabinet-makers
Coopers
Curriers
Fitters
Labourers, common
do farm
do ■ railway
Lathe hands
Moulders
Millwrights
Millers
Painters .
Plasterers
Plumbers
Shoe-makers
Shipwrights
Stone cutters
Saddlers
Stokers railways
Tanners
TaiL.rs
Tinsmiths
Pattern-makers
Ilivetters
$ c.
1 50
1 50
1 25
1 50
1 25
1 50
2 50
1 75
1 75
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 75
1 25
1 00
1 00
1 75
1 75
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 25
1 75
2 50
1 25
1 50
I 50
1 25
1 50
2 00
1 50
S c.
2 00
2 50
1 75
2 50
1 50
2 00
2 75
2 25
2 00
2 50
1 75
2 00
2 25
1 35
1 25
1 25
2 25
3 00
2 50
1 75
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 oo
2 25
2 75
1 75
1 75
1 75
2 00
1 75
2 50
1 75
Cardroom hands.
Spinners
Weavers
Dyers
Wool assorters. . .
Cotton Mills.
n 50
1 00
0 75
1 00
1 25
Cardroom hands | 0 50
Spinners I 1 25
Weavers 0 80
Overlookers I 2 00
Females pkb Month (with
Board and Lodging).
Cooks '.' 00
Dairy maids 7 00
Dress-makers and milliners 10 00
General servants ; | 7 00
Laundry maids 8 oo
House maids . . ' 7 00
Monthly Hands (with Board:
and Lodging.)
Farm Labourers | 12 00
Harvest hands 25 oo
Lumber men | 20 00
1 25
1 50
1 25
1 25
1 75
1 00
1 50
1 15
3 00
10 00
8 00
15 00
8 Oil
0 oo
9 00
15 00
35 00
30 00
John Smith,
Government Immigration Agent.
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Statement P. — List of retail prices of the ordinary articles of food and raiment required
by the working classes.
Bacon, per tt>
do Ham, per lb . .
do Shoulders, per lb
Pork
Beef
Mutton
Veal
Butter, fresh
do salt
Candles
Cheese
Coffee
Cod fish
Mustard
Pepper
Rice
Soap
Sugar
Tea, green
do black
Tobacco
Corn meal, per 100 lt>
Flour do
Buckwheat flour do
Oat meal do
Bread, -1 th loaf
Beer, per quart
Milk, do
Eggs, per doz
, per 60 Th
Salt, do
Herrings, per barrel
Fire w 1, per cord
Overcoats
Undercoats
Pants
Vests
Shirts, flannel . ...
do cotton
do underwear
Drawers, woollen, woven
Hats, felt
Socks, worsted
do cotton
Blankets, per pair
Rugs do
Flannel, per yard
Cotton shirting
Sheeting, double
Canadian tweed cloth . . .
Shoes, men's, per pair . . .
do women's, do ...
Boots, men's, do
do women's, do
Rubbers, men's, do
do women's, do . . ,
$ c.
S c.
0 15
0 25
0 50
0 60
ii 60
0 65
5 75
6 50
i 50
6 00
7 00
12 00
4 50
6 50
3 00
4 50
1 50
2 00
1 50
2 00
0 75
1 00
ii 30
1 25
ii 90
1 00
ii 75
1 25
0 25
0 35
ii pi
0 15
3 00
4 50
2 00
2 50
ii 30
0 35
0 12
ii 13
0 24
0 25
0 75
1 10
2 00
2 50
1 25
1 75
2 00
2 50
1 25
2 00
0 80
0 90
0 60
0 70
John Smith,
Governm nt Immigration Agent.
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No. 8.
ANNUAL REPORT OF A. G. SMYTH, Esq., IMMIGRATION AGENT,
LONDON.
Government Immigration Agency,
London, Ont., January 6th, 1883.
Sir, — I have the honour to transmit, for the information of the Honourable the
Commissioner of Immigration, the Annual Returns of this Agency for the year ending
31st December, 1882.
Form A. — Showing the number of immigrants arrived via the St. Lawrence and
Halifax and the United States; their nationality ; the, number assisted with provisions
and with free passes ; the number which remained in Ontario, and the number that
went to Manitoba and the United States.
Form B. — Showing the total number of arrivals ; the number of free meals fur-
nished ; the number of immigrants who had meals, railway and other passes ; the number
|urnished with employment in the locality of this Agency ; the number passed on to the
United States and Manitoba ; and the expense incurred for meals.
Form 0. — Statement showing the number and destination of immigrants forwarded
from this Agency by free passes for the twelve months to 31st December.
Form A. — A monthly tabulated statement showing the arrivals and departures at
this Agency for the twelve months ; the nationality of those who settled in Ontario ; the
number of free meals and free passes.
About $123,141 in money and effects, as near as can be calculated, has been brought
into the country by settlers for Ontario and Manitoba, mostly for this Province, as we
had 1201 for Ontario, 399 for Manitoba, and 170 for the Western States.
The demand for farm and general labourers was much in excess of what we could
supply ; and the applications for domestic servants, both in the towns and cities in this
district, as well as for farm service, is still very much greater than our supply.
The prospect for the coming season appears quite as good as last season.
The returns for arrivals of settlers through our Customs Houses are enclosed, but
not included in above figures.
The health of the immigrants has been very good ; not a single case of any severe
illness.
Great care has been exercised in granting assistance, either by free meals or railway
passes, and only to the approved class of immigrants. Quite a number of farm labourers
have also been able, by their frugality and industry, to send for their families, and give
them other assistance.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A. G. SMYTH,
Government Immigration Agent.
