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DOCUMENTARY HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA 
 
 FROM THE PASSING OF THE 
 
 CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF 1791. 
 
 TO THE 
 
 CLOSE OF REV. DR. RYERSON'S ADMINISTRATION 
 OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 
 
 IN 1876. 
 
 VOL. 1 : 1790-1830. 
 
 MdUtd, u*Mi«f $Ke directum of the BonourabU the Minuter of MduemtUm, vMh Xmplanatorv *o«m» 
 
 BY 
 
 J. QEORGH HODGINS, M.A., LL.O., 
 
 BaKBI6T«K-AT-LaW, 
 MB^HIAN AND H18TORIOOBAPHIB TO THK EDOCATION DKPABTMBwT Ot ONTARIO. 
 
 TOBONTO 
 WARWICK BROS. & RUTTER, PRINTERS, &c., 68 & 70 FRONT STREET WEST 
 
 1894. 
 
 S-^MIiUmtnTf-t 
 

 LA 
 
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA 
 
 PREFATORY REMARKS. 
 
 The desire to place upon permanent record the original docu- 
 ments and papers relating to the early history of a country is all but 
 universal. 
 
 Such a collection, when made, is invaluable to the historian, as 
 furnishing him with satisfactory materials for authentic history. 
 
 This being the J ubilee Year of my official connection with Educa- 
 tion in this Province,* I have been enabled, in the interval, to gather 
 up and preserve a number of documents and papers relating to the 
 " evolution," if it may bs so called, of our three-fold scheme of 
 education — primary, intermediate and superior. Many of these papers 
 are official and Parliamentary. Some are fugitive, taken from 
 pamphlets, while others are desultory, copied from the local press of 
 the times. All, however, converge on the one point; and each 
 illustrates, in various ways, the growth and development of the 
 " Educational Idea " in Upper Canada. 
 
 It may appear singular to those of the present day, when they 
 are informed of the large space, out of all reasonable proportion, which 
 the Educational Centres, (as they really were,) of by -gone days filled in 
 the estimation of the then public of Upper Canada. Such centres were 
 few and far between, but they were noted of their kind. Even in our 
 own times we frequently hear of the excellence and widespread influ- 
 ence of the late Bishop Strachan's Schools — first at Kingston, then at 
 Cornwall, and lastly in "The Old Blue School" at York. The celebrity 
 of the Ernestown, or Bath, Academy, may have been increased from 
 the fant tliat. at it was fhioflv fidnnntpd hv hie TTatlior iftj TV/foofo- 
 
 * I entered the Education Department on the Reverend Doctor Ryerson'B appointment as its Head 
 in September, 1844— nearly fifty years ago. * 
 
 y*'"'WiBrpi»TW'-aiwu^ijaiT^g-.'-r~ ..j^iifejjg 
 
IV. 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 a man so eminent in his profession, and so distinguished in the history 
 of Upper Canada as was Marshall Spring Bid well,— a gifted Member 
 of the House of Assembly in its early days, and its Speaker for some 
 time. 
 
 Then, the success of the Newburgh Academy was noted in 
 our own times ; and in it, as one of its latest Principals, the Reverend 
 Doctor Nelles, first learned those lessons in the art of teaching and 
 government, which he afterwards turned to such excellent account as 
 the gifted President, for so many years, of Victoria University 
 
 Again, in the London District School, in the early twenties, the 
 Founder of our educational system tried his " 'prentice hand" as an 
 instructor of youth, first as Usher, under his able brother George, and 
 afterwards as a Teacher-in-charge. He acted in both capacities with 
 that success which was characteristic of the distinguished Man which 
 he became in after years. 
 
 No less noted and important, as an educational centre, was the 
 Grantham Academy, founded in St. Catharines, in 1827, on a lot given 
 for that purpose by one, to whom Canada owes so much,-the Honour- 
 able William Hamilton MERRiTT,~the last President of the Academy 
 Board ; a gentleman who, in 1850, introduced into our House of 
 Assembly and had passed into a law. an Act endowing forever the 
 Public Schools of the then Province of Canada with the rich dowry of 
 One Million Acres of the Crown Lands. 
 
 The educational history of Upper Canada, as narrated in this 
 Volume, divides itself into several distinct epochs : 
 
 The first might be considered, in the expressive words of 
 Governor-General Lord Elgin, when speaking of an educational feature 
 of the work m his time, as the "seed-plot" of those educational 
 institutions which sprung up as the years progressed. At all events 
 the munificent Royal Grant in 1797, of over half a million of acres of 
 land, has formed the financial basis of the Toronto University of the 
 Royal Grammar School and Upper Canada College, and of the (Church 
 of England National) Central School of Upper Canada. 
 
 The second period in our educational history was noted for the 
 establishment of District (Grammar) Schools ir. 1807, 1808 
 the Township Common Schools in 1810-1820. 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
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 The record of the third period of educational progress includes 
 the Establishmen*: and Endewment of Upper Canada College in 1829, 
 1830, and of other local schools of note. The documents and papers 
 relating to the establishment of these institutions, given as fully as the 
 records would permit, are inserted in this the First Volume of the 
 Educational History of Upper Canada. 
 
 The question naturally arises : what first awakened the desire to 
 
 establish schools and promote education in this Province? In his 
 
 Address, at the opening of King's College, (now the University of 
 
 Toronto,) in 1843, the Right Keverend Doctor Strachan — himself a 
 
 prominent and noted educationist in Upper Canada— answers the 
 
 question. He says : 
 
 " When the Independence of the United States of America was 
 recognized by Great Britain in the peace of 1783, this Province became 
 the asylum of those faithful subjects of the Crown, who had, during 
 the Revolutionary War, adhered to their King and the * Unity of the 
 Empire.' And it is pleasing to remark, that in 1789, — a little more 
 than five years after their first settlement, — they presented a Memorial 
 to His Excellency Lord Dorchester, (Sir Guy Carleton,) then Governor- 
 General of British North America, on the subject of Education ; in 
 which, after lamenting the state of their children growing up without 
 any instruction, religious or secular,— they requested His Lordship to 
 establish a respectable Seminary at Kingston, which was, at that early 
 period, the principal Town in this division of the Colony. To this 
 representation Lord Dorchester paid immediate attention, and gave 
 directions to the Surveyor-General to set apart eligible portions of 
 land for the future support of Schools in all the new settlements." 
 
 Animated by the same spirit as possessed these early Colonists, 
 the United Empire Loyalists established Schools of a supe. ^' • class 
 early in the century in the chief centres of their Settlements, — such as 
 Kingston, Cornwall, Bath, York, St. Catharines, and afterwards 
 at Newburgh. Soon a Grammar School was established in every 
 District, and ultimately the Common School, fashioned by the Loyalists 
 on the New England pattern, was put into operation in every 
 settled Township of the Province."* 
 
 It is gratifying to know that the United Empire Colonists from 
 New England to Canada in 1783-1788, were true to their early British 
 
 »o,» , *]•" Colomal Chapter in the History of American Education," in Bedford's Magazine for May 
 1877, (transferred to the Ryer»on Meimrial Volume of 1889), I have traced the origin and growth of the 
 «arly Puritan movement m New England in favour of education, and have pointed out the influence of that 
 oiovement on the United Empire Loyalists, in their efforts to establish schools in Upper Canada 
 
DOCUMSNTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 Coloinal convictions and instincts, as to the necessity of schools for 
 their children. They carried with them that English love for leamini. 
 for Its own sake, which characterized the founders of Massachusetts' 
 1^'es.dent Walker of Harvard University, in his Inaugural Address of 
 lo53, said : 
 
 the im7re^tZ7\tfT'''^r,'^'- ""'.'^ '•^"'"'"^ "^ Massaclmsetts, is 
 ,•„;.;,.? i """ ""'5' '°<* "> education, and especially in the 
 
 Cely and^,ctert „'?. ^ "?''•'' ^?'- ^" """"• ^^ng* ""T 'bought 
 
 the streams will :oot'c:;;e^?tt>*:'taM."'' '" ^"^""""^ '"" 
 
 Schn^! *P*/ ^"''^^ ""^" '"'* character of these New EngUnd 
 Schools, Professor Charles Sprague Sm.th, M.A., of Columbia 
 college, m an essay on Colonial Colleges, says ■ 
 
 3SVoVXfo"fZ^K^rut^^ "- '" "- -•"' 
 
 r„^l'— "^ Eaton for so many years the distinguished United States 
 
 SiTcountVy " "° '^*'"™' °*^ *" ^y^'o™' "^opted in 
 
 . A Ti'"" '1**1! ''" "''''" "'*'■ ""-""gh the United Empire Loyalists 
 and their Bnghsh Forefathers, we, as a Province, have come 
 nonestly and honoiirahlv hv our *"«' *" ^..~-x:„.- _•. .. ,« 
 
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
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 It is but due to these earl> Pioneers of Education in Upper Canada, 
 not only as teachers, but also as legislators, that we of the present day 
 should, therefore, learn something of their joint efforts to secure to the 
 youth of their day the benefits of that education which is now the rich 
 heritage of this Province. 
 
 I have spoken of the success of the Pioneer Teachers of Upper 
 Canada, but the eflforts of the early Educatiojiists— of the chief of 
 them— Governor Simcoe, of Charles Duncombe, Mahlon Burwell, 
 William Warren Baldwin, John Rolph, William Morris and 
 others, were no less valuable, as they each, in the position which they 
 occupied, exerted themselves to promote the Educational Interests of 
 this Province; and they have left their mark on the educational 
 Legislation which followed their patriotic and persistent eflforts in this 
 direction for the good of the country. 
 
 J. GEORGE HODGINS, 
 
 Librarian and Historiographer of the 
 
 Education Department for Ontario. 
 
 Toronto, 4th June, 1894. 
 
 » •««w»>*«««tt*S»5 
 
I 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 1. 
 
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 4. 
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 6. 
 
 II. 
 
 Paob. 
 
 Prefatory Rimakks by thb Editor i 
 
 SOMK PkELIMINABY CoRRfcHPONDENCK : 
 
 The Honourable \Vm. T. Harris, LL.D., Washington 3 
 
 Charles Lindsay, Esquire, Toronto 3 
 
 John M. McMullen, Es((uire, Brockville 4 
 
 William K ingsford. Esciuiro, C.E., Ottawa 4 
 
 James Bain. Jr., Esquire, Toronto 4 
 
 The Reverend Canon Scadding, D.D„ Toronto 5 
 
 Sketch of Likutbnant-Governor John Graveh Simcoe 6 
 
 1. Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe as a Governor 7 
 
 III. Governor Simooe and Bishop Stbachan 9 
 
 IV. Chabactbb ok the " Simcoe Papers " 10 
 
 Remarks of George Coventry, Esquire, Historiographer on these and other 
 
 Historical Papers in 1863 10 
 
 Extracts from the Simcoe Correspondence H 
 
 1. Governor Simcoe to Sir Joseph Banks, 1791 n 
 
 2. The same to the Right Honourable Henry Dunda», 1792 H 
 
 3. Secretary Dundas to Governor Simcoe, 1792 n 
 
 4. Governor Simcoe to Secretary Dundas, 1792 12 
 
 5. The same to the first Church of England Bishop of Quebec, 1795 12 
 
 6. The same to the same, 1795 13 
 
 7. Governor Simcoe to the Duke of Portland, 1796 13 
 
 8. The same to the Bishop of Quebec, 1796 14 
 
 9. The Duke of Portland to Governor Simcoe, 1796 14 
 
 10. Governor Simcoe to the Duke of Portland, 1796 14 
 
 Note.— No •'j"™^''^ «f J^^^e Upper Canada Legislature are avaUable for the years, 
 
 V. Change of Governors, ano Sketches of them 14 
 
 Personal sketches of these Governors jg 
 
 (1) Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), 1725-1808 15 
 
 (2) General Sir Robert Prescott, 1725-1815 ] ] ] 15 
 
 (3) Sir Robert Shore Milnes, 1746-1836 ' ' ' 15 
 
 (4) Major-General Peter Hunter, 1746-1805 " ' 15 
 
 (5) The Honourable Peter Russell, 17 — 1808 . _ ig 
 
 VI. The President Russell Correspondence 
 
 1. President Russell U, the Duke of Portland, enclosing Address from the 
 
 Upper Canada Legislature to the King, 1797 15 
 
 2. President Russell to tho Anglican Bishop of Quebec .' le 
 
 3. The Duke of Portland to President Russell, 1797 ' 17 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 VII. Pboceedinos op the Upper Canada House of Assembly in reoabd to the 
 
 Royal Giiant of Lands for a University, etc., in 1797 17 
 
 1. Message from President Russell to the Upper Canada Legislature, 1798. . . 17 
 
 2. President Russell to the Duke of Portland, 1798 1^ 
 
 3. The same to the Honourable Chief Justice Elmsley, 1798 19 
 
 4. Chief Justice Elmsley to President Russell, 1798 19 
 
 6. President Russell to Chief Justice Elmsley, 1798 . . 19 
 
 "VIII. Report, in 1798, of the Exeoctive Council and its I'ommittee on hie Original 
 
 Royal Grant of Lands 20 
 
 1. Individual opinions of Members of the Committee, 1798 2a 
 
 (1) The Honourable ^neaa Shaw, 1798 24 
 
 (2) The Honourable John McGill, 1798 24 
 
 (8) The Honourable D. W. Smith, 1799 24 
 
 IX. Further Correspondence with the Colonial Office 2& 
 
 1. President Russell to the Duke of Portland, 1799 25- 
 
 2. The same to the same, 1799 26 
 
 3. The Duke of Portland to Lieutenant-Governor x^eter Hunter, 1800 26 
 
 4. Lieutenant-Governor Peter Hunter to the Duke of Portland, 1800 27 
 
 X. Educational Procbedinos of the Legislature of Upper Cakada in 1799... 28 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1799 28 
 
 2. Educational Proce^^dings of the Legislative Council in 1799 28 
 
 3. An Act to Provide for the Education, etc., of Orphan Children, 1799 29 
 
 XI. Schools in Existence in Upper Canada during the Early Part of 1800 30 
 
 1. Particulars of some of these schools ; 
 
 (1) Mr. R. Oockrel'i Evening School at Nev/ark (Niagara), 1796 82 
 
 (2) The Reverend Mr. Arthur's Boarding School at Newark, 1796 82 
 
 (3) Mr, James Blayne y's School at Newark, 1797 32 
 
 (4) Mr. William Cooper's School at York (Toronto), 1798 82 
 
 (6) The qualifications of School Teachers in 1799 33 
 
 (6) Mr. and Mrs. Tyler's Boarding School at Niagara, 1802 33 
 
 (7) Dr. W. W. Baldwin's proposed School at York (Toronto), 1802 3;} 
 
 (8) Examination of Reverend Doctor Strachau's School at Cornwall, 
 
 1805 34 
 
 (9) The Due de la Rochfocauld on the State of Education in Upper 
 
 Canada in 1795-1799 34 
 
 (10) Essay on the Necessity of Education, 1799 34 
 
 XII. Skttlembnt and Education of the Six NA.noN Injuans, 1784-1^00 35 
 
 1. Correspondence relating to these Schools : 
 
 (1) The Reverend G. 0. Stuart to Mr. William Bell, Master, 1796.1809, 87 
 
 (2) The New England Company, or School Society, 1649-1061 39 
 
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 2. The Reverend Doctor George Okill Stuart. 
 
 3. Doctor William Warn n Baldwin 
 
 XIII. Sketches of Noted Teachers in 1800-1807 ^^^m\ 
 
 1. The Reverend Doctor Strachan, 1803-1823 4, 
 
 (1) The Reverend Doctor Strachan's first Experience as a Teacher.' 1803 41 
 
 (2) His system of School Management ' 43 
 
 (3) His Method of Teaching 
 
 (4) His Order an I Mode of Teaching, as stated by Himself . .' . .' .' . . ." .' .' 44 
 
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 XIV. Educational Proceedings of the Upper Canada Leoislatcre in 1804 47 
 
 1. Educational Proceeding, of the House of A ssembly. 1804 48 
 
 XV. Educational Froceedinos of the Upper Canada Legislatuhf. in 1805 49 
 
 1. Members of the House of Assembly who took part in the School Legislation 
 
 of 1805 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the House of Aswmbly in 1 805 ........'.'.'.." 50 
 
 N0TE.-N0 Journak of the Legislative Council proceeding, of 1804 and 1805 
 
 XVI. Educational Proceedinos of the Lkoislaxure of Upper Canada in 1806 
 1. Members of the House of Asaembh 
 
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 of 1806. 
 
 \o took part in the School Legislation 
 
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 2. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1806 . . " " ' " 52 
 
 3. Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council in 1806 ' " " ' 54 
 
 4. An Act to Procure Certain Apparatus for the Promotion of Science . " " 56 
 
 5. Members of the Legislative Council who took part in the Educational 
 
 Legislation of 1806 
 
 XVII. Educational Proceedings of the Legislature of Upper Canada in i 807 57 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1807 " " ' 67 
 
 Members of the House of Assembly who took part in the School Legislation 
 
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 3. An Act to establish Public (Grammar) Schools in each and'evenr' Distric't ' 'ot 
 this Province 
 
 4. First appointed Trustees of the District' '(Grammar) "schooIs" in' lipp;; 
 Canada, 1807 
 
 N0TE.-N0 Journals of Legislative Council proceedings of" 1807 are available. " " 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Canada Lboislature in 1808 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1808 go 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council in 1808 65 
 
 3. An Act to amend the District (Grammar) Schools Act of 1807 66 
 
 N0TE.-N0 Journal, of the Upper Canada Legislature of 1809 are available 
 
 XIX. Educational Proce.dinos of the Upper Canada Legislature ,n 1810 66 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1810 2 
 
 2. Legislative Council Proceeding, on the Ommmar School Repe'al"Bill' ol 
 
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 XX. Educational Proceedings of the Legislature of Upper CanIda ;n18U .■■.'.■ 7I 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1811 t\ 
 
 Xp^'^^nomn'''"*^^ ''''-' '''''' District (Gramn;„)'s;h;.l 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
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 XXI. EUUCATIONAL pROCEEDINdS OF THE UpPBa CANADA LEGISLATURE IN 1812 76 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1812 76 
 
 2. Proceedings of the Legislative Council on the District (Grammar) Sohool 
 
 Repial Bill of 1812 78 
 
 XXII. MisoBttANEOus Educational Papers, 1811-1814 79 
 
 1. The Emestown Academy at Bath , 79 
 
 2. Members of the Legislative Council from 1792 to 1812 80 
 
 3. Attorney-General Firth's books for sale by Dr. William Warren Baldwin. . 81 
 
 4. Penmanship taught by a Practical Lecturer 81 
 
 5. Education of Militia Men in Kingston in 1812 81 
 
 6. Library presented to Emestown by the Reverend John Langhom in 1813. 82 
 
 7. Reverend W. D. Baldwyn, B.A., appointed to succeed the Reverend John 
 
 Bethune as Head Master of the Kingston District (Grammar) School in 
 1814 
 
 8. The Kingston District (Grammar) School in 1814 
 
 9. Mr. and Mrs. Pringle's Young Ladies' School at Kingston in 1814 '83 
 
 10. Circulating Library in Kingston in 1814 84 
 
 11. State of Learning in Upper Canada in 1814, by M. Smith 84 
 
 12. Opening of the Kingston District (Grammar) School in 1815 84 
 
 Note.— No Journals of the Upper Canada Legislature for 1813 are available. 
 
 XXIII. Educational Proceedings of the Upper Canada Legislature in 1814 84 
 
 1. Members of the House of Assembly who took part in the Educational 
 
 Legislation of 1814 , g5 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1814 86 
 
 3. Proceedings of the Legislative Council on the District (Grammar) School 
 
 Repeal Bill of 1814 86 
 
 4. Personal sketches of the Presidents of Upper Canada, 1812-1816 87 
 
 (1) Major-General Sir Isaac Brock 87 
 
 (2) Sir Roger Hall Sheaffe 88 
 
 (3) Count Francis de Rottenburg 88 
 
 (4) Sir George Gordon Drummond 88 
 
 (5) Sir George Murray 88 
 
 (6) Sir Charles Fredrick Phillipse Robinson 88 
 
 XXIV. The Midland District School Society, 1815 89 
 
 1. Prospectus of the Midland District School Society 90 
 
 2. An Act to Incorporate tlie Midland District School Society, 1815 92 
 
 Note. — No Journals of the Upper Canada Legislature for 1815 are available. 
 
 XXV. Educational Proceedings of the Upper Canada Legislature in'1816 94 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assen.bly in 1816 94 
 
 2. Members of the House of Assembly who took jiart in the School Legislation 
 
 ofl816 100 
 
 3. An Act establishing Common Schools throughout the Province in 1816 102 
 
 4. Character of this Sohool Legislation 104 
 
 Nf)TK.— No Journal of the Pri>ouedings of the Legisiative Council for 1816 are 
 
 available. 
 
 XXVI. The District (Grammar), or " The Old Blub School," at York 106 
 
 1. Exanunation of the Home District (Grammar) School in 1816 106 
 
, . --i-M-s-iiaTjwut 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
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 (Miscellaneous Items). 
 
 Page. 
 
 2. Course of Study sugReated by the Reverend Doctor Straohan as suitable for 
 
 District (Gramm.ar^ 3chool8 109 
 
 3. Midland Diatricfc ^<, >f Education, 1816 m 
 
 4. Opening of the Kiiij, .i Library in 1816 HI 
 
 XXVII. Educational Proceedings op the Upper Canada Rouse of Assembly in 1817. . Ill 
 
 1. Merebers of the House of Assembly who took part in its Educational 
 
 Legislation HI 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1817 HI 
 
 Note.— No Journal of the Legislative Council Proceedings for 1817 is available. 
 
 XXVIII. Educational Proceedings of the Upper Canada House of Assembly in 1818. 114 
 
 1. The First Session of 1818 115 
 
 2. The Second Session of 1818 118 
 
 3. Disturbing Influences on School Legislation in Upper Canada, 1809-1817. . 120 
 Note.— No Journal of the LegUlative Courcil Proceedings for 1818 are available. 
 
 XXIX. Mr, Robert Gourley's Educational Statistics of Upper Canada in 1817 123 
 
 1. Report of Schools in Townships of Upper Canada 124 
 
 2. Township Reports Relating to Schools in the London District 125 
 
 3. Township Reports Relating to Schools in the Gore District 126 
 
 4. Township Reports Relating to Schools in the Niagara District 127 
 
 5. Township Reports of Schools in the Newcastle, Midland, Johnstownjlnd 
 
 Eastern Districts jno 
 
 6. Township Report of Schools in the Eastern District 128 
 
 XXX. Miscellaneous Papers and Documents Relating to Education and Schools 
 
 in. 1817-1818 * 
 
 1. Midland District (Grammar) School, Kingston, 1817 129 
 
 2. A School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kingston, 1817 129 
 
 3. Sunday Schools in Kingston, 1817 joft 
 
 4. Mr, Baker's School for Classical Education, Kingston, 1817 180 
 
 6. Mr. Latham's English and French Academy, Kingston, 1817 130 
 
 6. Mr. John Whitelaw's Lectures on Chemistry and Geology, Kingston^ 1817. 130 
 
 7. Mr. Tolkien's Private School in Kingston, 1817 iso 
 
 8. Mr. and Mrs. Woolf's Boarding and Day School, Kingston, 1817 .... . . " ' 131 
 
 9. Mrs. Hill's School for Young Ladies, Kingston, 1818 131 
 
 10. Mr. Harris' Private School for Young Ladies, Kingston, 1818 [[ 131 
 
 11. Midland District Lancastrian School in Kingston, 1818 ' 131 
 
 12. Midland District School Society, Kingston, 1818 132 
 
 13. Ernestown Academy at Bath, Reopened, 1818 132 
 
 14. Reverend Doctor Strachan's Lectures on Natural PhUosophy, 1818 . ! ! " ' 132 
 
 15. Mr. J. M. Flindall's Essay on Education in Upper Canada in 1818 ...... m 
 
 XXXI. Educational Pkoceeding8 of thk Upper Canada Leolslature in 1819 136 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1819 . 136 
 
 2. PrnnoKArl rTiiivoraif^F Par\«.<>anT«fof :.>t^ :.- i-1, - tt * . 
 
 — J _„i i„ -••i'"'''?ni«T:ton m tiic rtouse of ABsouibiy 188 
 
 3. Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council in 1819 142 
 
 4. Characteristics of the Grammar School Amendment Act of 1819. . . , . ' . . " . 147 
 
XIV. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Paok. 
 
 5. Act to Repeal part of, and to Amend, the District (Grammar) School Acta 
 
 of 1807 and 1808 ^^ 
 
 6. Forms for Trustees under the Common School Acts of 1816 i50 
 
 XXXII, Pkocmdingh in Regard to thk per Canada Univbrsity in 1819 igQ 
 
 1. Historical Resunil of University and Grammar School Proceedings, by the 
 
 Reverand Doctor Straohan, 1807-1820 jko 
 
 i XXXIII. Essay on the Histopy and Prksiskt State of Education in Upper Canada 
 
 17«»-1S18 '163 
 
 1. Suggested Rules for Schools and Teachers i^ 
 
 2. The Reverend Doctor Strachan's Remarks on the foregoing Hiat^iy of 
 
 Education in Upper Canada jjjo 
 
 XXXrV. BIiscBti^NEocs Papers Relating to Education in Upper Canada, 1819 160 
 
 1. Examination of the Home District (Grammar) School in 1819 ..,, 160 
 
 2. Address from the Presbytery of the Cauadas to Sir Peregrine Maitland, 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1><19 * IM 
 
 4. Schools in Kingston in 1819 ,„» 
 
 5. The Public Library at Niagara by Miss Carnochan, 1800-1820 .......... 167 
 
 6. The School House at Thorold in 1820 [ ] jgg 
 
 XXXV. Educationai, Proceedings of the Upper Canada House of Assembly in 1820. . 169 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1820 i69 
 
 2. An Act to Amend, Continue, under certain Modifications, etc., the Common * 
 
 School Act of 1816 .y- 
 
 3. Provision for University Representation in the House of Assembly, 1820 . 174 
 
 Note.— No Journals of the legislative Council proceedings for 1820 are avaUable. 
 
 XXXVL The Central (National Church of England) School at York, 1820 174 
 
 1 . First Report of tlie Central School at York, 1820, 1821 [ ] 177 
 
 2. Proceedings of the Executive Government in establishing the (National 
 
 Church of England) Central School at York in 1820 and 1823 179 
 
 XXXVII. MiSCELLANEOU!* EDUCATIONAL MATTERS DURINO 182v. 1824 igQ 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1821, 1822 ! ! 180 
 
 2. Mr. Willi,. I Weokes' Legacy for an Academy at York, 1821 181 
 
 3. Course of Study at the ConunoD School at York in 1820-1821 ]82 
 
 4. List i.f Teachers in the Home District in 1820-1822 ^qq 
 
 5. Payments on behalf of Schools during 1820-1824 ,g, 
 
 6. Aggregate payments for Grammar and Common Schools in 1825-1828 .... 183 
 
 XXXVIII. Educational Proceedings of the Upper Canada Legislature in 1823 194 
 
 1. Educatidual Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1823 1^4 
 
 2. Mi^nibers who took part in the School Legislation of 1823 134 
 
 3. Educiitional ProccFdings <jf the Legislative Council in 1823 jgg 
 
 4. An Act gninting a Sum of Money for a Public (Grammar) School in the 
 
 Bathui-st District, 1823 
 
 -.-... igg 
 
 5. An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Public (Gramm..., School in 
 
 tlie Ottawa District, 1823 
 
 192 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 XV. 
 
 167 
 167 
 168 
 
 Paos. 
 
 6. An Act for the Relief of the Teachers of Common Schools in the Niagara 
 
 District, 1823 193 
 
 XXXIX. MiscKLLANBoua Papers Rilatimo to Edccation in Uppeb Canada, 1823-1826. 194 
 
 1. Mr. Edward Allen Talbot on the State of Education in Upper Canada in 
 
 1823-1826 194 
 
 2. Schools in the Town of Niagara in 1820-1823 196 
 
 3. Oenend Board of Education for Upper Canada, 1824 196 
 
 4. An Act to make perioanent and to extend the Proviaionv of the Common 
 
 School Act of 1816 and 1820 197 
 
 6. TnMtfl«s of the District (Grammar) Schools in Upper Canada, 1824 198 
 
 6. District Boards of Education in UpperCanada in 1824 199 
 
 NoT«.— No Journals of proceedings of the Upper Canada Legislature for 1824 are 
 available. 
 
 XL. Educational Phocekdings of the Upper Canada Leoislatukb in 1825 200 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly, and its most noted 
 
 Members 200 
 
 2. Private Schools in Kingston in 1825-1826 202 
 
 3. The First Schools in Brantford 1826 202 
 
 4. Schools in West Gwillimbury, 1824-1826 202 
 
 Note. —The Journals of the Legislative Council for 1826 are not available. 
 
 XLT. Kxohanqb of the Original Univkbsity Lands fob Crown Reserves, 1822- 
 
 1^27 203 
 
 XLII. Educational Proceedings of the Upper Canada Legislature in 1826-1827. ... 206 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1826-1827 206 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council in 1827 210 
 
 XLIII. Granting op the First Charter of Kino's College in 1827 211 
 
 1. The Reverend Doctor Strachan's Statement of the Reasons why a Charter 
 
 should be granted 211 
 
 2. Appeal to the Friends of Religion and Literature in behalf of the University 
 
 of Upper Canada. By the Reverend Doctor Strachan, 1827 215 
 
 3. Statistical Table of the Church of England in Upper Canada in 1827 218 
 
 4. King's College Charter of 1827, with Emendations in the handwriting of 
 
 the Reverend Doctor Strachan 221 
 
 6. Reverend Doctor Strachan's expenses to England in obtaining the Original 
 
 Charter of King's College, 1827 226 
 
 XLIV. GR.iMMAR AND COMMON SoHOOL RETURNS FOR 1827 227 
 
 1. The Eastern District Grammar School, 1827 227 
 
 2. The Ottawa District Grammar School, 1827 227 
 
 3. The Midland District Grammar School, 1827 227 
 
 4. The Newcastle District Grammar School, 1827 227 
 
 5. The Home District Grammar School, 1827 228 
 
 6. The Niagara District Grammar School, 1827 228 
 
 7. The Upper Canada Common School Returns for the year 1827, of the 
 
 •iastem, Cttawa, Batliurst .ind Newcastle Dialricts 228 
 
 8. Miscellaneous Educationnl Information about Schools in 1826, 1827 229 
 
 (1) Niagara, (2) St. Catharines, (8) Montague, (4) Perth, (5) Cornwall, 
 
 (6) Peterborough, (7) St. Thomas 229 
 
 &M«WBl!»®«B»" 
 
 iSfU^MSB^9rtif^3^^iflpmumFi^v»! 
 
xH 
 
 CONTENTa 
 
 vrtr n PaOB. 
 
 XLv. Educational Pkocekdings of thk Housb op Asskmbly in 1828 232 
 
 1. Members Vho took part in the School Legislation of 1828 232 
 
 2. Report of the House of Assembly on the King's College Charter of 1827. 239 
 
 3. Petition to the King on the Charter o .a 
 
 4. Case of Mr, Thomas Appleton, Common School Teacher at York 1820 
 
 ^«28 ; 244 
 
 6. Report of the House of Assembly on Mr. Thomas Appleton's case 24ft 
 
 6. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland's reply to Mr. Appleton'l 
 
 Memorial to him 
 
 7. Blinutes of Evidence for the Appleton case, given by Messieurs Thomas 
 Appleton, John Fenton, Jesse Ketchum, William Poyntz Patrick, 
 Joseph Spragg, the Reverend Alexander Stewart and Doctor Thomas 
 David Morrison 
 
 247 
 
 248 
 
 253 
 
 25& 
 
 Nora.— No Journals of the Legislative Council proceedings for 1828 are available. 
 
 XLVL iMPKBiAi, Parliambnt Committbb's Report on the Kino's College 
 Charter, etc 
 
 1. Appendix.— Extracts from the Evidence of the Reverend Geoi^e Ryerson 
 
 and the Right Honourable R. J. Wilmot Horton, Under Secretary of 
 State 
 
 2. The Report practically embodied in the Colonial Secretary Despatch of 
 
 September 29th, 1828, to Sir John Colborne 257 
 
 XLVII. Educational Proceedings of the Legislature of Upper Canada in 1829 25» 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1829 
 
 2. Members of the House of Assembly who took part in its School LegislaUon. 269 
 
 3. Statement of the Funds and Sources of Income of King's CoUeee 1828 
 
 1829 
 
 264 
 
 4. Report of the Reverend Doctor Strachan, President of the General Board 
 
 of Education for Upper Canada, for the year 1828. 265 
 
 5. Eepcrt of School Payments by the House of Assembly's Select Committee 
 
 on Finance 2^^ 
 
 6. First Report of the House of Assembly's Select Committee on Education. . 269 
 
 7. Series of Resolutions reported from the House of Assembly's Select Com- 
 
 mittee on Education , _, 
 
 8. Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council in 1829 270 
 
 9. Members of the Legislative Council in 1829 vra 
 
 XLVin. The Founding of Upper Canada College in 1829 284 
 
 1. Sir John Colborne's Letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of 
 Oxford, authorizing him and others to Salect Masters for Upper 
 
 Canada College aaa 
 
 Rus^ien S()uare, the Site of Upper Canada College \ 287 
 
 Elizabeth College, Guernsey, the Modol of Upper Canada College ' ' 288 
 
 Endowment of Upper Canada College, 1829-1838 289 
 
 Sir Georco ArfVinr nn kJin l?r>n»,/i;«.» ^t TT.,_„_ o i- r% it < „. • . 
 
 _ ... ..j.j^i vunttoa voacgc oy sir Joiili 
 
 Colborne ^^^ 
 
 6 Opening of Upjw Canada College— its First Masters ,][[ 290 
 
 2. 
 3. 
 4. 
 5. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
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 282 
 
 232 
 
 1827... 239 
 2-42 
 
 , 1820- 
 
 244 
 
 246 
 
 pleton's 
 
 247 
 
 rhoinas 
 'atrick, 
 rhomas 
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 lilable. 
 
 OLLKGE 
 
 . ... 253 
 
 yerson 
 tary of 
 
 265 
 
 tch of 
 257 
 
 25» 
 
 lation. 25^ 
 
 1828- 
 
 264 
 
 Board 
 
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 nittee 
 
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 ion.. 269 
 Com- 
 
 274 
 
 270 
 
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 284 
 
 ity of 
 fpper 
 
 286 
 
 .... 287 
 .... 288 
 .... 289 
 John 
 .... 289 
 .... 290 
 
 « Pack , 
 XLIX. Educational Pkocbkdinos of thk Upper Canada Leoihlature in 1830 291 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1830, and Members 
 
 who took part in them . 292 
 
 2. Petition to the Legislature of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada, 1830. S98 
 
 3. Report of a Select Committee on the Western District (Grammar) School. . 300 
 
 4. fill : An Act to Establish Upper Canada College 301 
 
 5. Educational Pioeeedings of the Legislative Council in 1830 805 
 
 6. Report on the Petition of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada 307 
 
 7. The Reverend Doctor Strachan's Resolutions on Education and the Founding 
 
 of Up[)er Canada College 310 
 
 8. An Act to incorporate tha Trustees of the Grantham Academy, St. 
 
 Catharines, 1830 313 
 
 L. Vakious Matters Relating to the Upper Canada Leqislation of 1830, etc 315 
 
 1. Proceedings of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada in regard to its 
 
 Petition to the Legislature of Upper Canada. , 315 
 
 2. Reply of the Presbytery to the Report of the Legislative Council on its 
 
 Petition 3J5 
 
 3. The King's College Council and the Upper Canada Legislature, 1830 316 
 
 4. British House of Commons' Request for information in regard to King's 
 
 College 317 
 
 6. Report ofthe Upper Canada Executive Council en a Memorandum of the 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor of May, 1830 318 
 
 6. Public Meeting at York in December, 1830, in regard to King's College 
 
 Charter, etc gig 
 
 7. Early Establishment of Schools in Upper Canada, 1813- 1831, contributed 
 
 by various i arsons, viz.- (1) Port Hope; (2) Aurora; (3) London; 
 (4) St. Catharines ; (5) Niagara Grammar School ; (6) Miss Black's 
 School, Niagara ; (7) Cornwall Grammar School 319 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Circular to Boards of School Trustees by the Editor of this Documentary 
 
 History 32j 
 
 Index to this First Volume 42j 
 
 2* (D.E.) 
 
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Chap. I. 
 
 PRELIMINARY CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 3 
 
 t. 
 
 CHAPTER J. 
 
 SOME PRELIMINARY CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 After the Honorable the Minister of Education had decided to publish thig 
 preliminary volutne, and hid entrusted to me the duty of preparing it, I 
 addressed a note on the subject to the Honorable William T. Harris, LLJ)., 
 United States Commissioner of Education at Washington, to Rev. Canon Scadding' 
 D.D., and Charles Lindsay, Esq., Toronto, to William Kingsford, Esq., C.e' 
 Ottawa, and to John M. McMullen, Esq., BrockviUe, also to James Bain, jr., E.sq ' 
 ofthe Public Library, Toronto, asking them for suggestions on the preparation 
 of this history, and as to details, etc. The note which I addressed to these 
 gentlemen was in substance an follows : — 
 
 It is proposed t., prepare for publication, by tlie Edncation Department of Ontario " Th« 
 
 Tl you will kindly make any suggestion whicli may occur to you, as to the stvle an.l trp.,fn,«„. 
 obliSd tir/ou.'"' ""' "^ ^'^^ ^•"'"™'^«' '""^ *>-^^« •"-' ^^'''^-^ '- u.sed.' etc^;tshH,l be^S; 
 
 It is intended to include in this first volume of the iirocoodinas of tlie PaWv T <.„;<.!„. 
 Upper Canada on ,he subject of primary and secondary educa^L ^ I'L seJond^.S^^^ 'u 
 contain like information in regard to higher education etc '"'"® "^'^ 
 
 1 have already collec ei a good deal of material for the r^roposed nublication },»v;.,„ 
 
 and varied experience in educational literature. ' ^^ " extended 
 
 Reply of the Honorable W. T. Harris, LL.D., WASHiNt^xoN. 
 
 V, ^ 'f'"K, with great interest to the volume that you are to prepare r.n the " Hi»,..r, f 
 Education lu the Province of Ontario from the earliest times. There^J not Jvthin,, 1 ^ °^ 
 that I can suggest, which would help you in your great work for vtmr!.^^., 7 ^ ^'0Y,*'\.®'"' 
 very few persons indeed, will be .bl e to think orimes that vouhav« not' nl^f^ " "" ^"/' ^^"^ 
 . 1 send you herewith our " Henry Barnard lidex.' ato"^." " ndex to^hSbuSi " f 
 
 Reply of Charles Lindsay, Esq., Toronto 
 and if aTfdWs"-"" " ''' """''"" "'""^ ""'''■ '' ^"^'^^^^^^ «"°«-^"-> 
 
 oont^-lSby Uie'S^pLrilt'of^d^l^Sir'Sr L'^l ^-J-taxy History, which i, 
 .,uartos\.ublishli .n Qukec, Jthis'^Sf ^f" ittlturl Ire^exVeSy'Xn 'enierjLnJl'" 
 and they necessitate the use of a kind of tvue much lar^nr ^h«r, ;.!! ^ incoiuenient to handle, 
 recently surprised to see in an Americun XicTio L Xi^ed f rKTnX^u^d^ VT 
 
 the statement that n..npariel .solid is of all type the i io"t easv to mul T S„ 1 J""™^^^*^*' 
 
 ing with It, and T believe that for the majority of re^ors tL a^SeLnt is trL^ expenment- 
 that at over seventy years of ago. I found any incmvenience in reX J fS - n'*""? "7 
 would not however prove generally accept;ible to the pubhrfor Vur ..urno-^^ Tf ^ ' ■ ^' 
 
 least:^:.!;S;^S^Et ^nii'onai^.^'ltt^^.itin'l^nr ^r^ ^"'^> ^"'^ '' ^' '^^ 
 soda does the work re„uired of it. but ftT.L ..f. J!^.' .h '" .*'^^'* ! ^.^^ ^^^^ «°^* P'-o^es*- The 
 stance, and will probably not stop short orhnai^dVatirLtbn by whatu S f 'tJS '^" .'"^; 
 paper maker assured me, some time ago, that he exoects that in ?,.,..!,? ■ '"" '"8 "»*• A 
 ..h. „e..p.p.r ,„.. .„d «U the publio';„;eu,..„t.'p'ar ,S;r",SWhf i^ '.^ 'il 
 
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDL'CATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 \m i ■ 
 
 will entirely di8ii|>]>ear. That pmcesB has ceased td be generally used within a short time, two 
 or three years perhaps, anil other (wiper is easily ])rocurable. I think that a liighly calendered 
 paper, besides the hnrsh ^laru so trying to the eyes, is objectionable as beinj,' ojten to suspicion, 
 Kener.iUy correct, that it contains more than the ordinary i)rojiortion of clay, and more than is 
 desirable, if indeed any l)e. There is no objection to a' paper lightly calendered, but I would 
 never use one that is highly calendered. 
 
 Tlij best binding for your pi.rpose, if something better than cloth is desired, would, I 
 should think, be half calf or half morocco. The price of l)oth is the same. It is desirable that 
 the binding should not be subjected to a highly heated room. I should think the latter the 
 more enduring. 
 
 I am very glad to see that a beginning is to be made in printing tl,e public documents of 
 Upper Canada. There will, I imagine, be some difficulty in completing the materials on any 
 subject. You will scarcely find a full copy of the Upjnr Can.ida Ua:'t' in Toronto. The 
 jtublic documents of the early hisory of this Province has been sadly neglected. Of the few 
 copies of the Journals of the House that were printed in the early years of our history, scarcely 
 any are now to be found. Of some years not m^re than a single copy is known to exist Of 
 others, I have never seen or heard of a cojiy. There is much relative to our early history that 
 ought to be printed, and for tliat reason it is desirable that an inexi)ensive scale should at the 
 outset be selected for this pvir])ose. 
 
 Reply of John M. McMullen, Esq., Brockville, 
 
 Author of a valuable History of Canada. It i.s also suggestive, and is as 
 follows : — 
 
 I do not think that I have anything; in my library that would be of much use to you I 
 had some correspondence with the late Dr. Ryerson relative to educational matters, but unfor- 
 tunately did not preserve it. . . . 
 
 A full set of the Statutes from Governor Simcoe's tiu;e will be avail ible to you. 
 
 The demy octavo forai would be the only suitjible one for your work. The type to be 
 used »ho\ild he long primer solid, and brevier solid for extracts, and' nonpariel for notes. The 
 paper should be a good white 52 lb double demy 
 
 .A judicious u.se of the material at your disposal would make the work very valuable 
 to the future hi.storian of this country. It sho^dd however, bo soniethiug more than a mere 
 'Documentary Hi.stoiy.' The documents should he connected by short historical, or exjdana- 
 tory narnitive.1. So that their character and environments should be better understood find the 
 necessary dryness relieved. This was the course )MirHued in Gurwood's Wellington's Despatches 
 —the most valuable and iutertisting work of the kind ever published. The ' Docun entai-y 
 History' thus pre] wed wouhl partake of the character of a connected narrative and be loublv 
 interesting and valuable to the I'cader. •' 
 
 Reply of William. Kixgsfokd, Esq., C.E., Ottawa, 
 A recent historian of Canada of rare merit. It is as follows : 
 
 In your letter of yestenlay .yon kindly inform me of your intention to publifih "The 
 Documentiiry History of Education in l/p])(,'r (^iiwida. ' 
 
 1 am certain the work will be of value ; and I fiiu sure the attention you have given to the 
 subJL-ct wouM make any suggestion on my part superfluous. Should, however, in my examin- 
 ation, any thing attract my attention. 1 will have pleasure in communicating it to you 
 
 The only suggestion I can make is that you should engager some competent |)erson to obtain 
 you cojiies from the ' Archives ' of sucli documents as may be usefid to you 
 
 I can only a(hl my good wishes for the success of the work. It will undoubtedly be of 
 use in every form, especiallv for the historic infurmation it must contain, to assist in the con- 
 sideration of the iiroblems which, in our own time, are constantly attracting attention. 
 
 (hie of the first piobieiiis of the day is the establishment of ii sound system of public edu- 
 cation. 
 
 Reply of James Bain, Jr, Esq., Toronto. 
 
 The reply of the Chief Officer of the Public Library, Toronto, is as follows :— 
 
 I am much j.l.-.isod t" hear that you hive ui.-le.t.ikeM ji hist4>ry of education in thin 
 Provnice. No „m\ is lii»tter fitted for the task than yourself. 
 
 We have not very much bearing on the early ei'Uicatioii of the Province, but I will 
 do what I can in gathering together for you any documents which bear upon t!ie intint. 
 
 gladly 
 
Chap. I. 
 
 PllELIMINAKY CORIIESPONDENCE. 
 
 in't tiino, two 
 ly cnlendureil 
 to Huapiciun, 
 iiioie than is 
 but I would 
 
 ed, would, I 
 esirable that 
 he latter the 
 
 ocuintiiits of 
 rials, on any 
 ironto. The 
 Of the few 
 :>ry, scarcely 
 o exist Of 
 history that 
 bould at the 
 
 , and is as 
 
 B to you. I 
 but uiifor- 
 
 s type to bo 
 mtes. The 
 
 ry valualjle 
 hail ti more 
 or exjilana- 
 <id, nm\ the 
 DcHjiHfches 
 icuii yntary 
 1 he liiubly 
 
 Mnh "The 
 
 iveii to the 
 i>y oxHiniu- 
 
 II. 
 
 1 to (ilitain 
 
 tedly bo of 
 n the con- 
 
 Hiblic edu- 
 
 II0W.S : — 
 
 >n iii tiiJH 
 
 vill gladly 
 
 Reply ov the Revekend Canon Henky Scaddino, D. D., 
 Who is so well versed in Uunailian pioneer lore. His reply is all the more 
 interesting a.s it. is largely a'-tobiogiaphical, and, from the fact that it refers to 
 events in which tha writer v is personally concerned and an actor. It also con- 
 tains a deserved . .-ibute co those who, on personal g ounds and out of respect to 
 his father's memory and service.s, were the means of securing to him the great 
 advantages of residence at the University of Cambridge, and a participation in 
 its educational advantages. 
 
 In reply to my letter, Dr. Scadding said : — 
 
 Tlio shoots oiich .sod arc in reality uiy lottor in reply to you. I liavo headed thoui "An 
 Extra"' , leaving out the formal address, etc. 
 
 The extract proceeds as follows: — 
 
 In tho phniHonlony of ,,iir public schools the oxprossion '•Kin!,''H Scholars " is not now in 
 use, but It was in voj<uo amongst us sonio years ago, and had a poculiarly old country ring about 
 iv! j '"-; ""I'l""**" "» '""■"••>* "t the clo.so of an account given of the annual public examination of 
 tho old K„j.,il (,mm..Jar school at York, to bo soon in the Upper Canada Gazette ami U.K. Loyalld 
 newspaper for March 1st, 182H, whoro it is st.ito.l that the Lioutonant-CJovornor, Sir I 
 
 V'll 
 orogrino 
 
 mait an I, tl.on prosont.announuod that certain lads belonging to tho school were to bo " King's 
 isciiolars, implynig thereby that thoy should enjoy tho privilege of a free education in the 
 sriiooi, ror which [ bolievo provi.sion was made in tho Scli..ol Act of tho period. I (luoto tho 
 1 wnos of the scholars thus distinguished in 1828. My own name you will observe occurrs in the 
 hst, which roads thus :--Samuol Smith, Henry Scadding, Leslie Caldwell, Charles Thomas 
 titzgibhon Samuel Smith was tho son of tho Hon. C.il. Smith, some time deceased, formerly 
 Administrator of the C.ovornmont in the interim between Governor (Joro and Sir Peregrine 
 Maitlaud. Leslie Caldwell was the son of a well-known army surgeon at Penetanguishone. 
 also docoasod, whoso w..(.wwa? thou resident in Vork. Charles Thomas Fitzgibbon was tho son 
 of Col. Fitzgibbon Clerk of the House ,.f A.ssembly, and father of a largo family of sons. As 
 to niysolf, 1 was placed on tho list through the interest and inUuonco of the Rev. Dr. Strachan, 
 Archdeacon of iork, who over befriended me. lemomboring, as he did, so well the sad accident 
 which had dej)rived my father of his life, so.,n after his settlement hero and before he was able 
 tuuy to acquire tho i)rovi8ion which ho was aiming to make for the welfare of hi« family. The 
 King ssch(,larslup at the Grammar School was thus a most welcome l>oon, and had tho happy 
 ettoct of keeping me much longer at my books than might otherwise, probably have been 
 possible I realize now more thoroughly tli.n 1 did at the pa.Hsit,g moment the greatness of the 
 beneht thus conferred ui)on mo. Looking back, 1 see that I have been, on a very humble scale 
 m the community where my lot has been cast, a i.ioneor in its educational, literary, and ecclesi- 
 astical 'concerns I have often desired to place on record how it was that 1 came to be sent as a 
 atudont to the University of Cambridge, an incident in my case most unlikolv to have been 
 anticipated by mo and which helped forward, in so important a manner, the fulHlment of my 
 mission but I had never before seen an opening for doing so with pr.,priety. Your letter, at. 
 Liibrarian and !-•>=»■>»•■-■ —"-u..- ...c li... n'.i — .■ i-, ''.>'. . > 
 
 perhaps 
 establishment 
 
 '"*.'"'«.:• '^""-'^'^','"' "^ ^^^^ Education Department suggested to me that, at length, 
 , the htting occasion had arrived. In your account of the rirst movements towards the 
 Inuent of educational institutions in Upper Canada, you will I doubt not. do justice to 
 the statesmanlike forecasts of our first Lioutonant-Govemor in this regard, as X have myself 
 emUjavore.l to do in my two brochures entitled, " Morton College an.l Canada," and " A Le.ter 
 to sir Joseph Banks. 
 
 You roiiiembor the appreciative terms in which the French Duke de Liancourt speaks of 
 Governor Simcoe s enlightened design for tho future well-being of the new province, in his 
 
 a Jh'''r '. V""^ /'i^'' ^"''f ^If*^' V,^ ,^""^ America "(vol. 1, p. 241, London edition) as 
 ga hored by hnn while a guest at Navy Hall. Niagara. You may also recall, perhaps, what the 
 Duke .says on the saiiie page of the Govenor's talented wife, and the lUiterial assistance which 
 ■he rendered to her husband, by pen and pencil in the accomplishment of his projects. His 
 exact woitls are those (vol. I L page (i I, Paris edition): 
 
 w^o'^^'^^f""® Simcoe, femme de trente six ans, est timide, a de lesprit. est obligeante et 
 bonne, parle peu, est occupee de sea devoirs de mere et de femme qre 'ell pousse jus.me a etre 
 lesecretaire de conhance de son mari ; son talent pour le dessein (,u 'elle applique au trace des 
 (v;i:~i;'pair24irit"rlLu"-" '"' ^''' ti'e'^-ulile. ■ Translated thus in the English edition 
 
 i. « ;J!in;«^'T^^ '" *k'"*-5 ""^ t^'i'^ty-"^ yenrs of age. She is timid and speaks little ; but she 
 la a woman of sense, handsome and amiable, and fulfils all the duties of mother and ^ife with 
 
m 
 
 6 
 
 Dm'UMSNTiHV HISTOUV OF EfmcATION IN II'I'EK CANAll*. 
 
 I79I 
 
 of St. John the ExHnr it i^iTa mbr L^*^ Th'""*"' "",f " V^"''"•■^ ^^^^ '*'"^^" "- "''^ <^' ■J'««*^ 
 while fully intemlShorobv to Z^^^ The excellent lat y to whom th:K trun«fer w.w .J»e, 
 
 HlBo H hope. I have reL.mt? kno^ Z^ " "" '""^'^'-'ty Hn.lcH,ucity of „.v father, untertnined 
 8ume beneet on the Pnn^,c; which he t^JT'iiV .""*^^' '"''.'''^''' "' '^'' '""K «•»" '^""^"^ 
 year, ngo, and in «11 the XL ' wl d.. t h^ * a " hour T ''""'"'"'' '/' VT"."'"« "^"^ 
 
 ..^i^^,uiesL i.^iJr^sr -it^lJ^^fS^^^ ^ - r;t 7X 
 
 C«mbHdt'mU-r^arr'Thir;i!;e7,,"f Ih''''"^^^ 'r"'''^'' "•'"^'' ^ "^^'^-^^y ^'ver.ify a 
 l«<i, delightf.llvTn.l jiJbh Zh ! bv . ■'"• Z^ "'vv '^^r"';''"" "^ *^« Christ-mu. rooes« of 
 
 Penheale in .-nwaii h> i.ictm- "m, ^"'""'''> "^ "'"" ^"^, Lieutenant (Jovernor. and pai^ly at 
 
 their ,„lvsurv.Z.H, an ho'T Addington Siule, 
 
 «urviv.„, ,„e.nbe,h.f ■ '.c Si no J"fa,I v are S t'T f *^"*'/"''' ^"•""^ ''"^ h-««holds. where 
 have been made 1^ .. .ith KrerttS^^l^tt' lie jt™ iS.^'S, If I^^ ^ '^^ '^"^^^^ 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 SKETCH OF LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR JOHN GR.^VES SIMCOE. 
 
 .. ?r7T.^'r"" '"''" ^''''" ^' Cotterstock, in the County of Northam,ton. on 
 Uie 22nd of l-ebruary. 1752. He wa.s educated at Eton College, and partly at 
 Mer on Colle,^.. Oxford. He en,: -.ed the army in ITTO^and before taking his deLe 
 at Oxford. His father, Captain John Sin.coe, of H. M S. Pembroke, served with 
 di.stinct.on under Wolfe at Quebec, v, here he lost his life at the , .rly a^^e of 45 
 Governor Simcoe was successively an officer of the 35th and 40th Re-nments and 
 subsequently commanded the Queen's Rangers (Hu.ssars) during th'l American 
 Revolutionary War. In 1790 he was elected a member of the British Parliament 
 for a borough in Cornwall. In Parli...ent he took part on the Quebec Bill which 
 on its passage became the " Constitat. o.i Act ' of 1791. In 1792 he was appointed 
 . - n. !.ie,.,. „.„..-^,„cMiur of in. f ■ .^ e. v :.«» had by that Act been sepa- 
 rated from Lower Canada. He indu,*3 c: ,.n > >£ the Un-ed Empire Loyalists to 
 
 fl 
 
1791 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 SKETCH or OOVERNOR SIMCOE. 
 
 settle in Upper Canada, and sought in every way to promote the prosperity of th© 
 Province. He had Yonge Street construoted oa a military r..ad from York 
 (Toronto) on Lake Ontario to the lake at the orth which now bfcM* Ir « name. He 
 named thi.i road after his personal friend and neighbour in i>evon8hire, Sir 
 George Yonge, who was a member of the Imperial Cabinet. The road traversed 
 the " porta«re " as it was called bt-twen the two lakes, Ontario and Simcoe 
 Major General Simcoe was appointed Gon mor of St. Domingo in 1796, and a 
 Lieutenant-General in 1798. He died on his return to England in 1 806. aged 64,.* 
 Governor Simcoe was removed from Upper Cai ada sooner than waa antici- 
 pated. Rev. Dr. Ryerson, in his History oj the U. E. Loyalists, thus speaka of 
 the cause of his early removal from the Governorship of Upper Canitda: 
 
 w« oTi 3^d .'"f"'" ';'h' ""'^ '" ^r**;" ^^^ ^'''^ "gainst it-roprenentatiun, in which there 
 landTrerf M he h\ r ' ^^^^ ^^^ t»;f»r"P'-«»«"^ti"n'. »»d those „f,li»»ppoiatod local 
 pure and ', ;J .: t. ^T *'"^'".""'«"' recalled Governor Sin.coe. the father of constitutional, 
 pure anu |, ogrr^Mive govorninent in I pper Canada. (Paye .'{12.) 
 
 ,o«,^'';,^^'*^^*"^'»'th, in his recent book on the "United States . . . H92. 
 18/1, thus refers to this matter : 
 
 a./ail'l^Hl'"/^'''''*'' ^•«^«'-""'""t or anybody by it8 authority, was intriifuing with th« Indians 
 against the Americans, an assertion of which there appears to be no proof Si, ooe tha 
 
 lzi:r Vjruo.uT' '"^'"^ ^*"^" ""'^" '"«'"'-»• ^'^-^^^ - --'i-^' '•• - -»: 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe as a Governor. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor J. Graves Simcoe arrived in Quebec on the 11 h of 
 November, 1791, and remained there for some time, there being no Council on- 
 stituted in Upper Canada by whom he could be sworn into office. His plans for 
 opening up and developing the resources of Upper Canada were on a scalo of 
 some unportance ; but it seems only necessary to direct attention to the cor. e- 
 spondence, which is of great importance to those interested in tracing the early 
 history of Upper Canada, with its Hrst settlement, and the means tak^en to open 
 up communication between all parts of the country. In the summer of 1792- 
 Simcoe reached Upper Canada, and, on the IGth of July, issued a proclamation 
 dated at Kmgston, that the old Province of Quebec had been divided into the 
 two Provinces of pper and Lower Canada, and fixing the division of the i'ro- 
 vuice into " districts, counties, circles or towns and townships." to carry out the 
 
 LoviticuB, I believefthat partic-ilarly rnforn' TuriL of h.3T ?^^ *° my oh. dren. There is a text in 
 As mine in all viewJ is a railitarv fainUr i , Iv noX/ J,^^^^^ • "^ ""^^ "'^P,"^ '" military command, 
 
 remembrance of the Creatorlrt'horwt'en^^^'e in'thT ^TZl 'V.^T:? rj^iVii"??^-' »« '»-l^.»t«. the 
 iimos irom io»«iKn um.rpation. ' Set^ note * 5n" page 11 r7 '^vrine to simc.ie''yT^ftr°f« '4?/ f n"'7 "' ^""*" 
 
 it was ereLd havinr^n p'ttd b;trvi*S^m?oe^^^V,^^ sZ^nre' tRevl'SriAi^.r ""'^'^ 
 
B 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 17D1 
 
 Act, " and to declare and appoint the number of representatives to be chosen by 
 each to 8er\ e in the Assembly of the said Province." The first meeting of the 
 Legislature of Upper Canada was held at Newark, (Niagara), on 17th September* 
 1792. It sat till the loth of October.* 
 
 Before leaving England for Canada, Governor Siracoe addreysed a letter to 
 
 Sir Jaseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. In this letter he stated what 
 
 he thought would be desirable to be done so as to introduce the spirit of the 
 
 British Constitution into Upper Canada, antl to promote British habits of 
 
 thought among the people. In doing so his purpose was to show the excellence 
 
 of the monarchical over the republican system of government, so lately adopted 
 
 by the revolted colonies. The success of their revolutionary aims was keenly 
 
 felt by him. His purpose was, therefore, to try and win back the more moderate 
 
 of the disaffected colonists, and to provide a congenial home, under tlie old Hag, 
 
 for ai. "xpatriated American loyalists. The motto adopted for this new British 
 
 home across the sea, expressed in strong, prophetic language, the heartfelt wish 
 
 and purpose of the able and clear sighted statesman who was sent out as its first 
 
 Oovernor. It ran thus : — 
 
 Imperii Porrecta Majestas Custode Reuum C.esare. 
 'Ihe Greatness oj the Empire Extended, under the Guardianship of Ccvmr. 
 His strong desire in this matter was thus expressed to Sir Joseph Banks : 
 The nieHiod I propose is by establishing a free, honorable British Govenuiient and a pure 
 adnuniBtrati.-n of it« laws ... to hold out to the solitary eniig.-ant, and to the several 
 Btates, advantages that the present form of Government doth not, and cannot, Dermit them to 
 enjoy. ' 
 
 On Simcoe's nomination to his office as Governor, he evidently revolved in 
 his mind how best he could .secure a solid foundation for the government and 
 institutions of the youthful colony entrusted to his care. Religion and education 
 were his two watchwords. The form in which he wished them introduced into 
 the new Province wa.s— the first, in the person of a chief ecclesiastic, and the 
 other as an endowed university. The former was to " inculcate in all ranks aiid 
 descriptions of people a sober and an industrious, religious and conscientious 
 spirit, which shall b^ the best security that a government can have for its own 
 internal preservation. The latter, with the liberal education which it would 
 aflbrd, " would be most useful to inculcate just principles, habits and mannens 
 into the rising generation." 
 
 The former of these views Simcoe strongly impressed upon the Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, (Dr. Moore,) in a letter addre-ssed to him, dated the 30th Decem- 
 ber, 1790, and also upon the Colonial Secretary of State, (Right Honorable 
 Henry Dundas,) in a letter to him of the 2nd of June, 1791. The latter subject 
 was also referred to in the letter to the Colonial Secretary, and, (in regard to the 
 university,) in the one, (previously (juoted,) to the President of the Royal Society. 
 •Report of the Dominion Archivist for 18!)l, pages xxi, xxii. ^ 
 
Chap. in. 
 
 OOVKRNOR SIMCOE AND IIISHOP STRACHAN. 
 
 \ 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 GOVERNOR SIMCOE AND BISHOP STRACH/vN. 
 
 At the ceremony of laying the corner stone of King's College in the Queen's 
 Park, on the 2:3rd April, 1842, Dr. Strachan, in a speech delivered on that occa- 
 sion, thus referred to Governor Simcoe's administration during his brief stay in 
 Upper Canada. He said : — 
 
 Socm .iftor tlie passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791, General Simcoe-a gentleman of 
 great piety, literature and science, and most devoted to the welfare of the Province, was 
 app.)intea ( ,overn.n-. After exploring its resources and making himself well ac(p)ainted with its 
 wants he applied himself earnestly to the religious and secular education of the people. Unfor- 
 tunately for Upper Canada, his administration was of short continuance ; and before he was 
 able to cornple e the estabhshuieut of a seminary of learning ade.piato to the re..uirement3 of 
 Z^lS fo'gUlen.' '*' "" """"'' '" " '"^""^ government, and after his departure it was 
 In an autobiographical sketch of his early career, Dr. Straehan (in 1860) again 
 referred to Governor Simcoe, and the cause which led to his own removal to 
 Canada : — 
 
 « ,. ;tTT *^ri"i-\"^ schemes contemplated by (ieueral Sim^^oe for tlie benefit of the Province, 
 vas that of establishing grammar schools in every district, and a university at their head at th^ 
 OovJInnr'''"''!""' fl '^'''T ",' '^""'1''^*^' ''« «'>^"' '^« P^^Bible, SO beneficial an object, the 
 RoberrH«fn?t n I ^"^ ^" "" f" """'"-^ble Richard Cartwright and the ri'onorable 
 Robe t Hamilton to procure a gentlemen from Scotland to organize and take charge of such 
 col ege or uu.versity. These gent euien, whose memories are still dear to the Province, applied 
 t,. heir fuends m St Andrews, who offered the appointment first to Mr. Duncan, then to Mr. 
 Chalmers, neicner of whom was yet much known, but both declined. Overtui'ea were then 
 '^Zl'J''']'r"^V ['^^"^'^'1 ^ythe resignation of the 
 
 the apjT.LI.nenV''''' ■"" "''' *** '" '"^ ^ '"'' '"'^'"="'*' '^^^^'^ «"'"« heaitation, to accept 
 tha ^ 'f r' !'Tl ^7 '""•^'^ iowiivdn the end of August, 1799, under convoy ; but such was then 
 MrmTS tlr'h ^^T'^"V?^ ""' ^ '^''\ r' >-«'^«h Kingston, by the ^y ..f New York and 
 tW d L?l V I f ^^'^ y*"''"- "i""'' ^'^''^'"^'''^ '" ''"^y' ••""1 ""f' ^ li"le disappointed at 
 
 tie desolate appeamnce ot the country, being throughout, one .neet of snow, But a new and 
 
 re t. nld rr?'" n 1 w'^f "i"'' u \ *''«,"'f'"-'"e^l that Governor Simcoe had some time before 
 returned to Kng and, but of which I had received no information, and that the intention of 
 establ.shing the projected university had been postponed. I was deeply moved and cast-down, 
 ^Ih. f l'^'«^'?f«e'l tJi*^ "'«'*"*. would have instantly returned to Scotland A more lonely o^ 
 destitu^: oondition can scarcely be conceive.l. My reasonable expectations were cruelly 
 R„tn ~f ""^^''''''"^"'''"'"^'".'^'"•'""^' ^"^''""' '"'y resources or a single acquaintance. 
 it P m" '""" ""'''„'" ""I"^««i'>le- '^•'^1 it was more wisely ordered. Mr. Cartw.ight. to 
 «T Z' 1 ''.'^^^^^•r^'" ^P^'^'^'l.V recommeiKled, came to my assistance, and sympathized deeply and 
 n rlrv^ 1 ' Sr""" ""«f ^''^'^'^f ^'' calamity; and. after a short space of time, proposed a te.n 
 he s7b,nr'H^- ^ '"'"• ''^'^«^":7'«'lKed. was most trying, but not altogether hopeless, and 
 ^1.^^ 7 n A^ '^^•>-«ng«'"«»fc which might be deemed only temporary or lasting, as future 
 duri llthrl V "''•..'"^■m'^''''''^'"; '''''* '•"' "f '"^ ^""'- «o"««»d a select number of nupS 
 and f^ a tTe^. X 1;«H n 7 1 'T'"^' ^^u'^''^' honourable employment and a fair remuneration ; 
 and It, at the expiration of that period the country does not present a reasonable prospect of 
 
 S n}.n '"f" • ^'"" "'"^'V' '■^'""^'" ""'"'^"''^ ^'^'' "■«'^*^- He further added that hedid no th nk 
 ne o elS!"th if ''''^.TT'''^ altogether desperate, although it might take longer 
 alternative hi / '" '",'*?'" '" •^'""^'""*«"t "^ agreeable. In my position there was do 
 
 altein«tive b, t to acquiesce an.l I was soon enabled t . return to a healthy cheerfulness and to 
 ^r' w n!f :^f ^^""'"^ "•''•' f"''^'t"de and resignation. In the meantime,%i strong at achien? 
 fSliZice 7tl?e'st'ri:? tf'- ^''^^^^l^'^h*^- -h-» I f-»'l to be a maA of great'capacily and 
 i nvro.raft/r d!! ""^ '"tognty. and. moreover, a sincere ciiurchnian from 
 
 convictimi, after deep enquiry and research. A similaritv of fe«lin^« «...! t«at"- t-"-!-! ♦- 
 
 I'hi'.r 1""'' r"!'.'"' ."".'■ "",""■*' ''"^""'^' *'"'^'' "^ ■'^"gth ripened "into a" wa"rm friendship' 
 
10 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1791 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 CHARACTER OF THE " SIMCOE PAPERS." 
 A correspoadence took place in 1791 between Lieutenant-Colonel J. Graves 
 Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and Sir Jo8ei)h Banks, 
 President of the Royal Society, and the Colonial Secretary, Right Honourable 
 Henry Dundas; and, in 1795, with the first Anglican Bishop of Quebec, on the 
 desirability of establishing schools and seminaries of education in Tipper Canada. 
 This correspondence naturally forms the ground work, as well as the starting 
 point of our educational history. 
 
 My attention was first called to the value of this correspondence by Mr. 
 George Coventry, of Cobourg, who was an enthusiast in the matter of collecting- 
 early historical records. He was employed by the Government of United Canada 
 in the later fifties to copy and arrange historical papers of value, including the 
 " Simcoe Papers." With Dr. Ryerson's approval I engaged him in 18«2 and 1863 
 to copy various papers on early educational topics in this Province. Theso papers, 
 with others, will now be included in this " Documentary History." In letters 
 addressed to me in February and March of that year he said in substance : 
 
 Can^r'Zn^^r'TT*" ^^% ^"^^ ""J^^" ««^ernor8 that paid attention to education in Upper 
 reto^of stTr m n.d P^!? ^ """'^ his corro8iH,ndence with Mr. Henry Dundas, Colonial Sec' 
 ll^Z f (Dundaa Street 18 nam«d after him . He suggests that the British Government 
 
 thZ liffr \ M " *''® Parliamentary Library at Quebec. A notice of this and a copy of 
 these letters should commence your essay [/.... " Documentary History "]. Again he said -^^ 
 education'"*^ A *i* y«» W'oved of the information I forwarded on the subject of 
 
 education. As early as April 28tli, 1792. Governor Suncoe, in a Ion- .lespatch to 
 
 Mr Henry Dundas, touches upon education, and says that it should be a natSal St-ihat 
 Sh h""^'' be granted for schools to defray the expenses, and education fo" the hL^^^^^^^ 
 revlf^i ^'''''-'^^ ^"'V? r""="'V^''^"'"'*^'"^^'''"'^'-«» ""^ youths sent to the States would i mbS 
 nn £ 'T ^Z'''*" ''"'I ^'^V'"- ^.^ "" '« ^'■"■" '"y ••»"«'» ""^«« preserved from a very long letter 
 on the subject, now in Quebec, with other documents I have sent there ) Again • By a fe ter 1 
 have just received from Quebec, I am pleased to find that Mr. William Ryerson M P P il 
 nf^r T^k'T"'^ "^"''^ """^ ^''''''""'^ '^'^^''^- "° !"*« been deputed by^the L brarv Com 
 en down t" n^r 'f '^^'tr""^'"''"'"'' ^''^^^^'^ ^^^'''' ^""^ "'^el- docui/ents. which "^ ha"^ 
 sent down to Quebec for the information of the Committee. This will intnduoe the snbiect to 
 
 i^Th/n ""*' ""»''• "'"^ ^' '^.•"^"^ "^ "''«'^'"8 the way when he brings forward the snbL 
 ViH ri„ r ^ stttUstics of the Province m 1H17, and presided at a nioeting for that purpose in 
 
 ^ub ^t ', " "" ^""■'?'- ^' '" >-'™'ifyi»« t" «"'! tbat the present Mr. Ryerson is alive to thS 
 subject, so as to rescue by gone e\ont8 from oblivion 
 
 r«lAf,Wh^.?"*ir''."''"''r^'^"l'y"'" ^^'^ "''•'•i^'^t, I hope that Dr. Ryerson will stir up his 
 ooneoHnl '""^ '" '""^' IT""^ the subject in the House that we were discussing, relatfve o 
 2l,Ur ^K ir'''*;"','"^ '''^ .natenals for a goo.l "Documentary History of IJp^^^r Canada ° 
 
 t^^ar.e^'du '!:■': l: '"'/*^"l'^"'l,.'" t'>« ^'-^-- TLo State of Ne. Vork has furnished us whh 
 len large \olu lies ot most interesting matter. 
 
 Hoof ,?'" *"'''v * *V" '\'"^ engaged in- /.,•., collecting educational itom.s-is a very laudable and 
 usefu lone. Your book couM be made very interesting and instructive by .showing the ditticul- 
 
 h' dren ""cfun n t\ n '^""''""'^'^ '" "'^'^''^^ '^^''^^'^ ^o obtain aiiiy education f .r tie" r 
 cJnldron^Coloiiel^Clark* told n.e that at Hrst the chaplains of regiments gave instruction in 
 
 Thef4milv'!fini''!"'f?'''p'' r*" born at KinirHt.,n. Upper (;.in*da, Uri7837und resl.lod at Port ORlhou«i7 
 
Chap. IV. 
 
 CHARACTER OF THE " SIMCOE PAPERS." 
 
 n 
 
 their various vicmities In the hrat Gazettes published at Niagara, in 1793, under the auspices 
 of Governor S.mcoe, you can trace the first establishment of schools in the country In th^m 
 are some good document, on education. . . . The Hon. W. H. Merritt, wh^n a boy of rtve 
 or SIX years old went to a small day school at the Ten Mile Creek, about two and a half mills 
 from .St Cath»r.ae s In 1797 Mr. Cockrel opened a school at Newark (Niagara). In 1799 he 
 removed it to Ancaster, an I u, his school there Mr Morritt went as boarder. . 
 
 Extracts from the Simcoe Correspondence. 
 
 Apart from the isolated and desultory efforts to establish private schools 
 amon<? the United Empire Loyalists, or to take advantage of the garrison schools 
 at the few military posts, nothing was attempted in the way of official action in 
 the matter of education until the appointment of Governor Simcoe in 1791. 
 
 As the Simcoe correspondence forms the starting point in the " Documentary 
 History of Education in Upper Canada," I select such portions of it as relate to 
 the subject of education. 
 
 1. Governor Simcoe to Sir Joseph Banks, 
 
 JJated London, the 8th of January, 1791. 
 That part of this letter, from which I have already quoted fpage 8), relates 
 to the form of government. That part which I now quote, relates°to education 
 ns follows : — 
 
 mid,t'heri^f[!!7.rf' ^ f'T^'^ ''!'''*^ '" ^^y ^^'^ foundati ,n stone of some society that I trust 
 a iiie o a hlT.?, T ' " f f te>»'»n. "f science Schools have been shamefully neglected - 
 ma,Ss ; u^M^^.^ ^^ emmenrly useful, and would give a tone of principle and 
 
 manners that Would he ot inhnito sui)port to government* k i « 
 
 2. Governor Simcoe to The Right Honorable Henry Dundas, 
 
 Secretary of State, 
 
 Dated Quebec, April 28th, 1792; 
 
 After referring to several matters of importance which required attention, 
 bimcoe proceeded : — ^ -i » 
 
 less e^xo.,n«i'..?",";f !-"" "^,f ''''^"' "'l^cadou is of still more im,H.rtance; lower education, being 
 
 !u ir^ Ti r lie, «. ; r '."?"V"^'- ^'1 r^''^^'^ ^^ »•«''''•""'- '^"'' '"■>'•" remote^ by school 
 
 hechei ., f • '"f^-"' Vlt" th. liberality of the British Government, as, owing to 
 
 Sil.l en X, . ..b " 1 i'V'''i ^ """^ ""'"'?'' ^'"^' fe'ontlemen of Upp.r Canada ^ill ^end their 
 
 scl o? .a ' rsa K n /'t' ' T^ '" ^''"''^ '^''' ^'''''^ principles. Simcue then proposed two 
 
 fo s s if t o r^.Ml !;'"'/ ^"^^'"•=\''' fy^'^ P"- «»"""> : 'V university with ahead and pro- 
 
 .rofestor „eh.o«' Iv ,f / /''"'"^ ''""^^' '"' "^ "'^' ^''"''^'^ "^ England, and, the medical 
 j)ioiossor, pernajjs, excejitcd, cleisfymen. 
 
 3. Secretauv DrNDAs to Goveuvor Simcoe, 
 
 Duted London, July 12th, 1792:— 
 In reply to Si.ncoo's letter of the 28th of April, Secretary Dundas .says :— 
 
 I th'iiik"th.u 'uu.' s!.llrT '■"•m'T' ""'U"'-^ ^'""H"' *''*' '^'"J^- ^« *" «'^'"'"l« '"'^l '^ University, 
 itlunk tlut the Schools will be suthcient for some time. Such .K.-]i..>lB or lit k-i 
 
 ■> ae ol them , .siiould be ot th e hist order, a nd whenever steps are taken by the Province to 
 
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 DOCUMENTAUY HISTORY OK EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1792-6 
 
 ?rS''^'\'- !?'«''>■'' «^'"»i'\'"y 'w »"'y m^^t tlie Hi.i.r..lmtinu of His Miijesty, lie (Diuubis) simll wifci, 
 great satisffictiun receive His Majesty's pleasuru hs t.. the extension of tlie roviil bounty 
 towama its supjxirt. " •' j 
 
 4. Governor Simooe to Secretary Dundas, 
 
 Dated Navy Hall, (Niagara), 23rd of November, 1792. 
 In this letter Governor Simcoe refers to his April letter to Secretary Dundas 
 ' on the subject of religion and education. He said : 
 
 , ^. '" respect to a just attention to the interests of religion, and a provision for the education 
 of the rising atenemtion. who must tiike their due lead in society under the present constitution 
 and principally hd up the utticosof Government, I only beg leave, >ir, to refer you to my late dis- 
 patches upon these subjects-I Iiave therein stated strongly what I have felt sincerely and 
 these momentous concerns will not only involve in themselves the comfort and happiness of the 
 settlers in this country, and be the surefct means of rendering it populous, but will chiefly con- 
 tribute to that intimate union with Great Britain, whicli if duly improved and i.roperly supported. 
 as necessity re()uires, at the present season, I see no reason why that union should not become 
 permanent tor ages. 
 
 NoTB. -From tlii.s datf. until April, 1795, the correspondence between Governor Simcoe the Colonial 
 
 J^[.a'^rttWovrr'':,;.'h'"*''T f^-^**-'--"-! other. n.Ut.d to various ina'U. ^mrctirwHh he 
 weu-tK-iiijf ot the I r(.\ nee, such as the inarrmare laws, abolition of s'avery, Indi in affairs fortifvinir Do«t« 
 war w.th France, and its effect on the colony, loci appointments, settlem^at of the counV>retc. ^ ' 
 
 5. Governor Simcoe to the first Church of England Bishop of Quebec, 
 
 Dated Kingston, U)>per Canada, April 30th, 1795. 
 
 excen^^m'fTH/l"'' Constitution given to Upper Canada, however late, forms the singular 
 exception to tlmt want of preventive wisdom which has characteri/.e.l the present times The 
 S^'fo n?^7.'"""1''";J"^""'^"""' ')f,,^^^\>'' tJ'^-- i>i-ivileges, of the British Constitution 
 
 haviL , tr f r 7"'*'' ^"^*'-- ^^'""y ''"''" ^'"-' '"*^''">'' "^ governing themselves, and 
 
 having nothmg to ask, must ever remain a part of tiie British Empire, provided they shall 
 become sufhciently caijableand en ightene.l to underst.iud their relatiVo position and t ma mie 
 their own power to the public interest. Liberal Kducati.m seems t./ me, therefore to be 
 
 Sti\T!^'"'''T'''^;,''"'^''i"'^"'"»'^''^'''"''^''^ '" ^''" ostivblishment of a University' in the 
 «^e t w I'."] '^'l""*' -y-the re..idenceof the (governor aiul the Council, the Bishop, the heads of 
 
 irmv J^;ri ^ ^""1? ''"'"''l^' ''^*'^" '"'^'^^ *" 'h*' ""''t of Uovernmont, 
 
 '^^^Yi.T :'' ''^^^^^^ principles, habits and manners, into 
 
 the rising genoraton ; to coaesce the ditterent customs of the various .lescriptions of settlers 
 em grants from the old Provinces of Europe int<,one form. In short, from thesedistinct pat te 
 would there establish one nation -and thereby strengthen the union with (f.eat Britmn and 
 pieserve a lasting ..bedience to His Majesty's authority. The income cmtemplated for such 
 an establishment is certainly, of itself, too contemptible t.. be withheld from thJ prosecuting of 
 8o gieat an objejt on any view of expense. 1 naturally shonl.l wish that the Clergy re.piisite for 
 
 tLrein'f. S ;'7'"''''{i'\\'*'V'V"«t'"''='-'' »''r"l'> '"^ Englishmen, if possibhtUJaforming 
 therein t^. Secret..ry-Mr. Dundas' opinion, and indeed, in this respect, to my own-but, as in 
 
 ^1„ 'i Lt-tll ''^^'.y^'f}f'^ "'' exj.lanation can be too minute, which fairly and clearly 
 eluti Utes these points which ought not to be misunderstoo.I. I only refer to your Lordship's 
 8 iglit experience ..f the habits ami manners of the American settler^, to say how very different 
 
 witii ' 'n Jr;' "f "-r "^ '■,'"'' "'■''"'"• "^VT """^^'^' '^ *" ^'^ ^^-^-^P^^^n educated in England 
 with hngl sh families and inopensities,-liabituated in every situation to a greater dei/ree of 
 
 p'reSs"' C,"^ -""f'.f.M-n can be found in a new country, ^.r possibly anywLre with.^lt the 
 preun s of (,rea Britain -how unlikely it is that such persons should obtain tlmt influence 
 wt their parishi.mers winch may e.s.sentially prom..te the objects of their mission. Jn the 
 i. IT "\^'''\^ government as that of Upin-r Canada, an.l in the general indisposition of these 
 n Chun'h ..T>i'r'?'' f' '"■""'V".^'^' ■' IH'""li'"' import,vnce to prevent the public interest, both 
 in Church and State, from suflering through any ill will or disregar.l which the King's subjects 
 niaj heart., hose persons » lio are in any manner concen-ed in its administration, On the 
 other haml I am persuaded of at the outset, ,i few pious, learned men, of just zeal ami primitive 
 manners, shall be sent to this country, w.th suflicient inducement to make them su.Inort fhi» 
 .it;.>onu,i<' nanisnmei.l «.U, ciieerfulness -and tii^t in the Hrst inst.«nce, your Lordship' .shall not 
 
 n,'lVL.''r''?^^^'''''r*"''^''' ''"''■"',''■'"''''*'•'' '^'^''■'*^'''" ^'"' "I'dination, where there are evident 
 marks ol ivligmu,, disi)osaion and proofs of nioiality-l am confident the rising generati.m will 
 
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 III 
 of 
 
Chap. IV. 
 
 CHARACTER OF THE " SIMCOE PAPEH.S," 
 
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 their sacrod i.rufo.s«i„„. ^^"^'^'^"J^ tunsulered as tho necessary materials and instruments , J 
 
 earnestly implore may be f.,r a wliil^ ox te Xd to it w M 1 ^ '"'V * r^T ''V'P''^'^'^' '""' "'««' 
 uni-m of the coiM try with Great IW,.;; i.i ' ^^'" ''"a:"»t!nt that i.roduce in which tho 
 
 ulti„,atoly depend. "^ I an al no tt Id S , ? P^T''''''!'" T^ "'^ ^''J««^^'« ^"vereignty n av 
 the age. There ic nothing, in my a p.J'Ls th^t LT '''"'«"'^«^' ^"^ ^^ '« *hat of 
 
 general ai)plication (.f all ranks of tho m !f T' *' ? . , ^"'''" ""^ ^'1"'^' uneasiness with the 
 obtain for then Churches and M.is £v "«^ " f".'" n'^ the Provmce, that I shoSd 
 
 retunung to barbarism. They stat. 1 ft tte sIhbTfh ^ '1 "" "''"« generation is rapidly 
 unknown to their children, wl., ar^bu ily em;WH 'V^fi^ '"V'*"'* '"' •^''"^^'""' *« ''t^rally 
 may consume that day. ^ employed in searching for amusements in which they 
 
 * * * J. 
 
 in .1."';^^^:^:::^^^^^ ^ ^-^^ity in upper CaLa, whi:L ™ight 
 
 beyond the extent of the King's JominmnT """' '^'' P'""" "^ ^'^»«*«"" ^o many person. 
 
 proposed brBis'hipZkdv hi ^BenSr "S f ^'OOO ^- the erection of the University 
 disrespectfully of any place or srS^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^'^ •*" institution, not to sTeal 
 
 to what I now propose. The 1 .bors^ "f^'tTe 8 fcle f o Vh^'^V"''''""^ "^ '""''*' importance 
 visionary, as applicable to the conversion of thetmoH. *^';. I^'-*'I«'g'\tion of the Gospel, are 
 would be of most essentia' benefit bv n^n», ^ Vi • ^'"^"^ns in their present state -but 
 
 meditate, would, in its tun, :iave <'r ft if.H ent"fn '' -^r'''''^' 7'*''^^'' '^ P'^''-' '" t e ' ^^.^J 
 ..nportance, those who corrupt the rThrE.LrdT^*''' '"'^r^' ^'i'^' -'-t is of'^^^ore 
 m..tives, ,is well as policy, are materially in ere Tt'hi ^.lergy m Great Britain rom pious 
 Province I will venture to pro.hesv trortt l ," ^''\"'''' «'^""''' '"^^'-^'ise in this 
 
 erectcl^therein. 1 ro..ne3y ,ts preservation depends uron a University being 
 
 * * — 
 
 The Universities r)fEn'rland Tin.,L-„.. i i .. , ■, " * * 
 
 J^eir respectable stock, in Cdis;::;:'^::^7''^irS^"^ 
 
 hesitation lu. saying that I believe if a Pf,,te3t., r l^, ! 'i r^-^"""!*' ^ ''''^'''' ""t the f^mallest 
 
 6. GOVERXOU S.MCOE TO THE BiSHO,. OP QUEBEC,* 
 
 Dated Navy Hall, (Niagara), October 16th, 179,5 :- 
 
 iT^n... : L 
 
 My views in respect to a Universitv jiv.. f,.f ,11, u , . 
 
 may or may not, be complied with a^ /s\n.: te'^,!;;;^ ^''^^ T '"1 '' ^'"'"^ ^-i«' ="'<! 
 as my system to the judgment of posterity '""'' P'""!'"'"' ''"* «'"*'! certainly appear 
 
 7. G0VKU.VOR SiMCOE TO THE D.KE OP PoRTr.A.,,. SecRBTARV OP StATE. 
 
 Dated Navy Hall, Sfch November, 179.5, 
 
 LieuS::;Et;tno;:S;;;'t:ilil,ilr'/^^''''; ^f'^^ -'"-l-f the^rst dass andthllate 
 with tlie Bishop, Mr, St^tl' th"?..'; ' ^i^mL I'^l^n^'r f ''r'^«'"" ' "" '^"5^^ 
 intend it wnt 1 His Lordship shall pri.vide a p ■ p . encm Fr "h ^"^ ""^^^''^^kon to super! 
 I have h.d with His Maje.sty-8 Ministers on tVis' ub ecT h.^^e Wt , ' ?p"""t communications 
 one hundred pounds per annum, the salarv nlU^' 1 / li '''V''>''''''f ''"thorized to ijromise 
 
 ..t»iu.iu«.i.i,i „,H,i„ „„„j^, ,|,e „„„„ „i th" PmSoe ' '■°"' """'' » «l'Prob.ti„„ 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1796 
 
 8. Governor Simcoe to the Bishop of Quebec, 
 
 Dated York, 2.Hh February, 179(3 :— 
 
 I hnve scarcely the Bmnllest lu>])e of this fiuvornment being sujjported in the manner 
 which I cannot but think proper for the national in'erests and uoniniensurate with itr» e8tftl)ii»he<i 
 Constitution. In particular I have no idea that a l'<iiveraity will be established, though 1 am 
 <laily confirmed in its necessity. I Ibmen* these events from the duty [ owe to my King and 
 country, and have only to guard that no opinions of mine be interi)reted to jiromise l)eneticial 
 eflects, when the ade(iuate causes from which they must originate, ate suflered lo perish, or are 
 withheld. 
 
