^v^ ^ ^ > IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) I 1.0 £fKi Vi S Itt 120 I.I p> ^^ f '/ Sdmces Carporalion ^. ^. 23 WIS? MAIN STMIT WnSTII,N.Y. I4SM (716)t72-4503 ;\ CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICIVIH Collection de microfiches. Canadiaiv Institute for Historical Microroproductions / Inttitut cancdien da microraproductions hiatoriquas T«chnleal and ■IMIof rapMe Nouw/Nouw t«ehnk|tiM m MMIoftraphiquM Th« Inatitut* hat att w n pt XI to obtain tho boat orifinal eopy avaUaMa for fllmin«. Poatufoa of thia copy wMeb may bo MbNoflvapMoaNy unkma. wMeh may altar any of tha bnaaaa In tho raproduetion. or wMab may aignlflaantly ahanfia tha iMNial mathorf of filming, aro chaafcad b al ow. D D D D Co w ior tM io 4o a oMla ur r~| Covara damaflad/ CoMvartura andommagAo : □ Covara r aatorad and/or lamlnatad/ Couvarturo raatauria at/ou paHlouMa □ Covar titia mlaaing/ La titra da eouvartura manqua gc-««-.^ Cartaa gAographiquaa an coulaur Colourad ink (i.a. othor than Mua or blaefcl/ Encra da coulour (i.o. antra qua Maua ou noiro) rn Coioiirad plataa and/or Hluatrationa/ D Planehaa at/ou Hluatrationa an coulour Bound with othor matarial/ Rail* avac d'autraa documonta Tight binding may eauaa ahadowa or diatortlon along intorior margin/ La ra liura tarr^ paut oauaar da I'ombro ou da la dialiiiraion la iona da la mama fattAriaiiiM Blank laavaa addad during raatoration may appaar within tha Mxt. Whanavar poaalbla. thaaa hava baan omittad from fHmlng/ II aa paut qua cartainaa paga a Manehaa aioutiaa lora d'uno raatauration apparai a aan t dana la taxta. maia, loraqua eala Atalt poaalbla. eaa p a gaa n'ont -paa At* f HmAaa. Additional eommonta:/ Commantairaa aupplAmantairaa: Tha tot D L'Inatitut a microfilm* la maiHaur axamplaira qu'll lul a 4t* poaalbla da aa procurer. Laa d4taila da cot ORamplaira qui aont pout-4tra unlquaa du point do vuo MbHographkiua. qui pauvant modiftar una imaga raproduito. ou qui pouvont OKigar una modlfleation dana ki mAthodo normaki da fllmaga aont bNHquAa d-daaaoua. D D D Pagaa damagad/ raat o r a d and/or lamkiatad/ raatauriaa at/ou poWculiaa diacoiourad. atainad or foMad/ ddcolortoa. tachatiaa ou piquiat datachad/ d«tach*aa Tha poa oft OrH b«g othi fkai aim orl fy] Strawthrough/ Tranaparanea Quality of prifi QuaNt* inigaia da llmpraaaion Inckidoa aupplamontary matarii Comprond du matirial auppi*mantaira Only adMon avaitobia/ Saula Mition diaponibio rn Quality of print vartea/ pn Inckidaa aupplamontary matarial/ rn Only adition avaitobia/ Thi aha TIN iMai dHf an« bafl rig» raqi mai Pagaa wholly or partially obaeurad by arrata ali^. tiaauaa, ate, hava baan rafilmad to anaura tha iHMt poaalbla imaga/ liOa pagaa totalamant ou partiallamant obacurdaa par un fauiHat d'arrata. una palura. ate., ont At* film*08 * nouvaau da fa^on * obtanir la maiNaura imaga poaaiMa. Thki itam ia film«<< at tha raduction ratio ehackad balow/ Ca documant aat film* au taux da f*duetion indiqu* ei>doaaoua. 10X , 14X itx 22X 2SX 30X V 12X IfX aox MX 28X 32X Tim oofiy iHiiwd hMv Iim dmh rapfochioMi thinki to th* gMMTOtlty of: Dougtai Library Quoon'i Unlvoraity L'oKompMio flliii4 fiit raproduK gf§m i la ■inAraahii te: Dougtat Library Quoon's Univortity Tho i m ogi w o ppoorl ng off tho originol ffHniIng oontraot hora ora tho boot QuoNty tho ooMHtioii ond loQlbHlty and in I c ooping vwlth tho bnagoi ouhmntot ont 41* roprodiiitoi avoo lo •oin, eompto tonu do la condition ot do I OMoniplaira fUnio* ot on avoe ioa condlthNw du oontr«t do do io no tt ot* I OriflhMl eoploo In printad popor oovora ora ffHmod D»>9iiHiin0 Willi vn9 ffoffn oivwr viNi vnomy on mo wai pogo wim a ptimoo or anmrana anpraa- aion« or tlio booic covor whon appropriaia* AN othor origtawl oopioo ara flimad baglnnlne on tlia fflrat pago ^vilh a printad or iHuatratad impraa- •ion, ond ondlng on tho laat paga with a printad or iiiuatratad impraaii o n. Tlia laat ra c o rd od fframo on oooh miorofiolio ahali contain tho aymbol «^> (mooning "CON- TiNUEO"), or tho aymbol ▼ (mooning "EIVD"), wliieliovor oppHoa. Laa ana m plai r aa orlginoux dont io oouvartura an popior OBI impnmoo aonv iNniaa on oonnnoiiyaiit por io pram la r plat ot on toraiinant aalt par la aormani poga ^in oompona imo oinpfwnio dimpraaaian ou dUiuatratlon, aoit por io aaeond plat, aalon io ooa. Toua laa autraa a a a mp ialraa origlnoux aont ffiim4a an commandant par hi p rami^ra paga qid comporto uno omprointo dimpraaakm ou dliuaMtion ot on torminom par io domlAra pogo qui comporto uno toNo omprainto. Un daa aymboloa auhranta apparattra aur la damiAra Imaga da clwqua mteroficlia, aakm la caa: ia aymbolo -^ algnHla "A 8UIVIIE". la aymbolo ▼ aigniffia "nU". Mapa, ptataa, charta, ate., may ha fNmad at difffaraM raduction rathM. Thooo too lorgo to bo ontlraly inchidad In ono oxpoauro ara ffNmad baginning in tha uppar laft hand comor. loft to right ond top to bottom, aa many fframaa aa raquirad. Tha foikiwing diograma INuatrata tlia mathod: Laa cartaa. piandiaa. taliiaaux. ate., pauvant ttra flim«a i daa laux da riduetion dlffAranta. Loraqua la documom cot trop grand pour Itra roprodult on un aaul ciielii. ii cat film* i partir da I'angia ••■oMaur gaudia. da gaudia i drolta. ot do liout on baa. wn pranant la noml»ra d'imagaa nicaaaaira. Laa dhigrammaa auhranta llluetrant hi mMliodo. 12 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 .„/*« The EDITH and LORNE PIERCE COLLECTION of CANADI ANA Sfueen's University at Kingston ^^4Wj.f^/l^^ 1,0 ACCOUNT or A '\ [ONIi *S ^v •^ Vx J PRESENTATION OF A TlSTlMONIAI, REVEREND Mr URQUHART, \ ( or COANWALi:., / FORMERLY MASTER OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT SCHOOL, ^,../' I J BY HIS PUPILd. KINGSTON. miRTEO AT THE CHRONICLE AND NEWS OFriC«. 1849. It had long been tbe desire of many of theA Pupil^ of the Reverend Huon Ubquhabt, while ! Master, of the Eastern District School, to present / him with some tokeai)f their united affection and/ n regard ; and^e opportunity of bringing the pro- ^^" position under the notice of a goodly number of them, having occurred, during the holding of the Spring Assizes for 1848, at Cornwall, a meeting was then called^ — ^not to consider the propriety of / so doing — ^but to take steps for carrying out that object. , Mr Jacob Fabrano Pbinole was called upon ....<''^-^ to preside, and iCHlSsinoved by Mr AbchTJohn j Macdonell (of Greenfield), seconded by Mr '; Philip Matthew VavKoughnet, and carried unanimously: ''That it is our duty to eacpress, in some marked maimer, the gratitude we feel towards the Re- verend H06H Ubquhabt for the offisctionate soli- citude with which he superintended oui^ucation, and the kindly feelings with which he has con- tinued to regard us since removed from his con- trol : as well as the high esteem andtregard which J wo entertainod for him in every respect^?, ... .^"-^'" Mk Jasibs 'Dunbab Pbingle then moved, se- fi-t ^^75^j^ i coiided by Mr William Ross, and it was car- ried : '* That there be a Committee appointed to carry out the object of the foregoing resolution, by collecting subscriptions from the Scholars at the £astern District while under Mr Urquhart's mastership, and purchasing such articles of plate for presentation, as the subscriptions will war- rant; and fixing the time for presentation, of which due notice shall be given to each subscri- ber — ^such Committee to consist of : Jacob Fakrand Pringle, Esq., Cornwall, Philip Matthew VanKoughnet, Esq., Toronto, William Sutherland, Esq., M. D., Montreal, IloBXRT Hamilton, Esq., Quebec, Arch. John Macdonell, Esq. (of Greenfield) , Kingston, William Walbridge Meyers, Esq., River Trent, John S. Macdonald, Esq., M. P.P., Cornwall, George Hamilton, Esq., Hawkesbury. Mr Jacob Farrand Pringle was appointed Treasurer, and Mr William Robert Cline Se* cretary to the Committee. The gentlemen composing the Committee, having collected subscriptions to the amount of JC160, authorized Mr Robert Hamilton to make the necessary arrangements for the purchase of a Silver Tea Service and Salver in London ; and the articles having arrived in the month of July last, the Committee was enabled to appoint the i8th of August. 