David Spenoe, Esq.,
Secretary Department of Immigration,
Toronto, Ont.
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Return showing the number of Immigrants arrived at the undermentioned ports as per
Custom House Returns for the year ending 31st December, 1882, their nationalities,
sex, and value of their effects, as entered at said ports.
Windsor 1069
London ' 505 i 211
St. Thomas 336 160
Sarnia I 3794 3219
Amaerstburgh I 265 I 122
13X|
91
60
163
70
396
108
I
97 |
232
21
319 .
129
93
1427
85
■? c.
342 408 *5,036 00
166 I 210 I 28,105 00
118 | 125
'.in? ; 1460
98 | 82
21,817 00
104,518 00
12,823 00
A. G. Smyth, Government Immigration Agent.
Statement A (2). — Shewing the number of Immigrants arrived at the London Agency,
for twelve months ending 31st December, 1SS2, and their nationality, the number
assisted with provisions, and with free passes by railways, or other conveyances, from
this Agency to their respective places of destination.
Country from.
Arrivals via the St.
Lawrence.
Arrivalsvia theUnited
States.
Total.
Remained in the Pro-
vince of Ontario.
Went to the United
States.
J3
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1 ~
s |
u =
617
4;;:;
181
24
19
216
102
40
56
26
1
833 527
306
116
80
31
18
535
221
80
45
419
141
49
27
Norway and Sweden
25
31
1
56 38
18
1,299
471
1,770 1,201
♦569
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REMARKS. — * 399 of these to Manitoba.
A. G. Smyth, Government Immigration Agent.
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A. 1883
Statement B. — The undersigned has the honour to report, for the information of the
Honourable the Commissioner of Immigration, Ontario, as to the number of Immi-
grants arrived at this Agency, and their distribution, as per Schedule, for the period
commencing 1st January, 1882, and ending 31st December, 1 NS2.
s
-3
J
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55
a
0
u
£
1st. —The number of Immigrants ai
at this Agency
id, and remained to be dealt with
2nd. — The number of Free Meals furnished to Immigrants
3rd. —The number of Immigrants to whom Free Meals have'been furnished
4th. —The number of Free Lodgings furnished
5th.— The number distributed by Free Passes on railways
6th. — The number distributed by Free Passes on steamboats
7th. — The number distributed by other means of conveyance
8th. — The number furnished with employment in the locality of thi:
Agency
Oth.- -The number passed on to the United States
10th. — The number passed on to Manitoba
Expenses Incurred.
479
170
399
1st.— For Meals .. .
2nd. — For Lodgings.
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Statement C. — Shewing the number and destination of Immigrants forwarded from thi s
Agency by Free Passes for the twelve months ending 31st December, 1882.
Stations.
Adult
Passes.
Stations.
Adult
Passes.
i j
2
3 i
1
2
1
1
2
2
2
12
Both well
i
11
1
3
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4
1
6
1
6
Dublin
4
1
T<-tal
81
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Sessional Papers (No. 7).
A. 1883
EEPOKT
OF THK
COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
FOR THE
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER,
1882.
printed t>y (Order of the legislative ^eutbly.
Sortmto :
PRINTED BY C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, 5 JORDAN STREET.
1882.
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CONTENTS.
Commissioner's Report 3
Eeport of the Architect, etc 5
Report of the Engineer 11
Statements of the Accountant 23
Statement of the Law Clerk ... 26
46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 7). A. L883
REPORT
OF THE
COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
FOR THE
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1882.
To His Honour the Honourable John Beverley Robinson,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario, etc.
I respectfully submit the usual annual report of the operations of the Department
of Public Works for the year ending the 31st of December, 1882.
The operations in connection with the several Public Buildings and Institutions of
the Province are explained in the report of the Architect, etc., of the Department, a copy
of which is hereto attached.
The report of the Engineer contains details of the works connected with the improve-
ment and maintenance of locks, dams, etc., the applications for aid in the construction of
Municipal Drainage, and the extension of Railways during the year.
Very respectfully submitted,
C. F. FRASER,
Commissioner, etc.
Department of Public Works, Ontario,
December 30th, 1882.
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REPORT
THE ARCHITECT ETC.
Department op Public Works, Ontario,
Toronto, December 30th, 1882.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following report : —
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
The principal expenditure has been for furniture and furnishings, being renewals
and repairs to the same as required.
The wooden fence on the west side of the grounds which was blown down was
repaired and painted.
The gardener's cottage was repaired and painted, the roof re-shingled, and eave-
troughs, down-pipes, etc., constructed.
The necessary repairs to furnaces, gas and water pipes were made as required.
PARLIAMENT AND DEPARTMENTAL BUILDINGS.
The ordinary repairs have been attended to, the cost of the same having been charged
to each Department. The grounds, including the roads, planting, etc., have been kept in
good order, the expenses having been charged to the separate Departments.
ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, TORONTO.
The carpenter's and engineer's workshop, in the south-east part of the grounds, was
fitted up for the reception of female patients. The work was done under the superin-
tendence of the Carpenter of the Department, workmen having been employed and
materials purchased as required. The brick and plumbing work was done by tender.
The verandahs at the south ends of the wings in the rear of the main building were
repaired, the beams and joists being decayed were renewed, workmen having been
employed, etc., as previously stated.
ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, LONDON.
An addition was built to the engine-house, and the duplicate pump will soon be-
fitted up and the necessary connections with steam and water pipes made.