 9. Duke of Portland to Governor Simcoe, 
 
 Date<l Whitehall, London, June 22nd, 1796 : — 
 
 As the want of sthoidmasters is particularly noticed in your letter to the Bishop, I should 
 be far from unwilling to recommend tha* some provision should be madt here towards their 
 maintenance ; but in doing this 1 must observe that my ideas of schocdmasters best suited to 
 the present state of Upper Canada are such as are thoroughly competent to teach leading, writ- 
 ing, accounts and mensuration. 
 
 '] he stipend to persons of this description, exclusive of what they would receive from at 
 least some of their sciiolais, ought to be very moderate. With I'espect to a public school of a 
 higher order, where the Greek and Latin languages, and some other branches of learning may be 
 taught, I should think that Quebec or Montreal w(»uld naturally offer themselves, as most proper 
 for an establishment of such a nature, during the infancy of Upper Canada. There is a very 
 good Seminary of this kind in Nova Scotia, which from the progress it has already made, will 
 probably be extended to the general cultivation of the arts and sciences. 
 
 Having thus given you my sentiments, I shall await to hear from you in return before any 
 final measures ate adopted on a subject which rerpiires due consideration, in order that the 
 establishment proposed may either be above or behjw what the jiresent exigency of the t rovince 
 requires —for in either of these cases, but more especially in the former, they would l)e totally 
 useless, and thereby opeiate as a positive ritardn.ent to establishments of a higher nature, and 
 which would otherwise naturally take place in the Province. 
 
 As this despi^tcli relates only to the church establishment of your Fi-ovince, you will of 
 course, communicate it to the Bishop of Quebec, and will concert with him the best means of 
 carrying into effect the objects to which 1 have directed your attention. 
 
 10. Governor Simcoe to the Duke of Portland, 
 
 Dated York, July 20th, 179G. 
 In this letter — the last which Governor Simcoe wrote on the subject — he 
 strongly recommended the erection of a university in Upper Canada. Ho said •' 
 
 In the meantime the sevenths of the Crown will become gradually productive as lands 
 which have been ^ranted shall be cultivated, or withdrawn from the market, and appropriatious 
 may bo made agreeably to the opinion of the Council, to be sold hereafter for public purposes, 
 the first and chief of which 1 beg to offer with all respect and deference, to Your Grace, must 
 be the erection and endowment of a Univer.sity, from which more 'ban any other source or 
 circumstance whatever, a grateful attachment to Hie Majesty, morality and religion will be 
 fostered and take root throughout the whole Province. 
 
 i 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 CHANGE OF (JOVERNORS. AND SKETCHES OF THEM. 
 
 Governor Simcoe applied in December, 1795 to the Duke of Portland, for 
 leave of absence on account of ill-health, and recommended that the Honorable 
 Peter Russell, senior Couneillor, be appointed to administer tlie Governmont. 
 Delays occurred ; and it was not until Auijust, 1790, that Simcoe left Canada, 
 destined, as was afterwards the ca.se, never again to return to that country. 
 
<31iap. V. CHANOE or OOVEBNOBS, AND SKETCHES OF THEM. 
 
 15 
 
 to Lord Dorche»te , the Oovernor-Oeneral. He was, however, recalled on account 
 of h.s constant d.spu.e., with hi. Council, in April, ,799, and was sCeld b' 
 Wu^nant-General Sir Robert Shore Milnes. In the same year, MaTor Gene'al 
 Hunter was appo.nted a, the second Lieutenant-Governor of Upper cldl 
 Pehsonal Sketches of these Governous 
 
 Who lzZ^Z7:rT^r''^' r ™°"« '-^ -"'' ™-"' -- 
 
 „ erneaLanada. He was born in England in 1725, entered the armv 
 
 7a.. He was, for h,s services, promoted to the rank of Brigadier-Oeneral and 
 . ar,n. the Oovernor.G.neral (,VI,„.rays),ab,3oc, fr..,n C.uadaln 1767 iradminis 
 
 to England, and was kui.h^d /tb^Tin " r^ H b "^^'^ """■"''' 
 
 Clinton as Co.nmander.i„''.Obief o'f Z ^l^^ irJT;^::"^:^'^"''' 
 created Lord Dorchester for his distinani.h ^ '^"'<-"a>- In 17S0. he was 
 
 170fi Iwith ,h„ ,• / ""tmguish.d services; and from that time until 
 
 1796, (vv.tb the exceptum of two years,) be remained in Canada a. Governor 
 
 C n2 • ; T':T''' ^" '°'"" '"'•■""" "^ Lieutenant-Governor of Upper 
 Canada .ns e.d oi L,e„t.-Col. J. G. Sin.coe. He was thus connected wUh 
 
 <hs,.„et,on as a colonial governor by his prudence, firmness, and sareity ffi 
 concbatoo^ ..anner towards all parties, won for bin, their love and ^e" p ct ■ fnd 
 when he refred rom the government of Canada, it was amid tbe hea til r^ret 
 of all classes of the people. He died in 1808, a<red Kt * 
 
 Oenebal S.k Robert Pbesoott was born i^ England in X725. He .served in 
 An.encad„r,ng tbe revolutionary war, afterwards in the West Indies whe,. he 
 served as Governor of Martinique, and also of Guadaloupe. He was v r/h ghly 
 esteemed for b,s w„e and judicious treatn.ent of tbe natives in both plaL He 
 wasGovemor-General of Canada from ,796until .79... He died in 18 ag"d 
 
 's"b R0»rsn *"' 7'"^' " '"^ """"'-^ "f «-"""'. ™ »n,ed afte'r Wm 
 biR RouEHr Shore Milnes was bom in England in 174« H. h . ,•/ " 
 
 an officer in the Royal Horse Guards Blue Tn 17Q'\ ^ " ^'*^ *' 
 
 ^P AT .• • , J"*«^'ua'ras. i5iue. In 179o, he was apponted Governor 
 
 of Marun,q„e, and ,„ 1799, Lieutenant-Goveruor of Lower Canada, and a^Z 
 Governor-General ,n the absence of General Prescott. He died in 1 836 * 
 
 laor'oen ™[ H '-■>'««d the anny, and rose gradually to the rank „ 
 Major-Geneial. He succeeded Lieutenant-Goneral J Q Simoom .., (h. ...j 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1797 
 
 Hon. Peter Russell came to Canada with Governor Simcoe in 1792, as 
 Inspector-Generai. He afterwards became a member of the Legislative Council. 
 On Simcoe's retirement, in 1796, he become the acting Governor, (being the 
 Senior Councillor). He died in this Province, and his name is inscribed on a 
 monument in the Spadina Baldwin plot, St. .lames' Cemetery, Toronto. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT RUSSELL CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 1. President Peter Russell "o the Duke of Portland, 
 
 The Legislative Council and House of Assembly having adopted a joint 
 
 Address to the King praying that lands be set apart for the establishment of 
 
 Schools and a University in the Province, President Russell transmitted it to the 
 
 Duke of Portland. The letter and Address, under date, at York, of July 21 «, 1797, 
 
 were as follows : — 
 
 The members of the Let^islative Council, and the House of Assembly of this Province, having 
 in the Ute Ses-^ions of the Provincial Parliament requested me to cause a petition from them to 
 be laid before His Majesty ' ' humbly imploring His Majesty that he would be graciously pleased 
 " to direct His Government in this Province to appropriitte a certain portion of the waste lands 
 " of the Crown as a fund for the eRtablishtnent and support of a respectable Grammar schooi in, 
 " each District thereof, and also of a CoUej^e or University, for thd instruc ion of youth in the diflfe- 
 " rent branches of liberal knowledge." I beg leave, in compliance with their desire to transmit 
 their Petition to your Grace, that it may be submitted to His Majesty's most graci' lus cmsideration. 
 
 Address from the Upper Canada Legislature to the Kino's Most 
 Excellent Majesty. {Endositre.) 
 
 Gr 
 
 So 
 
 We 
 
 >f the 
 
 iracious soveeign : — >ve your most dutiful and loyal subjects, the momb 
 Legislature Council, and the Commons House of Assembly, of Ui)por Canada, in Pitrliament 
 assembled, being dee[)ly persuaded of the great benefits that the Province mual necessarily 
 derive from the establishment of a respectable gnimniHr school in each district thereof, and also 
 of a College or University, where tho youth of the country may be enabled to perfect themselves 
 in the ditt'erent brnnchei of liberal knowledge, and being truly sensible of the jjaternal regard 
 your Majesty entertain* for every description of your subjects, do most humbly implore your 
 Majesty that you would be graciously please i to direct Your ,\liijesty's Government in this Pro- 
 vince, to appropriate a certain portion of the waste lands of the Crown as a Fund for the estab- 
 lishment and support of such useful institutions. 
 
 JOHN ELMSLEY, 
 
 Speaker of tho Legislative C'juncil. 
 
 D. W. SMITH, 
 
 Speaker of the House of Assembly. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 (Signed) 
 York, July .3rd, 1797. 
 
 2. President Russell to the Anglican Bishop of Quebec,* 
 
 Dated Upper Canada, July 81st 1797. 
 
 Governor Simcoe having carried off the correspondence, the President does not know what 
 provision was made for school masters On his way to Quebec last year, Govenioi' Simcoe had 
 given a warrant to a son of the Rev. Dr. Stuart, of Kingston, for £100, as school master there ; 
 but, the President not knowing the authority for this payment, or the fund froiii which it 
 was drawn, had declined to issue a warrant this year, until informed of the Bishop's s atimentj 
 on the subject. 
 
 * The Right Reverend Jacob Mountain, D.D., was appointml in 1793 as the Anglican bishop of Quebec, 
 He had b«'en rector of Buckden, Huntine[d<<nRhire, and of Holbeach in Lincolnshire. His jurisdiction as 
 Bishop extended over Upper Canada, which he visited for the first time in 1820. He died in 1826. 
 
 1; 
 
1797 
 
 1792, as 
 I Council. 
 )eing the 
 ibed on a 
 
 1 a joint 
 
 hment of 
 
 it to the 
 
 1 ., 1797, 
 
 loe, having 
 >m them to 
 sly pleased 
 yaste landa 
 ,r schooi ia 
 n the diffe> 
 :o transmit 
 Htderatiun. 
 
 Most 
 
 jera of the 
 F'lirliament 
 neceasarily 
 f, and also 
 themselves 
 ■nal regard 
 iI»lore your 
 II this Pro- 
 the estab- 
 
 )uncil. 
 smbly. 
 
 797. 
 
 know what 
 Siincou had 
 Iter there ; 
 1 which it 
 ) ntimenti 
 
 ) of Quebec. ■ 
 rindiotion as 
 126. 
 
 / 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT RUSSELL CORRB8PONDENCE. 
 
 17 
 
 3. The Duke of Portland to President Russell. 
 
 In this letter, dated Whitehall, London, November 4th, 1797, the Colonial 
 Minister said that : 
 
 n "•?'" ,^?i®»*^y ^^^ ^^^^ into His Royal consideration the Petition of the Legislative 
 Council and House of Assembly humbly imploring that His Majesty would be graciously pleased 
 to .lirect his (.oyernment in this Province to appropriate a certain portion of the waste lands of 
 tJie Crown as a fund lor the establishment and support of a respecUble grammar school in each 
 district thereof and also of a college, or university, for the instruction of the youth in the 
 different branches of liberal knowledge." 
 
 And in conveying the gracious answer of the King to the Legislature of Upper 
 
 Canada, the Duke of Portland u.sed the following language : 
 
 ■ * ^^!? Majesty] being always ready to shew his parental regard for the welfare of his subiecta 
 mtie furtherance of so important an object as tht instruction of youth, and to assist and 
 encourage the exertions ol his Province in laying the foundation for promoting sound learning 
 and a religious education, has condescended to express his most gracious intention to compl? 
 with the wishes of the Legislature of h.s Province of Upper Canada in such a manner as shall £ 
 judged to be most effectual — 
 
 Fird by the establishment of free grammar [classical] schools in those districts in which 
 tney are called for ; and •••v»i 
 
 ^econd/v in due course of time by establishing other seminaries of a larger and more com. 
 prehensive nature, for the promotion of religious and moral learning, and the study of the Ait. 
 and ociences. "^ -^ii"; 
 
 He desired President Russell to consult with the Executive Council, Judges 
 and Law officers of the Crown in Upper Canada, and to report in what manner 
 and to what extent a portion of the Crown lands might be appropriated and 
 rendered productive towards the formation of a Fund for these purposes, out of 
 which shall be allotted salaries for the school masters, to be selected by the Gov- 
 ernor, and sanctioned by His Majestj'. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGISLATURE IN REGARD 
 TO THIS ROYAL GRANT OF 1797. «^^AKI> 
 
 1. Presidext Russell to the Uppkr Canada Legislature. 
 On the assembling of the Parliament of Upper Canada inl 798, President 
 Russell, through the Law Officers of the Crown, communicated the despatch of 
 the Duke of Portland of the 4th of November, 1797, to the Legislature. The 
 proceedings of the House of Assembly on this subject are as folFows : 
 
 On Monday the 18th Jiino, 1798, the Solicitor-Cxeneral, in his place informed the House that 
 H,« Honor the President, Peter Russel, had given to him in charge a written melsage com' 
 munjcating to the House. His Majesty's Most Gracious pleasure respecting the AddresTof the 
 two Houses of the Parlmmen or this Province, during the last Session relative to the establish 
 ment of (,rammar Schools and a University in this Province, which being delivered to Mr 
 Speaker, and he and the House standing up uncovered, the same was read by Mr Speaker in 
 the following words to wit : — "^ kJiJtuner in 
 
 A Message prom the President to the Honourable the Legislative Council and the 
 
 House of Assembly ; 
 Peter Rl's.seli,, President. 
 The President has great satisfaction in being authorized to communicate to the Legislative 
 Council and House o Assembly that Hu. Majesty has been most graciously pleased to tSke into 
 His Royal consideration, their petition humbly imploring His Majesty that he would be grici^ 
 ^ (D.E.J 
 
 ,]^ji^i|^*a(4^|fr.f(<e^->k«.;»t*(^!*-i*%|i^ 
 
18 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1798 
 
 •r 
 
 T>uily pleasud to direct his (ioverninent in this Pr(»vince to api»roi>riate a certain jK>rtion of 
 the waste lands of the Crown as a fund for the establishment and support of a respectable Gram- 
 mar School in each DiUrict thereof, and *lso of a College or University tor the instruction of 
 youth in the different branches of liberal knowledge ; and being always read/ to sliow his 
 parental regard for the welfare of his subjects in the furtherance of so important an object as 
 the instruction of youth, and to assist and encourage the exertions of hij Province in laying tiio 
 foundation for promoting sound learning and a religious eclucation, he liaH condescended to 
 express His Most (iracious intention to comply with the Legislature of his Province of Upper 
 Canada, in such manner as shall be judged most effectual, tirst, by the establishment of free 
 firammar Schools in those Districts in which tlioy are called for, and in process of time, by 
 establishing other Sonnimries of a larger and more comprehensive nature for the promotion of 
 religious and moral learning, and the study of the Arts and Sciences. With'this view the 
 President is directed to consult the membere of His Majesty's Executive Council, and the 
 Judges and Law Olticei-s of the Crown in Upper Canada, and to report to the Secretary of State 
 in which manner, and to what extent a portion of the Crown Lands may be approjmated and 
 rendered i)roductive towards the formation of a fund for the above purpose, out of which His 
 Majesty may, according to his pleasure allot such salaries as he may judge proper for school- 
 masters of such free schools, who are to be appointed by His Majesty's Oovernorjor the person 
 administering the (Jovernmont within the Province for the time being, subject to His Majesty's 
 approbation, signified through one of hi.s priticiiwl Secretaries of State. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Solioiior-CJeneral Gray, seconded % Mr. Christopher Robinson, 
 Resolved, That an Address be presented to His Majesty for having been graciously pleased 
 to take into His Royal consideration their petition for the establishment of Grammar Schools 
 in this Province. 
 
 On the motion of Mr. Solicitor-General, seconded by Mr. Robinson, 
 
 Kesolvi-il, That this House do recjuest the concurrence of the Legislative Council in a joint 
 Address of thinks t > Hii Majesty fcjp having been graciously pleased to take into His Royal 
 T5onsideration this petition for the establishment of Grammar Schools in this Province. 
 On the motion of Mr. St)licitor-General, seconded by Capt. Praser, 
 
 Ordered, That Mr. David M. Rogers and Mr. Richard Beasley be a committee to communi- 
 cate the jtreceding Resolution to the Legislative Council accordingly. 
 
 The i'omniittee reported on 19th of Juno, that they had done so. 
 
 On the 20th nfJiuiea Message from the Legislative Council informing the House, That 
 they concurred in the proj osal of a joint Address of thanks to His Majesty for having been 
 
 fraciously p'oased to tak^ into His Royal consideration the Petiti.m of the two Houso' of 
 •arliament of this Province praying for the establishment of Grammar Schools. 
 
 On 2<Jth of June, 179S, on :;;;tii)n of Mr. Rogers, seconded by Mr. Solomon Jones, 
 
 Ordered, That Mr. Solicitor-General anil Mr. S. Street beaTommittee to report the draught 
 of an Address of thanks to the King's Most Kxceilent Majesty, for having been graciously [)lea8ed 
 to take into His Royal consideration the humble Petition of the Parliament of this Province for 
 the establishment of Grammar Schools, etc., in this Province. 
 
 On the &nd of July, '798, the Committee reported that they had drafted an Address accord- 
 ingly which would be sent down by a Message from the Legislative Council this day. 
 
 A Message from the Legislative Council with the said Address engrossed and signed by the 
 Honorable the Speaker of the Legislative Council. 
 
 Mr. Speaker read the said Address. On motion of Mr. Solicitor-General Gray, seconded 
 by Mr. i'amuel Street, 
 
 Ordered, That the House do concur in the said Address, and the .same was signed by the 
 Speaker accordingly. 
 
 On 3rd of Jidy, 1708, on the motion of Mr. Rogers, seconded by Mr. Edward Jessup, 
 Ordered, That Mr. Solicitor-General and Mr. Beasley be a Committee to inform the Legis- 
 tive Council that this House has concurred in the Address of thanks to His Majesty for his 
 gracious intention.s respecting Grammar Schools, and to return the .said Address to the Legis- 
 lative Council, and further, to inform the Legislative Council that this House requests that they 
 would appoint a Committee of their House to accompany one from this House to wait upon His 
 Honor the President to know when His Honour will receive the two Houses with the said 
 Addrp.»8. 
 
 On the same day a Meswige was received from the Leu'islative Council with an Address to 
 His Honour President Russell. 
 
 t^iki'^^^aiiiAi^^k 
 
1798 
 
 Chap. VII. PROCKEDINQS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEOI.SLATUHE, ETC. 
 
 19 
 
 jK»rtion of 
 bablu Gram- 
 struotion of 
 ) iliuw hit 
 n object as 
 I laying the 
 jBceiidi'd to 
 ;e of Upper 
 [)ent of free 
 of time, by 
 uiuotiou of 
 lis view the 
 il, and the 
 ,ry of State 
 iriated and 
 which flis 
 for Bchool- 
 • the person 
 s Majesty's 
 
 n, 
 
 sly pleased 
 lar Schools 
 
 1 in a joint 
 Uis Royal 
 
 ) communis 
 
 ouae, That 
 iving been 
 House' ^t 
 
 ho draught 
 sly |>lea8ed 
 rovincc for 
 
 •ess accord - 
 ned by the 
 , seconded 
 led by the 
 
 BHUp, 
 
 the Legis- 
 ty for his 
 the Legis- 
 i that they 
 t ui>on His 
 th the said 
 
 Lddress to 
 
 Mr. Sjieakerread the said Address. On the motion of Mr. Solicitor-General, socomi 
 Mr. Rogers. 
 
 Ordired, That the House do concur in the faid Address, and the same was accordingly 
 signed by the 8t)eaker. and then the two Houses of Parliament waited upon His Honour the 
 President with their joint Addresses to His Majesty, and to His Honour, and therefore His 
 Honour was pleased to address the two Houses of Parliament as follows, to wit .• — 
 Hoiumihle fUntlemen nfthe Leijidntive Conni-il and (fentlKmen nf tite Hmi.it' i>f Asuemhiy : 
 
 I shall take the earliest opportunity of transmitting your very loyal Address to His 
 Majesty. 
 
 2. PllESlDENT RUSSELT, TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND. 
 
 In this letter, under date of York, November 3rd, 1798, President Kussell 
 stated to the Secretary of State that he was as yet unable to send a report of the 
 Judges and Law Officers as to the manner and extent to which Crown Lands 
 might be appropriated for the establi.shmont of " Free Grammar Schools and other 
 Seminaries of a larger and more comprehensive nature." 
 
 3. President Ru.ssell to the Honoraui.e John Elmsley, Chief Justice 
 
 OF Upper Canada. 
 
 Dated York, the Gth of November, 1798, 
 Having received directions from the Duke of Portland, (<ne of His Majesty s principal 
 Secretaries of State, to consult the ineiubers of His Majesty's Executive Council, and the Judges 
 and Law Officers of fhe Crown in I'ppor Canada, and report to His Grace in what manner, and 
 to what extent a portion of the waste lands of the Crown may be appropriated, and rendered 
 productive towards the formatiim of a fund for the establishment of free Grammar Schools in 
 those districts in which they are called for, and in duo process of time by eHtal)lishing other 
 Seminaries of a larger and more comprehensive nature for the promotion of religious and 
 moral learning, and the study of the Arts and Sciences, out of which His Majesty may according 
 to his pleasure, allot such salaries as he shall judge proi)er for the schoolmasters of such free 
 schools, who are to be appointed by His Majesty's Governor or the person administering His 
 Majesty's Government, hubject to His Majesty's approbation. 
 
 President- Russell also issued a circular as follows : — 
 
 I am to request you will be pleased to meet the Chief .lustice and the members of the 
 Executive Council at the Council Chambers, on Friday the 9th instant, for the purpose of 
 taking the above subject into your consideration, and repmting to me your opinions thereon 
 that I may transmit ihem to the Duke of Portland for His Majesty's information. * 
 
 4. The Chief Justice of Upper Canada to President Russell. 
 
 On the 10th November 1798, Chief Justice Elmsley, in reply, addressed 
 President Russell as follows : — 
 
 The Committee, on his Grace the Duke of Portland's letter on the subject of schools, direct 
 me to inquire of Your Honour, wliether it is your i)lea8ure that we should each of us report his 
 opinion sei)arately, or whether the Chairman is to report to you, a plan agreed upon by us all. 
 
 5. President Russell to Chief Justice Elmsley. 
 
 On the 12th of November, 1798, President Russell replied to the Chiet 
 Justice as follows : — 
 
 I have had the honour to receive your letter of Saturday, desiring to know whether the 
 members of the Committee on his Grai e the Duke of Portland's letter on the subject of schools 
 are to report their opinion separately, or whether the Chairman is to report the plan agreed 
 upon by them all. In answer to which I can only have the honour to say, that in my opinion a 
 report from the Chairman of a plan unanimously agreed upon would be less troublesome both to 
 the Committee and His Grace, and would probably throw equal if not more light upon the sub- 
 
 lect than the oninions of thn miinihf<r» ttt-jitml aaimrot-jln I ol>oli (-i,„..„f„_„ ..°\^ x,--, t 
 
 - , i. ■ J 1 \,, ""'^,''. --—I — --; .....i.„j. ^ n^-oror^ ,. illy ret lUcBt a gen- 
 
 eral report signed by the Cliatrman ; however, 1 do not mean by this to preclude any of the 
 gentlemen from favoring me with their own sentimei'bs. in addition to the general advice as I 
 beheve it is the desire of his Majesty's ministers to obtain all the information possible on a sub- 
 ject of such importance to the future welfare of this province. 
 
10 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OK BDUOATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1798 
 
 CHAPTER VIII 
 
 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND ITS COMMITTEE ON 
 THE ORIGINAL ROYAL GRANT OF 1797. 
 
 Council Chamber, 
 
 York, Ist December, 1798. 
 Present: His Honour Peter Russell, Esquire, President; The Honourables 
 Messieurs John Elmsley, Chief Justice of Upper Canada; /Eneas Shaw ; and 
 David William Smith, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada. 
 
 The Report of the Board formed of the members of His Majesty's Execu- 
 tive Council and the Judges and Law Officei-s of the Crown in Upper Canada, 
 who were directed to take into their consideration the letter from his Grace the 
 Duke of Portland, dated the 4th of November, 1797, on tha establishment of 
 grammar schools and other places of education in this Province, was read and 
 the same having received the approbation of the President-in-Council it was 
 ordered, that the Report be fairly copied, that it may be transmitted without 
 delay to His Grace the Duke of Portland, for the information of His Majesty. 
 The Report of the Board, addressed to President Rus.sell, was as follows :— 
 
 I have the honour t.. inform you that in obedience to yoiiroiderof thH«th .iUi«,« fK„ 
 ber.s of H.S Majesty- Executive Council, the Ju.lges and'the Law ( £. of tt^^^^^ 
 together in this place on the nineteenth ultimo, an.l on several occasions since and t.ri; T,X 
 
 mar schools and other places of education in the Province. "'"out oj ^lam 
 
 rtisn-.t t. ba expictid thu on a su'.ject of such extent the opinions of s. manv nel- 
 sons as were a««embled to consider of it should exactly coincide. ^"oi h) many pei - 
 
 .Anrl a"""' ''"**'^"' ^*»« ftisfaction to say that in our general views of the system t.. be 
 adopted we are nearly agreed, and that the difference with respect to the mode in Xch t is to 
 be carried into effect is not very considerable. wuicn u is to 
 
 As it was Your Honour'., pleasure that the Chairman should collect the oninions of Mm 
 several members of the Bo.rd and digest them into one report, I took the liWt "f disti 
 g.Msh>ng the subject into the five following heads, and of re.juesting their thoughtl on each vt! 
 
 Lst The sum to be rained. 2. The number of acres to be anurooriafBd 'i Tl,« ..,,1 
 to which the fund is to be applied. 4. The number of Bchool"! a^d ^places whe.e th v Tr^^ 
 be erected. 5. The number now necessary. ' " ''"'y '^^^ ^"^ 
 
 It is now my duty to staf^ to Your Honour the general result of the whole and shonbl T 
 
 ttat'Vnn^'^l""''"' ^''n «^'"*""«':^« "V^"^ ^''''"'^ '" ^"'^ "> ^'^'^ '^e effect theV^seive I rus 
 that You. Honour will unpute the blame to mo only, and do justice to the several members bv 
 referring to the opinion of each, which I have subjoined by way of schedule. '"^'"f'ors by 
 
 Wheu the suliject was rtrst opened, it seemed to be the unanimous oninion th^t th^ ;. ^ 
 tionof the Royal Founder of the free Grammar Sch s and Univerty ^Z K "^i^^^^^^ 
 
 mlb f7T'u ^f *'^' '" '!,*'r' ?'"'''"''' ^'"- '^'^^ ««t.iblislunent and inain e^ilc^ and elh 
 member of the Board seemed deeply impressed with a conviction that in making his estimate of 
 the extent of that provision, it would be much safer t,. allow t«.o much than tooTitTle St T 
 
 he application of the funds will always be directed by the beneficent w dom whTch las Create. 
 
 t the excess may at any time be applied to other ,.ur,,o8eH. equally worthy o^he Sn' 
 
 intention, and equallv conducive t.. tb., hunuin.-K ,,f fi.„ p-...,; . uL :. «,;./. :!'^ '"^.'8'"''' 
 
 perhaps impossible if the present moment btneglectedto find,' 'at; Kitu;ep?rtr.\ 2«:'of 
 
1798 
 
 €h»p. VIII. 
 
 REPORT OF THK EXKCUTIVE COUNCIL, ETC. 
 
 SI 
 
 tlndor thin iinproHnioM the Bonrd proceedeil U> coimidir in dutHil the pui|Mmui to which th« 
 pr()i>«Mt)d fund should, when raiaod, Ihi npidied, mid it suen>«d to bo muninious in thinking that 
 thoy may l>e reduced to thre«. 
 
 Int. The urection of the nocosNuiy bunding. 
 
 2nd. The pjiyment of the Bularifit of the manteiii. 
 
 ■'{rd. Tliu kuupinr of the buildings in re|>ttii' tho purchase of ho )k8 iind phih)jophioal 
 appiiriituH, iind otlior purposes ossenliHl to places of education, but in general too costly to bo 
 provided by iudivi luals. 
 
 Ist. With resfiect to the Huni d !» expunde*'. on the erection of the necessary buildings, 
 the Board conceiveil that taking the ii\' rage price of labour in the f(»ur districts of lh« Province, 
 the sum i'3,0()(), provincial currency, will bo sufficient to erecr; a plain but solid and substantial 
 building, oonCAiuing a sciiool-ro<<m siittioient to hold an hundred boys without danger to their 
 health from too mauy boin« crowded together ; and also a set of apartments for the master, 
 largo enough, not only for the accommodation of his family, but also for the very desirable i)ur- 
 pQBO of enabling him to take a fuw of his pupils as boarders ; some few out-buildins{a may also 
 be necessary for the use of the master which, if tliey will not come within the estimate, will 
 not much exce9d it, and may easily be provided for hereafter 
 
 2nd. As the extent of the salaries of the misters is expressly reserved for the lloyal con- 
 sideration, we do not presume to mention any particular sum as sufficient for that purpose : but 
 as it is necessary for us in ma'.ing our estimate to calculate upon some given sum, and as His 
 Excellency the Lioutenaut-(}ov jrnor thought the sum of £1(K), pi ovincial currency, a sutticient 
 allowance for the m ister of the school orecfel under his auspices at Kingston, wo beg leave to 
 take that sum as an average for the salary of the master of each school, and half of it for the 
 salary of a second master, in case it should be thought expedient to have one. 
 
 3rd. The sum of I'^O per annum seems to l»e a sudKcient sum for keeping the building in 
 repair. The provision for the purchase of books, philosophical apparatus, etc., relates to the 
 endowment of the University rather than to that of the Grammar School, and is only men- 
 tioned that it may not appear to have been forgotten in our calculation. 
 
 It appeared, therefore, to bo the general opinion of the Board that a sum not exceeding 
 £3,000, provincial currency, and an annual income of £180 will be amply sufHcient for the 
 establishment and support of a free grammar school in each district, 
 
 Thf next object was to consider the mode by which that sum and that income are to be 
 raised 
 
 With respect to the former, the Board had but one opinion, viz. 
 by the sale of part of the waste lands of the Crown. 
 
 That it can only be raised 
 
 If the institutions in question are to be deferred until thoy can be provided for from the 
 annual income of any quantity of land that can be ajjpropriated for them, they will be deferred 
 either until they have been superceded by other institutions, or until four or five generations of 
 ignorance and vice have rendered them useless. 
 
 The annual income must equally be divided from the waste lands of the Crcwn, and may, In 
 the apprehension of the Board, be raised by one or other of the four following modes. 
 
 Ist. By the sale of so much of those lamh as will raise a sum which, if invested in the Bri- 
 tish funds, will produce the sum of jKISO as interest. 
 
 2nd. By reserving such a portion of those lands as, when leased, will produce that sum as 
 rent. 
 
 3rd. By appropriating to the same purpose such parts of the present Crown reserves as are 
 capable of yielding a present rent ; or 
 
 4th. By sellinsf a portion of the waste lands of the Crown ("always dis^'inguishing between 
 waste lands of the Crown and Crown Reserves), and laying out the produce in the purchase of 
 lands which from their quality, local situation or state of cultivation, either yield or may be 
 made to yield a present rent. 
 
 On each of these modes, the Board begs leave to submit the following considerations : — 
 With respect to the first, it observes that, besides the disadvantages of the daily decreasing 
 value of an income which is to be applied to a perminent purpose, and which arises from 
 money, or is reserved in money ; it will require the sale of a <iuantitv of land considerably 
 beyond iiny that the Board would venture to mention to raise asum which at the rate of Hv'e 
 per cent per annum would yield the sum of £180 as interest. 
 
 !■ 
 
22 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 170S 
 
 lands h thlcnZZ be generally, houjrh perhaps not universally, true, that whenever 
 
 a Tent L inlfn T ^''f »l'*b'«' ^T "'"?'' J'' situation, or any other c rcumBtance, of yielding 
 ft rent. ,i capita a.d out m the purchase ..f those lands h much more productive than one lent 
 
 JweSTheforr^^^^^^^^ T"'''^' T\''''''' '« ^^"^ ad/litional advantaKe " the 
 
 smo ot tlie fonner, that both the reil a-.d nominil value of rent will increase with the increasing 
 prosperty of the country, while the real value of interest decreases with the d- creasinL valSe of 
 nio„e> m a proportion to which the increase of our prosperity is not a counterbalance! 
 the questfon';''^' ^''^"*''"'^' ^"""'^^'-^ 'his mo.le of raising the income required as wholly out of 
 
 Of the remaining three modes tlie Board considers that wliich proposes to nrovide the 
 necessary mcome, by reserving for the use of those institutions a certB portion of Z We 
 an.is of the Crown, and leas.T.g them at a ra^k-rent as incomparably ti.e 1 Lt^ E rbecau,eTL 
 
 noses o7r« p"*^ ^""'^'^ '' 'r''%*^' ',!""^ "f ^'•"^^■'^ ««««"«« fron^ which he other pubic pu 
 poses of the Province may hereafter be supplied untouched, but it is certain that the nresent 
 
 z:^;z:l^^"'"''' '" "°^ ^^''-'- - ^« -'-- much incom:Trorsu^Kri 
 
 ...nh^VlK^' ''^^'■^^"'•«' ^^ necessary to break in upon the Crown Reserves, and to annroDriate 
 
 even " tlr^'hisLrt""'' T''-?, "^ ^i'^^'"^ ''"" '' '^' P-^^'^"^ P"^P««« =«nd should The Zd 
 propose?moL Tnd ^ ".adequate nothing will remain but to recur to the fourth of he 
 
 LriUl':^',::^^^^^^^^^^^ ---^^ ^-" the sales, in the purchase of 
 
 of fJ'l'' "bj^*-'*."'"'''^ "^/t engaged the attention of the Boar.l was to consider in what oarfc. ..f 
 of the several district, of the Province the proposed schools and seminary ISdbreJec^Sd 
 
 Newark aSs^^ni' T '''^'"i ""^"""ouB in thinking that the towns of Cornwall, Kingston 
 Newark and Sandwich, are the most proper places for the sites of the four schools. "^'"^ston, 
 
 K„,K V®''* equally unanimous in considering the town of Vork as entitled to the TIniv««.if« 
 
 an?.rbehX'fa"rL'! ''! '^^^^"^'^" Oovern'ment, the Le«islati?eTnd tt Cour s > J S: 
 ti!l il- ^ ^, ^'^"^ ^^® """t convenient sp jt in the Province for all general purposes its sitim 
 
 ore'nTo'f'Jrirtem^e^.rtt'S^ its.acces.bility by water, thepr'oposed ElgrroTd f^om U e 
 o eiiu oi tlie rrovince to the other, being necesianly to pass near it or through it. 
 
 the sIveTal rem"wI'!!f'rT'"?'''^"'V^ "'""'''" *'"' '"'"'?"*=' ''' *^« ""'"^^r of schools which 
 IiAv« iL nU i J"^ ^^"'"','^ consider as necessary. Each part <.f the Province seemed to 
 
 hr^IntlJn pT" '"'^ 7^^' "''"'';^"'' ''^'^ "^ *"'"^'"1 'f 't *««•« pos'tponed to any other Some of 
 
 hoifld be ^un Tth;'^''"'"?- "'"' ^'T "'^'r'^ Z''' "•'" "'^•=^«"*'i'' •'"'1 that the whole number 
 
 fund in thl3^. f *^^'"^"^« time : orhers thought that, besides the necessity of managinu the 
 
 for?h„ 1 / !"'^"' T""^'" P"»«'*''«. fhe i.resent circumstances of the Province do not call 
 
 sele fed n, 'with "'"'"' ?"" '''" '"^'i' ^*"' '^''' '^ "'« ^''"'^^i""^ '^f those wo are obviously 
 room f, , "'"' *" u"y Particular distri<:t. but to the Pr vince at large, .here will be no 
 
 a lJt"'°aii 'wrL"u,?,l'.' *f '•"■■"""i"' ■"» "l".>i.>n tl..f the „,,,ropri.lio„ .hould co„r .uch 
 
 erownLdEgysIvenL^ •"''"'• "' '"" t<.wn8h.ps, after the deduction of the 
 
 It is obvious that if the four schools are all ere.te,l i nmediately. and the allowance which 
 our estimate propose, for them is not extravagant, a much larger sum than tha XiTl £„« 
 mentioned will be necessary, and cnnsequentCv a much larger aWroprmt.onUst be made " 
 
 the nnanr'lJ'l""*""^'.'" ^''^^..^^ P''"!""'^ thut the fund should be managed, we conceive that 
 
 P«rtTtheifr'rhorrT^n''"''''T •'"«*'''«"t f-^ the establishment a Id sup- 
 
 ^'v^?^i™''^.^'•?'«;J'".«''''^ ade,,uate. to tlie erection and emlnwm«n"^f 
 
 m^nt^i^^;.:^:^^ £?:i;chri^Su/;r"'*" "' ''""''- ^-^ "^ '^"^"^-^ ^'^ ''^™- 
 
17U» 
 
 Chap. VIII. 
 
 REPORT OF" THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, ETC. 
 
 sa 
 
 Havini; trespassed so lung upon Your Honour's ti<ne and attention, I shall not trouble you 
 with the detail of the manner in which we conceive that the proposed fund should be managed, 
 because I hope that it will be sufficiently apparent from the followinjj resolutions, into which 
 the fioard has condensed all that it has to offer on the interesting and important subject which 
 has engaged it ; I have, therefore, the honor to inform you that the members of His Majesty's 
 Executive Council, the Judges and the Law Officers of the Crown, after much reflection and 
 deliberation on the matter referred to them, are of opinion : 
 
 1. That an appropriation of 500,000 acres or ten townships, after deducting the Crown and 
 Clergy sevenths, will form a sufficient fund for the establishment and maintenance of the royal 
 foundation of four grammar schools and an university in the Province of Upper Canada. 
 
 2. That the present circumstances of the Province call for the erection of two of those 
 schools, one at the town of Kingston, the other at the town of Newark. 
 
 3. That ioir the purpose of building a plain but solid and substantial house, containing a 
 school room sufficient to contain 100 boys, and apartments for the Master large enough for the 
 accommodation of a moderate family and the reception of from 10 to 20 boys as boarders, the 
 sum of £3,000 provincial currency for each will be a sufficient allowance. 
 
 4. That for the purpose of raising that sum, a portion of the appropriated tract be sold in 
 the manner directed by His Grace the Duke of Portland with respect to the othar waate landa 
 of the Crown. 
 
 5. That for the purpose of defrayinj; the salaries of a master and under master, in case an 
 under master should be thought necessary, and also for the purpose of keeping the buildings in 
 repair, and making such additions thereto as circumstances shall letiuire, the annual sum of 
 £180 provincial currency for each school is a sufficient allowance. 
 
 6. That in order to raise this annual sum, such parts of the waste lands of the Crown in the 
 diiferent parts of the Province be selected, as from the quality of the soil or from their local 
 situation are most likely to yield an annual rent, and that they be leased in the manner hereto- 
 fore recommended by His Majesty's Executive Council with respect to the Crown and Clergy 
 Reserve!. 
 
 7. That if the income arising from the lands so reserved and leased, be insufficient for the 
 purposes above mentioned, a similar selection be made from the Crown Reserves. 
 
 8. That if, after this'addition, the fund be still insufficient, a further portion of the appro- 
 priated land be sold, and the money arising from the sale i!i vested in the purchase of other landt 
 80 situated as to yield a present rent. 
 
 9. That, whenever the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the 
 Governuient in Council, shall be of opinion that the circumstances of the Province call for the 
 erection of two other schools, and also that the appropriated fund is sufficient, not only to bear 
 the expenses of the erecHon and endowment of those two schools, but also to leave a residua 
 sufflcit-nt for the establishment and future mjiintenance of a seminary of a larger and more com- 
 prehensive nature, the same steps be pursued with respect to such two schools as have been 
 already recommei.dod with respect to the tw > schools at Kingston and Newark. 
 
 10. That the provision for the establishment and maintenance of the University be at least 
 equal to that for the four schools taken together. 
 
 I perfectly accord with this Report in all its parts. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 Peter Rcssell, 
 
 President. 
 
 Individual Opinions of Members of the Committee. 
 
 In his letter to the Hon. Chief Justice Elmsley, dated the I2th of November 
 1798, Pre.sident Russell intimated that while he only requested from the Com- 
 mittee a " general report on the Duke of Portland's despatch of the 4th of Novem- 
 ber, 1797, signed by the Chairman, yet he did not thereby wish to ' preclude any 
 ' of the gentlemen of the Committee from favouring him with their own senti-^ 
 
u 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1798 
 
 " ments on the subject, in addition to their general advice." The members of the 
 Committee, therefore, submitted to President Russell their individual opinions on 
 the mode to be adopted for the establishment of grammar schools and a university 
 *s follows:— ' ' ^' 
 
 1. The Hon. ^neas Shaw's Opinion. 
 
 l8t. For the necessary buildings and improvements in each dUtrict-Provincial 
 currency "»iin.i<»i 
 
 For a Teacher; books, repairs, etc. ' in'each district annuailyViiis' whichat 
 five per cent, requires a principal of . ' 
 
 £2,000 
 2,500 
 
 3rd. Answered above. 
 
 4th. One in each of the four original district'. 
 
 York, 12th November, 1798. ^neas Shaw. 
 
 2. The Hon. John^Gill's Opinion. 
 
 schooh aid'o^ht semiSe,^>fYe;rSg Slthor^Kin*"' TT/^ 1 ^™« «~ 
 twenty thousand pounds 'earning tnroughout this Province should be from eighteen to 
 
 5th. How many are now necessary-" Four, one in each district." 
 
 John McGili. 
 
 3. The Hon. D. W. Smith's Opinion. 
 
 Thoughts and scheme on the institution of the grammar schools 
 
 t 
 
 L 
 
1798 
 
 £2,000 
 2,600 
 
 Chap. IX. 
 
 COKRESPONDENCE WITH THE COLONIAL OFFICE. 
 
 25 
 
 ^. I P'■r.';*^^^*'.'""'"''" g«'*""»a«- schooling now r farmer's children is about a dollar per 
 montii, or 4.J Halifax currency i)er annum. The induooments anticipated by the acnuisitions of 
 propfcrmasters, andtheoifiining of a beneficial lease in regard to time, and at little or no 
 expense considering that the rent is liquidated by the right of sch .oling at the current price, 
 are so great that it is apprehended a great proportion ..f the reserved lots would be immediately 
 taken, and eventually all of them. ' 
 
 I need not dwell on the necessity of inducement whei the eflfect of it is co ease the Govern- 
 ment ot expense, without injuring the subject— in new countries it is necessary. It is then 
 contemplated to apply the profi-s arising from these leases as a salary for the master, and as 
 iney lacrease, for his assistants-for as asiistjints may bo required by the increase of the num- 
 oerot scholars, it 13 to be observed that the emoluments given in proportion— r-asual scholars 
 will also be an aid, and as the masters in general will probably be clergymen, the asnstance 
 hi w ^I"®'''i / • ^ " ^'"^•^^'^y ^'"^ P'"*'P'*gating the (Jospel, will render the situation such as to 
 "'orthy of being sought after by persons of character and information. 
 If the scheme 18 adoi)t9d and succeeds, the Cnjwn will be exempted from every expense, 
 ano an inexhaustible fund created for the gorid purposes intended by our Royal Father and 
 oenetactor ; but this success no puisne mortal can anticipate, until a college or other superior 
 aeminary of learning should be established ; the interior economy and regulation of the schools 
 to De in all respects under tin direction of the Executive Government, and that a fund may be 
 growing tor such college or seminary, it is proposed to appropr ate two townships in the County 
 ot xork (m the vicinity of Lake Simooe)for that purpose, and that so often as the person of a 
 lessee changes, the right of sending a boy to the district grammar sch.wl should be renewed. 
 ^Fu^r P*^ru^ " **"? '^'? ''^ *PP'''''^ t<jwarcl8 the college fund of ^3 H. Oy., equal to one year'L 
 ficiiooling. rhe regulations for the school I should recommend to be on a broad basis and as 
 iioeral as it may l,e thought prudent to permit— may loyalty be professed and taught as a 
 nei,jssary combination with good manners, and the progress of the arts and sciences-may the 
 mnueu je of religion spread itself among the rising generation, to the credit of the pastors, and 
 to the honour of the Lord-and may the youth with hilarity, and their parents with gratitude 
 never cease to pray — •- r e 
 
 " God save the King ! 
 
 Fork, 14th August, 179?. 
 
 D. W. Smith. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 FURTHER GORRESPOJ^DENCE WITH THE COLONIAL OFFICE. 
 1. President Russell to the Duke of Portland, 
 
 • 
 
 In a letter dated York, February 12, 1799, he informs the Colonial Secretary that 
 the Council had recommended that the house at Newark, owned by Mr. D. W 
 Smith, Surveyor-General, should be purchased for a school house. He said : 
 
 By the unanimous advice of the Council, I have the honour of transmitting herewith for 
 lour Grace s information, a copy of the Report, (dated the 26th November, 1798.) of the Board I 
 had directed to survey and estimate the value of the house and ground near Newark, which I 
 had noticed to Vour Grace in my letter No. 50, Mr. Smith had offered to Government (and the 
 Council had recommended to be purchased) for a school-house, and part of the endowment of a 
 free grammar school for the home district, together with the plans explanatory thereof. 
 
 J u^n^'"'^® ** ***° **""" '''"® t'^">entio" to Your Grace that these buildings had been 
 «rected by Mr. Smith at a very considerable expense, under an expectation of Newark's remaining 
 the seat of Government for 8o:ne years, and with a view of their beiiw ani.lied aftflrwanU fo^h« 
 uses lor which they are now recomm >ndod. To which I humbly take the liberty of adding that 
 Mr. Sniith is a most useful and deserving officer, and inde'atigible in his attention to the Depart- 
 ment ot Surveyor-Gener.U, over winch he has for some years presided with no other salary than 
 that of a Provincial Surveyor. 
 
 L 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OP EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1799-180() 
 
 The proceedings of the Executive Council on the Report, etc., the President 
 stated were as follows : — 
 
 *u ^^ * '"ouncil tnoetins,' liold on the first of December, 1798. President Russell in the C'mir 
 the Kaport wa^ read of the B ;ard recommending the purchase of a house and four acres of land 
 belonging to the Honourable David William Smith, in the Town of Newark, and a farm of 160 
 acres ajljoining to the t<»wn-the former as a school house, the latter as a part of the endowment 
 of the free grammar school of the Home District, and that some competent person or persons be 
 employed to value them. «^ r t- ..» .^a 
 
 The report was apjjroved in Council, and it was 
 
 1. Ordered, That the Enaiineer be requested to select proper judges, and favour the Board 
 mth a just valuation of the premises that the same may be submitted by the President for His 
 
 2. OnW That the Surveyor-General be instructed to select ten townships in orouer 
 situa ions, that they may be approprmted for the purposes mentioned in the precSg report of 
 this date, relating to a university and grammar schools for Ui>per Canada. 
 
 2. President Russell to the Duke of Portland. 
 
 In this letter, dated York, May 18, 1799, he enclosed a Report from the Actin.^ 
 Surveyor-General respecting the waste lands in Upper Canada remaining to be 
 disposed of, after deducting the Crown and Clergy Reserves ; and a statement of 
 the appropriation for schools, roads, French royalists, etc. ; also a list of appropri- 
 ations recommended by the Acting Surveyor-General for establishing a fund for 
 the building and the support of free Grammar Schools in Upper Canada. 
 
 3. The Duke of Portland to Lieutenant-Goveknor Hunter. 
 In this letter, dated Whitehall, 13th of March, 1800, the Colonial Secretary 
 refers Governor Hunter to his letter of the 4th Nove.nber, 1797, addressed to 
 President Ru.'^sell on the subject of the Royal Grant of Lands for a University 
 and Grammar Schools in ->per Canada. He also refers the Governor to his letter 
 to President Russel! relating to the purchase of Hon. D. W. Smith's house at^ 
 Newark for a school, ate. He said : 
 
 NovoJiir'KTL^'HiJM'-"^/'^"'^"^^ inmylotterto Mr. President Russell of the 4th 
 
 sSs "' '" '''^ ^"'"""'"" "' '•'^•'^'""' ^"'^ '""'•■^' i^''^-"^' --i 'KuS; of ci: sVnd 
 
 Mr. Russell h^is transmitted winh his loiter to me. No. 55 of the 12th Febru*rv 1709 th« 
 estimate an<\ plans of a house and some grounds near Newark belontfimr h. Mr^S., Vm I. 
 Speaker oi the Hou.e of Assenihly of Uppef Canada. wl,icrth"rN\S 'E^^':;.!^Ln ed to b^ 
 purchased for a scho.)! for the home district of that Province I am th».r«f,.r« t,^ .,! • 
 t« complete this purcliase forthwith, in order thatM. time niay b loPMn "wL in^^^^^^ 
 useful establishment, for which those premises are intonde.1 toi warding the very 
 
 Although I haxT not received the (ieneral Report of the E.vecutive Council which sat on 
 l«t Zrt '^^'^^ ""^ ^''^I>f «'»*'«'•. i7!)3. and which i. referred to in Mr. RuieK dispatc 
 the 2hool :;?! Tu'^PT' V' ''" ""^' "^•'"'='r" *^'^*''^^*^'- ^' '^' P»^'^»'««« money Zng takln fn m 
 
 g^er^ri of ie «^^ fn, r" ""MHjest/s pleasure that tliore should be seven trustees or 
 
 goyern< ^s (>t tne said scliool. four of whom are always to be : 'I he Governor Liniif«nunf f ',.., 
 emor,; -person administering the Government of Uoper Canada Th„ l.^li^/ Ri.K!!!''^;!!^^'!^" 
 „th„r%"Kr ■'"'"? 'u ^^'V'" ^:?"?^*' '*"'* '''^' «P*«*ker of the A8sen.bTy>or"the"tT,ne'beini/ The 
 Province "" '" ^' "'^''""^ ^' ^°" ^^"'" '''« '"^'^ re.pecUbie'of the i. SiSof ^he 
 
 ^1 
 
Chap. IX. 
 
 CORRESPOXDENCE WITH THE COLONIAL OFFICE. 
 
 27 
 
 
 4. Lieutenant-Governor Hunter to the Duke of Portland. 
 In a letter to the Duke, dated 1st September, 1800, Governor Hunter points out 
 many objections to the purchase of Hon. D. W. Smith's house at Newark for a 
 school house, as recommended by President Russell and his Council. He never- 
 theless, encloses a memorial on the subject from Mr. Smith. 
 
 This correspondence throws a good deal of light on the value of the public 
 lands in that day, as pointed out by the Governor. He said : — 
 
 I have the lionour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's letter No. 6, dated the 13th 
 of March last. 
 
 Before I enter upon the purchiwe nf the houae and grounds belonging to Mr. Sniitii, the 
 late Speaker of the House of Assembly, wiiich Your Grace has given me authority to complete 
 for the esUblishment of a school, [ beg leave to submit the following observations for Your 
 Grace s consideration and decision : 
 
 The situation of Mr. Smith's house being immediately opposite the American Fort at 
 Niagara, and complete'y within the reach of their guns, appears to mo an objection of some 
 ma^.iitude to establishing a public school in sucti a situation. 
 
 The mode recommended for the payment of this i)urchaso, namely from the school and 
 colleate fund, is another material objection, as no such fund exists iifc present. They are indeed 
 twelve townships containing ab .ut 650,000 acres of land sot apart for the endowment of schools, 
 but not an a(Te nf these Unds have yut been sold, and the price of land from the great ([uantity 
 to be diHjKised of by individuals, being exceedingly low at present, I do not thiuk it advisfible to 
 atteiiKjt the disposal of any part of them until I receive Your Grace's further orders. 
 
 To enable Your Grace f,o form an idea of the present low price of lands in this Province, I 
 have the honor of stating, that when the townshipj of Dereliam and Norwich (sanctioned by 
 Your Grace to be .sold for defraying the expense of ihe road now making between York and the 
 eastern parts of the Province) were brought to sale this spring, only 81,000 acres could be sold 
 of the !)6,()00 acres these townships consisted of, a list of the names of the purchasers I beg 
 leave to enclose ; and these 81,000 acres produced only four hundred and eleven pounds six- 
 teen shdlings more than the .same (piintity of land would liave brought, had they been ^ranted 
 to applicants under the new regulations. ' " 
 
 In coiHCiitienco of stveral conversations I have had with Mr. Smith on this subject, since 
 his arrival here ; he jv-s delivered me a memorial proposing two modes for the final adjustment, 
 of this purchase, which I have the hoiDurof transmitting herewith for Your Grace's infoniiition 
 If lands in the western ])art of tlie Province should be given to Mr. Smith for his house and 
 j.remisus at Niagara, at the rate of one shilling Halifax currency per acre, as stated in his 
 memorial he will have to receive 75,.'i0i) acroi. 1 have informed Mr. Smith that [ can take no 
 steps with regard to the purchase of his house until I have an opportunity of reeeivinti Your 
 Graces further orders on that subject. 
 
 The memorial of the Hon. D. W. Smith, enclosed by Lieutenant-Governor 
 Hunter to the Duke of Portland, was as follows :— 
 
 To His Excellency Peter Hunter, E8(iuiro, Lieutenant-(Jovernor of His Majesty's Province of 
 
 Upper Canada, and Lieutenant-fJeneral Couiiuanding His Mijesty's forces in Upper and 
 
 Lower Canada, etc., etc., etc. 
 
 The memorial of D. \V. Smith. Es((., respectfully represents to Your Excellency. 
 
 That on the 2Uth of November, 1798, it was unaiiim')U8ly recommended by a Board, con- 
 sisting of the Council of the Law OHiceri, that my house and lands at Niagara should be 
 purchased ; the former for a fret) gram nar school, and the latter at pirt of tlio endowment for 
 it—aiid that competent persons should value them. This was rnanimously appr )ved in Council, 
 the Honourable Peter Russell then in the administration of thn Government. The valuation 
 was uiade and the whole proceedings transmitte I home for coiiHrmation. Previous to my letv- 
 ing England [was informed by Mr. King, Under Secretary of State, that His (Jrace the Duke 
 of Portland had written to Your Excellency to authorize the purchase. 
 
 Finding, however, upon my arrival here, that no part .)f the lands set apart for the school 
 fun.I has yet been sold, I pray that Your Excellency mi,y be graciously pleased to uiko such 
 steps for carryim? His (xra.>p'« intentiona into evecution, '.x-, u. y,u,, St. ni if ■seeni neet ; and as 
 delay will be injQrio.is to me, I have considered it bette • to sacrifice a part of my expectations if 
 lean obtain a ready receipt of the reiniinder. I nost humbly offer two proposils to Your 
 Jixcellency either of which, but particularly the latter, is. I conceive, so bineticial to Govern- 
 ment that I hopj It wdl moot Your Excellency's approbition. The first is an offer to be a pur- 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION I.V UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1799 
 
 chaaer of lands in the western part of the Province, at one shilling ner acre ffo fh« un.r,.,„t ^t 
 the estimate), which w.ll be one-third n.ore than the land has been Kited at bvtC Roar, 
 as necessary (o create the fund, and half as much again as the aveiasrrat Sh th« I .n ) ^T^ 
 sold for in Dereham and Norwich. Or, secondly, as my priS fffa L wo„l I hJ '*^''V 
 
 advanced by an i-nn^edia^e pay.nent. 1 c'onsont to'make a^deduSi ofrurTlvnd doLrff 
 Government will pay me the remainder in cash. r,n„u8ana dollars, if 
 
 All which is submitted to Your Excellency's wisdom. 
 
 York, 1st September, 1800. ^®'«"'"^ D. W. S.mitu. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF 
 
 UPPER CANADA, 1799. 
 
 (There i.s no record of any proceedings of an educational character in either 
 Hou.se of the Legislature of Upper Canada during the years 1791 1793) The 
 Journals of both IIou.ses for the yeans 1794 to 1797 are not in the Parliamentaiv 
 Libraries of either Ottawa or Toronto. raruamentai j 
 
 His Honour, President Russell, opened the third se.ssion of the second Par- 
 iiament of Upper Canada on the 12th of June, 1799. 
 
 The following is an extract from the President's Speech on the occasion — 
 
 education for the benefit of ihe rising g!neration ^"""''**'"° «^ """"^^ ''^a'""'"*? ^''^J religious 
 
 1. Proceedings of the House of Assembly 1799 
 
 been 
 
 2. Proceedings of the Legislative Council on this Bill 1799 
 
 'liut^d'bSit ^>tr coir!:: ^^t. ^.^--^.f^----^^. ->^ having 
 
 for the education and suncort o(Cir^S:^:f^u;{Z:.:'r:ZJ: rll^. '""''" 'H" r.-^" ^"^^ ^>' I'"-"- 
 
 
Chap. X. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PKOCEEDIXQS OF THE LEarSLATlTRE. 
 
 S9 
 
 ^Ist June, 1709. The Order of the day being read : A Bill for the education and support 
 of orphan children was read a second timo, and on mo' ion of Hon. R. Cartwright, duly seconded. 
 It was ordered that the House do resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House for the pur- 
 pose of taking the said Bill into consideration ; whereupon, the House having resolved itself 
 into the find Committee, Hon. R. Hamilton in the Chair, took the same into consideration. 
 
 The Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Hamilton reported that the Committee had 
 made progress in the consideration of the said Bill, and reque8t«d leave to sit again. Ordered, 
 That the said report be accepted, and that leave be given to sit again tomorrow. 
 
 23,1(1 June, 1799. The Order of the day being read, the House conformably thereto resolved 
 Itself into H Committee upon the further consideration of a Bill '• To provide for the education 
 and support of Orphan Children." 
 
 The Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Hamilton reported that the Committee had 
 gone through the consideration of the said Bill, and had amended and agreed to the same, which 
 report was accepted. And the nmendment being engrossed, the said Bill was read a third time 
 as amended and signed by the Speake"- 
 
 'tr. David Burns, the Master-in-Chaucery carried down to the House of Assembly for 
 rrence m the amendment thereto, the Bill relating to Orphan Children. 
 
 Preamble. 
 
 Enacting 
 
 section. 
 
 concurrence 
 
 Sjth June, 1799. A deputation from the House of Assembly brought up the Bill relating 
 to orphan children, informing this House thet they had concurred in the amendment made 
 thereto. 
 
 S9th June. The Bill was passed as follows : — 
 
 An Act to provide for the Education and Support of Orphan Orphan chiid- 
 
 CHILDREN. Jygg ''^'''• 
 
 39th George 3rd. Chapter 3. 
 The Honourable Peter Russell, President. Passed 29lh June, 1799. 
 
 Whereas it is e.xpedient to provide for the education and support of orphan 
 children, or children who may be deserted by their parents ; 
 
 Be it enacted by the Kind's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice 
 and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper 
 Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under tho authority of an Act 
 passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled " An Act to repeal certain parts 
 of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled ' An Act 
 for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec 
 in North America, and to make furtiier provision for the Government of the said 
 Province, and by the authority of the saino, 
 
 That when the father and mother of any infant child shall die, or shall abandon 
 their infant child or children, it shall and may be lawful for the Town Wardens of 
 any townsuip where such child or children shall be, by and with the approbation 
 and consent of two of His Majesty's .Justices of the Peace, to bind the said child .jr 
 children as apprentices until he, she or they, shall have obtained the age of twenty- 
 one ye.ars in the case vl males, and eighteen in the case of females ; and an inden- 
 ture to this eflFect, under their hands and se .Is, and countersigned by two Justices 
 of tne Peace, shall be good and valid in law. 
 
 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That when the father 
 of any infant child or children shall abandon and leave such infant child or child- 
 ren with the mother, it shall and may he lawful for the mother in such case, ))y and 
 witJi the approbation of two of His Majesty's Justices uf the Peace, to bind such 
 child or children as apprentices until he, she or they, shall have attained the age of 
 twenty-one ye.irs in the case of males, and eighteen in the case of females ; and an 
 in.lenture to that etfect, under her hand and seal, and countersigned by two J ustices, 
 shall be good and valid in law. 
 
 3. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Exception, 
 when the relations of any orphan or abarxloned infant child or children are able 
 and willing to supjport and bring them up, then and in such case it shall not be in 
 the power oi tho Town Wardens to apprentice such child or children. 
 
 • ^' ^^'^y}^'?'^ always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Further 
 no infant child or children having attained ,he age of fourteen years shall be liable exception, 
 to be apprenticed as aforesaid unless he, she or they consent thereto. 
 
 Town War. 
 dens, with ap- 
 probation of 
 two Justices, 
 may bind 
 orphan and 
 abandoned in- 
 fant children. 
 Sec. 8, George 
 4th, chapter 6. 
 
 Tho like power 
 given to the 
 mother when 
 the father 
 abandons his 
 infant child- 
 
30 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN U'»ER CANADA. 1786-98 
 
 NoTE.-This wa.s the tir.st Act passed by the Lesrislature of Upper Canada 
 
 . which provision was made for the care and oversight of children. Its preamble 
 
 r.peaks of their " education "; but no provision is made in the Act itself for such 
 
 education. It may have been provided for in some previous law or ordinance 
 
 governing the apprenticeship of children and minors. 
 
 Brief sketches of the members who took part in educational legislation will 
 be found m connection with the recorded proceedings of each year. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 SCHOOLS IN EXISTENCE IN^UPPER CANADA DURING THE EARLV 
 
 The only private schools which I find were in operation in Upper Canada down 
 to 1810 were those enumerated in the following list — 
 
 In the year 1786, Rev. Dr. Stuart* opened a select classical school at Cata- 
 raqui (Kingston) ; and a Mr. Donovan taught the Oarrison school there. In 1786 
 Mr Jonathan Clarke taught a school in Frederickburg, and, in 1788. one at 
 Matilda, and Mr. Smith one in Ernestown. In the same year, or in 1789 Mr 
 Lyons kept school at Hay Bay in Adolphustown. About the «amo tin.e, Deacon 
 rrayes a Baptist, opened one at Port Rowan. In 1791. Mr. D A. A.kins kept 
 schoo at Napanee. In 1792, Rev. Robert Addison, an Episcopalian, opened a 
 school at Newark, (Niagara), then the seat of Government. In 1794 the Rev Mr 
 Burns, a Presbyteriaft (father of the late Judge Burns), opened a school at the 
 same place; and in 1797, Mr. Richard Cockrel opened an evening .chool in 
 Newark, (Niagara); Mr. Cockrel shortly afterwards transferred his school to the 
 Rev. Mr. Arthur and removed to Ancaster, where he opened another school. A 
 notice m the York Gazette in 1796 stated that "as schools were now opened 
 
 iiTr;;! "^ '^"'^^ "''■''^'" '" ''''' ^••- '-''- "'^^-^ ''-' ^ 
 
 In 1798, Mr. Wm. Cooper opened a school in George street. Little York, 
 Toronto) In regard to him. Mrs. Edgar, wife of J. D. Edgar, Esq., M. P.. in a 
 
 ' scLtg--!"" ''' ''''' ''" "'"'^ "" P^^"'^"'^ "'^^' '^ '-" ^- 
 
 eJn^rfZ''LTeZt,^^^^^^^ Thon.as Ridout. with a record of 
 
 " Vork, March 24th, 1708 t7W C^r for chnl«„5.Tl, '\- "'^l'^ '\!- ^'!l'°'^'»8 «"trie8 : 
 ($10). In December, 17!tK, -paid Mr X)ner Uo.f.Zfl.^ ^^^^^^ '^'*^' ^'2 168. Od. 
 
 19th instant, £2 Kis. Od. (81^) FebruaT2n3 ?/»r ' H M^ V *" t^e 
 
 month's schooling, Ife. (92); two copv-bSn for V' J.f I i ^ r^'"' .*^'^"i'n'"'' "^hoohnastor, one 
 paidMr^p^one^ March 16. 1799, 
 
 &±?.^ •^^.";;L«•i"^'^ H« -?« then>dVb7?hrfrmi 
 
 the W^lative Council. He died i^m aS 75 v^ar^ o": ^"t""^^' (Kingston), andch3into 
 8t„art. of Kingston; -other was th^^Itethiff^J JsU^X Jat^/St^t "f^Xc''^ '"" ^"^^-'"»" 
 
Chaj). XL 
 
 SCHOOLS IN EXISTENCE IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 81 
 
 *«n,™l^^'"" ^''°Po^ tvidently acted as parson as well an schoolmaster, for in a letter of mv 
 a Sermor^/ *'°'"*^ ''' '^^ J*" "" ^^"^ ^'"'^ '^*>'' ^^^ *"^ '^*'«'""K "^^ ^r. Cooper preJx 
 
 IHOl'^ p !?"! entry refer. =n^ ^o Mr Cooper is a record of the Notorial Ortice, and is March 7th. 
 Cooper for the sale of a nea;ij woman, 128. (8160). •■ 
 
 Mr. John J. Purcell dlso kept school at York in 1798. Mr. Bain of tlie Pub- 
 lic Library gave n.e one of his school receipts ot that year. It is dated Septem- 
 ber 2()th, 1798, and is written in a clear, beautiful hand, as follows : Received 
 from Wm. Jarvis, Esq., the sum of eight shillings currency of the State of New 
 York ($1), being payment for one month's schooling for his son.— John J. Purcell. 
 Mrs. Edgar also stuies in her letter that the following entries are in her grand- 
 father's book : — 
 
 l(i« ?«9^"^*f'"V '''i^^' ^'"'"I'^r.;.^""'^''"' schoolmaster, entrance money for George and Thomas 
 imvlil Mr" Porf >ll"°^' ^'- ^*. • Th«so children were 7, 6 and 5 years old. s'eptember 26th 
 nJH, pai-l Mr. 1 uracil oi.e month's s. 'loolins for three children, ^l 4s. Od. («4.50), 
 
 In 1799, an Orphan school was opened in St. Catharines, and earlier, Mrs. 
 
 Cranahan kept the " Sylvan Seminary " in Adolphustowu, at which Sheriff Kat- 
 
 tan, of Cobourg, was a pupil. The other persons mentioned by various writers, or 
 
 in local records, as having acted as school teachers prior to 1800 were : Messrs 
 
 Myers, Thomas. Morden, Michael, William, Faulkiner. Irish, McCormack and 
 
 two son.s of Mr. Edward O'Reilly. In 1800, the late Bishop Strachan opened a 
 
 private school at Kingston. In 1S02, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler opened a school near 
 
 Niagara ; and in the same year Dr. Baldwin (father of the late Hon. Robert 
 
 Baldwin), gave notice that he would open a ckssical school at York ; and in 1803 
 
 Dr. Strachan opened a school in Cornwall ; in the same year the first school in 
 
 Prince Edward district was opened at "High Shore " by Mr. Salisbury, Sophias- 
 
 'burg; another at " Grassy Point" was taught by Mr. John James, and one at 
 
 ' Hay Bay," by Mr. McDougall. Rev. Wm. Wright, (Presbyterian), kept the first 
 
 school at Myers' Creek, (Belleville), in 1805. He was followed by Mr. Leslie. 
 
 In that year Rev. Dr. Strachan held the first public examination of his school at 
 
 Cornwall, (see page 34). In 1806, Mr. Smith taught a school in Ernesto wn. Mr. 
 
 Gibson then, or later, taught school in Thurlow. In 1807-8, Mr. James Potter 
 
 taught school at the mouth of Myers' Creek, as a successor to Mr Leslie, who 
 
 had previously taught school there. In 1810, Mr. John Walkins taught school in 
 
 Belleville. 
 
 Particulars as to Some of These Schools, etc. 
 
 It may be interesting, in connection with this list, to give copies of the 
 ^' cards," or announcements, of a few of these schools, as i.ssued by the Principals 
 
 lun/f?*"!^ ^^r S«»<^<i'°»' in hlB "Toronto of Old," refers to a Mr. William Cooper as follows : " Uv t" 
 1803 the Anglican conKtejfation had assembled for Divine worHhip in the Parliament buildings ; and pdor 
 to the appointment of the Rev John Stuart, or in his absence, a layman, Mr. Crwper, afterwf rds the well 
 known whnrfinger. used f ^ read the service. (Pr,srfi ll.'J * -^ -^t^'i ^i-ciwiiiuo mo wen- 
 
 VnnL"«; ^?**^'^'"» *'»" '•«f«™ ^ Count de Chains as one of the many French military refugees who settled up 
 Yonge St. during the French revolution. He says that (on the Vaughan side) lot No 68 was owned bv 
 ^rt v"*^«PT^ '*" S''*^"/' Sl'tV"?/'; ««»'»« and Ambruise de Farcy. The Count al^o w^s parT owne^ 
 ma^dy •(Page4"6l'- ^^ *"'* "' ^^a'^ham. He derived his title fi^m the caltk of Chalas in Nor 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1796, » 
 
 Preceptors or Teachers, as they may have been designated in these early days. 
 Some of them are quaint, and some are .stilted, in their style. Most of these 
 announcements are, however, more minute in the particulars given than would be 
 considered dignified, or professionally correct, in these later times. 
 
 1. Cockrel's Evening School at Newark (Niagara), in 1796. 
 
 Under date of November 28th, 1796, Mr. Cockrel advertised his school as 
 
 follows : — 
 
 An Evening School will be opened in this town on Monday next. Terms : Writing, Arith- 
 metic and Bookkeeping taught at four shillings per week. For teacliing any partcular branch, 
 either in practical or speculative Mathematics, eight dollars. The hours of attendance are from 
 6 to 8 o'clock in the evening. 
 
 On the 28th of December of the same year he issued a Card, as follows : — 
 
 Mr. Cockrel takes this method of returning his sincere thanks to the inhabitants of Newark 
 and its vicinity for their polite attention and patronage during the time he acted as schoolmaster. 
 
 But having resigned, he is happy in announcing to the public that the Rev. Mr. Arthur has 
 been prevailed on to be his successor ; and from a knowledge of his abilities and conduct, there 
 is not the least doubt of his rendering the greatest satisfaction to those who may think proper 
 to place their ch Idren under his care. 
 
 2. The Reverend Mr. Arthurs Boarding School, Newark (Niagara). 
 
 On the 28th December, 1796, Mr. Arthur issued the following announce- 
 ment : — 
 
 The School lately taught by Mr. Richard Cockrel will be opened on Tuesday next, under 
 the direction of the Rev. Mr. Arthur. 
 
 The pupils will be instructed in Reading according to the moat ai)proved method, and 
 English Ciraiumar, Writing and Arithmetic, the Latin and Greek languages, Geography and the 
 Mathematics to which will be added, if required, an introfluctioii to the other sciences. 
 
 If any number of boys olfer, and books can be procured, a Latin class will be commenced 
 immediately. 
 
 In March (8th) of the following yjar, Rev. Mr. Arthur's announcement was 
 as follows : — 
 
 Rev. Mr. Arthur takes this mode of announcing to the public that he intends, if encourage- 
 ment offers, to be in readiness on the tirst of May, now ensuing, to receive a few young gentle- 
 men for boarding and education. 
 
 Besides that attentiim which Mr. Arthur wishes ever to pay to the behaviour, religious- 
 instruction and literary improvement of all his pupils, his boarders will have the benefit of 
 private tuition in Geogrnphy, and other parts of a useful and ornament4l education. 
 
 Those who wish to know the terms may apply, either in person or by letter, at the School- 
 house in Nwark. 
 
 3. Mr. James Blayney's School at Newark (Niagara), in 1797. 
 
 On the 24th of May, 1797, Mr. Blayney stated that he intended opening a School in thia 
 town (Niagara) on the tirst day of June next, for the purpose of teaching Readiiii;, Writing, 
 Arithmetic, Bookkeping and the various branches of the practical Mathematics. 
 
 4. Mr. William Coopers School at Toronto in 1798. 
 
 Under ''^ate of November 3rd, 1798, Mr. William Coojjer informed his friends and the Publie 
 that he intended openinij a SchtK)l iit his house in George Street. York, on the Iitt.h iimtan^ f"r 
 tiiu instruction of Youth in Reading, Writing, AritlimetTo and English Grammar. 
 
 Those who choose to favour him with their Pupils may rely on the greatest attention beine 
 paid to their virtue an<l morals. 
 
 .■Vli.— i-i-:. . 
 
1796, 8 
 
 Chap. XI. 
 
 SCHOOT^ IN EXISTENCE IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 3a 
 
 In the following year, under date of York, July Gth, 1799, the following notice 
 appeared : — '^ 
 
 The Qualifications of School Teachers in 1790. 
 In the Upp.,' Canada Gazette of July. 1799, the following appeared — 
 
 t.on before one of c-wr eoramiMionerV and receiv^I oertSl frnJ ^^'^J^^'u*-'** *" examin.- 
 th.thei8»dequatet..thei.np<.rUntte8kofaStor * ^"' ""'^*'" ''"' ^*"*^ •peoifying 
 
 We conceive this piece of intelligence hiffhlv worthv of r„™„.i, •. „ 
 
 measure, prevent the imposition which the inhabitants of tW. 1 . u ' '^Ji **"' '" » «rea 
 from itinerant characters, who preferred that t^ a more llS.I "^ 'V^^ ^'*''"''"*« experienced 
 
 And on the other hand. tJ,e risS geLratioTwU rZ^^ 
 .nd to stimulate and encourage .e„ of^KSl"j;lLS^^^ 
 
 6. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler's Boarding School, Niagara, 1803. 
 
 Kia,.., ..w.„ n:,.„ .„a ,rz' ^c;'ca^^::t,,rr- 
 
 parents may wish their children to receivT Proportion to the kind of instruction the 
 
 all th^^s^nllX^^ofS^^^^^ 
 
 People who during the heat^su^S^a^beld^^^^^^^^ t '' number o7 boarders, 
 
 proper lodgings, healthy and cheap boarding *° "^^^ ^"'' *'''*°8e of air will meet with 
 
 ~o.S rfe/"" "PPO""'"')"- »nd» he, ™.e„ .H..,k. ,„ ,He protection .he h.. 
 6. Br. IT. W. Baldwin: proposed Sckool at Toronto in ISm. 
 
 On the 17th of December, 1802, Dr. Baldwin «„ed the following notice _ 
 
 .he E.S=^:;'"J^^Eii^^^^^^^^^ h..e ..p„„ea „,! .„,,«, ,„, 
 
 that he intends, on Mondav. th« M.;^ ,i„;. ^tT*"" ^^^s leave to inform the... anrl fi,. ^U?^ 
 
 ».r..ee.^a „„e eo. .. W„eL:t^-S3rhre' jB".%:il^^^ 
 
34 
 
 OOCrMENTARY IIISTOUY OK EDUCATION IN UPPKR CANADA. 1795-1H05 
 
 7. Examination of JJr. Stnichan'a School at CornivaU, 1806. 
 
 The Upper Ganwla Gazette and American OracZc of Satunlay, August 24th, 
 1S05, gives the following account of the examination of the Rev, John Straclian'g 
 school at Cornwall : — 
 
 On tlio Slst of .July last ii general oxainination took place of the young Kuntleinuii under tlie 
 tuition of tlio Rev. John Straclian. at Cornwall, Tpiwr Canada. The invitation to the country 
 at largt', ami the|)Hrent8 in i)articulftr, produced a most reipectnble uieetin^, among whom wore 
 the Rev. JanicH S. Hudil, the Rev. Mr. Hethiiiie, the Rev. Mr. McDontdl, Mr. .Justice Powell, 
 the S(dicitor-(>enoral, Colonel McDonell, (ilungarry Honsu, etc. 
 
 The students underwent in their different cliisaes a rigid examination as well at the inst«nco 
 of the gentlemen of learning who atfemled. as of the Rev. Preceptor, in the following order ; — 
 The Latin Classies. Arithmetic, Hook-keei>ing, Elements of Mathematics, Elements of (Jeogra 
 j.hy, of Natural and Civil Hi.story. The boys ac(|uitted themselves with great credit ; neither is 
 It easy to declare in which brunch of learning they succeeded 'est. The whole was interspersed 
 with different pieces of poetry and prose, nuiny of the most humorous cast compctsed for the 
 occasion. Among the rest the annexed lint s were introduced by way of prologue. The Hour- 
 ishing state of this infant xeminary cannot fail of exciting I he most lively satisfaction to this 
 rising country, more especially as it inlds out to our view a prospect of eiiuciition on the most 
 liberal scale for the succeeding race, independent of foreign aid. 
 
 State of Edl':;ation in Upper Canada, 1795-1799. 
 
 As to the .ictual state of education in Upper Canada at this time, we get a 
 
 brief glimpse from the hook of travels of the Due de la Rochefocauld, who visited 
 
 Kingston in July, 1795. He says : — 
 
 In this district tiiere arc some schools, but they are few in number. The children are 
 instructed in reading and writing, aj»«U pay each a dcdlar a month. One of the mnHters tjiught 
 Latin, but he has left, without being auccewUid by another instructor in tiie same language. 
 
 As to the character of the private ,sc1>qo1s thus established, and the facilities 
 
 of education which they afforded, we learn incidentally from letters and early 
 
 books of travel what they were. In a " Tour Through Upper Cauda, by a Citizen 
 
 of the United States," published in 1799, we learn that the policy of the Govurn- 
 
 ment of that day was to exclude " schoolmasters from the States, lest they should 
 
 instil republicanism into the tender minds of the youth of the Province." 
 
 Essay on the Nec'essity of Education, written in 1799. 
 
 The foUowii g Essay on Education appeared in the J^pper Canada Gazette of 
 the 13th July, 1799. It is inserted in this collection for the purpose of illustrat- 
 ing what were the prevailing thoughts and feelings on this important subject in 
 these early days, and to show how such a subject was treated by the writer 
 in those times. Incidentally the es.say gives rather a gloomy picture of 
 the youthful character of the day, and of the tendency to evil, which parental 
 restraint and careful and judicious training in school the writer thinks would 
 help to correct. He said : — 
 
 By giving publicity to the following essay, through the medium of your useful paper, you 
 will oblige one who feels for the promotion of litt;raturo in tiiis country : — 
 
 'Tm education fornw the common mind ; 
 
 " .Just as the twig is bent, thn tree's inclined." 
 
 11 
 
 Hovever ignorant we are of the materials of which the common nund is composed, this 
 truth is clear, that in its infant and tender state impressions are made witl. the greatest ease ; 
 and those impressions which are then made are geneislly of a very durable nature. 
 
 
 #; 
 
 
 
1795-1805 
 
 im'ust 24th, 
 Straclian's 
 
 mi uudur tlie 
 
 the country 
 
 { whom woro 
 
 itioe Powell, 
 
 the iiiHt«nuu 
 iiig order : — 
 ! of (^ieogrii 
 t ; neither is 
 interspersed 
 ;osed ft)r the 
 Tlio rtour- 
 ctioii to tliis 
 Lin the most 
 
 }, we get a 
 vho visited 
 
 children are 
 LHtera tnught 
 ,njj!uage. 
 
 e facilities 
 and early 
 y a Citizen 
 le Govurn- 
 hey should 
 
 Gazette of 
 f illustrat- 
 subject in 
 ihe writer 
 picture of 
 h parental 
 nks would 
 
 1 paper, you 
 
 nposed, this 
 'OHtest ease ; 
 
 Chap. XII. 
 
 EDUCATrON OF THE Hl\ NATION INDIANS. 
 
 80 
 
 It is with the ttreatest difflculty they are e- ei eradicated in any future period 
 1 iiey aie often the leadniK trait** m a persons clmrarter through life 
 
 ....rit :',;irr j'r:i, :;S:'!.r;;",tft ::v";;;s,';L''l'r '"- '"'"- - "•" •■■" 
 
 youth cannot bo to., often nor too forcil-ly iaculcat*-.! It s ,i matter nf/l, .1^ I \ """^* "' 
 and he who has the superu.tendon. e of tt edt^ 1 of a Ta.^ily o "hUdren sIS 5" oS?'; 
 an omploy.nent of the greatest importance that could devolve upon hin, """''"' " 
 
 ge„e"Hor;e;:o'cor'*^ '"^ '"""•'''• '"'^ '"'''■'' — '^y^ '-ge.an.l poHs.bIyfor many 
 
 against the oo„„nunity I consider him ^^^1 trth«\. H. - i. ' ^, VI! ^"' " *"""« con.mitted 
 education ; (or had thev when the ,2,, f^ i ^ " ^''" '""^ ^^^ superintending of his 
 
 growth-had thev .eSBoIIted v t Sill Vt hoZ^ S^fataTcr" ^-^-- -PP^-'-i their 
 but it must have tal en etiect .-ind made .vJ^lfZ consoqucncos -,t is impossible 
 
 might ..therwise have n-acu'charalrot tt:'"r t .eHpeEutl"a;e''d;r: '7'''^T' ''«''^ = "''^ 
 geon, th..re to H,,end a miserable and infamous life ''^ ^^""^ '" '''"*""' '" " •!""■ 
 
 .ide» i!^m;:!r;;;j';::i::;^j:^'::;'s: ■ i^ii^f .;rd;^ •" ^^'^ «'^"-'-' -^^^ ^^ ^ou. 
 are thninS* J?:r m.'Z!::^ u;t';i^;;;ru!:'tir^'i;'r ^'f ^'r '^'''^-^ «- "^-ts 
 
 the bitterest curses, the profunest ..uhi and execmtilnfs ' '' ''"'*' '''""' '"""*'''' ""^^^ '^'th 
 
 MoHt?/!^,.?. "I'fr' ""'''"'' •■"'"'""' ^^"'^ ""'•'t serious attention. 
 
 MoHt of m,r chddren no..^as_soon^^ ,...r age ..11 adnnt o. their pa g .,.« threshold of 
 
 It is the sure prelude of the child's mp- , ..gress to infamy. 
 
 VVherefore, parents, if you wish to 8;,ve vour children if vm wi.J. f i .i. 
 
 members of soci,.) y, if you wish in v(ju. ,M «„»%?. !^ ^ , ''' *" '"*''" ^hem respectable 
 vicious projects a.fd teach them virtue ^ ""^^ '" ''''''' ^•""«"'«t'on in their honor, .top their 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 SETTLEMENT AND EDUCATION OF THE SIX NATION rNDIANS 
 
 1784-1800. 
 
 In the Toronto Tdepram of the 1st of April. 18.93, appeared -opies of corres 
 pondencewlHch took place in 1796-1800, between the Teacher of the Mohawk 
 School on the Bay of Quint*^ and the Rev. Dr. Stuart-to whom reference ha^ 
 been already made, (page 30), and who travelled as a Missionary of the Church 
 
 ot England between the York and Catnraaui of ^b"-- "«-> 
 
 pondence is the more interesting from the fact that, while the white loyilist 
 
 Hettlers had to depend upon chance, and the few private, or garrison, schools 
 
36 
 
 DOCUMENTARV HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPEll CANADA. 1784-96^ 
 
 which existed here and there, for the education of their children, yet, even then^ 
 efforts were made to provide schools for the Six Nation Indians, who had stood 
 firmly by the British cause during the American Revolution. 
 
 After the war was over, the leading tribes of the Six Nations refused to remain 
 in the United States, but under Brant, their leader, removed — part of them to^ 
 the Grand River, and a Mohawk tribe of that Nation to the Bay of Quinte. 
 
 On the application of Brant and other Chiefs and Warriors of the Six Nation 
 Indians, General Sir Frederick Haldimand, then Governor-General, granted " to 
 them, in 1784, and to their posterity for ever, the Grand River, or Ouse, from its 
 source to it entry into Lake Erie, extending six miles on each side of the River, 
 and forming a space of land about one hundred miles in length by twelve in 
 breadth," and including 694,910 acres of land. The area included in this grant 
 was purchased from the Messesagnes, or Mississagua Indians— a seventh nation. 
 Of the Mohawk Nation— one of the six — a tribe settled on the Bay of Quints,, 
 ill 1784, They received a grant, in that year, under Letters Patent from the 
 Crown, of 92,700 acres. 
 
 As Rev. Dr. Stuart ha'l been a devoted Missionary for seven years among 
 the Six Nations in the Mohawk Valley in New York, he naturally felt a warm 
 and tender regard for them. They, like him.self, hud been expatriated to Canada 
 from the beautiful Valley of the Mohawk River. He had translated the New 
 Testament into the soft, yet sonorous language of the Iroquois, and had become 
 endeared to them by many an heroic deed, and many touching associations — and 
 that too in a struggle, in v/hich he, with ardent sympathies for the Royal cause, 
 was forced to be a man of peace and a non-combatant in the struggle.* 
 
 Mr. Stuart took no part in the contest, but, baing a loyalist, he incurred 
 the hostility of the insurgents. His house was attacked and plundered. Hi» 
 church was turned into a tavern and afterwards used as a stable. He was made 
 a prisoner, but was exchanged for an officer, who was captured by the royal 
 forces and detained in Canada. On the 9th October, 1781, he reached St. John's, 
 Province of Quebec, accompanied bj-^ his wife and three small children. In a 
 letter he .says, " I am the only refugee clergyman in this Province." It was not 
 till June, 1784, that Mr. Stuart made his tirst visit to Upper Canada, when he 
 visited the new settlements on the St. Lawrence and Niagara, and the Mohawks on 
 the Bay of Quinte and Grand River. He officiated at several places on his jouiney, 
 one of which was ac Tyendinaga, the Mohawk Settlement, on the Bay of Quinte, 
 where the Indians were laying the foundations of a village, which is now the 
 town of Deseronto. 
 