1848, fc ' j day of preientation. The Service a nd Salver were of the ha ndwmett descriptiofl >»'>qPBe fol Wing words wereeiigrirYed on each article:-^ PaESINTED TO THE REV. HUGH URQUHAHT, A. M., \ FOBMERLT MASTER OF \ ^ [ THE EASTERN DISTRICT SCHOOL, \ BY HIS PUPILS NaS a mark of THEIR RESPECT AND ESTl^Blf, ' '^^ ""^>^^ IStH JANUARY, 18^* -^'""^ Several members of the Committee, and other subscribers, were enabled to meet at Cornwall on the day appointed, and proceeding to the resi- dence of the Reverend Gentleman, presented him with the testimonial of their esteem, and with the following ADDRESS : Reverend arul Honored Sir : — Though many years have passed since the relations of Teacher and Pupil have ceased be- tween us, the lapse of time has not only had the effect of strengthening our feelings of respect and esteem for you, and of convincing us that to your exertions as a Teacher, and to the excellent example you have always set before us as a man, and a Christian, we owe a great portion of the 6 luccen which has attended iif in our yarioui avocations in life. Entertaining these sentiments, we feel that it is a pleasing duty incumbent upon us, to mark in some manner worthy of you and ourselves, the high sense we have of the great and lasting benefits you have conferred upon us. We indulge the hope that while the conscious- ness of high and important duties, diligently and faithfully performed, must ever be your best reward, you will not be the less gratified at receiving from your old pupils this token of the affection, esteem, and reqpect with which we can never cease to regard you. In conclusion, we can only add that it is our earnest prayer that you may long be spared to your fiiinily and firiends, and that the choicest blessings of Providence may ever be upon you and yours. To which Mr Urquha&t replied : My mucA esteem^ Friends: — ^I find myself but ill able to give suitable expression to my feelings at this moment. While the sense of your generous kindness in this visit, and the object of it, fills me with grati- tude, the sense of my own unworthiness tends greatly to abate the intensity of my pleasure. Indeed, were I now called upon to estimate the value of the sentiments contained in your kind and affectionate Address, and^of the token ^f affection ) esteem , and respect, with which rou accompany them, .by any peculiar merit of ly own that called them forth, I ihould feel [rather humbled than gratified ; but when I regard )oth, as I am sure lam warranted. in doing, as a >ontaneous honorable expression of your appre- ition of the blessings of a liberal education, and a generous desire to distinguish even the huni- |lest instrument that may have been employed conferring these blessings, by some mark of mr favor and esteem, 2 feel that I can sympa* lizewith your feelings, and even partake in the fleasure you now experience in giving express lion to them. So far from disavowing that bond of gratitude lich should bind ingenuous youth to their ^chers, I honor it, and rejoice at every maniy' ^stat ion of it. ._-,— — '— ^'"'"""" — ^ " !*he office of theTcacher of youth has ever ^en regarded as useful and honorable, and has rewards ; it has also, as admitted on all hands^ toils, trials, and heavy responsibilitiet i biit'of the rdwiUrds of his work, that t^lche which i ^n^nftates a trust-worthy and right-mindedf ^acher for all his toils and trials, is the reward dch is to be found in the aftbr tvell-being and ill-doing of the scholar, and in the gratitude ^at survives all the ties of their mutual relation, is then no jmall part t>f the gratification I now >erience that the token of your gratitude and /, fjii 4^ /•*1 I '/ iV^ ^ ^..\ Jtt"'^. 