A new boiler was constructed and fitted up in the east boiler house for heating
purposes, the work being done by Mr. Browne, of London, whose tender was the lowest,
to replace one that had been several years in use.
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The fence round the airing yards of the refractory ward building was raised to
prevent the escape of patients. The lowest tender for this work was that of Mr. A.
Purdom, London, and was accepted. The necessary fire-hose and reel were supplied for
the use of the buildings and grounds.
The iron sashes of the main building are in due course of re-arrangement, the work
to be done by the Asylum authorities in accordance with a pattern prepared under the
directions of the Medical Superintendent, by which further escapes will be prevented.
The roofs of the main building were repaired, and the galvanized iron deck roofs
were painted by Messrs. Goold & Agnew, Brantford, with patent material, which had
previously been tested on the roof of the Blind Institute and found to be quite satis-
factory.
The tin roofs of the turrets on the main building and wings have also been painted,
the woodwork of the turrets was also repaired, and where required covered with gal-
vanized iron to prevent further leakage at these points.
The above work was done under the superintendence of the Permanent Clerk of
Works, the plans and specifications having been prepared in the Department.
ASYLUM FOB THE INSANE, HAMILTON.
Tenders were received for the construction of an iron fence in front of the building
along the edge of the bank, after due advertisement. The lowest, that of Messrs.
Olmstead & Son, of Hamilton, was accepted, and the work has been done in a satisfactory
manner.
The material of the front fence previously constructed was carefully taken down,
and used in the re-construction of the side fences.
Fire hose and extinguishers have been supplied for the protection of the buildings.
Two brick tanks, to contain 40,000 gallons of water, were constructed alongside of
the old tanks. Tenders for this work were called for by advertisement, and that of Mr.
A. J. Brown being the lowest was accepted.
The roof of the centre building was repaired, and the galvanized ironwork was
painted with patent material, by Messrs. Goold & Agnew, of Brantford, as previously
reported for the London Asylum, the work having been guaranteed by them.
The dust shafts in the wings were lined with brick and made fireproof, galvanized iron
ventilators having been placed at the top.
The remaining portion of the wire guards to the windows have been strengthened
by iron guards to prevent escapes.
Two cylinders have been placed in connection with the hot-water boilers, with pipes
leading to the several bath-rooms, thereby increasing the hot-water supply to both wings.
The above work was done under the superintendence of the Permanent Clerk
of Works.
ASYLUM FOB THE INSANE, KINGSTON.
There was considerable delay in the preparation of the plans for the cottage for
chronic patients, owing to the illness and death of my assistant, Mr. B. Purdom, who
was engaged in preparing the drawings when he was attacked with inflammation of the
lungs, which proved fatal.
Mr. Purdom had been in the Department for several years, and during that period
had evinced considerable talent and aptitude for his duties as architectural draughtsman,
and, having served his time as a carpenter with his father in London, he was thoroughly
acquainted with the practical details of the profession. His loss has been, and will be,
seriously felt in the Department.
Having procured temporary assistance, the plans were completed and submitted to
tender, after due advertisement, ami that of Mr. A. J. Brown, being the lowest, was
accepted. The basement has been built, also the first storey of the east wing, and during
the winter materials will be prepared so as to have the cottage completed next season.
The tender of Messrs. McKelvey & Birch, of Kingston, being the lowest for the gas
apparatus on the " Lowe process " was accepted, and the apparatus is now in course of
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construction. The ventilators have been placed in the attic wards of the main building.
For this work the tender of Messrs. Chatterton & McLeod was the lowest, and was ao-
cepted
Two new steam boilers have been placed in the boiler-house, by the contractors
Messrs. Inglis & Hunter, Toronto. The fences round the grounds have also been com-
pleted in a satisfactory manner by Mr. A. Cameron, Kingston, the contractor. The work
was done under Mr. Gage, Kingston, the Clerk of Works.
ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS, ORILLIA.
The building known as the Queen's Hotel, having been rented as a Branch Asylum to
afford additional accommodation for idiots, was fitted up, and sundry alterations made by
the construction of bath-rooms, w.c, and other conveniences required for Asylum purposes.
Water pipes were laid from the main Asylum, connected with a tank in the upper
storey of the building, from which water is distributed to thi bath-rooms, etc.
The plans and specifications were prepared in the Department, and the work was
done by the day, the materials having been purchased under the superintendence of a
foreman carpenter.
REFORMATORY FOR BOYS, PENETANGUISHENE.
The works connected with the erection of the north wing, the steam, heating, and
water supply were fully completed in the early part of the year, and are reported satis-
factory in every respect.
The sewage from the building, which since the construction of the main structure
had an outlet to the Bay on the west side, having been reported as likely to affect the
purity of the water adjacent to the pumping engine which was fitted up a few years since
to supply the Institution with water, was diverted to the north side by the construction
of a tile pipe, the outlet being near the farm buildings.
Workmen were employed and materials purchased under the superintendence of the
Permanent Clerk of Works. The filling in and levelling were done by the boys with
the assistance of the teams of the Institution.
ANDREW MERCER REFORMATORY FOR FEMALES, TORONTO.
The several works for this Institution, for which appropriations were made during
the last session, and which consisted of heating coils in the basement, double windows,
addition to driving sheds, fitting iron gates to cells in basement, bath and water closets
in girls' corridor, openings into yards, hot-water pipes to attendants' dining-room, raising
fence round grounds, and alterations of water closets, etc., were required to afford addi-
tional accommodation by fitting up the cells in the basement, and were completed within
the prescribed time, in a substantial and satisfactory manner, under the superintendence
of the Carpenter of the Department, according to directions.