 • Kir .lohii B. R(>l)in8on, Chief Justice of Upper Canada, in a lettttr dated August 5th, 1847, says : — 
 " Ther* was sometliing in the Rev. Dr. Stuart h ap|)earance that could not fail to make a most favorable 
 imprcMion. He wan about six feet, two inches in height, with fine muscular foatiirei, expanded client, 
 erect figure, straight well-formed limbs, and a fret), manly carriage, improved by a fondness in his youth for 
 athletic exercise. . . From my recoiiection of iiiiii, I should say that I have seen no one who came so 
 fully up to the ide.a one is led to form of a fine old Roman— a man who capable of enduring and defying 
 anything in a good cause ; incapable of stooping to any thing in the least degree mean or unworthy. 
 (Mr. H. J. Morgan's Celebrated Canadiant, page 126.) 
 
■Chap. Xir. 
 
 EDUCATION OF THK SIX NATION INDIANS. 
 
 «7 
 
 "i 
 
 In regard to the school for the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, the following 
 -correspondence took place between the Rev. Dr. Stuart and Mr. William Bell, 
 schoolmaster to the Mohawks on the Bay of Qumte, afterwards Colonel of the 
 First Regiment of Hastings Militia. This correspondence extends over the period 
 from September 26th, 1796, to August 26th, 1802. 
 
 Col. Bell had served in the ranks as a British soldier, and had an honourable 
 discharge. He was intimately associated with, if not related to, Col. John Fergu- 
 son, at the time a well-known and influential person at Kingston. He finally 
 settled a few miles east of Belleville, and became a Coronor, Justice of the Peace, 
 and Colonel of the First Regiment of Hastings Militia. 
 
 Before the appointment of Mr. Bell as teacher of the Mohawk children on 
 the Bay of Quinte', the Rev. Mr. Stuart had received £30 as a yearly grant from 
 the English "Society for the Pro,)agation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," so as 
 to enable him to appoint such a teacher. Mr. John Bininger, the son of a Morav- 
 ian missionary, who had accompanied Rev. John Wesley to Virginia, applied for 
 the position, and the Rov. Mr. Stuart appointed him in 1792. He was a man of 
 a kindly missionary spirit, and was very acceptable to the Indians. He con- 
 tinued to teach the school for about three years and then resigned. 
 
 The first letter in this correspondence is from Dr. Stuart to Mr. Bell, in answer 
 to one from him. It is dated 
 
 Kingston, September 26, 1796. 
 «n.w!lV;™ri? y""'-,^"" respecting the Mohawk school. I can give you no positive 
 TiT he coZ ".; he'ls'f h "'* T'''^ conditionally, with a schoolmaster at Montreal ; that 
 DmmisLiraLl'^i •;• *"'' ^^^ '''i'''"' ' ''"* ^^'^^ ""^ ^o""- ''"^ks are elapsed since he 
 
 ETifvervTkplTfhrK I.*"'"'""'; I,«''P«<=fc'^»ily ^ hear from him, altliough I do not 
 tninK It very likely that he will accept of the employment 
 
 take tharcSL^^^l'^'i Jp ^? •" fT''T^ ^r"" to me as a person who would probably under- 
 would talk wifh vnJ *'*'*;,^'*1*^'.» "I"'^" u^"r '^ ^^"^ P**""" ^'^™ Montreal disappointed me I 
 mention 1 wm h« ll^ . ""^J^"*- therefore, if you com» to Kingston about the time you 
 mention, l will be able to give you a positive answer. 
 
 wt.^11 '*Jk'^ i' ^^^ sterling; with a house to live in and some other advantages which depend 
 
 The Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was the cus- 
 todian of the Fund for Indian Education, and on that Society the following draft 
 was drawn : — 
 
 Mohawk Village, Bay of Quinte, July 5th, 1797. 
 
 „„^ f '*'— A*^ .'jjirty days' sight of this my first of exchange, (second and third of same tenor 
 and date unpaid), please to pay Mr. Robert Macaulay or order the sum of W eeTpoundsTeSn/ 
 being my half year s salary from the 15th day of November, I?!)*'., to the I5th day o?Mav IW 
 due from the .society, without further advice from, sir. - "e locn aaj ot May, J7.J7, 
 
 Your humble servant, William Bill, Schoolmaster to the Mohawks. 
 
 ^° ^i^^L?^^':':*"^ ,tj»oV^r-"^«^ *" '^' «-'«*y '«-• '^^ Prolongation of the Gospel 
 -I 5— a-! . 3., 8, i.tuKe otn.01,, » cscmmster, Loiidoa. 
 
 The Mohawks evidently did not take a deep interest in the education of their 
 oflPspnng. for the school was not over crowded ; indeed the number in attendance 
 
i i-» 
 
 38 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1801 
 
 was so few that the teacher stood a fair chance of losing his position. Such being 
 the case, Dr. Stuart addressed the following letter to Mr. Bell, dated 
 
 KiNfiSTON, August 18, 1799. 
 
 Unless the Mohawks will send such a number of their children to school as will justify me 
 in continuing a schoolmwiter. in duty to myself, as acting for the society, I shall bo under the 
 disagreeable necessity of discontinuing the payment of your salary after the e.xpiration of the 
 present year, which I believe will be next month. This information I think proper to give vou 
 that you may govern yourself accordingly. o j * 
 
 The letter had a good effect, for in March of 1800 the school was " furnished 
 with a dozen or more scholars." The instructions as regarded discipline were 
 that it must be strict, and that the teacher must see " that prayers are read night 
 and morning," and that in case the parents were delinquent in not .sending fire 
 wood, so that the youthful aborigines need not be frozen, " that the children may 
 not be sent home," and further, « that cattle may not be allowed to get into the 
 school." The cattle were evidently visitors after regular school hours. A further 
 injunction was that the wood be used only " in school hours," no doubt to prevent 
 the room being made a place of public resort. This improved state of things 
 having been communicuted to the Rev. Dr. Stuart, he wrote the following letter 
 to Mr Bell, dated 
 
 Kingston, March 16, 1800. 
 
 ;.i,^^^!j®* J*"" '"'^'^ received from your pline, I am happy to hear that the school is now furn- 
 ished with a dozen or more scholars; and it is expected that you will be very strict in your 
 (Ueciplme and see th.h the j.rayers are reaa, night and morning-th.vt the children are taught 
 the Lord a Prayer. Cr-ed, and the Ten C..uim»ndment8-that children may not be sent homo, 
 Lf A f '?'",'" I^" *!"* *'«!''l ^'"'"^ *^f tli'^' "t^^t^-'l times-that cattle may not be allowed to go 
 into the school but that it be kept clean, and the wood belonging to it may not bo used unless in 
 school hours. The opportunity of writing being unexpected, I can only give you those abort 
 hint« at presen . However, your own discretion will point out to you that every reasonable 
 method of giving satisfaction and being uieful should be adopted. 
 
 The attendance at the school having again fallen off, Dr. Stuart's patience 
 was exhausted. Not a scholar had been for months inside the school, and he 
 therefore insisted that the pedagogue's vocation would be gone if " six constant 
 scholars " were not furnished. The following letter was, therefore, .sent to Mr 
 Bell, dated 
 
 KiNOSTON, September Uth, 1801. 
 
 I have wait«d with patience to see whether tiie Mohawks would .send their children more 
 regularly to school But, if the accounts 1 receive are true, the money i« exi)ended to no pur- 
 pose. 1 am told that there has not be-m a scholar in school since last spring ; and as I have 
 never found that the fault was on your side, I cannot in conscience allow the salary to be paid 
 for nothing. •' * 
 
 Therefore unless Captain .John and the chief men of the village will promise that the school 
 Shall be Jurnished with at lewt si:i constant scholars 1 must dismiss you from their service ; 
 tjiat 18 If y.ni now have, or an- promised immediately, six scholari, the school may continue ; 
 It not It must cnii<iA 3< soon as vou reci^ivs this •.•s.t'i^c"'^.-'^'- 
 
 I hope you will see the reasonableness of this determination of mine. And you may show 
 this letter to Captain .John and the other Mohawks, by which they will see that the continuance 
 or discontinuance of the school depends wholly on themselvea. 
 
 -- 
 
1801 
 
 Chap. XII. 
 
 EDUCATION OF THE SIX NATION INDIANS. 
 
 3» 
 
 Mr. Bell seemed to have but little success in inducing the Mohawks to send 
 their children to his school. Still it was continued for nearly a year after this 
 letter was written. However, in the next year, Mr. Stuart finally wrote to Mr, 
 Bell as follows, dated : ' 
 
 KiNQHTON, 26th August, 1802. 
 I have not yet received any letter from the Society in England, but for the reasons I men- 
 tioned to you I think It expedient to let the Mohawk school cease, at least for some time. I 
 of^the sal^ ^°" '^^^"^ ^""'' P^'®^^"* quai'fcer is ended you will not expect a continuance 
 
 Some time after this things changed for the better ; and the Schools for the 
 children of these Mohawk Indians are now supported by the Indian Fund at the 
 disposal of the Department at Ottawa, and by the long established New England 
 Company. 
 
 The New England Company, or School Society, 1649-1661. 
 
 The Six Nation Indians which were transferred from the State of New York 
 to the Grand River, fared somewhat better than the Mohawk tribal branch of 
 them that settled on the Bay of Quints. They were provided with Schools by 
 the New England Company— a company formed as far back as 1649, by the Long 
 Parliament. An interesting sketch of this Company, prepared by Dr. M. J. Kelly, 
 Inspector of Pu\)^= r-chools in the County of Brant in 1883. is inserted aa 
 follows : — 
 
 inf..ll!>.^L?!l^T ®"8'*"^ Company has done so much here and elsewhere for the moral and 
 nnf « « i "^.^"tt'P'' ''^^^^ ^"'^'^^ ^"''«« «f >f"rth America, a brief sketch of its historv may 
 
 menrin 1649" ThoTrl'/Vr^ 'TTk '^^^ TT^'^ "*« «■•«* established by the Long eS- 
 ment, m lb49. Pho farst Pilgrim Fathers reached America in the " Maytiower " in 1C20 The 
 
 efe^e" Ifs tL^ia^t^^^of n ''n '^\ '"'''"•^^'^ '''' ^"^'^ '' ^''^'' ^^ the pubiLti;.n of hi^ 
 eleven tracts, the wants of the North American Indians became known in England. The result 
 
 was the ori^-mal establishment of the Company now known as the '' Nrv England Co^.^ny'' 
 tew^', r^l"?"^. ""'t r^"^'^" "^ '^^ ^"^*'' -^•"«"<='*» R«'l Men " tliis zealous misSy 
 fhe SiS of'flooT r '; . V ^r"T^ 'f 't'^'f'-^r' "''^ '='"""^e'>ced life as a schoolmaster. On 
 of tKur tS w^ ^f l.inl ""''""'f'/ '^r^r^'"'^ "' ^vhich he was assmtant. Eliot, who was also 
 ot the 1 urilan way of thinking, sailed with fiovornor Winthrop's family and other emigrants for 
 Boston, where he at once entered upon the work to which he devoted his life ^'"'«'*"^ 
 
 th« I,^ royal charter for establishing the colony hud declared that : "To win over and incite 
 the nat^es of thac country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God andSavToS 
 of mankind, and the Chrmtian faith, is our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profS 
 8 the principal end of the Plantation." Th» colonial seal, too. represented an Indian w a 
 label in his mouth, mseribed, ' ' Come over and help us. " Haviiii. acquired a kno wlXc ortlieij 
 thefr child? "' ^rTrl .^'-.-;*Wishment of schol.ls. to which he i.lduced tiSe Inluans o send 
 then children. T aid him m his work he wrote his eleven tracts, in which he annealed with 
 Z nIwEu^;;'^ ^*"^"'''^ "' Sl'"^^"'" P«"P'^" •" England, and which lerto tle'ffrl ioTio 
 ctaractlrii' of Jhe'nen^- r?' '^"T* ""'"'^"f "^ '^"''' '""'"'^ •"' ^^own in their headings, i 
 hr!Iu?n„ 7/ ; .u E ■ ^ tr'^ps^f'^e s^-me of the shorter headings. Tract II.-" The Day 
 
 at Piumscedj, m Kent, as well as several houses in L.m'don "' ' ' " '" 
 
 «!, ^'^.^^^P"™*'"" at home at once appointed commissioners and a treasurer in New Endan.l 
 
40 
 
 DOCUMENTAUY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1800 
 
 by the Rev John West anri w,>h ^f K ' •^^l?""'"^' investigation on their behalf 
 
 Robert Lug.eraucceededtKeTw^.Houg^^^^^^^^ mlioZr'v iA"" ''^h"'^""-- ''^'^ ?•«" 
 •elf succeeded, ten years afterwards bv A^hd««Pnn ^'^,V*'"*T '" -l.^^i? *"** *«« "' ^urn him- 
 rhurch every SundaV havinras the'nrfn.iSl ? p u "'"' ''■''*' "''" officiates at the Mohawk 
 
 Mohawk Lmitute "^TErS grint ^f th?NerEluL'dT^'''*^''*'T' *^>« "u"'^ f ^^^ "^ ^^« 
 was made t.. Captain John Brant 1 of fh» „ ^''g"*"^ 5 '^Pfny ^"r I"d'an schr.ol purposes, 
 
 the two scho..l.h'I>uies before re;e;red\, In K at H ' r ^^^?^ ^^^'-^l ^"'" ^''^ «^^^*'"" "^ 
 the New England Companrsun..or?pH ,„»«!, ^ i *^»\t"»« "' Captain John Brant's death, 
 Institute" warestabHshed for^t«»rhlJ IT,? ''r^'' "," ^^^ ^^^^rxe. In 183(t the "Mohawk 
 for ten boys aSd ten girls S,uiU i^?85Q ;''"^' '"t'' ' '" \^''^ '' ^«""« « '"'*r'^i"« "^hool 
 years accommodatSSv fire wV2n!?f\^^ 7^ "ubsequently enlarged, and it has for many 
 Educated, f.ee of charge ^ The iSitutS>i iM^^n? ^1''"' "^^ ^r*/" boarded, lodged, clothed and 
 the net c'cxit of each pSpil annua ybeiralimtJ^O^^ aT^H^.I ^1 '^ 1""^" "^ '*•« •'"'"P''"^' 
 iSS^unS^^Sll^^f^?^ 
 
 teadent, all of Xm reside 'n the bSildin. Th h ^"'"*:J'* ^'"^ '''r*'"" *^*^' *»>« ^uperin- 
 the literary cla«.es for tw^s and wJrk^he third?''' ""^ '"■'" '" '"^'"'^ ''"'''' '"«*'""^"«° '^^ 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 SKETCHES OF NOTED TEACHERS IN 1800-1807. 
 
 i^nJ^^ ''^*'°''*^''^ proceedings of the Legislature of Ui.per Canada in 1800 1801 
 1802 and 1803 contain no reference to the subject of education. This silence for 
 four years may be fairly taken as an evidence of the want of interest in schools 
 on the part of the Legislature, and of the listless state of public feeling on the 
 BUbject. It even evinced what was worse, a latent hostility to education per se 
 for when, m 1804, the matter was specially brought before the House of Assem- 
 bly, m the form of a respectful petition from the County of Glengarry, praying 
 for the establishment of schools " in the most central places," the proposal to do 
 80 was thr.ce rejected. During that session, when Mr. Sheriff McDonell brought 
 m a Bill to give effect to the prayer of the petition, it was rejected by a vote of 
 
 seven to five. Mr. Mcl)nnn11'« nov^^coU^ f v»„i. -j-i. , ^ ■ 
 
 — ~ — -• ri..,-iii iuir.. aifcur-.varus rnovea to bring in 
 
 a more restricted Bill on the same subject ; it, too, was rejected by a like vote A 
 third effort by another member was likewise defeated by the casting vote of the 
 
 1* 
 
 f'^ 
 
-1 
 
 1800 
 
 Chap. XIII. SKETCHES OF NOTED TEACHERS IN 1800-1807. 
 
 41 
 
 Speaker. The efforts made in the same direction during the Session of 1805 were 
 alike abortive, showing how, a^ yet, the popular branch of the Legislature had no 
 sympathy with Governor Simcoe in his large-hearted zeal for the promotion of 
 education in the Province. He was quite before his time in his desire to have 
 schools and a university established in this country. His persistent letters on 
 this subject to the Colonial Secretary, and to the first Anglican Bishop of Qaebec 
 (whose jurisdiction extended to Upper Canada), attest this. 
 
 In the meantime the settlers had to depend upon private or remote garrison 
 schools for the education of their children. Such schools were at that time few 
 and far between A brief statement in regard to these schools with the names of 
 the pioneer teachers (all honor to them !) who taught in them at workmen's wages 
 wi 1 be found on page 30. And while these less prominent men did their part 
 with more or ess ability, to keep aJive a taste, if not a love for knowledge the 
 real vitel spark of intelligence and sound learning was only kept aflame in the 
 chief centi-es of the Province by such men as Rev. Dr. Stuart, his son. the Rev 
 G. Okill Stuart, and notably by Rev. Dr. Strachau, aided by libraries established 
 here and there. A sketch of these pioneer educators, (as they were in the best 
 sense,) will be most appropriate here, in the interval of four years in this docu- 
 mentary narrative, caused by the interregnum which took place in educational 
 parliamentary proceedings during the years 1800 1803. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Strachan, Teacher at Kingston, Cornwall and Toronto. 
 
 "in l«fiO V^''^' Tu'f.?"- ^'''''^*"' '' ^^'^^ "^ '^°''°"^«' ^«'i^«r«d to his clergy 
 m 1860, he gave the following particulars of his early life, and of his first expeS- 
 ence as a school teacher : v.Ap.ri 
 
 than^V^tTeri^uSctrch'ofTS^^^ object in view 
 
 In 1796, having finishormy tS^at K no?/p n*"** ''I u** ^^^ 
 Master's degree, I rLovedb, Z viSyof^"i^^^^^^^ and proceeded to the 
 
 important and lastinR friendshins Lnona-f ,^h . I m^*"*'' '^^''® '''®'"«' ^ contracted several 
 of Mathematics, andl so with Dr' Smers sS TheS ^h""" ^.T"''' afterwards Professor 
 three nearly of the same ace and «nr fr S • , T" "? '^^'^^vedly renowned. We were all 
 a constant lrr..,onZol'!u'S^,Zol:^^^^^^^ ^^*^ ^-*h' I'-ng l^ept alive by 
 
 and twrist^;^^?grfaf ^^^^^^^ '" private.tuition but. hav.ng a mother 
 
 of Kettle, in the County oT^Sa'a^nld^Vuv"' * *PP '^^ ^"^ *^»^ P»'«=hial school 
 nineteen. 1 made my hrst, es ay irthei^eTt field ^^ pubhc competition, and here, at the age of 
 with deeply rooted love i..r the cause aKifhf «l}>cational labor, commencing my career 
 which has since crown.d my efforts «-nieth.ng of a fore-knowledge of that success 
 
 the slix a Ttii: iSir wh'crtr**'* ""? ^^^'^'^^^y ^' ^^y ^"p''« - ^^^y -^eied 
 
 success which they ultimatelTSeved A » i^ """^''^"^^ *« ""y judgment, many owe the 
 since so well kno^n as on3 S S paint^sof ^K"^ f **"*' ''""' "*" ^'' ^^''^ ^ilkie, 
 «eniu8. and. with much difficulty prevaUed w h hU uX ^3 T" ^tT^"^ Wi.kie'sgreat 
 celebrated Raebum. then «ni..viL fh" u^^t!'-f - - ' ^r"®"** ^""' **-'" ^^'V y«"nK. *« the 
 pleasing to remark that after an-'im^erval orverLZ^^^r^T ^"^ a pa.alerj in Scotland. Jt is 
 
^'»^.ta^h ■'..»>t.-'"*#«*ftrtiM**Wi 
 
 42 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1803 
 
 everything to his reverend teacher and that but for his interference he must have remained in 
 obscurity. Commodore Robert Barclay, afterwards so unfortunate on Lake Erie, from causes 
 over which he had no control, was another of my pupils. He was a youth of the brightcBt 
 promise, and often have I said in my he^rt that he possessed qualities which fitted him to be 
 another Nelson, had the wiiy opened for such a consummation. While at St. Andrew's, the Rev- 
 erend James Brown, one of the acting professors of the University, a gentleman of vast scientific 
 attainments, became so exceedingly attached to me as to take me under his kind protection. 
 After some time he was advanced to the Chair of Natural Philosophy in the University of Qlas- 
 gow, tn which place he removed. Still interested in my welfare, he proposed to me to becom» 
 his attending assistant, to prepare and make the experiments necessary for the illustration of 
 his lectures and, in his absence from infirm health, which was not unfrequent, to read his pre- 
 lections an 1 discharge such of his duties in the lecture room as I was qualified to undertake. 
 But difficulties intervened to prevent this arrangement from being carried out when almost com* 
 Dieted, and Dr. Brown was, as he intimated to me, reluctantly induced to retire on a pension. 
 I3nt our mutual attachment continued through life. This to me waa a very bitter disappoint- 
 ment. A career of honorable usefulness had been opened in a way after my own heart, and it 
 was in a moment destroyed. But I was not overwhelmed, for God had in His goodness given me 
 a cheerful spirit of endurance and a sanguine disposition as to the future, which it was not easy 
 to depress ; and a kind Providence, even before I had altogether recovered the shock, presented 
 to me an opportunity of removing to another sphere of activity and, in the frame of mind in 
 which I found myself, I was the more disposed to accept employment in Canada. 
 
 Dr. Strachan's account of his removal to Canada and of his arrangement with 
 the Honorable Richard Cartwright, are narrated in his own words on page 9. 
 The agreement with Mr. Cartwright to instruct his sons included also the right 
 to receive other pupils. Thus the school at Kingston began and was continued 
 there for three years. After his ordination in 1803, Dr. Strachan removed to 
 Cornwall. In Bishop Bethune's Memoir of the Right Reverend John Strachan, 
 he says : 
 
 Mr. Strachan's clerical duties at Cornwall were not such as to occupy his whole time, so he 
 soon commenced taking pupils and gradually formed that school which afterwards obtained so 
 much celebrity. Amongst his earliest pupils was the late Chief .Justice of Upjwr Canada, Sir 
 John B. Robinson, who went to him in the autumn of 1803, having been previously under his 
 charge at Kingston. . . One after another of those distinguished men followed Dr. 
 
 Strachan to Cornwall as pupils — men whose names adorn our Canadian history. 
 In a letter received by Dr. Strachan from the first Bishoj) of Quebec 09, the Bishop said : 
 
 " I am glad that your school— a much more acceptable term in these . than academy — goes 
 on well. I congratulate you both upon your success and your usefuliuos." 
 
 In regard to Dr. Strachan's removal to Cornwall, the late Bishop Fuller, in a 
 funeral sermon on his demise in 1867, stated that he was : 
 
 Induced to resume his school at the solicitation of the parents of those boys who had been 
 in his school at Kingston and of others both in Lower and Upper Canada, who were desirous of 
 placing their sims under a master so jiractical, wise and successful as he had proved himself to 
 be. Thus lie commenced the school at Cornwall, which afterwards became so celebrated, and 
 at which were educated the first men that Canada has produced, and of whom she may well be 
 
 Kroud— such men as the late Sir J. P. Ilubinson, Judge Maclean, Sir J. B. Macaulay, Sir Allan 
 lacNab, Judge Jones, Mr. Stanton, the Bethunes, (Alexander, John and Donald/, Sir James 
 Stuart and his brother Andrew Stuart, besides many others who have reflected credit on our 
 country. 
 
 'The Bishop had a groat faculty for not only attaching his scholars to him, but also for 
 inducing them to apply theniselves most assiduously to their studies. He told nie that he made it 
 a rule during the time he kept school to watch closely every new boy, and, at the end of a fort- 
 night, to note down in a book his estimate of the boys who had passed through his hands. 
 
 He -.v.-wi iiuvcr .ifnuu of h.ivin'^- h;s dignity iowored by iiborties Uikeii with liiui ; ami ho 
 always felt every ctmfidence in his position and miU- ed warmly and personally into many of the 
 boys antusements and thus gained an immense influence over them. This influence over his 
 pupils has been shown in the fact that almost all of them embraced his principles ; and the love and 
 
Chap. Xlir. SKETCHES OF NOTED TEACHERS IN 1800 1807. 
 
 43 
 
 proved .t so .suhstantiHllyHS did those of his ConmHll Schod ' ' H«^' "^ "'T 
 
 lent teacher. His scho iirs were well tfrounded in th«ir u< rl- Ti.' ' ' "® **,? *"' "**=**'■ 
 and every rule thereof deeply m^^JiZZZ'^^^^^^^^ >;-t«red 
 
 and ever,th.ng connected with it thoroughly understo^Kl befo^7Jr;l:^o;^t^H.tt;'CI::! 
 
 Rev. Dr. Strachan's System of School Management. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Scadding, in his sketch of Dr. Strachan: The First Bishop of Tor. 
 onto— A Revietu and a Study, says : 
 
 with ideas awakened the^Sf^e^^^^^^^ ^'^ "f^**" ^h"*'- «H«ociations 
 
 " w^ntup" and to, k t o place f tl e <^h r 7, '* M"««t'o"er w«« judged correct the latter 
 
 Sj:"^" '-•■-— •---.«. -'i"^^^^^^^^ 
 
 that 
 
 The late Bishop Fuller, who was one of Dr. Strachan's pu^dls, also states 
 
 He had a remarkable talent for interesting hoys in thpir w.,rU • .,„,» u„ f i • i 
 
 interest in it hniself, he led them to do th^. «..n,^ u ■ ' , "' "^ *^*^"'" '^ fl«ep 
 
 On this system Dr. Strachan himself remarks; 
 
 i»r:id"r;a:„a tr=a sr:".^;:?'^ '"-•■• - "- ■-v.uorirt.ss! 
 
 R.bin«,», Hon. O. S. BoultSn. K°. V Mli..!ri.v"\,„'i™''Tr,^.'i.r'.l,P°';- ■.'.•»«"• J™". Hon. W. B. 
 
 t Sern,o„ on the Death of Bishop Strachan, Journal .,f E-lucntion for IT. C, vol. xx. (1867). ,.age 183 
 ; The CkrMan Recorder, edited by Rev. Dr. Strachan. Kingston and York, 1819, vol. 1, page 182. 
 
 :"^T), 
 
■r-- -_^^^f-firij^;-ip. ^5^,- - 
 
 Wfp'_T'*|^pt'^^^^ 
 
 44 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1809 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Strachan's Method ok Teaching. 
 
 The following extracts are taken from the preface of a rare book on arithmetic, 
 by the late Bishop Strachan, published at Montreal in 1809. These extracts are 
 highly characteristic of the man, and contain in a few words the rationale, as well 
 as the secret of the Bishop's wonderful success as a teacher. They are, there- 
 fore, inserted here for the information of those who would like to know and 
 to study the methods of one of the most noted Canadian teachers of his day. 
 They are the more valuable from the fact that they are not the opinions, or 
 impressions, of those who had personal knowledge and experience of Dr. Strachan's 
 method, but they are the very words of this remarkably successful teacher him- 
 self, written after .several years' experience of the art of teaching, — now, nearly 
 ninety years ago. He said : 
 
 On my arrival at Kingston, about ten years ago, tu superintend the education of a select 
 number of pupils, 1 experienced much inconvenience from the want of »chool books. To 
 supply this defect, I whs under the necessity of compiling several treatises on dii irent subjects, 
 and among the rest one on Arithmetic, which I am now induced to publish for the greater con- 
 venience of my school. 
 
 The great advantages of well digested text books, both to master and scholar, are too 
 evident to require proofs. In revising this little work for the press, I have endeavored to make 
 the rules and detinitions as simple as possible, consutent with perspicuity, a quality which must 
 never be lost sight of in any work, particularly those of an elementary kind. 1 am sutticiently 
 aware that little reputation can be acquired by the publication of a school book on a subject 
 already more perfect than any of the other sciences, and which has been so well treated by 
 abler hands. But my desire to be useful to my pupiU induced me to undertake the work, 
 which, I thought, might, without »ny great exertion of intellect, though not without much 
 labor, be made more useful for this country than any other publication on the subject. 
 
 Order and Mode of Teaching Stated. 
 
 There is a difference of opinion among teachers as to the order of teaching the primary 
 rules, some giving the simple and then returning to the compound, others teaching lK>th at 
 once. I have been in the habit of giving all the simple rules to the young pupils before they 
 proceeded to the compound, but to young men of discernment I h.tve seldom found it necessary, 
 ns they commonly understood the compound with as much facility as the simple. But if the 
 pupils are carried through all the primary rules before they begin *o write them down in their 
 books, it becumeB a matter of indifference which arrangement be chosen. It should, however, 
 be laid down us a principle thut no boy can do An\ thing right the first time, but that he must 
 learn by the help of his teachers, so as to be able to do it himself ever after. The strict obser- 
 vance of this rule will render any arrangement easy, and facilitate the study, not only of arith 
 metic, but of any other subject. Multiplication is apjdied to the measuring of timber in all 
 the varieties, beciuse many who recjnire this knowledge are not able to remain long enough at 
 school to reach duodecimals, which are generally taught at the end of arithmetic. Of this I 
 have had frequent experience. For the simie reason an account of household expense is intro 
 duced in subtraction ; and in division, book debts, forms of bills and n ceipts. In pro()ortion 
 the common distinction of direct and inverse has been rejected, and a rule given that compre- 
 hends both. The same rule, extended in its operation, serves for double proportion and is very 
 easily understood by boys who are too young to comprehend any explanation of antecedents and 
 con8e<iuentH. In jiractice a case of feet and inches is introduced, which will frequently be 
 found more convenient than cross-multiplication. Care has been taken in vulgar fractions to 
 make the rules easy of comprehension and to take away that .seeming abstrusenoss so frequently 
 complained of In the arrangement of deciii>al fractions, as well as in the simplicity of the 
 rules, something, it is hoped, will be found worthy of approbation. Simple interest compre- 
 hends several rules, which differ iti nntiie rather than in principle. Some tables are introduced 
 of gtvAi ubu ill |iit«cticu, ai>.J -. liiingB entirely new. In i!oiiij>ound interest and annuities 
 
 the several cases are rendered .». /, and although it was necessary to contract this part of the 
 treatise as much as possible, everything of real use is retained. 
 
 ****** 
 
Chap. Xllf. SKETCHES OF" NOTED TEACHERS IN 1800-1807. 
 
 45 
 
 "^^^^^ph^^^^i^^^^^^^ rejected in this. For exH.^i;!;;;;;; 
 
 component ,,art. i, rejected, L^auTe it TSut' IT^''\^ reco,„m«„ded, yet divid-ngT 
 there be any, until the pupil h« learned fnictS n '\ r^."' *^^ '"^"^ «'' '''« remmndel if 
 as H separate rule, as it is only the HnnK n^ f <d not see u necessary to give reduction 
 are not separately tinted, ^'^l^li:^^:^;^^^'^;:::,^^^^''-'- ^^^^ -'- 
 
 . ^'\"irf S„L'riU!irveS Slirtt^""^^"' bo..k rather than an ingenious one. 
 that they improve the pupils in arithi , t^o Thr a V^ "''*'^"' knowledge, at the same time 
 are ch.edy new, and such as will Kuemlv^^co.^r'f 'k' '"'^«^«'-' J*" ^""^over that the ^uLtZl 
 the composition of such ..uestions To. iS .. " ^."«'»f«»- Not that 1 attach any nierit to 
 every perso.i ought to beMerdo .V I'*"!''^"^'^'. V'^ them out as they are wantetl and this 
 c<.llection that I may give his pu.^i;'': Scilt'^'''^'''?' '"' "' '"^'' ^' "^ould Ke J grt 
 problems concerning the Gregorian (J.n^T^ ^^"""^y *° P'"''*'*'"*^ copying. . . *^The 
 
 n. the scho ,1. and they are added he^e f" * *'*""« ^ * "J?^ '^"'^ system of chronology used 
 ^/''-'-•f-t'frh,.ugh\hecSat ;: r^^^^^^^^^ I'hey -"ay, perhaps, be fouyuseful 
 
 tCth;s\r' •*''^T'^''''*'^'«''^'>'- f-eomm^^^ "''""""'' "7, »"<='; more correct, these 
 
 "^rrz-^---- ^''« "-P0- of a tS z. in this c^x^£:,st;,;^^ s 
 
 As to hi.s method of teaching arithmetic. Dr. Strachan thus explained it : 
 
 Bome sure and at the same tune expedTtS« .ne hod o^ir V '" ™y thoughts to the disco^eVvT? 
 
 ^ore. sums to ^rS^ -eVTr^: tTy'^r^^liSf « 0^^^^'' n^'^'^' ^^^ '^'^ »^- one or 
 examme.l, after which J command every figure t,fh„ T.? a^^"' '''''*^*- ^he work is carefuUy 
 under my eye. The ,me whom I ha ,nJn to nLl f^^ *'"'' ^"^ ^^e sums to be wrouS 
 
 and reasons for every .tc,.. and as hTfruceeds the?«t" "^^'T'' ''''^ *" *»<JiWe voice the rules 
 figure, but ready to correct him if he lunder that tht '^^T'^ '^'ong '^ith him figure for 
 IS hn,8hed. the work is ag.in blotted out anLithlrl,?*/ ^^' '"" P'*^«- ^s soon as This on« 
 before, w^jUe the rest proceed aloug with h?m ^a See ind s^^" '" '"'"'^ '\' ^"^«^*°" '^'""d "s 
 • • This method of teachin</arithm..fi<. 1 .^•.*" "" '■0"'«I the whole class 
 
 pursued without interrupting he n^i^^Tn^^^^^^ ^^'' «."portant advantage, tha it Zv be 
 
 but u wdl be found successful, and he tha't is a^Srs to s^t t r^^^t^^^bi^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Among the exerci.se.s in his book. Dr. Strachan gave several examnl., f 
 Canadtan subjects. Thus a question in addition reads : ^ ^'"""^ 
 
 Quebec to Detroit. Amwer~h7 mile.. *" ^^''"'* ^^^^ Required the distan- . from 
 
 Again a question in multiplication reads . • 
 
 The distance from Quebec to Montreal is T so m;i^„ 
 many square yards does it contain ? T^L'^^ZsA^S'"^ '^"""'^ '^ y^'^" ^-ad, how 
 
 ^^^^A^s^iligen^^^ ^hile yet a teacher, Dr. Fuller remarks : 
 
 iAs«,»,(«Vf 
 
46 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HiSTOKY OF EDUCATION IX UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1807 
 
 m 
 
 i » 
 
 of my life.'* 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Georqe Okill Stuaut, Teacher at York. 
 
 Knowing, from conversation with Mr. J. Ross Robertson, of the Toronto 
 lelegram, that he had collected a good deal of information in regard the School 
 which was established in Toronto, by the Kev. George Okill Stuart, in 1807, I 
 a.sked bin. to allow me to see what he had collected. H kindly placed at my 
 disposal a chapter of the proposed " Memorial Volume of Upper Cana.la College, ' 
 relating to the Rev. G. Okill Stuart's School. From it I make the following 
 
 extracts : ,,,.,., 
 
 iM the suminor of 18(».J. the reHidente of York first saw the benevolent-looking Ince and 
 BtHtely iKure of he Rev. Dr. G.orge Okill Stuart, the Hrst Rector of the Anglican congreKa^ 
 SwlSw.,rBhippe.linthe Cathedral of St. JanieB, and who. at U.e .ame tunc was tie 
 f under .i the Hrsl Public School in York so well-k-iown to the succeeding generat...nB us the 
 •'Home District School." The plot of ground on the south-east corner o Kn,^ and (,eorge 
 street the rector held in fee simple, and, with a view of living near his charg«. he erected a 
 ubstlntaTfnune house, with l,owed windows looking out on King stre. t the entrance being 
 m cXorie street. The external part of this structure was painted a light brown color, with 
 ^reen Venetian blin.ls, as a protoition to the smaller windows. This was the home of the 
 Cr \ the eastern sidL or end of the house, and attached to it. he erected a siual one- 
 »r.ro^ stone buildina . • When tlm structure was first roared the stone was visibly 
 
 rough as when firs" extracte<l from its native .,uarry, but. , • • « "^'-'^ing of half-mch 
 boards covered the (luarriod boulders which composed the walls. , , ,• i i j „ *k 
 
 In this primitiv'e school-house the first public school of York was e.t.vb hshed, and cm the 
 roll .pupils one may read the n»mes of bo.s who became rich and celebrated men and of girls 
 X blossomed into^elles of the growing capital. The school-room wan about hfty feet in 
 Kth and fully twenty-five in width. The classes opened on the 1st June 1H07. Here we 
 ti^^d that the townspeople of York sent their children, indeed a reading of . ne names gives us 
 almost a directory of the inhabitants of the first settlement. A score or two ot those entered 
 „i the firs rolls should be inenticmed : William Pilkington.T. .mas PlayteJ^ James Gi. is, 
 Boniamin Anderson, Robert Andermm, Harvey Woodrurt, W. ham hniith, V\ illiam Cawthia. 
 Hertrav John Gray. Henry Ernst, Gilbert Hamilton, Wilham Robinson Charles Reade, 
 S^nTel Brooke Richard Broc.ke. Bernard Marshall and Henry Glennon James Mcintosh. 
 ?Xln Squires Peter McDinnell. William Bowkett George and William Jarvis John 
 Hayes Charles Sn all, James Edward Small, Donad McDonnell, Alexander Chewett, Charles 
 Wnnlton Edward Hartney Charles Ru^gles, John Moore. Allan McNab, Robert Ross, Wilson 
 
 Han it aToxI^^^^^ 
 
 "iStonr George H. Detlor, Thomas G. Hamilton, William A. Hamilton, John R.dout ; 
 
 also Younu Belcour, Hammeil and Marian. ... ,. , r n 
 The labors of the Rev. Dr. George Okill Stuart were continued for many years with 
 oreat sucL.^, until, in 1812-13, he resigned his charge, soldhispropeity to Col. George Duggan, 
 ff be™ Rect..r of Kingston, and Archdeacon. \He was succeeded by Dr. Stnu^han both as 
 RecU.1- of York, and Master of the School. Having presided with energy over the Cornwall 
 r^m.nar Schools Dr Strachan gave renewed life to educational matters in York, by a reor- 
 iSSil^'m atoaderTa^ of the system of training which hsd l>een bo happily introduced 
 by the Rev. Dr. G. Okill Stuart. (Pages 178-9.) 
 
 ^^ThlRev Dr Scsdding. in the Toronto of Old, gives a number of additional most interestintr P»rticu- 
 1«. of l*r Strac^han and of'i'.ig Schools at Cornwall and Toronto, to which « >« re"dw '» referrwf. In th.. 
 JCncluf'StTa^^";- Cathedral. Toronto, i» a bust in marble of the Venerable Prelate. Underneath it is 
 
 ^'''^KiTt.iV'st^reit'iKS^of John Strachan. first Bishop of Toronto who departed thi- life, 
 
 T^ fi fi!2^ 1 WV7 mtfifi ninetieth vear of his age, and the twenty-moth of his episcopate. Hw 
 
 November the first, 1K67, '° *''«"'"**''!''' ^j' !u^ „{ the Church, and commonwealth, an an Edu- 
 
 <^««P'«»°"ll?_^?J.lr^L^^i;„!."'^^?'.l°f?:J:^ln" torn; an i^i^rtant portion of the history* of Western 
 (^r.iit!''DS'^thirtvrfiv^e years he" ww'Recto^ of this Cnurch »«><i, Pwi-'h In r«jueu.br.uc« ul lam, 
 th^ ^n^regation have beautified the Ohancal and erected this Memorial, Easter, 1870 
 
 tA portrait of Rev. Dr. G. Okill Stuart, as R.ictor of York, hangs up in the Vestry of St. James 
 Cathedral, Toronto. 
 
nm 
 
 Chap. XI 11 8KET( 
 
 MOTED TEACHERS IN 1800-1807. 
 
 s hard as 
 parochial 
 est yearn 
 
 Toronto 
 ) School 
 1807, I 
 d at my 
 Jollege,' 
 allowing 
 
 I livce and 
 uongrega- 
 
 W8S the 
 >ns 118 the 
 id (ieorge 
 erected a 
 nee being 
 oh)r, with 
 lie of tlie 
 jniall one- 
 'ftH visibly 
 
 half-incli 
 
 ,nd on the 
 nd of girls 
 fty feet in 
 Here we 
 )8 sives us 
 ae entered 
 38 (iivins, 
 L Ciiwthra, 
 les Reade, 
 Mcintosh, 
 rvis, John 
 bt, Charles 
 88, Wilson 
 »n, George 
 in Ridout ; 
 
 jrears with 
 go Duggan, 
 lan, both as 
 e Cornwall 
 by a re-or- 
 iatroduoed 
 
 ting particu- 
 •recT In thn 
 lemeath it is 
 
 rted thi» life, 
 copat«. H'w 
 1, ax an Kdn- 
 f of Western 
 r»uu«) 1)1 hiui, 
 
 of St. James' 
 
 47 
 
 SpMliiing of this School 
 9t»imUi of old, says : 
 
 and its situation, the Rev. Dr. Scadding, in his 
 
 At the intersection of Kimt anH Po«r„„ ... 
 the early History of Education in York ^ ' °'" *^*' '**^^*' °" "" *'*'J«<'* connected with 
 
 Attached to the enit side of the house i u .^■ 
 
 ■. . . It« structure is conceXd from vi-' ' '* * '"^'T building, wholly of stone, 
 the first school-house pr..8e88ing a ubUc cwZ inT ' L " r*'"*^ "^. '^'•*P^'«'-d8- This was 
 • • . and It was the Hou e oLripT^^ i l"*""* ^^ ""^ *'"''•*'' ^'- «'^»"t ta"g»'t 
 we learned that it opened on "Z^ thTtiL^ ,'^1; ^'■"™ ** '^^'>»te"'P"rary recrd . ^ , 
 appears that feiriale pupils were not exclude.Wrni.VK • •.■ » From the same record it 
 roll are names vvliich sirvivinu c niemno^r ,^° I'"nutive Home District School. On the 
 
 <.f Upper Canada. distinguishrrrXSrnSlVe's!^'"^?^:^ ^" '^^ '-" -"'"'« 
 
 Dr. William Warren Baldwin, of Spadina. 
 The record of the pioneer teachers of Upper Canada would scarcely be com- 
 p ete without a reference to Dr. W W Baldwin, of Spadina. who wa.!.. noted 
 
 r^z:T^r^':'^r'-''--^ -^-^-^ instructor o;;:! 
 
 1 he Kev. Dr. Scaddmg. m his Toronto of Old, says of him : 
 
 the £fih JTci:rke:& 'ffidli^f .IJor'"" ^''"'^ "' '•'« '^'^^'^ - B'^l'l-"'- Creek, in 
 tional ac,ui(oments. h'y .Jjri^^^^^^'Z'Z::;' 1^^ ^"^r""'!"'" ^"'"« ^'^ «-" «''"- 
 nuinbHr«,.ft.h„V,.,b /-.„.. ..i.. , . ». "'« omteof a teacher of youth. In several successive 
 
 iressmg a soldier's wounds, and 'le found a «l,n»,«r t \ r f,- ,, "'"^ ^^Jr. Baldwin was 
 luite unhurt. . . . ' ^H now re ur^. jZ m "^ f "^^ ^'*"l"^' ''•^ *''^»°d h"", but he was 
 .in who continued dressing wou"2 and acfctit TltT"' *"^ r^P*'"'"' ^'^'^^P^ l^'- 8*^- 
 he Surgeon of the 8th Regmient ^ )L T^,"' ^"'l' t>ie arrival of Dr. Hackett, 
 
 . . taking every 8ur<,eon «,i;K 1,;... • ^_ ^Pf*' ^''«»ff« had gone tu the front . 
 
 <iuite unhurt. 
 
 win, 
 
 the 
 
 r taking every Turgeon with hi.,. " n„"?{?®'''" »''«»«e Jiad gone to the front . 
 
 humanity, to wo?k at hfs old'pro esTion aga „ ,u"d take 0'^"^ .^ ^''"f " "-^^ ^'^'^^ «»^ "^ 
 
 y uii again, and take CK-e of the woundeu. fPage 483-435.) 
 
 f. ih^'l ^', Z ^n '^'''"; '"''" "^^^ appointed Master-in-Chance'ry in 1806 and 
 i. he Legislative Council in 1843. was the .son of Mr. Robert Baldwin of K 1" 
 n^ole. in the County of Coric, who came to Canada in 1798, and .setUed in the 
 Township of ('larke County of Durham. He died on the 8th of January 1844 
 
 ber 18^: atlh r '?' ''' ''""^"^^'^' ^^^' '''' ^ '^^ ''^ ^f Decel 
 
 ber, ISob, at the comparetivelj. usrly age of 64 years. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 KDUCATIONAL PROCEEDXNOS^OF THE UPPER CANADA LEOIS- 
 
 YorJ^Ihe wT'M.f ^-l Parliarnent of Upper Canada commenced at 
 icork on the hrst day of P'ebruarv ISiu Hit; ^"— 'i^« '^ a tt 
 
 i. L ^ ^l '" '^ — Atciioncy reter Hunter Tipn 
 
 iiV. iii^'JiL^ w^!^:: i.,:... 
 
48 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IH UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1804 
 
 Members who took part in the School Legislation of 1804. 
 
 Mr. Alexandkr McDonell, served with Siincoe in the Revolutionary War. 
 He was elected member for the Countie.s of Glengarry and Prescottin 1801, 1809, 
 1813, and for the County of (Jlengarry in 1820. 1825 and 1836. He was the firat 
 Sheriff of the Home District, and was afterwards, (1805,) Speaker of the House of 
 Assembly. In 1831 he was called to the Legislative Council. He died in 1842. 
 
 Mr. John Ferguson was elected raember for the County of Frontenac in 
 1801, He served eleven years as Barrack- Master and nine years as Commissury, 
 as well as six years in the '^onunissary- General's )ffice in Montreal. 
 
 Mr. Angus McDoneii. was elected to represent the Counties of East York, 
 Durham and Siracoe in 1801 and 1804. He, with Judge Cochrane, Solicitor- 
 General Gray and thirty-si. other persons, perished in the schooner Speed;) in 
 1805, while on their way to the Assizes at Presqu Isle, near Brighton. 
 
 Mr. Jacob Weager was elected to represent the County of Dundas in 1801. 
 
 Mr. Ebenezek W \shburn was also elected member for the County of Prince 
 Edward in 1801 and 1805. His relative, Mr. Simon Washburn, was a noted 
 lawyer, who lived at York in these early days. 
 
 1. Proceedings of the House of Assembly, 1804. 
 
 On the 14th Fehniani, imj^, agreeable to leave jfivea, Mr. Sheriff MoDciiell brousfht up 
 the petition of the Bundiy inhabitants of the County of Glengarry, wiiich waa ordered to lie on 
 the table. 
 
 10th February, 7S0,'/.— Then was read the petition of divers Magistrates and others, inhabi- 
 tants of the County of Glengarry, fi-hich is as follows :— 
 
 To His Etcollenoy Peter Hunter. Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of His Majesty's Provinces 
 of Upper Canada, and Lieutenants Jeneral Commanding His Majesty's Forces in Lpper and 
 Lower Canada, etc. 
 
 To the Honourable the Legislative Council and *he Honourable tli.s Members of the Com- 
 mon House of Assembly of the said Province, in Parliament assemljled, 
 
 The petition of the undersigned Magistrates and others of the County of Glengarry, Eastern 
 District, Humbly Sheweth :— 
 
 That amidst the many blessings your petitioners enjoy under the Constitution and Govern- 
 ment of this Province, and notwithstanding the wise exertions of the Leurislature to promote 
 public prosperity, they still contemplate anxiety, the ill conseijuences that iiuiy result fium the 
 want of schools, both to the present generaticm and to posterity. 
 
 That, though the Bcarcity of these useful institutions may be ascribed, in some degree, to 
 the infant sate of the Province in general, and to the want of adecjuate means to give them 
 weight and perpetuity, yet peculiar circumstances aggravate these unavoidable misfortunes, in 
 this part of the Province in particular. 
 
 The Highlanders, who form the great majority of inhabitants in this County, and who are, 
 in general, a moral and religious people, are yet extremely backward in promoting any public 
 institutions of learning. 
 
 In their native country they were accustomed to hear the beauties of Christianity inculcated 
 in their mother tongue, whence many of them supposed that an English education was unneces- 
 sary, and what each individual was made to contribute by public authority towards the support 
 of a school, was so very light and so imperceptibly collected with the annual rents, that the 
 """■-ll^ ***" people actually forgot that they bore any part of the burden. 
 
 xheit) circuiii,-.uiiiurB. UigelJier vnUi the numerous charity schools osUiblishod in ditterent 
 parts of the HighUnds of Scotland, which cost nothing to the inhdbitants, have impressed the 
 natives of the country with habits of thinking unfavorable to public institutions ; and the few 
 
1804 
 
 04. 
 
 lary War. 
 801,1809, 
 8 the first 
 5 House of 
 i in 1842. 
 mtenac in 
 mmissary, 
 
 ast York, 
 Solicitor- 
 Jpeedy in 
 
 i in 1801. 
 
 of Prince 
 
 a noted 
 
 Chap. XV. EDUCATIONAL PR0CEKDING8 OP U. C. LEOrsLATUKE. 
 
 )rou!<ht up 
 >d to lie on 
 
 trs, inhabi- 
 
 » Province, 
 'Pper und 
 
 ' the Com- 
 
 y, Eastern 
 
 id Govem- 
 () pi'funote 
 t riom li; 
 
 I lie 
 
 degreo, to 
 give them 
 irtunos, in 
 
 I who are, 
 iny public 
 
 inculciited 
 s unnecea- 
 le support 
 I, that the 
 
 1 dittorent 
 resaed the 
 id the few 
 
 schools found amonu them here (hv fS<. n.i„*..i ,.• , . . 
 
 little value. ^ instructors that, consequently, they are fluctuating and of 
 
 by pu'il'rulSry^in'rit^^^^^^^^^^^^ whether the erection of School, 
 
 to your wisdom. Lm meZLT^%l! ±tZ"\'^''' '"""''■^' "'"l'^'- •"«»> regulations a. may, 
 be a measure of great utility/both in 1 n.^ittll a, T""' 1 circumstance, may atford, would not 
 would nutspeedVlycountorWare he uW^^^^^^^ ^^'^^ "•'"'< 8«n«ratio„. and 
 
 who .n ..ther respects are a reas^r Wrand^iul.rdeSJo; o^lr"'™'''*^ "" ''''' ^°P'«' 
 
 Alex^Mc'M^ilTnf j!i..'"Sx VcdSTp ^'aII '''^ ^"^^' n*''^ i^T*^) '' MeDoneil. J.P., 
 
 John Bethune,Mini;ter?HuKWcy,„eii h"^ 
 
 Mclntyre, Duncan Murchiaon, Iklors ' " Mclntyre, Duncan McKenzie, Duncan 
 
 on M^nda'^'^ext^^tje 'prrsSlr'th"*" 'It' f ^^«"^"' '"''-"^ ^^ ^^^ *« ^ring in a Bil 
 District within this Province «»tabh.hment of Grammar Schools in each and eveiy 
 
 York et.).), EbenezerWashburr^Conn'iofVrnl Fr"*">r^T^^ McDonell, (County of 
 Kent), Bhoriff McDonell, Com.ty of Glengarry Itc)-^''^^' ^'^'""" ^'^'"^^ (^''"nty of 
 
 ^e^ml^Ci.T:^J^7\JS:r^J «««-) S„muel Sherwood. (County of 
 David M. Rogers, (Countv of N..tthuSerkn r'r. i" ° T^v' '^**""*/ "^ Lincoln, etc.), 
 Robert Nelles, (County of Lincoln, etc "^7 ' ' '"cob Wenger, (County of Dunclas); 
 
 The same paased in the negative by a majo it. ..f t^o 
 
 brin^i ^^n^A^;:^^ S^=l;cn' ,i'1^' • ' ^^- f"^? r«^-- ^^r leave to 
 A division having taken place tCZZ wor* V'" ^"'',*'' "^ ^^.a Frovmce. 
 
 NA^.s.-Me88r8. Elliott, ShcrwoScl«."-J^<t*'"^ McR«e.-5. 
 
 And the san.e was .dao uegaSl/y^^.'ri'^^^rt^o''''^""' ^''^'^'^^' ^«"--7- 
 
 forliaitt'SS'infiin^^r^rSSS'Sr^^^^^^ •^"'^n Fei^uson, 
 
 ren.aining unappropriated ui the PnVincid T easurv Th« H " 1? ?'"V"'^ ""* <'^ ""^ ^""d 
 
 £^.Ss^ «^-^^' ^^-^- -- his^;:^r-t ssintiS'^t,^-; 
 for 1^:;^ Jtsfis-M!^^,!^^- sx"is^ij^ f- r ^ ^-«-- --^ 
 ^^^^■■"ir^titl-sr^K'iahii-^^^ " ^'"^"^ 
 
 the Order of the Day as\ela ea to leave J^venhini' o bHnf ' ^^ J^n *^«^e»?'"». th^t ao much of 
 support of District Schools within tb* ^^.^{^^'"be diaohi A ^'" t'\««»\Wi8h a Fund for the 
 subatitute an address in lieu thereof'" lJ^ wtvL accoSinglrgt.Ted*'"' '^ """' '^' ^"°"^'*^ *<> 
 9.. '',^;^^f^'!,«;P'^«PJ-|^i-^heforegoi resolution, to bo substituted for the 
 School Fund Bal by Mr Ebene^er Washburn, was not brought before the Ho s' 
 f Asse„.b ly by h,n, dunng the Session-he shortly afterwards having obtained 
 leave to return home. In the following 8es.sion. however, and in that of 1807 he 
 introduced a Bdl to establish a School Fund. But he did not proceed by address 
 as he had proposed to do in 1804. ^ aaaress, 
 
 No educational legislation took p.ace ixUhe Legislative Council during 1804. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA T.mr... 
 
 iiAlUlvJli lis 1805. 
 
 The first Session of the fourth Parliament of Unnor r'o„« i 
 iv a L 1 .. Ti , «mu,uicut oi upper ^^anada commenced nn 
 
 the flrsM^yot February. 1.05. His Excellency, Peter Hunter, Es^.y.uZ 
 
60 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF KDUOATIOV IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1806 
 
 tenant-Governor opened the proceedings with the usual Speech from the Throne. 
 In it he made no reference to either Education or Schools. 
 
 1 
 
 Members who Took Part in School Legislation in 180.i. 
 
 Mr. Allan McLean was first elected to the Legislature of Upper Canada 
 for the County of Frontenac, in 1804; again in 1809, 1813, 1817 and 1820. He 
 was chosen Speaker of the House of Assembly after his election in 1813. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Shrrvvood was elected member for the County of Grenville in 
 1801 and 1805. In 1818, when the trials took place at York, of those concerned 
 in the Red River trouble and murder of Governor Robert Semple on June 18th, 
 1816, Mr. Samuel Sherwood was one of the counsel for the prisoners. 
 
 Mr. Petkr Howard was elected for the County of Leeds in 1805, 1809 and 
 1817. 
 
 Mr. Ralph Clench was one of the members of the County of Lincoln and 
 was elected in 1801, 1805 and 1813. He and his colleagues from the County of 
 Lincoln (Messrs. Isaac Swayze and Robert Nelles) attended as pall-bearers, on 
 behalf of the House of Assembly, the funeral of Mr. William Weekes, who was 
 killed in a duel with the Hon. William Dickson, of Niagara, in 1806. While a 
 member of the House Mr. Clench was taken prisoner by the Americans in the 
 War of 1812-1815. 
 
 Mr. Benajah Mallory represented the Counties of Norfolk, Oxford, and 
 Middlesex and was elected in 1805 and 1809. Sir Gordon Drummond, Preside&li 
 of Upper Canada in 1814, in his speech to the Legislature in that year, refers to 
 him and Mr. Joseph Willcocks as follows: 
 
 It has been more a subject of regret than surprise to have fouud two members of the 
 Legislative Body in the ranks of the enemy, 
 
 Mrs. Edgar, in her Ten Years of Upper Canada 
 
 1805-1815, thus 
 
 explains this reference to these Members in the President's speech : 
 
 The two members of the Legislature named in the last paragraph [of the speech] as traitors 
 were Joseph Willcocks and Bojy^-MaUuiX; o.nd American by birth and sympathy. Those 
 men raised what they were pleased to call a"Uanadian Regiment, which fought on the Yankee 
 side, but it is cerbiin that no native Canadians wore within its ranks. (Page 207-268.) 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1805. 
 
 The only two subjects of an educational nature which were brought before 
 the House of Assembly during this sessiop of 1805, were in regard to the formation 
 of a fund for Grammar Schools, and the purchase of philosophical apparatus ; 
 — the former by Mr. Ebenezer Washt ;rn and Mr. Peter Howard, and the latter 
 
 by Mr. Allan McLean and Mr. Samuel Sherwood. Neither Bills were passed. 
 
 The adoiitjon of the report of the Con niittee on the Sohool Fund. Rill li.ivin'.' hp.p.n 
 
 refused by the House, it faile<l to pass. The latter Bill was not pressed to a 
 
 second reading by its promoters. 
 
 11 
 
^■^^c.™™, p„oo.»,»„» or „. c. .eo.sL„™K, mr. 
 
 51 
 
 e Throne. 
 
 ir Canada 
 820. He 
 
 enville in 
 concerned 
 une 18th, 
 
 1809 and 
 
 icoln and 
 ounty of 
 carers, on 
 who was 
 While a 
 us in the 
 
 'ord, and 
 
 PresideiSt 
 
 refers to 
 
 3rs of the 
 S15, thus 
 
 On the 18fch 
 
 pjfetS^^thSr^^^^^^^^^^ Peter Howard, .oved 
 
 mh i^e«.n.rrv 7507 M?'''!,?"'^"* "'^^^^ the Province w! ^^^'^ "1""^ "'• more 
 
 of the Order of the C'^ dU.f """i**''^^'^" "'°ve<l. «ecoSed bv Mr W^,fr°'''*'",«^^ ^iven. 
 
 Act to Purchase PhnLnhS^T^^'* *« relates to the sec^^^^^^ 
 
 Ordered accordingly "^P'""^*' Apparatus." and that the elme b^LS^ ^''l^"*'"^'^ ''An 
 35th Febrnar,, ifios R At u °° Monday next. 
 
 „ ^7/A i^'eftn.ary. i^^.-Mr Wa«b), ' '"'" ""'^ accordingly 
 
 ^ Mr. Speaker haHng resunied th. PK ■ .. '" *^' ''^'''' °' *^« 0°™- 
 
 Thno fl,o w ,. . "® negative. ^*''"- ^n the question 
 
 and Samuel Sherwood. "'^ "" promoter,, Meas«. Allan McLean 
 
 as traitors 
 y. These 
 16 Yankee 
 
 F(05. 
 
 it before 
 •rination 
 )aratu3 ; 
 10 latter 
 ! passed. 
 
 *'o * 
 
 sed to a 
 
 CHAPTEK XVI. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER OAV.n 
 
 LATUREIN ,806, ^^''"'^ ^"^^S- 
 
 The second Session of the fourth Po i- 
 0. the 4th day of February, SO LalZT """" °"™''' """-"-d 
 Jent and Admini^.tor o/the Oove™": Le^T t^T^ '^»<'°^-- ^-i" 
 Thr^» ™ the oecion. He made no ^e^ereneet ^tr^^lh^ntXt 
 
52 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1806 
 
 Members Who Took Part in School Legislation in 1806. 
 
 In addition to the members named in connection with the legislation of 
 1805, the following may be mentioned : — 
 
 Mr. William Week^s was elected Member for Simcoe, Durham and the 
 
 Second Riding of York, in loOo, as successor of Mr. Angus McDoneJl, Sheriff of 
 
 York, and one of his opponents at the election of 1804, who was drowned on his 
 
 way to attend a trial at Presqu Isle, in October, 1805. The Lieutenant-Governor 
 
 (Hunter) had required Mr. Justice Cochran, Solicitor-General Gray, Mr. A. 
 
 McDonell (the Sheriff), Mr. Fisher (High Bailiff), and others, to proceed there in 
 
 the Government schooner Speedy, to hold the trial. The schooner foundered on 
 
 its way down the lake, and all on board (29) perished. Mr. Weekes escaped, 
 
 having gone to Presqu Isle on horseback. In the following year (1806) Mr. 
 
 Weekes unfortunately lost his life in a duel fought with the Honourable William 
 
 Dickson, of Niagara, near Fort Niagara, on the United States side of the river, 
 
 on the 10th of October, 1806. Dr. Scadding says of him : — 
 
 His death was greatly regretted by his constituents. The Upper Canada Gazette and 
 American Urade, a local newspaper, spoke of him as follows :— " In him the orphan has lost a 
 father, the widow a friend, the injured a protector, society n pleasing and safe companion and 
 the Bar one of its ablest advocates." (Rev. Dr. Scudding's Toronto of Old, pa^jes 254-5.) 
 
 Captain David Cowan was elected to jepresent the County of Essex in 
 1805. 
 
 Mr. David McGrkgor Rogers was one of the oldest members of the House 
 of Assembly. He was first elected in 1790, for the County of Prince Edward, 
 during his absence, and again in 1801, for the same county, and in 1805, 1809, 
 18i3 and 1820, for the Counties of Northumberland and Hastings. In 1810 he 
 declined election, as his war claims on the Government were then unsettled. In 
 Mrs. Edgar's Ten Years of Upper Canada, 1805-1815, he is thus spoken of :— 
 
 Mr. D. Mc'iregor Rt)gers . . . was on the people's side, as opposed to the Govern- 
 ment ; but being more motlerate in expressing his views, he did not got into such trouble as 
 his friends, Judge Thorpe and Joseph Willcocks. (Page 32.) 
 
 Mr. Robert Nelles was elected as joint representative of the Counties of 
 York, Lincoln and Haldimand, in 1801, 1805 and 1813. In 1817 he represented 
 the First Riding of Lincoln. He was ont of the Parliamentary pall bearers at 
 the funeral of Mr. Weekes. 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of i.e House of Assembly in 1806. 
 
 Mr. William Weekes, at an early period of the Session, moved the House 
 
 into a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Province, with a view to bring 
 
 the subject of education before the Assembly The proceedings are as follows : 
 
 On 12th of February, 180«, the House resolved itself into Committee to go into the further 
 consideration of the state of the Province. Among other resolutions proposed bv Mr. VVeHkes 
 was the following : — 
 
 Remtlred, that it is the opinion of this Committee that seminaries for iho education of 
 yf)Uth are highly necessary in tliis Province. The resolutions we»-e adopted. 
 
 ii 
 
1806 
 
 06. 
 'islation of 
 
 m and the 
 , Sheriff of 
 ned on his 
 t-Governor 
 y, Mr. A. 
 id there in 
 mdered on 
 3s escaped, 
 (1806) Mr. 
 jle William 
 ' the river. 
 
 Oaxette and 
 Ml has lost a 
 iipanioQ and 
 54-5.) 
 
 f Essex in 
 
 the House 
 ce Edward, 
 1805, 1809, 
 [n 1810 he 
 ettled. In 
 jn of : — 
 
 the Govern- 
 ;h trouble i\s 
 
 IJounties of 
 
 'ej>re.sented 
 
 bearers at 
 
 1806. 
 
 the House 
 
 3W to bring 
 
 follows : — 
 
 o the further 
 Mr, Wnekeg 
 
 eduoatiou of 
 
 Chap. XVr. EDTCAriONAL PROOEEDINOS of U. C. LEOrSLATURE, 1806. 
 
 53 
 
 ill 
 
 
 t 
 
 for leave to*hr'C"'ik aTlI to^/nnf^,"""".* Sher«rood moved, seconded by Capt. David Cowan 
 for the^promotioS S l^l^ TD:;t acrdi°ng.r^.tS *'« P"^''^'- «' ^^^ -PP^-'i 
 
 for thTpSZ'W'^nTppa'riurt?;™ '"'• ^ ^'^ ^ »PPropriate a certain sum of money 
 seconded by Capt. MatheTE™ "tt forthB Ln'T^' ^•^^'■- S'"?!"*'! Sherwood then moved! 
 apparatus for promoting sciencl'^n^pS^'^ero'rJ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ '"^ P-^- ^^ 
 
 to '^VpJo^^^T'oeSTA''^^^^^^^ -- -^ ^or the second time a Bill 
 
 moved, seconded by Captain Cowan that fh^Vr^P^ *" promote science. Mr. Sherwood 
 take the said Bill into consideratTox?' '^ ^"^ "'''^ "^^""'^^ '^^^^^ ''^^" Committee to 
 
 ^.^ Jhe House accordingly resolved itself into Committee to go into consideration of the said 
 
 the Ia?r ofThe^SL'''^''"""' ''^^''^^^' '^-''"S '«^^ ^^e Chair, Mr. Clench was called to 
 
 tee I^^^-S'^^^^^^^^^^^^ the Commit- 
 
 mants, which he was directed to reporrto th« H?.^ 1 k ' ^''I'^'V^hey had m.de some amend- 
 *""? The House then resolved tha tie s J R ' ni"if "^'^ '^ '''•'" > P''^'*''"* *« '■«'=«'^« the 
 motion of Mr. Clench seconded bv Cant 0,^1?, fJ^ r.^.f "^ J ''^'^^'^ *"d accepted. On 
 ^nd read a third time to-morrow. ^ "' '* "^"^ Ordered, That the said Bill be engrossed 
 
 c^^'^^^Jimy'^M^^^ third time the engrossed Act for the pur- 
 
 be ''An ptSr!-trcSnT^^^^^^^^^ Bill do pass and that the title 
 
 and Robert Nelles. "" ""'"'''^' ^""""^ ^cG. Rogers, Solomon Hill, Thomas Borland 
 
 Mr. sSr!" ''^ '^'^""'^^'^^ ^^ ^ "-J-'t^^ «f «-e ; the Bill then passed and was signed by 
 
 and fi^^^r::^"^^^^^^^ ^ ^r. Ralph Clench 
 
 and to request their concurrence thereto. adei/dTccurdi^„t^''^^^ '"" ^" ^^'^ '^^ ^^^^' 
 
 that the Order of 'the HousrwShgi^esV fvTlir wtrT^^^ ^ 5'- ^''^''' ^^«»-. 
 r^rn^tSK^^-i-^ 
 
 thK, Provmce be read a second time to-mo^rrow. Ic wlttttgly oideS"'' '" ^^'^'^'^ "' 
 
 different SS^f thi7?r:?in: '^TZof^rlM ^'^''l P'^^^^^'"^ ^^"^'^ ^^^ools .n the 
 the House resolved itself into Committee to^o 1 / ^"a "^^^^^^^^^^oonded by Mr. Sherwood, 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the ChnTro^ at consideration of the said Bill, 
 mitiee.. "^ '"" *^^ ^^'''^' ^"^^ Mr. McLean was called to the chair of the Co.u- 
 
 a pi&iri^^^^^^^^^ £; j«^-n reported that the Committee had made 
 
 accordingly granted. ^^ ^^"""^ ^«^ »* *» «<= again to-morrow. Leave was 
 
 €o,nSef^^^^^^^^^^^ resolved itself into 
 
 tricts of this Province. "«racion oi tno BUI for establishing Schools in the different Dis- 
 
 ill cno ainorciii, Uistricts in this Province." " ^"'^ oscabusliing Public Schools 
 
 Mr. Speaker havinc left th« Chaiw aJ- \r r 
 ^ Mr. Speaker having resumed the Ch^r Mr m"!^*" '*"''^.'^ '^' '^''^' «^ ^^e Committee, 
 to .,t again this day. Leave was aScordXiy^Jald ""^"'''^ ^'"'^'''' '^"^ '''^'^ 'or leave 
 
HMMMMMMmin 
 
 ■sff^-w^ir ii ■■rl3tB-J3r»"a(asr"fv'r):s^jm -»i« r^ "m^W Wi MMTi^^W^TIPf** « 
 
 64 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPi-ER CANADA. 
 
 180ft 
 
 
 The. Report was then received 
 the said Bill be engrossed and 
 
 The House agaui resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole to go into the further con- 
 ■ideration of the Bill for establishing Public Schools in the different Districts in this Province 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. McLean again took the chair of the Committee 
 n, ^: ^^PoaJ^er having resumed the Chair. Mr. McLean reported that the Committee had gone 
 through the consideration of the said Bill, to which they had made several amendments, which 
 he was directed to report to the House, whenever it shall be pleased to receive the same Mr 
 Clench then moved, seconded by Cai)tain Elliott, that the Report be not received A division 
 thereupon took place, the names being called for, they were taken d-.wn, and are as follows • 
 
 Yeas —Messieurs Clench and Elliott.— 2. 
 
 Nays. -The Solicitor-General and Messieurs Nelles. Cowan. Sherwood, Mallory, Weekes. 
 Rogers, Dorland, Washburn, Hill, Howard and McLean.— 12. 
 
 The same was carried in the negative by a majority of ten. 
 and accepted. 
 
 Mr. Weekes then moved, seconded by Mr. Howard, that 
 read a third time to morrow. Which was ordered accordingly 
 H,^ **••• Sherwood moved, sec .nded by the Solicitor-General,' for leave to bring in a Bill, this 
 ii^' mi .? ''^'^'^ /^P?f "^^ ^°' Promoting Science. Leave was accordingly granted. The 
 said Bill was then read for the hrst time. On motion of Mr. Clench, seconded by Mr Rogers 
 slftifrcinr? 'l^r^'^''^' second time. On motion of Mr. Sherwood, seconded b/th; 
 £id S;^"""'*'- '^^ «°"''« ^'^""'^^^i itself into Committee to go into the consideration of the 
 
 Mr" wE!r ir'"^ ^'^* '''I ^u'^'^l^'- ,¥*"°''y ^"^ '^""^'^^ ^" the chair of the Committee. 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Mallory rei.orted that the Committee had L'one 
 through tbo c<,n8,derat.on of the said Bill without any an.en Imen^. On m.^k of Mr ^ench 
 
 rr'TL''sa?d'Bm "":"'"• *'^ ^l'^ ""''KT^ "^^^«^^'' ^^' ^^^ -'^"•--'^ «-l read a Ih^d timeThi; 
 Sed se?Cd.dhv;h'^>.T':'''':^•*''^^^"^ road for the th.rd time. Mr Sherwood then 
 Act to Prn?.^t .„^. Soliotor-Goneral, that the said Bill do pass, and that the title be, - An 
 
 was ii^nX thi Sp'ak;^.?:'""'"^ '''' ''^ ^'•^"^"^'°" °' '*=^'""=«-" '^'^ ^'» ^^en passed, and 
 
 do ca^rv ^X'thT^Zr'^u"T''-Y.^y ?^- ^f 'r^' ^'"^^ ^^' Sherwood and Captain Cowan 
 Tr.T? ^ Honoumblo Legislative Council the Bill for purchasing certain apparatus for 
 
 promoting science, and to re,,uest their concurrence in passing the same. aPPa"*tus tor 
 
 in the ditferen7ni^/rf ;''\k ^"^ ^' .*^' o^' "'■*""*^ \' ^"^^•"^''d, the Bill for establishing Schools 
 Sencli tt.? th? Til tVmT*''^''"' *^"' Province. Mr. Washburn then moved, seconded by Mr. 
 Clench, that the said Bill be now recommitted, which passed in the negative Mr Weekes. 
 more renT.fn- ^^ ^^' S'»«'wood, that the Bill do pa.s.\uid that the title be "An Act for tlo 
 rd^l'sfgi'iyTe'spfe;' "^'"""^ ^'""^'^""^ ^'^^ ^'°^'"^^'' '''^^ «"^ ^'-" l^^^' 
 
 chai^e^'SiS :: tXws'™" '•" "^'^"'^'"^ ^°"""'' ''' ^'•- ''' ''' ^'"''^"^^ ^-^--- 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 ^nH JiT "a^a'^ ^ ^^ ^«''*'a^'^" ^'»""«' »'«ve passed, without any amendments, the Bill 
 WHoncHiJabl'e House""" '" " ^^''"'■*'"' ^"' '^' ^""""'^"' "^ Science," sent up fron. 
 
 Tp,,«,..,v. n n RICHARD CARTWIUGHT, 
 
 LEtJi-sLATivE Council Chamber, o„ i „, 
 
 ui 1 i»/..i .<-.,>.. opeaKer. 
 
 rebruary 2(Jth. 18(M). 
 
 1 
 
 laHvI'^p'!,.*^'"-'! ^*'J^''Tm^' ''"^ »^,t^'« Me«onger8 named to carry up to the Honourable the Legis- 
 JhroLi? Th If * •" ^"'''^"^^ "An Act for the more General Disseminati..,! of Learning 
 .1 d rnf li .. • * '•"^•'"«'' '•»^P;"t'-'d that they had carried up the said Bill to the Council, and 
 did re<jue8t their concurrence thereto. ' 
 
 « 
 
 il 
 
 2. Proceedings of the Legislative Council on this Bill. 
 
 Fehrnnni ^:?>ul, im!.~\ deputation from the House of Assembly brought up to this House 
 of si?,.*''"""-"^"''1: tu'u '"**^V'^'^ "An Act to Procure certain Apparatus for the Promotion 
 seconded, was ordnrHd t<> ^«o mo-i a „^r„.,,,\ *;. .„ lut i.... ^ ' 
 
 Febnmr]! 2Jtth, W'>6'.-Tho Order of the Day being read, the Bill intituled "An Ac • 
 rrocuro certain Apparatus," etc., was read the second time. The Hon. John McGill moveu. 
 
 ; 
 
 S!l 
 
1805 
 
 Chap. XVI. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1800. 
 
 1 
 
 55 
 
 House went into Committee the Hon MrU .„T'^«'T«»P»n '* «as ordered accordingly. The 
 Bill, the Speaker resumed the Ch" T^e ct mt" Jp '^^ ''T' ^''^' ^^-^^sidorJo^ of tl e 
 had been made in the considerat on of the Rn i,^ Cc.mm.tteo reported that some progress 
 Thermipon it was ordered accordingV requested leave to sit again to-morrow. 
 
 having bZ'orttd'f?r'fa~rthe: c^'iumet'th'il^" ^t V^^^"^^ "^'•'-" Apparatus." etc.. 
 upon, Hon. .Sneaa Shaw in the cha^r Th« V, i?"^l*^" Houso went into Committee there 
 of Committee reported that tS Com »,> J. ^ SvetikeT having reaumed the Chair, the Chairman 
 to which they had madr^i. e amrdmfnTs ^J^ «f the TiH? 
 
 seconded, it was ordered that thTZTam^ndmen^^ hi / '''*' "^^P^^^' . «" '"^ti"". made and 
 
 ^«6ntan/ ;g6^;,, i.S06'.-The amendmeX T nf ^^^-If ^'"'i??^? !"'' '"^^'^ ^g^i" to-morrow. 
 Apparatus," etc., having been reTd w^re aVu' td f ' h*"^'^ "^" ^"^^ '^ P^"''"'^ ''«^*^»i'^ 
 were adopted The question being then pufthltth!.' S '.'" '""''°"- "^^de and seconded, 
 resolved in the affirmative. And having hu. t } ^' u ^"^ "^"^ P*'"'' »« a'nended, it was 
 taken by the Ma^ter-in-Chance ;, Mr ^ W B^aTdwi;T^^ w ''^"^^'^ ^^ *'>^ ^P^^^^^' it was 
 
 Fehrmry 27th, 180C,.~A donutatior frrl TT ^ ' *" *,'''' ^""'^^ "^ Assembly, 
 currenco of this House a BilT?n SS ' 'Tn A c't l^T/ ^ ^^'''n""^ ''/''"^^^ "P ^^' ^^e con- 
 Bul was read a first time, and ordered to h« rL^ Procure certain Apparatus," etc.. which 
 
 Febr^.un, mh, i^Osl-The Order tthl^ * tf'""^ '^^ to-morrow."^ 
 read a second time, and considered i?' Con mi tt^e^ Tl^n T T'^-' ^^' C'^PParatus] Bill was 
 Chairman reported that the Bill which had bepn hi. .r^n^"" ^*^"'« ''^^"""^^ ^^e Chair, the 
 passe, the House on the ?«th insJn with the^?H« tie Committee wa. literally what had 
 
 and wluch amendment had been adopted bvVhpR '^""'nded by this House, as it now appears 
 And this Bill, being no further a nevRilfK "'^ of Assembly ; which report was acceDted 
 
 the different stages ^no/oma^i^y:?^^^^^^^^ title. pUed througftli 
 
 Another deputation from the H mllof IlS , ^^'PT^'^ °^' *" *^« House of Assembly 
 House, a Bill intituled "An Act for the m .rt P "V^'v"*^'''*^ " ^""^ 'he concurrence rthl; 
 this Province." It was read a ifrst tfme ^'""'"^ Dissemination of Learning throughout 
 
 W^ijj:;; etS hS.g"£,i";S"SLnd^Snf^* ^^^ '':■ -^^^'^ «--«> Dissemination of 
 
 The Speaker halg resumed tt SiaT th^.V"'' Committee, Hon. Mr. SSTn he' clS^ 
 sit again on Monda^. next. ' And leivTW'i^^g^ntT^Sr' '"«""' ""' requested leav^t^ 
 
 Black Rod asseZ in htir" " ' " "'"" "' ^^^^"^^^ •^"^ ^^ ^^ 
 the "Act to ^^oZ^nJ^"'] T' h' """^ ''"^^^' ^"^^"^"^^ ^^^^^ -« 
 for the „,o.-e Zera^ 1^ "ti 'T " "; ''' '"""^^"" ^' ''^'^"^^■" ^"^ -^ ^l^at 
 had failed to trl^I^^ . -P ^"^ ^^^^"^^^^^ ^'^ ^-^^ ^ ^^ 
 
 to ti!^°,^;r^^ -^umJ^rS^El:^ «-r« ^"^^ -^-nistration appropriated li;400] 
 deposited, in the h.-.ndn •■* '» uu--)n r- i . ^ , ^'^ pnnciple« of natur.al phil.-iouhv '-'tw ^ 
 which collection, pre^^ved ^rlC^I^^S^^^^ i^'Slf \h^ ^""^' = '''ro.n ■^;:;^ aehtl^ 'i) 
 bchool building, we ourselves, like oHiers nrol ,.hll V "''^ ''"'"'"« "^ *''« Hoire District 
 
 
56 
 
 DC 'UMENTARY HISTO^IY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1807 
 
 The following k a copy of this Act : — 
 
 46 Oeorge 01., chapter III. 
 An Act to Procure Certain Apparatus for the Promotion of Science. 
 
 The Honourable Alexander Grant, Enkiuire, Preaident. 
 
 Passed 3rd March, 1806. 
 
 Section 1. £400 appropriated for the purchase of instrumentB for illustrating the principles 
 of natural philosophy, etc. (Temporary.) 
 
 2, And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid : '"hat the (Governor, Suoh instru- 
 Lieutenant Governor, or persons administerinct the government )f this Province, is ments to be 
 hereby authorized and empowered to deposit the sai.: instru lants (under such fu^?,"^ 'f 
 conditions as he shall deem proper and expedient) in the hand-; of some personu persoK em- * 
 employed in the education of youth in this Province, in order thU they may be as ployed in the 
 useful as the state of the Provinca will permit. education of 
 
 youth. 
 
 3. Receiver-General to account for the said sum of £400, etc. ^lemporary) Grant. 
 
 Members of thk Legislative Council who Took Part in the ErircATiONAL 
 
 LVGISLATION OF lf<Of.). 
 
 The Hon. John McG;ll was w^l^^ Lieutemuit-Colonel Simcoe durink' the 
 American Revolutionary War. Rev. Dr Srmdtdng says c f hiui :— Captain McGill 
 and his Commander were taken prisontrfe m 1779. 'J'hey formed a plan of escape, 
 b'it it was frustrated by the breaking uf o *vey, lie became Quartermaster of 
 Cavnlrv and afterward-, had charge of the army stores at Queenston. Sub- 
 sequently he became Receiver-General, and also Auditor-General of Land Patents. 
 He was made a member of the Legislative Council in 1798. Simcoe's testi- 
 mony of Mr. McGill was: — " No fnan ever executed the office of Quartermaster 
 with greater inte .rity, courage and conduct." He died in 1834, aged 83. 
 
 The Hon. ^Enkas Shaw, as stated by Govemor Simcoe, in a letter to Sir 
 George Yonge, Secretary at War, dated 17th of January, 1792, "success- 
 fully marched with his division of the Queen's Rangers all the way from New 
 Brunswick to Montieal in the depth of winter on snow shoes."* Rev. Di\ Scad- 
 ding, in his Toronto of Old, thus speaks of him :— 
 
 "^Captain .Eneiw Shaw was . . . well known in Upper Canada as Major-Genoral Shaw. 
 Like 80 many of tlio early men of note, ho was a Scotchman . . . Possessed of great vigour 
 and decision, his adopted country avaded itself of his services in a civil, as well as a military 
 capacity, making him a n^ember of the Legislative and Executive Councils, (page SoS). 
 
 The Hon. Robert Hamilton was appointed a Member of the Legislative 
 Council in 1792. He resided at Queenston. ' 
 
 • This same feat wan accomplished by the British troops which came overland through New Bruns- 
 wick at the time of the famnua " Trent Affair " in 1801. The hardships encountered in s li.it long and 
 arduous march, althougli xevere, were much less bo than those endured in the early part ot thfe century 
 when Captain Shsw and hi* division performed the same march in 17!U-92. 
 
1807 
 
 "*•!*» 
 
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 67 
 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS Or' THE LEGISLATURE OF UPPER 
 
 CANADA IN 1807. 
 
 The third Session of the fourth Parliament of Upper Canada was opened by 
 His EKcellency, Francis Gore, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor, on the second day 
 ■of February, 1807. No reference to education or schools was made in the Speech 
 /rom the Throne. But the Session was, nevertheless, one of the most memorable 
 iii; the history of the legislation of those times. During that Session, the Legis- 
 lature laid down the principle for the first time, that it was the duty of the 
 country to provide for the elementary education of its youth. It not only did 
 so, but it recognized that duty, and gave proof of such recognition, by passing, 
 with comparative unanimity, an Act for the establishment of a Put)lic School- 
 adopting the English nomenclature of such schools— in each of the aight Districts 
 into which Upper Canada was then divided. 
 
 It is true that in passing this Act the Legislature committed itself to an 
 educational anachronism ; for, by it, the Legislature established High, or Grammar, 
 Schools in each District, but made no provision whatever for the elementary 
 feeders of these higher institutions, such as Primary Schools would have been 
 This want was not supplied for several years, nor until 1816, whan a systematic 
 effort was made to temporarily provide for the support of Common Schools to the 
 extent of .124,000 per annum— but which support was reduced in 1820, at the 
 expiration of the tentative Act of 1816, to $10,000 per annum. 
 
 As an evidence of the conservative character of the school legislation of those 
 days, it may be remarked that this first Grammar School Act of 1807, although 
 frequently sought to be repealed, remained in force, with some additions and 
 amendments, until 1853, when it was superseded by a more comprehensive 
 measure, prepared by Rev. Dr. Ryerson in that year. 
 
 ]. Educational Pkoceedinos of the House of Asskmuly in 1807. 
 
 On the 9th of February, 1807, Mr. Ebenezer Washburn, seconded by Mr. Benajah Mallory 
 nioyed for leave to bring m a Bill on Wednesday next to provide a fund for the support of one 
 Fubhe isiJlioul "i each and every District within this Province. Leave was accordingly given. 
 
 11th Febnumj, lti()7.—Mr. Ebenezer Washburn then moved that so much of the Order of 
 the Day as relates to his biiiignig in a Bill this day to provide a fund for the snpport of District 
 Schools in this Province be discharged, and tliat he have leave to bring in the same to-morrow 
 Ordered according!}-. 
 
 «r 11*^'' ^''^^uary, i^Or.—Reiul for the first time the District School Bill introduced by Mr 
 Washburn. Ho then iiioved, seconded by Mr. D. M. Rogers, that the Public (Grammar) School 
 Bill be read a second time to-morrow. Ordered accordingly. 
 
 13th F'ibrnanj, i«07.— Read for the second time, the Bill for establishing Public (Grammar) 
 Schoo 3 throughout tins Province. Mr. Washbura muved, seconded by Mr. Thomas Dorland 
 that the House do now resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole, to take into consideration 
 the Public (Grammar) School Bill. The House accordingly resolved itself into Committee 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. Benajah Mallory was calledito'the Chair of the Com- 
 mittee. • * 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Mallory reported that the Committee had 
 made a progress, and that he was directed to ask for leave to sit again on Monday next 
 •Ordered that the UommittBO have leave to sit again on Monday. 
 
