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JProsjjcttus. 
 
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 du([aiional fplp of |jntaH0; 
 
 ITS FOUNDATION AND ADMINISTRATION, 
 
 FROM 1844 TO 1884. 
 
 BEIKG A PERSONAL AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF THE 
 EVENTS OF FORTY YEARS. 
 
 J. GEORGE HODGINS, ma., ll d. 
 
 BARUISTKU AT LAW, AMD DEPUTY MINISTER OP EDUCATION'. 
 
 " I proiiiise<l God that I would look upon every child as a being who could cotiiplain to nie 
 before Clod, if I did not provide him the best education as a man and a Christian, which it wan 
 poMsilile for me to provide." fru««ion School CoumeUor Dinter'n Declaration, as adopttd by Dr. 
 jttyerticn in his circular to Townthip Councils, Auyust, 1850. 
 
 Toronto: 
 
 1884. 
 

 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
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 At the request of rrty late reVered Friend, Rev. Dr. Ryerson, I 
 have assumed the duty of preparing for future publication a 
 Personal and Historical Narrative of events connected with the 
 founding and administration by him of our Educational System. 
 
 The Narrative will, however, include not only the period of 
 Dr. Ryerson's incumbency of the office of chief administrator of 
 the Education Department, but also that of his late successor, the 
 Hon, Adam Crooks, the first Minister of Education. 
 
 My materials are rich and ample. Not only did Dr. Ryer* 
 son entrust me with the whole of his private correspondence with 
 Public Men and Ministers of State on educational matters, but I 
 have also had a voluminous correspondence, from time to time, 
 with him myself on several important subjects connected with 
 our School System. These, with various memoranda and other 
 Information, will be available for the Narrative. They will the 
 more clearly illustrate than did The Story of My Life the great 
 ability and statesmanlike qualities of the late Chief Superinten- 
 dent of Education* as founder and administrator of our School 
 System. 
 
 Although the Narrative may be prepared in the course of a 
 year or so, yet it is not intended to publish it just now. I be- 
 lieve that such a personal record will likely be of more interest 
 to the next generation than it would be to the present — espe- 
 cially as so many storms and personal conflicts marked the era 
 
 * In The Sttry of My Life I have onlj' incidentally referred to Dr. Ryerson's connection w th 
 our educational system, and have given no particulars, as I had proposed to do so in this ifarrativa 
 Bee note on page 351 of that book. 
 
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 PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 of Dr. Ilyerson's administration, creating such undue prejudice 
 that it still lingers in the memories and exerts an undue in- 
 fluence on the minds of many. Time and a calm review of the 
 whole case, and of the adverse circumstances under which our' 
 School System was founded, can alone dissipate this prejudice, 
 nnd do full justice to Dr. Ryerson and to those who stood by him 
 in his efforts to place our national system of schools upon a 
 broad, safe and comprehensive basis. ' 
 
 Having been so intimately and confidentially connected with 
 Dr. Ryerson for thirty-two years, in the great work of his later 
 life (ie., since 1844), the Narrative must necessarily largely par- 
 take of a personal character — so far as he and I and others are 
 concerned. This cannot be avoided. Besides, 1 alone am in a 
 position to state or verify some facts which were mentioned in 
 private conversation, or in his correspondence with me, and which 
 are probably known only to myself, and to one or two other per- 
 sons. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTE. 
 
 Several private letters were written by Dr. Ryerson, in regard 
 both to our educational and university systems, of which I have 
 no copies, I shall, therefore, be glad to receive (and duly return) 
 any original letters with which I may be favoured for insertion 
 in whole or in part, in the proposed Narrative. 
 
 J. GEORGE IIODGINS. 
 
 1»2 Pembroke Street, 
 Toronto, 1884.