The construction of the roads and sodding has been in progress, under the direction
of the Central Prison authorities, the work being done by prison labour, and the front por-
tion is now nearly completed.
CENTRAL PRISON, TORONTO.
The only work done on capital account, and included in the estimates, has been
under the control of the Inspector of Prisons, etc.
There has been no expenditure by this Department during the year for the Institu-
tion.
DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTE, BELLEVILLE.
A brick coal shed in the rear of the boiler house, has been completed by Mr. T.
McCabe, Trenton, contractor, whose tender was the lowest.
The wharf on the Bayshore was repaired for the landing of the coal supplied to tlm
Institution, and the shed was also completed in time for its reception.
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A new tile drain was constructed leading from the boiler-house to the main sewer
on the east side, the fall to the sewer on the west side being insufficient to drain the
basement of the new boiler-house. A drain from the cellar of the Bursar's House has
also been made.
The outside woodwork of the main building, Principal's and Bursar's residences,
dormitory and workshop was painted.
The outside frames and sashes of the chapel, kitchen and servants' apartments,
farm buildings, gymnasium, water closets, and lodge entrance at gate should also be painted
next year to preserve the woodwork.
BLIND INSTITUTE, BRANTFORD.
The plans and specifications of the rear extension for the new boiler-house, laundry,
drying-room and coal shed were completed early in the season, and submitted for tender.
After due advertisement, the tender of Mr. W. Watt, Brantford, being the lowest, was
accepted, and the work has been completed, under the superintendence of Mr. Turner,
Clerk of Works, in a satisfactory manner.
The tender of Messrs. D. S. Keith & Co., Toronto, being the lowest, was accepted
for the two new steam boilers and connections, and the work connected with the same
was completed in sufficient time to supply the steam heating to the buildings.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, GUELPH.
The plans and specifications for the Professor of Agriculture and Bursar's residences
and cottages for the Gardener and Farm Foreman were prepared in the early part of the
building season, and submitted for tender. After due advertisement, that of Mr. A. J.
Brown, Hamilton, being the lowest, was accepted, and the work has progressed in a
satisfactory manner, under the superintendence of Mr. O'Byrne, Clerk of Works ; the
residences and cottages being now ready for occupation.
The water suuply has been extended to the grounds and to the residences and cottages.
The "-as pipes have also been extended to the Professor's and Bursar's residences by the
City Gas Company, and connected with the gas pipes and fittings provided in the build-
ings.
The kitchen chimney was raised, and sundry alterations made in the store rooms
and laundry as approved.
Filtering tanks have been constructed at the outlets of the tile drains, to remove
occasion of complaint on the part of owners of adjacent lands, as to the sewage.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT AND NORMAL SCHOOL, TORONTO.
Sundry alterations were made in the eastern portion of the Education Department
for the accommodation of the School of Art and Design, the necessary conveniences were
placed in the basement, which was heretofore used as a coal cellar.
Some alterations were also made in the western basement, affording more light and
air to the Housekeeper's apartments, which were considered unhealthy from damp and
want of proper ventilation.
The above work was done under the superintendence of Mr. H. Munro, jun., Clerk
of Works.
The ordinary repairs to the steam-heating pipes and furnaces were made as required.
NORMAL SCHOOL, OTTAWA.
The usual repairs in connection with the buildings, roofs, steam-heating boilers and
pipes wera made during the vacation.
An additional quantity of fire-hose was furnished for the protection of the Model
School building, and entrances have been made on each floor, for the convenience of the
Principal and Teachers passing from the Normal to the Model School building.
An additional radiator was placed in the Teachers' room in the Normal School, and
further improvements were made in the laboratory.
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SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE, TORONTO.
There was a small expenditure for repairs to this building.
The roadway and sidewalk which were constructed last year required no further
expenditure.
OSGOODE HALL, TORONTO.
Owing to the changes in the arrangement of the courts, consequent on the passing of
the Administration of Justice Act, sundry alterations were required in addition to those
made last year.
Additional furniture and furnishings were also required and supplied.
The ordinary repairs to the buildings and drains were made where necessary.
ALGOMA DISTRICT.
Some repairs were required to the gaol at Sault Ste. Marie of a trifling character.
An addition for a gaoler's residence was made to the lock-up at Manitowaning on
Manitoulin Island, for which the tender of Mr. F. J. Sylvester, Parry Sound, being the
lowest, was accepted. The work has been satisfactorily done, under the superintendence
of Mr. Gorley, Clerk of Works.
Some repairs were also made to the lockups at Little Current and Gore Bay, on
Manitoulin Island.
THUNDER BAY DISTRICT.
A small addition was made to the Gaoler's residence at Prince Arthur's Landing,
the work having been done under the directions of Sheriff Clarke. Repairs were □
required for any of the buildings in this district.
MUSKOKA DISTRICT.
The Court-room and Lock-up at Huntsville when nearly completed was burnt down
on the 27th of July last. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained, the Court-room
not having been occupied, and there were no workmen engaged in the building at the
time. The building was insured, but a final settlement has not yet been made with the
insurance companies.
Some repairs were made to the Registry Office at Bracebridge
PARRY SOUND DISTRICT.
Sundry repairs were made to, and some articles of furniture were supplied for, the
Registry Office at Parry Sound.
NIPISSING DISTRICT.