 1; 
 
 
58 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTOUY OF EDUCATION IN ITPPER CANADA. 1807 
 
 imFeb„^ry. MW.-Mr. H'»,l,bu„, mov.d, "ICndS W Mr dTiZ? .S'? '"^^ *'"?■ 
 no.- g,„lve it,.] i„,„ ComnUMee Ir. t.k, m,„ c:mM"MLkfvabS^!Si~^XlflT?,^l' 
 The HoUM acoortliiigly reiolved itwlf i„t<, Cum.uiltee (l.ra.imiar) bchool BiU. 
 
 c-^X/i JPe6n'<»ri/, 7.!^«7.— Agreeably tn the Orcler of fhe Duv tl,^ H„, i j • ,. 
 
 a Committee to go into the further coMsidoraticTofthpRilTf^' Tu?.""" T'lffl 't«elf into 
 Schools in the several Districts thro"rghour£rkovlnce ^"' '^^^''^''^'''''^ ^^"Wic (Qramn^r) 
 
 K; e:; h\riri:r;a S'^Lf M?T.Srer"ti ;r ^^^ ^5r »^ ^'^^ <^--^ttee. 
 
 which he Mas directed to re,, r whenever t IT ,,"' '^^;^'>' '^'^'','""^0 several Mu.endments, 
 The report was then receilJd and ao^o^^^^^^^ Vlr W m"''' ^^l '''"''''""* to receive the same. 
 Crysler. that the Public Sc lo 1 R Mh^ 1" *^'^- ^^ '^^hbuni then moved, seconded by Mr. 
 Ordered accordingly "' ^^ engrossed and read a third time on Friday next. 
 
 Pul 
 
 1).V 
 
 Ordered accordingly. 
 
 District ^:i-rSi;i?o:[!.r srViSn mJ^c!:!/'""' r "''^^t^'J; •^^ «*" ^-- -^-'>'-'-« 
 
 Bill do pass, and th.ut the title le" An A^t o Sw Vil'pSirsT'f ^'' ^^\ ^^^r-...l that the 
 Ti,., s« 1 ill , ^^^'^''■"''*"i rublic Schools in each and every Distrinf 
 
 The Speaker then put the uuestion-H.all the liill pass ? .i Sin took 
 
 .l>ll^?^S:Z:jsS^Si;:^rS:^i.f£p^ ^^^ e,^rossed, the Bill for esUblishing 
 Mr. Poter Hmvard. t^^.at S oPubl ^Dilt ict S^o-TTrnT'- '^""''''^ ^'^'"J"' '""^"'l' ''«-'"^« 
 ■dered accordingly. ' ^'" ''^ re-comnutted on Monday next 
 
 a 
 ded 
 
 xt. 
 
 ^regor, McLean, 
 
 of this Province." 
 
 Carrilrin^lhl'tr *"''T''""; "'"' ^""'■'' ""^ ^»'' •J"«^i^'^' Thorpe-4. 
 the sV.X;. " '''^ '*'""'"'^ '^ " ""^'"^'^^ "^ --^»- The Bill thin passed, and was signe 1 by 
 
 and ilL!^::. b''^\"n;::!tt::rti:!7t£'p'yS's'f • }'^i^,^-f t ^'^"^--^ ^-'^'-- 
 
 '"^' '^/rt:ff — -'-/^-^-■^^cS\v^!:;SeSi;;^ ^^^ ^^^'«'^^'ve CouncH 
 
 '• - SS/'r '""' LoiiialativeCouncillas brought down by Mr. 
 
 til Mori-li, lsii7,—.\ 
 W. W. Hal(hvii), Master-in- 
 Mr. Si'KAKKu : 
 
 '.!'!L^r':';-^l-^''nhe Legislative Council t„ inf..n.^Vour Honourable House that they 
 
 "»<1 every District 
 
 have passed a BilUntitled "An Act to Establish 
 ot this 1 rovmcc." without any ainondnient. 
 
 Pul die Schools in each 
 
 Legislative Coimil Chamhek, 
 
 oth March, IH07. 
 
 THOMAS SCOTr, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 MpJMluais OF 
 
 THE House of A.s.se.mmlv nno Took Part in the School 
 Leuislation ok 1807. 
 
 Messionrs Ebenezor Wa.shburn, Benajah Mallory. David .VI. Rogers Thomas 
 Dorland, bainuel Sherwood, Allan McLean, and the following :_"''""''' ^^'°™^ 
 ^ Mr TH0MA.S DoRLAND wa,s elected to represent the Countie.s ..f L.nnov „p-l 
 
 r;^,n7v'"p if ■' f"^- '?JL'''"'^ ^^'- J*^"-^' ^^"'^''^^^ was elected to r.;.;;;::""; 
 
 County of Dundas in 1805, 1813. 1817 j 
 
 the 
 
 
 182; 
 
1807 
 
 Chap. XVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1807. 
 
 59 
 
 f V y^ ?°"" ■ '^"'''''® ^^-^ '^^'''^^ "^^ ^^^^'^^ '" ^^0^ ^O"" the Second Riding? 
 ot York bimcoe and Durham, to succeed Mr. William M^eekes, who lo.st his life 
 ma duel with Hon. William Dickson, of Niagara. At that time judges could sit in 
 either House ot the Legislature of Upper Canada. Mrs. Edgar, in her Ten Years 
 0/ Upper Canada, 1805—1815, thus speaks of him :— 
 
 Lieut^na^t'l^rrn^r^^^^^^^ ^""^ ( fud«e Thorpe), fell under the di.pleaaure of 
 
 MlZr^ZnTm^TJ^^ ■ ' " The complaints of the people 
 
 Canada, and an orgaSd Opposition ''V'" '^\T ' ' • '^7""^ I'frty politics in Upper 
 
 his recall to Orrai- RrYf,.;.. ^u u " , ., ' *"'"" '*^'^®"' '"» election the Governor procured 
 
 he ; nZint^d ChiH^ T 1^ ^r<^^^ r ' " ^ *«ort of recompense for his unjust recall, 
 dow. a Ke ^etrVed to^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^lerra Leone In that unhealthy climate his health brok^ 
 for the redress otcer^in^?' ^'"'"'^^'^^ ^n" » Petition from the people to the Ministry 
 oppre U h s appoiiS K^^^^^ '''^''''l /"^ i'^''^ «econd champion ship of the 
 
 oPhis day's in P-rr^^nfobLuX (P^^^^^^^ ""''""" '"'* '° ^^" '''' ^'^"''""'«'- 
 
 Th ^■" ..^r^"^','"' '" ^^' ^^'^"^^ 0/Oamrfa (18U1), points out that Judge 
 Thorpes d.fficut.es mamly had their origin in his own imprudence, . . . and 
 had he not placed him.self in a false position, as a Judge, by becoming a Member 
 ot the House ol Assembly-a political body ? " (Vol. 1 pa^re 318 ) 
 2. Proceedings of the Legislative Council on the DrsTiiicT School Bill. 
 
 SpeaS r^u't'dTc^i-^'^S^^^ ^r?- '^t ^""^! "f ^««*^'"bly having been announced, the 
 
 tliis Housr^Bill ttif;.t\l^'An'l t'^oZThS^h tfbt"sct'r""'' 'V^' ^'^ ^^-^-^^^-'^^ ^ 
 this Province." The Bill was n-ad a fir,^ Hr^ i a ^<=h"«'« '» each and every District <.f 
 
 4th March lJo7 rZolZi Ak ^imO'/"-^ "^^^'''''^ *^" ^® '^^'^ » second time to-morrow, 
 -right: .Irderti that s7muc?afrellesr^ benig read on motion of the Hon. Richard Cart- 
 EsttblishingDitrictSclools " Lr £ 1 i «*'?""^^'-«^«l'»g "*" the Bill intituled "An Act for 
 H Commit^e'e to takeS trther ;lttll'1;hTBi 1"^'^ "°^^^ T""'' '''''' '"'"^ 
 
 well as} the District (Grammar; Sclul^Tm^The'L^- "n w^'eafrild^"'" ''"' assessments, as 
 reported ^::^^i^SS ^^T ''" Hon. John^McGill, chairman of the Comnntteo, 
 lishing PuUic GraZur) Sch^^^^^^^^ "t ", ^"f'^'"''''*!"'! '^'^^ ^^^ '"^''"^^^'^ "A» Act for Estab- 
 ered that the saicrrertS ' Tn '^f^lfSreed thereto without any amendment. ( .rd- 
 
 5</t If Wr/iJr -The O^le f ;r"n^ * '" '''"^^"' ^'^ ''''^ " ^hird time on to-morrow, 
 lishing Pub c Schools •• etc wa r".u fv^^^?"^ ''^'^' '^ ^*" '"^'^^l"-'^ "'^" ^'^t for Estab- 
 Bill do now pass ;'; r osolVld in 1 ''^^''\^''^^- ^ And the question being put, if the said 
 
 House of Assembly ^*'''^^'"' '^''« Master-m-Chancery, carried down and returned to the 
 
 y^/A Of March, im.-The Hou.se being formed at twelve o'clock. His 
 Excellency the L.eutenant-Governor, Francis Gore, Enquire, had the Members of 
 theHuusoot Assembly summoned, and then gave assent in the Kingls name 
 among other Bil .s. to the one intituled " An Act, to establish Public Schools in 
 each and every D.stnct in this Province." In his Speech., on proroguing the 
 Legislature, Lieutenant-Governor Gore, .said :-- i t. o 
 
 PubHc'Sook'w,irm!w'bo J^l'ffiied h,*;^::'^ in His Msjesty-s na.ne, to the Act whereb 
 ^us I am, of ,he inu.urtance ofs S n i , f'T' ^l'^"'^' "^ *'"'" I'^'-vinoe. fully sensible, 
 
 atiun in this infa.l't coldl'j . . .^.:':'.^'.-"';".:"^^•^ }^'?. ^'lli^-^'tum and morals of the nsiu;, .^ner 
 attenticm and care* 
 
 . - .. .......u,M,n« u. tno education and morals of the rising goner- 
 
 I" the pro3ecut,on of this laudable object, you may rely iTpon my 
 
 iin«l"o^^;;l■it^•H^"°L^r.„?.■;.':'^ 
 
 ^ati,m;^n;ir'^^'!l^f!"!,^'™'lH'^« '"I- :• U.e»tate 
 
 ""* ' •- w • vj* uwi vruio urn veil in I ( n 
 
 ceedingH towards the House of Assetoblv. e^>Ji 
 
 ^'i L..-.- r-rovince. • „» li.e result of a pMrtical a,?itation"th"en"rife" 
 
 on the 7,h April. 18l7.TH:cau,. a « S^ of Jhe House of aV^ "t ."".""i^J'^- ^-"--1 the Le.islaU 
 enquiry. He obtained leave of abs^ncei,^ 1811 and dirt mf?™^.'^',''/'^ ^^'^''^'''^ '" ''''"'^^•''l ^^^h t 
 remained until the summer of 1817. Tl e Id Gore DistHt w "''"'■" *.i' H'^^'^f P"""^" "°"1 1815. but o„ 
 after his wife Anabella, or " Bell " iJistnct was named after him, and he named Bellevi 
 
60 
 
 DOCUMEXTAHY HISTOUV OF EDUCATION IN UPPEK CANADA 
 
 1807 
 
 The following is a copy of this Act, as assented by His Excellency Francis 
 Gore. Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada : 
 
 47th George III, Chapter VI. 
 A» ACT TO Establish Public Schools in bach and eviry Dwtkict or thw Pkovincb. 
 
 Fr»*noi8 Gore, Esquirt*, Lieutonauv>Quvemor. 
 
 Paaswl 10th March, 1807 
 
 Most Oracioi'h Sovkreion : — 
 
 Whereas it u considered expedient that some means bri fievi-ied fo 
 tion of youth, may it therefore please Y(.ur Majesty, thn •> ■} h ■. .i 
 
 he educa- Prf'»i, ble. 
 and it is (Sw 48 Ueo. 
 
 hereby enacted by the King'. Most Excellent Mljesty. .■ .n < * .1' .^e «lme and lit ch"^ : 
 consent of the Legisla ive 5..unc.l and Assembly of tho I'l-ovince of Upper CanX i^ ««S- "*. 
 constituted and assembed by v rtue of and under tin mifKr-rif,, ,.* „vT-.rJ; i Sess. 2, Ch. 4 ; 
 in the Parliament of Great llituin. intituled, ""In . t trre, eaKeli^ part? "al ' ^'•'- ^''- ''' 
 Act pa«ed m the fourteenth year o£,Hi. Majesty's reign, i Sdll • An Act for 
 makmg m.,re eflectual pr,.vi8i„n for the Government uf'^e Province of QueW in 
 North An.er.ca' and to n.ake further proviMion f,.r the Govei^m.ent of "b^ ' " '^ -^um of 
 £T'T*^' .C" i>^ '" '^"^''«"ty "( th« wmo. that („, the establishment ..„.., 'p, be 
 
 Schools ,n this Province, the sum of eight hur.dred pounds shall be annually ptid ?°7K'"^^t"^ 
 
 ti:^:!:^^'^:,Se'' '---' - '--■'^' bynuthorityof Paniamen, t-. or fo; fe' 
 
 V„hu'n i^^ '^*' '* ^"•■/''«'' «»»t-te^l by the anihority aforesaid, that there shall oe o..e OnePubl.c 
 
 fum "f eSr .un.lred '."'f T'' ^"'7f ' " '^'« ^'''''"'''- ^^'^ ^^at out of thl^sa d ShoTlinevery 
 sum of eight hundred jwunds, annually (,„ appropriated as iiforesaid the annual I>'''tnct. flOO 
 sum of one hu.idn ,1 pounds shall be ,,,.,.1 to each and every TeaJC who «3 l!e ^" ^ P''''^ ""- 
 ncnniated a.id appo.nted to any of th • »aid Public f^chouls^n thU Pn.v nee for the r"'^'^?"^ 
 education of youth, .n u.an.ier hereinolun mentioned. province, tor the teachw of,^ 
 
 for the Welem DUtHnT h'n k'' ^^ ''"'i ^^"th«"ty aforesaid, that the Public School mC 
 lor tne vvestern District shall be opened and kenf in the Town <.f <So,wi.„;-.i> »„ i i^** 69 Geo. 
 the Public School for the District If London sSll i::o^uIZ^l^'^:^,:^ 'r^^.^Z fx , 
 sh.p of Townshei.d. »t such place as the Trustees, or the mai..rity o hem sSl ' ' 
 
 thuik proper to appoint, and that the Public School for tho^ Skt f Si Im P''*'=''?7'!^™ 
 
 PublTc S 4o 1 f r the I Lrlt'^P^ '""I,'*''"';* , ". *''" '^"^» "^ Y'"-*'' -^"^l ^'"^t the to Me^t in 
 sW of H ;,n t, n „t 1 I . ^^'«'«"'l4; «''ali b. opened a.,d kept in tho Tow., .ach resU- 
 smpoi M.iiuiiton, at such jdaco as tlio Trustees, -r the .naioritv of them shai! tive District. 
 
 t"u\r:Z.edri'r.ft'-."r/ 't''^ '''%l^''''' ^'^^•^'-' ^"r tL'^l^idfaSDistr t.Sea^SGeo. 
 n 1 • ! 'l^T\ V '"^' * ■" *'"* ^°*" "f Kingston, and that the Public School for I" Cb 16. 
 D.str,ct.f.lol.nstow,,. shall bo oi,ened and kej.t in tho Township Auguta I ««^-l-* 
 8uch place as the I , .stees, or the majority of tliem. shai tl - ^' ' ^"gU'ta. at _ _. 
 
 SeT.'lwn'TStwar''^' '''' ""^ ^^^^"^ ^'^^^^ «'"^" '^ ope, ^a a.. Ik 
 
 Ini ,1,W f Pr..v.n.o, to nppo.nt from time U^ ti:ae, not less than tive tit Gover. or, or 
 
 and discteet person, ,n each a..d every District of this Province Trustees to theV""" '"^'ni"- 
 8a,d Public Schoos, which said Trustees, or the .najority of hem shalZve fuU ^^^^^^^ 
 ,«,wer and authority to non.inate a fit and discreet person • i "her tliert* f .d P«'«™?>'''^'- 
 
 n:^TrueLtt;rf i^h''^' ''T^^ 
 
 ™ ,> I ,V^ f ,*\'''^.^?™^ character, learning and capacity of such evcy District 
 
 person, it shall and n.ay be lawful for the said Trustees, or the maiority of th" *-'" ^d 
 to report such their nomination, to the Governor, Lieutenant-GoveL" .,r pei': ""*•"'■ 
 admm.sten.i«theGover«.ne«t of this Province, either to attim or S « r£ sn, 
 noinmation as a.o.osa.d ; provided always, that the said TrusteTs^or T. Ti. 
 Teacher Vro,.'"pn" ^r'\"f ^"""^rity, in their discretion tore J 
 
 in each and ..v^rv Dia. ,.:,./ * n n • **'^/'^"sfc^'''8, or the majority of ti.eni. nomination to 
 ietiioval of a,?v"LSrr"f. ;!, ^id -;-"-"'v '?" ""' *''• 'J«»-«.-'li'""«-l - *f« «'!-'-■:: 
 often as the ea^e ".ayr^piire onet leVS'rn.rd;"";^''; ersS.""'^^^^^^ 5ther"sffim ^' 
 
 aa.d Public School, which Trustees, or tho ::^<^;':^::ZZ:.:::h ^^^ Z^l^t.^' 
 
 think proper i . appoint, i'?"*'^^''^^ 
 u„l U..,^f ;„ HI Sees. 4, 
 
 kept in '^^-, 
 
 ■!■) 
 
 ach nls. 
 
 ;i 
 
 ', TruHteeH to 
 . nominate a fit 
 ' person as 
 ' Teacher, and 
 to report their 
 
Chap XVrr. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEOlSLATUUE, 1S07. 
 
 6i 
 
 
 nation and a|.,...>„t,nont as aforesaul, shall exaniin. 
 nig and aipacity o. H.ich teacher, and l.ein« Sish. 
 -hall ..3 immediately transm.ttei to the Goven m 
 teZfr'"''^ ''' 'Government of this Province eith. 
 
 'the moral character, learn- Trustee, may 
 lorewith, such appomtment remove any 
 tenant-Governor, or person Te»oher and 
 
 to approve or disapprove of nominate »n- 
 
 appofntor«Ser' S^ r^t^V^lT^r' .'"'T'' '""''r.''''- '^^^ ^^■^^''"' 
 Province, or the majority ,,'them shall ha vof„T '"'' «v«ry District of this Governor, 
 such ruloH and reKnlations fur thL\rn«H -, fu" IK)wer and authority to make etc., may' 
 
 Public Sch.H,ls, wfth r m "ect to hel^I^li ^'^^r^"' and management of the said either apVove 
 a. hi their discretion 3 seem mee^ *^' "'"^ *" '^' ^'^'^''"'' "' ShT 
 
 appointed uu.lor this Act uiion «, ,T tJT -^"® .*° ""^ teacher or Teachers regulation. 
 
 siKnwl by the Trustees or tZ maS JT.I"''" "^T.^'^^hers producing a certificate reBpecting 
 have8oLghtrrercXlvou^r,?'hilK^^^^ '" ^^^'^ '''^ shall «"J «<=''"ol.. 
 
 office as Hllachoi. ^^aftl^d^for 15 duri^"^^^^^^^ '""-« - his Mode of pay. 
 
 ment fo? his service. "uniig sui a tune ns he shall so require {lay- ment of the 
 
 tinuJin^tc^---'--^'' '"''''''* ^^*'^'^-''"*^ ^h'^tthia Act sh.l. .... ^' T^chefs^ 
 
 next ensuing 
 
 III. Chap XVI. 
 
 In order to give effect to the pro^ ,o„s of this Act, the Lieutenant-Governor 
 
 ScC k" '""°"'"«.8-"-™ '<■ ^» *= «-t'r-'ees of the Public (GrZar 
 Schools m their respective Districts, viz.:— »muiar; 
 
 Jin^tc^forS;:arftm'ihe'TlaT''"r 'Y'"''^^ ^'^^ ^^^'^ -»- «^' TL?he*f, 
 
 t ensuing^ion of^^^Llit ^^^h^ 't^S- ^J ^^t ^S^tt "^ ^ 
 
 1. Ktidern District. 
 
 Samuel Sherwood, ") 
 
 Niel McLean, 
 
 .S.-imuel Anderson, 
 
 Jogfiph .Vndorsoi , 
 
 J"!." Ciyh! 
 
 AltA ,nder i\li Ian, 
 
 9. ')isfri,i of Ji>h,.«t(ncn. 
 
 Thomas Sher\ <1, 
 E] aiiini Joi 
 Solomoi! Joui 
 JaintiS Campbell, 
 Elijah Bottom, 
 
 3. Midlaiil District. 
 
 Hon. Richard Cart w right. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Stuart, 
 
 Allan McLean, 
 
 Joseph Forsyth, 
 
 Thomas Markland, 
 
 I'ctor Smith, 
 
 Alexander Fmher, \ Apj.'tcd 
 
 PhiJij. Dorland, 1 2nd May. 
 
 4. District of Ni'iocastle. 
 
 Asa Burnham, 
 Leon 111 8oiiper, 
 Eiias (Smith, Senior, 
 Elias Jonea, 
 .»i>hn Potera, 
 Ji'hn Bleeker, 
 
 ' J? 
 
 ^1- 
 
 
 ] 
 
 i ^ 
 
 5. Hume District. 
 Rov. a. (). Stuart, 
 D'Arcy Boulton, 
 John Small, 
 Duncan Cameron, 
 Sanmel Smitli, 
 William (Jraham, 
 Thomas Ridout, 
 
 0. Diafrlrt of NuKjarn. 
 Hon. Robuif Hayiilton. 
 Colonel Clark, 
 William Dickson, 
 Robert KeiT, 
 Thomas Cummings, 
 James Muirhead, 
 John Symington, 
 
 7. District of r „don. 
 Thomas Talbot, 
 Samuel Ryerse, 
 Joseph Ryersoii, 
 William Hutchinson, 
 rtoniaa \\ alsh, 
 John Coltman, 
 Daniel Sjnii ^ur, 
 
 8. Wfii m District. 
 Hon. James Baby. 
 Rev r- P^,llard, 
 -iaiDno iSliiofci, 
 Angus / Tntosh, 
 John A, 1. Senior, 
 <Sregor M Gregor, 
 Alexander Duff, 
 
 
 
62 
 
 DOCUMENTAUY UlSTtJUY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1808 
 
 CHAPTEK XVIII. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGIS- 
 
 LATURE IN 1808. 
 
 The fourth .session of the fourth Parliament of Tpper Canada was opened 
 
 on the 5:0th January, 1808, by His E.xceliency Franci.s Gore, Esquire, Lieutenant- 
 
 Oovernor. In hi.s Speech iroui the Throne lie said : — 
 
 Sinco tho last SoHsion of this Lt'^islature tlio iiut\{»«iry meana hnve been taken on my part 
 and on that of tho Trustee* apjwiuteil by mo, for tho ostaWlishing of Public Schools, institutions 
 which. I trust, will be the ineuiis not only of coniinunicati' useful knowledge to tho youth of 
 this I'loviiico, but also of instilling} into their minds priii Wa of lieligion and Loviilty. 
 
 1. Educational Procekdinos of the House of Assemiily in 1808. 
 
 27th January, i<96>.'?.— Extract from the Address of the House of A8.sembly 
 
 in reply to the Lieutenant-Governor's Speech :— 
 
 We highly applaud the prompt and . loacious moasiii-es adopted l)y Your Excellency to 
 carry into effect the provision of an Act passe.l in the la-t Session of Parliament for the ettab- 
 lishment i.f I'ubhc Schcjols, and we pleasingly anOcipate from these institutions the most sub- 
 stantial benefit to the rising generation in this Province. 
 
 Id Ftbniary, 1808,— A Petition was read from the London District, praying for a divioion 
 of the Public School grant, which was as follows : — 
 
 To the Honourable the Members of the House of Parliament of Upper Canada, now convened. 
 The humble Petition of us, His Majesty's most loyal subjects : 
 
 Most humbly sheweth, That in your wisdom, in your last session of Parliament, you were 
 pleased to vote a certain sum of money for tho use of a PI. lie School in this District, said school 
 to be under the dn .>ction of certain trustees appointed by His Majesty's Roi>resentative for that 
 purpose. 
 
 That your humble petitioners see with regret, from what has taken place, that your laudable 
 intentions are frustrated, and the money— in our present situation — is totally lost to the public 
 That your petitioners having nominated a teacher, on Iwing paid douii!.- the sum for his 
 labours as those wc have iiad before, (of equal service to us), which measures liavo put it out of 
 the ])<)wer of the public to reap that advantage which was designed them. 
 
 That your humbU> petitioners referring this to wise and better judgments hoi)e your 
 Honourable House will take this infant district into your consideration, and, If in your wisdom 
 should think it expedient, the money appropriated to one school bo divided intf. four equal parts 
 to four ditferent 8cho<d8. ' 
 
 And ycnir petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
 
 John Backhose, Silas Secord, Titus Finch, Abram Smith, .lames McColl, and sixty others 
 nth Febmaru, 1808.— \ petition was read from the trustees, appointed by His Excellency 
 the Lieutenant-Governor, in the District of Lf)ndon, by virtue of an Act passed in the last 
 session of the Legislature, intituled " An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every 
 District of tliis Province." praying that the site of the London District School bo changed froiii 
 the Township of Townsend to the Village of Dover, which petition is as follows : 
 
 To the Honourable the Commons of Upper Canada, in Parliament assembled. 
 
 The memorial of the Trustees appointed and acting under the District School Bill for the 
 District of London, most respectfully represchteth, 
 
 That 80<m after they received their appointment, they proceeded to discharge the trust 
 reposed in them, by recommending to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, a person whom 
 they consia.Tod properly qualified to till the situation of District School Master, who, in conse- 
 quence of such recommendation, was duly appointed. 
 
 That the person so nominated, on receiving notice of his api>ointment, attended for the 
 purpose of performintr the duties attached to the situation, but neither school house nor scholars 
 could be procured in Townsend, tho place pointed out by tho Statute. 
 
 Your ii.."rnori.iiists, thoroforo, trust that your Uonoui-iible House, taking into consideration 
 the importai object contemplated by the Statute, and the impossibility of carrying it int^o effect 
 under existing circumstances, will deem it expedient to amend the Act, so that the school may 
 
1808 
 
 Chap. X. KDUCATIONAL PRfK^EEDINGS, «,F U. C. LKO.SLATUBE. 1808 
 
 6S 
 
 
 much 
 Bill be 
 
 bo opoiiod and kept in the villain nf n , ■ .• 
 
 hou.e would »'el.uilt,H,appoa3.y'her^^^^^^^ ^' town.hip of Woodhoune, wl,„re a achool 
 oient acc..nnuod,»tion procured f,,,- I,,,. , ^'-^' "'I'J'V'ng "ubwnpti.m lately sot on foot, and suffi- 
 And you V menior ali.ts aa i .7. ' ** 'n'" '^""'"^ I""^" »* ^he district. 
 Samuel Kyo.go, J.ln 0, t^n In / u"n' **'" "^°'' I'™^'- 
 Mr. Benajah Ma ry U^,\Zv!r^^ %«rBon Thon.aa Walni., Tru«to«,. 
 Bill, oa Saturday next t.7chi «o Ihe t "T.^ i' ■ '^^ ^'^ ^'"^^ ""^"d, for leave to brina in a 
 of Lo'^;l;>n.,^ riave w.« ncoo£«ly iiam":.! ^'"'«' '''' P"^''^' ^«'''""'""» '*=''«°» *" *»>" SKct 
 
 bringl,; a u;,),7n S8dafn^u^"!;'a„Yend'l'' A 7f ' -"^^^'^fby Mr. Mall6ry. for leave to 
 Majesty, reign (1807). entitled " An Act to e.tihtii ^Ti «"u*^^ orty-sovonth year of His 
 an thm P.ov.nce." Leave was acc.rdit y " a "e ' ' '" """^ """"^ ^•'^"•=' 
 
 much o. the Order of the Daj^ as re a S b.Tlu, i..r°''"''"'^J'?; ^^-^^ '^'"'■"" J^^^l"*'"!' ^^at .» 
 the District of London be discharKedand t mt IT'f " ^'" ••"?'.'«''""Si ^^e Public School in 
 Tuesday next. Acconlingly so much of til ( r 1 /-!f ^Z^" '""^ '" ^"»« '"the san.e on 
 given him to brir.g i„ the Ha.no o,\ Sjdav nol" "^ '*"'' ^"^ ^'^^ discharged, and leave wa. 
 'Mh Fvbruarii, 18(JS.—Mv David M,.' n 
 .h of the <Jrder of th^ i)"v ]1^ lul.I^^^^^ ''y Mr. Sherwood, that so 
 
 be lischargo.1, and that tKame L^ „ ittfrt^ T ^^«'""""«', «" ^''- District «d.ool 
 di8char«ed and order.xl to stand ns a nart « r \ '^"■'??,"'Tv '^««'"-'li"Kly the said Bill was 
 
 ^^rth Fthruanj. l,SOS -Mr Mai orl i "''"' "1 ^''^ ^*y' to-morrow, 
 
 much of the Order of the Day as relate? "'Hi ''T"^^^ ^^ ''"' «"l'<^itor-Goneral, that 8(, 
 that he have leave to bring ^^ .rlamo on Mon:;*"'^"" P""^'.'^' ^^""'^ »^'" ^° dischirged and 
 leave given to brin, in the said Bill onMomifv nlxf "' ' ' ^"^"^ ''''" '^'«''''-«"'i »»d 
 
 school in the bistr.'ct of London *""*" ""' ^''^ ^^'" ^""^ establishing a public (grammar) 
 
 be reJ;a3.!^^^^ ^^ M^' «o-rd. that the London District School Bill 
 
 took Jte"""ilfe'Z;e;L?^'Jt"Si fo!''^ question, a division thereupon 
 
 Clench. Sway.e. ^ZT^^.Sn; .^C.^C^'^l^ ^^'^""'' ^'^•^^^-' Sherwood, McGregor. 
 
 ««;l.li.l„„.„t „f Public Sct~.Ti,^S^^t -^^yml^^T?,;:' S° I^«8i.I.t..re (1807), for U,.^ 
 inglygnuiW ukii ajia i,i„rj Oistnct uf thi« Prorince. Leave «.„ accord- 
 
 Pub^lfXXwS 'rLtlTTr'ulrLftl. "'f It' """'"""'"S "■« Tn,.t„=, of .h. 
 
 '" &,,i,of;;ro ."'"r" •■ ''■"AV--. -Zf™ he'So'" """•""' "■» ""o -" ■» 
 r..oh':h,,atr?r,iiri:,rriih'''''''fr'' .''•"^"""». «■« th, ho„„„o„„. 
 T.. H„„„_.b., re,o,v:, ts;'ir!;"cr;Set\';Sl%te^ 
 
 through tl^, c„„.iJ„.Hf„ of r«id Biriowhi^h^^^^^^^ 
 
 he w..du,c« ,„ re,.rt .„ .he Hol^lilf it' fi Je^.K^d mTrSr'' "'"* 
 
 NAY.s-Mes8.eurs. Mallory, Howard Rogers and Dorland -4 
 
 ,y^'1 ^*'V« ^^''« «»•"'-' i 'n the affirmative bv .. ni, Lt/.J *" f- .nr TS . ^ 
 
 received iiiia accttj. tod. - itj — v "• r^'ur. Tjiu roijort was accordingly 
 
 aAaatefifiB/fjitf , 
 
64 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1808 
 
 5th March. 1808. — Mr. Samuel Sherwood moved, seconded by tlie Solicitor-General, that 
 the District School Bill bo the firat thing on the Order of the Day. to be read the third time. 
 
 On Mr. Speaker having put the question, Messrs. Rogers, Dorland and Howard retired 
 f r -m their seats. * 
 
 The names of the rrembers present were taken down and are as follows : 
 
 The Speaker, The Solicitor-General, and Messieurs Washburn, McLean, Cowan, Sher- 
 wood, McGregor, Cryslcr, Clench and Mallory. 
 
 The Speaker then atljourned the Houst), for want of a quorum, until Monday next. 
 
 Sth Ma",ch, 1808. — Mr. Speaker, on his having taken the Chair, informed the House that 
 on the division of a (juestion relative to the third reading of a Bill, last Saturday, three memberi* 
 thought proper to quit their seats, and thus left the House without a quor\un. Thus situated, 
 he conceived it his duty to dispatch an express, requiring the attendance of two of the members 
 from the District of Niagara. To the activity of the gentleman who was dispatched with the 
 summons, and the persevering zeal of one of the members so summoned, the colony is indebted 
 for being able once more to proceed on the business now before it. 
 
 Mr. Ebenezer Washburn, seconded by Mr. Samuel Sherv ;od, then moved that the follow- 
 ing Order be inserted on the Journals of the House. 
 
 Ordered, 1 hat it be inserted upon the journals of this House that on -aturday last, when a 
 question relating to the passage of a School Bill was about to be put by the Speaker, David 
 McGregor Rogers, Thomas Dorland and Peter Howard, Jisquires, members of the House then 
 present in their places, departed the House without leave, whereby the House was left without 
 a quorum. 
 
 Ordered, That it be further inserted upon the Journals, that the House do approve of the 
 conduct of the Speaker in sending an express for Messieurs Nelles and Swayze, absent by con- 
 sent, and that ihe expense incident to such express shall form a part of the contingent expenses of 
 this House. The House unanimously resolved the same. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Sherwood, seccmded by Ivlr. Rjvlph Clench, moved that the District (Grammar) 
 School Bill be now read for the tliird time. The said School Bill, as engrossed, was accordintjly 
 read for the third time. 
 
 Mr. Sherwood then moved, seconded by Mr. Washburn, that the Bill do pass, and that the 
 title be " An Act to amend An Act passeil in the foi ty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign 
 (X807), entitled ' An Act I o establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province.' " 
 A divisioii thereupon tcjok place. The names being called for, they were taken down, and are 
 as follows : 
 
 Yea.s — The Solicitor-General, and Mes.sieurs McLean, Cown.n, Sherwood, McGregor, Clench, 
 Washburn, NoHea and Crysler. — 9. 
 
 Nays -Mr. Malloty. 
 
 The .same was carried iti tlie atbrmative by a majority of eight. The Bill then passed and 
 was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Snerwood then moved, seconded by Mr. Nellos, that the Snlicitoi -General and Mr. 
 Washburn do carry u]) to the Honourable the Legislative Council the Act entitled "An Act to 
 amend an Act passed in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807), entitled 'An Act to 
 establish Pr.blic Schools in each and every district of this Province,' '' and reijuest their 
 concurrence thei'eto, which was ordered accordingly. 
 
 The Solicitor-Cieneral and Mr. Washburn reported that they had carried up to the Honour- 
 able the Legislative Council the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act pas-aod m the forty- 
 seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807), entitled '.\n Act to establish Public Schools in each 
 and every distiict of this Province,' " ami did reciuest thoir concurrence thereto. 
 
 llth Mimh, IS'tS. -A niessago was received from the Honcjurable the Legislative Council^ 
 by Mr. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancety : 
 
 Mr. Si' .AKKK ; — 
 
 1 am comman('ed by the Hrnouiable the Legislative Council to inform Your House that 
 they have concurred in passinjj; an .Act s"nt up from Your H(moural)lo Ilciuse intituled "An 
 Act to amend an .Vet passed in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reii^n (1807), intituled 
 ' An -Vet to establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province.' " 
 
 LkOISIATIVE CoCNriL ClIAMHKK, 
 
 llth of March. 1808. 
 
 THOMAS SCOTT, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 * Mr. Frank 'Vei'gh, in his work on "Ontario's Par]iaiii(>nt Itnildin^R ; or a Century of Legislation^ 
 17H2-lW9'i," tliUB rfferi to tt)is incident: "The oesHJon of 1808 witneBsed a peculiar fcenc, when three <>r 
 fotir of the tnemben abruptly left for their distant lionie, with a determination to put a stop to tlie busi- 
 of the seasion, rathnr than Hubmit to the intention of the majority to carry a Hill regarding the establish- 
 tnent of Bohcols." (Page 29. ) _ 
 
 
1808 
 
 ieneral, that 
 lird time, 
 tvard retired 
 
 owan, Sher- 
 
 lext. 
 
 3 House that 
 ree member* 
 lua situated, 
 the members 
 led with the 
 i is indebted 
 
 ,t the follow- 
 last, when a 
 }aker, David 
 House then 
 left without 
 
 iprove of the 
 sent by con- 
 ; expenses of 
 
 t (Gnininiar) 
 1 accordingly 
 
 und that the 
 
 jt'sty's roi^n 
 
 Pmvince.' " 
 
 wn, and are 
 
 sgor, Clench, 
 
 1 passed and 
 
 pal and Mr. 
 
 "An Act to 
 I 'An Act to 
 Bquest their 
 
 the Honour- 
 n the forty- 
 ools in each 
 
 :ive Council, 
 
 House that 
 itituhtd "An 
 >7), intituled 
 
 FT, 
 peaker. 
 
 ' Legislation, 
 when three or 
 )[) to tlie buni- 
 the establish- 
 
 Ch^p. XVIII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE. 1808. 
 
 65 
 
 
 
 2. Phoceedinos of the Legislative Cou»o.l on this Bill, 1808. 
 
 mrt I*"!.™'^ "?''" "^ "" ^e'AM,- OounoU who is reported to have taken 
 Z—T^iCV'''' T^'' "■' =°"°™^"' ^"^ Shaw r2' d 
 
 X. CaCwr^htrr h^-~ - sr ^z::^ 
 
 ~^h;rrvirB'Kt"or' t-- '- -- '- -Xtir; 
 
 of His Majesty's reign (1807), intituled 'An a ^ff^^i.'J" /,''*= P'*^^*^*^ in the forty-seventh vea,- 
 
 Bniintitui:?AnTtt;'LSri^^^^^^^ .he Day was read a second time "The 
 
 <^80r), intituled 'An Act to establish Pubr Schools in l^Y'T"*'' ^^' "^ ^'^ Majesty's reign 
 
 im 'm^ Tm^- committed for ttniorrow ^^ ""'^ '""'^ ^'«^"°^ "^ this Province.-' 
 
 take into fuXr'cTside^aTon ?L Bil^lnSred ''^n ??! *^' ^T' "*'"*^ '»*^« Committee to 
 seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807) intituW ^a *^a tT"'^ '"'^''* P*^^*^'^ '" the forty" 
 each and every District ^f t^is Prov"n^e ' ''^ the S^^ .^''^^^} Public Schools fn 
 
 The Hon. Thomas Scott. Sneaker liflu,n!r\.r T^^f 1"^^ '" the Chair. 
 Committee had taken the «aTd m1 into conSSL*^' f't'X ^^'- «^^" '"'^P^rted that the 
 amendment. And the question being pu^ Wheth^I f^' ^"^^ had agreed thereto without any 
 
 House of Assen^.bly, sigiT^dXIrSpeK" Td'^Ln thoTll 'Y. ^ r^^^^ ^'^ «-^ to the 
 Act passed m the forty-seventh vearof Hh M„- \ - ^° ^'" intituled "An Act to amend an 
 hsh Public Schools in each and e^ver^iiSrict of S P'''^" ^ ' ''^^' '""'"'*''* *^" ^'^'^ *^ ""tab 
 no amendment The message ■MiZtT.MlJZT'i '^ ^^'°^' '^^ ««"«« ^as mide 
 W. Baldwin, Maater-in-Chancery. ^'''^° ''' *^® ^°"se of Assembly by Mr. W, 
 
 Wbll'''"™*' "*"*•"'''' ''""'^ """"S "»'■ ">« M'-"^- of the House of 
 ject o\":r::rj:t,r ^'-'«--'-°— »aae.„.fe.„ee to the sub- 
 
 rhia Bill \n(\\oaiaA „ Jca>-c i' ■ - - , 
 
 ...etuate the "pu^, '^:;^i: Tt::^::^:;:^^^ 
 
 5 (D.E.) 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1810 
 
 third section of this Bill that the clause restricting the operation of the Act of 
 1807 to four years, or until the end of the next ensuing session of Parliament, 
 be repealed. A copy of this Bill is as follows : — 
 
 An Act to amend an Act passe j in the forty-seventh year op His Majesty's reign, intitclbd 
 "An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every District of this PROvnicE." 
 
 48th George III., Chapter XVI. 
 
 Francis Gore, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Assented to, 16th March, 1808. 
 
 WHEREAS, an Act pa«aed in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign. Preamble, 
 intituled "An Act to estiiblish Public Schools in each and every District of this 
 Province " requires to be amended : 
 
 Be it, therefore, enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with Such parts of 
 the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of the 47th Geo. 
 Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of ^^^-i '^^ ^' "* 
 an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled "An Act to repeal cer- do'^Di*t ?" 
 tain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled regaled. ' 
 'An Act for making more effectual provi8i<m for the government of the Province of 
 Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the government of 
 the said Province,' " and by the authority of the same, that so much of the said 
 Act as enacts that the Public Schools for the District of London shall be opened 
 and kept in the Township of Townsend, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 2. (Which provided that the Public School <.f the London District be kept in Pl«ce where 
 the town of London, and not at Vittoria, as heretofore. Suiierseded by 7th **** school for 
 William IV., Chapter 106.) that District 
 
 shall be kept. 
 
 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that so much of the Such part of 
 said Act as limits its duration to four years and from thence to the end of the the said 47th 
 then next ensuing session of Parliament, shall be and the .same is lierebv i?*"*! III. «» 
 repealed. ' limits its dura- 
 
 ' tion to 4 years 
 
 repealed. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF UPPER 
 
 CANADA IN 1810. 
 
 [Note. — There are no records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council 
 or of the House of Assembly, for 1809, in either of the Parliamentary Libraries at 
 Ottawa or Toronto.] 
 
 The second Session of the fifth Parliament of Upper Canada was opened by 
 His Excellency, Francis Gore, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor, on the first day of 
 February, 1810, by a speech from the Throne. In it he made no reference to 
 education or schools. 
 
 1. Educational Proceedinqs of the House of Assembly in 1810. 
 
 The members who took part in the.qe proceedinsrs of the House of Assemblv 
 in the session of 1810 were : Messieurs Joseph Willcocks, David M. Rogers, Crowell 
 
181() 
 
 Chap. XIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1810. 
 
 67 
 
 IMl 
 
 Wilson. David Secord, Philip Sovereign, Levi Lewis, Thomas B. Gough, James 
 Wilson and Benajah Mallory. There are no personal records of most of these 
 members available. Sketches of some of them have already been givea The 
 most noted of the others was 
 
 Mr. Joseph Willcocks, Sheriff of the Home District in the early part of 
 Governor Gore's administration. At the election of Mr. Justice Thorpe, (who 
 succeeded Mr. William Weekes, (who had been kille«l in a duel with Hon. William 
 Dickson, of Niagara, page 52), Willcocks took an active part, and voted for 
 Judge Thorpe. Governor Gore resented this conduct, and dismissed Sheriff 
 Willcock3 from hi8 office. As a rejoinder, Willcocks started the Upper Canada, 
 Guardian, a newspaper in opposition to the policy and proceedings of tho 
 Governor, and espoused the cause of Judge Thorpe, who, at the instance of the 
 Governor, had been recalled to England. Mr. Willcocks succeeded Judge Thorpe 
 in the representation of the Second Riding of the County of York, etc For a 
 libel on members ot the House of Assembly, in regard to an alleged grant of lands 
 to them, Willcocks was imprisoned. Being imbittered by his treatment, and the 
 declmeof his paper, he finally joined the American cause in tha war of 1812 
 after having served on the British side in that war. He was killed at the sie<re' 
 of Fort Erie, in 1813. Mr. Benajah Mallory (see page 50) and Mr. Abraham 
 Marcle, two other members of the Legislature, also joined tho Americans at the 
 same time. 
 
 SndFelmmry, ISIO -Mr. Joseph Willcocks, aocon-led by Mr. D. M Rogers moved for 
 leave to bring ma B.ll on Thursday next, to repeal certain parts of an Act paS in he fortv 
 eighth year of His M^ijesty's reign (1808). intituled "An Act to amend anTt passed in the 
 
 niLh 3'ovirDitS Shf 'P "^^" ''-'-^'V '"^''"'^'^ '-^-^ ^^' *" establfshVE S "hcoi: 
 in eacn ami every Umtnct of this Province. '" Leave was granted accordingly. 
 
 3rd Iehr,anj, ^0 Mr, Crowell Wilson moved, seconded by Major &vid Secord for 
 leave to bring in a Bill 'on Saturday next, for appropriating a certain turn of money for the 
 purpose of establishing Common Schools in each and ever; Discrict, and to alter uidam^nd 
 an Act passed ui the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807), intituled "An Act to 
 estaV.lish Public Schools in each and every District in this Province " '""'"'°'' ^" ^^^ *^ 
 
 Ihe Hon. Samuel Street Speaker, having put the question, a division thereupon took place 
 Tho names being called f,.r. they were taken down, and are as follows •_ ^ 
 
 Wilsmi-sT ^'''^"" ' '^'"■''"' ^"'■""' ^°"^^' ^"•^"''^' •^''"'^^ Wilson, Lewis and Crowell 
 
 ?ho''r;:;I^°''''"" ^°^'i"^ Willcocks, Rogers, John Willson, Sovereign, Mallory-G. 
 granS^'t^brligrthrsaid'Tlni."^^ ^"'^'^^^^'^ by a majority of two. fea've was "accordingly 
 IthFchrnary, J. S70 Agreeably to tho Order ,.f the Day a Bill to repeal the Act establish- 
 ing Public (Grammar; Schools in this Province (1807) was read for the first time. Mr Willcocka 
 moved, seconded by Mr. Rogers, that the Bill for repealing the Public (Grammar) School Act of 
 ^mk"^" B-ond time on Saturday next. Wh^ch wL ordered accord n"y 
 inhiebrHary, WW. -A Bill to repeal part of an Act passe.l in the forty eighth vear of 
 Hi8 Majesty's reign (1808). intituled "An Act to amend an Act parsed i7the forty sevenin^^^ 
 
 Mr. UviLe«i,w.. calls,! to th'oljhair'of ■iKcommiSa'""'' """ " '""""'"""'■ 
 
 u. . Z^l^IXrs^^^^^: '"'"'• ""'^" """ "" <^'"""''"- '-' »»• 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1810 
 
 On Mr. Speaker having put the question, a division thereupon took place. The names being 
 called for, they were taken down and are as follows : 
 
 Yeas— Messieurs McNabb, Burritt, Fraser, Marcle, Elliott, Baby, McLean, McGregor, 
 Orcwell Wilson and Lewis — 10. 
 
 Nays— Messieurs Gough, John Willson, Howard, Mallory, Willcocks, Borland, James 
 Wilson, Roblin, Sovereign and Secord — 10. 
 
 The House being divided, Mr. Speaker gave hi^ vote for the Report being received. The 
 Report was then accordingly received and adopted. 
 
 [Note.— So the Bill to repeal the Public (Grararaar) School Act of 1807, 
 introduced by Mr. Joseph Willcocks, on the 2nd day of February, failed to pass 
 the House of Assembly. See Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the 23rd 
 of February, 1810.] 
 
 ISth Feh-uary, ISlO.—The Bill introduced by Mr. Crowoll Wilson, on the 3rd of February, 
 for establishing Common Schools in the several Districts of this Province, v as read a second 
 time. Mr. Crowell Wilson, seconded by Mr. Lewis, moved that the House do now resolve 
 itself into a Committee to go into the consideration of the Common School Bill. The House 
 accordingly resolved itself into a Committee to go into the consideration of the said Bill. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. Sovereign was called to the chair of the Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Sovereign reported that the Committee had 
 made a progress m the Bill, and had directed him to ask for leave to sit again this day. Leave 
 was accordingly granted to sit again this day. 
 
 Agreeably to leave given, the House again resolved itself into a Committee to go into the 
 further consideration of the Bill for establishing Common Schools in this Province. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. Sovereign was called to the chair of the Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Sovereign reported that the Committee had 
 made further progress in the Bill, and had directed him to ask for leave to sit again on Friday 
 next. Leave was accordingly given to sit again on Friday next. 
 
 16th February, ISlO.—AgreeMy to the Order of the Day, the House resolved itself into a 
 Committee to go into the consideration of the Bill for establishing Common Schools in this 
 Province. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. Sovereign was called to the chair of the Com- 
 mittee. , 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Sovereign reported that the Committee had 
 again made further progress with the Bill, and had directed him to ask for leave to ait again on 
 Monday next. Leave was granted to sit again on Monday next. 
 
 19th February, 1810.~AgToea,h\y to the Order of the Day, the House resolved itself into a 
 Committee to go into the consideration of the Common School Bill. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. Sovereign took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Sovereign reported that the Committee had 
 again made further progress in the Bill, and had directed him to ask for leave to sit again to- 
 morrow. Leave was granted to sit again to-morrow. 
 
 SlKt February, J^/0.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House resolved itself into a 
 Committee to go into the consideration of the Common School Bill. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having loft the Chair, Mr. Sovereign took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Sovereign reported that the Committee had 
 gone througii the consideration of the said Bill, to which they had made several amendments, 
 which he was directed to report to the House whenever it should be pleased to receive the 
 ■une. 
 
 On Mr. Speaker having put the question for tlie report being received, a division thereupon 
 took place. The namei being called for, they were taken down and are as follows : 
 „,.„^*'*'*~'^®«*''*'"" McNftbb, Burritt, John Willson, Howard, Sovereign, Rcaors, Mallory. 
 Willcocks, Jann*» Wilmn, Dorland. Gough, Roblin and Secord.— 13. 
 
 Navs -Messieurs Marcle, Fraser, Baby, Crowoll Wilson Lewis and McLean.— 6. 
 
 The motion was carried in the affirmative by a majority of seven. The report was accord- 
 ingly received and accepted. 
 
 o u ^? n fA'"'^' *'■ ^""^^' ^''®" moved, seconded by Mr. D. M. Rogers, that the Common 
 School Bill be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow, which wa» ordered accordinrrlv- 
 
 (NoTE.— From the r >tion made by Mr. Joseph Willcocks on the 23rd of 
 
 February, it is clear that the Bill to repeal part of the District School Act of 1807 
 
1810 
 
 Chap. XIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEOISLATUHE, 1810. 
 
 6» 
 
 was again brought by him before the House of Assembly with that intention, 
 and the Bill for promoting Common Schools waa dropped. The report of the 
 Committee on the Bill introduced by Mr. Willcocks on the 2nd of February, and 
 made to the House on the 12th of February, recommended that the Bill itself "be 
 not adopted." This report wm concurred in by the House on that day, and the 
 Bill, consequently, failed to pass. 
 
 There is no record in the further proceedings of the House that its " third 
 reading " was ordered, as stated in the following resolution, (and so recorded in 
 the Journal). As a matter of procedure, the motion, as recorded, is incorrect, and 
 part of it may have been accidentally left out. I have, therefore, inserted in 
 brackets the part which was evidently omitted, or misplaced, in the original 
 resolution. However that may be, the House of Assembly consented to allow 
 Mr. Willcocks to bring his Bill again before it, and the following proceedings took 
 place in regard to it : — ) 
 
 SSrd February, 1810.— Mr. Joseph WiUcockB moved, secouded by Mr. Thomas B. Gough, 
 that BO much of the order of the day [of tlie 2l8t of February] as directs the third reading of 
 the [Bill for establishing Common Schools be discharged, and that the] Bill for limiting the 
 duration of the Act establishing [District] Schools. , . * be now recommitted. The said 
 order was discharged accordingly, and the House resolved itself into a Committee to go into the 
 further consideration of the said Bill. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. Gough was called to the chair of the Committee. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, 
 
 Mr. Gough reported that the Committee had gone through the consideration of the said 
 Bii-, to which they had made several amendments, which amendments he was directed to report 
 to the House, whenever the House shall be pleased to receive the same. Ordered, that the 
 Reports be now received and accepted. 
 
 Mr. vN iUcocks moved, seconded by Mr. James Wilson, that the Public (Grammar) School 
 Bill be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow. Ordered ac-ordingly. 
 
 S4th February, i^/O.— Read for the third time, as engrossei', the Bill for limiting the dura- 
 tion of the Act establishing Public (Grammar) Schools in this Pn vince(1807). On motion of Mr. 
 Willcocks, seconded by Mr. Sovereign, 
 
 Resolved, That the Bill do pass and that the title be, " An Act to repeal certain parts of aa 
 Act passed in the forty eighth Year of Uia Majesty's Reign (1808) mtituled 'An Act to estab- 
 lish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province (18t»7).' " The Bill accordingly 
 passed and was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Mallory, seconded by Mr. Pecord, moved that Messieurs Dorlanai and Howard carry ui> 
 to the Legislative Council the Act intituled, " An Act to Repeal certain narts of an Act passed 
 in the forty-eighth Year of His Majesty's Reign, (1808), intituled, ' An Act to Amend An 
 Act passed in the forty-seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign, (1807), ' An Act to establish 
 Public Schools in each and every District of this Province," arj request their concurrence 
 thereto. Ordered accordingly. 
 
 Messieurs Howard .">nd Borland, the members ordered to carry up to the Honourable the 
 Legislative Council, the message of this House, reported that they had, in obedience to the 
 command of this House, carried up to the Legislative Council the Act entitled " An Act to 
 repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the forty-eighth Year of His Majesty s Reign, (1808), 
 intituled, * An Act U) amend an Act passed in the forty-soventh Year of His Majesty's Reign, 
 (1807)j intituled, ' An Act to estK'iiish Public Schools in each and every District of this Pro- 
 vince,' " to which they did roquof 
 
 every 
 tluir concurrence in passing the same! 
 
 (Note.— In adopting Mr. Willcocks' resolution of the 2.3rd of February, by 
 which the Bill limiting the d'lrafcion of the Act (of 1807) which established District 
 Schools was substituted for that introduced by Mr. Crowell Wilson on the 3rd 
 
 *The omitted words were evidently the ones which wei* minnlMied, and which I have iaa«rt«d la 
 brackets m the b(}dv of the reaolution. They were : " be disohartfed, and that the," -♦'>. 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1810 
 
 •of February, providing for Common Schools, the House of Assembly again rejected 
 the proposal made to the House in 1804 and 1805, and now again in 1810, to 
 establish elementary, or common schools, as they were designated. By adopting 
 the Bill of Mr. Willcocks, the House further decided to repeal the Act of 1807, 
 ■<by which Public (Grammar) Schools were established " in each and every District 
 of the Province,") at the end of four years from its passing in 1807, or at the end 
 of the then next ensuing session of the Legislature. 
 
 From the following proceedings of the Legislative Council, it will be seen 
 that the Council did not second Mr. Willcocks' proposal, as it took no action on 
 his Bill. In the following session, however, Mr. Willcocks renewed bis efforts to 
 have this Act repealed. He was successful in the House of Assembly, but the 
 Legislative Council, by a vote, (and not by silence, as before,) rejected his Bill. 
 (See the proceedings of both Houses on the subject, and on the efforts in the 
 Legislative Council of the Honourable Richard Cartwright to perpetuate the 
 Grammar School Act of 1807, which Mr. Willcocks sought to have repealed.) 
 
 2. Legislative Council Proceedings in 1810 on the Grammar School 
 
 Repeal Bill. 
 
 ^ The members of the Council in 1810 were the Honourables Thomas Scott, 
 (Chief Justice), Speaker; Richard Cartwright, James Baby, iEneas Shaw, and 
 Jolin McGill. 
 
 .A.. ;!f' i Fehntari,, LVO.-A deputation from the Hou.se of Assembly being announced it was 
 admitted, and brou.^ht up and delivered at the Bar of tin. House the follovving message'- 
 Mr. Speakeu : 
 
 that Ihev ifave' oaZlTl ^^ 1^ ^'"Tu"- ^""f '/ "^'''"'"^'^ ^" **=1»*'»t '^'' Honourable House 
 mat tnoy iM\e passed the following Bill, uititu ed. " An Act t(j ronoal certain ivirt, ,.f un A^f 
 
 S:T1" d ■n'H?7r;''''e't?i^V'p"iV^^*r^V •^^^■'^'". ^'""'^^ i^t 'ui-r' An\^n lenYan 
 
 ^d ss/;hjnij^r'51.:;S:^^t H^ ^er^^ ^^^^ 
 
 Commons House of Assembly, ^^'^"'^^^ ^*-'«'^ ^''T''' , 
 
 24thF.bruary, idlO. bpeaket. 
 
 first Time'^''''"^'^'"" ''*'''"*'' ^'t''^^''^". «" motion made and seconded, the said Bill was read a 
 
 Note.— The Legislative Council took no further action on this Bill, and con- 
 sequently it failed to become law. This was no doubt due to the influence in the 
 Council of the Honourable Richar.l Cartwright, who was opposed to the repeal 
 of this Act which had provided in 1807 at the instance of the Rev. Dr. Stiachan, 
 forthe esUblishment of Grammar Schools in each of the Districts of the Province.* 
 
1810 
 
 Chap. XX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1811. 
 
 71 
 
 CHAPTiLK XX. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROOREDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF UPPER 
 
 CANADA IN 1811. 
 
 The third session of the fifth ParliaTnent of Upper Canada waa opened on 
 the first day of February, 1811, by His Excellency, Francis Gore, Esquire, Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor. In his speech from the Throne he made no reference to educa- 
 tion or schools. 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1811. 
 
 The members of the House of Assembly who took part in its proceedings 
 relating to education were. Messieurs Joseph Willcocks, Thomas B. Gough, Benajah 
 Mallory, David M. Rogers, Philip Sovereign, Thomas Dorland and Mathew 
 Elliott. 
 
 On the 7th February, 1811. — Mr. Willcocks. seconded by Mr. Gough, moved for leave to 
 bring in a Bill on Monday next to repeal an Act pjiBsed in the fortv-seventh Year of His 
 Majesty's roign (1807) entitled, " An Act to establish PublicSchools in each and every District of 
 ♦his Province. " Leave was accordingly given. 
 
 9th February, 1811.— Mr. Mallorj' moved, seconded by Mr. Rogers, that the petition of 
 Henry Bostwick and others, (hi regard to the removal of the London District School from 
 Woodhouse to Charlotteville), be now read. Accordingly, the said petition was then read by 
 the Clerk at the Table, and is as follows :— 
 
 To the Honourable Members of the House of Commons, in Provincial Parliament assembled. 
 
 The memorial of the undersigned most respectfully sheweth, 
 
 That, during the Fourth Session of the Fourth Provincial Parliament, a petition was pre- 
 • sentcd to that Honourable P-."y, signed by a number of the Trustees of the Public vSchools for 
 the District of London, pray ne the ' »m<)val of the taid school from Townaend to the Village of 
 Dover, in the Township ipf VVoot'hou e. 
 
 That in con«e,|u.'ace .f that pblitioa, the Tiustees were authorized by an Act pasfied in that 
 session, to establish it whi»re they mi,'ht think proper, intending, it is presumed, to meet the 
 object of the pet tioii 
 
 That, immedi'itely after the promulgation j£ the Act, yor- memorialists called npon the 
 Trustees with a largo subscription, (exceeding cae Innvlred pou-ids, Provincial currency), sub- 
 scribed by the inhabitants in and near the Villag- of .">')Vflr, fi. the purpose of erecting a house 
 for the use of the j)ublic school, and, at the same tiiii^, uquestod an order for the establishment 
 of it in the said village. 
 
 The order which accoinpanuis this was given. \our memorialists were then authorized by 
 the subscribers to collect the subscriptions and superintend the building of the house, in conse- 
 quence of which your n.omorialists immediately contracted for the necessary materials, and with 
 carpentora, etc., to build the house. 
 
 That after your memorialists had gone to a very great expense, and had contracted for 
 every material to hnish the house, they wore suddenly told by the Trustees, without any pre- 
 vious communication .>r intimation uf their sign, that they had changed their minds and deter- 
 mined to establish the school in OharlottoN e, not offering any rational motive for their con- 
 duct, excepting that, a** we had not complutoa the house at the'time limited in their ordet, they 
 did n^'t consider theiim^vv,>8 any longer hound to us. at which time it was utterly impossible for 
 your memorialists to have tinishc I thi ,,use owing to the late opening of the water communica- 
 tion. The nails which were purchast the fall before were at Fort Erie and could not be pro- 
 cured until late in tlie month of May This circumstance was well-known to the Trustees. 
 
 Tliat, at tht time \ our mem >rialistB received the order for the school, they offered to the 
 .r!'..°.t.o«B a h-"t;=" ^•■•r t~ teaehtrf, iii thu jicighborhiKKs uf Dover, whoro he would immediateiy 
 have had a very rt'ipactable school until the public school house would be finished, but this 
 offer was rejected. 
 
 That your memorialists havo been at a very great expense (relying upon the faith of the 
 Tru.itees), ti> orjct the h(mse. i hioh could now hd finished in a short time, and that they have 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1811 
 
 Wherefore, your inemorialista most reapectfullv nrav thkt vonr Hnnmo^Ki.. u 4. i • 
 
 into consideration the allegations herein coi^ned/wUl direJt b^v ?aw thTf?« n„S 
 the Di3tnct of London shall bo permanently establislJit rhet,rB'h p*of*^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Henry Van Allen, Abraham Bapelgeand Henry Boufcwiok. 
 Woodhouse, District of London. 
 
 School Act "• ""—"«•'' '■>' "■• ■»«»»■' ■""• «1" Bill to repo.1 th, Di.trict (Gmmm.r) 
 
 Mr. Willcocfcs then moved, seconded by Mr. Doriand thaf iho Rin („_ n. 
 
 r-,^!;s '•'""'"'" ''=^'»' '" - '"^ ■ -"""sj-e '.is^otw^tv^^Tdtss 
 rsr:s';/"""""'» •" '*'' ^"^ »n.*™ff .?."'i>Sief Soi^r ^JhTr.:; 
 
 '■'"' ■""•"""• '"'•T„t5r.';L'°„tef'±"' .''•« R-^. a«. «<■-. "".»l™d «..« into a 
 
 the Com- 
 
 the„|^t&,nKeitr/s^d .^x;t j:srdr/„ r.tri?.i . * ^'"- 
 
 IS M.S. -Messieurs Burntt, Fraser, McLean, Baby and Elliott-5. 
 
 bee|osS^^i:stir:Si^^^b&'a:j:t^i^^^^^ «°^- «-- «^" 
 
 SchoofAaof'Sf'"''--''^'''^ '''"• '""^ '''''^ *•-«' —grossed. K Bill r» repeal the District 
 Mr. VVillcocks then moved, seconded by Mr. Soveroisn that fh.. ..nirl «J,.}„„>1 p 11 1 
 
 Vf1"'"m *''.^'^^«^' "PV'^ the questi.),! and the names wore taken down as follows 
 
 c,„„^ifws^Tir^:'?E?'«:t„K^^^^ 
 
 fwf"7 .r'"T ^''N''^^- »»"•'"' F^ser, McLean, McGreiror,' Baby and Elliott-7 
 the sSr.'" ^ """■""'"' '^ "" '"^J""*^^ °^ ««^^'"- The Bill then pass^'d and .1; sigJed by 
 ^..^''■^^''^^''^''^"'''''^^^^('^ondod ))y Mr. Mallory, that Mnssieurs Thomas Doriand ,md Tnhn 
 btinson do carry up to the Honourable the Logislat ve Council the \o "Suled " A A.f^^ 
 repeal pan of an Act passed in the forty-eighth yoar of His Mriostv's rSn HSOS^ A , , 
 
 Ro^r.^lthKiT;-^^^^^^ one of the Messengers named to carrv un to .,h. 
 
 ■* 
 
 2. 
 
 
181Ii 
 
 CJiap. XX. EDUCATIONAL PKOCKEDINOS OF V. C. LEGISLATURE, IS I I. 
 
 78 
 
 ] 
 
 ■:<.., 
 
 ^JichaSTvTr^VB^oflMv'^^^ ^" ^°^ to e.tabli.h Public School, io 
 
 dtd reoHBri-hlir Jnni *•"' *^'-»^\'"'«. / 'eported that they had carried up the »id Act. and 
 am request their concurrence in passing the same. 
 
 (Note.— It will be seen, by a reference to the title of the District School 
 Repeal Bill introduced by Mr. Joseph Willcocks on the 7th day of February, 1811, 
 that he proposed to repeal the whole of the School Bill passed in March, 1808* 
 (48th George III, Chapter 16). On the final passage of the Bill, on the 18th of 
 February, the title was changed so * o read : "An Act to repeal part of an Act," 
 etc. This Bill, as will be seen by reference to the proceedings of the Legislative 
 Council of the 25th February, was rejected, and one, by the Honourable Richard 
 Cartwnght, substituted forit-the title of which was "An Act further to amend'' 
 the original Public (Grammar) School Act of 1807, (-ITth George III.. Chapter 6). 
 This title was also changed in Committee to read : « An Act to establish Public 
 Schools in each and every District in this Province." This Act was rejected by 
 the House of Assembly. See Note under proceedings of the Legislative Council 
 26th February, 1811). 
 
 W SSn'SfJ^il^rV^ ""^"'^^^ from the Honourable the Legislative Council by Mr. W. 
 vf . liaiawin, Master-in-Chancery, was received, as follows:— 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 thev^hreZroTalfl^T rf ?rV"r^'t ^^^ Legislative Council to acquaint your House that 
 ofm^MJ T' Act ntituled, " An Act further to amend an Act passed in forty seventh year 
 
 o tWs pSnL"""ln'^lTl'if' ' """ ""'' !" ''''^^'''^' P"^'"° Schools in each and every W*St 
 ot tins Frovmco, to which they request the concurrence of your House in passing the same. 
 
 Legislative Council Chamber, ^«j;<,n^,n t„^.. a 
 
 ofti-h V u TO,, (oigned) Ihomas Scott, 
 
 2Cth February, ISIL Speaker. 
 
 intiid -AnActfir/w. Act sent down from the Honourable the Legislative Council. 
 inti.uieu, An Act further to amend the Act establishing Public Schools in this Province. " 
 
 Bill b^ road afeJonl H^ll ""T^'^ ^^ ^^'^ ?°^^*'"^' '^'''' '^^ '^^'^ »i«t»i«t School Amendment 
 
 IstMnr^hr^n Z M u"^ '^''"^ T"*^'" ^^'^^^ ^'« °^'^^^^^ accordingly. 
 Bill to^norrow to rV^^f r;h H "^ "1°^"'^' '""■"''''^'^ ^^ ^"l'*^"' ^'"«**' ^^^ '"^^^ *« ^^ring in a 
 Xi;8^vW,Wl«0«^^^^^^^^ ot an Act passed in the forty-eighth year of His 
 
 SSXrrSi8S\ ' ; A",^P n-Tl"^ ']".^^* P^««^d '" the forty-seventh year of 
 vince- '•'"g" (1807), to establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Pro- 
 
 in M^'MXrv'-^Jn^r''"'^'''"';' ««^^«"^^d by Mr. Gough, moved that the word " to-morrow " 
 
 months''t iW.^ Tl " "'\'''^ ""'• ""f ."' l'«^ ^'^'^^^"^ '^'' ^■•"'•'^« "tl"B day three 
 ™cordLgly 1^^e.tum, as amended, was carried in the affirmative. And ordered 
 
 Note.— Thus the proposed repeal of the third section ol' the Public (Grammar) 
 School Amendment Act of 1808 was not assented to by the House of Assembly ; 
 nor was tlie District Scliool Amendment Bill of the Legislative Council agreed to 
 by It. The third section of the Act of LSOS extended the operation" of the 
 Grammar School Act of 1S07 beyond the four years to which its duration had 
 been limited by the Act itselt on its passing. 
 
 2. Proceedinqh op the Legislative Council 
 
 Repeal Bill. 
 
 ON the District School 
 
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 A deflS>'r{Zn\i:eliZl!^%^:^''^^^^^^^^^ ""* •^"^«"^"* ^" adjournment on thi« day. 
 
 A aepuiation trom the House of Assembly being ann,.unced, they were admitted and bromrbr .in 
 
 fortv aX'h'r'' "^* h' ^X'' " P'" ?"^'*"'^''' " ^» Act to repeal part of an Ac p s eT in the 
 forty-eighth year of His Majesty's re.gn, intituled, ' An Act to amend an Act passed in tlie forty- 
 
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 seventh year of His Maje«ty'g reiffn, intituled, An Act to ostablish Public ScIiooIb n a«oh *nil 
 I n each and every District of thia Provincn ' <'1807'> r»« , .""""" *^ " """ oonoois 
 
 intituled, ' An A ft to amend ai. Act pass. 1 in the forty-seventh v7«' nfHf.M„^!Lf ' ' 
 
 (1807). intitule, An Act to establi.h1>ublic SchooK " h and'evx-ry 5 tS'^rP^o' 
 vince.' [from the House of Assembly] be read a second time this day th7oe months 
 
 (Note. -This motion having passed the Legislative Council, the Council, by 
 It, rejected the District School Eepeal Bill brought up from th*. House of Assembly. 
 By adopting the following motion, the Council substitut. i for this Repeal Bill 
 passed by the Assembly. the District (Grammar) School Amendi, nt Bill introduced 
 by the Honourable Richard Cartwright on the 23rd February, 1811.) 
 
 Pursuant to the Order of the Day, was read a second time, a Bill intituled " An \ct further 
 t . a.uend an Act mt.tuled, ' An Act to establish Public Scheie in each and\n-fr^DLtnct of 
 
 , of t^ewIoirHou;:';;^^!^ ""'"^ ""? ■"^^■•^""r^- ^'>^' ««-« rosoUed itS iXi: Comml^tf 
 Ti « Y , ' "- ^''*'^ ?"'"*' '"'''• coiisidenition, tlio Hon. John McGiU in the chair 
 
 the Id^B/lTinto" i^"'f ''t""''*^ * "; ^^I'^S**'- *^'^f''" '■'-'l'"''-^ *>'"* ^''« Commit ee ha t ken 
 tnewiaUilJintuconsi<lfrati..n, and had made some amondnients thereto which tliev r-rr,,.. 
 
 Sni :im. nlY';'"'"" ""' "". ^'T'- . ^' "'"-^ ^'^^^'^^ ""^^ *he said report bet epte^^^ and the 
 '« tr i? ' "" «"«'""s«od and read a third time to-morrow 
 
 -An a1 t^tubl?sh^^i■h!■iT^^^?"* '" '1'" ^V^"'' "^ '^.^ ^*^y ^•'^^'^^-"''^ " ^»''rd time a Bill intitule.l 
 
 ^'S.t.T^BSVi.rr^rSita;iSr" ^'^ ''- ""' " '"^ "°"^^ ^'^-^^ 
 
 Note.— By reference to the proceedin-s of the Hou.'^e of Assembly of this 
 date, (2(Jth of February, 1811), it will be seet, that Lhe As.sembly rejected the sub- 
 stituted District (Grammar) School E--.;^>a Bill of the Honourable Richard 
 Cartwright, sent to it by the Legislati v ■; < 'ouncil on that day. 
 
 On the 1st of March, Mr. Benajah Mahory .sought to reintroduce the District 
 School Repeal Bill, which had been rejected by the Legislative Council, in which 
 by giving a more definite title to it than that of the rejected Bill, he no doubt 
 hoped that the House of As.sembly would pass it, but it declined to do so The 
 title of his Bill was "An Act to repeal the third clause of the School Act of 
 1808," etc., (48th George IIL, Chapter VI.) This third clause provided that 
 the duration of the Act of 1807 .should not be limited to four years from its 
 passing, or until the end of this Session of 1811. but should continue to be in force. 
 
 It will thus be seen that both Bills were rejected— one by each House. 
 
 As the Honourable Richard Cartwright's District (Grammar) School Bill did 
 not pass the Legislature, its nature can only be surmised from its title, which was 
 altered on its pas,sage by the Legislative Council, so as to provide still further (as in 
 the Act of 1807), for the esiablishment " of Public (Grammar) Schools in each and 
 - " ^ ■■^"■^ rr._,r,uuc. ihc Ace pa.s.sea ana was sent up to the Legis- 
 lative Council by the House of Assembly, on the 20th of Febrnarv, 1811 was 
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 N- doubt the Honourable Mr. Garfcwright perceived that this waa the design 
 of the Bill sent ip by the Assembly, and hence he mov that it be rejected » 
 which was done. He the- proposed, as his Bill indicat' t ' '^nceforth there 
 should be no uncertaint) n the ^ immar school legislati ^ue Province, but 
 
 that, without limitatior as to tiiui Orflmmar Schools sh( J be permanently 
 established " in each auv. ^ivery District of this Province." This intention on hU 
 part may i gathered from the fact that he had during the preceding sessions 
 of the Council invariably advocated this course (See " note " on page 70.) 
 
 The majority of the House of Assembly were clearly of the tl,er opinion, 
 and were, by their projected Bill, opposed t> tiie cuntinuance of the Public 
 (Grammar) School Act of 1807. The Bill introduced into the House of Assem- 
 blyby Mr Joseph Willcocks, on the 7th of February, 18' 1, provided for the 
 repeal of this Act, and when that Bill was rejected i^egislative Council, 
 
 Mr. Benajah Mallory proposed on the 1st of March i le third clause of the 
 
 Act of 1808, (which provided for the continuance of Act of 1807) should be 
 repealed. His proposal was not assented to, as it was piactically the same as that 
 of Mr. Willcjcks, which had already been rejected by the Legislative Council- 
 ^' .e repeal of the 0'->mmar School let was pressed upon the House of Assem- 
 bly by petition froii. Midland p.nd Newcastle district. (See pa^^es 62, 76 and 
 77.) Nevertheless the Act of 1807 remained substantially in force for nearly 
 fifty years, and until 1853, when it was superseded by a more comprehensive 
 Grammar School Act. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF UPPER 
 
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 Hale Sheaffe and Lieutenant-General Sir George Gordon Drummond. When the 
 
 fourth session of the fifth Parliament met on the 3rd of February, 1812, war with 
 
 the United States was impending. Sir Isaac Brock opened the session of 
 
 the Legislature with the usual speech from the throne, in which he mainly dwelt 
 
 on the question of the war, and the necessity of adopting " such measures as will 
 
 best secure the iuterral peace of the country and defeat every hostile aggression." 
 
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 1812 
 
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 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1812. 
 
 The members of the House of Assembly who took part in the educational 
 matters which came before it were : — Messieurs, Joseph Willcocks, Philip Sove- 
 reign, Thomas B. Gough, Benajah Mallory, David M. Rogers and James MeNabb. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel John McDonell, Member for the County of Glengarry, 
 was Attorney-General at this time, in succession to Mr. Firth, who bad left for 
 England in 1811. He was appointed Aide-de-camp to General Brock and wa& 
 present with him at the Battle of Queenston, where both lost their lives. From 
 Mrs. Edgar's " Ten Years of Upper Canada, 1805-1815," I gather the following 
 particulars of his death : — " Lieutenant-Colonel McDonell was mounted and ani- 
 mating his men to charge. . . . McDonell, who was on the left of oar party, 
 most heroically calling on us to advance, received a shot in his body and fell." 
 
 . . . This heroic young man, the constant attendant of tho General after 
 his fall, strove to support to the last a cause never to be dispaired of. . . . 
 Lieutenant Archibald McLean, who was wounded in this battle, and to whom 
 McDonell'a last pathetic cry of ' Archie, help me ! ' had been addressed, was after- 
 wards taken prisoner at Lundy's Lane, but lived to become Chief Justice of 
 Upper Canada." (Pages 158, 156.) 
 
 On the 7th of February, 1812, Mr. Joseph Willcocks, seconded by Mr. Philip 
 Sovereign, moved for leave to bring in a Bill, on Monday next, to repeal an Act passed in the 
 forty-eighth year of His Majesty's reign (1808), intituled "An Act to amend an Act passed 
 in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807), intituled 'An Act to establish Public 
 (Grammar) Schools in each and every District of this Province.' " Leave was accordingly given. 
 
 10th Ftbruary, 1812.— Re&d for the first time the Bill to repeal the District School Act. 
 
 Mr. Willcocks moved, seconded by Mr. Sovereign, that che Bill to repeal the District School 
 Act be read a second time on to-morrow. Ordered accordingly. 
 
 11th February, 181S.~-The Petitic.n of the Inhabitants of the District of Newcastle, praying 
 that the grant for Grammar Schools in the District be applied to Common Schools therein, was 
 then r.ad, and is as follows, to wit : — 
 
 To the Honourable Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the Province of Upper 
 Canada, in their Legislative capacity assembled. 
 
 The Petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the District of Newcastle— 
 
 Respectfully sheweth : 
 
 That by an Act passed in tho forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807) the sum of One 
 Hundred Pounds was granted to establish a Public School, to be opened in the Township of 
 Hamilton. ^ 
 
 .. • J^***^ Z'^"'' Petitioners fi»d the said appropriation to be entirely useless to the inhabitants of 
 this District in general. 
 
 Wherefore, your Petitioners jiray that the said Acts of the forty-seventh and forty-eighth 
 years of His Majesty's reign may be repealed, and that such other provision may be made to 
 encourage Common Schools throughout this District as to you in your wisdom may seem meet. 
 And, as in duty bound, they will ever pray. 
 
 (Signed), Richard Lovekin, Asa Burnham, Leonard Soper, Alexander Fletcher, and forty- 
 eight others. "' 
 Township of Hamilton, 11th August, 1811. 
 
 An address per contra waa presented, about the same time, to the Lieutenant- 
 Governor, from the inhabitants of the Eastern District, of which the following 
 part relates to Education : — 
 
 " We have seen provision made for giving the youth of the Province such a liberal educa- 
 tion, as may not <mly qualify them for the learned professions, but ..iso establish firmly in their 
 
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 1812 
 
 Cll*p. XXI. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF V. C. LEGISLATURE, 1812. 77 
 
 t"!i^'Hirl5Hn„'"^!l*f),""'™^ *"f '*"«'°"'' P;i?°>Pl«». '^hich Shall enable them to give the most «]u- 
 wM«l1 Er7.fW^K^'"r^ """T^" °^*^« province, and revive that ardent patriotism, for 
 which their fathers have ben so honourably distinguished *""»m, lor 
 
 .1,-.^ f •* "^ **"" ^"^^^ mea'ure, patronized and sanctioned by your Excellency we berin 
 Dated at Cornwall, this 9th day of October, 1811. 
 
 Another petition, from the Midland District, dated the 6th day of January, 
 1812, and similar in character to that from the Newcastle District, was presented 
 to the Legislature in February, 1812. These petitions showed that there was a 
 desire in these two districts, as well as in the House of Assembly for the repeal 
 of the Public (Grammar) School Act ol 1807. 
 
 «i«r. J''V^®*'*'°" °i ^'u" i"'?''^'^"t8 of the Midland District, praying that the Act by which orovi 
 s on for Grammar Schools has been made, but which fails to providf for the educatLnal waSof 
 nr^Ji«!f n r^' Z ^°'tl "^^'^ °-^ ^'^ ^^^^^^^^'^ ""^'J^^ts " in the District, be reeded and1?,at 
 foKs •- '" '^" P"""''"'' ^' """^^ ^' ^°"^""^^ *« P"^li° "tility." was then Jead, a» 
 
 Canada. t^fo^SS^i^arl^lttt^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^^ ^^^^ ^' ^^^^^'y °^ *^« ^--- «^ ^PPer 
 The Petition of the Subscribers, inhabitants of the Midland District- 
 Humbly showeth : 
 
 .p1v„T^**/°."\^®*'^'?"^r'' '«^itho-.tpresumins;to dictate to your Honourable Body feel them 
 •elves m duty bound to state that the Act passed in the fortv-sevfintb v^ar nf Wifw • ! - • 
 (1807), intituled "An Act to esteblish Public Soolsii^rhandeve^y^^S^^^^ 
 vince," which, by the repeal of it, limitation, was rendered perpetual by Se Act passed fn^h; 
 for y.eighth year of His Majesty's reign (1808), intituled, - An Act to amUd an ActCsed Si the 
 [n Sr^'",^^ ^**'n^ H.8^faJesty's reign (1807), intituled, 'An Act to estabUshPublTc School! 
 
 Its bject, it is presumed, was 'to promote the education of our youth in general but «. l.>fl« 
 acquaintance with the facts must convince every unbiased mind that it hal contributed Htt'enr 
 nothing to the promotion of so laudable a design. By reason of the nlftofi nf in.Vrnff- u ■ 
 es^blished at one end of the District, and ?he BurdZandl^'j^rtTt on iradS t£ to'hf 
 annual compensation received from the public, most of the people are unable to a JaU themselve! 
 Th^ T.t ^*?^?^' contemplated by the institution. A few wealthy inhabitants and those of 
 ?n fJ7f°-^^'"!f°°'-I^'fP exclusively the benefit of it in this District. The institution 
 nstead of aiding the middling and poorer class of His Majesty's subjects, casts money into the 
 lap of the rich, who are sufficiently able, without publii assistance, to support a school in 
 evej respect equal to the one established by law. Your Petitioners forbear adducing anymore 
 facts to verify their representations. They cannot be persuaded that you will contk,ue^n See 
 «?-i. fif ''''^'! •'^ ? {^'l experiment to be so partial in its operation, and so little calculated to 
 effect the contemplated objects. Wherefore they pray, that so much of the Act C 4t ahov^ 
 men loned may be repea ed, and such provisions made in the premises as may be conducive to 
 public utility. Your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray ^ conaucive to 
 
 (Signed), Jacob Hess, Daniel Wright, Stephen Hess, John Trumpour, and sixty others 
 
 Midland District, January 6th, 1812. 
 
 Read the District School Repeal Bill for the second time. Mr. Willcocks seconded bv Mr 
 Rogers, moved that the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole! o^ Friday next to 
 take the same into oonsidertition. Which was ordered accordingly ^ ' ^ 
 
 niJiif ^'^rr^y^ mS.-On this day was read a Petition from the inhabitants of the Midland 
 J?»n«?. V"^ '"*l^' "^"""f * *''^™' ''"Py «^ ^^^ "'^^ presented and read on the 11th instant the 
 
 z?o" a\7L^;raothr^°""«' ""''''' ^^""' ^^^^^ ^°-«' «--' ^oCT^ouZ: 
 
 rnittlil^irSI^dti'c^ot^^^^^^ ""'''' °^ *•>« ""^'^ *^« ^-- ^'^^ -"* -*o Com- 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair. Mr. JameH MnWahV. nr^a ^.lu^ <.„ *.i,- ^h-.-_ _/. , ■ « 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. McNabb reported that the CommitteA h»H ma^- 
 some progress ,n th. BilL and had directed him to ask for leave to sit again to mit^owLS^j! 
 was aocordmgly granted for the Committee to sit again to-morrow. morrow. Leave 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF KDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 181SJ 
 
 S5th FebriMry, 1812. — The House, agreeably to the Order of the Day, resolved itself into a 
 Committee to take the District School Repeal Bill into consideration. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. McNabb was called to the chair of the Committee. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair. Mr. McNabb reported that the Committee had gone 
 through the consideration of the said Bill to which they had made several amendments, which he 
 was directed to report to the House whenever it should be pleased to receive the same. Ordered, 
 That the said Report be now received. The said Raport was accordingly received. On motion 
 of Mr. Joseph Willcocks, seconded by Mr. Willett Casey, Ordered, 'J hat tho said Bill be en- 
 grossed and read a third time to-morrow. 
 
 26th Febnutry, 1819. — Read for tho third time, as engrossed, the District School Repeal Bill. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Willcocks, seconded by Mr. Gough, Ordered, That the Bill do now 
 pass, and that tho title be " An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the forty -seventh year 
 of Hi< Majesty's reign (1807), intituled ' An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every 
 District of this Province.' " The Bill then passed and was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Willcocks, seconded by Mr. Mallory, Ordered, That Messieurs Rogers 
 and Dorland do carry up to the Legislative Council the said Bill, and request their concurrence 
 in passing the same, and also do carry up to the Xegislative Council all Petitions now before this 
 House relative to the said Bill. 
 
 Mr. Rogers, one of the Messengers named to carry up to the Honourable Legislative Council 
 the Bill intituled, " An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the fortyseventh year of His 
 Majesty's reign (1807), intituled, * An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every District 
 of this Province,' " reported that they had carried up the said Bill and the Petitions relating 
 thereto to the Honourable the Legislative Council and did reouest their concurrence in passing 
 th Bill. 
 
 2. Proceedings of the Legislative Council on this Bill. 
 
 26th Febrtiary, 1812. — TheLegislativjOouncil met on this day, pursuant to adjournment. A 
 deputation from the House of Assembly being announced, they were admitted, and brought up 
 and delivered at the Bar of this House, and asked for its concurrence a Bill, intituled, "An 
 Act to amend and alter an Act passed in the forty seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807), 
 intituled. 'An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province.' " 
 The Bill was accordingly read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. 
 
 Srd March, 1S12. — The House met pursuant to adjournment on this day. On motion made 
 and seconded, the following (among other Bilk) was ordered to be read a second time this day 
 three months : — "An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the forty-seventh year of Pis 
 Majesty's reign (1807), intituled, ' An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every District 
 of this Province.' " 
 
 Note. — Thus the District (Grammar) School Repeal Bill, sent up from the 
 House of Assembly, was again rejected by the Legislative Council. No further 
 educational proceedings by the Council are reported in its Journal of 181S. 
 On the 6th of March, His Honour ^President Sir Isaac Brock prorogued the 
 Legislature with the usual Speech from the Throne. It was brief, and the im- 
 pending '.7ar with the United States was the only topic to which reference was 
 made by the President and Commander-in-Chief. 
 
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 Chap. XXir. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIOXAL PAPERS, 1811-1814. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS. 1811-1814. 
 
 There ia a break m the continuity of the records of the proceedings of the 
 Legislature of Upper Canada for 1813. No copy of these proceedings has been 
 preserved, so far as I know, or is to be found in the Parliamentary Libraries at 
 either Ottawa or Toronto. 
 
 I insert, therefore, in this place, a few miscellaneous papers, relating to 
 libraries, education and school, in Upper Canada, which may prove interesting 
 as throwing some light on the social and intellectual state of the country at the 
 time, and during the years mentioned. 
 
 The Ernestown Academy at Bath, 1811. 
 
 ^ lo!!""^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^®""^' ""^ dissatisfaction with the Grammar School Act 
 ot 1807, to which expression is given in the Petition from the Midland District 
 presented to the House of Assembly on the 11th day of February, 1812. which 
 influenced the inhabitants of Ernestown to establish an independent Academy 
 at Bath, m the same district, in the preceding year. 
 
