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Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent 6tre film^s d des taux de reduction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour §tre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est film6 d partir de I'angle sup^rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, 6* de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n^cessaire. Les diegrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 J Zx 878 y PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 1 t • • t MONTREAL, • « • » » • • •> PPOVINCE OF QUEBEC, ij^ DOMINION OF CANADA, 1878. r-^ n i A of Quebec gene7?tliji ^|rndj^rj iW<upervision of two dis- tinct bodies,~the one repressing tHTRomau Catholic, the other the Protestant part of the population. McGILL UNIVERSITY. This University, directed by its Governors and Corporation was originally founded and endowed by the Hon. James McCHlI in 1811, and received a Royal Charter as a University in i8m It IS a non-denominational Protestant institution, and proposes no religious tests to its students. Liberal rontribv.tions fromMvcah.hy citizens have been be- stowed ffom tim)2 £0 time in ati'gme-ntatiort of the original endow- ment. By the revenue thus created it maintains a Faculty of Arts, With 12 professors and 140 students; a Department of Practical and Applied Science, subordinate to the Faculty of ^rts with 26 students and 4 professors ; a Faculty of Medicine, with 15 professors and 160 students ; and a Faculty of Law, with 11 professors and 100 students. The courses of study in Arts, Applied Science, and Medicine extend over four years ; that in Law over three years. The primary degrees given are B.A., App. Sci., M.D., and B.C.L. Morrin College, Quebec, is affiliated with the University and m the City of Montreal there are two affiliated Theological Colleges, whose students attend lectures in the Faculty of Arts while receiving their theological training in their own Colleges Two other Theological Colleges not affiliated to the University send students to attend its classes. McGILL NORMAL & MODEL SCHOOLS. The Normal School, established by the Canadian Govern- ment in 1857, and supported by an annual grant from the Province of Quebec, is the provincial training school for Protestant teachers. The Model School, attached to it, is an elementary school de- signed to afford the teachers-in-training an opportunity to acquire by practice experience in imparting instruction and in maintaining discipline. The Normal School has 9 professors and instructing officers and 126 teachers-in-training, for whom a three years' course of instruction is provided. The Model School has 8 mas- ters and mistresses and 350 pupils. These institutions are ad- ministered by the Superintendent of Education of the Province of Quebec, in association with a committee of the Corporation of the McGill University. PROTESTANT BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS. This body, under powers conferred by legislation, controls the expenditure of the proceeds of the School Tax levied upon real estate in Montreal belonging to Protestants. It was called into existence by Act of Parliament in 1846. The money placed at its disposal in i847'Wa:>,$558;q5.; ,F,rom;,t]7at date tq'i86i its annual receipts frora''iJte''!(iip!yN2i'Xiii;(e«t .a^d -the 'City.Ciouncil scarcely averaged $1,200. During the next six years it received about $1,800 per annum. Consequent upon the guarantees given to Protestants in the accomplishment of Confederation by the British North American Act, a more liberal provision was made for the maintenance of schools. During the years i868-'69-'7o respectively, the income of the Board, omitting school fee.«, was $8,900, $19,400, and $18,300. In 187 1 the School Tax of Montreal was fixed at one-tenth of one per cent on the assessed value of all rateable property. This raised the income of the Board from the City and the Government to about $26,000 per annum. In the year 1873, ^" answer to an application from the City Council, supported by a petition of citizens, the School Tax was doubled, and the income of the Board became more nearly adequate to the work devolving on it. This tax, at the rate of one-fifth of one per cent of the assessed value of property belonging to Protestant proprietors, yields an annual revenue of $75,000. With this sum, augmented by an annual grant of something less than $4,000 from the Pro- vincial Treasury, and by the school fees of the several schools, which amount to about $23,000 per annum, the Board pays the interest and sinking fund on a quarter of a million of dollars, bor- rowed by debentures and expended in erecting school buildings, and maintains a High School for boys, a High School for girls, a Senior School, and a system of Elementary Schools. THE HIGH SCHOOL OF MONTREAL. This school was established in 1843, by citizens of Montreal, as a proprietary school, succeeding by arrangement with the government of the day, to the status and privileges of the Royal Grammar school, which had been established by royal warrant some years previously. In the year i S53 it passed into the hands of the McGill University, by which, in turn, it was surrendered to the charge of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners in 1870. This school is especially a classical school for boys, and leads up to the course in arts of the University. With its prepar- atory classes it provides a curriculum extending throughout eight years of school work, during the last two of which pupil, desiring to enter the department of Practical and Applied -xience in the McGill University, may cease the study of Latin and Greek, replacing it by a severer course in Mathematics and the elements of Chemistry and Botany. Into the High School all are admitted on payment of the prescribed fees ; but in addition, all such boys from the elementary schools as show the possession of unusual talent and diligence during their course in them, are transferred to it as free scholars, and from it are promoted without expense to the University. The High School of Montreal has 431 pupils, taught by 16 teachers. THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. This school was opened by the Commissioners in 1875, in answer to a general demand for superior education for girls. Now, 6 are ad.ilL'ToTLe oHir^"* '™ "' ^'^•"""'"'' -"-'' SENIOR SCHOOL. This school was opened in jR-,-, ^,n^u ^u ding ,„. p„„i,, „,„ ,,j, ;t::, 2:uZt:,zz:Lct pupils under .he charge" Jr'hei"^ ™ '" ^"'"'^"- ^^ 1 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. the JsHn'l^' P^'" '''"'"'"^ "'^°°'' '" ^^^«"'^'^''^'' and one of The first Protestant Elementary Schools in Montreal est.h hed under a general public system, were two sc3 opeCm ins ruin T ""'^'^^'^^'.^^^ool Commissioners, which prov d d ins ruction for .44 pup.is, taught by three teachers. Now the Comm,ss:oners .uaintain nine elementary schools attended bv 3,125 pupils and taught by 84 teachers ^^ course in fiv. u ^^^'^"y P"P''s complete the ai me age ot six and a half years, finishes the work of the elementary school at thirteen years of age. At that age he is able to read English with ease and expression ; he can write a letter or draw out an account legibly, in proper form and with but few errors in spelling or computation ; he can use the elementary rules of arithmetic with speed and accuracy, and with some hesitation and an occasional mistake, he can solve questions in fractions, proportion and interest ; he has an elementary knowledge of I'^ench, of English Grammar, of (Geography and of Canadian History; he has learned by rote several songs, and he can copy a simple outline drawing with reasonable accuracy and neatness. If he has aspired to the High School, one years' instruction in Latin has been provided for him. SCHOOL FEES. The Law of the Province of Quebec does not recognize free schools but it provides that the fees shall be moderate, and it makes such provision for cases of indigence that no child is excluded from the elementary schools by inability to pay the school fees demanded. The fees of children attending the elementary Protestant schools of Montreal range from loc. to *20C. a month. The actual cost of the instruction given was $13 for each pupil in attendance during the school year 1866-7, of which amount each pupil paid in school fees $1.66. In the High Schools the cost of education is much greater, amounting to $41.06 for each puoil for a year. Bu^rffc^di pupil pays an average school-fet A' $37.43 a yeaj^neccoS" ofllraCTl^jupil to the school tax is but $3.63 per anni *About one franc.