Stronger fastenings and locks were supplied to the Lock-up at Mattawa, and the
approaches to the building were levelled and improved, under the directions of the Stipen-
diary Magistrate.
NEW TERRITORY.
There has been no expenditure on account of the appropriation for the Lock-up and
house at Moose Fort.
UNORGANIZED TERRITORY.
Plans and specifications were prepared and arrangements have been made for the
erection of a Court-room and Lock-up at Rat Portage, under the directions of Mr. IT.
Munro, jun., as Clerk of Works. The building wiil be constructed during the present
winter. The lumber is to be procured at Rat Portage, and it is expected that the Court-
room and Lock-up will be ready for occupation on the opening of navigation next year.
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Workmen have been employed and materials purchased for the prosecution of the
work, as tenders at a satisfactory rate could not be procured in that locality.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Niagara River — Fence Along the Bank.
A survey of the the river bank from the Niagara Falls to the lower Suspension
Bridge was mads, and plans, specifications and details of the proposed iron pipe fence
were submitted for tender. That of Mr. I. Pierce, Chippewa, being the lowest, was ac-
cepted.
The rock and stones to receive the standards were drilled by workmen in the employ-
ment of the Department, and the stones were procured from the Queenston quarries.
Considerable progress has been made under the superintendence of Mr. John Drew,
Clerk of Works, and it is expected that the whole work will be completed next year.
Agricultural Hall.
The building on the corner of Yonge and Queen Streets, known as the Agricultural
Hall, was fitted up as a store and as offices for the Agricultural and Arts Association, Pro-
fessor of Agriculture, and Bureau of Industries.
The interior walls and staircases, vaults, etc., were removed, and new partitions con-
structed, the work having been done by the day, under the directions of the Clerk of
Works, Mr. H. Munro, jun.
The building is heated by steam, a steam boiler having been placed in the cellar,
and radiators are constructed throughout the several floors, the whole being on the
low pressure principle.
Plans and specifications were prepared for the above work in the Department, and
the building is now occupied as above described.
I have the the honour to remain,
Your obedient servant,
KIYAS TULLY,
HON. C. F. FRASER, Architect, etc.
Commissioner of Public Works,
Ontario.
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REPORT
OF
THE ENGINEER
OF
PUBLIC WORKS.
Department of Public Works, Ontario.
Toronto, 30th December, 1882.
Hon. 0. F. Eraser, Commissioner of Public Works.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following Report on the works constructed,
and repairs and improvements made by this Department ; also the extension of railways
and drainage works throughout the Province during the year ending this 31st dav of De-
cember, A.D. 1882.
MUSKOKA LAKES' WORKS.
The improvements made in connection with these works, are as follows : —
The construction of a dam at Port Carling, was well advanced in the latter part of
the season of 1881, but, owing to a difficulty in obtaining the timber required, the work
had to be suspended, and the dam was not completed at the close of that year. Opera-
tions were, however, again resumed in the early part of the present year, and the work
completed before the opening of navigation. Since its completion, the dam has proved
itself capable of satisfactorily serving the purpose intended, and, by careful management,
there is no doubt but what the waters of Lakes Joseph and Rosseau, can now be regu-
lated as from time to time may be required by the public interests to be served thereby.
At "Coulters Narrows" (one of the outlets of Muskoka Lake into Bala Bay), a
quantity of rock blasting has been done, in order to make the channel navigable for
steamers. It is now a navigable channel of about sixty feet in width and at the shallowest
place has a depth of water equal to that upon the lower mitre-sill of the lock at Port
Carling, consequently any vessel which can pass through the lock, can pass through this
channel from Muskoka Lake into Bala Bay, without difficulty. This will be found of
great convenience to both the travelling public and the residents in the locality. Formerly
" Jenac's Narrows" was the only navigable channel, and this was frequently blocked-up
with timber and saw-logs, to such an extent that it was impossible for steamers to pass,
in consequence of which the mails were seriously delayed and much inconvenience caused
to parties wishing to reach Torrance or Bala, or places in the vicinity of either of them.
GULL AND BURNT RIVER WORKS.
The following improvements and repairs have been made to these works during t In-
present year : —
Two new dams have been constructed at the outlet of Mud Lake, in the Township
of Dysart, for the purpose of reserving the waters of Mud, Spruce and Drag Lakes
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These dams are situated at the head of a long rapid, the river at this point being divided
into two channels by an island.
The dam across the north channel is eighty-one feet in length, fifteen feet in width
and about twelve feet six inches in height. It has a slide opening six feet six inches in
width.
The dam across the south channel is one hundred and nine feet in length, fifteen feet
in width and twelve feet six inches in height. It is provided with two openings for the
escape of flood water, one being twelve feet in width by nine feet in depth, and the other
nineteen feet in width and two feet in depth. The openings in both dams are supplied
with platforms, stop-logs, windlasses and chains, so as to enable the water to be regulated
as desirable.
The dam at Norland on the Gull River, has been supplied with three new stop-logs,
and some minor repairs have also been made to the slide.
The dam on the east side of the slide at Racketty Creek, has been supplied with
new stop-logs, to prevent the water entering the flume leading to the neighbouring mill
when not required.
The planking of the slide at Workman's Mills, has been renewed for a length of one
hundred feet, and new floor beams supplied where necessary. Some rock situited a short
distance below the foot of the slide, and which seriously injured the timber after passing
over it, was also blasted and removed out of the bed of the river.