6 / 1 1' \ regani comes to me a good many years after the mutual relations of Scholar and Teacher have ceased, and after your minds have been matured by the practical experience of the benefits you have received ; and also, after I have had the unspeakable satisfaction of seeing not a f^ of you take places in your several professions and occupations which do you credit now, and give promise of still higher attainments, and oil of you engaged in a career of present or future useful- ness and honor. The present occasion forces upon my memory the grntefiil recollection of a similar token of aflfection and regard received upwards of twenty yedrs ago, on my separation from the first school I ever taught in Canada, known as The Montreal Academical Institution^ when I had the pleasure of seeing assembled as interesting and promising a group of youths as I have ever seen assembled in one School — many of whom it is still my happinen to know, and reckon as attached friends, but many of whom, alas ! are now num- bered with the dead — having lived just long enough to leave with endeared and sorrowing pa- rents an earnest of future eminence and success never to be realized. ■ o iu Nor do I think it unsuitable to our present meeting to be reminded that this is not the first tinde that the Scholars of the School of Cornwall havie distinguished themselves by their apprecia- J satisfa< those o i have n jtry, an [the big Havi stitutio nence i llwilll that al tuous [virtue, rapprob conscio duties y isay,. th) ship ai : valued and pe your al receive my heo most vc Ts after the icher have sn matured enefitt yon ve had the t a fi^ of sssions and t and give I all of you ure useful- ny memory r token of I of twenty first school he Montreal le pleasure promising assembled is still my s attached now num- just long rrowing pa- Etnd success tion of the blessings of a sound education, and by their gratitude to their Teacher. And though removed from these our predecessors, by many years of separation, and perhaps still more by their superior attainments, yet I am sure that we I can with pride look back to iheir example and ; pre-eminent distinction, and feel no common I satisfaction in having our names associated with those of many, who by their talents and patriotism have reflected no ordinary honor on their coun- itry, and not a few of whom are now adorning [the highest stations of honor in the land. Having then the happinesatotive under a Con- stitution which fieely opens up the way of emi- nence and honor to all the deserving of all classes, I I will have no greater joy than to hear and know that all my boys be found, in generous and vir- tuous emulation, striving for the first places in, virtue, piety, and true patriotiisNft. Next to th<^ approbation of onr Heavenly Father,. »nd> Hie consciousness of endeavoring to dischaige all my |iduties with a single eye to His QJory> I may truly fsay,. that the assurance of enjoyiing your friend- fship and esteem, will constitute one of the most valued elements in the remaining part of my life ; [and permit me now to say that <* this Token of 8 your afiection, esteem and respect," which I receive with gratitude, and for which I offer you Iniy heartfelt thanks, will be kept by me as the [most valued and precious ornament of my house.. t thank you fervently for yotir earnest prayer for me and mine ; and in conclusion lei me ^ Allan Neil McLean, Esq. - '-' James Arch. Walker, Esq. - ,^ James H. Cummings, Esq. - pThe Rev. Jacob J. S. Mountain, • illiam Wagner, Esq., M.D. ngus Macdonell, Esq. Id ward Jacques, Esq., M.D. lomas Alexander McLean, Esq., Barrister, inald Macdonell, Esq., R. 'C. Rifles, flfiam Sintipson, Esq., Collector of Customs, atthew R. VanKoughnet, Esq., Barrister, M. Dickenson, Esq., .... .oderick Macdonald, Esq., M.D. Cornwall, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Barrister, Kingston, River Trent, Cornwall, HawkesburyMillS/ Cornwall, Cornwall, Cornwall, Cornwall, 'Goderich, Toronto, Cornwall, Cornwall , Cornwall, Cornwall, *Glengari;y, Montreal, Quebec, Hawkesbury, Petite Nation, Kingston, Yonge, Chippewa, Lenoxville, Williamsburg, Cornwall, Quebec, Toronto, Goteau du Lac, Hamilton, Montreal, Cornwall.