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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 
 
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 MONTREAL, 
 
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 PPOVINCE OF QUEBEC, 
 
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 DOMINION OF CANADA, 
 
 1878. 
 
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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, 
 
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 SENIOR SCHOOL. 
 This school was opened in jR-,-, ^,n^u ^u 
 
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 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.