Horse Shoe Lake Dam. — Owing to the nature of the material upon which this dam
is built, it was found necessary to drive sheet-piling in front of the stop-log openings, to
pi , \ .nt it being undermined by the water. The piers were also repaired where necessary,
and the entire dam well gravelled, so as to make it water-tight.
The dams at the outlets of Hall's, Hawk, Crab, Kenesis, and Redstone Lakes, have
also been repaired, and supplied with new stop-logs where necessary.
An appropriation was "ranted last session for the re-construction of the dam at the out-
let of Kushog Lake, near Minden, but, owing to certain difficulties which presented them-
selves regarding the supply of the timber required, it was not deemed advisable to proceed
with the work during the present year, consequently the appropriation remains intact for
re-vote in Inn:'..
A re-vote of the appropriation granted in 18S0, for lengthening the slide at Elliott's
Falls, on the Gull River, was taken last year, the work not having been carried out during
the previous year, owing to the complaint of a local mill-owner that he was injured in
consequence of its being in its present position. Upon further examination it has been
found that the removal of the slide to the other side of the stream, would be more con-
venient and advantageous for the public service, and consequently, and in order to do
away with any alleged grievance on the part of the mill-owner, it would be advisable, in
my opinion, to make the removal. In order to do so a re-vote will require to be again
taken, and an additional appropriation granted to enable the work to be carried out in
1883.
MAINTENANCE OF LOCKS, DAMS, AND SWING BRIDGES.
The following improvements and repairs have been made out of this appropriation
during the present yeav : —
At Lindsay a boom has been provided and a platform constructed over the dam, so
as to enable parties to portage small boats, instead of taking them through the lock. This
improvement was made in order to save water. Lake Scugog, having no feeders of any
consequence, falls very rapidly after the spring freshet is over, and it is, therefore, very
desirable that the number of lockages should lie diminished as much as possible The
of the lock chamber has also been repaired in various places.
At Young's Point the slide has been supplied with a new set of stop-logs and chains.
Some minor repairs have also been made to the lock, and a quantity of gravel, stole
which had lodged in the gate recesses, have been removed.
Balsam River Lock.- The nates and balance beams of this lock, have been repaired
and painted, and the sheeting in the chamber renewed where necessary, The sheeting
had to be secured with | rag spikes, as the timber forming the lock walls was so decayed
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that ordinary pressed spikes would not answer. It is, therefore, quite evident that ex-
tensive repairs will shortly require to be made to this lock.
At Port Carling the timbers which prevented the steamers from striking against the
rock, forming the sides of the lock chamber, have been renewed, and planking provided
for sheeting in the same.
Considerable repairs require to be made to this lock before the opening of navigation
in 1883. The cribwork piers, from which the gates are suspended, are badly decayed,
and require to be rebuilt from the low water line up. The leek gates ami valves in same,
also require considerable repairs, consequently, in addition to the ordinary maintenance
appropriation, provision will require to be made for this work in the estimates for the
coming year.
Some repairs have been made out of this appropriation to the stop-log dams at Bala,
and the necessary repairs, which the different swing-bridges required, have also been at-
tended to.
The following are the lockmasters returns of the lockages made at the different locks
during the present year :
Balsam River Lock — 152 steamboats, 44 scows, 20 small boats, 45 cribs and 287,590
saw-logs and pieces of square timber.
Lindsay Lock — 2G1 steamers, 147 scows, 256 cribs of timber and 5 dredges.
Mary's and Fairy Lakes Lock — 279 steamers, 55 small boats, 16 scows and 19 cribs
of timber.
Young's Point Lock — 450 steamers, 135 scows and 180 cribs of timber.
Port Carling Lock — 1128 steamers, 461 small boats, 116 rafts and 108 scows.
TJNFORSEEN AND UNPROVIDED FOR.
In the early part of the present year, the Department was notified that in accordance
with an injunction granted by the Court of Chancery, Messrs. R. & G. Strickland intended
lowering the dam at Laketield 32 inches below the height it had been kept for a number
of years, unless the Government would purchase the structure for the sum of S3, 000,
grant, them several unreasonable privileges, and assume all responsibility regarding the
height at which it had been so maintained. If the dam were lowered as above mentioned,
the river between Lakefield and Young's Point would not be navigable, and this would
cause serious loss and inconvenience to parties residing or having business above Lake-
field, there being no railway communication north of that point. I therefore, pursuant to
instructions, at once proceeded to the locality in order to make an examination an< I
on the probable value of the structure, but, upon my arrival found the water was then
too high to admit of such being satisfactorily accomplished. I acquainted Messrs. Strick-
land of this fact, and made an arrangement for the Department to assume temporary
control until an examination could be made, the Government to be responsible in the
meantime for the height of water maintained.
The necessary examination was made later on in the season, and the sum of one
thousand dollars and an undertaking on the part of the Province to permanently maintain
the dam at the height, at which it had previously been kept, were offered Mesrs. Strick-
land for their interest in the structure, but this was refused. It was then decided to as-
sume the dam on behalf of the Province under the " Public Works .Vet," and proceedings
were commenced accordingly. While dings were pending, the Department
was informed that, the Dominion Government had decided that the dam was required in
connection with the Trent Valley Canal scheme, and consequently that the last mentioned
Government had made arrangements with Messrs. Strickland, and had taken control of
the works. While under the temporary charge of this Department, it was necessary to
make several repairs and improvements thereon as follows : —
The cap-piece of the dam was torn off and carried away by the high water, this was
replaced as soon as possible, and in order to keep the river above navigable, the dam for
its entire length was bracketted twenty inches in height. The slide was also supplied
with one new stop-log, and new windlasses and frames and the stop-log platform repaired.