 The Petition from the Midland District was dated the 6th of January 1812 
 while the appeal of those who established the Bath Academy is dated the llth of 
 March in th^ previous year. A petition, somewhat similar, was presented to the 
 House of Assembly from the adjoining County of Newcastle, dated the llth of 
 Augnst, 1811. The Petitioners of the Midland District, in addressing the House 
 ot Assembly, said that they felt— 
 
 Themselvea in duty bound, to state that the rGrammar School Act of 1srV71 
 rendered perpetual by the Act passed in [18081, Its obWr it ,« n.^ " \ ' "^"^ 
 
 promote the education of our youth in general but " " hv C«nn «f .1^ '','"'"''1' • ""*" "^^ 
 
 br^he i tut on ^T ' ''' "'m '°*'^ ^l^'^ themselves of the advantages contemplated 
 
 o/KiniS^t:;;e.^usWeiy^/=S[rS.££^^^ 
 
 These were, no doubt, the reasons which induced the promoters of Bath- 
 Academy to provide means of education for their children nearer home than was 
 Kingston. Hence the following prospectus of the Academy was issued by them 
 
 "~""PnW m"t^"' 'V''«r",f""''^S^ ''"' ^"^*^' *'^^'' '"'" ''«v« the use of a vahiable Librarv 
 Jfirnestown, the llth of March, 1811. 
 
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 The " experienced preceptor." referred to in this address, was Mr. Barnabas 
 
 iSidwell, a native of Massachusetts, who had held high oflBce in that State, and had 
 
 been a ^ollege tutor there. He had removed to Upper Canada in 1803 or 4. The 
 
 Academy became noted for its excellence, and held a high place as an educational 
 
 institution. Amongst its most noted pupils was a son of the Preceptor, Marshall 
 
 Spring Bidwell. As the war at the time with the United States progressed, all 
 
 public interest centred in its successful prosecution. As a consequence, schools 
 
 were deserted and languished. As, with others, so did the Bath Academy. The 
 
 building was used as a barrack, but was afterwards restored to its original purpose. 
 
 Mr. Bidwell, the Master, removed to Kingston, and, in 1821, was returned to 
 
 the House of Assembly for the Counties of Lennox and Addington. Under the 
 
 alien law then in force, the House of Assembly refused to let Mr. Bidwell take 
 
 his seat. At the subsequent election in 1824, Marshall, his noted son, was elected 
 
 for the same counties. He, too, under the same law was refused his seat, but in 
 
 that year the li /r was repealed, and Marshall was again returned in 1825, as he 
 
 was also in 1829 and 1831. He was twice elected Speaker of the House of 
 
 Assembly. In 1836, he was defeated, and then retired from public life. He 
 
 removed to New York in lg22» ^^^ became there an eminent Counsellor-at-Law. 
 
 He died in 1872. His father died in 1834. 
 
 Members of the Legislative Council from 1792 to lfil2. 
 
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 1792. — The Legijlative Council, as constituted this year, consisted of the fol- 
 lowing Members : — 
 
 The Honourables ;Villiam Osgoode, Chief Justice, Speaker, Peter Russell, 
 Alexander Grant, Robert Hamilton, Richard Cartwright, Junior, James Baby, 
 iEneas Shaw, and John Munro. Major-General John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant- 
 Governor. 
 
 1793. — The Honourable Richard Duncan added to the Council. 
 
 1794 to 1797. — There are no Parliamentary records preserved. Lieutenant- 
 Governor Simcoe left Canada in 1796, and the Honourable Peter Russell became 
 President. 
 
 1798.— The Honourable John Elmsley, Chief Justice, Speaker. Members 
 remained the same. 
 
 1799 to 1802. — Members remained the same. Major-General Hunter, Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor. 
 
 1803.— The Honourable Henry Alcock, Chief Justice. Speaker. Members 
 remained the same. 
 
 1804. — Members remained the same. 
 
 1806 to 1806. — The Honourable Richard Cartwright, Junior, Speaker. Mem- 
 bers remained the same. The Bonourable Alexander Grant, President. 
 
 
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1811-14 
 
 Chap. XXII. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS, 1811-14. 
 
 81 
 
 r. Barnabas 
 •te, and had 
 I or 4. The 
 educational 
 *, Marshall 
 jessed, all 
 ce, schools 
 imy. The 
 Ell purpose, 
 etumed to 
 Under the 
 Iwell take 
 vas elected 
 )at, but in 
 825, as he 
 B House of 
 life. He 
 or-at-Law. 
 
 of the fol- 
 
 ir Russell, 
 mes Baby, 
 ieutenant- 
 
 ieutenant- 
 ell became 
 
 Members 
 
 ater, Lieu- 
 
 Members 
 
 ker. Mem* 
 t. 
 
 1807 to 181 1.— The Honourable Thomas Scott, Chief Justice, Speaker. Mem- 
 bers remainetl the same. Francis Gore, Esijuire, Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 1812.— The Honourable William Glaus added to the Council. Sir I^aac 
 Brock, President. 
 
 Books for Sale by W. W. Baldwin. 
 
 The following was Lssued by Dr. William Warren Baldwin, as agent for the 
 then Attorney-General, who had left for England. It was in the shape of an 
 advertisement, or " notice," as follows .— 
 
 rluri,'!?^th."™'"'\^"*^' ^*'"''''' t.„ inform the public that attendance will bo given every Saturday 
 
 heliL% JSj^Fi^^^^^ the Provincial Legislature, fro.u eleven o'clock tilf thIeT at 
 
 cne norary or WUliim iirth, Eh(j., at the house in wh ch he resided at York when his «l,.».nfr 
 
 LowSr Canada"''"*'"" "^ '^^ '"^'""*'''" '° '''"^ '^^ '^' ^'"'"^^ '•«"^'*'»i"g ""«old in the spring t.v 
 York, 14th January, 1812. w. W. Baldwin, Agent for W. Firth. 
 
 Penmanship Taught by Practical Lecturer. 
 
 In the "Story "of the Life of the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, published in 1883 
 mention is made of the fact that some of the branches of education were under- 
 taken by itinerant teachers or lecturers. From such a person he was instructed 
 m the mysteries of English grammar, etc. Among the advertisements issued by 
 one of these peripathetic teachers is the following, copied from a local paper pub- 
 lished in Kingston in 1812. It was as follows ;— 
 
 .h..J!!!T^'"'^'^ ^'''t^^^ ^^■^^'' subscriber upon a new, improved and systematic plan being a 
 short and easy way to acquire a fa,r and plain handwriting in a short and simple mSr 
 
 There benig many who are destitute of writing who have grown to the state of manhood 
 an opportunity is now presented to them to improve themselves in penmanshi,r n a TuiSe of 
 hfteen exercises, only one hour and a half at each. ii«<.tiBJiip, a couise ot 
 
 Specimens showing the improvement of those who have been instructed to their perfect 
 ^a:S;fy",S;:riSr* '''^ subscriber's school room, where gentlemen are invTd ^tllS 
 The subscriber has opened his writing school this day, at the house of Mr. Henry Baker 
 Kingston, February 18th, 1812. 
 
 N.B -The subscriber will attend ladies and gentlemen desirous of improving their hand 
 writing at their apartments, for a reasonable compensation. ' ^ ^ 
 
 Chaulbs MacDonell, Instructor of Writing. 
 
 Education of Militia Men in Kingston, 1812. 
 
 During the war of 1812, many of the young men of Upper Canada had left 
 
 school and were enrolled for active service. As winter approached, and militar- 
 
 operations were suspended, the various military companies or battalions' wTi^ 
 
 placed in winter quarters. A number were, tHerefore, sent to Fort Henrv afc 
 6 (d.e.) jt "■" 
 
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 &Wi,f«f,fr. 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1811-14 
 
 Kingaton, and were there subjected to the usual military drill and discipline. 
 This being the case, the following notice was inserted in the Kingston Gazette : — 
 
 It has been lately suggested that, as many of those young men from the country who are 
 here attending military duty, have still a considerable portion of thr ir time unemployed, some 
 plan ought to b<i devised which would enable them to devote a part of it to the improvement of 
 their minds. 
 
 The following proposal is, therefore, submitted to their consideration, and to the consideration 
 of those who have any influence with them, or any interest in their improvement, viz. : — 
 
 One of the rooms in the public school house will be exclusively appropriated to the use of 
 the young militiamen from the country. 
 
 This will be furnished with desks, benches, a stove and fuel, free of all expense. Here 
 they shall be instructed— according as the state of the progress which they have made may 
 admit— in English reading, English grammar, writing, book-keeping, geography and in practical 
 mathemttics, with their most useful applications u) the mensuration of surfaces and solids, 
 heights and distances, land surveying, etc. 
 
 Cutiditiwis of Admittance. — Such regular attend mce as circumstances will possibly allow , 
 and vigorous, ardent application. 
 
 Should it so happen that any of those who are disposed to accept of thi.s oflFer may not, 
 from the calamities of the times, be in a situation to provide themselves with bo )ks and other 
 necessaries for school, let not this discourage them. All of this description will, with pleasure, 
 be furnished with pens, ink, writing paper, slates, school books, etc., void of charge. 
 
 As not more than fifty persons can bo admitted at once, the preference will consequently be 
 given to those who first apply. 
 
 The persons making this proposal beg leave further to add, if health and other circum- 
 stances permi , no care, nor labour, nor reasonable expense will be spared on their part to carry 
 the plan into complete effect. 
 
 The advantages to be derived from such a course, if ably conducted, are believed to be 
 neither few nor inconsiderable. 
 
 It will afford to those who en9;age in it with ardour a constant source of rational amuse- 
 ment, which will in some degree alleviate the toil, and remove the irksomeness of a laborious 
 service. It will, by directing the attention in a proi)er channel, prevent them from contracting 
 habits of idleness and dissipation, which, when once confirmed, are with such difficu'ty eradi- 
 cated. It will, by improving their understandings, and enlarging the sphere of their active 
 powers, enable them to act their part in after life with more honour and advantage, both to 
 themselves and to their friends. 
 
 Above all, it will tend to lay such a foundation of useful knowledge, and excite such a taste 
 for rational enquiry as can scarcely fail to render them both more hapj)y in thotnselves and more 
 useful members of society. — Public School, Kinqston, 30th November, xdl2. 
 
 Library Presented to Ernestown in 1813. 
 
 The following is from the Kingston Gazette of June the first, 1813 : — 
 
 The Rev. .John Langhorn,* of Frnestown, who is about returning to England, his native 
 country, has presented a valuable collection of books to the Social Librai-y established in the 
 Village of Lath. 
 
 The Directors have exjjressed to him the thanks of the Proprietors for his libentl donation. 
 Many of the volumes are very elegant, and, it is to be hojied, will for many years remain a 
 memorial of his liberality and di8i)08ition to promote the diffusion of useful knowledge among a 
 people with whcm he has lived as an episcopal missionary for more than twenty years. 
 
 *Rev. Ernest Hawkins, in his "Annalt of the Colonial Church, IHoceie of ToroTUo," thus refers to Mr. 
 Langhorn :— -Among: the early miiisionarieg in Canada was the Rev. John Langhorn. He was educated at 
 St. Bee's College, Cumberland. The Society for the Propagation of the (jospel appointed hira to a district 
 of the Rev. Dr. John Stuart's Mission. He arrived at Cataraqui late in September, 1787. The total 
 number of souls of all denominatiuns committed tu his charge was 1,500. He preached the first sermon on 
 Azshwrst Island ill 1^03. After 2& vears service as & niissi^nar^ he reLuri^f^ ^'^ I'^s'^l'^'^f^ *" tfii^i it,..iim» 
 his n^icistry he procured the erection of a church at Bath, on the Bay of (juint<^, 18 miles from Kingston, 
 and a log chapel at Fredricksburg. (Page 27-45.) 
 
1811-14 
 
 discipline. 
 
 Gazette : — 
 
 try who are 
 loyed, some 
 roveinent of 
 
 ^nsideration 
 viz. : — 
 
 o the use of 
 
 )nse. Here 
 made may 
 in practical 
 and solids, 
 
 sibly allow , 
 
 3r may not, 
 
 and other 
 
 ;h pleasure, 
 
 equently be 
 
 hor circum- 
 art to carry 
 
 ieved to be 
 
 nal amuae- 
 a laborious 
 contracting 
 cu'ty eradi- 
 ;heir active 
 ge, both to 
 
 luch a taste 
 js and more 
 
 , Ilia native 
 slied in the 
 
 il donation. 
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 efers to Mr. 
 i educated at 
 I to a diHtrict 
 '. The total 
 nt sermon on 
 
 ii» Kingston, 
 
 €hap. XXII. MIRCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPEttS, 1811-14. 
 
 83 
 
 to u.^S*ofh'u"t?ifhrr;h'\teS f-iuentand numerous, and not confined 
 
 religious denominations" ' ^^^^'^^^d to mdigent and meritorious persons of other 
 
 regrSis^SroXottl'crun^^^^^^ ^'^ ^'^^"-^ '"'" -^'^ gratitude and to 
 
 Eastern District Schoolmaster in 1814. 
 
 Prehident's Office, Upper Canada, 
 
 KiNOSTON, 31st May, 1814. 
 plo.S^:^;J^^^::^^'!^^^^^-^'^ «-rge Gordon Drummond. Esquire, has been 
 fiastern Dislrlct. fron. tl^e XL1.^,S fco^ B^^ ^"^"^ -'-' ^" *^« 
 
 Kingston Public (Grammar) School, 1814. 
 The anticipated closing of the Kingston Public School, taught by Mr. John 
 y< hitelaw. IS thus regretfully commented upon in a letter signed " Junius ":_ 
 
 To the Editor of the Kityjston Gazette :— 
 
 Kingston, 20th June, 1814. 
 
 ^e h^" fl^'Iomr^r^nloTed' Sf ^Skt''^^''"^' V^'S «"f "^*»'« ^^'^'-^ blesa:ngs 
 J««^ient,y sen.ble of possiLg ^J^Z^^ l^l^f ^ t:t:^7t^ ^:,-^^^ 
 
 aren^ii'r^^:;^,:^^.^^-^^^^ -cha war us this we 
 
 the inhabitants of Kingston Ls beeT sonVwW ' . ",' Pi;f3vmce. StilJ tlie situation of 
 
 with which the public 'cl'ool has bTn cSucS "•"*^'"''^*^'^ ^'^ '^^ ^^^^^y. persevering ardour 
 
 RoveJnmr tT^lSS ':£^ fi^ ul^ t^T^ '% ^'Vr '=r^'^^^'^'^ *^« ^^^ "f 
 Province. ^ '" "'** Institution „f public schools throughout the 
 
 e,pSi:rT;;tif n^:r;:?^Sij:^,P^:"^ -•'^^ ^as exceeded the most sanguine 
 
 imporfecfy-and are well versed In tJiril-^ ? '*'' "' •^q^^^'ons m algebra- by n,. moans 
 plain trig.Lmeti^. ^^Xr^^^^^S^Ztj^^lS^^S^ ^^^^ ^'^'^^^^^^ '' 
 tiesa?d"k"Jllnyril:l^^^^^^^ but I a.n no stranger to his abili- 
 
 station which he now fil? ^ ^"^ ^'"'" ^"' ^^""'^ continued in the highly respc - .ibie 
 
 ^r^l^^'^^^:^::^':^^^^^ that patrona,^, 
 
 : rbietu::.SSdr.i^:K'ti::^^^^ 
 
 of both sexL have b^ej;; ob iS to w t n ™^^^^^^ "! "^ ^T^" ^lidren 
 
 every day insulted by the coarsest la^,g!!age ""**"""* ^""^ ^*^^ ^^^'' ^*^^«t« «''^»-« 
 
 than?;r:p:r^:S3^i:St;o,;rd:e;r "d " '"'"•"? ^'« r^^' '^^^'•-*- °^ ^^^^w-" 
 
 synonymous. attention to decency. Decency, quiet, and a public school should be 
 
 and the mabiHt/of a great ^;Z ^^ S^ll^'^^^^l^^l^^^^^'^^^^ 
 
 Pringle's Young Ladies' School in Kingston. 
 
 they wni'is'iJj^ju^tKEviiigSs^^:;' '''Zr'^'r' 't^. '^'^^'' "^ -'-^^ 
 
 quarter. ilnU^, He^r.^^^ i::;--':^'^^::^^^^:^^ nee.Ue-.or,, at £2 10s. pe^ 
 adva^^^l:j;i;:°S?^;- .^-^^4'" ''' ^^^^•^''^^' ^^"^ *^« *-^-- ^-« -<^ P^yable in 
 
 11 
 
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84 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORV OF KJJUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. lhll-14» 
 
 Circulating Library in Kingston, 1814. 
 
 The public are informed that » small circulutiiijf libmrj is opened in this town and nmdo 
 accessihlu to nil clasRea of the uoniminiity, on the moat reasonable terniH. 
 
 Those who winh to take out books will pleasi^ call eitho' on IV! )ndHy, Thiirwday or Snturday, 
 between the h urs of one and three o'clock, at which time due att ^i.tion will be paid to all who 
 may be disposed to become subscribers. 
 
 There is also left at the oHico of the library a large number and a considerable variety of 
 children's books, ami useful tracts to be exchanged eithei' for clean rags or cash. 
 
 Rags enoui^h might be saved in every family to furnish the family with l)o()ks, and 
 stationery, and it is hoptd tliat no person will be ashamed to engage in saving an article so much 
 needed. 
 
 State of Learning in Upper Canada in 1814. 
 
 ' The greater part of the inhabitants of Canada are not well educated, for as they were poor 
 when they came to the Provini , and the country being but thinly settled for a number of years, 
 they nad but little chance for the benefit of schools. 
 
 But sinre the country has become more settled and the inhabitants rich or in a good way of 
 living, which is almost universally the case, they pay considerable attention to learning. Ten 
 dollars a year is the common price given for the tuition of each scholar by good teachers. 
 
 Until lately there was no good Latin or Greek school kept in the Province. Now there 
 are three— one in York, taught ly VI r. Strachsn, the Episcopal Minister of that place; one 
 on the Bay of Quintt^. by a Mr. Barnabas Bidwell, from the United States, and tlie other 
 in Niagara Village, by the Rev. Mr. Bums. 
 
 Good encouragement would be given in many other parts to teachers of such schools, 
 particidarly in the Niagara and London Districts, 
 
 Notwithstanding I said that the niiiin bo ly o' the inhabitants were not well educated, yet 
 there are a number of gentlemen in the Province who have the bo^t of learning. There is a 
 public free school kept in every district, by order of the King (under the Act of 1807), the 
 teichers of which receive annually one hundred pounds sterling from the Crown. — (it'ocfruphical 
 View of ihe Brithh Possesxiim^ in North Amei-ica, hif M. Smith, Pahllslied in Baltimovf, Mary- 
 lami, isi/f. 
 
 Opening of King.ston Public (Grammar) School, 1815. 
 
 The Public School in this place will commence on Tuesday, the 12th of September, 
 inittant. 
 
 During several years past much unnecessary labour has been occasioned to the teachers, and 
 much time irrecoverably lost to the scholars, from their being often detained at home by their 
 parents and guardians. In many instances the excuses assigned have been very unsatisfactory, 
 and in others altogether ridiculous and absurd. 
 
 To put an end, therefore, to a practice so inconsistent, both with common sense and the 
 interest of all parties concerned, parents and guardians are requested not to detain (without 
 positive necessity) any .scholar from regularly attending school. 
 
 In future no excuse for absence will bo received unless it appears to have been unavoidable. 
 None, therefore, need apply for admittance accept they agree to the above reciuest. 
 
 Kingston, September 5th, 1816. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OB^ THE LEGISLATURE OF UPPER 
 
 CANADA IN 1814. 
 
 Sir Gordon Drum.mon!>, a.s Administrator, opened the third session of the 
 Sixth Parliament of Upper Canada on the loth of February, 1814, with a speech 
 of some length, ohietly rolatin.fj to the war with the United Statei=i, then in pro- 
 gress. No refer^'ice to schools, or education, was made, as the war question and 
 that of defence was uppermost in everyone's mind. 
 
1811-U 
 
 II mill iiiiulu 
 
 ir Siiturday, 
 d to (ill whu 
 
 le variety of 
 
 hooks, and 
 iclu Ho much 
 
 y were poor 
 Dor of yoiira, 
 
 l^ood way of 
 ■niiig. Ten 
 icliura. 
 
 Now thoro 
 
 plivco ; one 
 
 1 tlie other 
 
 ich schools, 
 
 Licatod, yot 
 Thero is a 
 1807), the 
 hographlcal 
 loir, Mary- 
 
 Septt'inber, 
 
 acliers, and 
 1110 by tlieir 
 atisfrtctory, 
 
 80 and the 
 lin (without 
 
 navoidable. 
 
 UPPER 
 
 on of the 
 1 a speech 
 n in pro- 
 stion and 
 
 Chap. XXIII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDlNOa OF THE U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1814. 85 
 
 Members of Assembly Who Took Part in Educational LErasLATioN. 18U. 
 
 The members of the House of Assembly who took part in the school legisla- 
 tion of 1814 were Messieurs Mahlon Burwell, John Crysler, Isaac Swayzc, Benja- 
 min Fairfield and James Young. 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell represented the Counties of Oxford and Middlesex in 
 1813, 1817 and 1820, Middlesex in 1831 and the Town of London in 183G. He 
 was born in the State of New Jersey, but came to Upper Canada in 1796, with 
 his father, Mr. James Burwell. They settled first at Fort Erie, then at Long Point, 
 and finally removed to the Talbot Settlement in 1810. Mahlon Burwell was 
 near neighbor, and for a long time right-hand man, of the noted Colonel Talbot, 
 of Port Talbot. He was a surveyor by profession, and, in 1810, surveyed the 
 Townships of Malahide, Bayham, and part of the then Village of London. Colonel 
 Ermatinger, in his life of Colonel Talbot, says of him :— 
 
 min^£°onhl?r.I!r'^V.T'T';TT^''T'*''''''^^^^ a high jdaco in the 
 
 minds of the people o the Talbot Settlement. ..Asa politician he was consistent, and for 
 
 ^^IJZl u""^ ' «" conhdence of the people. . . He was tall in stature, and d gnihed in 
 
 ffird in^,nno«Urri H " '^*,TV" ^^^l '"r^""" ^''' **>« "»'^«'l «"»»tieB «>> Middlesex and 
 Ox ord, in op,,„8. ion <. the well-known Mr. Bona ah Malloiy. (See page 60 ) . . The con- 
 
 XirC!rr«nHT'Tf^'*,^fr* '''••"*• • • The e'ection was lield at the log house of 
 .David Secord and the electors had to encamp in the woods, so few were the habitations in those 
 
 S of 'crnnni f T^ i' 1"^""^ ^'^'^'''^ ^"^°"''' l^xxryf^W aftorwaids represented! he gave a 
 
 pi t of ground of considerable value for a park or garden, besides making gifts of various kinds 
 for educational and other purposes. (Chapter IV., Pages 32-37.) 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Fairfield became a member of the House of Assembly for 
 the County of Addington in 1813. His father, Mr. William Fairfield, represented 
 the County of Addington in 1797. The names of both of them are attached, as 
 Trustees, to the prospectus of the Ernestown, (Bath), Academy, issued in 1811. 
 {See page 79.) 
 
 Of the other Members who are mentioned above, and who took part in the 
 proceedings relating to schools and education, little is known. I have not been 
 able to obtain any reliable information in regard to them. They, however, did 
 good service in their day in promoting the cause of education in the Legislature 
 of this Province, and in thus aiding to keep aa. 3 public interest in the matter. 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1814. 
 
 25th February A^/f -Mr Mahlon Burwell gave notice that he will, on Wednesday next, 
 iiiovef<.rleavecobringinaBil to repeal the law now in force establishing Public iGrammcr 
 Schools m each and every District of this Pr vince. I'Jiai.n.ii.i; 
 
 2Gth Fehrnary, AS7i-Mr Burwell, seconded by Mr. John Crysler, moved for leave to 
 hSrPnv'li ' s'r f y'^^t^^^y «/l^'te, to bring in a Bill to repeal the law now in force estab- 
 fW fL fif ^f^"?''J" *"i?^ '^"'^ "'■^'■y I^'^trict of this Province, on Wednesday next, and 
 that the hftl rule of this House requiring one day's previous notice, be dispensed with so 
 far as tx, enable him to bring in the said Bill this day, which was carried in the affirmative, and 
 tne iJiJl was read a tii'st time. 
 
 to fh^RiU f"*^""' ''T''^f^^ ^'l-^': ^T'T^^ '""'^'^^ that the fifth rule of khis House with respect 
 to the Bdl for repealing the District School Act, be dispensed with, and tha*^^ the Bill be now 
 read a second time, which was carried in tbo atti"!»='tM'e "v^ *■»>'> «!'• -v- — sH-a ,- i -; - 
 
 ■ --- '" — '- — '•-•^t ~.i.« .Vre<T nrrtu a acujriti lime. 
 
 r.u ivl'-f Vr^l ' '®''""^«^, ^y Mr. Fairfield, moved that the House do, on Monday next, 
 Kso ve |tse f into a committee to take into consideration the Bill to repeal the District (Gram 
 mar) School Act, which was carried in the affirmative. 
 
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 WMiiwrnrnm 
 
86 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HUTTORr OF FDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 18U 
 
 itul March, I8I4. — Agreeably to fho Order of the Day, the House wont in o Committoe on 
 the District ((iraininar) .School Ropoiil Bill, Mr .Jainen Younr in the chair. 
 
 Mr Speaker having resumed tho Chair, Mr. Young re{M)rted progress and obtained loavc to 
 sit again to-morrow. 
 
 ■ hd March. /.f/.{.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee of 
 the Whole on tho District Scliool Ropoal Bill, Mr. Young in the chuir. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Younj? reported the Bill as amended. Ordered, 
 That tho rej)ort bo now received. 
 
 4th March, Z^/^.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the District School Repeal Bill was reatl 
 the third time. Mr. Burwell, seconded by Mr. Cryslor. moved that the said Bill do now p'ss, 
 and that it bo intituled, "An Act to ropoal an Act passed in the forty-seventh Year of His 
 Majesty's Reign (1807), intituled. ♦ An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every Dis- 
 trict of this Province,' " which was ca-ried, and the Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Burwell, seconded by Mr. Crysler, moved that Messieurs James Young and Alexander 
 McMartin be a Commiltee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative Council the Bill to 
 repeal the Public ((irammar) School Act, and reiiuest their concurrence thereto, which wa» 
 carried in tho attirmative. 
 
 Mr. Young, from tho Committee named to carry up to the Hon. the Legislative Council, a 
 Bill for the repeal of tho Public (Orammar) School Act, reported that they had done so. 
 
 2. Proceedinqs of the Legislative Council on This Bill. 
 
 4th March, I814.—The Legislative Council met [jursuant to adjournment. A deputation 
 from the House of Assembly wns announced, and it was ordered to bo admitted. The deputa- 
 brought up the following, among other Bills, and asked that it bo concurred in by thia 
 House, viz. : — 
 
 "An Act to repeal an Act passed in tho forty-eight Year of His Majesty's Reign (1808), 
 intituled, ' An Act to amend an Act passed in the forty-seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign 
 (1807), intituled An Act to oBtablish Public Schook in each ard every District of this Pro- 
 vince,' " which Bill was read a first time and ordered to lie on tho t'tble. (Note.— It was not 
 taken up afterwards during the Session.) 
 
 The purpose of this legislation was designed by the House of Assembly to 
 limit the duration, by its repeal, of the Public, {i.e., Grammar,) School Act of 1807. 
 The House of Assembly had been, during the last few years, persistent in its 
 efforts to have this Act repealed, and the Legislative Council was equally per- 
 sistent in refusing to assent to this repeal. 
 
 The reason for this persistence on the part of the House of Assembly is 
 fairly and temperately stated in a petition from the Midland District, presented 
 to the House of Assembly, with a somewhat similar one from the adjoining Dis- 
 trict of Newcastle, during the session of 1812. {See pages 76-77.) 
 
 While the Legislative Council thus refused to assent to the repeal of the 
 Grammar School Act of 1807, it sought, at the instance of the Honourable Richard 
 Cartwright, to extend its operations, and thus to give it a wider scope. A 
 Bill to this effect passed the Legislative Council in 1811, but the House of 
 Assembly refused its concurrence in the measure. The Legislative Council 
 was equally decided in refusing its assent to the repeal of the Public (Grammar) 
 School Bill of the House of A.ssembly during tne same session. Thus an educa- 
 tional deadlock occurred between the two Houses in 1811. 
 
 The consequence of this state of things was that a desire to establish private 
 academies and schools arose in aeveiai places. The Ernestown (Bath) Academy 
 was the first decided movement in that direction. The Midland District School 
 
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 Society was also formed in 1J>'4-I5. Nevertholess. the Orairmar School Act of 
 1807 remained on the -Statute Book, with some modifications, uatil 1863. 
 
 The House of Assembly did not. however, relax its efforts to repeal the i :t 
 of 1807. nor did the Legislative Council cease to promote the passage of a more 
 expansive Grammar School Act. so as to meet the growing want of the com- 
 munity for more schools. The result was that an understanding was gradually 
 arrived at in both House.s to meet the demand for elementary schools, and they 
 fip"Uy agreed to do in 1816, (what should have been years before), and that 
 was to pass an Act designed to supply a want long felt in the establishm- nt of 
 primary schools throughout the Province. 
 
 It took time, howe er, and much discussion arose before po desirable a 
 result was brought about. What was done in this direction in the Legislature of 
 1815 IS not definitely known, as no record of the proceedings of either House has 
 been preserved, or is in the Parliamentary Library at Ottawa or in Toronto. 
 ^ The subject came up, however, in the House of Assembly, during the session 
 of 1816. Governor Gores speech at the opening of the Legislature of that year 
 contained a formal reference to the Act of 1807. This part of his speech was 
 referred to a Select Committee of the House, which, in a series of resolutions 
 dealt with the whole question of the comparative advantages of grammar and 
 coranion schools. The result was the passage of the first Common School Act of 
 Upper Canada, in 1816. 
 
 Personal Sketches op Presidents of Upper Canada, 1812-1815. 
 There being no record of the proceedings of the Legislature of Upper Canada 
 for 1815 available, I insert in its place the following personal sketches of the 
 Presidents of Upper Canada who acted as such in 1812-1815 :— 
 
 During the years 1805-1815, there had been frequent changes of Governors in 
 Upper Canada. Francis Gore. Esquire, held office from 1806 until 1811, when 
 having obtained leave of absence, he returned to England and remained there' 
 until 1815. He was succeeded as President by Sir Isaac Brock, who fell at 
 Queenston Heights in October, 1812. after a brief Presidency. Sir Roger Hale 
 Sheaffe held the office as President and Commander-in-Chief. He was succeeded 
 po/V»^"by G««nt de Rottenburg, also as President, in 1813. In that year Sir Choiau 
 Gordon Drummond was appointed, first as President, and then as Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor. In 181 5, Sir George Murray and Sir Frederick Phillipse Robinson succeeded 
 each other as Presidents of Upper Canada until the arrival of Governor Gore 
 
 Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. " the Hero of Upper Canada," was born in 
 the Island of Guernsey, in 1769-the. .same year in which Napoleon and Wellin<.- 
 ton were born. He entered the army in 1785. In 1799. he served under S*ir 
 Ralph Abercromby in Holland, and in 1801, under Lord Nelson, at Ofipenh.i.acn. 
 In 1802, he came to Canada, and served at Montreal, York (Toronto) Niagara 
 and Quebec. In 1803, he crossed from Toronto to Niagara in an open boat 
 
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 thenoe around by Hamilton to intercept deserters from Fort George, whom he 
 captured. In 1804, he took command at the Fort, and in 1806, to prevent deser- 
 tions, he suggested the formation of a service battalion. In 1807, such a battalion 
 waa sent out. In 1812, he held the office of President of Upper Canada during 
 the absence of Governor Gore in England. On the IGth of August, 1812, he 
 made an attack on Detroit, and caused the American General, Hull, to surrender, 
 with 2,500 men. On the 13th October, 1812, while gallantly leading his men to 
 charge the Americans on Queenston Heights, he fell early in the action, aged 
 43. Sir Roger SheafFe then took command. 
 
 Sir RooEH Hale Sheaffe was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and was 
 born there in 1763. He was the son of His Majesty's Collector of Customs there. 
 He entered the army in 1778. He served in Ireland and in Canada in a civil and 
 military capacity during the years from 1778 to 1797. He afterwards served as 
 Colonel and Major-General in Holland, etc., and, in 1812, was again transferred to 
 Canada. In 1813 he succeeded General Brock, and became Administrator of the 
 Government, until he was relieved by General de Rottenburg. He died in 1851. 
 ^-^AjfJ^tTm^YRAJ^cis DE Rottenburg served in the British army about twenty 
 ''^rs before he was transferred to Canada. He held command in Lower Canada 
 from 1810 to 1812, and in Upper Canada in 1813, when he succeeded General 
 Sheaffe. He returned io England at the close of the war, and died there in 1832. 
 
 Sir George GoRDQNjgpjMMOND was born at Quebec in i99T, while his 
 Father held the post there ^Jaymaster-General of the Forces in Lower Canada. 
 He served on the staff, and had command of the forces in Lower Canada in 1811. 
 Jn 1813, he tx)ok command of the forces in Upper Canada, under Sir George 
 Provost. After a variety of eminent services in Upper Canada, in 1814, he suc- 
 ceeded Sir George Provost, (after his failure at Plattsburgh), as Administrator of 
 the Government of Lower Canada, and Lieutenant-General and Commander-in- 
 Chief of the Forces. He retired from Canada in 181>te* Drummondville, now 
 Niagara Falls South, was named after him, he having had command of the vic- 
 torious British forces at the notable battle of Lundy's Lane, near by, on the 25th 
 of July, 1815. He died in 1854, aged 84 years. 
 
 Sir George Murray succeeded Sir Gordon Dnimmond for a .short time, and 
 then returned to join the British army in France, after the escape of Napoleon 
 from Elba. He died in 1846, aged 74. 
 
 Sir Charles Frederick Phillipse Robinson was the son of Colonel Beverley 
 Robinson, a United Empire Loyalist of New York. He entered the army, and 
 served in the American colonies during part of the Revolutionary War. In 1813, he 
 became Major-General, and came to Upper Canada as Commander-in-Chief. In 
 July, 1815, he became President of Upper Canada, in succession to Sir George 
 Murray. He remaincti m Othse uritu the roturu of Llcutonant-Qovernor Gore 
 in 1815. He died in 1852. 
 
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 Chap. XXIV. THE MIDLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL SOCIETY, 1815. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 THE MIDLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL SOCIETY, 1815. 
 
 The House of Asaembly having failed in its efforts to substitute a Common 
 School Act for the one establishing a Grammar School in each District, a move- 
 ment was made in Kingston in 1814-1815 to supply the want of elementary schools 
 in that neighborhood. The popularity at the time of the Lancasterian system of 
 educating children, so much in use in England, added greatly to the zeal of those 
 who joined themselves together to form the Midland District School Society, for 
 the promotion of education on that system. The Society were prompted to action 
 in this matter by an organization in London, which had been formed there to 
 promote "the education of the poor in Upper and Lower Canada." 
 
 A brief sketch of the Lancasterian system may be appropriate in this place : 
 Joseph Lancaster, its founder, was born in Southwark, England, in Novem- 
 ber, 1778. His father was a Chelsea pensioner, who had served in the British 
 army during the American war. At the ago o' ,.hteen Joseph was an assistant 
 at two schools, one a boarding, the other a day school; and thus, as he after- 
 wards stated in a letter to Dr. Bell,* he became acquainted with all the defects 
 attendant on the old system of tuition in both kinds of schools. He took up the 
 Rev. Dr. Bell's Madras system, and improved one or two of its details. Jhe com- 
 bmed system of monitorial and systematized teaching was known as the " Bell 
 and Lancaster System." As it became popular, an association was formed, in 
 England, originally entitled " The Royal Lancasterian Institution for Promoting 
 the Education of the Children of the Poor," and subsequently, for the sake of 
 gi-eater simplicity and brevity-the British and Foreign School Society, Borough 
 Road, London. The chief feature of the system, taken from Dr. Bell's, was its 
 monitorial character, and that with Lancaster's judicious mingling of religion, 
 amusement and instruction, gave it popularity. In good hands it was a success, 
 being new ; but as monitors and managers were not always judicious, it fell into 
 disuse after a time, especially after his death in 1838. 
 
 Lancaster lectured on his system in England, under the patronage of George 
 III., who, at one interview with him, uttered that memorable saying, so often 
 quoted :— " Lancaster, I highly approve of your .system, and IT is MY WISK that 
 
 EVERY POOR CHILD IN MY DOMINIONS SHOULD RE TAUGHT TO READ THE BiBLE." 
 
 He also visited ttie United States, the West Indies and Lower Canada. The 
 Legislature of that Province voted to him several grants for educational purposes, 
 and his scheme was widely popular during most of his life time.f 
 
 Hv-1^'"^?'':-^-"'-^?-™''"''^"**- ^^^ f°"«der of what was known^as the '• MaHra- fnr Mnnitor-a!. 
 
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 f Journal of Education for Upper Canada, volume IV., {IS51). PaffeTlh, ITS ^ ^' 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
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 Early in the year 1815, the Midland District School Society was organized, 
 and soon afterwards a subscription paper was circulated, which resulted in the 
 collection of £447.10.0 towards the building of a school house for the Society. 
 Among the names of the subscribers for sums varying from $10 to $50 were the 
 following : — Sir Gordon Drummond, John Whitelaw, Thomas Markland, ttamuel 
 Ayleroyd, Rev. Thaddeua Osgoode and Peter Smith, $50 each ; Rev. Dr. Stuart 
 and Charles Stuart, $40 each ; James Richardson, Senior, Francis Carlisle, George 
 Douglass, Smith Bartlett, Oliver Thibodo, Patrick Smith, Richard Smith & Son, 
 and George H. Markland, $30 each; Commissary-General Sir James L. Yeo, 
 Colonels Joel Stone, Myers and Harvey ; Major Glegg, Town Major Corbett, John 
 Kirby, Laurance Herchraer, William ('ouch, Christopher A. Hagerman, vVilliam 
 Lard, T. Strickland, Hugh C. Thompson, Allan McPherson, Henry McNally, 
 SamuelMerrill,Senior, William Armstrong, AndrewBrandish, Allan McLean, Stephen 
 Miles, William Mitchell, J . Abbot, John Size, Benjamin Olcott, James Robinson, 
 Thomas Chatt, John McLean, John Baillie, James Geddes, George Harpham, Peter 
 Grant, Andrew Denike and Aaron Carnahan, $20 each ; and 50 other subscribers 
 at $10 each. 
 
 Prospectus of the Midland District School Society, 1815. 
 
 On the 15th of July, 1815, the Midland District School Society issued the 
 
 following under the head of : — 
 
 ' ' Prcposala, for erecting a school house in this town, for the accommodation of all th© 
 children of both sexes, unprovided with the means of education," etc. : — 
 
 We, the subscribers, promise to pay the sums annexed to our respective names, for the 
 accomplishment of this important object, on consideration that the Legislature will grant to the 
 Trustees who may be chosen by us, the privilege of holding property and transacting business 
 according to law. 
 
 This establishment shall be held in shares of ten dollars each. The proprietor of each share 
 shall have the liberty of voting in all meetings of the subscribers, and shall have the privilege of 
 sending one child, to be instructed at the school ten per cent, cheaper than the children of non- 
 subscribers are admitted. And provided that any person take two or more shares in this estab- 
 lishment, the same privileges will be granted for each sh «re. 
 
 The plan of instruction to be .idopted, shall be that which has been found most successful 
 in Great Britain and Ireland. 
 
 Great attention shall be piid to the morals of the children, but no interference shall ever 
 take place in th > school respecting catechisms and religious creeds. 
 
 All the children shall be requested to attend divine worship, at such times and at such 
 places as their parents and guardians shall direct. 
 
 The Trustees shall be chose i annually, by wl^om school instructors shall be provided, and 
 all necessary business with respect to the school transacted. 
 
 The system on which the Midland District Society proposed to manage their 
 schools was the Lancasterian, then very popular in England. It was in operation 
 in Montreal, and in October, 1814, the Rev. Thaddeus Osgoode, (one of the pro- 
 moters and shareholders of the Midland District Society), was sent to England to 
 obtain the services of a teacher of the new Lancasterian system. His return was 
 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Thaddeus Osgoode, who visited England for the purpose of procuring the 
 measure of relieving and instructing the industrious poor of this country, has, we understand. 
 
 
1815 
 
 Chap. XXIV. THE MIDLAND DISTRICT SCJHOOL SOCIETY, 1815. 
 
 91 
 
 
 fnventeda2l"l';tT™^^^^^ ^""'^"^t a school on the newly 
 
 patronage and supVSof mlnv of r ."" 'A""^"' '*^r^'""v.' '"''*"'* '^^^ ^.^'^", ^""°"'"^^ '^'^^ '^e 
 
 Ireland^nd which has nrovedVxhl;. ' '' d'«t'"g»«hed charac ers m England, Scotland and 
 
 .1.11 UH8 proved exteiu ,7 useful to thousands of jxjor children * 
 
 whose hTnTudtV&i? ,^^«Pt^'''" ^'^'^'"'^ °f Trustees formed in Londc 
 wnose nanas 13 depo itod a fund to be appropriated to this benevolent j.urpose. 
 
 Ion, England, in 
 
 After the money had been subscribed, but not collected, the Society met and 
 passed a series of resolutions, as follows, viz. :— 
 
 It BhlilIetL\tctlTdumbYe m^^^^^^ ^''^' to acoonnnodate 400 children, 
 
 trustees, who u.ay he chLt "nlrCby ^he Sscribe'r^'"" '"' "^'^'^^^'^'"-^ «^ ^»>« t^'- 
 
 Inco?X'ioiremJotnT.rtre'S this Province for an Act of 
 
 act business accoXg to l!w *° ^"^^ ^'"^ '^^ ^°'' '^^° ^•^"^^^^ '^^ ^^^ ««hool, and trans- 
 
 8ubje^ni7htTnLr<!l*n;I:ro!Th^^^ ^« completely under the control and 
 
 same which is adopterhy he RritisI a ufF .rT ^tv,^^fl "^ instruction adopted in it be the 
 i.ed by the Prince^^egen'ttd^s^ttlTin^hrf fh 'Ri;?rFl;ry '^°"'''"' ^'^^"^ '^ P^^^""' 
 
 MarklTdlTLtnce Hlrc'hli fJXf,uf[^%''': '^".^ ^«''«'«"- ^"^^ McLean, T homas 
 and aad Colonel Ha' "rnr\?,nr^^^^^^^ ?^^"'""' Strickland. George Mark- 
 
 men t and to take the ne::;sa^;'^s?e "rcr i^TK^S l^^^^S; ^-^^'^^^ ^<> P""- 
 the iglstrT:"^" * '"''' ^^ ^'^ P*^"^^- ^^'^^^ -« «-' V tt Sltt"ee of Arrangement to 
 
 SocieT'r Up^rCatdarS^^^^ "^ ^'^^ -^-"b^- ^- the establislunentof aSchool 
 
 respeyt:bb:nfbTnt^„tVarclr:KX ^'"""?''^t ^""«^- ^'^'^^ ^ ^^^^ "^ 
 
 tion, a sum of money, and t^rby ha4 e^tTblZid 1 f'.^^^/'r*"?,' "^'^ ^""^ '^T^^ ^^ «'^^««"P- 
 educa.on and moral^improvement^:rthr;St^^^^^ 
 
 ficiallfd laSrb'Erha^rap;,?^^^^^^^^ """"r*'1 *'". ^"'^ "^«^« ^^ ^'^^ «bove bene^ 
 of their fund de l,mlf '' rt Co "SiJ'^^^^^^^^ ^""'^^r f'^ the management and disposal 
 and Lower Canada," whose prSZl liect f« 7 '^ ^' ^rfi*c««,.H of the Poor in Upper 
 diffusion of instruction tEgCttlsProv^^^^^^^^ "" " ""^''' '"' "^° more general 
 
 system^^elSrn! wrbTVblf ^^embracT ""' ^ f ^''^ ^^'^T''^' ^^ -*-^--« "^ -- 
 schools than by the present estSisod mo le of '^'""r ^"T' ""™»'«'' "^ P»Pil« within their 
 expense incurred ^y'tl.uS^::^:£::!^Vt:^:^^Z:T '""^"' ^"' ''^^«' ^'^^''^^ 
 
 servici: In Jta Wr:f"a^^achT\nrtor ''' House, that from a desire to avail ourselves of the 
 promoting theTrbeLvoCvl;;rll:^^^ Co„,mittee in aiding and 
 
 =!;=a::dSC7b!lS--^^^^^ 
 
 repr^tilS-^SS^^SStj^StrLESrSf "-^ 
 
 nomiIlf^;tr;uKtXS ,tr?£:2;hTh:rlVrr^^'r f. Trustees, (to be 
 for the receiving, managing and d.^i os i^, f th„ nlnLif-^ c"^ privileges of a corporation, 
 posed to extend heir be, fvXle trtle^^^^^^^ "^ '"°^ P'^'"'""' ^ ^""'^ !'« dis- 
 
 arithmetic, etc.; and tha thra?oresai CoCrS^ instruction in reading, writing and 
 
 k nown by the n ame of the '' Tru^grl ^^^'S lj'^tt^^^rSnS^ '"'^"''^^'^ '^"^ 
 
 man; v'its ?^o\I'^^,r/a??y ^n^^^e^T^S^i^TXir 
 
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DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1815 
 
 And we further pray your Honourable House that auch j)ecuniary aid may be afforded and 
 f^nted to the incori>oratit)n as shall be the mean« of enabling them to carry into effect the most 
 important object of the establishment, which is, 'le titting and preparing of School Masters, to 
 carry this plan of instruction to the Townshijis iind Villages of the Province. 
 
 And we further represent to your Honourable House that, by extending the means of 
 acquiring a common education, a great proportion of the children so instructed in this school 
 will be, by these means, qual tied for admission into the higher, or Public, (Grammar), Schools, 
 and thus the general welfare of tlie connuunity will bo promoted. 
 
 And your petitioners, afl in duty bound, shall ever pray, etc., etc. 
 
 (Note. — The record of the proceedings of the Legislature of Upper Canada 
 for the year 1815 has not been preserved. This account which I give ot the 
 formation and incorporation of the Midland District School Society was copied 
 for me, in 18G3, by Mr. George Coventry, of Cobourg, from an old file of the 
 Kingston Gazette, published by Mr. Stephen Miles in 1811-1819.) 
 
 The Legislature granted the prayer of the petitioners and passed the follow- 
 ing Act incorporating the Society : — 
 
 55 GEORGE III., CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 An Act to Incokporate the Midland Distuict Schooi. Society. 
 
 Sir George Murray, Adminutrator . 
 
 Passed March l^th, 1815. 
 
 Whekkas, funds have been collacted, and a Society lately formed in England, Fundi col- 
 designated the " Committee for Promoting the Ediicatioii of the Poor iii, Upper and jected in Engf- 
 Lower Canada," the object of which Society is to promote the education and moral ". '^^ ^"". 
 improvement of the poor of every religious denomination in Canada ; Canada^°*"^ '" 
 
 And whereas, in furtherance of the wishes of that institution, a subscription has 
 been entered int<j at Kingston, in the Midland District of this Province, to assist 
 in carrying into effect their benevolent intentions with reg vrd to this Province, 
 and it is apprehended that, if countenanced and supported by the laws of this 
 Province, and established upon a permanent footing, and vested with powers for 
 Ijetter enabling the subscribers thereto to carry into execution their charitable and 
 useful designs, such an institution would be of extensive use^and of great benefit 
 and advantage to the public 
 
 Subscription 
 entered into 
 in Kingston 
 for same 
 object. 
 
 Desirable 
 powers asked 
 for. 
 
 And 
 
 whereas, the purposes aforesaid cannot bo effected without the aid of the Expedient to 
 •e : grant them. 
 
 Legislature 
 
 1. Ba it euadcd by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice 
 and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper 
 Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of, an 
 Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled ' An Aut to Repeal cer- 
 tain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign," intituled 
 " An Act for making More Effectual Provision for the Government of the Pro- 
 vince of (Quebec, in North America, and to niake further provision for the Govern- 
 ment of the Hiid Province," and by the authority of the same, That, on the first 
 day of May, next ensuing, there shall be held a meeting of the subscribers for the 
 purposes aforesaid in the Town of Kingston, in the Midland District aforesaid, at 
 which meeting a President, Secretary, Treasurer and six Trustees, (any four of 
 whom, with the President, shall 1)0 a (imtrum for the transacting of business), shall 
 be chosen from among the subscribers, by a majority of the subscribers then there 
 present; and regulations shall be also then and there made respecting the length 
 of time the said Officers shall continue in office, and also respecting the electio" 
 and nomination for the future of such President, Secretary , Treasurer and Trustees. 
 
 2. And br it i'na~.ted by the authority aforesaid. That the President, Secretarj-, 
 Treasurer and Trustees, for the time being, and their successors, so to be nominated ,„ , „ 
 and apptdnted, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, one body Corporate corporate 
 and Politic, in deed and in law, by the name of " The Midland District School 
 
 Meetinf^ of 
 
 Hubsoribers to 
 lie held in 
 May, 1815. 
 
 Officers and 
 Trustees to be 
 appointed by 
 HubeL'tibers. 
 
 Quorum. 
 
 Regulations 
 ^ be made. 
 
ap. . IV. THE MIDLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL SOCIETY, 1816. 
 
 the name ufo osaid. n, v sueanH^; T"^ =/'"? *''^-^' '""^ ^l'*'''' "uccess..,-., by 
 
 be answered unto, n [ "r 'uw rouT''^'p'"P^'^'/o"'' ^' ''"I'lendod. nnswer/and 
 tion witlun this Fn.vince a^^that tV Tlf' "^ """"•■''• "'"^ l''"^*^" "^ i"ri«<>ic- 
 said, shall be able and c'.'.ab o in Law ^^ TI '''^'i r""''''''^ ''^ '"'« '"""« "^-r^- 
 retain, for the ends and pum«e^.f tT.i« 4 f ' ^"'''• ''l'''"^' ''"J"^' l'"'««^'««. ""^ 
 Society ,.f the Midland DisS i s d. «'!'" .""'' ^°'" J''" ^''■'"'^* "^ *»>« "''id 
 paid, or given, or sliall, at any time or tt.. hnr fr'".'" "^ ■'r"''^ ''^ '"^^*' *>*^-'''" 
 be gathered by any perso... ,.r Sns t,«mW '*?.?'■ v" ''"" ' «'"'''"' '''''^" »«''• "' 
 poaes in this Act n.entio/.ed • a/id th',/ ,• '' the benevolent ends and pur- 
 
 aforesaid, shall and „,ay. a .y U LtrV S w'h '^T ''»r*^'^'""^'>>' '^"^ "''""^ 
 purchase, take, receive, have S nnl!!^' "*■ ''"^ ^'"^'^ Mortm^iin, 
 
 hereditaments, Mr any estaronnt^^^.'JT ,,''"'* ''"J"^' ''"^ 1*"'^«- tenements 
 ruents, or hereditament for h^, r™ "r?! "' "T «^' '"l' "^ '"'^ '"'"l'' *«»*^- 
 purpose whatever; and nay alio in^ h« -f. " ""'' "''?,'^*y' ''"'^ f'"" '"' "ther 
 or dispose of the s/vme, anK and oxtn/r' n"""",""-' '""^h ^"■*"^' '^^'"i^^- '^'i'^"- 
 things that, to them, «iuvll, o? may apSn 'to do!'"^ ""°"''^' '^^'^'''^ '"*^"--« -^^ 
 
 dont:a,^^r':ti^:^t'b:::;;S^£iJ\^'^r^';^--'': Thattl. said Presl. 
 cessors, shall have full power "authtitv T ''^' ^ ''^'''^'''^^^' '"'d their sue- 
 on such terms as they shall iX mos bL^H^^^^^^^ '"^'' f'^"'^" ""'^ hereditaments, 
 personal estates, at their will'a f r^.^as sZl/"'^ "^'" I" '^r^'^ "' ^" «»«h 
 tageous for pron.oting the benevij;;t7u;;;s:ro'rtLlK£tu';:r '^'"' '^'^'^"■ 
 
 natu;l;ti;;^bj::Sil^£ij:;f''SS'"^r''7'^"^ "<• p--^-*- - -t a 
 
 Parliament, or a subject of Sfs^ ffi^s l S. l" "'■''''"^. ^^ ^'*^ *^^ ''^^ »"*'«h 
 cession of the Province of Can^drSl 'be Va Li "'Tf '■''^' ^l ^'>*^ *^""'1"««fc «nd 
 of the said School. ^'^"ada, shall be capable of ben^r ^ Trustee or Teacher 
 
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 Powerfi 08 
 Huch. 
 
 To be capable 
 to hold lands, 
 money, etc., 
 for the benefit 
 of the Society. 
 
 May sell and 
 demise the 
 same. 
 
 May lease real 
 estate and dis- 
 pose of per- 
 sonal estates. 
 
 None but 
 British sub- 
 jects to be 
 trustees or 
 teachers. 
 
 Tu T> iir .- ° uiHLeis ana lrn«tees were chnspn vJ^ . 
 
 bank e.., .,e p,.„„..ed ™..e,,,«„„» ro^rf.;: /^r 1" ;'— =" ^^ 
 
 «ttr;t:::;trrarr^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 operation, of ,„e Society were, in co,.e,ne„ce, ind:Hre,' pl;:!"'^ '"''"^' 
 
 length, in 18.i7. a movement was made to revive tlio Societv »n,l t„ 
 some .le«,.ee the oi.ject, original!, aimed at. In Z!72'Cll7"'' ™' '" 
 t.on was amended, and operations were practically c-nCnc'd 1 tl'TTT" 
 w,ll be seen later on), the history of the Society was a v.r ed o„e ' ""' 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1816 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGISLA- 
 TURE IN 1816. 
 
 On the 6th of February, 1816, His Excellfincy Francis Gore, Esquire, Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor, opened the fifth Session of the sixth Parliament of Upper 
 Canada with a Speech from the Throne, in which he thus referred to the sub- 
 ject of the value of the Grammar Schools, and to the desirability of establishing 
 Elementary Schools in each township. He said : — 
 
 The District Schools instituted by law (in 1807), and admirably fitted as a 8tei> between 
 Elenientiiry Schools and a Seminary for the higher branches of education, will not, without 
 further aid, produce sufficient advantjige to the youth of this Province. 
 
 The di.ssemination of letters is of the first importance to every class ; and, to aid in so desir- 
 able an object, 1 wish to call your attention to some provision for the establishment of schools 
 in each townshij), which shall atford the first principles to the children of the inhnbitants, and 
 prepare such of them tw may require further instruction to receive 1 in t!ie District Schools. 
 From them, it seems desirable that there snould be a resort to a Provmcial Seramary for the 
 youth who may be destined for the Professions, or other distinguished walks in life, where they 
 might attain the higher branches of education. The Royal bounty has already been bestowed 
 towards tliat end, in the destination of large tracts of land, and no attention shall be wanting 
 on my part to second, and carry into eflfect, the result of your deliberations on this important 
 subject. 
 
 The Legislative Councillors, in reply to His Excellency's speech, said* ;— 
 
 The system detailed by Your Excellency for the education of youch in this Province fully 
 corresnonds with our sentiments on this subject ; and, as the dissemination of letters is of the 
 first importance to every class in promoting morality and rebgion in ameliorating the condition 
 of mankind, and in benefiting posterity, this subject will claim from us such consideration as 
 will carry into effect the benevolent intentions of Your Excellency : and we notice with gratitude, 
 that the royal bounty has already been bestowed in the destiimtion of large tracts of land to be 
 applied in such luannor as will promote, give efllect to. and mature, a system so effectually cal- 
 culated to ensure the wealth ivnd happiness of this Province. 
 
 Your Excellency's personal zeal in jjromoting these laudable institutions, and your readiness 
 to carry into effect the result of our deliberations, claim from us, as a public body, our warmest 
 acknowle<lgement8. 
 
 On the 7th of January, 1816, the House of Assembly replied to His Excel- 
 lency's speech as follows. It will be seen, however, that there was but a slight 
 response in this reply to the Governor's remarks in regard to the District or 
 Grammar Schools and the higher Seminary :— 
 
 With Your Excellency we are convinced that the dissemination of letters is of the highest 
 imnortanco to every class of the community ; and, while we acknowledge with humble gratitude 
 the munificent donation of His Majesty to this givat object we bej,' leave to assure Your Excel- 
 lency of our earnest wish to contril)ute, by every mean in our power, to that general diffusion of 
 education, so much to bo desired. 
 
 7tli Febrnani I.HIG —Mr. Ji>hn Wills<m gave notice that he will move on Thursday, the 
 ■^ loth instant, for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate Common Schools throughout the Province. 
 
 7th Febrnani, J^7'>.— Mr. Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. Miihlon Burwell, moved that so 
 miu'h )f His Excellency the L'euteiuint-Oovernor'a speech as relates to educition be referred to 
 ft Selc.ft Committee of thiv-^ members, and that VIessieurs Jamei Durand, Ralph Clench and Thomas 
 D -i-strn be ft Cnrnmittee for that }>u. "^o : that they have lea\ e to send for persons and papors, 
 andfo"i'eiR)rt by Bill otherwise, whi(..i motion was carried in the affirmative. 
 
 .There beinjt no record of the procBedinga of the Legislative Council for the years 1816, 181fi, 1817 or 
 1818pre^rved in either of the Parliamentary Libraries at Ottawa or Toronto, I had this extract copied by 
 Mr. Coventry, in ISC'!, from a local pajjer. 
 
 
1816 
 
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 Chap. XXV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE. 1816. 
 
 95 
 
 Torthy of the most serious attention of 
 
 "^^ WillsTafSoWcGre^Se mI the C„tf ^l ^'^ ^iJ?!*"'''. '''''''^ '^' '^^'^'^"rs John 
 ^^^^ ^ ^ ** "^^ ^ ^''^ Comimttee on Education, which was ordered. 
 
 to bri^g inlffio p?„vi7e*for S^ti^WiZenTo^P ""' "'"iT '^r'^7 "''^'' "'-« for leave 
 for other purposea. establishment of Common Schools within this Province, and 
 
 His StlErffi ui!t^^nt.Qo7^rS;/,ZT^^^^ Committee to consider that part of 
 
 of the youth of the Province, made thoL.uSgVrport -!"''"""''" *"«"^'"» ^ ^'^e education 
 
 \^'^^^to^l^h^it£i£^^^ of eduction in this Province, beg 
 
 lose Bight of the great i-poil^nce tuhTsSlTect "f "hlr/^^^^^^ '"'''' «"'*— ^ not tS 
 
 the Le^tuVe'^'^''* ''' ^'^""'^^"'^ "^ ^^^^^ '« ^ -»>Ject 
 
 vince, or^|E;^?d,TreS^thtto1mttred^^^^^ ,^^ f^^'f within the Pro- 
 
 ments, and attached to our Parent State Predilections friendly to our different establish- 
 
 Fotir(% :— That but few of the inhabitants nf n,;„ T> • 
 sending their children to be educated rOreS Britein 1^'°''"'''! f*" ?"?''"•"* *^« «^P«"»« of 
 trust them at such an immense ^i^t>^no:flTitfZl::^Ce'rS^^^ ^^"^^ ->-*-«y 
 
 finishedSiS*' ''"^ "' '' P^«'^"^' - -""-'y -t whiph they can obtain a liberal and 
 
 it.ai?Si^cx7Straf:^ 
 
 sciences may be taught to Ihe youth of all denomSions in !nW f^''?''^'^• ^^^''^ *''^ ^^^ '^^^ 
 embraced the funds which are anticipated fromX SS^tv-^ ±?fi''^"'/^''*'**^^ '"^y ''e 
 
 Its supp.)rt. ^ ™ °^^ majesty 8 muniiicent donation of lands for 
 
 inhab"''^-'''^' "^^'^"^ '^^^ ^«^ ^-" -i"- to promote education among the poorer 
 the wS P?c;;in?e'' "' " "'P^'"'^' ^ *^^^'^'^ *^« ''^-fi's of a common education throughout 
 whicf tS t^betstreKdlruJagTd" """"^ ^'^'"^^^^•^^ ^ ^^'^'^^^^ -' - this particular. 
 
 yourSSi^a ^L:'SL^r^^':r^^\^^^ ^ ^-— schools, 
 were expected to be derived from this soured, havetn:^ ^tZl 3 the object '"^"" "'^'"^ 
 
 submit^fy^-^r^ZiSSr^^u^^^^ 
 
 schools throughout this Province. ^ '^"t ^""^ ^he establishment of common 
 
 James Duhand, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Common Housk op Assembly, 
 
 27th February, isiG. 
 
 h.v. „„„ ,e.v. to bring i„ .„. ..„., WhT'i'L'j^-^^ tTntt S ^S.'tf SLt' 
 
 Mr. John Willson, seconded by Mr. R«lnh ni^noh moved th»- th- -ii - 
 of money loi- tlie ost^vbiish.iient of Common SdKKds b™/ f " "^ 1'°'' «''^''^'"« 
 which was oi-dered. ocnoois, be read a second time on Thursday 
 
 ■A 
 
96 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA 
 
 1816 
 
 
 >( 
 
 X 
 
 11 "im I 
 
 SSth Febnmry, 1816. — Mr. Aloxander McMiirtin, seconded by Mr. Tlioirms Dickson, moved 
 that the Petition of the inhabitants of Williamntown and its vicinity, asking for aid for their 
 school, be now read, which was agreed to, and the Petition was read as follows : 
 
 To Vie Hoiimirultle, the Comnumx IIoMserf Asatttihly, in Provincial Parlianunt amembled : — 
 
 The Petition of several inhabitnnts of the Village of Willianistown. in the Township of 
 Charlottenburgh, County of (ilengarry, and in the Kastern Dis'rictof the Province, humbly 
 sheweth. 
 
 That your Petitioners, the inhabitants of Williamstown and its vicinity, in the County of 
 Glengarry, have, at the expense of three hundred pounds, provincial currency, erected a frame 
 school-house of forty feet in length, by thirty feet in breadth and sixteen feet in height of walls, 
 and opened the same, for the education of youth, on the 2nd of January, 1815. 
 
 That the expense of erecting this school-house was done by our means, for the sole purpose 
 of encouraging education in a new country, and more especially for the benefit of such poor chil- 
 di-en whose |)arent8 or friends have not the means of defraying the expenses attending the same. 
 
 The number of children now in school is about sixty ; but, in order to pay the schoolmaster 
 and raise a small sum to keep the school-house in repair, the rate of education for each child is 
 so high as to prevent several poor children obtaining the hoped for advantages of education. 
 Could the price be lowered, the number of scholars would be much increased. 
 
 We, therefore, humbly pray that a certain sum bo granted, payable yearly or half-yearly 
 to a committee appointed by the proprietors annually, and their successors in <iftice, as an en- 
 couragement for an able teacher, and support of the said school. 
 
 And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
 
 Alexander Mackenzie, Donald Fi-aser, D. McPherson, Feter Ferguson, John Wright, etc. 
 
 Glengarry, February, 5th, 1816. 
 
 Sf>th February, 1816 — Agreeably to the Order of the Day the Common School Bill was 
 read a second time. Mr. Willson, seconded by Mr. Durand, moved that the House do now 
 resolve itself into a Conunittee, to take into consideration the Common School Bill, which waa 
 agreed to, and the House went into Committee, with Mr. Robert Nelles in the chair. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, having resumed the Chair, Mr. Nelles repotted progress, and obtained leave 
 to sit again to-morrow. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the School Appropriation Bill was read a second 
 time. Mr. Willson. seconded by Mr. Durand. moved that the House do now resolve itself into a 
 Committee Ut take into consideration the Common Schoo Appropriation Bill, which was carried, 
 and the House went into Committee, Mr. Beikie in the chair. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Beikie reported progress, and obtained leave to 
 sit again to-morrow. 
 
 Snd March 1816. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee on 
 the Common School Bill, Mr. Nelles in the chair. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Nel'es reported progress and obtained leave to 
 sit again on Monday. 
 
 4th March, 1816. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee on 
 the Common School Bill, Mr. Nelles in the chair. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Nelles reported progress, and obtained leave to 
 sit again on Wednesday. 
 
 8th March 1816. — Mr. Durand, seconded by Mr. McMartin, moved that the House do 
 resolve itself into a Conunittee of the Whole to take into consideration the propriety of 
 atldressing His Excellency the Lieutenant-Cxovernor, on the subject of appropriating waste lands 
 of the Crown for the aid of Common Schools. 
 
 Which was agreed to, and the House went into Committee, Mr. Isaac Swayze in the chair. 
 Mr. Si)eaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Swayze reported j>rogres8, and obtained leave to 
 sit again on Monday. 
 
 11th March, 1816. — Mr. Durand gave notice that he will, on to-morrow, move that the 
 House do resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole upon the subject of an address to His 
 Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, relative to an apj)rc>priati(m of lands for schools. 
 
 12th MarrJi, 181(1 -A^aeiMy to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee on 
 the Coiumon Hclioul liilj, Mr. iSeilea iji the cliair. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Nelles report^ed progress, and obtained leave to 
 sit again to-morrow. 
 
1816 
 
 )ickB<)n, moved 
 r aid fur their 
 
 mnbled : — 
 
 le Townsluj) of 
 oviiice, humbly 
 
 1 the County uf 
 lii't'cted a frame 
 height of WttUs^ 
 
 he sole purpose 
 such poor chil- 
 iding the same. 
 
 le schoolinaater 
 or eaeh child is 
 !8of education. 
 
 or half-yearly 
 [hce, as an en- 
 
 n Wright, etc. 
 
 cliool Bill was 
 House do now 
 Jill, which was 
 hair. 
 
 obtained leave 
 
 read a second 
 Ive itself into a 
 ch was carried, 
 
 itained leave to 
 
 ' Committee on 
 
 itahied leave to 
 
 Committee on 
 
 )tained leave to 
 
 the House do 
 le propriety of 
 ing waste lands 
 
 ze in the chair, 
 btuined leave to 
 
 move that the 
 address to His 
 lools. 
 
 I Committee on 
 )tained leave to 
 
 
 Chap. XXV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1816. 
 
 9T 
 
 on 
 
 the House do rekolve itsoff*^i^ra^i' "?/.?„*'/;? '"'""''•'"^ ''^ ,^'"- ^^"y'^' '""^'^'J ^'"^^ 
 
 Governor upon the subject of Z.I » 2 • ."' "'i* ^*'L'^^ T" * J"?* '"^^^'''"' *" *»>• Lieutenant- 
 went into Connnittee" iirjVXS^lZZ Ch.fr ' "''"'' "" ''"''^' '"*^ '^"^ ""^"'^ 
 
 uraereii, ihat the address bo received. 
 
 !ands^tot?e"L?eiCn"tle'X.o^'iJ':nT' T'l '^"^ '^f.-f'^^^^' "» ^he subject of «,hcol 
 lAth M h to, ""''^' '**' «"g'"«se(l and read a third time to-morrow. 
 
 the d^olZ^^-^^J^^^S'^- t^-a ?^a:tgrtr '^ ^-^"-- 
 nowpipetvrcS^^^^^^^^^^ ^>r .hool Un.U do 
 
 McC^mifkX'i'rm"m1tt 'L'?;fon;;™he H 
 
 have passed an address to His ExcXLv th« 1^.^^'%'^" Legmlative Council that this House 
 
 request their concurrence theretrwhS wL SderT '"'^ respecting school lands, and 
 
 Coundl'tfe't'S' idLT::':LulTr'\T '"^ "'''' "P "^ *"« Honourable the Legislative 
 pray their Jncurren. school lands%nd to 
 
 the Set ofB^ M? NeTlesTtte'chrur'' ''''"" ""' '""^ """'^ *^« ^^^ --«^ -^' Committee 
 .it .^Jn Krn.i?""*'' "^"""^ '""^ ^''^''' ^^- N«»- -I-rted progress and obtained leave to 
 
 '^^entn'^S';:.Sltel^^^^^ ^- 1-- *« bring a Bill to 
 
 Acttoestabli-hVublic ^ciJTS ZZtlZy^f.^^^^^^^ "^«^"^««» "An 
 
 in.C.farer;.':srdlo;s :?!:' '""" '^■"•" "^ ^^«'»>«"- ^-"-» ^y Mr. W. W. Baldwin. Master- 
 Mr. Speakkr, 
 
 Hous?^of'i^e^bS^,tecLt':r:dd^^^^^^^ 'z^t^L^'^^'^T'^;^'^ ^'- «~- 
 
 relative to th., appropriation of a nor^on of f^o ! Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 encouraging the eitablErt of C^.n mon V.h ^ Tk-^ '^-^'^"^ ^ '^ ^^''^'^ ^°'' *h« l^'-rpose of 
 
 which wis sent up yesLrSffor «ieTn^^^^^^^ T.V'u''" ^"T''''^ *"** ^°'" "^'^^^ V^^poses, 
 
 of two members will be reaX to meetTco^^^^^^^^^ "n"'"' ^"' ^^'"'^ P"'"P"«'' " Committee 
 
 Legislative Council Chamberf at o^ro'clock Korrl ^"™"""' ^°"'^ "' ^"^^^'^'y- *° ^'^« 
 
 Legislative Council Chamber, o, 
 
 York, 15th March, 181(5. ^"°"*^ ^^"^' , 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Durancrbe^ito^liSTcol^r.e'' ^''i-* ->d -J-nes 
 
 row on the subject of joint 3 Ls to ffis FxlSn ^''^^^able the Legislative Council to-mor- 
 of their Message this day Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, ,m the subject 
 
 ComSef Jthe' Ugi^^a^/^e'^C^rcil^^^^^ s^Z^tT^ "'■ ^1" JT'^^^^^x/" ^^^^^ -^'^ *« 
 
 ™a^Lt^Soriir<,^j;,^i;-.o^'rs'';,;E::; "■»' "■» '"■"'"' ^"■°°' *— -■' =» ^ 
 
 "•'- i ' •''»' ''^e rejKji'fc ou received 
 
 Mr. Willson. seconded by Mr. Dickson, moved that the Fifth Rule of the Hnn«o v. ^■ 
 pensed with as far as regards the (>)mmon School Bill and fW ifKl , "*^ ^e dis- 
 
 third time to-day, which was ordered ' * *'® engrossed and read n 
 
 7 (d.e.) 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTO«lY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 181G 
 
 ni 
 
 / 
 
 X Slst March, 1816. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Common Sohuol Bill was read 
 the third time. 
 
 Mr. VVilUon, seconded by Mr. Dunuid, moved that tho Common School Bill do now pass, 
 and that it bt> intituled "An Act granting to His Majesty li sum of money to be applied to the 
 use of Oomm )n Schools throughout this Proviace, and to provide for the regulation of said 
 Common School v" which \vm agreed to, and the Bill was signed by tho Speaker. 
 
 Mr. John Ueikie, seconded by Mr. Isaac Sway/e, moved that Messieurs Durand and Willson, 
 be a Committee to carry up to the H(mourable, the Legislative Council, the Conunon School 
 Act, and request their concurrence thereto, which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Durand, first named of the Committee to carry up to the Honou's^^'e the Legislative 
 ■Council the Bill intituted " An Act f ir granting to His Majesty, a certain Su.n of money to be 
 applied to the uses of Conunon Schools throughout this Province, and to provide for tho regu- 
 lation of said Common Schools, " and pray their cncurrence thereto, reported that the Com - 
 inittce had done so. 
 
 Agreeable to the order of the day, the District School Amendment Bill was read a second time. 
 
 Mr. Dickson, seconded bv Mr. Willson, moved that the House do now resolve itself into a 
 ^ Committee on the District Scfiool Amendment Bill ; which was agreed to, and thu House went 
 into Committee, Mr. Thomas Mears in the chair. 
 
 Mr. Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Mears reported progress, and obtained leave 
 to sit to-morrow. 
 
 SSiid March, ISIG. —Mr. R<jbort Nichol, seconded by Mr. .Tohn Ci-ysler, moved that Mos- 
 .sieurs Durand and Burwell be a Conmiittee to inform the Honourable the 1 egislative Council, that 
 this House, have appointed a Committee to i)re8ent, with the Committee of the Honourable the 
 Legislative Council, the .Joint Address to His Excellency, the J ieutenant-Governor, on the 
 subject, of school lands, which was agreed to. 
 
 Mr. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from Honourable the Legislative 
 Council a Bill sent up from this House, intituted " An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of 
 money to be applied to the uses of Commtm Schools throughout this Province, and to provide 
 for the regulation of the said Common Schools, " which they had passed without any amend- 
 ment. Also a written message as follow : — 
 
 Mr. t-PEAKEK : 
 
 The Honourable the Legislative Council have appointed one of its members t" wait, 
 jointly with a Committee of the Comnmns House of Assembly, upon His E.xcellency, the 
 Lieutenant-Governor, to know when he would lie pleased to receive tho Address of both Kouses 
 of the Provincial Legislature respecting the approj)riation of a part of the waste lands of the 
 Crown, for the purpose of encouraging the establishment of Common Schools, and for other 
 purposes. 
 Lkgi81*tivb CoiTNciL Chamhek. Thomas Scott, 
 
 York, 22nd March, 1816. Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Rolph Clench, first named of the Committee to wait on His Exceliency, the Liouteu- 
 «nt-Governor, with a Committee of the Honourable the Legislative Council, to know when he 
 would receive the .loint Address of the two Houses on the subject of tho school lands, 
 reported that they had done so, and that His Excellency had appointed the hour of half jmst 
 two to receive tlie same. 
 
 Mr. Clench, first named of the Committee to wait upon the Lieutenant-Governor, with a 
 Committee of the Legislative Council, and present the Address to the two Houses on the sub- 
 ject of school lands, rejiorted that they had presented the .Address to His Excellency, who was 
 pleased to make an answer thereto, a copy of whiclihe gave to the Speaker who read the same, 
 as follows : — 
 F. GoBE : 
 
 Gentlemen, I shall have great satisfaction in secondin<( the endc.-ivours of the Legislature to 
 establish Common Schools in Jie Townships throughout the Province, by a suitable appropri- 
 ation of land for the iise of each school, in which 1 assure myself of the ready concurrence of 
 His Majesty's Council for the affairs of this I'roviuce. 
 
 The application of His Majesty's gracious bounty towards the support of a Provincial 
 Seminary must depend upon the Royal instructions, yet to be received, but which, it cannot be 
 d(jubted, will he framed with the same princely liberality that dictated the general measure of a 
 reserve of lands tor that purpose. 
 
 F. G. 
 
 1816. 
 
 <iOVEKN.MENr HoUSE, 
 
 YouK, 22nd March 
 
 Jc 
 
 
1816 
 
 Chap. XXV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEOI8LATURE, 1816. 
 
 99 
 
 Bill was read 
 
 do now pass, 
 [)plied to tlie 
 btion of said 
 
 and WillBOii, 
 imon School 
 
 te Legislativo 
 ' money to be 
 fortlio regu- 
 lat the Coni- 
 
 second time. 
 
 b> itself into a 
 
 House wunt 
 
 btained leave 
 
 ed that Mes- 
 
 Council, that 
 
 )noural)le the 
 
 jrnor, <jn the 
 
 a Legislative 
 
 iesty a sum of 
 
 i to provide 
 
 any amend- 
 
 sera t-" wait, 
 cellency, the 
 both Kousos 
 lands of the 
 1(1 for other 
 
 OTT, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 the Liouten- 
 ()W when he 
 ichool lands, 
 of half i)a8t 
 
 ernor, with a 
 i on the aub- 
 ncy, who was 
 id the game, 
 
 jegislatnre to 
 t»lo approi)ri- 
 jncurrence of 
 
 a Provincial 
 . it cannot be 
 measure of a 
 
 F. G. 
 
 «. ..^•'';''.-'l^'.*'''*' {^^'/-^Kreeahly totheOrdor<.f theDav. the House wont into Committee 
 on the District School Amondment Bill. Mr. MoCormiok in the chair. vx.mmittee 
 
 le^ue^'tosiraShuhiVd'ar"'' "^ the Chair, Mr. McCormick reported progreu .nd obUined 
 
 ♦h- ^^f-^.Tu' ^,^'/'--A ,'.eeahle to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee on 
 the District Sch..ol Amendiiu.nt Bill. M;'. McCormick in the chair committee on 
 
 MccSmic^Tthediair."'*'''' '"'" ^""""'"•« "" *»>« »'"'"''* P<=hool Amendment BUI, Mr. 
 
 Mr Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. McCormick reported the Bill, as amended 
 Ordered, That the report be received. ' ' 
 
 -«„.*''"■ i^'*"!]"'" "f •»'l«d »)y Mr. Ridout, moved that the District School Amendment Bill h« 
 engrossed and read a third time to-morrow, which was ordered ^menument Hill be 
 
 Bill SVe^rfthir^ aiiTo^'""''" ^^ '''" '''^''"'' '^« ^"^•^•- P"'''- School Amendment 
 Tnar\^,'h^Jr"v''*'' "T""'r^T]'?', ^^'■' Thompson, moved, that the third clause of the Public ^Oram 
 
 Yka.s.— Messieurs Clench, Young, Thompson, 3. 
 
 Mear!.''KlTc:s''rS^.:"^ ^'''''«""' *^°^*^'"-'' ' ««"-' ^'•^''^-. ^^idoufc, Nichol. Burwell. 
 \ The motion was lost, by a majority of eight. 
 
 Province, to extend the provisions thereof, and for other purposes therein mlSm^'""' "' '^" 
 4 On which the House .livided, and the yeas and nays were taken down as follows - 
 
 .cryi::i[^:tssSs,^::'SYi;ts ''^^"'*^"- ^«"-' «^^-^- ^^^^^e. 
 
 Nays.— Mr. Clench, 1. 
 the ^pti^J*''^™'^ '"*»>«''«--«- by a m,jorlty of twelve, and the Bill was signed by 
 
 ComSteTScar^^X'tubL'^JchoKlndrent*^ Messieurs. Burwell and Crysler b. a 
 Council and to reediest thetconcurrnctThTrtr whfch wa^^ o^rietd"""^""™''^ '''' ^'^'"'"''''^ 
 
 the e£fs^;^:;ss^^^^ ;?t^^^is^n::r .sr^-j^:^ 
 
 I 'An Act to establish P„Wi«H„>..>„i- ; '"y soventn 
 
 Legisttiv^'cotfncUthl'Bili^nSl'^^^^ <^°7 ^-" .*he Honourable the 
 
 yearofHisMaje.sty's lS\ 18W ^^^ T^'^Ttf. '"^ '^^ f^rty-seventh 
 
 every District o'f thl, Pr.Tv'iLe ' I^x nd tt^^^^^^^^^ thereof aifdlol" fn'^'^"'' '" ^''^1''"^ 
 in mentioned ' " which they had passed withoutTneSrent ' ^^' ""'" P"''^"^^' *^«"- 
 
 , fifth?uf:.SL^^ouleb";SiItd^ John Willson, moved that the 
 
 A Act jmssed in the forty-«3h yeL of £ Ma 5 tv relrnsn' ^ ^"f 1 "J \^''^ *" ^'"^"d '^'^ 
 
 Public Schools in each and everv^Dlstrct.f H,dp\U^T' ('^,0'') ".'^>t»l«'l. An Act to establish 
 
 the same.- On which the Ho/se^Sdl^t'^ras' a^ n^ ^^^ 
 
 A YEA8.-Mesaieurs Willson, Dickson. Thompson, M.ars, and Beikie 5 "" 
 
 VS^n^^nlKsT" '''''"""•^' ^°""«' '^^^■•^^^-' «-^-'' D-Lnd, Burwell, Clench. 
 ■' I And the question was decided in the negative by a majority of four 
 
 (N0TE._The title of this Bill differs from the one passed by the Hon.s. of 
 
 t^r^x^::^^ ^:^ '"^ '''' ^'^ ^"- ^-"^^ ^^^ ^^^^ of ti. a. 
 
 To extend the provisions thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 
 
 ,:VMjithcm>:!ii> 
 
100 
 
 DOCUMKNTARY HIHTOBY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1816 
 
 This Bill yf&H concurred in b- the J^arislative Council ; and, of thin concur- 
 rence. the Council, by message , rm. ' the Hou»« of AsMcmbly, on the 27th of 
 
 March. The liiJI, how«»<«r, was ,o ^ anted t<j by fch« iJeiitenant-Govemor, for 
 what ruuHon c^oes not apjH^r. except tha> ^he House of Assembly had not fonu- 
 ally acted upon fhe report of coucurrencw from the Legislative ('ouncil. The 
 Bill sought to Ije intrcnlttcenl into the House of As.sembly by Mr. Thoma , Dickson, 
 on the 29th of March, hmi, tfte* luoting the titi. of "the Act of 1807, the fou' 
 lowing words added : — 
 
 And furthor to extend tho Wiolll* la t>i« •amu.) 
 
 .KIJ!'l!*^T^'"^^•'*^n• "^^ wP'^HT' *"" ' ""^ «^ ^^^ Coinniittoo to carry ..p to the Honour- 
 able the Le«..Ut.ve Council the Hiil intituled, ' An Act to amend an Aet puJse.l jn the forty- 
 Mventhyearof HmHaje.tyH ro.gn, (1807), intituled, An Act to o«t«bIi«h Public Sch.K.ufn 
 each and every District of this Pn.vnue. to extend tlie iirovinions thereof, and for their pur 
 pose, therotn mentioned.' and re^ueHt their concurrence to it. reported that the Committee 1L 
 
 h,.,^!";i^.^A"'^***""'^!;"' J;-'M<t'^t«>--in-CI""'cery, brought down the Bill intituled, 'An Act 
 to amend an Act pHMBd in the forty-seventh year of HisTWajesty's reign, (1807.) inti uled, ' V u 
 
 provll^h±!f"!n^ D'"^""^ "^ tl^'" I''-ino«. and to extend the 
 
 proMsioju thereof, an for other purpose, therein mentioned, sent up from this House, which 
 the Legislative Council had passed without amendment. «oust. wnicn 
 
 niembers?f''i« Ho„7J'^v"'''t.^'^.^V''«^^ "J? Excellency's command, summoned the 
 
 members of the House of Assembly to the Legislative Council Chamber, he was pleased to assent 
 in His Majesty's name, among other Bills, to th , one intituled ;- "1 'OHseatoassent, 
 
 Schools tf^nH.Kf"*? -^'p"''- ^"^***^i f ""'" ""^ •^""y *" ^"^ '*I'l'l'«*t '" ^''^ "«"« "f Common 
 tS. ' Province, and to provide for the Regulations of the said Common 
 
 In pro ^uing \e Legislature. His Excellency, Lieutenant-Governor Franci.s 
 Gore. Esf|uire, close, the session with a speech from the Throne, in which the 
 following passage < cur : — 
 
 I thank you for the zealous discharge of your legislative functions, in providintr so manv 
 valuable laws, which must bo attended with the most saluta.y effects t. this Prov nee That 
 particularly, which provides for the dissemination of letters i/ this infaiit C^ lony ust secure 
 to you Che gratitude and veneration of the rising and future generations. ^ 
 
 Members of the House of Assembly who took part in the Educational 
 
 Legislation of 1816. 
 
 The Members of the House of Assembly who took part in Its school legisla- 
 tion m 1816, were Messieurs Robert Nichol, Mahlon Burwell, James Durand John 
 Willson. Ralph Clench, Alexand .r McMartin, Thomas Dickson, Robert Nelles 
 Isaac Swayze, John McGregor, William McCormick, Thomas Ridout. John Beikie 
 and John Crysler. 
 
 Mr. James Duuand was elected in 1814, for the Niagara District; in 1817 
 and 1818 for the County of Wentworth ; and in 1835, and 1841 for the County 
 of Halton. The Rev. Dr. Scadding. in his Toronto of Old, speaking of Mr. Durand 
 said that in 1817. the House of Assembly was persuaded,— 
 
 »n^ fT;'7"^ ^/*, ''''^r"" '" ^^^ 't^^'^^'' "^ ' '*«^' » ''^«J' to excludi itH author from the House 
 and to commit him to prison. His instant :; tio-„. : v the Countv of Haltnn »« ( „ ""*^' 
 
 cnargesunicn luivo since been earned iptj ef'V -j -e (';■"' " oto _i. t^-. . "■."•" 
 he was Registrar for the Coun ty of Frontemv •- ""' "' ^"'«»^"". ^nere 
 
 •For th« particulars of this case, see YBX^h^oiua^Tpariiamentary Building,, 1792.1892. pages 92-94. 
 
1816 
 
 iia concur- 
 ;he 27th of 
 vernor, for 
 not foriu 
 acil. The 
 Dickson, 
 '. thefol- 
 
 lie Honour- 
 
 II the fiirty- 
 
 8el)<H>ls in 
 
 their pur- 
 
 imittet! had 
 
 I, 'An Act 
 ituled, * An 
 uxteiul the 
 )iiie, which 
 
 inioued the 
 id to assent, 
 
 )f Common 
 I Coiainon 
 
 r Francis 
 '■hich the 
 
 ig so many 
 ice. That 
 luat secure 
 
 NATIONAL 
 
 1 legisla- 
 nd.Joho 
 ; Nelles, 
 n Beikie 
 
 in 1817 
 
 County 
 
 Durand, 
 
 le House, 
 >f course, 
 olebrHteci 
 berof the 
 n, where 
 
 Chap. XXV. KDUCAnONAL PaOCBEDINOS OF U. C. LtOrsLATURE, 1816. 101 
 
 Mr. John Willhon was elected to represent the west riding of the County of 
 York in 1809 and I«13, and the County of \ ntworth, in 1820, ! :;^.> 1829 and 
 1881. He became Speaker of that House of Assembly in 1825. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ridout w,w elected membo. for the west riding of York, in 
 1812. He had been Clerk of the Peace for the Homo District, and, in 1810. be- 
 came Surveyor General of Upper Canada. In 1824, he wiis appointed a member 
 of the Legislative Council. He died in February, 1829. 
 