In order to make the above repairs, it was necessary to bracket the dam at, Young's
Point, which, owing to the high water, was not only a dangerous, but also an expensive
undertaking.
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A new boom was also constructed and placed in the river to prevent the brackets or
dam from being injured by logs, flood-wood or timber. The boom is two feet in width,
keyed with oak keys and well bolted together with one inch bolts. It extends from the
end of the pier at the slide opening, to a pier which was constructed on the river bank,
the total length being 435 feet. It is anchored in four different places, with rocks attached
to the ends of chains and is secured to the piers at both ends. The pier constructed on
the shore is 8 feet square, and is compactly filled with stone.
As this work was not contemplated when the Estimates for the present year were
being made out, no provision was made for it, and as the appropriation for maintenance
was not sufficient to cover the cost, an over expenditure could not be avoided.
SCUGOG RIVER— DREDGING, &c.
This work was commenced in 1881, and at the close of that year a channel about 63
feet in width, 6 feet in depth and 1,438 feet in length, had been excavated. A re- vote of
the unexpended balance, amounting to §183, was taken last session, and a new appro-
priation of $6,000 granted to enable the work to be again proceeded with in 1882. The
dredging was commenced on the 20th April last and continued until the 30th August, when,
owing to the appropriation being nearly all expended, the contractors were notified to cease.
The channel is now excavated from the Scugog River to Drummond's Bay, but for a
length of about 800 feet and a width of about 36 feet is not yet the required depth. The
dredging will also require to be continued out into the latter some distance further, as in
ordinary low water there would not be a sufficient depth to enable steamers to enter the
cut. It also requires to be slightly enlarged at the Seugog River end, in order that it
may be entered without difficulty. Provision will, therefore, require to be made in the
Estimates for 1883 for the completion of this work, and when completed, I am confident
that this improvement will be of the very greatest advantage and usefulness in the naviga-
tion of these waters.
OTONABEE RIVER WORKS.
An appropriation of $9,000 (of which $1,500 was a re-vote from the year previ-
ous) was granted last session for the re-construction of the dam across the Otonabee River
at Young's Point. Immediately after the appropriation was granted, tenders were called
for, for the supply and delivery of the necessary timber, but as the lumbering season was
then well advanced and the quantity of timber required somewhat large, the prices asked
were not satisfactory. In order to enable the work to be proceeded with during the
present year, efforts were then made to obtain the timber at reasonable rates by taking it
in small quantities from the local mill-owners, but as the quantity required could not be
obtained from parties who were willing to supply it for a fair remuneration, and the prices
asked by those who could supply it still being, in my opinion, too large, it was decided to
again advertise for tenders. The only expenditure out of the appropriation during the
present year has been for advertising, consequently a re-vote, merely of the unexpended
balance, will require to be taken, to enable the work to be proceeded with and completed
in 1883.
PORTAGE DU FORT BRIDGE.
The sum of $250 was granted in the Estimates for 1881, to meet one fourth the
cost of repairs to. bridge across the Ottawa River, at the village of Portage du Fort, on
condition that one half of such cost be provided by the Dominion of Canada, and the
remaining one fourth by the Province of Quebec, and that the Province of Ontario should not
in any event be called upon to pay for such repairs more than the sum above mentioned.
The appropriation, however, has not yet been applied for, but I understand the
repairs are now being made, consequently a re-vote will again require to be taken.
DRAINAGE WORKS.
During the present year applications have been received and aid granted to the fol-
lowing Townships, under the "Ontario Municipal Drainage Aid Act," viz.: — Richmond,
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 7). A. 1883
Ops, Dunwich, Brooke, Plymton, Thurlow, Southwold, Keppel, Melanchton, Warwick,
Howard, Kinloss, and Ellice, the total amount of aid granted being $24,800.23 It is
quite evident from the number of applications received, that the drains which have been
constructed are giving general satisfaction, and consequently, through the privileges to be
obtained through this Act, the municipalities are enabled to convert large tracts of useless
swamp lands into valuable farms and thriving settlements.
EXTENSION OF RAILWAYS IN 1882.
The construction of railways throughout the Province has been steadily proceeded
with during the present year. The details of the works on the several lines, sp far as
could be obtained, are as follows : —
Toronto and Ottawa Railway.
This railway now forms a portion of the system known as the Midland Railway of
Canada. Its construction was commenced in 1881, and at the close of that year the work
was being carried on between Maberly and Perth by the Company, and the portion be-
tween Madoc and Bridgewater was under contract.
The work has been vigorously prosecuted during the present year, and I am informed
that the link about 6i miles in length, connecting Wick, on the Toronto and Nipissing,
with Manilla, on the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway, is well advanced, the
rails having been recently laid.
The link connecting Omemee, on the main line of the Midland Railway, with Peter-
borough, a distance of about 15 miles, is also under contract. The cuttings on this portion
of the line, I understand, are very heavy, as is also the bridging. Tracklaying has been
commenced, and it is expected the entire section will be completed about the month of
April next.
The section between Madoc and Bridgewater, a distance of 9 miles, has been
completed, and is now ready for the passage of trains. From Bridgewater eastward to
Perth, a distance of 62 miles, the line is under contract, and the work is being
pushed as rapidly as possible. The material to be removed, I understand, is chiefly rock,
consequently operations can be advantageously carried on throughout the present winter.