 Mr. John Beikie became a member of the House ol Assembly, in 1813. Before 
 that he was Sheriff of tho Home District. Ho was afterwards appointed Clerk 
 of the Executive Houncil. 
 
 Of the other Aietr: hers not already mentioned, little is recorded, and, therefore, 
 I have b'. u untble to refer to them further. Their labours, however, are not 
 forgotten, ibr !o them, and to their leaders in the House of Assftmbly, are we 
 inde» t,. ,1 for the first step being taken lo found a systematic and intelligent 
 scheme of education for Upper Canada, in providing for the establishment of 
 primary schools in the several townships of the Province. It took some ye us to 
 accomplish this purpose, but at length in 1816, (nine years after the gratnmar 
 schools were established,) legislative provision was then first made for the 
 establishment and maintenance of common schools in Upper Canada, and the large 
 sum, in that day, of £6,000, (S24,000) was annually granted for this purpose a id 
 the law provided that the people were '• to meet together " in any town, villa.-e 
 or township, " to make arrangements for establishing common schools in sucn 
 town, village or township," at each of which the attendence of pupils should not 
 be less than twenty. The law also authorized that three " fit and discreet per- 
 sons " should be chosen Trustees, who were to " examine into the moral character 
 and capacity of any person willing to become a teacher " and appoint him. The 
 trustees were further authorized to make rules and regulations for their own 
 schools, and .select text-books from a list prescribed by a District Board of Educa- 
 tion, to which they were recjuired to report. The provincial allowance to each 
 school wao in no case to exceed £25, (SlOO)-the balance of salary and contingent 
 expenses had to be made np by subscriptions. No rate- bills or assessments lor 
 this purpose w^re, however, authorized. This law was considered as a tentative 
 one ' ni also as an experiment. The operation of the Act of 1816, was, on its 
 passing, limited to four years.* 
 
 The following is a copy of this, the first Common School Act passed by the 
 Legislature of Upper Canada. Its passing marked a distinct epoch in the edu- 
 cational history of the Province. 
 
 c.V.^'^'^'^'JfL^.'"'**'*' "/JF*^.".*:?**"" i? Upper C»nad», by J ^eorffe Hodirins. M.A.. 
 ,.ir.„^ '••''-^''^rsssc;- .orjtij,-. Aonrt.ri;,«)-40a, Torouto, 1663, page 384.' ' 
 
 LL.B . P.R O S 
 
 88 92-94. 
 
102 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY Oi' EDUCATION IN UP! ER CANADA. 
 
 1816 
 
 mitri 
 
 56th GEORGE II r., CHAPTER XXXVI. 
 
 An Act orantino to Hi.s MA-rEsrv a .sum of money, to be applied to the use of Common 
 Schools THRODcaioui' this Pbovinoe, and to provide for the Regulations op 
 SAID Common Schools. 
 
 Fraiifh Gore, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Passed 1st April, 1816. 
 Mo.sT Gracious Sovereign ; 
 
 Whereas it would be conducive to the happiness of the Inhabitants, and general Preamble. 
 prosi>erity of the Province, to encourage the education of youth in Common 
 Schools. 
 
 1. (Annual grant of £1000 to the Midland District ; £800 to the Eastern Annual (frant 
 District £«00 each to the Home, Johnstown, Lcnidon, Gore Niagara and Weston of £6,000. 
 District ; ^400 to the Newcastle ; ^200 to the Ottawa District— £6,000 in all— 
 for the establishment of common schools in these districts. This section was 
 repealed in 1820, and these sums were reduced, by the Ist George IV., chapter 7.) 
 
 2 * nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That from and after Tnhnh> m t 
 the passhig of this Act, it shall and may be lawful, for the Inhabitants of any anrtown etc 
 Town, Township, Village or pl«ce, to meet together for the purpose of making to make ar- 
 arrangements for Comm(m Schools in sich Town, Township, Village or place, on rangementefur 
 or before the first day of June in the present year, ,ind on the first day of June in Common 
 each and every year, during the continuance of this Act. Schools. 
 
 Persons may 
 unite and 
 build a School 
 House, pay 
 Teachers ap- 
 point Trustees- 
 and furuish 
 scholars. 
 
 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesa'd. That so soon as a 
 competent number of persons as aforesaid, shall unite and build or provide a School 
 House, engage to furnish twenty poholara or more, and shall in part provide for the 
 payment of a Teacher, it shall and may be kwful for such persons as aforesaid, or 
 the majority of them, giving eight days' pre /ious notice thereof, to meet at some 
 convenient place appointed for that purpose, and it shall and may be lawful for 
 each iiersoim as aforesaid, and they are hereby re(]uired, to appoint three fit and 
 discreet persons. Trustees to the said Common .School, who shall have power and 
 authority to examine into the moral character and capacity of any person willing to 
 become Teacher of such Common School, and being satisfied of the moral character 
 and capacity of such Teacher, to nominate and appoint such person as the Teacher 
 of said Common School. 
 
 4. Provided always nevertheless, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
 That no person shall be appointed Teacher to such Common School unless such 
 person ia a Natural Born subject of His iVlaje4ty, or a subject of His Majesty 
 naturalized by Act of the British Parliament, or a subject of His Majesty having 
 become sucli by the conquest and cession of the Province of Quebec, or by having 
 taken the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty. 
 
 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the said 
 Trustees or the majority of them, shall have power and authority, under the pro- 
 visions hereinafter moiitioned for that [mrpose, in their discretion to remove guch 
 Teacher, as aforesaid, from his school, for any misdemeanor or impropriety of con- 
 duct ; and it shull and may be lawful for the said Trustee, or th ) majority of them, 
 in case of demise, disniissid or removal, of any Teacher, as aforesaid, to nominate 
 and appoint, as ofieii as the cas-* may re<jiiire, one other Ht and discreet person as 
 aforesaid, to become such Teacher as aforesaid : Provided always, nevertheless, 
 that no Teacher of any Common School, under the i)rovisions of this Act, sh 11 he 
 removeil or dtjmissed from his said school, unless the Board of Education herein- 
 after appointed in each and every District of this Province, sanction tho removed 
 or dismissal. 
 
 6 And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees Trustees have 
 appointed, under and virtue of this Act, to any Common School, as aforesaid, or power to make 
 the majority of them, shall have power and authority to make Rules and Regula- Hules for the 
 tsoii:; for the good sovornmeut of the «aid Conuuon Schoois, with resnect to the ^""--rnincrit 
 Teacher, for the time Iwing, and to the scholars, as in their discretion shal: seem "' ^^e 'School . 
 meet, and that it shall .ind may be lawful for the eaid Trustees, and they are here- 
 
 Teachers must- 
 be natural 
 born subjects 
 or have taken 
 ttie oath of 
 allegiance. 
 
 Trustees have 
 power to re- 
 move Teacher 
 for any impro- 
 priety of con- 
 duct and 
 appoint an- 
 other person.. 
 
 ( ' 
 
1816 
 
 Chap. XXV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1816. lOJf 
 
 F Common 
 
 ATIONS OP 
 
 !, 1816. 
 reamble. 
 
 nnual f^rant 
 ' £'6,000. 
 
 ihabitanti) of 
 ly town etc. 
 make ar- 
 ngen>ent8 fcr 
 )mmon 
 :hools. 
 
 srsons may 
 lite and 
 lild a School 
 ouse, pay 
 Biachers ap- 
 )int Trustees- 
 id furuiah 
 holars. 
 
 >acher8 must- 
 natural 
 
 rn subjects 
 have taken 
 
 e oath of 
 
 legiauce. 
 
 'UBt*>e8 have 
 wer to re- 
 jve Teacher 
 • any impro- 
 iety of con- 
 ct and 
 point an- 
 ler persoD.^ 
 
 by reijmred, to report to the District Board of Education, hereinafter to be ap- 
 pointed, the Books used, with the Rules and Regulations used in the said Schools, 
 once in every three months : Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for 
 the said District Board of Education, on such report as aforesaid, being received, 
 to order and direct such Books, or any of them, not to be used in the said Schools, 
 and to rescind the said Rules and Regulaticjiis, or any part of them, if it should be 
 deemed expedient, giving sufficient notice thereof to the sa<d Trustees, who sliall 
 warn the subscribers to the said i^chool to provide otlier Books for the tuition of 
 the Mid Scholars, and to make such other alterations, rules or regulations, in the 
 said Schools, as they shall deem necessary, in order that there may be a more uni- 
 form system of education throughout the Province. 
 
 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all engago- 
 mente, contracts or subscriptions, entered into by the Subsc ibers to any Common 
 behoofs, in any District of that Province, with any person or persons, for the 
 erecting, building or keeping in repair, any School House for the purpose afore- 
 said or the payment of the Teacher thereto, such Subscriber, or Subscribers, shall be 
 liable to be sued for their subscription by the said Trustees to such Common 
 Bcnools, or their successors in office, in any Court of this Province having com- 
 petent jurisdiction. 
 
 , , ^"r^"/ ''®, ^^ ^"'tiller enacted by the authority aforesaid. That it shall and may 
 be lawful for the Trustees of the Common Schools in each and every District of this 
 i'rovince, and they are hereby required once in each and every year, to report to 
 the iJoard of Education, for that purpose hereiiiafter appointed, in each and every 
 District of this Province, the state of the Common Schools, which such Trustees, 
 atoresaid, shall have the direction of, the number of scholars, the state of educa- 
 tion, with the different branches taught in the said School, and all other matters 
 and thing^ that may tend to cherish the prosperity of the said Common Schools, or 
 that may in any wise benefit the same, in order that the said Board of Education 
 may report the state of the District Common Schools to the Governor, Lieutenant- 
 Governor, or Penion administering the Government, that the same may be laid 
 ^ before the Legislature at its first meeting for their inspection. 
 
 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may 
 06 lawful for the Governor, Lieutennnt-Governor, or Person administering the 
 Wernment to appoint not more than five fit and discreet persons to compose a 
 Board of E(#ucatioii in each and every District of this I>rovince, three of whom 
 shall be a quorum ; who shall have full power to superintend such Common Schools 
 in the Districts for rt^hich they are appointed, and shall annually report to the 
 Governor Lieutenant-Governor, or Person administering the Government, the 
 state of the said Common Schools, to be laid before the Legislature at their meeting. 
 
 10 And be it further enacted by the authority aforesiid. That the moneys 
 granted by this Act shall be apportioned to the Teachers of the several Common 
 Schools in each and every District of this Province, to be paid to the Teachers 
 yearly or halt-yearly, as may be directed by said Trustees, in proportion to the 
 number of scholars educated in such scliools as aforesaid. 
 
 11. And bo it further enacted by theanthority aforesaid. That the Teachers of 
 such Common Schools established as aforesaid, in any Town, Township, Village or 
 plivce, in each and every District of this Province, producing a Certificate, signed by 
 the irustees of any such Common Schools .stating his having well demeaned himself 
 as 1 eacher of the said School for Six Months, with the number of Scholars Educated 
 in the said Schoo , beuig not less than twenty in such School, aforesaid, it shall 
 and may bo lawful for the Treasurer of the District, to pay to such Teacher his 
 proportion of any sum or sums of money that may bo granted by the Legislature of 
 this . rovmce for Common Schools in the respective Districts thereof, during the 
 contiruance of this Act. 
 
 Trustees to 
 report to the 
 Board of Edu- 
 cation, the 
 books used in 
 the said 
 Schools once 
 every three 
 months. 
 
 All engage- 
 ments entered 
 into by sub- 
 scribers, shall 
 be liable to be 
 sued for their- 
 subscription. 
 
 Trustees once 
 a year to 
 report to the 
 Board of Edu- 
 cation the 
 state of the 
 Schools, etc.» 
 in order that 
 the Board 
 may report to- 
 the Governor, 
 that the same 
 may be laid 
 before the 
 Legislature. 
 
 Governor to 
 appoint not 
 more than five 
 persons to 
 compose a 
 Board of Edu- 
 cation in each 
 District, three 
 to be a quo- 
 rum. 
 
 Payment to 
 Teachers, 
 
 Teachers pro- 
 ducing a certi- 
 ficate signed 
 by Trustees. 
 
 Treasurer of 
 the District t» 
 pay such 
 Teacher. 
 
 ustees have 
 wer to make 
 ilea for the 
 ivcrnmcnt 
 the School . 
 
 12, And ho It further enacted by theanthority aforesaid, That it shall and may Books may be 
 be lawf il for the D.stnct Boards to be appointed in each and eve.y District in this purchased- 
 frovinco,, to apply such part of the money hereby granted to the several Districts "mit. 
 
 !,•—;■"••, '3 ' -•<">•>• tru ptjuuits rts uwy sh;iil soe nt, t.n' tlie ptn'chasu of proiicr 
 
 bo<.k8 for tho use of the said Common Schools, and, after having purchased such 
 book^., to cause the same to be distributed for tho use of such schools, hi such 
 manner as to them shall seem meet. 
 
 ^1»iwtil»-*u^:>. . |.i^jgpDfej| ^ 
 
 rtiaiT»njii|ri|-ffIitrtfT 
 
 ^immmi 
 
104 
 
 DOCUMENTABY HISTORF OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1816 
 
 )S 1; ; 
 
 TTA„ ^^:- ^^^ ^ '* further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the Board of 
 Education, to be appointed by virtue of this Act, in each and eve^ Di.triof nf ;h7 
 Provnice, shall have full power and authority toVro^orficm he .iPof '^'^^^^^^^^^ 
 the Common Schools of the said Disf riot, and after proportioning the inie each^f to 
 
 th!t^?«T '""''''' '° 'T^ '" *!'« ^™^"'"«^ ^^'^' "'d District a copy thTeof Tn ordS 
 that the Treasurer, aforesaid, may discharge the certificates in-anted to th« rLnK 
 as aforesaid ; Provided always, that no allowance to any Common S^hll ^ 
 and every District of the Province, shall exceed the sum o7Tw«nflfi' ^f 
 
 graciously pleased to direct. Majesty. His Heirs or Successors shall be 
 
 Board of 
 Education 
 have full 
 power to pro- 
 portion the 
 money for the 
 ichoolg, and to 
 send lo the 
 Treasurer a 
 copy thereof. 
 
 Whentwoad- 
 joininff Dis- 
 tricts compose 
 Much School, 
 the Trustees 
 to make re- 
 turns, etc. 
 
 The several 
 sums granted, 
 to be paid by 
 the Receiver 
 General, to 
 the Treasurer 
 of eash Dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Continuance 
 of this Act. 
 
 
 In the Kina,lon Gazette the following letter publkhed in the St Davids 
 Spectator. (Niagara District.) by a gentleman at York, was copied It refl to 
 
 th« |,eopl. b, the ..Ubli.hm.nt t c" mmoi" Sc „S n .^.1? T^f "r"'""*; '" ""' i""™«i'>» »' 
 
 public .;J';:;,>rxr'o;'z', trtm^tT- •"" ■^^ ■"•"' "••"" ■•"• "»"■ <>' • 
 .hJtnTfp'';^=---:Lst&-L-r^^^^^^ - 
 
 he a ^/„„. fe„,A, f„ April, 1819, and in«.rte,l in thi, wc-k under that 
 date, discusses fully and clearly the sch™l le..i,l,ti,m „f l-o- .,,,,, 
 nninta ,.i,t n. 1 1 . . " -'---' le^jisiftnon ot loOf and 181G, and 
 
 points out the popular ol.jection to both Acts at that time. 
 
 f t 
 
1816 
 
 Chap. XXVI. DISTRICT (grammar;, or old blue school, at YORK. 1816. 
 
 105 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 THE DISTRICT GRAMMAR, OR OLD BLUE SCHOOL. AT YORK. 
 
 rn ^rZ^!'' ^' ^""'^ ^^^'•t^o^^'s interesting Chapter, in the " History of Upper 
 
 to by "D. W. .Smith Deputy Surveyor G^npJl in ^T "^^^ n'^ *}"V 'f ' ''o^ectness is certified 
 Council at York, June lE 1797 SeSsTn' President' '^ aVIT? ^'r,-""^?-^^" "f " In 
 l>lHn WHS issued by '• Thomas Ridonf S„7, J,;!, 'r^ , >. " f* ^ ^^^^'^ •^»*^'. '" 1819, another 
 
 SchooLknown afterwards^ ffi OJd bK sZol *' """"'''^' '" '®^^' '^'^ ^'«*"^t «^«""«*r 
 
 two storey white ptinte 1 fra.n/builS J wi h ^r^^^^^^^ "'', "orth-ea^t corner a neatly-built 
 with a sharp.pointed picket fence haSar mid tC«^ ^Tl'^f ^'''' ^'""'« and faced 
 
 trees which shielded he innmte, fro m thrrn, L!^ .f "''' ^^f""^ *" '* ^'''' ^>' ^^^'^ ^i»ow 
 
 This was the house of Mr. S,l Der ms wbZ ^"'"'"^\r'^ .^^e snow whirls of winter. 
 Db;r:c School which at i « fnnn,) f ■ ' T '""*' ''^'■*' ^'^ first lads on the roll ..f the 
 fran.. l>uilding!'whi:;f st^od l^bou h icf^^^^^^^^^^^ -.'^ -:y ordLa^^ 
 
 days, the Kidout comer. The buildinnad W.^f l?i ^ "" ""T' ^^""^ *''«' ^^ ''^ter 
 
 StKichan, when he bade farewell To hrcwlnn. • ' t'\^ ^vas readily imj.roved by Dr. 
 presence in the early days of 18 3 For at me If J fl' ^"'^ ^''■'''''^ ^'"'^ '*'*'' »"« ^^^ietic 
 College Square, thil ob'scure fr!^.e S l.Ung ^^S no^^^^^^^^ new building on%he 
 
 longe street, wao occupied as the District Grammar School house "^ '*'"'''' J"'* ^-"^ °* 
 
 desig'Js^rtlT Jer.^td'^ffi ifmSd "'1^1^ '^""""'^^^- ^^f f ^ '-^^ "^"-^ *>- early 
 dious quarters. The 'six acre S t Seao SnZ ''"''' "^""Pff'^ ^^^^^^ to more commo- 
 
 the.de stature whic...d;e:^X^-^^ 
 
 pristine\eauty."^t ^as bo S^Ptt srtf Iw Ad'? -^'^-^ S'l--'" '^^^ ^ ''^-"'^ *» 
 street, on the east by JaiTis street md 1 fh ^^^ ,A^''"^« ^^'^et- "" the north by Richmond 
 names, Church Btreet b^ the only one the fon'r H ^ P^^'t '''T^ '^^'"'^ "'^ '^'^ "^""^ern 
 Adelaide was formerly xXewgate sSet bel. «! h« T '^ '»*« retained the original nomenclature, 
 was Hospital street, -Ind Ja'rWs was Nets eet "^ ""tCS '" '" "tf ''• '''^^'"""•^ 
 
 =nh::;-^;^^?.:::i;:s^;j:- - S^^^^ -S^ ii^SerS;:^-,;;^- s 
 
 frame of 'SetrbiTtt^^tldt Tm^^^^ H " /fT'^'^ ^'^^ --^' "^ t'- 
 
 waiting fur the shingled ro..f 'md tlTe Cf i.wl, .1 ^""^'•«.- d'^^eUiled into one another, stood 
 School building st...d at the m utl we, t": rnor of 'Sf 'S '"*"'• ^^^^ f"T District (Grammar) 
 of Newgate or Adelaide street ^1 .TrehuSnl Lu.-teB.?L:^ f""'''n^^ ""i ^""^ ^^'^^ "'"•"' 
 
 .toi^h^^h^^^b^^ 1-rr iSft^steard^ irtrsZct^^: 
 
 C.aintS^ll^"'"^'KS™r"/^l"°L'-«Jved its appellation. "The Blue Sch 
 lectures on natu^l'phUosophy aUwo KSs'th^^'colJ^/rh" ^'^ ^''»:»<"'*n advertised a'couTs; orpo^ul^ 
 tnct School Apropos of LI, GouHey? ^hs '•?Sketche» of^ TCJ^.* ^ ^"J''\'^ °"' 'V t^^^^tin^ the Dis 
 CoUeff 68, where are they? Few vet oainfRH JL.,™! • ? Upper Canada," remark* : "Schools and 
 
 Tke Old Blue School, hy\r J BolVC^A ^'' '^"'"'^ °" '"'*""• philosophy are now abundant.*"i 
 
throuKh ton windows on the north and south sides, five above and five below, while the east 
 end was pierced by four, two ab,.ve and two below, and the « est end ^as h<moured by the 
 entraiu-e door with three windows above and two to the south of the doorway, the l"'fcel of 
 S was scmp^^^ by the juvenile horde that made the welkin ring, as at close of the 
 
 schooda^hTeagerly Bought the* unconstrained atmosphere of the six -acre playground. The 
 boards which covered the 8t<.ut frame timbers had been smoothed by a vigorous jack-plane, 
 and thus Yielded more gracefully than when in the rough to the arm of the painter who, brush 
 fn ban fat a low price per yard, covered the entire outside with a dull slate blue, that defied 
 1 oniy the sc'ching sun/but ihe Arctic frost of the old time Canadian winter. To vary tho^ 
 monotony of colour, the door an.l win<h)w frames were painted white, a not uncommon mode or 
 treatment in early buildings, by the deft artists of York. Surely it has been by right inscribed 
 in Drint as •' The Old Blue School." The designer had not much difficulty in apportioning the 
 snace at his disposal. Once inside the door, the pupils found themselves in a long lobby that 
 extended from the north to the south sides of the building, the only decoration of which wa» 
 a long row of iron pegs and brackets for the hats, caps and coats of the pupils. At the east 
 side of the lobby a stairway ran up to the second storey, which was not used f..r schtKil purposes, 
 but served occasionally as a public hall for concerts and lectures. An ordinary door opened 
 from the lobby into the lower schoolroom of 60x40. It was a roomy apartment, with the con- 
 ventional plastering of the penod. The right angles made by the walls and ceiling were not 
 ornamented with the moulded projections or curved lines of cornice work ; indeed, the severity 
 of treatment was doubtless intended to prevent dust and cobwebs accumulating in the corners,, 
 that are special targets for the activity of the broom. The stringers, which grasped the frame 
 of the building, and which, in turn, strengthened the roof, had additional support m foursquare 
 upright pillars of pine, which rested on a stone foundation, and within a few feet of the angles 
 of the room, helped to support not only the main roof but the ceilings of the upper and lower 
 schoolroom. The guiding mind in the schoolroom occupied an elevated position behind a 
 •Mongish" desk, that commanded a full view of the pupils. ... The furniture of the 
 room was in harmony with the wood- work. Friendly as had been the painters brush with 
 the exterior of the structure, it was a perfect stranger— indeed, had not ever had a bowing 
 acquaintance with the interior. The wood-work that was exposed bore evidence that the 
 active and regular movements of the carpenter's elbow had made rough places smooth, and 
 rendere I the pino presentable, and it was not many months ere both the wood work of the 
 building and the furniture caught that dark sienaa U)ok. which is the sombre result of smoke, 
 dirt and age. The benches and desks were ranged on the north and south sides of the room. 
 Every boy owned an ink cup of glass which dropped into an augur hole the size of a halt- 
 penny, was replenished as regularly as the supply was exhausted. . . . The faces of the 
 boys at these side desks were turned towards the wall, while on each side of the centre of the 
 room was a set of double, sloped desks. In the centre stood a long box stove of government 
 pattern that swallowed the beech and maple without the aid of the buckwiw. The school was 
 as all primitive schools are. The boys were as varied in character as those of to-day, btudious 
 lads were commended by the Master. Those who struggled and persevered were strengthened 
 by a kindly word, while the perverse youth, who could but would not digest the ment^il diet, 
 was invigomted and quickened into activity by the aid of roils, cut from the McGiU and Jarvia 
 property which lay north <.f Lot street, and at a later day by the assistance of a strap. . . . 
 The old pioneer, who relates to the writer so many .-f the incidents of eariy York, smiles as he 
 recites his efforts to cut. carve and engrave with the aid of a jack-knife, his name in the slant 
 of one of the pine desks, iiul ho declares that a pho' ..graphic view of any of the desks in the 
 school wou'd pass for the hieroglyphics on some Egyptian monolith, such as are found in the 
 excavate<l cities of Antony and Cleopatra. Other volumes have told the story of the loved old 
 SchoolmaRter, who^e familiar face and careful step are bright in the memory of hundreds of 
 to-day There are still among us those who remember Dr. Strachan, not only when in the teve 
 and yellow of ol.l age, but in active and lithe youth, either presiding over the Primal School 
 in Cornwall, or as director and central figure of the District School at York. 
 
 Examination of the Home District Grammar School in 1816. 
 
 So much discussion and legislation having taken place, chiefly in the House 
 of Assembly, during the years 1807-1816, in regard to the District (Grammar) 
 Schools, the following account of an annual examination of the Home District, or 
 « Old Blue School " at \'ork, (taken from the York Gazbtte}—\v\\\ be ftpp.ropriate 
 here. Ai the time of this examination, the Rev. Dr. Strachan was Head Master 
 
 M 
 
1816 
 
 Chap. XXVI. DISTRICT (grammar), or old blue school at YORK, 1816. 107 
 
 le the east 
 «d by the 
 16 lintel of 
 ose of th© 
 and. The 
 ack -plane, 
 irho, brusht 
 :>hat defied 
 b vary the- 
 u mode of 
 t inscribed 
 iioning the 
 lobby that 
 which wa» 
 t the east 
 I purposes, 
 lor opened 
 ;h the con- 
 it were not 
 le severity 
 le corners,, 
 
 the frame 
 Four square- 
 
 the angles 
 
 and lower 
 I behind a 
 ure of the 
 orush with 
 d a bowing 
 se that the 
 nooth. and 
 ork of the 
 ) of smoke, 
 
 the room, 
 e of a half- 
 »ces of the 
 ntre of the 
 ;ovemment 
 school was 
 Studious 
 lengthened 
 cental diet, 
 . and Jarvia 
 ip. . . . 
 imiles as he 
 in the slant 
 leaks in the 
 )und in the 
 le Lived old 
 lundreds of 
 
 in the ^e^e 
 imal tichool 
 
 816. 
 
 the House 
 Grammar) 
 District, or 
 
 lad Ma.ster 
 
 The subjects and scope of the examination show what a wide range of sub- 
 jects was embraced in the programme, and in addition to the curriculum of the 
 school. The Rev. Dr. Scadding, in his Toronto of Old, thus explains why it was 
 that the range of studies and of exercises in the school was so wide : — 
 
 It will be seen from the matters embraced in the programme that the object aimed at was a 
 speedy and real preparation for actual life. The Master, in this instance, was disembarrassed 
 of the traditions which . . . often rendered the education of a young man a cumbersome, 
 unintelligent and tedious thing, (Page 1(50.) 
 
 As to the " parliamentary debates " feature of these annual examinations, Dr. 
 Scadding, in his First Bishop of Toronto, a Review and a Study, says :— 
 
 The leading speeches of the great statesmen of England on special occasions were learned 
 and delivered niemoriter in proper order. Both sides of a discussion of interesting subjects in 
 politics became thus to some extent familiar. The speakers on the occasion of " debates " were 
 seated on benches set out for the purpose opposite to each other. It was with scenes such as 
 these that the hrst mantioued of the historic names of Pitt, Fox. Pultney, Wyndham, Burke, 
 Wellington the two Walpoles. (Robert and Horace.) Wilberforce and others, was associated 
 in the minds of many of the (after) public men of Upper Canada. These debates too formed a 
 part of the grand demonstration on the annual prize days before the summer vacation, (Page 23.) 
 
 Mr. J. Ross Robertson, in his history of the "Old Blue School" of York, 
 says : — 
 
 Parliamentary debates were of frequent occurrence in the school. On ordinary occasions 
 these took place in the main school room, but on public days they were held upstairs. These 
 debates consisted of the delivery of speeches somewhat abridged which had been made in the 
 House of Commons. 
 
 In addition to the influence on these young minds of such historic names in 
 modern English history, as Dr. Scadding has noted, the additional influence on 
 the thought, style and manner of these young Canadians of familiarity with the 
 very language of these famo- s men, must have been potent factors in their after 
 career on the Bench, at the Bar, and in the Army. 
 
 In an elaborate letter from Rev. Dr. Strachan to the Rev. A. N. (Bishop) 
 Bethune, written in 1829, on the " Management of Grammar Schools," he thus ex- 
 plains his mode of proceeding in conducting the elocution classes,— in which the 
 " parliamentary debates " were practiced. He said : — 
 
 This class consisted of such boys as were . . . already tolerable readers. Two of 
 these, in rotation, challenged each two boys to read a passage either in prose or verse. The 
 challenge was given one Monday, to be answered the next, and cou'd not be refused. The chal- 
 lengers selected different pieces from Walker, Murray, or the English Readers, etc. Thus six 
 boys out of the class read every Monday, and the best readers were marked in the Register 
 . . His class never failed to keep up a degree of excitement. 
 
 In addition to this method, debates were formed out of the elocution class . 
 After one or two trials, the day of decision was appointed, and the debate or debates,' were 
 heard in the presence of the whole school. It is not easy to describe the excitement which 
 generally appeared on such occasions. The greatest attention was paid to the different speakers. 
 The Master commonly appointed a committee to mark the smallest error, and he was himself 
 careful to note every impropriety in tone, sense, or accuracy. When the debate was over, he 
 compared his remarks with those of the Committee, and after weighing carefully both sides,' he 
 pronounced his decision. So perfect were the debates often that it was extremely difficult to 
 detern.ino in favour of either side. . . Per!>..".ps, tb.e v.'!-.r!« interest taken by the Maatcr in 
 these exercises gave them more importance with the boys, for, in a long series of years they 
 never ceased to be exceedingly popular, although they were attended with much labour. 
 
108 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1816 
 
 ; 
 
 Ordkr of the Examination of the School of thb Home District, at York, 
 
 7th August, 1816.* 
 
 Catechism Class. 
 
 John Skeldon ; Beggar's Petition ; Henry Mosley : The Man of Ross. 
 
 First atid Secwid English Reading Classes. 
 
 John Doyle : Barber and Dean Swift ; George Skeldon : Sir Balaam. 
 
 TJiird and Fourth Emjish Rmding Classes. 
 
 The Debate. — Who was the greatest Benefactor of the present age ? 
 
 Charles Heward (Dr. Johnson). James Myers (Mr. Burke), John Ridout (Lord Nelson), 
 Charles Ridout (Mr. Wilborforce), John Fitzgerald (Duke of Wellington), John Mosley (Dr. 
 Jenner). 
 
 iJass in English Orammar and in Latin Rvdiments. 
 
 Saltern Givons : The Ross ; James Sheehan . .VTaria ; Henry Heward : My Name is 
 Norval ; Allan McDonell : The Good Child ; William Allan : Do not mock the Old, etc. ; John 
 Boulton : Ant and Grasshopper ; William Myers : On Cleanliness ; James Bigolow : On Clean- 
 liness ; William Baldwin : The (Jirl and Locking (lilass ; St. George Baldwin : Humanity. 
 
 Cmss in Corderius' Colloquies, ami tu Contelius Nepos. 
 K. De Koven : The Female Exile ; John Knott : Fox and Pitt. 
 
 Class in Arithmetic ami in Book Keeping. 
 James Givens : The Soldier's Dream ; Horace Ridout : The Patriot. 
 
 Cla^s in Endid. 
 
 William Lancaster : The Contest between Eyes and Nose ; James McGill Strachan • Euloav 
 on Pitt. ""^ 
 
 Then follows in classeu in Geography, Natural H'story and Civil History. 
 
 Cla.»s in Religion, 
 
 A Parliamentary Debate in 1740, (George 2nd 's time) on a bill for preventing merchants 
 from niising the wages of seamen in time of war, and thereby inducing them to avoid His 
 Majesty's service. 
 
 Sir Charles Wagor, William Lancaster ; Mr. Fox, David McNabb ; Sir Robert Walpole'a Ist 
 Speech, John Harraway ; Sir John Bernard's Ist Speech, James McGill Strachan ; Sir Robert 
 Walpole's '2nd and 3rd Speeches, Robert Baldwin ; Mr. Gibbon : Henry Nelles ; Sir John 
 Bernard's 2ud Speech, llorace Ridout; Mr. Pitt's Speeohes, John Glaus; Sii John Bernard, 
 Warren Claus ; Mr. Horace Walpile. David Shaw; Mr. Winningtm, Daniel Murray; Mr. 
 Littleton, Jamea Givins ; Epilogue by Maater Robert Baldwin. 
 
 a 
 
 The prolo^e by John Glaus is inserted at the end of the protrramme. 
 
 Lei 
 
1816 
 
 Chap. XXVI. DISTRICT (GRAMMAR), OR OLD BLUE SCHOOL AT YORK, 181G. 109 
 
 RK, 
 
 Nelson), 
 Dsley (Dr. 
 
 Name is 
 sc. ; John 
 )n Clean- 
 iianity. 
 
 
 : Eulogy 
 
 pROLoouB BY Master John Claus. 
 
 The noble lire wliich palsied Briton's foes, 
 In kind affection on her children glows. 
 Her gen'rous hand thrir various wants supplies 
 1 ho far reniov'd to cold or burning skies ; 
 
 A i'i!r*^^® ''-***' "^^^^0 Brahma's guilty pow'r 
 And Mecca's Lord with thickning darkness low'r. 
 Where tyrant custt.m cloth'd in terror reigns 
 And buperstition forges baneful chains 
 K A? '*°I*'^-''^*'«'f to Genius is denied. 
 And dastard men to slavish cases are tied, 
 tireat Albion smiles, the beams of science rise 
 lo cheer the Soul beneath these Orient Skies, 
 Her mighty Viceroys point the glorious sway 
 *or radiant truth to gain imperial way, 
 Ihe Arts and Sciences for ages lost, 
 Rous'd at their call revisit Brahma's coast ; 
 J^eace, liberty and justice from the t-ain 
 Ihat wait on knowledge thro' this rich domain, 
 Dark Superstition trembles at the sight, 
 Mahomet shrinks and damns the hated light : 
 Nor on the East alone does BriUin smile? 
 Her strong affection warms this Western Soil, 
 * or Science rising in the gloomy woods 
 Begins to dissipate the lowering clouds 
 And many proudly in her service glow 
 As here we hope by solid proof to glow. 
 To-day you find her radiant course^begun, 
 Yet much remains for some aspiring Son, 
 
 «ru-T ^''^®^*' ^""^ ^'■O'" that desires renown 
 Which gams for Welieslev a lasting crown • 
 aome gen'ral structure in these wilds to rear 
 When every Art and science may appear. 
 O happy Gore ! this proud distiction woos 
 Thy quick acceptance, back'd by every Muse, 
 Ihose feelm-s too when joyful fancy knew 
 When learning's gems Hrst opened to my view 
 Bid you to thousands smooth the stormy road 
 Which leads to gracious Science's sweet abode. 
 U think ! what honour pure shall bless thy name 
 Beyond the fleeting voice of vulgar fame, 
 VV hen Kings and haughty Victors cease to raise 
 Ihe secret murmur, or the venal praise 
 Perhaps that name, when Europe's glories fade 
 Shall often charm this Academic shade. 
 And bards exclaim on rough Ontario' shore 
 We found a Wellesley and Jones in Gore.* 
 
 nerchants 
 void His 
 
 Ipole'a Ist 
 
 ir Robert 
 
 Sir John 
 
 Bernard, 
 
 •ay ; Mr. 
 
 Course of Study Suggested by the Rev. Dr. Strachan as Suitable for 
 
 District Grammar Schools. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Strachan, in his letter to the Rev. A. N. Bethune. thus sketched 
 a course of study for Grammar Schools, ba^ed on liis own practice and experience. 
 
 First Yent—Bona from 7 to 'J. 
 1st. Lat!n.-Eu,n Grammar ; Vocabulary ; Cordorius ; Selects e Profanis. 
 
 2nd. Exalish. — Mavor's Snt.}]in" T?no'' ■ Fnfi If!'- T «' •• • T 
 
 Losson ^na^r's Class Book ;-fcglLh Gramma; ; Z^^ ^J^':;^^^::^^^^--^'^'^ 
 •The Lieutenant-Governor at this time-Francis Gore, Esquire, andii^ Wmi;;;;rj^;;;;; 
 
 «tf.iaW»(S 
 
110 
 
 DOCUMENTARY IIIBTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1816 
 
 Second Year- Boys from 9 to 11. 
 
 Ist. Latin — Grammar ; V(ili)y'8 Delectus ; New Teataiuont ; Daley's Exercisea ; Exampla 
 Minora ; Eutropius ; Phwdrus | Cornelius Nepos. 
 
 2nd. Eiujlish — Grnnimar and Reading, as before ; Writing and Arithmetic (mental and 
 mixed) ; Geography ; Civil and Natural Ilistory and Elocution. 
 
 3rd. — To commence French. 
 
 Third Year— Boys from 11 to IS. 
 
 Ist. Latin — Grammar ; Bailey's Exercises ; Cornelius Nepos ; Ciesar ; Ovid's Metamor- 
 poses ; Nonsense Verses ; Psalms into Latin Verse ; Exampla Moralia ; Versions, or rendering 
 English into Latin. 
 
 2nd. Greek. — To commence about the middle of the third year : Eton Grammar, or Nelson's 
 edition of Moore's Grammar ; Greek Vocabulary ; New Testament ; Greek Exercises. 
 
 3rd. i'nf/iw/i.— Grammar ; Writing; Elocution; Civil and Natura. History; Geography 
 Ancient and Modern ; English Composition. 
 
 4th. Arithmetic. — And to commence Algebra. 
 
 6th. French. 
 
 Fourth Year — Boys from IS to 1 4. 
 
 Ist. Latin. — Grammar ; Terence ; Virgil ; Horace ; Sallust ; Cicero ; Livy ; Latin composi- 
 tion, verse and prose ; Grotius de Veritate ; Exampla Moralia. 
 
 2nd. Oreek. — Eton Grammar ; Gneca Minora ; Greek and Latin Testament ; Xenopho.i ; 
 Homer. 
 
 8rd. Eiuflish. — Grammar and Composition ; Civil and Natural History ; Geography, Ancient 
 and Modern ; use of the globes ; construction of maps. 
 
 4th. Mathematics. — Arithmetic ; Book-keeping ; Algebra ; Euclid, 
 
 5th. French. 
 
 Fifth Year— Boys from Uto 16. 
 
 Ist. Latin. — Virgil ; Horace ; Livy ; Juvenal ; Tacitus ; Composition, in prose and verse. 
 
 2nd. Oreek. — Grseca Majora ; Homer ; Thucidides ; Composition, in prose and verse. 
 
 3rd. English. — Grammar and Co oposition ; Elocution ; Civil and Natural History ; Geo- 
 graphy, Ancient and Modern ; Use of the globes ; Construction of maps. 
 
 4th. Mathematics. — Algebra ; Euclid ; Trigonometry ; Application to heights and distances; 
 Surveying ; Navigation ; Dialling ; Elements of Astronomy, etc. 
 
 5th. French. 
 
 In his practical remarks on this course of study, Dr. Strachan said : 
 
 It will be seen by in8i)ecting this course of study that the boys, during the first years, are 
 carefully exercised in reacting their own language, and they continue to be so exercised until 
 they are fit to be removed into the Elocution class. 
 
 After pointing out what he, by experience, found to be the proper time given 
 to classes in Writing, Arithmetic, etc., he added : 
 
 The classes in Civil History, Geography, Natural History, English Grammar and Composi- 
 tion, embracing a ])eriod of five or six years, cannot fail of producing great intellectual improve- 
 ment. BesideH, the number of branches of kiiowledt;e recommended, in addition to classical 
 literature, is not only suitable to the ])re.sent age, but affords almost a certainty that every pupil 
 will find some one at least ada))ted to his taste and capacity, and in which he may excel. 
 
 As to Dr. Strachan's experience in giving this opinion and advice, he says : 
 
 In presenting a detailed account of the mode of carrying this course of study into effect, I 
 do not milulgo in any imaginary process, but give the actual practice of a school which tiourished 
 twenty-five years in this Province. . . . Letter to Rev. A. N. Bethune, IS29. (Pages 5-9, 
 and 24, 25.) 
 
1816 
 
 138 ; Exampla 
 (mental and 
 
 's Metamor- 
 or rendering 
 
 r, or Nel8on'» 
 ises. 
 
 ; Geography 
 
 vtin composi- 
 
 Xenopho.i ; 
 
 phy, Ancient 
 
 le and verse, 
 verse, 
 istory ; Geo- 
 
 nd dlBtances; 
 
 Bt years, are 
 erciaod until 
 
 time given 
 
 nd Compoei- 
 ual improve- 
 to classical 
 b every pupil 
 xcel. 
 
 , he says : 
 
 into eflfect, I 
 
 ill riourished 
 
 (Pages 5-9, 
 
 Chap. XXVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE. 1817. 
 
 Ill 
 
 MiDLANi. District Board of Elucation.* 
 xjifl Axcolloiioy the T iah^o *■ n 
 gentlemen f.. be MeraberH of tTe Board" n'f''F?l^? P'eaaed to appoint the undermentioned 
 
 «'f^«"ty «f the [ninth section othel re r^LS^ ?'c*^" ^''^>"*^ ^''^"'^' ""''^^ ^^e 
 
 estabhshmont of Common Schools U i^r^o ** ^*>«>«^«»'«n "^ the Legislature for the 
 
 Allen McLean. Peter Smith. Alexander FisT.er andTa^ml McSb!"''" ^*""'' ""' ^"^•'^"" 
 
 LIKUTBNANT-GOVERNOR'S OfFICE, 
 
 VoHK, 1st of August, 1816. 
 
 By Order. 
 
 Edward McMahon, 
 
 Secretary, 
 
 The Kin ton 1 ^'^""''" ""^ ™^ Kingston Librahy, 1816. 
 p.m. at^the cS^H^i.''^ '''" ^^ "^^^ every Monday from 11 o'clock a.m. until ten o'clock 
 
 shillfngi'Sryerr.'^^rn'ffi William Mitchell, at thirty 
 
 the treasurer of five pounds as a security Snst thS' '"? f "hscnbmg, and a deposit left with 
 
 Subscribers are to considpr th^^. \ against the low of books. 
 
 Persons having in tCr tasessbn hnnr^^'f ' *" '^' '^^^' «^ the Library, 
 them into the Libmiy without delay "^' ^"'""«'"« *« **>'« library are requested to return 
 
 KiNGSToM, February 1, 1816. Charles Anderson, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII 
 
 .wJ^'^''"^,"! dbcu«on, however, took place on the subject of both an,l 
 cZ "-e made to ameud the District (Grammar) School Act of 1807 and the 
 Common School Act of the year before. These efforts were abortive as 21 
 sess.„„ was abruptly closed by the Lieutenant-Oovcrnor. (See note on page IM) 
 Pkoceedinqs op the House op Assembly in 1817. 
 
 As this was a new Parlian.ent, several new names appear as Members of the 
 House of Assembly. Among those who took part in its educational proceedings 
 were most of the old members and a few of the new, as follow. • MessburjoZ 
 Jones, Robert Nicho., Philip VauKoughnet, Peter' Robinson otgerH. 
 Mahlon Burwell, Robert Nelles and Isaac Fraser. 
 
 Mr. Robert Niohol was elected for the County of Norfolk in 1813 1817 
 
 a„ ,„ 1820. He distinguished him,self as Quarte„/aster-«c„er 1 in h „ r of" 
 
 8 2 and^reccvedagold medal for his conduct at the capture of Detroit He 
 
 ost h,s hfc H, May, 1824, by driving over the cliff between Stamford and Qucfa- 
 
 sfcoa m a stormy night. Sjuccn- 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
112 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IK UPPF.R CANADA. 
 
 1817 
 
 iff 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet waa elected a Member of the House of Assembly 
 in 1817, 1820 and 1825. He was afterwards appointed a member of the Legis- 
 lative Council. 
 
 Mr Peter Rohinson represented the East Riding of York in 1817 and 1820. 
 «' He was instrumental in settling the region in which our Canadian Peterborough 
 i8 situated, and from him that town has its nan.e." (Rev. Dr. Scaddings' Toronto 
 q/ Old, page 483.) 
 
 Mr Jonas Jones took part in the war of 1812. He was elected for the 
 County of GrenviUe in 1817. 11,820, 1825, and for Leeds in 1836. In the follow- 
 ing year he was appointed a Puisne Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench. He 
 
 died in 1848. 
 
 91 »t Ffhmarv 7«/r.-Mr. Jonas .L.nes gave notice that he will, on Monday next, move foi 
 leavf to bnng i,?a Bill <> amend an Act passed in the foity-seventh year of H.s Majosty s reign 
 aS7>CtiX ''An Act to establish Public School, in each aud every D.stnctn this P.o- 
 \S' to eXul the provisions thereof, and for other purposes therem mentioned. 
 
 ostj, Fehrnani 1817 -Aureeably to notice. Mr. .lonas Jones, seconded by Mr. Robert 
 
 S.b !olI in'oach and e'very District in this Pro^mc. ," .hich was granted, and the Bill was read. 
 
 * *^"Mr"jonas Jones, seconded by Mr. Philip Van Koughnet, moved that the Bill to amend the 
 District" (Grauunar) School Act of 1807 be read a second time to-morrow, which was ordered. 
 
 Ut Mmch 1817. -m. Jonas J.-nes, seconded by Mr. Peter Robinson, moved That James 
 Dura'lXui're aMemberof this House, after being heard in h« ;lef»^nc«; ''hdo the H.u^^^^^ 
 Se nio c/,n8ideratioa an Address of the fourteenth ultimo, published m the 6t. Damd » 
 Zxtator, of which he i. the reputed author. This motion was carried. 
 
 Mr Robert Nichol seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moved that the addreps signed James 
 nnr»nd"t the Ii dope ident Electors of the County of Wentworth, as published in che SL 
 K^^Sprl^^r.fTlK fourteenth of February l.u.t. be now read which was c«".ed xna he 
 nane waT ead [ hat pan relating to schools was) as follows : " i he Common School BiK .v hich 
 
 challenge reference. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^_^^^_^^ (Grammar) School Bill d^O^), brmight 
 
 1 UKewise PI Session, tirst w th one thousand pounds (tl,{HK)) a 
 
 with contempt."* , ^. ■ . ,r^ ^ cm, .,.i 
 
 m March, /,s^/7.-Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the District (Grammar) School 
 
 Amen.lment Bill was read a second time. 
 
 . chair. _^ - — — 
 
 ~rThUH„n..ofABBe";;^V declared that the Address, .(of which tlie^l.ove are^xtraote), was a Ubel.on 
 MemboVsof the House, and Bent.nced Mr l^^-^^H; ^ut'wL'VT^cJ^'^c^^rin IsTa "it is ratWasingu 
 
€hap. XXVII. EDUCATIONAH PROCEEDINOS OP U. C. LEQISLATURE, 1817. 
 
 lis 
 
 (Grammar) School 
 
 le.ve^io^tTgir.^o'oTrow.'"'""^ '^' ^'^*''' ^'^ '*°*'''"°" '^^^"^ proKre.s, and > .u,.^ 
 
 to .ifagSlrrow:' '""""' '''' ''''*'^' '^''•- ^^"»''"-- ^«P-*- P^««"". -^"^ "Stained leave 
 
 «o much of the Order of the Day af relSes to hr ' "^''""^"^ ^'^ ^'{ ^'''"'^ ?'*=''"'' '""^'''^ '»>»* 
 Bill bo now diHcharged, which was ordered '^"'^ '" "" ^'"'"'^'"^"t *« ^^e Common School 
 
 AmenCnt'^iti: a^KL^J^^^ Schatr"""" '^''"* "'^° ^"'""""^^ "" ^'^ »''*'-* «<='^-« 
 
 Ame!fdmenrBm'as'a3er"T^^ rt.rt'wr^e'''- V"'""'^" "P^^^^'* '''^ ^'^^^^ «*=^-' 
 Oornwall, Peter Robinson isJcSwavxe Rolnh p/' /""T" ""S P'-«''«"t: Messieurs J,«hua 
 MahKmBurwell Geori.« R hIii ,*J'''«; '^«'P'> Clench, Jonas Jones, Philip Van Kouahnet 
 
 Howard S's^rJohniUiu rZ7 1^'r't'u'^''^^'^"' '^'"«* Casey.^PeLr 
 Isaac Fraser. Jan.es Cotter and J.l"ciyslcr' ""' ^'"'*'" McCoruuck, Robert Nichol. 
 
 called;%fNSol!sec.mdLdt H^!.''^?""'=,^^^'^•'«^ Amendment Bill being 
 
 which motion was ^S.t^Af Jat'l' rvlJtU^r.rctroT^S 
 
 Onierelualh^iY^oTt beT^elved ''"'''' '"'• ^^^^"^'^ ^«P°^*«^ ^^« -"' Villas amended. 
 
 Mr. Nichol, seconded by Mr. Hall, moved thui- Hi« r»;.f^;«(. o u i a 
 engrossed, and read a third time to-monC which was orJered "^ Amendu.ent Bill be 
 
 14th March, 1817.- 
 ment Bill being called, 
 
 ,rd,";i,li;:fth?E";rbr;s;!s. *='""• "'■ '""■'"»■' "'■»"«' "«' ■"■' ""> •"■"-i.d. 
 
 Mr. Burwell, seconded by Mr. Nichol, moved that Messrs 7onfl« »n,i w.n u n 
 to carry up to the Honourable the Degislat ve Com dl the D strict SpWI Y ? *" Committee 
 to request their concurrence thereto. Which was ordered Amendment Bdl and 
 
 ^0^/. MarcK i*27.-The following Message from the Legislative Council was received - 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 ll.^2'o,''Z::^.:^^^^lt^^ with the commons 
 
 currence of this House intituled ^' An Ar/fiy'L^ i^m, sent up from Ihem, for the con- 
 for esUblishing Dist^Jkt Scho .U in U et eml DiP^fof 'tr ' V" """"^ '^! ''^^«* ""^^ '» ^"^«« 
 the provisions' of the Ban'e, a.ul'dso tr.";l?pSe J^ Y^'l "^ '^''''"^ 
 
 therein mentioned." ppropriate certam sums of money for the purposes 
 
 8 (D.E.) 
 
 -The Order of the Day for third reading of the District School Amend- 
 
114 
 
 D<K:UMENTARY history of education in upper CANADA. 
 
 1818 
 
 ;i 
 
 ^^H 
 
 The Couimittee of the Hoimu ruble the Leginlative Council, cun»i«ting of two menihuni, will 
 bo reiidy to incot, the Coiiiniittee of the CommiFiu' Houio of AMeinbly in the Legiaktive Council 
 Chamber at ten o'clock of the forenoon of t«)-morrow. 
 
 Wm. Dummbr Powell, 
 
 1 Speitker. 
 
 LsuutATivE Council Chambbk, 
 
 20^h Mnnh, 1.817. 
 
 Mr. Robert Nichol, •econdecJ by Mr. Ibiuic Franor, moved that it bo resolved thst the Bill 
 sent to the Honourable the Lcgis'ativo Council from thia House, intitulod " An Act to ropoal 
 
 gkft of, and to amend the laws, now in force for establishing District Schools in the several 
 istricts of this Province, itnd further to extend the provisions of the same, and also to appro- 
 Eriate certain sums of money for the ])ur{)ose8 therein mentioned," being a money Bill, this, 
 [ouse canno"; accede to the retiuost of the Honourable the Legislative Coiuicil for a conference 
 upon the subject matter thereof, and hope that the reason now assigned will be sufficient. Which 
 was carried and resolved accordingly. 
 
 Mr. Burwell, seconded by Mr. Nelles, moved that Messieurs Robinson and Crysler be a Com- 
 mittee to carry uj> to the Honourable the Legislative Council the Resolution of this House in 
 answer to their Message of this day. Which was ordered. 
 
 £8th March, 1S17.--Mt. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled " An Act to repeal ])art of, and amend the 
 laws, now in force for est^iblishing District Schools in the several Districts of thi-i Province, and 
 further to extend the provisions of the same ; and also to ai>propriate certain sums of money for 
 the purposes therein mentioned." Sent up from this House, which they had passed with 
 some amendments, which they recommended to the adoption of this House. 
 
 Sid March, 1817. — Mr. Peter Robinson gava notice that he will, on to-morrow, move for 
 leave to bring in a School Bill. 
 
 Note. — This Bill was, however, not brought in, as the Legislature was sum- 
 marily prorogued on the 7th of April by Lieutenant-Governor Gore. 
 
 The cause of this sudden and unexpected procedure was Lieutenant-Governor 
 Gore's objection to an enquiry into " the '^tate of the Province," wh'jh had just 
 then commenced a few days previously in the House of Assembly.* 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY 
 
 IN 1818. 
 
 Note. — There baing no record of the proceedings of the Legislative Council 
 of 1818 preserved in either of the Parliamentary Libraries at Ottawa or Toronto^ 
 I shall be unable to insert any of its proceedings here, except such messages from 
 the Council as may be recorded in the proceedings of the House of Assembly. 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor, Francis Gore, Esquire, left for England early in 
 1817, " not recalled," (Rev. Dr. Scadding says, in his Toronto oj Old, page 361), "as 
 it would seem, but purposing to give an account of himself in his own person." He 
 
 •Mr. McMuUen, in hin History of Canada (1891), thus describes the event : " Pileven reRolutions had been 
 framed for the consideration of the Assembly ; the first three of which were merely of a prefatory character, 
 and adopted after some discussion. The Assembly then adjourned until the f ollowinp Monday morning, 
 .L ij^y \e A -,--;i^ T« k-<,'i >.,.••; TTie** si^*^ the miRutes were sbout to ber^^d. wh^n^ without previoija noticQ^ 
 the members were summoned to the bar of the Legislative Council, where Gore awaited them and at once 
 proceeded to prorogue the House in a brief si^eoh of three paragraphh in length." (Volume I, page 427. > 
 The members who promoted the en«|uiry wpre Messieurs Nichol, Burwell, Robinson, Fraser and Cameron. 
 The two resolutions on the subject was carried by a vote of thirteen to six. 
 
Chap. XVIII BDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LFOIILATURK, 1818. 115. 
 
 vas sum- 
 
 nnna nrtf-iRA. 
 
 never rstanwd." On Governor Oore'n leaving Canada, the Honourable Samuel 
 Smith, a Member of the Legislativ, ■ 'ouncil, becarre, not President, but Adminis- 
 trator of the Goverament. (>n the tilth of Febi a ..y, IH[H, he opened the Hecond 
 session of the Seventh Parliament with the usual Speooh fnHn the Throna In it 
 he made no reference either to schools or to education. 
 
 The members who took part in the educational lejjislation of 1818 were 
 Messieurs Philip VanKoughnet, Peter Robinson. John Cameron, Isaac Fraser, 
 James Cotter, Mahlon Bur.^ell. James Durand, David Secord, Jonas Jones. John 
 Crysler, Robert Nelles, George B. Hall, Zaccheus Burnham and Peter Howard. 
 The best known of these members I have already referred to. 
 
 9lh Fel^r^taru, 1818 -Mr. Philip VanKoughnot gave notice that he will, on to-morrow 
 nu mIT r- ' " • ''Ti'L,!i\ " "'" .*",''''«^ ""^ '^"'""'l *" Act p«,ed in the forty-Beve h yc«T of 
 S.trn?^ fV. '^'^'V^^^*^.*' "'5'^"'«d " An Act to e,tabli.l, Kbho Soh.H)U in each an/everv 
 DLtnct of this Province," an.l to extend the provision* of the same. ^ 
 
 hv ^iTv^'lT"^' ^^^*— A8^«-oHbly to the Order of the Day, Mr. Philip VanKoughnet. reoonded 
 by Mr. Peter Robinson, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and a nend an Act iMuisedJn the 
 n P^; f In I ^""n^ ?'".^;'Jr*^„' ''''8" <'»'^7). intituled " An Act to establish P.E Sch. oS 
 w.™ A^ ^ ^.^{"^'p-n**^ ^^^ Pr"!""'^-" «nd to extend the provisions of the same Whkh 
 was agreed to, and the Bill was read the first time 
 
 /n ^^' ^w''J.P VanKouglmet, seconded by Mr. John Cameron, moved that the District 
 (Grammar) bchool Amendment Bill be read a second time to morro^. Which was orde.T 
 
 AmendL^tS^Li^id-tteSStre'^^"^^^ '''''''"''' "'« ^^«*"^^ ^«— » «^^-» 
 
 Mr Philip VanKouglmet. seconded bv Mr. IsaHc Fraser. moved that the House do now 
 
 '"i^^f'^'^^'f-'rC^^I^'tt^^ to take into consideration the District (Or«m.narV 
 
 moJJ'w. ^""'^ ^""'"^ '""'"'''' ^"- ^''"''" """P"""** '"■"8"'"' »"^ ^"^ '^-^^^ "> «it again to- 
 
 ni.^ii?/'''"""'''^ i^i^T?'^ ^""'•^ ^«"* '"*" Committee on the second reading of the 
 District (Grammar) School Amendment Bill, Mr. James Cotter in the chair. ^ 
 
 The House having resumed Mr. Cotter reported the Bill as amended. Ordered That the 
 Report be received^ Mr. VanKoughnet. seconded by Mr. Robinson, n^oved thaJ the Orstricf 
 SZT Amendment Bill be engrossed and read a third tin.; to-morrow Which was 
 
 ♦ 1 ,{f'»,f^''^'*«7;J*''^— Mr. Peter Robinson, seconded by Mr. Philip VauKoutfhnet moved 
 that the Order of the Day as relates to the third reading of the District Grrmmar; ^T. i 
 Amendment Bill be discharged, Which was carried. i^wtrict (Grammar) School 
 
 (Note.— For some unexplained reason, this Grammar School Amendment 
 
 Bill, originally introduced by Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, was. with his consent as 
 
 seconder of the motion, dropped. The Bill introduced on the next day by Mr 
 
 Burwell proposed to entirely repeal the Act of 1807, which Mr. VanKoughnet's 
 
 Bill just dropped, only proposed to amend. After Mr. Burwell had introduced 
 
 his Grammar School Repeal Bill, Mr. VanKoughnet sought to reconsider or rather 
 
 remtroduce, his Bill. This he did after Mr. Burwell's repeal Bill had been 
 
 rejected. It is possible that an agreement had been entered into between Mr 
 
 VanKoughnet and Mr. Burwell thus to te.st thR vi«w« of t>^- w^..=p ^r i-h- i 
 
 — • ^- <•••'• « lA/tise on ttiu .sub- 
 
 ject of an amendment to the District (Grammar) School Act of 1807, or its total 
 repeal. No reason is, however, assigned for the proceeding.) 
 
 1 
 
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116 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1818 
 
 14th February, 1818. — Mr. Mahlon Burwell, seconded by Mr. James Durand, moved for 
 leave to bring in, on Monday next, a Bill to repeal the laws (of 1807 and 1808) now in force to 
 establish Public (Grammar) Schools in each and every District of this Province. On which the 
 House dividijd, and the yeas and nays were as follows : — 
 
 Yeas. — Messieurs Cotter, Casey, Durand, Swazey, McMartin, Burwell, Butt, Secord, Nelles 
 .ane McDonell, 10. 
 
 Nays. — Messieurs Jones, VanKoughnet, Fraser, Cameron, Crysler, Howard, Clench and 
 Burnham, 8. z 
 
 The motion was carried in the affirmative by a majority of two, and was so ordered. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet gave notice that he will, on Monday next, move that the House 
 do resolve itself into a Committee to re-consider the District (Grammar) School Amendment 
 Bill which he had introduced. 
 
 IGth Fehmary, J.^i^.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, Mr. Mahlon Burwoll's District 
 (Grammar) School Repeal Bill was brought in and read. 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell, seconded by Mr. Uavid beeord, moved that the Bill to repeal tlie 
 District Grammar School Bill be read a second time to-morrow. In amendment to which Mr. 
 Jonas Jones, seconded by Mr. John Crysler, nio'ed that the word " to-morrow" be expunged, 
 and that " this day throe months " to inserted. Which was carried. 
 
 Agreeable to notice, Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. James McNabb, moved 
 that his District (Grammar) School Amendment Bill bo now rocommitted. Which was carried, 
 and Mr. James Cotter took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Cotter reported progress, and had leave tosit again to-morrow. 
 
 18th Febrvary, ISlS.—AgreeMy to the Order of the Day the House went into Committee 
 on the District (Grammar) Scliool Amendment Bill. 
 
 20th February, iiS;^.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee 
 on the District G mm mar School Amendment Bill, Mr. Cotter in tne chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Cotter rejjorted the Bill amended. Ordered, That the 
 report be received, ivlr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Peter Robinson, moved that 
 the District (Griimmar) School Amendment Bill be engrossed and read a third time on Tuesday 
 next. Which was ordered. 
 
 2Jith February, 1818.- -Agroeahly to the Order of the Day, the District (Grammar) School 
 Amendment Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Philij) VanKoughnet, sec<mded by Mr. .Jonas Jones, moved that the said School Bill 
 do now pass, and that it be intituled '• An Ac^ to repeal part of, and amend, the laws now in 
 force for establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the several Districts of this Province, and 
 further to extend the provisions of the same." Mr. John Crysler, in amendment, stjconded by 
 Mr. Peter Robinson, moved that the District (Grammar) School Amandment Bill do not now 
 l)M8, and that the same be re-committed. On which the House divided, and the Yeas and 
 Nays were taken, as follows : — 
 
 Ykas. — Messieurs Robinson and Crysler-^ 2. 
 
 Nays. — Messieurs Swayze, Jones, VanKoughnet, Durand, Cameron. Hatt, McMartin, 
 Burnham, Burwell, Howard, McDonell, Cotter and Nelles — 13. 
 
 It was carried in the negative by a majority of eleven. The original question was then jiut 
 and carried, and the Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell, seconded by Mr. Robert Nelles, moved that Messieurs VanKoughnet 
 and Cameron be a Committee to carry uj) to the Honouralile the LegislHtive Council the I is- 
 trict School Amendment Bill, and to request their concurrence therein. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, of the Committee to carry uj) to the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council the Bill intituled "An Act to repeal part of, ai'd to amend, the laws now in force for 
 establishing District Schools in the several Districts of this Province," and to rttjuest their con- 
 currence thereto, re])orted having done so. 
 
 3rd March, 1818.— Mr. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council a Message, which was read as follows : — 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Honourable the Legislative Council return to the House of Assembly a Bill 
 intituled "An Act to repeal part of the laws now in force for establishing District ((Jrammar) 
 Schools in the seveial ni«trict- of this Province," which they have passtd with some amend- 
 ments, which they recommend to the adoption of the House of Assembly, 
 
 Wm. Dummkr Powell, 
 
 Speaker. 
 Leoihlative Council Chamber, 
 
 3rd March, 1818. 
 
 1^ 
 
1818 
 
 nd, moved for 
 
 low ill force to 
 
 On which the 
 
 Secord, Nelles 
 
 i. Clench and 
 
 dered. 
 
 lat the House 
 
 >l Amendment 
 
 rwoU's District 
 
 I to repeal the 
 to which Mr. 
 ' be expunged, 
 
 cNiibb, moved 
 ih was carried, 
 
 ain to-morrow, 
 ito Committee 
 
 nto Committee 
 
 sred, That the 
 n, moved that 
 ne on Tuesday 
 
 .mmar) School 
 
 id School Bill 
 he laws now in 
 
 Province, and 
 t, 8t)conded by 
 ill do not now 
 
 the Yeas and 
 
 itt, McMaitin, 
 
 n was then put 
 
 VanKoughnet 
 uncil the I is- 
 was ordered. 
 :he Legislative 
 :iw in force for 
 uest iheir con- 
 
 own from the 
 
 embly a Bill, 
 "ict (Grammar) 
 1 eome amend- 
 
 iVELL, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Chap. XXVIII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1818. 1^7 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell, seconded by Mr. Gporge B. HaU, moved that it be resolved that, as 
 the amendments made by the Honourable the Legislative Council to the District School Repeal 
 Bill do not, in any manner, affect the raising, or, disposing, of money, this House will not exer- 
 cise its undoubted right to reject all amendments made to money Bills, and that the said 
 amendments be now read. Which was carried, and the amendments made by the Legislative 
 Council to the Bill intituled. "An Act to repeal part of, and to amend, the laws now in force for 
 establishing District Schools in the several Districts of this Province," were then read the firsttime, 
 
 Mr. Jonas Jones, seconded by Mr. Zaccheus Burnham, moved that the ameadments to the 
 District (Grammar) School Amendment Bill be road a second time to-morrow. Which was. 
 ordered. 
 
 4th March, ISlS.—Agreeahly to the Order of the Day, the amendments to the BQ! 
 intituled, " An Act to repeal part of, and to amend, the laws now in force for establishing Dis- 
 trict (Grammar) Schools in each and every District of this Province," were read the second time. 
 .. ,J^^- Jonas Jones, seconded by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, moved that the House do now resolve 
 ^elf into a Committee of the Whole, to take into consideration the amendments made by the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council to the said District (Grammar) School Bill. Which was 
 •arned, and Mr. James Durand took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Durand reported the amendments. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. James Fraser, moved that the Report be not 
 received. Which was lost. The original motion was then put, and the House divided there- 
 upon, when the Veas and Nays were taken down, as follows :— 
 
 « YEAw^Messieurs Clench, Durand, McDonell, Robinson, Hatt, McMartin, Howard, Jones, 
 Burwell, Burnham, Secord, Nelles, Cotter and Crysler— 14. 
 
 Nays.— Messieurs VanKoughnet, Fraser, Cameron and Casey— 4. 
 
 It was carried in the affirmative by a majority of ten, and the amendments were adopted. 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell, seconded by Mr. Peter Howard, moved that Messieurs Durand and 
 Matt be a Committee to acquaint the Honourable the Legislative Council that this House has 
 adopted tlie ainendments made by their Honourable House to the District (Grammar) School 
 Amendment Bill. Which was ordered. , 
 
 Mr. Isaac Fraser, seconded by Mr. Peter Robinson, moved that the Petition of the 
 Honourable and Reverend John Strachan, praying for aid towards the education of Church of 
 c^ngland Divinity students, be now read. 
 
 Note.— This Petition had been presented to House of Assembly and laid 
 on the Table of the Holise on the 26th February, 1818. 
 
 Which was agreed to, and the Petition was read as follows and referred. 
 
 To the Honourable the Comtnom House of Assembly of Upper Caimda, in ProviucM Parliametvt 
 Assembled. 
 
 The Petition of John Strachan, D.D., Humbly t-hewe'h, 
 
 ... That your petitioner has been nearly twenty years engaged in the education of the youth of 
 this Province, and with a degree of success which your Honourable House can now sutticientlv 
 appreciate. ^ 
 
 That he has been frequently applied to by the parents of the pupils, not only to advise 
 them as to their future destinatio.i, but to assist in settling them in the world. 
 
 That next to the Professions of the Law and Commerce, the Church oflfers a growing pro- 
 vision for the young men of this Province, but. from the nature and length of the preparation, 
 almost entirely beyond their roach, as their parents are unable to support them so long 
 unemployed, this difficulty operate* in so ae insto.its, so grievously that V'our Petitioner was 
 induced to educate several of his scholars for the Church, at his own particular charge. 
 
 That Your Petitioner, convinced from exparience that the Church might be supplied with 
 respectable clergymen brought up and educated amonii us, and feeling his means inadequate to 
 contniue. much Icsi to multiply the sacritioes hewasthori making, did, in May 1812, represent 
 to the Lord Bishop at Quebec the great hardships sustained by this Province from the want of 
 clergymen, and the still greater liardship.s to the inhabitants of having this honourable profes- 
 sion ma manner shut up from their children and given to strangers ; requesting His Lordship 
 
 to lav the casn hnfuro " Tho $S.^/>i<Af.r r,.- n,„ r>. 
 
 ?p3j;atu)ii of the Guspul in Foreign parts," and 
 
 «.„„*-*.„ iu • i. r !• ^ ■ ■." • I -'i,3„ai.i^jii ^.1 lUD \juspvi. m J oreicn pares, ana 
 
 to state the propriety of making a yearly allowance to a limited number of young men from the 
 age of eighteen to twenty-three, the period of Ordination, the money to be repaid, if any 
 of them changed their minds during their studies ; offering at the same time, to conduct their 
 education and give them the use of his library, without puttingthem to any expense. 
 
'^ 
 
 118 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1818 
 
 That the Lord Bishop of Quebec entered warmly into the views of Your Petitioner, and, in 
 1815, procured from the Society a grant of two hundred pounds per annum, for four students 
 in Divmity, accompanied witli an expectation that, as their funds were not large, and depend 'd 
 greatly upon anmml donations, that the ioKislature of Upper Canada would in a short time 
 relieve them from tins burden, by extending the provision and supplying the same from the 
 Provincial Revenue, the more especially as the Society contributes one hundred pounds sterling 
 per annum, towards the support of every clergyman that settles in the Province. 
 
 That, in England, young men destined for the Church receive aid in the prosecution of 
 their studies, from the foundations of their different Colleges, but, in this country, there are no 
 
 such resources, and, while 11 other professions a young man commences at twenty-one in this 
 he must be twenty-three. ' 
 
 Thatasmallappropriation, sufficient for a number of young men equal to the nu 
 stricts, in addition to those who, at present, enjoy the bounty of the Society, would 
 ovmce ina few yeara, with a respectable clergy, natives of the country, and pari 
 
 Districts 
 Pr, 
 
 John Stracuan. 
 
 lumber of 
 fill the 
 
 Si^'^''""'''^^''^^''"'''^^*''^®"^*''''^ '"*""^"^*^^^^^ cuVoms of the peSe^tr beTxtremely 
 
 That Your Petitioner will most willingly pay the same attention to the studies of such 
 young men, as he does ti those assisted by the Society, being sufficiently rewarded by the con- 
 sciousness of doing good to the Province, in thus promoting their views. 
 
 Wherefore Your Petitioner entreats Your Honourable House to fulfil, during the present 
 
 ?rSi^^narrr^^n''P.''**''*'"°^'^^°^""^^*^'««^^^^ ^°^ the Propagation of the Gospe 
 
 n/ liv n fv fn : I ^''^"^i'ng y""' pa-ronage to such young men as niiy be desirous of study- 
 
 ing^lhvinity.m such a way and on such terms and conditions as in your wisdom, it may seem 
 
 And Your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
 YoEK, 25th February, 1818. 
 
 (Note.— No action was taken by the House of Assembly on this Petition 
 of Dr. Strachan asking for a grant in aid for theological education.) 
 
 f« ,hfi'^^''f'/^^'^;.~'^^'% House met on this day, and having by Black Rod being summoned 
 Ad fnhr^l f?K^n""'* ^^'•""'be'- by command of the Honourable Samuel Smith, Esqi^re, 
 Admins rator of the (Jovernment of Upper Canada. His Honour was pleased to give assent in Hii 
 
 SalL'i^' "r*""' '" V"™'?^"^ **'"*'• '^^' ^""'^^i"'-' "^ reserved for signification of Hs 
 Majesty s pleasure in Council thereon, viz :— s ' 
 
 lish,n/n;.tw.^4'"h''''f '^'u ''^' ''"'* f ^l^"*^; ^-^^ '*"'" ('^^ 1»<^7 and 1808) now in force, for estab- 
 lishing District Schools in the several Districts of the Province. " 
 
 Second Session of the Legislature in 1818. 
 (The new Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C. 
 B., having arrived from England early in 1818, the Honourable Samuel Smith 
 was relieved of his office of Administrator of the Government. The Provincial 
 Treasury having been found empty after his arrival Sir Peregrine Maitland called 
 the Legislature together on the 12th of October, 1818, and delivered the usual 
 speech from the Throne. In it he made no reference either to schools, or to 
 education. 
 
 The following members of the House of Assembly took part in the educa- 
 tional legislation of the session, etc : Messieurs Philip VanKoughnet, Peter 
 Robinson, Richard Hatt. Jonas Jones, Peter Howard, Isaac Eraser, Alexander 
 McMartin, Robert Nelles, Isaac Swayze, Zaccheus Burnham.) 
 
 lJ,th' ctoher, IHIS.— Mr. Philip VaiiKouorhnet. i/av., n,,H,.« tN,.f \,^ .„in 
 
 lishing District ((.ramraar) Schools in the several Districts of this Province and 
 provisions of the time. ' 
 
 Rstiirday nc-it, 
 
 orco for estab- 
 
 to extend the 
 
 \ 
 
1818 
 
 Chap. XXVIII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINQS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, I8I8. 119 
 
 )nei', and, in 
 ur students 
 id depend .id 
 short time, 
 ae from the 
 ads sterling;, 
 
 >8ecution of 
 there are no 
 -one, in tliis 
 
 number of 
 uld fill the 
 particularly 
 > extremely 
 
 iea of such 
 by the con- 
 
 the present 
 r the Gospel 
 us of study- 
 it may seenj 
 
 ACUAN. 
 
 Petition 
 
 : summoned 
 bh. Esquire, 
 isent, in His 
 tion of His 
 
 i, for estab- 
 
 land. K.C. 
 lel Smith 
 Provincial 
 md called 
 the usual 
 •ols, or to 
 
 le educa- 
 let, Peter 
 Alexander 
 
 irdaj- nest, 
 1 for esfab- 
 oxtend the 
 
 190, October, 2S/«.— Aareeably to notice Ms Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. 
 Peter Robinson, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal part of. and amend, the laws now 
 in foroo for establishing Dis^r.ct (Grammar) Schools in the several Districts of this Province, 
 and to extend the provisions of the same, which was carried and the Bill was read a first time. 
 
 Mr. Philip "VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Peter Robinson, moved that the District 
 ^Grammar) School Repeal Bill be read a second time to-morrow, which was carried and ordered. 
 
 50</i. October, iS/^.— Agreeably to the Order of the Djy, the District (Grammar) School 
 Amendment Bill was read the second time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet. seconded by Mr. Richard Hatfc, moved that the House do now 
 
 resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to take into consideration the District (Grammar) 
 
 techool Amendment Bill, which was carried, and Mr. Jonas Jones took the chair of the Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Jones reported progress, and obtained leave to sit 
 again to-morrow. 
 
 ^^»irf Ocfofter, i«/^.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the H.iuse went into Committee 
 on the District (Grammar) School Amendment Bill, Mr. Joiias Jones in the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Jones reported the Bill as amended. Ordered that the 
 Report be received. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moved, that the District 
 (Grammar) bchool Amendment Bill be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow, which was 
 ordered . ' 
 
 Arr.'^'^I'^ ^f'^fl^r'^^^^-^Sfeeablyto the Order of the Day, the District (Grammar) School 
 Amendment Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, secmded by Mr. Peter Howard, moved that the District (Gram- 
 mar) School Amendment Bill do now pass and that it be intituled, " An Act to repeal part of, and 
 amend the laws now in force for establishing Public (Grammar) Schools in each and every 
 District of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same," which was carried, and the 
 Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 M J^l'- ^^,^^ Robinson, secondeJ by Mr. Isaac Fraser, moved that Messieurs VanKoughnet and 
 McMarfcm be a ronmittee to t«ke up to the Honourable the Legis'ative Council the District 
 (Grammar) School Bill, and to request their couuurrence thereto, which was ordered. 
 
 ^,,rJ.K^'l°^'^\ \^-^^ ;7**''-.r'l"*JJ VanKoughnet. of the Co nmittee to carry up to the Hon- 
 ourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled, '• An Act to repeal part of and amend the 
 laws now in force for establish.na Public (Grammar) Schools in each and every District of the Pro- 
 
 r'?;*i"l .!u u i^" provisions of the wme," and request their concurrence thereto, 
 reported that they had done so. 
 
 *K .^/^■^"•'.'''^^/'■'/^^■^•-Mr. Peter Howard, seconded by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, moved that 
 the fifth Rule of this House be dispensed with, so far as relates to a Bill to alter the place of 
 keeping the Public (Grammar) Schools in the Johiutown and London Districts, and that it be 
 now read a second time, which was carried, and the Bill was read the second time. 
 ., Mr Peter Howard, seconded by Mr Jonas Jones, m^-ved that the House do now resolve 
 at V D^n* ^V'-"/'^"^^ ^' ^"^^^ '"*° considera-ion the Johnstown and London District (Grammar) 
 School Bill, winch was carried and Mr Nelles took the chair. The House resumed, Mr. 
 Keller reported the Bill amended. Ordered that the Report be received. 
 
 Mr. Peter How-arl seconded by Mr Mahlon Burwell, moved that the Johnstown District 
 (Grammar) School Bill be engrossed and read a third time this day, which was ordered. 
 
 «...\i"y -^r;""^''' ^•'?''^- Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Johnstown District (Gram- 
 mar) School Bill was read the third time 
 
 Mr. Peter Howard, seconded by Mr. Philip VanKoughnet. moved that the said Bill do 
 
 f^rl^r^'Tfi 1 hf'o'l^*^^^^^^ p:irtof,and amend, the laws now in 
 
 force for estabhshing the Public (Grammar) School in the District of .lohnstoWn and alter the 
 place for keeping the same, which was carried, and the Bill was signed by the Speaker 
 
 and S,W kF^p"^"".? "^*' ««^'^"'^«*^ by Mr Robert Nelles, moved that Messieurs Howard 
 and Crysler be a Ciunmittee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative Council the District 
 (Grammar) School Bill, and lo request their concurrence thereto, which was ordered 
 ,u.. t'^'"! /Vomn^er, JSlS.-Mr. Peter Howard, of the Cmmittee to carry up to the Honourable 
 tt.rx^^:=..ativo.j;unv;ilthGt-.iiimt,iiuieti, ' An Act to repeal part of, and amend the laws now 
 
 2lX/nr'f''?'''^'''^t/"^'''''-9™'T''^>^'=''"°^ •" '^^ District of Johnstown, and tT, 
 alter the place for keeping the same, '• and request their concurrence, reported that iheyhad 
 
 

 <i*Ka 
 
 120 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 i8ia 
 
 I 
 
 ! I 
 
 r 
 
 2Sth November, 1S18. — Mr. W. VV. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council a Message which he delivere<l to the Speaker, and having 
 withdrawn, it was read as iillows : 
 
 Mr. Spbakeu : 
 
 The Honourable the Legislative Council request a Conference with the Commons House 
 of Assembly, on the subject matter of a Bill intituled. " An Act to repeal part of, and amend, 
 the laws now in force for establishing Public (Grammer) Schools in each and every District of 
 this Pr< vince, and to extend the provisions of the same," and have appointed a Committee of 
 two of its members who will be ready to meet a Committee of the Commons House of Assembly 
 in the Legislative Council Chamber, at the rising of this House this day. 
 
 Lkoislative CouNcrL Chamber, 
 
 26th November, 1818 
 
 Wm. Duhmer Powell, 
 Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Peter Robinson, seconded by Mr. Robert Nelles, moved that Messieurs Durand, 
 Hatt. BurweJl and Fraser, t e a Committee to confer with the Committee of the Legislative 
 Council on the subject of the Bill intituled, " An Act to repeal part of, and amend, the laws 
 now in fofco for establishing Public (Grammar) Schools in each and every District of this Pro- 
 vince, .'^nd to extend the provisions of the same," which was carried. 
 
 Mr. Peter Robinson, secondad by Mr. Isaac Swayze, moved that Messieui-s Burwell and 
 Bumham be a Committee to acquaint the Honourable the Legislative Council that this House 
 have agreed to a conference on the subject of the Bill, intituled, " An Act to repeal part of, 
 and amead, the laws now in foice for establishing Public (Grammar) Schools in each and every 
 Districtof this Provmce, and to extend the provisions of the sime," and have appointed a 
 Committee of ff.ur persons for that purpose, which was carried. 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell. of the Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative 
 <^""ncil a message ac(iu;;inting them that this House had agreed to a conference on the subject 
 of the Bil! intituled, " Ai 4ct to repeal part of, and amend, the laws now in force for estab- 
 lishing Public (Grammar . Schools in each and every District of this Province, and to extend the 
 same, reported they had done so. 
 
 ^6giNovembsr, 1818. —Mr. J&meBDur&nd of the Committee to confer with a Committee 
 of the Honourable the Legulative Couacil, reported that they had met, and that the conference 
 still remained o[>ei>. 
 
 After the House of Assembly had met on the next day, (27th November)^ 
 tbe members of it were summoned by Black Rod to the Legislative Council Cham- 
 ber when His Excellency Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, 
 assented in Hi.s Majesty s name to a number of Bills, and closed the sittings of 
 the Legislation with a speech from the Throne. In that speech he made no re- 
 ference to the school legislation of the Session, nor to the subject of education. 
 The closing ot the sittings of the Legislature prevented the progress of the con- 
 ference between the two Houses in regard to the District (Grammar) School 
 Repeal Bill, so that it failed to pass either House. 
 
 Disturbing Influences on School Legislation in Upper Canada, 1809-1817. 
 
 During the administration of Lieutenant-Governor Gore, from 1806, to it» 
 close in 1817, various disturbing influences had been acting upoii the political at- 
 mosp^ ere in the Legislature of Upper Canada. They culminated, so far as he 
 was concerned, in his abrupt dismissal of the Legislature in April, 1817. and his no- 
 less abrupt and final departure for England in June of that year. 
 
 srf 
 
 
 tW 
 
 
181S 
 
 Chap. XXVIir. DISTURBING INFLUENCES ON SCHOOL LEGISLATION. 
 
 121 
 
 ! 
 
 The first of these unpleasant disturbances arose out of Lieutenant-Governor 
 Gore's treatment of Mr. Justice Thorpe who had unwisely become a Member of 
 the House of Assembly in 1806, while yet a judge. The Governor's proceeding 
 aroused much ill-feeling, which found vent in Mr. Joseph Willcock's Upper 
 Canada Guardian, published in 1807. This feeling was intensified by the publi- 
 cation in England, 1809, of a pamphlet on the Political Sitimtion of the Pro- 
 vince by Mr. John Mills Jackson ;» in which he attacked the system of land- 
 granting, etc. This pamphlet and Willcocks' newspaper were declared (not i 
 unanimously,) to be libellous by the House of Assembly. ^ 
 
 Apart from these cases, conflict had arisen in 1806 between the House of 
 Assembly and the Legislative Council, as to the right of the Council to deal with 
 Money Bills, or to vote away the public money without the knowledge of, or con- 
 sent, of the House of Assembly. On this subject the Assembly memorialized the 
 Lieutenant-Governor. This was the first serious dispute between the two 
 Houses. > 
 
 At length the House of Assembly resolved to enquire into the causes which 
 had led to so much discontent with the administration of Lieutenant-Governor 
 Gore. It, therefore, appointed a select Committee " to enquire into the State of 
 the Province." The Committee prepared a series of resolutions on the subject 
 relating to the system of gran ting lands, to immigration and to the clergy reserves. 
 It was during the discussion of these resolutions, after two or three had passed 
 by a vote of 13 to 7, on Saturday, the fifth of April. 1817, that Lieutenant- 
 Governor Gore hasLUy prorogued the Legislature on the Mohday following, 7th 
 April, and in the June afterwards left for England, 
 
 There are no records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council preserved 
 for the years 1815, 1816, 1817t and 1818, so that little is deflnitely known as to 
 its action in these matters. But it was at the Legislative Council, and through it 
 at the Executive Council and the Lieutenant-Governor, that the House of 
 Assembly aimed these resolutions. 
 
 The subject of education was another specific cause of difference between 
 the two Houses of Legislature. At first, and for some years, the House of 
 Assembly had been adverse to the passage of any measure for the promotion of 
 
 Mr. Jackson WM a Gentleman CommoQer of Balliol CollsKe, Oxford, who came to Canada in 1806. 
 having while in Lngland bought land m Upper Canada. His appeal ta the English public against the 
 proceedings of thp (^overnmerit and Legislature of Upper C»n<»f^a was the first of a long series of such 
 appeals, which culminated at length in the appointment of the Earl of Durham in 1839, as Lord Hiah 
 Commissioner, to en<iuire into all of these alleged grievances. Mr. Jackson finally settled at a place on the 
 shore of Lake Simcoe, now called after him ".Jackson's Point." He died in England in 1836. 
 
 .tj'^*'.^"*?' °«> Education in Upper Canada, in the Christian Recorder for April, 1819. savs : "A 
 modification of the whole system of education, embracing the Common and District Schools, and a College 
 at York, was introduced into the Legislative Council bv His Hor.mir t,h« Chi«f -Tu-fioA in i«i7 t„ h7;„ 
 scheiuoLlieit, was a judicious gradation. . . . The project failed iu the House of Assembly from an un" 
 wUlingnes. to disturb the Common School Bill, which had only been one year in operation." 
 
! l 
 
 122 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPi-ER CANADA. 
 
 1818 
 
 education. The Legislative Council on the other hand, had been the first to 
 move in the matter, and, in 1807, had passed an Act to establish Grammar 
 Schools in the several Districts of the Province. This was done at the instance 
 of Honourable Richard Cartwright, a warm friend of the Reverend Dr. Strachan, 
 and one who heartily sympathized with him in his well known desire to see 
 such schools established so that they might act as feeders to the projected 
 University for Upper Canada. 
 
 One cause of difference between the two Houses on educational matters is 
 thus referred to by the Writer in the History of Education in Upper Canada, in 
 the Christian Recorder of April, 1819 : 
 
 In one or two DUtricts, it must be confessed, that all the good which might have been 
 anticipated, has not been produced, and these supply the complainants with their arguments 
 against the Bill ; but the fault arose from the jealousy which at that time pervaded the House 
 of Assembly. The Members demanded that wh&t was given to one District should be given to 
 all alike, whether necessary or not. * 
 
 After the Grammar School Act had been in operation a short time, it was 
 felt that, under its provisions, only one school could be established in each of 
 the eight prescribed Districts, while the mass of the people were left without 
 any means for the elementary education of their children. Hence petitions 
 were presented to the House of Assembly pointing out how circumscribed was 
 the operation of the Act. and, at the same time— how costly it was ; that it 
 provided schools for the rich, while the poor was unprovided for, etc. The 
 popular branch of the Legislature being thus appealed to, took up that side of 
 the question, and, session after session, sought to repeal or modify the Grammar 
 School Act. It did but little, however, to provide a really practical remedy. At 
 length, however, the two Houses finally agreed to pass an Act in 1816 to provide 
 for the establishment of Common Schools throughout the Province, and made 
 a grant of $24,000 a year for their maintenance, but limited the duration of 
 the Act and the grant to four years. ♦ 
 
 The agitation, however, caused by Mr. Robert Gourley in 1817-18, re-opened 
 the questions of differences between the two Houses, and led to a good deal of strife 
 in the Legislature. The Honourable Samuel Smith who, at the time was the 
 Administrator of the Government after the departure of Lieutenant-Governor 
 Gore, sought to allay this strife ; and. in his closing speech to the Legislature 
 on the first of April, 1818, be thus addressed the Members of the Houses:— 
 
 v,.n ^lu ' '^"^'^ r"f ^o8«*'^«'; '" obedience to the law, it was in the full expectation that 
 you would assiduously labour to bring up any arrears of public business. 
 
 Cha JlSmJdSn £hope' '^''" "''"' ^''""^^ "' ""^"^'^ '' "^ ^"««^^*'""' ^^^^ ^'^« 
 
 /.nn JJI^?*"' *^« ""^' ^ have experienced disai,pointment, and finding no i)robnbility of any 
 concert between the Houses. I come reluctantly to close the session with its business unfinished 
 I do most earnestly intreat you to weiah well, during th« i«nn«ii U.« Jmn^rt-'nt ef-ks ->f 
 such a, disum.m, and that you may meet resolved to conciliate and be useful. " ' ^ 
 
1818 
 
 Cliap. XXIX. aouRLEY's educational statistics, 1817. 
 
 128 
 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 GOURLEY'S EDirOA.TIONAL STATISTICS OF UPPER CANADA, 1817. 
 
 Mr. Robert Gourley came to Canada in July, 1817. Being desirous of collect- 
 ing information in regard to the country, he drew up a series of thirty-one 
 queries, and sent them to the most prominent men in each municipality. Query five 
 related to education and schools ; and the information on these subjects obtained 
 by Mr. Gourley late in 1817, has been condensed and prepared for this publication. 
 They will be found highly interesting, not only as a statistical starting point for 
 the educational information, w..ich has followed them, but also as showing 
 what was the actual condition of Upper Canada in regard to education, and 
 what were the facilities which the inhabitants then enjoyed in regard to schools. 
 The District Grammar School Act of 1807 had been in operation ten years 
 when these statistics were prepared, while the Common School Act of 1816 
 had only been one year in operation. 
 
 The statistics and information collected by Mr. Gourley relating to Upper 
 Canada were published by him in two volumes in London, in 1822. The 
 descriptive part of Mr, Gourley's book was written for him by Mr. Barnabas Bid- 
 well, formerly Master of the Bath Academy, and Father of his noted son— the 
 Honourable Marshall Spring Bidwell. In " Sketch " No. 32, Gourley says : 
 
 There is no College in Upper Canada ; but there are said to be several townships of land 
 «et apart for tlio purpose of endowing such an Institution when the population and circum- 
 atances of the Province shall require it. 
 
 No provision is made by law for free schools. The inhabitants of the several townships 
 are left to a voluntary support of schools according to their own discretion. 
 
 An Act of the Provincial Legislature, in 1807, tjranted a hundred pounds a year, to the 
 teacher of one school in each of the ei^^^' c Districts, under the direction of Trustees. In 
 some Di tricts, the school thus provided for, is made a free school ; but in the other Districts 
 the salary h considered as a public encouragement to a teacher of literary eminence, in addition 
 to the compensation received for the tuition of each scholar. 
 
 The Act was at first limited to four years, within which period the limitation was repealed 
 so that It IS now a perpetual law. From the extent of the Districts, the location of the schools 
 and other considerations, the (Grammar) Scliool Act has proved not very satisfactory, and a repeal 
 of u has been repeatedly attempted. Such dissatisfaction and attempts to procure a repeal, 
 may have lessened the utility of these schools. Several of them, however, are flourishing 
 and highly respectable. 
 
 Other Seminaries for the education of youth are supported by individual exertions, without 
 public aid. 
 
 The iirst inhabitants wc re generally poor, iu consetjuence of the Revolution. They had 
 also to struggle witli the labours and privations incident to new settlements. As their habi- 
 tations were sparse, it was difficult for them to unite in sufficient numbers to form good schools • 
 and they could neitlier afford much expanse for instructors, nor allow their children mucli 
 time for receiving iiistructKm. From sucli inevitable causes, education wsis neglected among 
 them, until the neglect almost became habitual. The want of books at the same time, relaxed 
 tJieir taste fur reading. 
 
 A sense of these disadvantages excited desires for surmounting them, which have at length 
 producou cno correspoadnig oii«rliou. Books are procured in considerable numbers In 
 addition to those with which particular persons and families are supplied, social libraries are 
 introduced in various places. . . . 
 
 
 i 
 % 
 
 m 
 
b -.^Bf^t^l^^^l^^ 
 
 124 
 
 DOCQMENTABY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPl. 7R CANADA. 
 
 1817 
 
 'I -I 
 
 i 
 
 ■f I 
 
 \ spirit of improvement is evidently spreading. The value uf education, as well as the 
 wa -o of it in felt. . . . Among other indications of the progress of literary ambition, I can- 
 not forbear referring to the academy lately erected in Ernestown, by the subscription of 
 public spirittid inhabitants of that and the neighbouring townships, who appear to be convinced 
 that the cultivation of liberal arts and sciences is naturally connected with an improvement of 
 manners and morals, and a general melioration of the state of society. Such was the prospect 
 when the War commenced. The Emestown Acjkdemy was converted into a Iwrrack ; and the 
 Academical Institution has not been revived. The students resorted to other places of educa- 
 cation, ni.iriy ;)f them out of the Province. The building is now occupied as a house of publio 
 , worship and a Common School. It is to be hoped, however, that the taste for literary 
 improvement may be revived, and this Seminary be re-established, [which it wasl. (Volume L 
 page 244-247). 
 
 In 1816, two new Districts, (Gore and Ottawa), were organized. An Act was also passed 
 for the establishment and encouragement of Common Schools. It provides for a Board of 
 Education to be apjMjinted in each District, and authorizes the inhabitants of any town, town- 
 ship, village or place to a.isociate by subscription for a h'chool and to choose their Trustees of 
 such School, who hav^e power to appoint a teacher, designate the books to be used, and direct 
 the course of education, subject to the superintendence of the District Board of Education. 
 These Trustees are annually to certify tho number of scholars instructed in their respective 
 Schools, and reiwrt the state of the schools to the District Board who are to make a similar 
 report to the Lieutenant-Governor, to bo laid before the Tiegislature. The Act grants six 
 thousand pounds (f24,lX)0) a year, from the Provincial funds, and apportions it to the ten Dis- 
 tricts of the Province. The District Boan's are to apportionate it among the schools in their 
 several Districte, according to the number of their scholars, with these limitations that none be 
 given to a school of less than twenty scholars, and no school to have leas than one hundred 
 dollars. The money is to be paid to the teachers upon their pr(xlucing certiHi ates of qualification 
 and gootl conduct from their Trustees. This law, however incomplete as .-» system, indicatea & 
 favourable progress of public sentiment on tho subject of Education. (Pa,;os 258, 259). 
 
 Report of Schools in Townships of Upper Canada, 1817. 
 
 Mr. Gourley issued a circular to prominent parties in each of the Munici- 
 palities of Upper Canada in 1817, requesting an answer to a series of queries 
 relating to the condition and state of Agriculture, Industries, Mineral resources, 
 etc The fifth query asked the number of schools in the locality, and the fees paid 
 per quarter. The answer to this question is collected from Mr. Gourley's Statis- 
 tical Account of Upper Canada, published in 182?, volume one, pages 275-611. 
 
 Satulwich.— There is one School in Sandwich, with one Master, who draws a salary from 
 the Provincial fund of £100 per annum besides, tuition fees. There are two inferior Schools, 
 the teachers of which receive from the same fund £25 per annum, besides moderate fees. 
 
 Maiden.— There are three Schools, and the rate per quarter is twenty shillings. 
 
 Raleifih. —There is one Common School, the Teacher of which receives fifteen shillings for 
 each scholar and the Legis'ature by a toll Act (1816) grants the teacher of each Common School 
 in the Province a further sum of £26 yearly, provided there are taught in the said School at 
 least twenty scholars. 
 
 lips ana that tfte rate was fifteen shillings per quarter. 
 In a supplementary statement sent to Mr. Gourley it was stated there was an Indian School in 
 Oxford Township kept in Indian and English. 
 
 Whtdham.—'We have two Schools, and we board the Teachers, and give them £12 10a. per 
 quarter. 
 
 GharloUevUle.— There are. in this Township, a District Publio Grammar School, and four 
 Common Schools ; the medium rate of tuition about 12s. Gd. per quarter. 
 
 ^onoic/i.— There are here three Schools ; common fees per <iuarter £15 *rQuery fifteen 
 shillings] board and iodgiug found. 
 
 *This must mean the Sohoolmaster's salary, R.G. 
 
1817 
 
 Chap. XXIX. 
 
 gourley's educational statistics, 1817. 
 
 125 
 
 Township Reports Relating to Schools in the London District. 
 
 Names ot Townships. 
 
 When 
 settled. 
 
 Number 
 of people. 
 
 Number 
 of schools. 
 
 Fees pitr 
 quarter. 
 
 Delaware 
 
 1795 
 1811 
 
 80 
 428 
 
 1 
 2 
 
 4 
 1 
 2 
 2 
 4 
 
 3 
 6 
 2 
 
 
 3 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 ■. d. 
 
 Westminster 
 
 
 Dorchester 
 
 
 Oxford 
 
 1796 
 1797 
 1793 
 1794 
 1796 
 1793 
 1794 
 1793 
 1791 
 1816 
 1808 
 1813 
 1811 
 1811 
 1811 
 1808 
 
 580 
 160 
 650 
 298 
 716 
 247 
 711 
 900 
 337 
 
 10 
 16 
 12 6 
 
 Blenheim, etc 
 
 Burford and its Gore 
 
 Windham 
 
 Townsead 
 
 12 6 
 
 Walpole and Rainham 
 
 Woodhouse 
 
 12 6 
 12 6 
 10 
 
 Charlotteville 
 
 Walsinghitm 
 
 Middleton 
 
 
 
 Bayham, 
 
 
 10 
 12 6 
 
 Malahide 
 
 775 
 400 
 900 
 500 
 400 
 
 Yarmouth 
 
 Southwold 
 
 12 6 
 12 6 
 10 
 
 Dunwich 
 
 
 
 Totals 
 
 
 7,917 
 
 40 
 
 142 6 
 
 
 
 m 
 r 
 
 I- 
 
IM 
 
 126 
 
 DOCIMENTARY HISTOnV OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 Township Repouts Relating to the District of Gore. 
 
 1817 
 
 Nameii of Towni'.iipa. 
 
 When 
 Mttled. 
 
 Number 
 of people. 
 
 Numlwr 
 of ichaoli. 
 
 Feeg per 
 quarter. 
 
 Tr»f»lg»r 
 
 1807 
 1807 
 
 648 
 476 
 
 3 
 2 
 
 1. d. 
 
 NeI«on 
 
 10 10 
 
 Wellington Sqawe 
 
 12 6 
 
 Part of Nelnon 
 
 1802 
 
 
 1 
 2 
 
 4 
 1 
 3 
 
 6 
 6 
 B 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 E»«t Flamboro' and 
 
 
 Weit Flamboro' 
 
 1794 
 1800 
 1800 
 1816 
 1783 
 
 1790 
 
 i 
 1787 
 
 1787 
 
 360 
 369 
 860 
 163 
 480 
 1,037 
 800 
 700 
 
 
 Beverly 
 
 
 Waterloo 
 
 12 6 
 
 Dutnfriea 
 
 16 
 
 Haldimand 
 
 
 Ancaster 
 
 12 6 
 
 Barton 
 
 16 3 
 
 Saltfleet 
 
 13 6 
 
 
 
 Total. 
 
 
 5,673 
 
 87 
 
 
 — _ 
 
 107 8 
 
 Hnmberston.— There is one English, and one Dutch School. 
 
 Orimtby. —Tho state of education is also at a very low ebb, not only in this r .wnshin but 
 generally throughout the District ; although the libe.-ality of he LegisktU has'C, k^^^^^^ 
 BUi.,>ort of the district Uran.mar Schools, (giving to the teachers of Lh £1W per H.munT yet 
 they have been prcKluctive of little or no good hitherto, for this obviou» cause, they are looked 
 upon ^s seminanes exclusively instituted for the education of the children of the niore wealthy 
 classes of society, and to which the p<K,r man's child is considered as unfit to be admitted. 
 From such causes, instead of their being a benefit to the Province, they are sunk into obscurity, 
 and the heads of most of them are at this moment enjoying thei:- situations as comfortable 
 .mecures. Another class of schools has within a short time been likewise founded upon the 
 hberahty of the Logislative purse, denominated as Common, or Parish, Schools, but 1 ku the 
 precedmg, the anxiety of the teacher employed, seems more alive to his stipend than the 
 advanceme. . ot the e.iucation of those placed under his care ; from the pecuniary advantaZ 
 thus held out, we have been inundated with the worthless scum, under the che richer of 
 Hchuolmasters, not only of this, but of every other country where the knowledge has been 
 promulgated of the easy means our laws aflord of getting a living here, by obtaining a Parish 
 School which IS .lone up.m the accommodation of some few freeholdei-s, getting his salary free 
 from the public, and making his employers contribute handsomely besides 
 
 It is true, rules are laid down for their government, and the proper books prescribed for 
 their use; but scarcely in one c^ae in ten are they adhered to, for, in the s^une class you will 
 fmiuent^ see one child with Noah Webster's spelling book in his hand, and the ne^xt^^^ h 
 Luulley Murray s However prone the teachers are to variety in their scIuk.Is, much blame is 
 to be attributed t.) the trustees, who are in many instances too careless, and I might also add 
 too Ignorant to discriminate right from wrong, in the trust they have undertaken for the 
 
 
 liGt. tu tie 
 
 ^ . .,, , , > ■••-,""- .V. .-V, •■""ucrcu at why the jjansh Hciiooi system should 
 meet with almost un.versa i-eprobation from most discerning men. Of these parish schools we 
 are burdened with a liberal share, having no less than three <.f them. If the establishmentT-f 
 
1817 
 
 Chap. XXIX. OOURLEY'S EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS, 1817. 
 
 127 
 
 IE. 
 
 nlwr 
 laoli. 
 
 Feei per 
 quarter. 
 
 
 1. d. 
 
 
 10 10 
 
 
 12 6 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 13 6 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 12 6 
 
 
 16 S 
 
 
 13 6 
 
 
 107 8 
 
 jwnship, but 
 been great in 
 annum), yet 
 jy are looked 
 nore wealthy 
 be admitted, 
 ito obscurity, 
 I comfortable 
 ded upon the 
 but like the 
 nd than the 
 ■y advantages 
 ch» racier of 
 Ige has been 
 fling a Parish 
 la salary free 
 
 rescribed for 
 ;lass you will 
 le next with 
 iich blame is 
 [lit also add, 
 »ken for the 
 i'stem should 
 ih schools we 
 blishment of 
 
 E!::rOar."rm!7eX''tS"r t^"--«^"^»>« pr^ent enormou. price of educa 
 cimrge made before the passi/.K of thilA.'.f tk '"''.u"" '*'^«*"*t'-"' "r reduction from the 
 
 per .piarter. ^ ^ """ ^''*- ^'^^ I'"ce then was 128. 6d., and is now the mime 
 
 JanJa^rfmh:i8lJ!r"' ''■'"" '^""*'" '''•""'"• ^^•"'"•"'. "' «"-''y. to Mr. /Jourley, .lated 
 
 Township Reports Relating to Schools in the Di.strict of Niaoaka. 
 
 Names of TownBhipa. 
 
 HumberBtone . 
 
 Bertie 
 
 Willoughby . . 
 
 Stamford 
 
 Grantham .... 
 
 Lowth 
 
 Grimsby 
 
 Pelham 
 
 Thorold 
 
 Crowland 
 
 Wainfleet 
 
 Oanboro' and . 
 Caister 
 
 Totals. 
 
 When 
 settled. 
 
 1787 
 
 1784 
 
 1784 
 
 1784 
 
 1784 
 
 1787 
 
 1787 
 
 1790 
 
 1788 
 
 1788 
 
 1800 
 
 1803 
 
 1782 
 
 Numljer Number 
 of people, of schools. 
 
 Fees per 
 quarter. 
 
 1,«00 
 441 
 1,200 
 1,200 
 700 
 805 
 776 
 830 
 600 
 
 190 
 166 
 
 8,398 
 
 2 
 6 
 1 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 s. d. 
 
 13 9 
 
 118 
 12 6 
 16 
 12 6 
 12 6 
 12 
 12 6 
 
 46 
 
 10 
 10 
 
 12 6 
 
 134 6 
 
 This country was settled in 1784. 
 
 ( Extract of a letter from Th.mias Markland, Esquire, dated Kingston, 20th November 1817 
 
il 
 
 II 
 
 128 
 
 DOCUMEMTARV HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UHI'BR CANADA. 
 
 1817 
 
 Township Reports of Schools in the Newcastle. Midland, Johnstown 
 
 AND Eastern Districts. 
 
 H»ldim»nd 
 
 Thurlow 
 
 SnphiaiburK . ■ ■ . 
 
 Hallowell 
 
 Adolphustown . . 
 
 Ernestown 
 
 Kingtton 
 
 liAnsdowii 
 
 Wolford 
 
 Charlottenburgh 
 
 Totals . 
 
 Namaii of Townihipt. 
 
 When 
 settled. 
 
 Number Number 
 of people, of (ohuoU. 
 
 1797 
 1786 
 1790 
 
 1784 
 1784 
 1783 
 1788 
 1797 
 1784 
 
 1,200 
 
 2.460 
 
 2,860 
 
 206 
 
 sao 
 
 2,500 
 
 4 
 4 
 6 
 4 
 3 
 
 14 
 8 
 I 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 9,525 
 
 59 
 
 Township Reports of Schools in the Western Dltrict. 
 
 Fees per 
 (loarter. 
 
 ■. d. 
 
 W 6 
 
 10 
 
 12 6 
 
 13 9 
 
 10 
 27 6 
 
 16 
 
 101 3 
 
 fi 
 
 Names of Towuships. 
 
 Sandwich . 
 Maiden . . . 
 Raleigh . . . 
 Dover, etc . 
 
 When 
 settled 
 
 1750 
 1784 
 1792 
 1794 
 
 Number 
 of people. 
 
 Number 
 of echoob. 
 
 Totals. 
 
 1,000 
 676 
 273 
 798 
 
 Fees pet 
 quarter. 
 
 8. d. 
 
 2,746 
 
 11 
 
 20 
 16 
 15 
 
 50 
 
 Note. A large number of Townships made no report whatever in regard 
 
 to schools. 
 
 '? § 
 
A. 
 
 1817 
 
 Chap. XXX. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS, ETC., 1817-1818. 
 
 lt» 
 
 D, Johnstown 
 
 RrhnuU. 
 
 FflCH per 
 <iu»<'ter. 
 
 
 
 
 ■. d. 
 
 4 
 
 la 6 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 la 6 
 
 4 
 
 13 9 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 1 
 
 10 
 27 6 
 
 4 
 
 la 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 09 
 
 101 3 
 
 rBICT. 
 
 "lumber 
 echools. 
 
 Fees per 
 quarter. 
 
 
 a. d. 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 
 1 
 
 15 
 
 4 
 
 15 
 
 11 
 
 50 
 
 bever in regard 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING 
 EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS, 1817-1818. 
 
 TO 
 
 As there is a break in the Parliamentary Records of the Legislative CounciF 
 for 1814-1818, I insert in this chapter a number of miscellaneous Papers, Notices 
 of Schools, etc., chiefly taken from the Kingston Gazette of 1H17-18. They 
 illustrate the educational advantages in Kingston at the time, as well as th* 
 character of the tuition, and rate of fees then charged, etc 
 
 Midland District (Okammak) School, KraasxoN, 1817. 
 
 The Rev. John Wilson, M. A. of Queen's College, Oxford, liaving been appointed Head 
 Maater of this eatablishinent, bog« to inform his friends and the inhabitants of the District that 
 every branch of classicalhterature. and the elenient4 of nmfhonmtics, will bo taught acoordini: to 
 the system adopted in the Public Schools and Universities of Knaland. •cooraing to 
 
 Every attention will bo paid to morals of tbo pupils, and to their instructions in Endish 
 reading, grammar, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping, etc. ** 
 
 KwosTON, June 12th, 1817. 
 
 A School of Liberal Arts and Scibnces, 1817. 
 
 The Preceptor of this school bogs permission to aficpiaint his friends and the public that 
 havmg removed to the commodious stone house, recently occupied by Mr Henry Baker front' 
 ing btore street, Kingston, he will have it in hi • power to afford his present pui)ils and those 
 who may hereafter attend, with a handsome paved playground, and other pleas^g juvenile con- 
 von 1 6 n c 68. 
 
 He returns unfeigned acknowledgments to his friends for their very lib. support He 
 trusts that, from his former attention, his new arninge.T.ents and future exertions wil secure a 
 continuance of public patronage. oovuio » 
 
 A son of the Rev. J. G. Weagant is shortly expo -ti d Usher in this school. 
 
 Evening and Sunday schools are also contii„a a at this place. 
 
 Scholars residing at a distance may be boarded and instructed on moderate terms. 
 
 Kingston, May 31st, 1817. 
 
 Sunday Schools in Kingston, 1817. 
 
 Mr. William Moon, Schoolmaster, in Kingston, wrote to the Editor of the Kinqston Gazette 
 under date of June the 9th, 18r. as follows :— '«/»«^ itazecte 
 
 I feel to rejoice that a pious minister has taken so much interest in the welfare of the 
 riBinK genera ion of Kingston, as to propose a Sunday School ; he iias thereby aiwn a full nroof 
 that he wishes well to our prosperity. i' "i 
 
 • . V^^P*^ tliat numbers will willingly follow his advice and help so goou w<,rk, and as the 
 intent of a Sunday School is chiefly to in.struot the children of the poor, that have not the 
 means or opportunity of getting them instructed, it is to be hoped that many young men and 
 women will come forward m so laudable an undertaking to give a small portion of thei! Sabbaths 
 to so good a purpose as to instruct the uniastructed, and it can not })e doubted for a moment 
 but that the charitable inhabitants of Kingston, will come forward to help in purchasing books 
 and tracts for the school. * 
 
 .^» --.••.—•- ..:-,t •••- "."V. i«i. LattncK mtcnas ro osraDuan oue. If it should meet his 
 
 approbation or any other person or persons, who wish to take the lead of so laudable an under 
 taking, 1 willingly make an offer of my school room and my attendance if wanted. 
 
 9 (D.E.) 
 
130 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1817-1818 
 
 Mr. Baker's School for Classical Education, 1817. 
 
 Scholars may be instructed at the Academy, in Mr. Henry Baker's red house, Rear street, 
 Kingston, in the following branches of literature at the annexed prices, viz. : 
 
 £. S. D. 
 
 In Orthography, Reading and Writing ])er quarter 1 2 6 
 
 Or £4 per annum. 
 
 English Grammar, Arithmetic and Book-keeping 1 10 
 
 •Composition, Oratory, the Elements of Natural and Civil History, Prac- 
 tical Mathematics, Geography, etc 2 
 
 Latin, Greek and other classical branches 2 10 
 
 An evening school will also be taught for the benefit of those who are unable to attend the 
 day school. 
 
 A young idy is wanted to instruct the Misses in plain sewing. Enquire at the Academy. 
 Kingston, April, 1817. 
 
 Mr. Latham's English and French Aoademy, 1817. 
 
 Henry Latham, late a clerk in the Naval yard, begs leave to inform his friends and the 
 public that, from the encouragement he has received from several of the principal inhabitants of 
 the east ward of Kingston, he has been induced to re-open the Academy at Mr. Baker's stone 
 house in Store street for the instruction of youth of both sexes in the following useful branches 
 of education, viz., reading, writing, English grammar and a knowledge of the French language. 
 
 In soliciting a share of public patronage, he hopes by assiduity and attention, not only to 
 the instruction, but to the morals of the pupils entrusted to his charge, to merit a continuance 
 of it. 
 
 Terms may be obtained by application at the school house. 
 
 N. B. — An evening school on Monde.ys, Wednesdays and Fridays, from G till 8 o'clock. 
 Kingston, October 6th, 1817. 
 
 Lectures on Chemistry and Geoloqy, 1817. 
 
 In February, 1817, Mr. John Whitelaw, Master of the Kingston Grammar School issued the 
 following notice : — 
 
 The subscriber proposes, during the ennsing spring, to deliver a course of lectures, intro- 
 ductory to the study of chemistry, mineralogy and geology. 
 
 The lectures will be accompanied (as far as an apparatus for the purpose can be obtained) 
 by a number of experiments, establishing general principles and illustrating the peculiar pro- 
 perties of particular Ixidies. Likewise, as great a variety of mineral specimens as can be pro- 
 cured, will be shown ; and particular care taken to explain the nature and i)oint out the uses of 
 the various mineral and metclic productions of Upper Canada ; froi i which, were they sufB- 
 ciently known and their value duly appreciated, agriculture and many of the useful arts of 
 life might derive great advantage, and thus prove a permanent source of wealth to the inhabit- 
 ants. 
 
 The course will consist of at least thirty-six leitures. Three of which will be delivered 
 every week, viz., on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, commencing at W o'clock in the evening. 
 
 Those who may b/s disposed to attend wdl be pleased, as early as convenient to signify the 
 same by entering their names with Mr. Macaulay at the post office, who will furnish them with 
 tickets of admission at three guineas each for the course. 
 
 Mr. Tolkien's Private School in Kingston, 1817. 
 
 The public sre respectfully informed, that on Monday, the 3rd instant, a school will be 
 opened by Mr. Charles Tolkien, in the new stone building belonging to Mr. Aykroyd, in which 
 scholars will be instructed in English Reading, English Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, Book- 
 Keeping and Geography. 
 
 The terms and hours of Tuit'on, etc., will be the same as those formerly settled for the 
 branches in the Public School at this place. 
 
 N. B. — Punctual attendance, and unconditional submission to the rules of school will be 
 expected from every scholar. 
 
 Kingston, January, 1817. 
 
1817-1818 
 
 , Rear street, 
 
 ;. s. D. 
 
 L 2 6 
 
 . 10 
 
 5 
 ! 10 
 
 to attend the 
 the Academy. 
 
 Lends and the 
 inhabitants of 
 Baker's stone 
 seful branches 
 nch language. 
 
 >n, not only to 
 a continuance 
 
 till 8 o'clock. 
 
 lool issued the 
 
 ectures, intro- 
 
 in be obtained) 
 i peculiar pro- 
 ts can be pro- 
 out the uses of 
 ere they suffi- 
 useful atts of 
 to the inhabit- 
 
 l be delivered 
 n the evening. 
 
 t to signify the 
 nish them with 
 
 . school will be 
 royd, in which 
 tluuetic, Book- 
 settled for the 
 t school will be 
 
 Chap. XXX. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS, ETC., 1817-1818. 131 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Woolf's Boarding and Day School. 
 
 oommlno^^'i W."^^""" ^If^*** '"*?'"', ***« P"^"'' *''**' °" *»»« 12th instant, they purpose to 
 commence a boardmg and day school, (in the house recently occupied b^ Dr MacauSv) 
 for the instruction of young ladies in the different branches of feLale educatio^i. ^^''''''^y'^ 
 
 Cards of terms, and every other requisite information may be had on application. 
 KiiTOSTON, 3rd of May, 1817. 
 
 Mrs. Hill's Kingston School fcr Yodng Ladiks, 1818. 
 
 h^,fil''f;?v!'V™''"rT*'"""y' '"^°™« the inhabitants of Kingston and ite vicinity that she 
 
 The following are the terms, viz. : 
 
 Small children, Reading onlv , - 
 
 Reading Writing and plain Need];:wo'rk ! JJ "' P«''jl"*^-fc«'-. 
 
 iSSr^'elTra'".\^'T^'^^^ ^0 do - 
 
 Mrs. H. will take boarders at the most moderate rate. 
 Kingston, October 8rd, 1818. 
 
 Mr. Harris' Private School for Yopno Ladies, etc., 1818. 
 
 opening a':=l^^rtT^it^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Lancast^rian school, in which the follow i'nrbranS^rb/tl^^^^ 
 
 arithmetic, Englisli grammar and geography *= ' ' '^- ' -^^^ading, writing, 
 
 JohnTfrf^l'eparteliirtS!"^ "' *'^ '^^^^'•^"^ ^--'^^ «f -edle-work by M«. 
 
 A few young gentlemen may be accommodated as boarders on reasonable terms 
 Kingston, September, 1818. 
 
 Midland District Lancastrian School in Kingston, 1818. 
 
 isth^.t;::.E^:TJ:i£^^'::^l^«:i,^^ ^^stem 
 
 children of emigrants and other^s who cannotS e:e^ the present ^^^^^^^ moShV""" ""^"^ 
 which the trustees have appointed to the school established here upon St s^s^em ^. '"'^'"'V' 
 called the Lancastrian school ; it is tlierefore Dron<.,«.l fn f >f» u i .^^^i*^"^ commonly 
 
 education of the poor that an'annual subS^tlorbrra itX the pu7^^^^^^^^^ '"■• *^« 
 
 priated solely to the benefit of indigent children under the f olio whi| regulations •- " "P^^'"" 
 ..,„/**• V'^J: *"?•""*' ^"I's^'-ipfcions and donations be immediately entered into fnr M, i 
 purpose of affording g-tuitous education to the children of poor Ldi^irp^^^^^ '^'^ "^'^ 
 
 one ft'esJhl; ^TKrnlrtrbTtK^^^ "-"f ^«" -nually 
 
 with the rights of smaller subscriptions, a^ IlllttilT ^^f?SZZ ^£.^7^^ 
 
 putin'StSirds^roltre^ul^^^^^^ u;:::;;';^^'"^^^^^^^^^^^^ rr^ ^^^ ^'^- 
 
 tion will allow, with theexception of live pounds trbeaDnron^^^^^^ °^ *'j^ ''"''•''^"P- 
 
 tributeble to meritorious scholars, at the ^aX y examS «^^ S„?7"''''r? "^ ^'''''' <^"- 
 Buch poor childran Rl.all ,w.f ).„ tL..A ^uA .."^ examination. But if a sutticient number of 
 
 of in ihe purchase of a'smaTliibmryf^rlh^^UTf The Sch^of ^PrT^n"!? T^'^""' be disposed 
 of such surplus be in any way la,/ out upo„"th7Jeti^°oUhe schSo^VemS *''*' "" '^"^ 
 
 sabscti;tio?sld''dfnaSo„?""""' '=^'^- "' T™-"''-. l>e forthwith authorised to receive 
 
 a 
 
 nmmmmmmiimm»itt»teemH 
 
132 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1817-18^ 
 
 
 fit 
 
 Midland District School Society, 1«18. 
 
 The annual meeting of the members of the Midland District School Society was this day 
 held at the school hou»e, Kingston the eleventh day of May, 1818. 
 
 The President and Trustees of the Midland District School Society, for the year ending the 
 11th of May, 1818, report that the Treasurer has exhibited the following statement of the funda 
 
 of the Society : — 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 By cash paid in for subscriptions 341 3 11 
 
 To cash for building and finishing school house 388 16 6^ 
 
 Balance in the hands of the treasurer 2 8 4^ 
 
 That a number of the original subscriptions are probably lost to the Society, owing to th* 
 departure of the subscribers from the country, (since the Society was incorporated in 1815,) but 
 there still remains of uncollected and valid subscriptions to the amount of above thirty pounds. 
 That the school-house erected is sufficient to accommodate from ninety to one hundred 
 
 scholars. * ,. ^^ c n. 
 
 That Mr. Robert Johntton, having been recommended by the Canadian Committee of the 
 Society at Quebec, as an experienced teacher, in the British and Foreign Society System of 
 Education, was engaged by the President and Trustees for one year, and the School was opened 
 on the 24th of November last. 
 
 That for some time past the average number of scholars has been from seventy to eighty, 
 taught with peculiar advantages in the different departments of reading, writing, and arith- 
 metic . 
 
 The President and Trustees are persuaded that with the continued support of the Society, 
 the School now established will be a public benefit to the Town of Kingston, and particuliarly to 
 the poorer classes of its inhabitants, by affording instructions to their children at the moderate 
 rate of three shillings and four pence per month. 
 
 In order, however, to render this institution still more generally useful, a fund for the 
 education of the children of the destitute poor is yet wanting. This may be accomplished by 
 means of annual subscriptions and donations, for that purpose. 
 
 The following gentlemen were then elected as officers and trustees for the ensuing year : — 
 
 Rev. (i. O. Stuart, Piesident, Rev. John Wilson, the Hon. A. McLoao, and Messieurs T. 
 Markland, G. Markland. C. A. Hagerman, A. Pringle and W. Mitchell, Tnutets. 
 
 Hugh C. Thomson, Treamrer, Robert Johnston, Setretary. 
 
 Ernestown (Bath) Academy, Reopened, 1818. 
 
 The Trustees of the Ernestown (Bath) Academy hereby give notice that they have 
 appointed the Reverend Alexander Fletcher, Preceptor of that academical Institution, which 
 will be opened in a few days, after having been closed for some time. 
 
 The Rev. Alexander Fletcher and Mr. Mcintosh have commenced teaching in Ernestown 
 Academy, viz., the English language grammatically, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping, geography 
 with the use of globes, mathematics, recitation, composition and history with the Latin and 
 Greek languages. 
 
 Mr. Fletcher attended a complete course of classical btudies at the Colleges of Glasgow and 
 Edinburgh ; Mr. Mcintosh received a liberal education at King's College, Aberdeen ; and from 
 their combined experience in, and adoption of, the most successful and approved modes of tuition, 
 they hope to merit the approbation or their employers. 
 
 Boarders can be accommodated in respectable private families on the most reasonable terms. 
 
 Ernestown, October 6th, 1818. 
 
 Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1818. 
 In the Upper Canada Oazetteot the 5th of February, 1818, appeared the following notice :— 
 The subscriber intends to deliver a course of Popular T^ectures on Natural Philosophy, to 
 commence on Tuesday, the seventeenth instant, at seven o'clock, p.m., should a number of 
 auditors come forward to form a clwss. Tickets of admission for the course, (price, two guineas) 
 may be had of William Allan, Es<iuire, Dr. Home, or at the District School House. The 
 surplus, if any, after defraying the current expenses, to be laid out in painting the District 
 School House. 
 
 [Note.— The proceeds of this lecture were laid out in painting the old school-house blue, hence it wa» 
 afterwards known as " Tlu old Blue School."] 
 York, February ;]rd, i818. John Strachan. 
 
Chap. XXX. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS, ETC., 1817-1818. 
 
 183 
 
 Essay on Education in Upper Canada, 1818. 
 
 The following "Essay" contributed to the Kington Gazette in 1818, by 
 Mr. John Morris Flindall is interested as illustrating some of the more prominent 
 features of "schools and schooling" in Upper Canada in those days. 
 
 These were mainly the uncertain character of the standard of discipline 
 observed in the schools ; the ill-effects of school gossip in the homes of the pupils ; 
 the hard bargains made with teachers, and the general illiteracy of the peripathetic 
 teacher, who was the ordinary one in Mr. Flindall's day, and as described in 
 Mr. Gourley's Report. Besides, the " Essay " throws a vivid side-light on the 
 condition and character of the desultory and uncertain kind of education given — 
 such as it was, — in Upper Canada during the early part of the present century. 
 
 " He that has found a way how to keep up a child's spirit, easy, active and free, and yet at the same 
 time, to restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to draw him to thmgii that are uneasy to 
 him ; h^, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming contradictions, has, in my opinion, got the true 
 secret of Education. "—Locke. 
 
 As every man should consider himself bound to contribute his mite towards the public 
 benefit, or the improvement of that society of which he is a member, little apology will per- 
 haps be required of him, those good intentions are at once recognized, by the liberal minded of 
 all persuasions. 
 
 But to the gentlemen composing the different boards of education ;and to the calm consid- 
 eration of every parent, or guardian ; these sentiments, on the moat important of all subjects 
 are earnestly addressed 
 
 While pbilanthv.'.-il'iv exult in the hope, that the age of coercion is passing away, why 
 should we neglect > ..'<\ she arrival of milder manners, and happier times by inculcating their 
 superior advantage,^, u: ^ae education of youth ? 
 
 And how can this be done, so long as teachers, or parents, believe nothing can be accom- 
 plished in education without unbending rigour, or continual chastisement ? 
 
 We may in vain, give lessons on humanity to the child who wantonly kicks a dog, or 
 destroys a cat ; if we continue on every gust ot passion to exercise cruelty on the scholar, or 
 severity on the helpless infant, murder itself may sometimes originate from such an error in 
 education, as the robber, under the gallows, traced back his crime to the stolen apple. 
 
 J have, in Canada, heard a good old British ofhcer's observation, on the subject of education, 
 that he still recollects, with indignation, the treatment he received at school, and that he 
 would as readily have marched into a field of battle, as he would entered his school-room, or as 
 soon have met a musket ball, as have faced his school-master, and I have conversed with many 
 others who still retain similar feeling ! Such pedagogues, I consider, as mischievous, mercenary 
 pretenders, and by no means as those who have, "the true secret of education." 
 
 The paths to learning should, if possible, be strewed with flowers, and not with thorns. 
 The tutor should be mild and firm, patient and persuasive, rather than be clothed with terrors ; 
 his pupils should be one family : himself the father. 
 
 Those parents have very erroneous notions who consider a school-master as the only proper 
 dispenser of punishment, or who teaze, and interrupt him, with continual complaints of juvenile 
 errors, in which the parents alone are responsible. 
 
 I am not here to be und -rstood as maintaining that every seminary ot learning can be con- 
 ducted without that wholesome, or discriminate, discipline, which is found to check the turbu- 
 lence of some tempers ; but it is certain, that the frequency of puniihment will ever lesson its 
 effect, and the same rule will hold good with respect to t!ie laws which govern man, as wall as 
 to the rules which direct the juvenile scholar. 
 
 A severe reproof from a mild master will have more effect than a severe blow trom a morose 
 one, Study is the most successful, wnenthe mind is most at ease, but how can that mind beat 
 ease, which is ever tenanted by terror '/ 
 
 In the culture of the human mind, there are a thousand littla niceties, which an experienced 
 tutor alone can kniw, and he should, therefore, never be tied down by too many restrictions 
 on his conduct. Yet nothing is more common chan to .;ee an illiterate man, give ridiculous 
 directions, or offer insult, to a worthy teacher. 
 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORV OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1817-lS 
 
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 i 
 
 I i 1 
 
 On my first linival in Upper Canada, I met with a very intelligent Englishman, who con- 
 ducted a school in this country ; he told me with a tearful eye, th-tt in con82quence of this latter 
 circumstance his situation became odious to him. 
 
 "Sir" said he, "were it not that I am still encouraged by two or three respectable 
 families, I would as soon be found thieving ;is keeping school here ! " 
 
 In the bitterness of his feelings, he had not considered that similar miseries might have 
 afflicted him in an Englinh, as well as in a Canadian, village. 
 
 " Painful preeminence yourself to view 
 
 " Above life's weakness, and ito comforts too." 
 
 As perfection is not attainable, and such us for faults will not be long without finding them, 
 so those who listen to the tales of childhood, will always have enough to liear. 
 
 One withdraws his child from school having i..;ard its complaint against the teacher. And 
 as nothmg is easier propagated than prejudice, he Siwn gets others to think ill of the same teacher, 
 so that he niay not appear whimsical, or singular himself, a practice just as illiberal as that of 
 a man who, having stolen your purse, robs you of reputation also ! 
 
 The broils and bickerings of neighbors and parents will often be mimicked by the children, 
 and the whispers of the schoolroom are but the echoes of the domestic fireside. 
 
 From hence arises much of the illiberal censure which even the best and most impartial 
 teachers must endure ; the scholar, much happier, has but one master, but here the teacher has 
 many : and if the frivolous reports of his own pupils are to influence the parents, a master be- 
 comes not only wretched in mind, but altogether destitute of authority —though he can only 
 be useful in proportion as his character is held saored, or his endeavours seconded by the judi- 
 cious aid of the present. 
 
 A man of re-il merit, is ever the more obnoxious to the envious and unprincipled, as it is 
 generally observed to bo the sweetest fruit, which the little birds pick at ; so the malignant 
 spirit of ittle minds, are ever busy ; and like that painful, but puny annoyer, the musquito, 
 seems only created to murmur and to sting ! r , j , , r 
 
 • \,'^^'^^- '"^^ authority of a Master, for the time supersedes that of a parent, who has no 
 right to interfere with the regulations of a school," is a point lately confirmed by a British 
 Judge, at the Lancashire Assizes. 
 
 • * " i ^*^j "says the compiler of the American Preceptor, " often heard old and experienced 
 instructors decUre that the whole business of managing a large school, and training the pupils 
 to learning and virtue, was nothing in coinparsion with the trouble which was given bv whinisi- 
 cal, wnorant and discontented parents." 
 
 Let it then be the business of every friend to education, to awaken more liberal sentiments 
 with respect to both teachers and pupils. A glorious field is open to our view ; and our Legisla- 
 tures are aiding m its cultivation. In addition to a small annual stipend, they have very judi- 
 ciously endeavourea to shield the teacher from the effects of local prejudice or frivolous com- 
 plaint, by referring such cases to the decision of the Board of Education. 
 
 While some parents forbid the rigour necessary to remove the vices, or unlearn the errors 
 acquired by parental indulgence, others most approve of those passionate pedagogues, who pre- 
 ter stripes to precepts, and in higgling with a preceptor about his recompense, think they have 
 made a good bargain, when they get one who will whip their children for half a dollar per 
 quarter less than another would chaige to instruct them ! 
 
 1 u ^^*!? *K®y liesitate not in giving a labourer a dollar per day for his services, wh.we 
 labours, though severe, are not equal to those of the mind. 
 
 A schoolmaster who receives twenty-five dollars from Government, is expected to teach a 
 scholar for a dollar and a half per (luarter ; his recompence therefore from the parentis one 
 penny per day, and for this he has often to give six lessons I 
 
 Now, should this man have a family, resident in the neighbourhood, (and which should al- 
 ways It possible bo the case), he will seldom require cash from his subscribers while they supply 
 him with produce ; so that were his recompense greater, it would scarcely be felt by the farmers 
 or merchants. 
 
 But the littleness of conduct in their treaty with teachers, is so very opposite to the dis- 
 interested hospitality of Canadians, thai it must have originated from a want of due consider- 
 ation on the importanco and value of education; for, as the morals and prosperity of every 
 . — ' — -" I ,,!.,, .... viitj •.si=irtriiact3 ui puuiic iiistruciion snouiu DC proportionally 
 
 1?^°'**'"^' '" '""*"*' ^'X'ou^^ing to any author, than to find his own opinion supported by 
 the best and most disinterested authority ; my quoUtions will therefore be pardoned. 
 
 ' 
 

 Chap. XXX. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS, ETC., 1817-1818. 
 
 135^ 
 
 I mkerton, in his remarks on tho EducHtion of America observes that, "as nothing is more 
 important m any country than tho national education, it would bo for interest and honour of 
 the people at large, that numerous and competent salaries should be assicned as to the dispensers 
 of public instruction. 
 
 " As in the gsrert^l opiniou of mankind, the chief glory of every people arises from its 
 autiiors. a few thousand pounds annually expended on them would confer more true lasting 
 tame, than millions wasted in destructive wars." 
 
 "As without lamps there cannot be light, so without oil the lamps niuat expire." 
 *v. ^^\ *" ^® always find reward ever stimulates t(< cxortion, how can it be better bestowed 
 than on those who have the care of our oflfspriug, and whose talents must stamp the character of 
 a future generation ^ 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Strachan, in pi-uface to his Arithmetic, ve^y properly observes that "he who is 
 anxious to spare labour, ought not be a public teacher. ' And it may be added, that those who 
 are auxious to withhold adequate reward, are not worthy of a good one. 
 
 T 1 ' ''''^® "*"*V*^'y ftnd short way by chastisement, and the rod, which is," says the immortal 
 Liocke, the only instrument of Government that tutors generally know, or ever think of, is tho 
 most unht of any to be used in education. 
 
 " But if you can once get into children a love of credit, and an apprehension of shame and 
 disgrace, you have put into them the true principle which will constantly work and incline 
 them to the right." •' 
 
 Thus it is easy to conceive that a man may be a good grammarian, an expert arlchmeti-iai., 
 a fane penman, etc., and yet be found a bad teacher. If the inhabitants of Japan can educate 
 their youth without the degradation of personal chastisement, why might not the same thing be 
 done, or at least attempted, in other countries ? 
 
 But in Canada, learning requires stable as well as able men, but how can stability bo ex- 
 pected from young adventurers, or travelling strangers, or who can be responsible for their moral 
 character ? 
 
 In many townships, a teacher of twelve months standing is a prodigy : one of as many 
 weeks the most common. .^ o.^ j 
 
 One might also well suppose, that, from the continual accounts given in the public papers, 
 of the most abominable imposters finding employment and encouragement, as school masters, 
 that parents would be found more cautious, or vigilant in their choice. God forbid, that by 
 :hu hint, I should be thought to impeach the morals or merit of strangers in general,— many of 
 whom have certainly proved themselves worthy of the great confidence rei)osed in them ; but, 
 ,1^ a parrnt, I may be oxcus^.J the anxiety wiiich I feel, and would wish to be felt bv others, in 
 the choice of those who may either pollute, or elevate, the minds of our ofispring. 
 
 Indeed were I to have a choice I should certainly prefer him who was himself a parent^ 
 for the instructor of my own children, even though his talonts might be the less shining. 
 
 How opposite also is this to the impolitic plan of employing unsettled and single men, who- 
 as soon as they have obtained the cash for their quarter's hire, move oflTand spend it in another 
 place. Can such ithierant teachers be expected to leave many traces of instruction behind 
 them 1 
 
 It is with much pleasure I perceive that many wurthy people in this new world can duly 
 value everything connected with a subject so important. 
 
 " Consider," says Walkers, " how much time is lost by master and scholars for want of a 
 warm, convenient room. 
 
 " One might suppose from the shattered condition and ill accommodation of many school- 
 houses, that they were erected as pounds, to confine unruly boys, and punish them by way of 
 freezing them and smokii}. them, so that the master can do little more than regulate the cere- 
 monies of the hearth . 
 
 " Proper books in the several branches of their study, are a great encouragement. 
 "A good opinion of their master is another thing parents ought to give them. To slander 
 ms charr.cter is an indirect attack upon your dearest interest." 
 
 But one might well supi.ose, that could no other virtuous example be found among those 
 who have deigned to " teach tho young idea how to shoot," that in N-rth America, the n.^me. cf 
 Anthony Benezet, would ever diffuse a lustre on an office so arduous and important. 
 
 j; 
 
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 136 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF KDUOATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 tm 
 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGISLA- 
 TURE IN 1819. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland, opened the fourth session of 
 the Seventh Parliament of Upper Canada on the seventh day of June, 1819, with 
 a Speech from the Throne. In it he made no reference to the subject either of 
 education or schools. 
 
 Nevertheless, three subjects came up for discussion, in the Legislature itself 
 two of them practically the old questions in a new form. The one was the 
 repeal, or modification, of the Grammar School law of 1807, and the other was the 
 maintenance of the Common Schools already established, by the passing of an 
 Act to continue in operation the Act of 1816, under the authority of which a 
 grant of $24,000 a year was secured to these schools for four years. 
 
 This Act was limited to expire in 1820, and hence the necessity of early 
 provision being made for its continuance in operation. 
 
 The third matter dealt with a remote contingency, and was suggested by the 
 Lieutenant-Governor. It was that an Act should be passed, enabling a constitu- 
 ency to be named to elect a Member to represent the University of Upper 
 Cauddb,, Yviieu in established, in the Commons House of Assembly. 
 
 The Grammar School Amendment Bill was the only one of the three which 
 survived the ordeal of legislation. The continuance of the Common School Act 
 was practically prevented by such amendments being made to it in the Legisla- 
 tive Council as destroyed its prospective vitality beyond the time when it was 
 fixed by law to expire. The University Representation BiH '^'ough prepared 
 with evident care, was referred to a Committee of Conferenct .f both Houses, 
 from which it never emerged. But during the next Session of the Legislature 
 the proposal became law. As a practical question, however, it has never since 
 been fnvouraby considered, and, as a reality, has evidently been postponed 
 sine die. The provision for this representation, with the Act itself, was repealed 
 by the Imperial Act for the union of the Canadas in 1840. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1819. 
 
 The Members of the House of A.ssenibly who took part in the educational 
 
 Legislation of 1819 were: Messieurs Philip VanKoughnet, Jonas Jones, Isaac 
 
 Fraser, Richard Hatt, Peter Robinson, Robert Nichols, James Duraud, Zaccheus 
 
 Burnham, Robert Nelles and Alexander McMartin. 
 
 tOthJHne, 1S19, —Mr, Philip VanKoughnet. gives notice that he will, on Morsday next, move 
 for leave to bring in a Bill tn repeal part of and amend the laws now in forco for establishing 
 District (Gmimnar) Schools in the several Districts of this Province, and to extend the pro- 
 visions of the same. 
 
1819 
 
 Chap. XXXI. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. C, LEOISLATUUE, 1819. 137 
 
 
 
 { 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, gives notice that he will, on Monday next, move for leave to 
 brii g m a Bill to cont nue an Act passed in the tifty-«ixth year of His Majesty's reign (1816) 
 intituled "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money to be applied to the use of Com- 
 mon Schools throughout this Province and to provide for the regulations of said Common 
 Schools." * 
 
 15th June, i«i .9.— Agreeably to notice Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Isaac 
 Fraser, moves for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal part of, amend, and extend the provisions 
 of an Act passed m the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807), intituled " An Act 
 to establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province," which was granted 
 and the Bill read a first time. 
 
 c, I. '^'■•Pf'il'I' V^nJ^oughnet, seconded by Mr. Isaac Fraser, moves that the District (Grammar) 
 bchool Bill be read a second time on to morrow, which was ordered. 
 
 Tin ^^^' ^'^''^P VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moves for leave to bring in a, 
 Bill to continue an Act passed in fifty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign (1816) intituled " An 
 Act for granting to His Majesty a sum of money to be applied to the use of Common Schools 
 throughout ths Province, and to provide for the regulations of said Common Schools, which 
 was granted and the Bill road a first time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moves that the Common School 
 •Continuation Bill be road a second time on to-morrow, which waa ordered. 
 
 16th. fune, 1819.— AgreeMy to the Order of the Day, the District (Grammar) School 
 Amendment Bill was read the second time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Richard Hatt, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into a Committee to take into C(.i sidenition the District (Grammar) School Amend- 
 ment Bill, which was carried, and Mr. Peter Robinson took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Petar Robinson reported progress, and obtained leave to 
 sit again to-morrow. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of of the Day, the Common School Continuation Bill wa« read the 
 second time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Isaac Fraser, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into a Committee, to take in'o consideration the Common School Continuation 
 Bili, whicn was earned, and Mr. Ralpli Clench took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Clench reported the Bill amended. 
 Report be received. 
 
 Ordered that the 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moves that the Co. >mon School 
 ■Continuation Bill be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow, which was orderea 
 
 i7<;i JiKie, 2«/9.— Agree ibly to the Order of the Day, the Common School Continuition 
 Bill was called for a third reading, when Mr. Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. Richard Hatt, 
 moved that the Common School C(mcinuation Bill be read a third time on Monday sennight, 
 which was lost, and the Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Jonas .Tones, moves that the Common School 
 Continuation Bill do now pass, and that it be intituled " An Act to continue an Act pased in 
 the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign (1816), intituled, "An Act granting to His Majesty a 
 Bum of money to be applied to the u«eof Common Scliools throughout this Province ' and to pro- 
 vide for the regulations of the said Common Schools." 
 
 In amendment, Mr. Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. Richird Hatt, moves that the ques- 
 tion be not now put, which motion was lost, the original question was then put and earned, 
 and the Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Joiiej. seconded by Mr. Isaac Fraser, moves that Messieurs VanKoughnet and 
 Cameron be a Committee to carry up the Honourable the Legislative Council the Common 
 School Continuation Bill, and request their concurrence thereto, which was ordered. 
 
 17th Jiuie, 1819. —Agreeably to the Order of the Day the House went into Committee on 
 the District (Grammar) Sjhool Amondmunt Bill, Mr. Peter Robinson in the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Robinson reported the Bill as amended. Ordered, that 
 the Report be received. 
 
 Mr- Philip VanKouathnet, seconded by Mr. Jamas Durand, moves that the District (Gram- 
 mar) Schoal Araondmont Biil bo engrojsed and load a third tima on lo-morrow, which was 
 ordered. 
 
 18th June, W/.9.~Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the District (Grammar) School 
 Amendment Bill was read the third time. 
 
138 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 * -i 
 
 Mr. Peter Robinson, seconded by Mr. Zaceheiis Burnhaiii, moves that the District (CJrammar) 
 School Amendment Bill do now jwiss, and tliat it bo intituled, " An Act to Repeal part of, and 
 to Amend, the laws n< w in force for establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the several 
 Districts in this Province, and to extend the jirovisions of the same," which was carried and the 
 Bill signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Robert Nelles, seconded by Mr. Zaccheus Burnham, moves that Messieurs Van- 
 Koughnet and Robinson be a Committee t<» carry up to the Honourable the Legislative Council 
 the District (Grammar) School Amendment Bill, and reijuest their concurrence thereto, which 
 was ordereti. 
 
 Mr. VanKoughnet, of the Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative Council 
 the Bill intituled. " An Act to continue an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty's 
 Reign (181t)), intituled. "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of Money to be applied for the 
 use of Common Schools througliout this Province, and to provide for the Regulations of the said 
 Common Schools," and the Bill intituled, " An Act to repeal part of. and »mend, the laws now 
 in force for establishing District ((Jrammar) Schools in the several Districts of this Province, 
 and to extend the provisions of the same," and request their concurrence thereto, reported 
 that they had done so. 
 
 h 
 
 University Representation in the House of Assemhly. 
 
 S2nd Jum, 1819. —A. message from His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland, the Lieutenant- 
 Governor, was read, as follows : 
 
 P. Maitland : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits the Petition of certain inhabitants of Perth and the- 
 New Settlement in the County of Leeds [r.j Representation in the Commons], and at the same 
 time submits the propriety of providing for a distinct representation of the contemplated Uni- 
 versity, when founded, in conformity to the established practice in the Mother Country. 
 
 Government Hoi:se, 
 
 June 22nd. 1819. 
 
 P.M. 
 
 Mr. Robeit Nichol, seconded by Mr. Richard Hatt, moved that the House take this Message 
 of His Excellency into consideration to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the Honourable the Legisla- 
 tive Council a Message, which, having delivered, ho withdrew, and the Speaker read the same 
 as follows : 
 
 Mr. Speak Eu : 
 
 The Honourable the Legislative Council request a Conference with tht Commons House of 
 Assembly on the subject ma'ter of a Bill intituled, " .\n Act to Repeal part of, and amend, the 
 laws now in force for establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the several Districts of thia 
 Province, and to extend the provisions of the same." 
 
 The Legislative Council have appointed a Cfmimittee of two of its Members, who will be 
 ready to meet the Committee of the Commons House of Assembly for that purpose in the Legis- 
 lative Council Chamber at the rising of this House this day. 
 
 ing 
 
 Leoislative CouNcit Chamber, 
 
 22nd June, 1819. 
 
 Wm. Di'MMER Powell, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Richard Hatt, seconded by Mr Philip VanKoughnet, moves that Messieurs Van- 
 Koughnet, Nichol, Durand and Burnham bo a Committee to confer with the Committee of the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council on the subject of the District (Grammar) School Bill, which 
 was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Phih]) VanKiiughnet, seconded by Mr. Peter Robinson, moves that Messieurs Hatt 
 and Fraser bo a Committee to acijuaint the Honourable the I^egislative Council that this House 
 has appointed a Committee to confer with the Committee of that Honourable Houne on the 
 subject of the Bdl intituled, "An Act to Rtipeal part of, and amend, an Act oasatd in tb.e fort"- 
 soventh year of His Majesty's ;i807)" intituled, ' An Act to est ablish District (Grammar) 
 
 School* in the several Districts ... <, lis Province, and to extend the provisions of the same,' " at. 
 the rising of that House, which was ordered. 
 
mrmi.w'Js.i^rF't" 
 
 1819 
 
 (Oramniar) 
 )art of, an(i 
 the several 
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 sieurs Van- 
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 reto, which 
 
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 I Majesty's 
 lied for the 
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 P.M. 
 
 lis Message 
 
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 lets of this 
 
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 Chap. XXXI. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1819. 139 
 
 Mr. Richard Hatt, of the f^ommittee to take up to the Honourable the Legislative Council 
 a Message acquainting them that tl.is Hous*) had appointed a Committee to confer with the Com- 
 mittet) of that House on the subject of the Bill intituled, "An Act to Repeal part of, and 
 amend, the laws now in force fop establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the several District* 
 of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same," reported that they had done so. 
 
 Mr. Peter Robinson, of The Committee on Expiring Laws, reported as follows Ire Common 
 School Act] : " That 56 George III., cap. 38, intituled, ' An Act granting to His Majesty a Sura 
 of Money to be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this Province, and to provide 
 for the Regulations of said Common Schools,' will expire on the 1st of April, 1820." 
 
 £3rd Jnuf, Ifll'J. — Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, of the Committee to confer with the Com- 
 mittee of the Honourable the Legislative Council on the subjeU of the Bill intituled, " An Act 
 to Repeal part of, aud amend, the lat s now it» force for establisbing District (Grammar) 
 Scliools in the several Districts of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the tame," 
 presented a Report, which was received and read as follows : 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Committee appointed to confer with the Committee of the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council on the subject of the Bill intituled, " An Act to Repeal part of, and amend, the law« 
 now in force, passed in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1816\ intituled, " An Act 
 to establish Public (Grammar) Schools in each and every District of this Province, and to extend 
 the provisions of the same,' having met the Committee of that House in the Legislative Council 
 Chamber, the following amendments in, and to, the said Bill were proposed by the Committee 
 of the Honourable the Legislative Council, which, as they did not, in the opinion of your Com- 
 mittee, apply the money clauses of the Bill, your Committee agreed to recommend the same for 
 the adoption of this House." The amendments are as folio ats : 
 
 At a public meeting of the Trustees of the District School, upon due notice for that pur. 
 pose, a majority of the Trustees being present, etc. : 
 
 After the word " kept," in the tenth clause, expunge : "at such place as the Trustees, or 
 the majority of them, shall appoint," and insert: "the Town of Hamilton in the District of 
 Gore." After the word " that," in the third line, fif h press, expunge the remainder of the 
 clause, and insert : "to every teacher, hereafter to be appointed, there shall be only F.fty 
 Pounds paid, unless the average number of scholars exceed ten." 
 
 P. VanKoughnet, i 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Commons House of Assembly, 
 
 23rd June, 1819. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee on the Message of His 
 Excellency on the subject of University Representation in the Commons' House of Assembly, 
 Mr. Crysler in the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Crysler reported that the Committee had agreed upon a 
 Resolution, as follows : 
 
 That it is the opinion of this Committeo that it is expedient and proper to provide tor . 
 . . the District representation of the contemplated University of this Province, when the 
 same shall be organized, in conformity with the established practice in the Mother Country. 
 Ordered, that the report be received, and the Resolution adopted by this House. 
 
 2^thJune, 1819. — Mr. Jonas Jones, seconded by Mr. Alexander McMartin, moves that 
 Messieurs VanKoughnet and Cameron be a Committee to acquaint the Honourable the Legisla- 
 tive Council that this House has received the Report of their Committee of Conference on the 
 subject of the Bill intituled, "An Act to Repeal part of, and amend, the laws now in force f( r 
 establishing district (Grammar) Schools m the several Districts of this Province, and to extend 
 the provisions of the same,'' which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. VanKoughnet, of the Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council a Message acquainting them that this Rouse had concurred in the Report of their 
 Committee of Conference on the subject of the Bill intituled, " An Act to Repeal part cf, an<i 
 amend, the Jaws now in force for establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the seveiai 
 Districts of the Province, and to extend the provisions of ihe same," reported that they had 
 done so. 
 
1 1 
 
 140 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPl'ER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
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 iki 
 
 Ml 
 
 iSOtk JuM I SID. —Mr. Secretiiry Hillior brought down from His Exoelkney the Lieutenant- 
 Oovernor a Messaao. which he delivered to the Speaker, who, after Mr. Secretary lliUier had 
 withdrawn, read the same as follows : 
 
 P. Maitlanu : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transnaita to the House of Assembly copies of such reports as 
 have been received from the Board of Educitioa in the several Districts on the subject of 
 Ooinm m Schools wince the last communication made to the House on that subject. 
 
 OOVBRNMKNT HoUHE, P- M. 
 
 June 26th. 1819. 
 
 Mr. W W. Uaidwiii, Masler-in-Chancery, brought down from the Honourable the Legis- 
 lative Council the Bill, intitule*! "An Act to R<'i>eal part of, and amend, ttio laws now in force 
 for estwblishing District (Oraramar) Schools in the several Districts of this Province, and to 
 extend the provisions of the sani"," sont up 'rom this House, which they had passed with some 
 amendments, which they recommended to the adoption of this House. 
 
 The messengwr having ."ithdrawn, the amendments were read the first time. 
 Mr. Philip VanKou^huf't, seconded by Mr. Isaac Fraser, moves that the amendments 
 made by the H<mourable the Legislxtivo Council to the Bill intituled "An Act to l<ei)i;vl part 
 of, and to amend, the laws now in force for establishing District (Gr.-vintriar) Schools in the 
 several Districts of this Province, snd to extend the pnwisions of the saiuo," be now read a 
 sejond time, whicli was cirried, and the amendments were read the second time. 
 
 Mr. Philij) VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Isaac Fraser, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to take into consideration the miiendiiients made 
 by the Honourable the Legislative Council to the Bill, intituled "An Act to Rtpeal part of, and 
 to amend, the laws now in force for establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the several 
 Districts of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same," which was carried and 
 Mr. Jonas Jones took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Jones reported the Amendments. Ordered, That the 
 Rejjort be received, 
 
 Mr. Philip VanK<»ughnet, seconded by M". Tsaic Fraser, inove^ that the amendments 
 made by the Honourable the Legislative Council to the Bill intituled "An Act to Repeal part 
 of, and amend, the laws now in force for establishing District ((Grammar) Schools in the 
 several Districts of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same, be now road for the 
 third time, which was carried, and the amendments were read for the third time, jjassed, and 
 signed by the ^peake^. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moves that Messieurs Fraser and 
 C .tterbo a Committee to accjuaint the Honourable the Legislative Council that this House have 
 adopted the a nendmonts by that Hf.'use to the Bill, intituled "An Act to Repeal part of, and 
 to amend, the laws now in force for establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the several Dis- 
 tricts of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same," which vas ordered. 
 
 Mr. Fraser, of the Committee to acquaint the Honourable the Legislative Council that this 
 House had adopted the aniendments made bj them to and in the Bill, intituled "An Act to 
 Repeal part of, and to amend, the laws now in force for establisliing District Schools 
 in the several Districts of this Province, and to extend the jirovisions of the same," reported 
 they had done so. 
 
 50^1 Jnm, 1S19. —Mr. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in -Chancery, brought down from the 
 Honourable, the Legis'ative Council the Bill intituled "An Act to continue an Act passed in the 
 fifiy-sixth year of His Majesty's Reign (181«), intituled 'An Act granting to His Majesty a sum 
 of money, to be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this Province and to piovide 
 for the Regulations of the said Common Schools, " which they had passed with some amendments 
 which they recommended to the a>loption of this House. 
 
 Mr. Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, moves that the amendments of 
 the Honourable the Legislative Council in and to the engrossed Bill sent u^) froin this House 
 for their concurrence, intituled "An Act to continue an Act p«8ed in the hfty-sixth year of 
 His Majesty's reign (1816). intituled "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money to be 
 applied to the use of Common Schools throughont this Province, and t) provide ft.r the Regula- 
 
 l.'XLUtOS UI UlC nt!U V,UlUtum utlt'_".ril?, '.-^ t. •T !»•»•,, ~ -~" .•. ; 
 
 read, were as follows : 
 
 In the title, line 1, after " to " expunga "continue " and insert " repeal part of " ; line 3, 
 •ftjr " schools, ' insert " and to continue part of the siune." 
 
1819 
 
 d^p. XXXI. 1 DUCATIONAl. SBOTHEDINOS OF THE V. C. LEOI8LATURE, 1819. 141 
 
 Lieutenant- 
 Uillier had 
 
 reports as 
 ) subject of 
 
 P. M. 
 
 the Legis- 
 low in f<irce 
 nee, and to 
 1 with some 
 
 ,mendiuent8 
 {ciiuiil part 
 lools in the 
 aoir read a 
 
 luse do now 
 iuents made 
 part uf, and 
 the Boveral 
 sarried and 
 
 t, That the 
 
 aaendments 
 [It! peal part 
 looU in the 
 road for the 
 and 
 
 Fraser and 
 House have 
 part of, and 
 several Dis- 
 ;d. 
 
 icil that this 
 "An Act to 
 •let Schools 
 e," reported 
 
 KU from the 
 )as8ud in the 
 ajcsty a sum 
 (1 to piovide 
 amendments 
 
 lendmonts of 
 n this House 
 ixth year of 
 money to be 
 • the Regula- 
 
 a til An dlilt^ntS 
 
 of " ; line 3, 
 
 l» *• ^in. MMM !•, after " that," expum^e the remainder of the B 11, and insert " the 
 mi thiri «iWMW of the said \('f of the fifty-sixth year of His ] 'resent Majesty be, 
 and the mme we h«p|i)»jr rtpmlod." 
 
 And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Trustees of the said Common 
 Schools shall be annually chosen at the Town Meetinjf, on the first Monday in eich and evenr 
 ye*T in the same manner that other Parish and Town officers by law now are, and that it shall 
 and may be lawful for the said Trustees, or the majority of them, upon due notice beins given 
 to them that there is a fit and convenient lot and house for the purpose of keeping the said 
 Oomiii.m School in, conveyed to the Town and Churchwardens for the Township for which they 
 may be chosen Trustees, to nominate and appoint a fit and proper person to be Teacher to the 
 said Common School. Pmvidod always that no more than one salary be |«id to a Teacher of a 
 Common School in any one Township. 
 
 And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no further (Myment be made by 
 warrant on the Receivor-Oenoral to the Treasurer of any District for the i>urposes of the said 
 Act, until he shall ha 'e transmitted to the Inspector-Creneral of Public Accounts due accounts, 
 vouchers and receipts for the moneys heretofore paid to him in that behalf. 
 
 And be it further enacted by the authoiity aforesaid that this Act, and so much of the said 
 Act of the fifty-sixth year of His Present Majesty's reign (181G) as is not hereby repealed shall 
 continue and be in force for four years from and after the first day of January next (1820), and 
 from thence to the end of the next ensuing session of the Provincial Parliament, and no 
 longer. 
 
 (Note. — These amen'lments seem to have been regarded by the House of 
 
 Assembly as fatal to the Bill— especially the one which says : " In the title, line 
 
 one, after the word " to " expunge " continue," and insert " repeal part of." After 
 
 reading these amendments the House of Assembly apparently took no further 
 
 action in the matter.) 
 
 €iwi Ju/y. /«i 9. —Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee on 
 the Representation Bill, Mr. Jonas Jonos in the chair. 
 
 The House haying resumed, the Chairman reported the Bill as amended. Ordered, That 
 the Report be received. 
 
 Mr. James McNabb, seconded by Mr. Zaccheus Burnham, moves that the Representation 
 Bill be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 Srd July, 1819 — Agreeable to the Order of the Day, the Fniversity Represe-^tation in the 
 House of Assembly Bill was read the third time, and the moi •)n to that effect was carried in 
 the affirmative by a vote of seventeen to one, as follows : 
 
 Yea.s :—Meflsieurs Fraser, Durand, McCormick, Clench, Burnham, Secord, McMartin. 
 Nichol, Robinson, Hatt, Cameron, Jones, Hall, Swayze, Nelles, Crysler and Cotter— 17. 
 Nays : — Mr. Vankoughnet — 1. 
 
 Mr Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moved, as a Ryder to the Bill, the fol- 
 lowing clause :— 
 
 " Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that, whenever a University shall bo established 
 in this Province, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or perscm 
 administering the Government of this Province for the time being, to de larc by pr.jclamation, 
 or otherwise, the tract of land appendant to such University, and whereon the same is situated 
 to be aT >wn or Township, by such name as to him shallseem meet ; and that such Town, or 
 Township, so constituted, shall be represented by one member. Provided always, nevertheless, 
 that no person shall be permitted to Vote at any such Election for a member to represent the 
 said Town, or Township, who, besides the qualifications now by law required, shall not also be 
 entitled to votn in the convocation of the said University," 
 
 Upon which the House divided and the yeas and nays being taken, it was decided in the 
 negative by a majority of ten, and the Bill was sent up to the Legislative Council for its con- 
 currence thereto. 
 
 0th July, 1819 — The amendments made by the Honourable the Legislative Council to the 
 Bill intituled "An Act to increase the Commons of this Province and University in the House 
 of .\35C!itbly," v.hich the Couiicil had sont dowTi that day were read the firat time, as foiiowa . 
 
 Press 2, line 6 : After " Province " insert " and let it be further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, that, whenever an University shall be established in this Province, it shall and may be 
 lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the Government of this 
 
-''iM-k' ji-f- irf»~ V I; .,?!,*! J ..»i4,-itt.* : ► 
 
 142 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HI8T0R\ OF KDUCATION IN UPPfiB CANADA. 1819 
 
 l»i 
 
 ... - ., ,■ „„ v.„i_^ .,, decUrd by uroclHrnation or olherwiiie the tract of land »pi>on<l- 
 l'r.,y.nov, for fl.o t. no »'"^«;^^^^7°^^^^^^^ »„.,„ ;, situated. t„ In, a Tow,, or Tuw.ulu,, by nuch 
 ant to «uch Unner. y. ''' 'I * '«'«" P^ » ^ Township shall be represented by one 
 
 name a. to ''m shall «o.,, '^-:; -^^i^i.-^.'-^., ,,„„ »,« .lor.nitt.d to vot« at such elec- 
 
 ipember; Pf'>vidad »lw*ys. im ve"iio , r beside* the quahhcatiouB now 
 
 ^;Lt'^:;:rd%^:ir rr iJS'lu^^^^^^^^^^ I the cLvo..tion of the J. Univen..y." 
 
 »Sa e* he Hep e^n?Sn of the Co.umun. of thi; Province a .1 University .n the House 
 if Assembly, be re>v<l .v second tima on to-inornm. Wh.ch was ordered. 
 
 7th JiUu //J/9.- The amendments to the Bill intitnted, " An Act to increase the Hepresen- 
 Ution of the University and Commons of this ProN ince in the House of A«.en.bly were read the 
 
 second time. . ,. j i 
 
 M Jonas Jones, sec.mded by Mr. Peter Robinw.n, m.,v..8 that the House do now re«>lve 
 itself into a Conunitt^e of the whr on the Amendments mu i. by the Ilonourab e the Legu.- 
 S Council to the engrossed B.li. intituled. " An Act to increase the representat.un of the 
 Commons and University of this Province ... the Hou»o of A.se.nbly." Wh.ch was earned, and 
 Mr Cotter took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House luivi.ig resn.ned. Mr. Cotter reported that the Co.nmittee »»»<1,'*«[''*"^, VL. 
 Resolution, which he whs directed to reco.nme..d for the adoption of the House. Ordered that 
 the ReiKjrt be received ; ^he Resolution was udopted as tollows : — 
 
 Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Comm.ttee that a Cnfererjce he re.|ue8ted with the 
 Honourable the Legislative ( uncil o.i the amendments n.ado to a Bill seiit up fron. the House, 
 ."tituled. " A.. Act U, increase the rei..eBe..tation of the Commons and U...versity of th.s Pro- 
 vince in the House of .Assembly." 
 
 Mr Jonas Jones, seuu.ded by Mr. Zaccheus Hu.nham. moves that Messie.irs Hall and 
 Cryslerbe a C .m.nittee to re.,uo8t a Cmference with the Hon..urablo the Legislative Couiicil 
 She subject of their ame..dments to the Bill intituled, «' A.. Act to ,nc,•ea^e he r.^l'™^**'"" 
 of the Commons and University of th s Province in the House of Assembly. Which was 
 ordered. 1 1 .i 
 
 ,Stk J^dv, iX/.'/.-Mr. J.mas Jonos of the Committee to carry up to the Honourable the 
 Legislative Council a u.esssge re.iuesting a Conference on the subject of the Amendu.ents ...;«le 
 b^ hem to the Bill intituled, "An Act to increase the representation of the Commons and 
 University of this Province in the House of Assembly," reported that they had d<.no so. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Jones, seconded by Mr. Alexander McMartin, moves that Messieurs Di'rand, 
 Hatt. Fraser and Nelles bo a Committee to confer with the Committee of the Hoiiorouble the 
 Legislative Council on the subiect of their amendments to the Bill intituled, ^n Act tc in- 
 cVease the represents! i<.n of the Commons and University of th.s Province m the House of 
 Parliament." Which was ordered. 
 
 The two Houses, as will be seen by their proceedings, appointed Committees 
 of Conference on this University Representation Bill. But there is no record in 
 the Journals of either House that they ever met. The legislature was prorogued 
 on the 12th of July, so the Bill did not pass ; but provision was made for such 
 representation of a Provincial University in the House of Assembly during the 
 noxt Session of the Legislature. 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council in 1819. 
 
 The members of the Legislative Council who took part in its proceedings in 
 1819 were the Honourable Messieurs William Dummer Powell, Chief Justice, 
 (Speaker), Thomas Scott, James Baby, John McGill. William Claus, William 
 Dickson, Thomas Clark and Thomas Fraser. The names of those who took part 
 in the educulioual legislation of the session are not given in the Jo'irnals of the 
 Council— the usual formula employed being, " On motion made and seconded," 
 etc. 
 
1819 
 
 nd Hppoixl- 
 u(>, by such 
 itocl by one 
 kt Buch elec- 
 cationa now 
 jversity." 
 
 made by the 
 ' An Act to 
 
 I the House 
 
 ,e Hcpresen- 
 ere mad the 
 
 now resolve 
 e the Legia- 
 ,atii>n of the 
 carried, and 
 
 agreed to a 
 )rdered that 
 
 led with the 
 
 II the House, 
 of this Pro- 
 
 irs Hall and 
 
 itivo Council 
 
 (jiresfntation 
 
 Which was 
 
 nourable the 
 Imciitfl iiiiule 
 oininuus and 
 
 10 80. 
 
 (urs Durand, 
 noroublo the 
 ,n Act tc in- 
 ,he House of 
 
 Iloramittees 
 lo record in 
 1 prorogued 
 ide for such 
 during the 
 
 I 1819. 
 
 jceedings in 
 ief Justice, 
 us, William 
 bo took part 
 rnnls of the 
 i seconded," 
 
 Chap. XXXI. EDUCATIONAL I'ROOBEDINOS 
 
 OF THE U. C. LEOISLATURE, 1819. 143 
 
 The Council did not originate any educational legislation itself, i .t received 
 and discussed the legislation of that kind sent up from the House of Assembly. 
 
 Apparently one (,f the reasons why the Con.inon School Continuation Bill 
 «ent up by the House of Assen.bly. was not passed in the form in which it 
 reached the Council was. that the rtj.ovts of the local trustees, which the Act of 
 1810 required to be made annually, were not laid before the Hou... The Council 
 addressed the Lieutenant-Governor on the subject, and he sent them the only 
 copies which he had recnved. None of these reports have been preserved. 
 
 depuS,;fSn''S'cl':Lo,:fFt;:;: ""rr' "Jf ^^'" ^'"^' P-""""^ ^- adjournment A 
 
 br^^ht up for ti./concu;;rc/ :rt';:'Htr"''V''i!;fi rnthX.?''. a t "t"'""^-/"'^ 
 
 an .Act pasHud in the fiftv-mxth voar .f Hiu m .' 'ntituled 'An Act to continue 
 Krnnting to Hia M^io'^tTl mm of J Majesty s reign (1810). intituled, 'An .\cfc 
 
 throughout thm Provnce and to nn.v il^'f^. m ^1/I'I'l.e|l to tho use of Common School, 
 And a Bill int.tuled ''An It rrotl^^ Heguia lon of the said Common Schools.- 
 
 establimnng District (OramrnunSchluiH. J "f. nml un.end the laws now in force for 
 
 tho provisions of the sa. ™ TluMk ut^t on^^ ^'■"■'''" "^"'" I'"'^""'". »n^» ^o oxtend 
 
 timJ; and on motion made aSse Sjl t^^^B l^nUt.: T"' 1'" T'^^''"* "?" '^"' " «'^* 
 amend, the laws now in force for estu lis linrD.s i. f f V ' «"i, ^T ■" ?''""' '""* "^^ '^"'^ 
 of this Province, and to extend the pr v s L, of hi -I ''"' f" "/ ^''^ «"^«>'"/ ^'^tricU 
 time on Monday next. provisions of the „imo. v «, ordered to be read a second 
 
 tho D^y.^BilnntiTuT^' "ZVcTt', T.""?"' "l' " 'J'>""""-'"' ''"rsuant to the Order of 
 
 ostabli^ing Ois^rlcJ'Sima^ S^cLS i r hoU^^'d^:; U 7' "''^" '''"^ ""^'" ''''''' '^' 
 the provimons of tho samp." was road a" cond tim^^ *" '^''^end 
 
 House res,dved itself into a Comn.it?co of the wliorh ?«!,« ' /" "' "'"'^^ '»'d seconded, the 
 Honourable Thonms Clark in the chair. "" '*"''' '"'" «"»«"i«rati»n. The 
 
 to-mori^w. Ordered, That th^'saS^I^Cl^rSe^S' iJ^^i; ^n ^ ri^;r ^' ^«*"^ 
 nnd June, 1819. -The House n.et pursuant to adjournment 
 
 wh.;G;'^s; ti^^BiiJtfituL^''.^' ^r t;'Xa^ni.:^^'^"i ^ '-' % ^r-''"- -^ ^^« 
 
 ^iXt:""' ^'^ ''"^"'^'''••' ^"^^•''"^^ «'^^^-'» ^-'^-"^^ appointed atnimuS^f.". 
 
 th 4!fr'^^n,'" "'° f""«w>»g ^ords, signed by the Speaker, was, by Mr W VV Baldwin 
 the Master-.n Chrvncery, carried down and delivered lo the Hou^e of As-ferably 7 ^'*'^^'"' 
 
 Mr. Si'EAKER : 
 
 The Honourable the Legislative Council reciuests a conference with the Commons Hons« nf 
 Assembly on the subject matter of the Bill intituled, " An Act to reneal , art of Tn^f 7 a 
 
 the laws now in force for establishing District (Ora.nmar) Sdl: LK si^tralbSi ts'oTtS 
 Province, and to extend the provisions of tlie same Th^ T omul,.f,\,. n "i ,'^"''-'^8 01 this 
 Oo,„,„itte. „t tw,. „f it. „„.,„b.,,. „l', .i l" Ll, .r LSSe SimSe „t''th'/r"'°'' " 
 
 Wm. DuMSIER POWKLI, 
 
 Lfuislative Council Chamber, Speaker. 
 
 22nd June, 1819. 
 
 I' 
 
144 
 
 I>OCUMENTART HISTORT OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 181^ 
 
 pi- 
 
 I 
 
 into conBideration. ti„nnurable James Babj in the chair. 
 
 The House went into Committee ^^e f ono^^^ "^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ,,, Committee had taken 
 The Speaker having re8ume<l ^j^^.^r^X',^"* proLss therein; they submitted to the 
 
 the said Bill into considerati n and had ™'^f ^""l^j^P^JtHe Lieutenant-Governor, requesting 
 
 Mr. Speaker : ,. j .. r,>mmittee to confer with the Com- 
 
 The Common. H.m«, ot A»«...bly. l"''" ^l^n .L ,«S<^^lh« B^^^ i""'*" ^ 
 mitte. of tho Ho„.u,.U. U.e Ug»U...e Council »» *« •"^l" ,„rty-..venth year ot Hi» 
 
 ■' *P ** '°rX'inTun,°,'d *.'t7c?V:..HLh-DU»iS School, fn the .evor.l di.tr.cU 
 o*[ffi'SoS" ,<;Sa rXSh. ^,o,l.ion. o, tho ..,,„■ " ^^^^ ^^^^^^ 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 CoMMO».' Ho.» OF A»|V,,.v,__^^ j^ij, 
 
 Governor was read as follows . 
 
 Max it please Youb Excellency: Excellency that by tho Act for the 
 
 The Legislative Ccunc.l respectfu ly submit *« J^JJ/^^de^ consideration, provision wa» 
 
 .Regulation of Common Schools about t« f^^'^J^he rLrU of the several Boards of Edu- 
 
 shnr.irirhf Sm-:..;^ -"?« 
 
 lative Council." Wm. Ddmmer Powell, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Legislative Council Chamber, 
 
 • TV r^n and Clark were appointed a Committee to wait upon 
 The Honourable Messieurs Dickson and Clark were aj i 
 
 His Excellency with the Address. Excellency with tho Address 
 
 ing answer thereto : 
 
 Hononrabk Gentlemen o} th. LegidaUve Cow.cU: E^^^^tion as have been received 
 
 I will direct that copies of such reports from the Boa. 1. ot J. 
 shall be laid before you, P. M. 
 
 Government House, York, 
 
 23rd June, 1819. 
 
 Which WHS read by the Speaker. rn„.n,ittee of the Commons' House of Assem- 
 
 Th« Committee appointed to confer w.fch^the Committee of tn ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ j^^^ 
 
 SbX w=;i:^t=^nJrir^^^^ -use. OrderA that the said 
 
 report be accepted. 
 
Chap. XXXI. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1819. 145 
 
 the Lieutenant- 
 
 itee to wait upon 
 
 Uth Jnne, I«i9 -The House met pursuant to adjournment. A deputation from the 
 
 Mr. Speakek : 
 
 The Commons' House of Assembly concur in the report of their Committee of Conference 
 «n the subject of the B.1 nit.tuled, " An Act to repeal ^art of. and to amend the lawf now iS 
 
 ^;z^^^:^i:^^JS:::^--^ '"'"-^^ '- ^'^ ---^ ^'«^"^*« «^ this Vrovir. = s 
 
 Allan McLkan, 
 •CoMMOiVs House of Assembly, Speaker. 
 
 24th June, 1819. 
 
 The deputation having withdrawn, the said Message was read 
 
 to tak^thfa rt^ui:d;^T.t^£'LtTpar!;lf ^^^ mto a committee of the Whole 
 establishing District (Grammar) Schools in' he Teval dicte^^^^^^^ '"I 
 
 the provisions of the same," into further consideratLn! Province, and to extend 
 
 The House went into Committee, the Hon. Mr. Baby in the chair. 
 
 1 he Speaker havnig resumed the Chair, Mr Babv rennrtPrl fhaf ti,» r« ^i i j 
 
 through the said Bill, to which they had made soim, anw.nH^? f "^»* ^^^ ^ ^""«'ttee had gone 
 adoptLn of the Hous^. Ordered thatThesad reXt TetceS "and tS?. '"^"""f "t '^' 
 read, were ordered to be engrossed, and the Bill, is^HLeX'^fad'a^lL? drt^o'n'l^'o^'""'^ 
 
 anno^/'K. St^ HtrTas^d^itt^j wtt^d^JL "Zl^-St^ ^"^^'V '?H« 
 by His Excellency V e Lieutenant-Governor to delher a Message an r£ '"'' '^T'^^u^ 
 House. Mr. Secretary Ililli r having withdrawn, theTaid Me^^ w": re^d as f ofC '" *'' 
 
 of cI!S,h:^::^t^:i^:^'£^:^ l^ Legislative CouncU, the Petition 
 
 representation in the Legislature ; and a^the same time .bmL for / "^ i^'"? ^""lu^ P"*^'^^!*'" 
 of providing for a distinct rep/esent^tion of he SlpTa ted P^^^^^^ r^t'^ 
 
 organized, in conformity to the Published practice in the MoS Comiry ^""'''''''y ''^''' 
 
 Government House, York, P. M. 
 
 22nd June, 1819. 
 
 A further Message from His Excellency tlie Lieutenant-Governor was read as follows • 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the Honourable the Legisative Council conies of all 
 iSbjToTcrm'rLS^^^^^ ^^'^"^ "'^ ^-^^« "^ ^^"-*'- - "- severardlitrEnlS 
 
 Government House, York, ^- ^• 
 
 June 2(ith, 1819. 
 
 And the papers were ordered to lie on the table. 
 
 Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the Bill intituled, "An Act to repeal part of and 
 amend, the laws now in force for estahlisliing District Schools in the srvorTDistScts of tiit 
 Province, and to extend the provisions of the same," was read a third time as amended and 
 on the ,,v,e8ti, n being put, if the b.ll do now pass, it was carried in the affirmativr whereupon 
 
 i'A:s,T^^ tm'izf E; ristm\r '' ''- -^-*-^-^^— --ns" 
 
 Message7"tht';ollowing'ir.rdr""'""' ''^"^^ "' ''''"''''' ^"^ ^"^'''^'^ ^^'^^ «^«'-ered a 
 Mr, Speaker : 
 
 ih. 7^^- V'T'"?,"' "mT "/Assembly have adopted ;he amendments made by the Honourable 
 the Legislative Council to the Bill intituled, " An Act to repeal part of, and to^amend the laws 
 ':Z:^l^;::;^S^fZ:^^' '^-'^"'^ - theseverS District, 'of this ProliL^^idT 
 
 Commons House of As8^MBLY. 
 