Contracts have also been let for the construction of two short connections, one at
Lindsay, 1£ miles, and one at Peterborough, 2 miles in length.
Central Ontario Railway.
This is merely an extension of what was formerly known as the Prince Edward
County Railway. The extension commences at Trenton on the Grand Trunk, and extends
in a northerly direction, passing through or near the villages of Frankford, Glenross
(Chisholra's Rapids), Stirling, Springbrook, Marmora, Deloro, Malone, Eldorado, Ban-
nockburn, Millbridge, and thence to the Emily, Baker, and Batchelor mines in the Town-
ships of Tudor and Wallaston, the total length being about 90 miles.
Construction work was commenced about the middle of April last, and since that
time I am informed nearly 50 miles have been graded and 11 miles of track laid, but
only a short distance has yet been ballasted. The bridges (7 in number, and having a
total length of 948 feet), I understand, consist of steel girders resting upon stone abut-
ments, and the cattle-guards, culverts, etc., are constructed of stone masonry laid in
cement. The road will be ballasted 15 inches in depth, and it is expected the entire line
will be completed and opened for traffic about the 1 st July next.
Credit Valley Railway.
During the present year this Company have made a survey and located a branch line
from Belmont (distant 112 miles from Toronto) to London, the length of the branch being
114 miles. Construction work has not yet been commenced, but it is intended to pro-
ceed with it in the early part of the coming year, and it is expected the line will be
completed and opened for traffic about the 1st August next.
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46 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 7). A. 1883
Stratford and Huron Railway.
This railway was completed and opened for traffic to the Village of Chesley about
the 15th October, 1881, and at the close of that year the track had been laid to its ter-
minus at Wiarton, the road ballasted for about 15 miles north of Chesley, and several of
the station buildings, etc., constructed. Operations were again resumed in the early part
of the present year, and proceeded with until the 29th June last, when the entire line
was completed and ready to be opened for traffic.
Kingston and Pembroke Railway.
This railway was completed to the Mississippi River in 1877, which point remained
its terminus until 1881, when construction work was again commenced on an extension
of the line to the Clyde River, a distance of about 16 miles. During 1881 about 12" miles
were graded, lOi miles of track laid and 10 miles ballasted, and in January last the
latter distance was examined and reported on as being completed and ready to be opened
for traffic. It has since been decided to extend the line to Clyde Lake, making the total
length of the extension beyond the Mississippi River about 20 miles, which is now com-
pleted and ready to be opened for traffic.
Ontario and Quebec Railway.
Construction work has been vigorously prosecuted on this railway during the present
year. I am informed about 75 miles have been graded and provided with the necessary
culverts, etc., and that track-laying will be commenced about the 1st May next.
The work I understand will be carried on throughout the present winter, and it is
expected that the grading of the entire line will be completed about the 1st September,
and that the track will be laid from Toronto to Carleton Place by the close of lSS.'i.
Canada Atlantic Railway.
In January of the present year this railway was completed and opened for traffic
from Coteau Landing to Casselman, and since that time the rem lining distance (about
30 miles) from < 'asselman to Elgin Street in the City of Ottawa, has also been completed
and opened for traffic. The proposed terminus of the line is however in the neighbourhood
of the Chaudiere Falls, a further distance of about 3 miles where connection will be made
with other lines of railway. This latter portion I understand is located and at present
under construction, but as some heavy rock cutting has yet to be done, it is not expected
the line will be completed before the month of July next.
Canada Central Railway.
This railway now forms a portion of the Canadian Pacific. At the close of 1880, it
was reported that an extension of the line from Pembroke to South East Bay, Lake
Nipissing, a distance of about 135 miles, was thru under construction, and that 47 miles
of this had been completed and opened for traffic. The work has since been steadily
proceeded with, and I understand the line 'is now fully completed and opened to Mattawa,
a further distance of about 48 miles, and that beyond this point it is sufficiently advanced
to admit of construction trains being run to Callendar Station, which I am informed is
situated about 4 or 5 miles from the shore of Lake Nipissing.
Mileage of Railways.
The following revised statement to the close of 1882 gives in detail the mileage on
etch railway in Ontario, distinguishing between those constructed prior to and after Con-
federation.
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From the details given it will be seen that 159-j^ miles of railway have been com-
pleted and opened for traffic during the present year, and that 809 miles are yet under
construction. Of this latter distance it is expected that the greater portion will be com-
pleted before the close of 1883.
I have the honour to remain,
Your obedient servant,
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Engineer, Public Works.
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46 Victoria, Sessional Papers (No. 7). A. 1883
STATEMENTS
THE ACCOUNTANT
THE LAW CLERK.
4G Victoria.
Sessional Papers (No. 7).
A. 1883
No. 1. — Expenditure for Fuel, Gas, Water, Repairs, etc., by the Department of Public
Works, during 1S82 (part of Maintenance Accounts).
NAME OF SERVICE.
Repairs, and
Furniture
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1882.
Government House
Executive Council aud Attorney-General's Department
Public Works Department
East Wing, Parliament Buildings
Crown Lands Department
Legislation, Parliament Buildings
Maintenance of Locks, Dams, Slides, etc
Lockmaster's, Bridgetender's, etc (Salaries)
Superintendent of Locks, Dams, Slides, etc do
General Clerk of Works and Repairs for Public Institu-
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Totals
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430 11
430 10
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688 18
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in the above.
J. P. EDWARDS,
Accountant.
Department of Public Works,
Toronto, 1st January, 1SS3.
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