 26th June, 1819. 
 10 (D.E.) 
 
 Allan McLean, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
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l ll, | rt | i|(| >III MIW|lpl l ili il .l : '- 
 
 I 
 
 t i -X 
 
 146 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 181> 
 
 IS f 
 
 The deputation having witlidrawn, the said Message wa» read : 
 
 On motion, made and seconded, .he House resolved iteelf into a Committee of the Whole 
 to take into consideration a Bill intituled. " An Act to contniue an Act passed m the 6(>th year 
 of S^^sTyTrdgn (1816), intitulod. ' An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of Money to 
 he applied to the u,; of Common Schools throughout this Provmce, and to prov.de for the 
 TUsuFaUons of the said Common Schools.' " The House went into Committee, the Hon. Jamea 
 Baby in the chair. 
 
 The Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Baby reported that the Committee had made 
 further pnfgress in the said Bill, and re(iuo8ted leave to sit again on Monday next. 
 
 ^mh June 1S19 —IhQ House met pursuant to adjournment: Pursuant to th6 Order of 
 the r»av the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole to take into consideration the 
 Bill inti'tuled "An Act to continue an Act passed in the lifty-sixth year of His Majesty a 
 reign (l-<l(i),'i'ititi.led, ' An Act granting to Hia Majesty a sum of Mon«y to be apphed to the 
 use of Common Schools throughout this Province, and to provide for the Regulation of the 
 said Common Schools, ' " into consideration. The House went into Committee, the Hon. Jamea 
 Baby in the chair. 
 
 The Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Baby reported that the Committee had taken 
 the said Bill into consideration, and had made some further progress therein, and req nested 
 leave to sit again to-morrow. Ordered that the said report be accepted, leave given accordingly. 
 
 >9th June 1S19 —Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the House resolved itself into a 
 Committee of the Whole to take into consideration a Bill intituled, "An Act to continue an 
 Act passed in the fifty sixth ye..r of His Majesty's reign (1«16), intituled ' An Act granting to 
 His Majesty a sum of Money, to be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this 
 Province, and to provide for the Regulation of the said Commcm Schools. The House went 
 into Committee, Mr. Dickson in the cliair. 
 
 The Speaker having resumed the Chair, the Hon. William Dickson reported that the Com- 
 mittee had gone through the said Bill, and had made some iinendments thereto, which they 
 recommended to the adoption ©f the House. 
 
 Ordered that the said report be accepted, and the said amendments, being read, on m'>tion, 
 made and seconded, ordered that the said amendments be engrossed, and the Bill, as amended, 
 be read a third time to-morrow. 
 
 3(1(11 J-ini' 1819 —The House met pursuant to adjournment. Pursuant to the Order of 
 the Day. the Bill intituled, " An Act to continue an Act i)a88ed in the fifty-sixth year of His 
 Majesty's reign (1816), intituled, 'An Act granting U. His Majesty a sum of Money to be 
 applied to the use of Common Schools throughout thii Province, and to provide for iho Regula- 
 tion of the said Common Schools,' " was read a third time, ar, amended, and the question being 
 put if the said Bill, as amended do now pass, it was earned in the affirmative, whereupon ic 
 was,' by the Master-in-Chiiueiy, carried down to the Commons House of Assembly. 
 
 Srd Jidy 1819 —The House met pursuant to adjournment. A deputation from the Com- 
 mons House of Assembly being announced, it was admitted, and brought up for the concurrence 
 of this House the following, among othf r Bills, viz. : 
 
 An Act to increase the representation of the (University and) Commona of this Province in 
 the House of Assembly. The deputation having withdrawn, the Bill was read a hrst time and 
 ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. 
 
 6th JnhL /.S'iS.-Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the University Representation in the 
 Commons' Bill was read a second time and referred to a Committee of the whole House, the 
 Hon. .lames Baby in the chair. 
 
 The Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. B.. v reported the Bill, with amendments. 
 Ordered that the said rep. rt bo accepted, and the amendmento being read, were ordered to be 
 engrossed. 
 
 On motK.n, made and seconded, the University Representation in the Commons' Bill was 
 read a third time, as amended, and the question being put, if the Bill as amended do now pass, 
 it was carried in the affirmative, whereupon the Speaker signed the amendments, and they 
 were, with the Bill, carried down by the Master-in -Chancery to the Commons House of 
 Assembly. 
 
181» 
 
 the Whole 
 le 50th year 
 f Money to 
 ide for the 
 Hen. James 
 
 e hail made 
 
 h6 Order of 
 lerHtion the 
 a Majesty's 
 plied to the 
 ktion of the 
 Hod, James 
 
 i had taken 
 1 re(i nested 
 fiecordingly. 
 
 tself into a 
 c(jntinue an 
 granting to 
 (ughout this 
 House went 
 
 it the Com- 
 which they 
 
 , on motion, 
 IS amended. 
 
 ;he Order of 
 year of His 
 !oney, to be 
 iho Regula- 
 ostion being 
 thereupon it 
 
 )m the Coni- 
 concurrence 
 
 I Province in, 
 rst time and 
 
 tafcion in the 
 I House, the 
 
 Chap. XXXI. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1819. 147 
 
 Sth July., 1819. — A deputation from the House of Assembly being announced, it was 
 admitted, and brought up a Message in the following words : 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Commons House of Assembly request a Conference with the Hi nourable the Legisla- 
 tive Council on the amendments made by that House to the Bill Beno up from this House, 
 intituled, " An Act to increase the representation of the (University and) Commons of this Pro- 
 vince in the House of Assembly. 
 
 Allan McLean, 
 
 Speaker. 
 Commons House of Assembly, 
 
 8th July, 1819. 
 
 The Message being read Messieurs Dickson and Clark were appointed a Committee to con- 
 fer with the Committee of the Commons on the University Representation in the House of 
 Assembly Bill, and a message to that effect was sent down by the Master-in-Chancery to the 
 Commons House oi Assembly in the following wortis : 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Honouiable the Legislative Council have appointed a Committee of two of its Members 
 to confer with a Committee of the Conimou'* House of Assembly on the amendments made to 
 the Bill intituled : " An Act to increase the representation of tiie Commons (and University) of 
 this Province in the House of Assembly," in tho Legisla'ive Council Chamber at the rising of 
 the House this day. 
 
 Wm. Dummer Powell, 
 
 Speaker. 
 Legislative Council Cham er, 
 
 8th July, 1819. 
 
 (Note.— -No Conference appears from the Journals of either House to have 
 taken place between the two Houses on this subject, so that the matter seems 
 to have been allowed to drop.) 
 
 12th Jidji, 1819. — The Council met pursuant to adjournment. At tweivd o'clock Mr. Lee, 
 the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, requested, by command of His Excellency the 
 Lieutenant-(Jovernor, the attendance of the Members of the Commons' House of Assembly in 
 the Council Chamber. On being assembled there, the Lieutenant Governor was pleased, in His 
 Majesty's name, to assent, among other Bills, to the one intituled, '*An Act to repeal part of, and 
 to amend, ihe law now in force for establishing District (Grammar) Schools in the several Dis- 
 tricts of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same " after which His Excellency 
 closed the Sessions of the Legislature with a speech, in which he said : 
 
 Your inclinati( n will, I am satisfied, lead you to renew, as early as shall bo found possible, 
 the assistftnce which you have been accustomed to afford the less opulent classes of His 
 Majesty's faithful subjects for the education of iheir children, and 1 have no doubt the wisdom 
 of Parliament, on a due consider«\tion of the subject, will find the means of rendering a far 
 more frugal grant than has hitherto been applied for that purpose, at least equally beneficial in 
 that effect. 
 
 imendments. 
 irdered to be 
 
 jns' Bill was 
 do now pass, 
 its, and they 
 is' House of 
 
 Characteristics of The Grammar School Amendment Act of 1819. 
 
 This Act was practically considered as a sort of compromise between the 
 Grammai School Act of 1807 and the Common School Act of 1816, which the 
 House of Assembly had sought to have continued in operation after the expira- 
 tion of the time (1820) to which its duration was limited. The Legislative 
 Council declined to pass it in the form in which it was sent up from the House 
 of Assembly, and ko altered its purport and intention, that the Assembly, after 
 amendments of the Legislative Council were read, dropped the Bill entirely. 
 
If 
 
 tmm 
 
 Miiua ii i i t ii iiM iiwiiiiwiBliiMMiil! ^ 
 
 ■ ifirirtiif [.I I I lUiilm'i'mmrirtmiffaimUtiTinfStn r 
 
 148 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 The more popular features of the following Grammar School Amendment 
 Bill were (1) the provision for the free education in every Grammar School of 
 ten " promising children of the poorer inhabitants ; " (2) the necessity of holding 
 an annual public examination of each Grammar School, at which the Trustees, 
 " or a majority of them, shall assist ; " (3) the obligation on the Trustees to 
 report annually to the Lieutenant-Governor " the state of the said schools, the 
 number of scholars, the state of education, with the different bi-anches taught 
 in the s^id schools," etc. The grant to all new teachers was reduced from S400 
 a year to $200. 
 
 59TH GEORGE III., CHAPTER IV. 
 
 An Act to Repeal part of, and to amend, the Laws now in force for establishing Public 
 (Grammar) School-s in the several Districts of thls Province, and to extend the 
 
 PROVISIONS OF the SAME. 
 
 Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., lAeatenant-Governor. 
 
 Pamd 12t.h J\Uy 1819. 
 
 Preamble. 
 
 47GeorfreIII., 
 chapter 6, 
 recite i. 
 
 A District 
 School eatab- 
 liahed in the 
 I Hstrifit of 
 Gore. 
 
 Most Gracious Sovereion, — 
 
 Wliereas it hath been found expedient to repeal i)art of and to amend an Act 
 passed in the forty-seventh year of His M^josty's reign, intituled, "An Act to 
 establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province," and to 
 extend the provisiijns of the same. Be it therefore enacted by tlio King's Moat 
 Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council 
 and Assembly of the Province of I'ppor Canada, constituted and assembled by 
 virtue of and under the authority of an Act pa .. ed in the Parliament of Great 
 Britain, intituled, " An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the four- 
 teenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, ' An Act for making more effectual 
 provision for the (Jovernnient of the Province of Quebec, in North America,' 
 and to make further provision for th'> Government of the said Province,' and by 
 the authority of the sume, That provision be made by Law for the establishing of 
 a Public School in the District of (Jore. 
 
 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and out 1 100 per 
 
 of the rates and duties raised, levied and ullected, or hereafter to be raised, levie<l '*".'"?™. "PP'"' 
 and collected, to and for the public uses of th>8 Province, and unappropriated, {.'iJIfg^i ° of*^ 
 there be granttid annually to His Majesty. His Heirs and Successors, the suni "f the Teacher. 
 One Hnndrel Pounds, which sum of one hundred pounds shall bo appropriated 
 and applied and disposed of in paying the salary of the Teivcher of the said School, 
 which said snm of one hundred pounds shall be paid by the Receivers Jeneral oi 
 this Province, in discharge of sucli warrant or warrants as shall for that purpose be 
 issued by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Persons administering the 
 Government of this Province, and shall be accounted for to Hia Majesty, His 
 Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioni^rs of His Majesty's Trea- 
 sury, for the time biing. in such manner and form as Hi* Majesty, His Heirs and 
 Successors, shall be pleasutl to direct. 
 
 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and Trustees to be 
 maybe lawful to and for the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Person administer- appointed, 
 ing the Government of the Province, to appoint Trustees and a Teacher in the said 
 
 District of (Jore, under the like provisions as are contained in the said Act of the 
 forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act to establish Public 
 SchiKils in each and every District of this Province." 
 
 4. And bo it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the Trustees of An »nnual^ 
 each and every District Scho(d within tiiis Province ahail direct a public uxannna- H^.^^Y-a^'" 
 tion of their respective Schools to be held previous to the usual annual vacation, at j^^j^j ^^ eye,y 
 which they or a majority of them shall assist ; and it is hereby retpiired that such District 
 public exainiimtion shall be holden every year at the time aforesaid. School. 
 
) \ 
 
 1819 
 
 Chap. XXXI. 
 
 GRAMMAR SCHOOL AMENDMENT ACT OF 1819. 
 
 lid- 
 
 id ment 
 [lool of 
 lolding 
 'ustees, 
 tees to 
 ols, the 
 taught 
 n $400 
 
 Public 
 
 BND THE 
 
 ?i.9. 
 
 mble. 
 
 lorgellL, 
 
 ter6, 
 
 9i. 
 
 iatrict 
 ol estab- 
 d in the 
 rict of 
 
 per 
 
 im appro- 
 »i to pay 
 alary of 
 Deucher. 
 
 (tees to bo 
 )inted. 
 
 annual 
 
 n to be 
 I of every 
 trict 
 aol. 
 
 5. And bo it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees 
 for the respective District Schools, as aforesaid, in each and every Distri'^t in this 
 Province, shall, and they are hereby required, once in every year, after th j public 
 examination as aforesaid, to report to the Governor, Lieufcenant-Governor, or 
 Person adniuiisterinjjt 'the Ooveniine'iit of this Province, the state of the said 
 Schools, the number of scholars, the state of education, with the different branches 
 taught in the said Schools, the number of scliolars who have completed their educa- 
 tion, together with all other .aattors and things tliat may tend to cherish the 
 prosperity of the said Schools, or that may in any wise benefit the same, that the 
 said report may be Inid before the Legislature at its first meeting for their inspec- 
 tion. 
 
 Annual re- 
 ports to be 
 made by the 
 Trustees of 
 District 
 Sichools to the- 
 Lieutenant- 
 Governor. 
 
 To be laid 
 before the 
 Legislature. 
 
 6. And be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in order to ^*." P*^' . 
 extend the benefit of a lib.iral education to promisins/ children of the poorer inhabi- fll f*)! '^ 
 tants, the Trustees of each and every School have the power of sending scholars, ^"h Boh(wi 
 not exceeding ten in nuu.ber, to be taught gratis at the respective District Schools, gratis. 
 
 7. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, ^?'^, ""^^ „ .. 
 That the said scholar so to be taught as aforesaid shall, once in every four years, bo be wlwited 
 drawn by lot in manner following, viz., tlie Trustees for the Common Schools, 
 
 now or hereafter to be established by virtue of an Act of the Parlrjiment of this 
 Province, shall and they are hereby authorized to return the name or names of one 
 or more, not exceeding four, from each Common School of the most promising 
 scholars, as aforesaid, of their resi)ective Schools, to the Trustees of the District 
 Schools for the District in which they sliall respectively reside, which Trustees 
 shall, and they are hereby required, at a special meeting to be openly held for that 
 purpose, inscribe each and every name so returned to them on a separate and dis- 
 tinct slip of paper, being all as nearly as possible of the same size, which slip of 
 paper shall be puh into a box or glass, to be provided for that purpose, and at such 
 '..eetmg as aforesaid the same shall, hi the presence ot tiie said Trustees, be openly 
 drawn by some disinterested person, and each and every scholar so chosen as afore- 
 said shall be entitled to receive his edui-ation gratuiU.usly at the said District 
 School, and tlie Teacher thereof shall and he is hereby required to educate such 
 scholar as aforesaid. 
 
 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That in case any Vacancies 
 vacancy shall ensue in consequence of the refusal or decease, or from any other ^"®^ '^P- 
 cause whatever, of any scholar or scholars drafted as aforesaid, to be taught in the 
 District School, it shall and may be lawful for the Trustees of the Common School 
 
 from which such scholpr or scholars shall have been drafted to make a second ballot 
 to till up the vacancy. 
 
 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That so much of the ^"'"'^ of 47th 
 third clause of the said Act, intituled, "An Act to establish Public Schools forj^®"''?'' l^^'- 
 each and every District in this Province," as relates to the Public Schools in the repealed 
 District of London and Johnston, be and the same is hereby repealed, 
 
 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the Public InJlZV^^ 
 School for the District of Londtm shall W opened and kept in the Town of Vit- Schools shall 
 toria, in the Townsliip of CharlotteviUo ; aii'i the Public School for the District of be kept in the 
 Johnstown shall be opened and kept in the Village of Brockville, in the Township Johnstown, 
 of Eliaibethtown ; and that the Public School for the District of Gore shall be ^'"^ *"'' 
 opened and kept at the Town of Hamilton, in the District of Gore. London Dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 11. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid Teachers to 
 That to every Teacher hereafter to be appoiired there shall be only fifty pounds £5o"Mr"" 
 (i50) paid, unless the average number of scholars exceeds ten. annum. 
 
 12. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the certificates Form of cer- 
 required from the Trustees by the twelfth clause of the said Act, passed in the t'ficate to be 
 forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign (1807), shall declare that : " At a public g,'"*" ''y ^'^^ 
 
 _, .1 i .n.7 s-ir-TitCt -viuiuia, upon due ii.jcico given ror tJiat ^^han 
 
 purpose, a majority of tlie Trustees being present, we certify," etc., etc. 
 
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 DOCfTMENiARY HISTORY OF EDUCATfON IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 Forms for Trustres Under the Common School Act of 1816. 
 
 1. Form of Town or Tmciu>hip School Report 
 
 Form of a Quarterly Ileport of a Town or Township Common Sciiool. to bo transmitted by 
 the Trustees to the Board of Education for th-' District once every three months, 
 
 viz., on the'first day of September, the first ciiv; of December, the finit day of March, and the 
 first day of June in each and every year : — 
 
 Scholars' 
 Names. 
 
 Branch of 
 
 Education 
 
 taught. 
 
 Books useil. 
 
 Hours of 
 School. 
 
 Teacher native bom 
 
 8ubj-!(;t, or by Act 
 
 Act o' Parliament, 
 
 or by oath of 
 
 obligation. 
 
 I 
 
 Rules and 
 
 Regulations 
 
 of the 
 
 School. 
 
 We, the undersigned Tri:8tee8 of the said School, do hereby certify the above to be a true 
 and correct report of the School from us. 
 
 A B. ) 
 Dated at , 18 . 0. D. > Trustees. 
 
 E. F. ) 
 
 2. Form, of a Teu^chrr'si Certificate of Quml CotAlvcf and Sereioi'. 
 
 (Form of Tea-her's Certiticrtte fr-vm f,he TruM.aes of a Tov n or Township Common School, 
 to b3 sent t) the District Bo:inl of Eiusatioii uvor.v "i^- uionths.) 
 
 We, the undersigned Trustee* of the Common K.i.'vn\ .r. tbf Town ^or Township] of , 
 
 Jo hereby certify that A. B., the Teacher of the said 6ch >ci. L»th deio,- med himself with pro- 
 priety nnd to our satisfaction [this may hn varied] ia ih« mvi ulSloe as Teacher, for the period of 
 «ix i)u.7i ;'is, from the first day of to the thirty '. lit d*y of , 18 , and that 
 
 he is etii'tled to be paid the suia granted for six nion.h"' ^ '-vice to each Teacher by law. And 
 we, as lii<«tee'», further certify tii».fc scholatfl art r«-^eivinj{ education in our said School. 
 
 Dateci lit , thia day of , 18 . 
 
 C. D. ) Trustees f>f the Common 
 
 E. F. > School in the Town [or 
 
 O. H. ) Township] of 
 
 h 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 
 PROCEEDINQS IN REGARD TO THE UPPER CANADA UNIVERSITY 
 
 IN 1819. 
 From a Memorandum addressed by Lieutenant-Governor SirJohn Oolborne 
 to his Executive Council in May, 1830, it appears that, early in 1819, Sir Pere- 
 grine Maitland, the Lieutenant-Governor, had brought before the Executive 
 Council of that day the subject of a University for Upper Canada. Sir John 
 Colborne, in his Memorandum, .said : — 
 
 From the documents which the Lieutonant-CJovernor has examined, he finds that in 1819 
 tlie Executive Council, after reading the Duke of Portland's Despatch [of tiie 4th of N( .omber, 
 1797], in answer to an Address from the two Houses of the Provincial Parliament [dated the 3rd 
 of July, 1797], soliciting an ai)i)roprialion of Crown Lands for the sui)p >rt of an University, and 
 h'choola. Htitud th;it the a!>i)r<ji>ri!vtion of the iiuantity of laud referred to by the Committee 
 appointed [by President Kusaell'] to take into consideration tl»* Duke of Portland's Despatch [of 
 November, 1790]* was not sufticiontly sanctioned to auth>'.v:i grants in other portions Ui.\i- 
 
 • The whole of these proceedings and documenU (of 1707 and l(9b/ wiil be found on page* 16-2«, ante. 
 
1819 
 
 ■Chap. XXX n. PROCEEDINGS m regard to u. c. university, 1819. 
 
 151 
 
 those limited by Ifis Majesty's Commission, and rec»>mmended that an authority should be 
 obtained to sell and lease, grant and dispose of, five hundred thousand acres, for the purpose of 
 establishing an University in this province. 
 
 The Report of the Executive Committee of 1819, to which Sir John Colborne 
 referred, is as follows : — 
 
 To His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., Lieutenant-Governor of Upper 
 Canada. 
 
 Miy it I'LEASE YouH Excellency, 
 
 'she Committee of the Executive Council to whom your Excellency was pleased to refer the 
 «ois«; deration of a plan for establishing a University in this Province, assembled this day, and 
 by I'.ur Excellency's permission requested tiie attendance and assistance of His Majesty's 
 Attorney General, tlie Honourable John Beverly Robinson. 
 
 A letter was r <ad from his Grace the Duke of Portland to Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, 
 bearing ilate the 22nd June, 179«, acknowleds?in^ the receipt of a letter from the Bishop of 
 ■Quebec \ipon the subject of a School of a higher class, which His Grace then did not think 
 necessiivy in Upper Canada. 
 
 A letter was also read from His Grace bearing date, 4th <>f November, 1797, acknowledging 
 fi,n Address from the two Houses of the Legislature, dated 3rd of July, 1797, requesting an 
 appropriation of Crown Lands for the establishment of Schools, and communicating His 
 Majesty's pleisure to acquiesce in their petition— directing the Governor to consult the Members 
 of the Executive Council, Judges aid Liw Officers, on the requisite means,— to rejiort to His 
 (Jrace, for His 'Majesty's inform ition, what Sch lols were then necessary, the means of erecting 
 and endowing them, the amount necesnary, and also to erect and endow a University. 
 
 On this letter, the Committee named by President Russell reported four Schools to be 
 necessary, a sum of three thousand pounds (£3.000) recpiisite to erect them, and an annual 
 sum of one hundred and eighty pounds (£180) to p%y a Master and sub-master, and keeping the 
 budding in repair, and the sum of three thousand six hundred and twenty pounds (£3,620) for 
 a University. 
 
 That a fund to raise this sum would require five hundred thousand acres of land, which 
 was recommended to be set apart for such purpose, and the report approved by the President 
 was directed to be transmitted for the information of His Majesty's Government. 
 
 No answer to this Report, or farther confirmation of it, "can be traced in the Office of the 
 Executive Council.* 
 
 The Committee, therefore, concurring in opinion with Mr. Robinson, His Majesty's 
 Attorney-(4eneral that the appropriation of that quantity of land is not sufficiently sanctioned 
 to authorize a grant in other porti-ms than limited by Hi? Majesty's Commissioner, humbly 
 recommend tha^. Yc;ir Excellency do call the attention of His Majesty's Government to a formal 
 sanction, under tha Royal Siijn Manual, or the signature of His Majesty's i)rincipal Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies, to sell, lease, grant, and dispose of the said five hundred thousand 
 acres of land, ff>r the purpose of establishing a University in this Province. 
 
 In the meantime, in conformity to Your Kxcellency's pleasure, the Committee proceeded 
 to consider the detail required by Your Excellency. 
 
 In pursuing this object, the Committee first observe, that provision for District Schools is 
 Tiot now required out of this fund, being made by the Legislature. 
 
 The scale established by the former ' ommittee of 1798 appears at present very inadequate. 
 
 The Conimittoe is of the opinicm that a sum not less thaa ten thousand pounds (810,000) 
 will be reciuired to erect a suitable building and provide a library, philosophical ajjparatus and 
 a botanic garden. 
 
 That an annual sum of four thousand pounds (£4,000) may bo deemed necessary to defray 
 the salaries of piincipil, professors, preceptors, scholarships, librarian, gardener and other 
 officers with other contingencies. 
 
 That to raise these sums it will be proper to that a sale of land should be ma le from time 
 to time to meet, with security, the exigencies of the establishment, until the revenue will 
 "upply the annuiil e:\j)eiitlitufu. 
 
 >. 
 
 I;ii| 
 
 a 
 
 •The Duke of Portland's reference to this Report will be foand on page 26, ante. 
 
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152 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF BDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 181» 
 
 i 
 
 That a Commission should pormanonily attend, with la^gt' i»yv»e>8, to sell and lease the 
 land, and manage ite i;ovonue8, under the direction of the Executive (lovernniont. 
 
 It is also considered that it would conduce much U\ the importance and utility of the pro- 
 jected ITniversity if its constitution should be by a Royal i harter. 
 
 All which is humbly submitted. 
 
 Executive Council Chambeu, 
 YoKK, 7th January, 1819. 
 
 By order, 
 
 Wm. Dummek Powell, C.T., 
 
 Presiding Councillor. 
 
 Historical Resume of University and Grammar School Proceedings, by 
 
 Dr. Strachan. 
 
 The Right Reverend Bishop Strachan, in a speech delivered at the laying 
 of the Corner Stone of King's College, on the 23rd of April, 184>2, thus referred 
 the early proceedings of the Legislature in the matter of University representa- 
 tion and the establishment of Grammar Schools. 
 
 This prospect, however [that of founding the projected University of Upper Canada] was 
 so di&tant that the Legislature began to feel it necessary — limited as were the funds at their 
 disposal — ^to do something effectual towards the promotion of Education. A law was accordingly 
 passed in 1807, establishing a Grammar School in every District, in which the classics and 
 mathematics were to bo taught ; and thus a commencement of educati in «as made of great 
 inii>ortanco to the country. Had the revenue of the Province permitted, or had the lands 
 bee iriesufhciently available, so good a 8j)irit prevailed that the University would have been 
 conunenced at the same time. But this not being the case, the Legislature wisely determined 
 in favour of I istrict (Grammar) Schools, as more generally useful inihe then state of the Province 
 than a higher Seminary, because at these Schools such an education might be obtained aa 
 Would qualify you' g men for the different professions. Moreover, such Schools would become 
 excellent nurseries tor the University, when it was necessary to establish it. 
 
 The advantages anticipated from the ostabl shment of the Pistrict Schools have been more 
 than realized, and the wisdom of the Legislature fully justified in preferring them to Seminaries 
 of higher name ; for during the period of thirty-five years [from 1807 to 1842] in which they 
 have been in operation, they ha> e sent forth hundreds of our youth, many of whom are now 
 eminent in their professions, and would do credit by their talents and acquirements to any 
 literary institution. 
 
 Though necessarily delayed, the ])ro8pect of establishing a University was not lost sight of, 
 for in 1819-20, when a law wis projected to increase therepresen'ation in the Commons' House of 
 Assembly it was among other things provided, that whenever the University was established, it 
 should be represented by one member. (Pages 3o and 3G of the Proceedings, 1842). 
 
 This proposal to have the University, when founded, represented in the 
 House of Aissembly originated in 1819 with the then Lieutenant-Governor, Sir 
 Peregrine Maitland. He had early in the year called the attention of his Execu- 
 tive Council to the desirability of considering " a plan for establishing a University 
 in this Province," in terms of the Duke of Portland's de.spatch of the 4th of Nov- 
 ember, 1797, ((S'<?e page 17 ante). The Council reported the result of their deliber- 
 ations on the scheme on the 7th of January, 1819, {See page 151). On the 22nd of 
 June, 1819, Sir Peregrine Maitland .sent a message to each of the Houses of the 
 Letrislature, in which he said : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor . . . submits the propriety of providing for a distinct 
 representation of the contemplated University, when founded, in conformity to the estiiblished 
 practice in the Mother Country. 
 
 r 
 
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 Chap. XXXIII. HISTORY OF EDUCATIO.V IN UPPER CANADA, 1819. 
 
 153 
 
 Both Houses concurred in this suggestion of the Lieutentant-Governor, and 
 practically agreed upon a Bill to carry it out. Ihey had agreed upon a Conference 
 in 1819 on the subject, but before the Conference could be held, the Legislature 
 was prorogued, so that the Bill never reached maturity. However, in 1820, a Bill, 
 providing for increased representation of the Commons in the House of Assembly 
 was passed, in which provision was made for University representation in the 
 Assembly when even one would be established in Upper Canada. This Bill was 
 repealed by the Imperial Act ot Union of the Canadas in 1840. 
 
 I 
 
 'il 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIII. 
 
 HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF EDUCATION IN UPPER 
 
 CANADA, 1819. 
 
 In the Christian Recorder for April, 1819, appeared the following article, or 
 essay, on the History and Present State of Ediication in Upper Canada. This 
 periodical was at that time edited by the late Bishop Strachan. The " History " 
 was written by a contributor, who was evidently well versed in the subject dn 
 which he wrote, and is correct in its historical references. In the following 
 July number of the Recorder, appeared a review of the article, and of the 
 whole subject of University Education, written by Bishop Strachan himself. 
 These two articles are, therefore, invested with special interest— the one as 
 containing a carefully prepared historical sketch of what had been done in the 
 matter of Education in Upper Canada from 1789 to 1819— a period of thirty 
 years ; the other, as containing the views on the subject of higher education by 
 Dr. Strachan, himself a graduate of a Scottish University, and a man who had 
 had a large experience in school matters from 1800 to 1823.* 
 
 The introductory part of the following History o/ Education in Upper 
 
 Canada is substantially given by the Rev. Dr. Strachan himself, in hia speech at 
 
 the laying of the Corner St(me of King's College in 1842. He said : 
 
 It is pleasing to remark that in 1789— a little more than five years after the first settlement 
 m Upper Canada of those faithful subjects of the i rown who had, during the Revolutionary 
 War adhered to their King and to the unity of the Empire, they presented a Memorial in 
 accordance with the siime noble principles to His Excellency Lord Dorchester, then Governor- 
 General of British North America, on (he subject of Education ; in which -after lamenting the 
 state of their children growing up with.-ut any instruction, religious or secular— they request 
 His Lordship to establish a respectable Seminary at Kingston, which was at that early period, 
 the principal Town m this division of the Colony. To this representation Lord Dorchester 
 paid immediate attention, and gave directions to the Surveyor-(Jeneral to set apart eligible 
 portions of land for the future support of Schools in all settlements. Those lands, however 
 remained unproductive ; the settlers were few in number and thinly scattered (and 
 
 soon afterwards) the Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada, etc. 
 
 R^jZ^^ilVfTA^^l "^"^'■V>f *^'i»<:^Mon in Upper farm,ia, which appears in the July number of thi, 
 
154 
 
 DOCUMKNTAllY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 The following; is the articU" on the Hu,ton/of Ediical'wn in Upper Canada, 
 
 taken from the ChrwHan Recorder of April, 1819 : 
 
 Early in 178!/, the lat« Ho.u.uruWe Richard Cartwrigl.t, one ''' t'^.^ 8"'»\««t J^"*'*^*;;" ^ 
 theProvin<«. andanornan.o.ittohun.*iin»ture. ...Uires^.ul a Memorml to Lord »' »'«««^«''- 
 fh« r.Zmander-ii. Chief throuKh Mr. John C.llins, Deputy Surveyor.(}ene.al. •uagesiin^ the 
 meani T^ovidi g for he e^ <.f a decent Seminary of Education for King.ton and 
 
 Sment%y api.ropriating so....- of the I.knds in the neigh l-ourhood for th.. purpose. The 
 menorTalstat^eB Lt afutuusn-.tapres^ advantage was expected from .uch an appropr. 
 Sr but 1 the «ettlen.enU were no* fonne.l and getting r...,^t, the '-^"''•^.on of youth 
 
 became an object of Buch iinp(.rtance. as to merit the |>arti< i " • ' 't His jyiaje*.,y» 
 
 Ooverutnent. 
 
 Lord Dorchester who seems r„ have been, at a'l time', a .ious lor the Ko<k1 of the Cuh)ny. 
 wft« not tardy in noticing this repre»ent(ition, and called K- attention of the Magistrates anU 
 respectable inhabitants to the great importance '^ifftxvg a competent ««.t?/^''« '"?f "^ .f 
 Olerirymen and Schoolmasters in th.- settlement of MecklenburJi. now the Midland Uistntt. 
 As a preliminary step, he urged the oM'H'Honcy of cultiv ,nng the (ilebes, and erecting houses 
 for the Hccoinmodation of the Schools and Teachers ; but -non after this, and before His Lorrt- 
 ■hiu had time t. take anv further me'isuies towards the religious and moral " ^"e 
 
 people, to which ho seemed very much inclined the 31.st of King (leorge '.•. was enacted, 
 dividing the Province of Quebec into Lower a;id I'pper Canada. 
 
 On the arrival of General Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor of the new Province of Upper 
 Canada, there was too much to do fur some yovrs in extending the settlements, expkring tlie 
 country and or«anizing the diHoient dep-.~i»ients necessary for conducting the atfMirs of 
 Govcrmnent to think of educating the people ; but. on reducing these things t,> some regu- 
 larity and order, the Lieuteiiant-CJov.^rnor turn, d liis attcnticm to religion an<l education, and 
 anxiously revolved in his comprohensiv,- mhid the most effectual steps for diffusing usetul 
 instruction am<mg the settlers. 
 
 Nor was the Government at home, which was ever anxious to p.oniote the prosperity of 
 this Province, inattentive to the education of the people. Tn a letter of His (,raco, the Duke 
 of Portland, in resiionse to one from General Simoe, in HmS, lie called the attention of the 
 Lieutcn nit-(Jovern..r to the e^tHblishment of schools. The General, a man ..f science and litera- 
 ture, and a <4reat friend to religion, was mo.st anxiously employed in discoverin .the means of 
 oomplvinu with His Majesty's commands, when the matter was taken up by the Provincial 
 LegisUture in tiie Session of 17«7. This body presented a memorial to General ^Imcoe, most 
 humbly inipl -ring His Majesty that he would be tjraci.iusly pleased to dirwt hi.s Government 
 of this Province to appr..i)riate a certain > porti.m of t' > waste huids of the Crown an a lunU lor 
 the establishment and support of a respectable Grammar School in each District thereof and 
 also a College or I'niversity for the instruction of youth m thoditterout branches .f liberal 
 knowledge. (See page 16, ante.) 
 
 A prompt notice « u taken of tliis representation ; for in November, 1797. His Grace, tV 
 Duke of Portland, then one of the principal Secretaries of SUte. mention;. His Majesty s readi- 
 ness to show his parental regard for (he welfare of his subjects in the iurtl. Tance of so impor- 
 tant an object as the instruction of youth, and to assist and encourage thij • xertions ot Ins 
 Province in i.romoting sound learning and a religious educ;- •■ n. His Grace in* nns tHe U-^m- 
 lature that 
 
 " His Majesty has condescended to exiiress His gracious intention to cmply with the wishes 
 of the Legislature of Upper ('anada by the est iblishment of free (iramniar Schools m those 
 Districts iii which they are call d for. and. in due process of f. .- other seminanes of a larger 
 and mor- comprehensive nature for the promotion of religious and moral I ■>rning. {H't 
 page 17, <inte. ) 
 
 In order to carry- the Uoyal intentions most beneficially into effect, a detailed report of the 
 be.st method of ,,ron.otina the geiuial education of the youth of tho Pr-vince . w, cal'^nl for 
 from the member, of the Executive Council, the .Judges of the Kings Be. h, and Law tJfticors 
 of the Crown. These gei'tlemen drew up a most able and eliiboiine lei 
 subject (see pages 17-25. <i,de.), summing up the whole in ten importo 
 which they lepresent the jiropriety of emotiii/ four Gramnia- Schools, at 
 each, and an annual sum nf £180 for the apiaries of thf master, uiidermii 
 
 ■n tlii - inteicsting 
 
 ■Si ions, aUKUlg 
 
 ex: »e of £;-i,(l(»0 
 
 and '•epairs, and 
 
 iversity, ? > be A=t*W!;^h..d on a m 
 
 )st libiral fo.i»ini/at York, the Seat of Govern 
 
 inent,'a8 soon' as the circumstuieos of the I'rovinco re., ire it ; for all which a large appropria- 
 tion of the waste lands of the Crown was humbly recommended. 
 
 
1819 
 
 Chap. XXXIV. HisTouv of education in upper Canada, 1819. 
 
 105 
 
 (l for 
 
 Owin^ to th«i Binall value of knd when this Rpproprintiun was made, and the trifling 
 •uni paid fnr the Townshipn of Dereham and Nurwich, it i found that the money re<|uired 
 would far »'X(;rte<l what could b« oxiiccto 1 fron\ the sale of i whole reservation. (Paj{e 27, 
 antf.) Tlie measure wan nec^iwurily postponed, and the ituitoun Rifts of lands hy the 
 Oovemment still continuinj^ ttj be made, nothing has bnon \ t done, for no person who is able 
 and industrious can fail of making a good subaistence oii his ^'rant and, therefore, is unwilling 
 to lease or purchase But now matters begin to asaume a different ai)pearance, for the general 
 prosperity of the Province has much increased, and the r«Bervati(ms having been made long ago, 
 the growing settiemonts are getting iu their rear; consequently they begin, from the conveii- 
 lency of their situation, to become desirablo. Wn have, therefore, every retson to brlieve that 
 with a little attention they may l»e made productive, and be able in a short lime to 8u[)port such 
 a respectable .seminary as the Province seems to require. 
 
 In Vmthe Honourable Richard Oartwright and the Honourable Robert Hamilton, having 
 large fap dies of young children, and having been promised by General Sinicoe that on procur- 
 ing ape. non well (jualitied f<.r that purpose, sent to Scotland for a gentleman of that descrip- 
 tion. Doctor Hamdton, tliu Minister ..f Gladsmu r, near Haddington, was intrusted with the 
 business, who applu- 1 to his friend, Doctor Tn.ttor, of St. Andrews, to procure him such a per- 
 son as he wanted, mentioning the groat encouragement likely to be given, and tlit; extensive 
 field whu h a new country like Upper Capada opened to enterprisiiia young men. There is 
 reason to behove that the situation was first oflerod by Dr. Trotter to Doctor Chalmers, now so 
 justly celebrati'i. Huch was the C(mcepti<m then had of ii.s importance, and on his declining it 
 wai offered to l.is friend, Mr. Strachun. then a student at 8t. Andrew's. On this latter gentle- 
 man's arrival at Kingston, he discovered that no salary from Government was to be looked for. 
 ^ This grievous disappointment would have induced Imn to return to his native land, as he 
 had come out exi)re88ly for the puifose of sup. rintending an academy under the special patron- 
 age of Governm.iit, and not a private scluxd ; but the kindness and libenility of Mr. Cartwright 
 
 prevented him from taking this steji, and he rem 
 Dearly four years. 
 
 "d in that gentleman's family as tutor 
 
 In 180,, Mi Strachan received Holy Orders, and removed to Cornwall, to which place he 
 likewise transferud his .school being the only seminary at that time in the Province where the 
 classics and matheinatis were i.gularly taught. This school attaining some celebrity, young 
 men came to it from ii.i parts of both Provinces, and nothing was wanting to complete such a 
 system of education as the (exigencies of the country then required, except a small Philosophical 
 ajiparatus to illustrate lectures on Physical Science. This appendage was very soon obtained, 
 for the Legiuj iture, in 1806, voted £400 to purchase the more necessary instruments, and on 
 their arrival the Lieutenant-Governor placed them in the hands of Mr. Strachan, by whom 
 lectures on Natm^l Philosopl y have since that period been delivered to his scholars, when- 
 ever a class ecu' ■ >e asat !)U 1 sufticienily iulvanced to render it beneficial. 
 
 '^)n Mr Strachnn's rernovul to Cornwall the Honourable Robert Hamilton, anxious to keep 
 his children near hi) sent .a Scotland for a tutor that they niizht finish their education at 
 lome. His frien . .lo fortunate in procuring Mr. James Mitchell to undertake this office, a 
 gentleman of &W> yand '( mg, lio continued with Mr. Hamilton till lie had completed the 
 young gentlemen ^ e<lucat •he, ho succeeded to the District School of London, whore he 
 
 Btill resides.* 
 
 About the same period or, pt , s, a little socmer. bn excellent mathematical schocd was 
 opened at Niagara i.y Richard Oockiel, Esq., who is said to be well versed in mathemurical 
 science. Thi« genileinan -itill remains in the Province, but has withdrawn himself from the 
 t ication of .outh. 
 
 In 1807 a law was unacted establishing a sch. il in every District in which classicR and prac- 
 tical niathemati s were expected to be taught. The Lieutenant-Governor is ipowr-^d to 
 appnnt Trustees for each school, who have authority to nominate a tit and uiscret' jon 
 
 teacher thereof, with a salary of £1<X), Halifax currency, jier annum. The nominal > ■>. the 
 "rustees requnes the sanction of the Governor to render it valid ; but ^hey have full power to 
 iomove the teacher for any ii.isdt'ineanor or improj-rioty of timduct. They have likewise full 
 power and authority to make such rules ..lui regulations for the good government and man- 
 a .-ment of the schools, with respect to botti teacher and scholars a<i, in rheir discretion liall 
 seem meet. The law was it first limited to four yviwm. out in the Sess of 180S it was leii- 
 ured perpetual. ()n the passin.; of this law there *w u some difference of [.inion. Many were 
 desirous of establishin;:! Commtn s IuhAs throughout the Province, ani c)iher8 were for the 
 establish 'next of i nn.ivoraity. Had the rftven-.-.s of the P^-vi"-- ' -it"-^-:', or had t] lands 
 ai)[>ropriated for tno purposes of education become aufficiently proi ; active', all parties might 
 
 •Afterwn ;i .Judge of the County Cimrt. His wife vas he H . Dr. R 
 refers very kiimly t i Jud(re Mitchell in the " Storj "' of Life, pagu 24. 
 
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 4on'8 flitter. Dr. Rver«f>n 
 
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 DOtUMENTAllV iUSTOIlY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANAl>A. 1819 
 
 :tJ 
 
 I. . ,„n«n,l . h«..«..Ho the Univofsity, lis well as tlin Cnimon PcIiooIb, iiu(^ht have bo«ii 
 
 have been gratihe; f,'^^*"^" 'J*,!, .VJ'^"„\^^ hut, us the sum in tho power of 
 
 e.tHbl.8h«a when the I^'«^"«^,f ^''; ''': *^^^^ all the town.hips-Hoarcely 
 
 the LoKislature o «"|"'J;' f^^^i^^^^jr ^Uuc^^^^^^^^ thr.,a«hout the Province r.-uler.-l a Vni- 
 tZIi::;'^^u.^^^'r^o!:Z lTo\L no .t«.lent« -District SchcK.U were the only aher- 
 veniity *"*''' 7 V;«'«"^^ ^ ..tlierwi..-, an.l a choice in tlw. power ot the Le«.«lature. the 
 
 native. «'';•. '^''^.'^"'"XwoS^ at that time, DiM riot in preference to f onuuon 
 
 "^ilrXra Univer-^ity Thi^^^ «-" «"'°»» »" education a. qualitiea voung 
 
 Snf!^ tL .Srnr,n;.fe«Hion.. and to become excellent numer.e. for th. Un.ver..ty. wi.en .t 
 cuuld be est'iblish^Hl. ... . . »t 
 
 These lidvantaKe. have been reap, .1. and the Wislaturo justified in iti conduct. No 
 Uni^^ sitv hM hoen yet founded, but many ..f the young gentlemen taught at the different D.h- 
 trictsSlBaren..w^e.ninent in their professions, and would do credit, by their talents and 
 integrity, to seminarii's of greater name. 
 
 On the iMiSsing of this hiw in 1807, Schools were established each District ; that at King- 
 ■to,, under K direction of Mr. John NNhitelaw. was exc.-edingl, prosperous and "fU pnjceeds 
 w h increasing reput^ition under his successors. The Sch.K>l at Corn wall, deprive, of all the 
 pupils fr'r he westward, who were properly retained at their own Dm net Schoo s, kept up, 
 S even "creased its number, from Lower Canada. At present, the District ^-'-'^l^Xr 
 flrtshiuL' as any public instimtions can \h, expecte<l to be; some complaints hav.-, indeed, 
 Wnmadt.butfheyareof a partial nature, and do not militate against the pr.ncple of t' o 
 law In one or two Districts it must I,., contess. , that all the g..od which mv<ht have been 
 anT.ipated h.is not been pr.xluced, and these su,-,ly the complamants with their -^rgume ts 
 ^a nit the Hill ; but the fault arose from tlie jealousy which at that tune P^^J-^^f J''« ."•;^\«''^ 
 o^ Assembly. The members demanded that whut was given to one District shoud be guon t-v 
 all whether necessary or not. This appeired unroasonable to the promoters of the District 
 Scluml Bill, who were desirous of confining themselves to the four Scho. Is recmmended m th^ 
 Srt.S ti.e Committee of the Members of the Executive Council, the .Judge, and Crown 
 Officers, in 1798, already noticed, viz., Cornwall, Kingston, Niagara and Sandwich, to which 
 York now growi'i mto im,Mutnnce. was added. The other Districts were to be indulged w, b 
 the san.o privilege, whenever the Maginratos in Quarter Sessions beared that a sutticu-ni 
 n.unb*?r of scholars might be obtained to make the ScIk.oI boaeficial, bu. to this the majority 
 would not asient.and Hccordingly the Bill included all to Districts without distinction. 
 Sh<.uld well-founded c i.laints still exist, the fault must bo lu those appointed to put the law 
 hi force The Trustees have full power to dismiss the Teacher if negligent and c^nless of hia 
 duty • and, if a school „f this advanced description be as yet unnecesmiry, they niav postpyn© 
 the api.oint.nent of another Teacher, till the great^ increase of population '•""'i";; 'f "«^ " ; 
 ThouLi .he Legislature acted wisely in esUblislung Dist ict Schools as teing m,.^; henehcial to 
 the priblio, yet that bo.ly never lost si«ht ..f the propriety of extending the beneht.s of instnic- 
 tion to the lower orders throughout the Province. Finding the revenue greatly increas d in 
 181.i, a law WHS passed, (containing many excellent provisions), for estab ishmg and supporting 
 C..m aon School! in every village or township in the Province. This Bill was very much hurt 
 by The inser.ion of h clause that there should be a School in every town, vil age or place where 
 twenty scholars could be collected. These loose words rnlmit of a latitude of interprcta ion 
 which could not- have been intended, and multiply Schools to an extent which it would requi.e 
 three times the Provincial revenue to support. If we supp..se the P^"Vince to contain 1 2U «K) 
 souls, and one-sixth of these. 20,000. children going to school, this mimlK^r, at lh« ';^te -.f 
 Mb (or 100 dollars) per annum for every school of twenty scholars, would amount to .tio,(KX> 
 per annum. This evil may be cured by giving one sch-. 1 to each '''Y"«'"»';;^"^'7,r'J:. f^;?; 
 vide,l there be at least forty inhabitants freemen. Are the townships large. t»'«" j«;. * "L^^***'" « 
 itinerate. This arrangement will save half the present appropriation, and render £.3.000 a year 
 more productive of good than the £G,0(X> has hitherto been. 
 
 In 1815. a law was passed incorporating a Society in the Midland District, to be named the 
 School Society of that portion of the Province, i-rincipally for the purpose ot estab ish.iig a 
 School on the principles of Bell and Lancaster. The Society hi« built a good School House 
 and Uken mur^i pains to bring their object to perfection ; but, owing to causes over «hich the 
 members ha.1 ....control, the School, though useful, has failed in producing all the good that 
 
 might have been expected. 
 
 A modification of the whole system of education, embracing the Common and District 
 Schools, and a C.dle-c at York, the Seat of (Jovernment, waa introduced by His Honour the 
 Chief Justice into tlic Legislative Council in 1817. lu lia- schomo fcncrc wa. a J";^'^;^}/:'^:;;: 
 tion. A way v ., opened for the most pro.nising boys to rise from the C<.u.moi, to the District 
 Schoo's and from thes. f. the College, by which t^io me ins of obtun.ng '^ ''''^T*^^,?"^ ''''' -;;^^* 
 offered to the youth ot the whole Province, aii.l such assistance given to a few distingu.sUed 
 
1819 
 
 Chap. XXXIV. HISTORY or education in upper Canada, 1810. 
 
 157 
 
 
 younx men an w(mld fiimblo them to prt)ceed without bec.minK a biinlen to thoir friendi Thi» 
 proiect failed m the Houne of AsHoniBly from an iiiwillingneM to di.turb the Common School 
 «iU, winch had been only . -le y«»r in ojioration ; but. aa the law oxpirei n«xt year, some alter- 
 ations may be oxpooted to take pla e ..n reviving it. which may render it liu.ro liberal and 
 efficient, and, at the tame time, be accompanied with a very conaiderable diminution of 
 
 In aid of what the wi.do,n of tlie Le^idafure „,»y continue to best ,w upon tl.., education 
 Crown •*""^^'""*^ may soon Iw looked for f, .m the re.«rvation of the waste land, of the 
 
 nru.n^J' .'"f^'^t' r'^K""'^^ '^"^ * Univeniity is going U, be immediately established, depen.ling 
 Zvl. . J i" ■■ ■'" V:^' r'^ ""?'■" ""t*""'""- 'r»'« character of'tho present Lieutenant 
 (Jove nor, M' Pere,:r.ne Maitland. who !,,„ nothing more anxiously at heart than the promotion 
 of rehiioii an "'lucation throughout th« Province, gives currency to thin lumoir. 
 
 The plan, sai.' to be in agitation, is to cHtablish, as soon as practicable, a College at the Seat 
 • i Oovern.nenr, to consist from the first of a Princii.al, or P -esident. ai d three Professors 
 these gentlemen to give two or three Cour.es of LW-tures. if necessary t<tterencTare; 
 
 Lie. ifir ». . M **^^*t":"'' ^ "•^■"""- 'i'^^" Scholarships are to be attached to each Dis- 
 trict, by which, at the end of evory two years, the best scholir at the District School hiu, an 
 S f%'K r^'"'"8 " «:hoIar«hip at College, which will maintain him four years rtho 
 number of Scholarships an,.ched to each District to be increased till they amount to four, or 
 E.V'T r^ f '*'"""' 'w'''1 University allow it. In this manner would the d..nr ti, a 
 iber.1 edi-ation be o,.ene. to the poorer inhabitants, and we might live to see the children of 
 the farmer and mechanic hll.ng the highest offices in the Colony, to which they had a.isen by 
 their superior talents, fostered by the benevolent institutions of tiieir country. ^ 
 
 The liberal Professions now re(,uire such an establishment. The Bar employs a verv con- 
 sideraMe number of pract.tionerB, many of whom have had the nece«siry 00X1*3, for 
 p epa> ,n, themselves for that imporUnt Profession. The Church, likew^ise.^^eqSs a long 
 course uf study, winch cannot without much difficulty be obtained. ^ 
 
 bo r^rr.T'*^/'"" '""'^'"'^ y-ung men out of the Province to finish their education ought to 
 ..irZIn ; IT ''''^'^""""« ''f f"'^" •^'^''" *ried have disappointed the just expectations of 
 t o.r friends Few can support the great expense of sending their children to Great Britain 
 cnntr^l'^'n h"""'^ reluctantly trusts then, at sue. a dislanco from its care, observation and 
 contn.l. If they are sent to the United States, there is n.uch reason to fear that they will 
 re urn with sentiments unfriendly t., our ditterent establ,«lnnents. as the whole system of^ edu- 
 
 Wt'liirt . ff""''''^ school books, in that country is pervaded with pernicious politics, 
 t)reatliing hatred to our parent Stiite. ' ' 
 
 There is no subject more important to the true prosperiiy of the Province than the careful 
 education of ns youth ; for it m only by a well instructe.l population that we can expect uZt 
 serve our excellent Constitution and our connection with the British Empire, or give hat 
 respectal.i ir,y to .he country which arises from an intelligent Magistracy, and from public situa- 
 tions hlled with men of ability and information. ^ j i uc 
 
 The more .i mcult steps have been already taken, and the inhabitants, gettin<' alive to the 
 great aivanta^e of euu^ating their children, have in mo,t places seconded Hie exertions of the 
 Legislature wiih a U,idable««i!. What has been already done is highly credit.il>le to the country 
 and though much yet rem-nns to be effected , there are no serious impediments in the way which 
 H little time and attention will not easily remove ; the most important impr >veinpiit in contem- 
 pla ion, tl^ founding of a University at the Seat of Government, may very soon take place, and 
 will be of incalculable bineht to the Pr .vince. J J ft »"« 
 
 The present state of education consists of eight District Sch<.o]=.. at which upwards of 220 boys 
 are now taught the higher branches of education, the classics, mathematics, etc The Common 
 Schools, in which upwaVds of ;5,50() children are instructed, besides a groat number of schools of 
 a siinilar descrij)tion, to which the bounty of Government cannot be extended. Sunday Schools 
 are likewise getting numerous, and religious instruction ajipears to be more sought after than 
 tiirmerly. In this respect also, the Common Schools will soon produce a very beneficial ,ilter- 
 ation, as may be seen from the rules to teschors published by the Board of Educati.u. for 
 r^iagara, and the Home District, and which we subjoin as a proper conclusion to this Article. 
 
 SuGGKSTHi) Rules fob Schools and Teachers. 
 
 1. The Master to cuiumeiice the iabuura of the day with a short prayer 
 
 the yiL'Sp'Ton Srurdir"^ '^"^ "' ^ "'°*"^'' °^ ^^^ ''*'"""""• *"^«^*' ''°"'« »» '«««* *» ""« '""K^t during 
 
 -i.f ^f P}}}li*^'^f '°'^ emulation to be cherished and encouraged by rewards judiciously distributed, to con- 
 sist of little pictures and books, according to the age of the Bcholw-. "il-uwu, lo con 
 
 II 
 
 I 
 
■JwiM l A i^ K WlitWIUMMWfr ^ miW 
 
 168 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPKR CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 4. C.e.„linee., a.d good o.^er^o^SS^'"'^^. ^^^S^^'f"^'^'^^^'^^ 
 bad habitB learned at home, ly>"K-, ^''^^ w"^^^^^ 
 
 chastUement, but gentlene.B even in the«e '^«f^''7" "^^ . ;„ attention, are better corrected by 
 
 5. All other offence, in children ansmgch^^^^^^ „y with them for 
 
 shame, such w,^*"dy.^''P;/ '^''°;?« th„o C "^^^^^^^^^^ P>»y "f'^"**^" ""'^ ^^ "**"="'"• 
 
 a day or days, detaining theii> after scnooi t < ' - " . . ^^„y j»y they are absent. 
 
 6. The Master must ke.p a regular catalogue of his Hchoars. and mark ^^^^^^^^^^ J J .^ 
 
 7. The forenoon of Wednesday -n^ "^ ^,**-f f^j^^ tt cop^e^of Barrow'! Quest" ,n. on the New Testj. 
 agreeable, the school should be furnished w.th »'J^*.*|g'; ^S""8 for his own use, the te.cher shoald 
 ^e'nt, and the teacher to have one ^PV of t^^jJ^^iJ^^f^rthl Mind' 'Watkin's Scripture B pgr.phy' and 
 likewise have a .opy of >I«"«J' « losrns of whfch are well calculated to impress religious fet-lmg. 
 
 regularly through the Gospels. 
 
 THE REV. l)u. Strachan's remarks on the Foregoing History ok Education. 
 Under the nam de plume of " The Confessor," Rev. Dr. Stvachan wrote the 
 .■oliowing explanatory criticism, on the foregoing " History of Education in Jpper 
 Canada " in the CkHstucn Recorder for July. 1819. It is rather a review of the 
 whole question, than a criticism, but with explanatory staten^ents and illustration 
 as to value of .University to those who desire to .tudy for the learned profes- 
 sions Both papers are valuable, from the fact that they reflect the opinions of 
 inteliigent men of the day on the then unsolved problem of university education 
 in Upper Canada. 
 
 .,,1 ,iin,ilv>r that a University is about to bo estiibHshed in thi» 
 You mention, in your see on, """V^/' \' ^"^^ '.^''if,^ J, .eiile, bo that ••ill (Umonunations 
 Province. I ^ope that it wi 1 be founde lui-^^a^^^^ ^/d Ln e -Jr of feeling, to atteiuUho 
 
 of Christians nmy be enabjed without aiij ^'^cnmc or c i pj.^,.,;,,^^ ;, t^„ youn« to sup- 
 
 prelectu.ns of the ^l^^^^'-fj -> J"-, ^^e t n .n e ., l'^^^ conn.ience on sLh ..i ext.n- 
 
 p ,rt an estiiblinhmentof this kind, ami, '^*''^*' '/'"^.,trh Universities. itniiRht, in st.meuieaauie 
 • Lve plan at that of die English or ^^^ -.--'^ ';^,^'-" f ,J; '^r: uul a fe^w Wachers, making 
 be true. But ,t is very ea.y to beg.n with a * ™" ,^^,j,„t, '^^^y ,e.i„ire. Nor should it 
 provisi.m (or increasing theirnumber, as the '''^^^^f^/. .'{.^^^ t.Lthlr with the naturol 
 
 Lfor.-tten that thn ra,.i.l uirtux "^ .^^^I'^'^'^^'^^^^f';^^^ „.en And although 
 increase of the inhabmu.t.s. will now furn . h ^J^.'< " ;''^;„ LL^M's, be.ause they can. with 
 nwvny people may choose rather t.. bring up «;•';'•:-» « ^^^^^ 'j., tl.eir turn provide an 
 ev.n a little industry, acqinre ^';;^ -"'^^^'T,^ '^^/^ ^/ \e f. ind «nxio^^ to educate their sons 
 
 r^:"^;r;::d^;:"x;x:i^'^£l::;^^;^=^ 
 
 re,uiredfor these professions, than is c,o„ly.ipP^ ^ ^^^^ ^^,^^^^ 
 
 F..rty clergymen, tor example, may * "'';^*;.^' '.^^'Jii ^b to the eH>rnal interests of the 
 and render themselves of great ^^^I'L 1 , L f S more d ispos promote vital Christi- 
 
 people. " they were of conc.hataryd.s,.s,tion..^^^^ I J^^^ ^^^^^ accordant with 
 
 Lnity, than to enfo.-ce such fonns as ^f \,f J^'^X^te L-ne^^ ;.>no in each of the settled 
 
 their manners and feelings they w.mld be of "^ ' '"^" ^^^^^^^^^ the country, for tlie appoint- 
 
 Townships, of tliis f^^^-^^V'^^'l^,^^^^^^^^ and duties of morality, 
 
 S^^nlinX-r:-^--^^^^^ '"-^ "^ ''' ^'^'"^ ""«^" °^ ''-' 
 blessed religiiin by which it is adopted. 
 
 ""rhe^^s'nTi^al^^ceJn'thr. artic.^^^ 
 
 R.V. Dr. Scadding however ^Jl^})Z!VL!''^'ZlIZr"'^^^^^^ was.Dr! Strachan. Speaking 
 
 tLiet) times, ana ii! rttCii vT, — -- — — - -- -- - rr, i_ voluuiws ol tnc xjm^sitan iirec-r'.icr 
 
 ''"•rEf irtS !"'«" b,°''Th. Co»f-«.r •• .... »!.«! " N. N.," th. »o 1... I.lt.r. of Ih. Buhop'. 
 natne. 
 
 It 
 
1819 
 
 except for 
 Its require 
 
 )rrected by 
 ih them for 
 
 abeent. 
 
 ,o render it 
 New Testa- 
 ■her shoulcl 
 {r^phy' and 
 
 )in teaching 
 
 proceedinff 
 
 )UCATION. 
 
 /rote the 
 in Upper 
 jw of the 
 lustration 
 id profes- 
 pinions of 
 education 
 
 ished in thift 
 uoiiiinttioiis 
 o iitteiul the 
 Dun]i t'< sup- 
 ch nil extfiii- 
 iimeuieasuia 
 lers, making 
 s\)r hIkhiUI it 
 the naturol 
 nd although 
 ley can, with 
 ■u provide an 
 te their sona 
 onie time, be 
 
 is Province^ 
 tereataof the 
 ntal Christi- 
 (■ordaiit with 
 (.f the settled 
 !• the appoint- 
 H of morality^ 
 ■rigin of that 
 
 Strachan, The 
 
 from it two or 
 
 ban. Speaking 
 . . ■ »» i-_ 
 
 isitar: iircvr'.irr 
 
 ["oronto, while a 
 of the Biahop's 
 
 Chap. XXXIV. HISTORY of education in upper CANADA, 1819. 
 
 159 
 
 
 Now It would tAke a Lnuersity some time, were it already in active operati.ai to funiish 
 the number wanted, and .he new settlements a.e extending so last in all directions tl t 1 ™re 
 the old t.mnships can be suppl-ed, as many new ones will be desti. ute. Were it pos^ble after 
 the hrst four years are elapsed to furnish twelve clergymen, an a.e must have pass awav 
 before each township could be supphed. It ought hkewise to be remembeicd thatit soUhe 
 greatest con,equence that the Munsters of theGos, el should bo m. ,i of learning iuVabnitv 
 and in order ...lualifythe.i for the great work to which they aie ap,,ointed, coumet n^^^^^^^^^ 
 tunit:es uiu.t be given them. These they do not at present sufficient y possess, for^althou^h the 
 very few that have been brought forward to .he ministry need not fir a comparison with anv 
 persons ol their age lu the Mother C.unti-y. it hss arisen from the circunista.Je tTst tC we?e 
 rather the companions than the pupils of their tutors who was able the progress o the r^eason 
 as we as the strength of their resolutions and lead them, step by step alonl the path of virtue 
 as well as knowledge. But this method of .nstructingchiefly l/cc,n x-r^ation L^J e comfit d 
 wihiu very narrow limits, amhannot bo so extended as to nfeet the gn.winrwa .ts ^f th/s 
 extensive Province. In the University the bunness of instruction is divided, Tnd each Profes 
 . 8or 1 ecame better .,ua ihe.l for his particular department. The student may a ve acq uired in 
 private, a coi..petentknowle,lge of English and classical literature. He may haveTe-ld the 
 best divines he may have unbodied in his conduct many .f the most amiable graces uf our hoi v 
 religion, and beeon^e a useful, learned and conscientious Pas'or, but then a] nos everv 
 pupil would require his own special instructor, an.l even then he «ould re.min ! norant ,^ 
 some branches of knowledge highly useful in enlarging the views and ripeninrZumSand 
 
 nf fl.fi ^'"'- ^''i'^'^ff^y *''« '»t»')y "f ^^''- scriptures in the original langua'-e an.l the comt.arison 
 of hi8.ori,inal with our English translation would employ I considerable j.ortion of i ' ti le 
 collecting parallel passauea of scripture, arrunging and c...np,rin« the ^onh"c eVwitl. ul 
 history of the.r acconiphshn.ent, examining the proofs which estabUrhour irirreliLi ii efle!. 
 ing upon thesnbhmedoctrines and beautiful ,necepts. so as to be able to give nreasn fo! tl ^ 
 faith that IS in us. would engross many hou.s of , ,.luable study. In a larg/semimtr lese ,n v 
 
 heavenly bodies tl^eir astonishing regull^ '^S^^rd^rr ^^'^^^i;^ r^;.:^^ t? 
 Astronomy, which, m as far as rega.dsthe Solar Sys em, may now be said to b.. f. ^le 
 there is not a sing e motion that has not been accounted fof a 7f''„> f' , .e,^^ „ o n e ll'rv' 
 the wonderful hamm^y .f the whole, he msy draw the most coinfo.t^b e roS theCsdc'r^ 
 power and goodness of God Here likewise the stu.lent of Nature .night n'akellsdf^mtrr 
 ot Chemistry, of Botany and Anatomy, all of which he would afte rwards hnd use ul i" his n n f' 
 sion. not only ui eonhming his faith, but in the variety <.f illustration which they ff rd h min 
 preaching to the people, i t ,s not generally kn..wn that there are now thir y iSL I's h?« 
 Province, some of them „,en of talents and information, others leas efficient^! lomttewan^^^^^^ 
 good opportunities, but, when a Unive.sity i« e.stablishcd, a gi^vvter strictness w^^ b7owte"d 
 m admitting young men to the B,r. mor.. preparation will be de -med necessarv aid It 
 Society wil, as they do in England, dispen'se Ivith two out of the five y^n^wilnJ:^ 
 provide,! that they be spent in at ending certain classes in the Cllege. c.emandcd. 
 
 In this county, the practice of Physic, from the badness of the roads and the poverty of the 
 people has not been at ract.ve, but matters are changing-the settlers are becoming wealthv 
 and aWo co pay for advice and .attendance during sickness. Indeed, no per.son can at present 
 study Phy«ic or K.rgery m th-s Province, for there are no regular sources of information Itl 
 rue a Surgeon or a Physician may -ake apprentices ami reduce their liberal pSsions to a 
 kind of trade, which may be buight by rote in a certain number of year. ; but, whlout Lecti^res 
 on the various branches of the Me.lical Art, they never can attain to any prortcienci '^''^*"'*'* 
 The number of Students likely to attend College will not be confined to the three nrofes 
 sions. Y;.nng men intended for Merchants or who have the certainty of inheriting S, a.ided 
 estates will be no less desirous of becoming acquainted with the different branch! o liK 
 knowledge. Add to tins the great benefit arising to the Province from the conv ctTon 
 which every one must feel after the est blishinent of a University that, in remov g to Canada 
 he IS not taking his children to a wilderness v.hich affords no opportunities f(>^^ameliox"tii 
 which'hetaves. ' "'""""'' I'"^''"^''"'^-!"'^! a.lvantages in religion and education vJithtS 
 
 From a variety of considerations I am confident that in a very few years the Students at 
 tending such a seminary wm. d exceed one hundn.l. I will, with your permissi n trouWe vou 
 again on this subject which I consider all imi.oitant. in the m.,anf.i,n.. <,!,. eh- "^f-.-f ' M^ 
 wi.o donofc feel the want of knowle.lge, bui who are engrossed 'by'profit: "l^have to"remark 
 t at the foundation of a University at York, open to all denominations, will add 20 per cent to 
 
 e le eiijoy N N """' '^ "'"''"'"** '" '*'^""'"«' '° *'»"^''''"^'^ ^**^'' theycan no^he e 
 
i^Miiiitiiiirfiiil «-:w— ■ — *— ^ ■ 
 
 160 
 
 DOCUMENTARY H.STOUV OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. 
 
 MISCE 
 
 LLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO EDUCATION, 1819. 
 
 5 Home District (Grammar) School, 1819. 
 
 Examination of the 
 The Christian Recorder for August, 1819, states that :- 
 
 at the sch.M.l <)f the H,.me DiBtnct, '^"«\ '"^%''^'^" ^ " ''''"^^^^^ T^v.^ two cIhvs. We have pu.cured a 
 ol scholars i. now ^V^* ' •^^'\rt. Ctfer w h t F^ andean Ode in 
 
 ZLfol'r^^^^^^^ ^^''"^'^ -^ ^'^^"^^^^ " '"^'^ ^"' 
 
 Montreal. j . v -n 
 
 The Examination of 1819, in his Toronto of Old, is thus referred to by Dr. 
 
 '"t!!^th::ndin« the great, gw "^ ^^^::^^ ^^:;z^'^:;'T ^^J^^^C^ 
 
 School under Dr. Strachan at York always l'?«7'\^f,i%;;';'^j^t,y? perusal of the following 
 even distinguished Upper Ca"aduui luunes fhis will b^^ .ive an idea of the 
 
 [progrannnc of exannnation of *-,"''"'« .^^«„^f,,,ttho,^ names will 
 
 Variety of raatters to wh.ch f f " ''" "f ^.if^^st gu^^^^^^^ Robert Baldwin, who coannenced the 
 at c.nce be rec..gni/ed especially that of the d.stiii^u^^ Venerable Archdeacon 
 
 Orrier o/ eya».u...i<H.M of the. I]om< j> f ' "^^ ^ ' ' ' j,, j-^ ^ Trigonometry. Thurs- 
 
 .4uy./^/. i«.'>. First Day The Latni and ^'';^}.\\^'X^^J'^^^^^^ by Robert Baldwin. - 
 
 day, 12th August. Second Day^ ^''^'r ' ,*- tl he Bible Thonas Ridout, The Man of 
 RJading Class.-Oeorge StTa,K u^^ j^^^,,!^. ^he Sword. William 
 
 Rush. James McDonell, Libeity and 7^^^^^, J''^j ^"^^,,,111, The Sporting Clergyman. 
 McMurray, ^olUo4uy on Sleep. /^ i;;*!;^^"^.^^^^,^^; V«f-,--''Si^ .^^^^^^^^^ Ode\o Apollo, .rville 
 
 Willian. Boulton, .lun., The ^.'^'^^ « ^«^. ^,,';'\^;;. .f My M ther. Francis Heward, My Father. 
 
 Second < ieography ^''-•T,,;--:V?'v^rkhou e''^^^^^:^^^^^^^^^^^ The A potlfecary, Natural 
 
 grant. Thnuias (.lassco Iho I .irm ^^ " /'""J^^^ Strickland, Charier Heward. Lord Morpeth, 
 Histoiy. Debate by the Young Boys. Si ^^ ''V*'" ™, i^ ' ,,,,,„^ Baby. Sir W.llliam Yonge, 
 John Owenn. L .rd Harvey, .U,hu ' '^;;;*-, '^^ ^St^^' Mr Henry Pelham, Henry Heward. 
 .Join. Fitzgerald Sir W dham ^^'l^''''";, '^f V,S ^Bal^ Mr. Shippen, Jun.ea Baby. Sir 
 
 Mr. Bernard, (Jeorge St.auchan. Mr. Noel. ^^ '"^l /^* Walpole, .lan.es Myem. Mr Pulteney. 
 Robert Walpole, Saltern (Jivnis 'i;^^ 'I . Doyk M . . H mcc v^ a^p- '^^ f^ ,,,j,^ (.^^^.^ „,- 
 
 Charles Baby. -Civil " -"'T-W.U.an. Boultot., c T r ot. ya. ^^^^ ^^,^^^^ ^. ^^^^_^ 
 Sir .John Moore. S. (Jivuh, Great Bntani. .j' '" " ' .""or^,,,,, '^•\viUiam Boulton, The 
 Claus, The Indian Warrior ^1»«'1«%"^**^'''J''" f^i^ «; Calc S Speakers : Mr. Canning, 
 Her..:H of Waterloo.-Catechmm. -Debate on ^« College «^ J;"^'^"^^^^^ \^^^^^ Burnh.m Mr, 
 Robert Baldwin Sir Francis Rarmg,^.I.;;m^ K» ,n Lonl Eldon' Warren Claws, Sir Sanmci 
 ■Ihornion, .Joiin Kiior. ^^'"^ ^'- '"-"'V, " V",' * „, Ai.raham Nelles. Lord Bathurst, . James Mc- 
 Lawrence. Allan Macaulay. ^^'f /^'^^l^^SrSmUl W^ H"-nv'=« Uidout-Re- 
 
 GiU Strachan. Sir Th.^mas Metcalf, Wa kcr ^ '''^^' ;^„^,^\^„i;,f,„ .,f the York and Montreal 
 ligious '^H,stions am Lectures- am.. MeGdl ^^^ '^ ';'i;'y,.^,,,/Kia..ut, 
 Colleges anticipated tor 1st ol Januaij, loi-. ±^i>i 5 . j 
 
1819 
 
 Chap. XXXtV. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ON EDUCATION IN U. C, 1819. 161 
 
 1819. 
 
 819. 
 
 it is enacted 
 each District 
 I the practice 
 
 The number 
 va piocured a 
 nd an Ode in 
 at York and 
 
 1 to by Dr. 
 
 Home District 
 I known, and 
 the following 
 an idea of the 
 lily names will 
 ommenced the 
 le Archdeacon 
 , the Rewards, 
 
 edmsdny, lHh 
 letry. Thurs- 
 ert Baldwin. — 
 lUt, The Man of 
 vord. William 
 ng Clergyman. 
 LpoUo. « 'rville 
 rd, My Father. 
 Debate on the 
 
 Allan, George 
 )oyk'. Against 
 llan McDunell, 
 jrapliy '^l''>*8 - 
 igelow, the Va- 
 liecary. Natural 
 
 Lord Morpeth. 
 WillliBUi Yongo, 
 Henry Reward. 
 [amo.i Baby. Sir 
 a. Mr Pulteney, 
 it, The Grave of 
 r. Pitt. Warnn 
 m Boulton, Till' 
 •s : Mr. Canning, 
 Buruhiim Mr. 
 !lauB, Sir Sainnoi 
 lurst, Jaaios Mc- 
 nce Uidout--Re- 
 irk and Montreal 
 
 Mr. J. Ross Robertson, in his history of The Old Blue School, thus refers to 
 the effect and character of these examinations : — 
 
 These public examinations were red letter days with the parents of York, and the paternal 
 and maternal sides of the house were duly represented. Sir Peregrine Maitland and Staff, 
 seated on a slightly raised dais, covered with cioth of crimson hue, were usually interested 
 spectators m the proceedings. To make the occasion more joyous than the ordinary dimissal to 
 ChriBtmas, the midsummer vacation day was celebrated by a lunch or dejeuner. 
 
 The central figure at the opening was young Robert Baldwin, whose ncme and memory to- 
 day are green in the hearts of all Canadians. His verse travelled over the whole ran^a of European 
 history, and lauded the work of Warren Hastings in India, the "Asiatic Researches" of Sir 
 William Jones, the English Orientalist, the founding of Calcutta Cdlege by the Great Duke, then 
 Marquis of Wellesley, the advantage of a similiar institution in Canada, was suggested by tha 
 lines ; 
 
 • " Yet much remains for some aspiring son 
 
 Whose liberal soul from that desires renown. 
 Which gains for Wellesley a lasting crown ; 
 Some general structure in these wiUis to rear, 
 Where every art and science may appear." 
 
 Perhaps the day-dream in Baldwin's fertile brain was the erection of Upper Canada Col- 
 lege and King's College in the ear'y future, and then with a few lines which must have warmed 
 the heart of the distinguished visitor, he adds : — 
 
 " O, Maitland best ! this proud distinction woes 
 Thy quick acceptance, back'd by every muse ; 
 Those feelings, too, which joyful fancy knew 
 When learning's gems first opened to thy view. 
 Bid you to thousands smooth the thorny road 
 Which leads to glorious Science's bright abode." 
 
 The Epilogue was pronounced by Horace Ridout. An extract from this obullition which 
 was a mixture of machine poetry and doggerel, will suffice. The reciter is supposed to be a 
 pupil, who complains of the conduct of the Master : — 
 
 '' Between ourselves, and just to speak my mind, 
 In P^nglish Grammar, Master's much behind ; 
 I speak the honest truth— I hate to dash- 
 He bounds cur task by Murray, Lowth and Ashe, 
 I told him once that Aborcrombie, moved 
 By genius deep, had Murray's plan improved. 
 He frowned upon me, turning up his nose, 
 And .said the man had ta'en a maddening dose. 
 Once in my theme I put the word progress- 
 He sentenced twenty lines, without redress : 
 Again for ' Measure ' I trMnseribed 'endeavour.' 
 And all the live-long day I lost his favour." 
 
 Address from the Presbytery of the Canadas to Sir Peregrine Maitland. 
 
 Early in 1819 tlie following Address was presented to Lieutenant-Governor 
 Maitland by the Pre.sbytery of the Canadas, assembled at Brockville, on Wednes- 
 day the 13th day of January, 1819 : — 
 
 As it is not; (ho extent of territory that renders a country prosperous ; but the number of its 
 subjects, their industrious liabits, their correct morals, their superior comforts and their in- 
 tellectual eminence. The voice of liisttvry attesta that these important objects have heon pro- 
 moted in proportion as i)uro religion ha.s jjrevailed. It is under the imi.ression of seiitinients of 
 this nature, that we have witnessed with much satisfaction the encouragen)ont.s afforded by the 
 rrvvinotal Fftrlinnioiit for the: support and erection of I'ui.lic Sdiouls. And we look forward 
 with pleasing antici])Bti;in to the period when, under the au8i)icioua rule of your Excellency, a 
 college shall spring from these sominaries of learning and our youth in the bosoin of the Pro- 
 Tince, be (jH,»'ified for all the offices of civil and ecclesiastical life. 
 U (O.E.) 
 
ji-^aftt'jttW'wsiHKt-'.v 
 
 f^ t 
 
 11 I 
 
 1G2 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1819 
 
 Early School Days in Aldborough, Talbot Settlement, 1816-1820. etc. 
 
 Mr. Archibald McColl, a Farmer in the County of Kent, has furnished me 
 with a series of articles, which he had contributed to the St. Thomas Journal 
 and the Rodney Mercury in May and June, 1892, on "Schools and Dominies" 
 in the Township of Aldborough. In his accompanying note he says that what 
 he records happened before his time, he had, therefore, to " depend altogether 
 ■on the memories of those who were the boys of long ago." 
 
 These sket'^hes, by Mr. McColl, of the early school days in the old " Talbot 
 
 Settlement " are highly interesting,— revealing, as they do, by way of.contrast 
 
 with these days what was the character of the social and school life of seventy 
 
 years ago in the primitive settlement of this country. Much that I have omitted 
 
 from these sketches relate to the pranks of school boys, and personal anecdotes 
 
 of their leaders,— the most noted of whom was the late Sheriff McKellar, whose 
 
 pleasantries and fun were often of a most amusing kind. The sketches begin 
 
 with a reference to the schools of 1816 and 1819, as follows :— 
 
 Mr Malrolm. Robinson, Teac/i*!.— The firat school in Aldborough was opened in 1819 by 
 Malcolm Robinson in his own dwelling, which fcerved the purpose of kitchen, dining-rooin, 
 parlor bedroom, blacksmith shop and schoolhouse. Sheriff McKellar fjives -^n amusing descrip- 
 tion of his boyish days at this school, which was the first he ever attended. . . . The brst 
 school i.i the County of Elgin was opened in the Township of Malahide in 1810, and up to the 
 vear 1830 only twentv schools existed in the whole "Talbot Settlement,' extending at that 
 time from theea.t of the County of Elgin to the west of the County of Kent, a distance of about 
 one hundred miles. Mr. Robinson's bchoolhouse was situated on Lot 2, in Concession 13, anU 
 in this School Mr. Lachlan MacDougall, father of Colin MacDougall, Q.C., afterwards taught. 
 Only two or three of those who went to that school are now alive. 
 
 AfV George Munro, Teacher.— In 1820 a school was opened in Mr. Munro's house Here 
 Mr George Munro, then a young man in his teens, taught the youthful minds of those who were 
 entrusted to his care for one year. Here Mr. McKellar began his aciuaintance with M, Munro, 
 which warmed into a close friendship which lasted till recently, when the death of the old bquiro 
 broke up the friendship of more than seventy years. . . . 
 
 After teaching a year in his father's house, Mr. Munro afterwards taught in a sclioolhoiiso 
 built on the farm of Mr. .John McKellar, who was a cousin of Squire Munro, and lived on what 
 is now known as the McBnde farm, on Middle Street, where he taught for two or three years. 
 This schoolhouse, in the words of Mr. Munro, was cold, dark and dismal, but with two windows 
 of six panes each, in size, seven by nine inches, sweats and writing desks were logs flattenod 
 with the axe. At this time so much per scholar was paid by the parents f >■: the privilege of 
 attendhig school. Ten bushel of wheat was the fee. A quire of jiaper cost a bushel of wheat, 
 and it recjuired the aame quantity of grain to pay for a spelling book. . . . 
 
 After (luittiliK nip, work as a teacher here, Mr. Munro went to Clearville to teach in the first 
 frame schoolhouse which was built between Long Point and Amherstburg Here Mr. Munro 
 boarded with a Mr. Baldwin, who kepi hotel there at the time. Phinoas, the young son of Mr. 
 Baldwin WBH a pupil in this school, and only te:. } ears ago wrote a letter to his old teacher, 
 telliim him of the success ho had met with in life, and stating that . . . much of hm success 
 in rfc wa.s due to the teaching be had received, and t<i the words of wisdom impressed upon hia 
 memory by his old teacher, who always laboured so earnestly for his pupils' welfare. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin's letter is somewhat touching in places. • • ^ • •» [^ '>« ^^^ ; ," Y'*»«" 
 memory rovert.s to my boyhood days, I never fail to call to mind my first and best school-day hours 
 „.uh -■:.• aa *"Aoh..r How few of the old schoolmates of my boyish days remain on this side of 
 the aWn^t beyond. Most liave gone, I still retain a warm feeling for all.' Part of Mr. Munro s 
 renlv may !«• appropriately (juotod here, as it bears directly on pioneer l-.fe in Oxford. Mr. 
 Munro Mtvs • ''Your never-to-be-forgotten father was my conhdant m everything to whoso 
 friendly and' wine counsel 1 WM much indebted. He was ouo of the first pioneers in Oxford 
 
1819 
 
 820. ETC. 
 
 rnished me 
 
 8 Jmvrnal 
 
 Dominies " 
 
 that what 
 
 altogether 
 
 Id " Talbot 
 of. contrast 
 of seventy 
 ive omitted 
 I anecdotes 
 sllar, whose 
 ;clies begin 
 
 I in 1819 by 
 dining-room, 
 ising descrip- 
 , The first 
 id up to the 
 nding at that 
 ance of about 
 sion 13, and 
 vards taught, 
 
 louae. Here 
 ose who were 
 h Mr. Muiao, 
 ;he old Squiro 
 
 El schoc'lhoiisb 
 lived on wliat 
 r three years, 
 two windows 
 logs flattened 
 e privilege of 
 tiel of wheat, 
 
 ch in the first 
 re Mr. Munro 
 ng son of Mr. 
 1 old tcaeher, 
 of Ilia success 
 saed uix>n his 
 o. 
 
 kid: ''When 
 lool-day hourH 
 n this side of 
 I Mr, Munio's 
 Oxford. Mr. 
 hing to whoso 
 ers in Oxford 
 
 Chap. XXXIV. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ON EDUCATION IN U. C, 1819. 163 
 
 township. In his house was preached the first sermon that was ever preached in Oxford. His 
 house was the home of the pioneer preachers of the Gospel, when on their tedious circuit 
 through East Kent." 
 
 Sheriflf McKellar, in a letter written since the death of Squire Munro, gives his old friend 
 credit for being very painstaking with those who were placed in his charge for instruction, and 
 says that he was a very good mathematician and surveyor. The surveying branch of his educa- 
 tion he learned from Col. Burwell, and he assisted the Colonel in surveying the Western 
 District, especially the greater part (^f the County of Kent. While away on these surveying 
 expeditions, the party did not see a white person for two or three weeks at a time, meeting 
 with many adventures on their trips, wolves being very plentiful in the forests, and sometimes 
 being dangerous when food was scarce. Mr. Munro possessed a wonderful memory and anything 
 once learned was never forgotten. An instance of this power may be given. The first survey- 
 ing ever done in the Townsliip of Aldborough was done by Mr. Hamley in 1804. His work 
 was to lay out the concessions and sideroads, among which were the Furnival Road, along which 
 he planted posts, one of which was planted at the corner of the farm on which Mr. Munro, sr., 
 settled. At that time all the provision which the family used had to be carried from the lake 
 on the backs of men. Mr Munro, who was then a young man, in 1818 used to carry flour 
 through what was then only a woodland path, and in his journeyings used to rest his load on 
 this post while he rested. The post about this time had rotted off, and was seen no more until 
 in 1875, when the township was re-survoyed and stone i)osts planted. While hunting tor the 
 original ])o8t, Mr. Munro, without hesitation, made a mark about three ftet square, and said, 
 gentlemen, if you dig inside that mark you will find where the or').-!r,al jwst s ood and sure 
 enough they there found the lower part of what was likely the only cnnant of the .survey in 
 1804 which is now in existence, Mr. Munro was also a fairly g(.'i classical scholar. In his 
 latter yeare he ah o learned shorthand, and was a thorough ma.ster ol Pitman's system of phono- 
 graphy. He with great patience wrote the whole of the new Testament in Scotland. 
 
 Mr. John McDuvijall, Teacher. — Mr. John McDougall was also one of the early teachers in 
 this district, who made his mark on the ii -ellectual faculties of the few scholars who, at that 
 time, were able to attend school, being Imnself a man of fair education and good j)ractical com- 
 mon sense. After M. Robinson's school was broken np the next schoolhouse on 'J'albot Street 
 was built on Lot 4, Concession l.'{. This schoolhouse was built lai-gely of clay, presswd togt^ther 
 and dried in the sun, there only being timber enough in the building to bind it together. Yet 
 it served its purpose for the time being. 
 
 Mr. I). MeCallum, Teacli^r. — In this building Mr. D! McCallum, better known at that time 
 as " trouble the hoose," from the fact that in connnon with a great miiny others of the men of 
 his day he was a little too fond of a dram and when in his cups seemed to uike delight m seeing 
 how great a nuisance he could make of lumself. On the last day of Ms term he took all the 
 scholars, boys and girls alike, across the road to a private house, where he treated them all to 
 all the whiskey they could drink. The result was that it is supposed that this act was only done 
 out of pure kindness to the scholars to whimi he was bidding fareweli. After the d smissal of 
 the school the boys set to work and tore the building to jjieces by pulling the clay away from the 
 tituler, and made it impossible to teach there any longer, and the result was that another build- 
 ing was erected t)n the same ground, this time of logs roofed with claplniards alwut 4 feet long, 
 which was the rooiing in connnon use at that time. 
 
 Schools uf the Time. — In this building school was kept for a number of yeun, and here many 
 a one of the children of the i)ioneor8 were i)repared for their life work and sent out into tht- 
 world to make a name and record for themselves. Hero many of those who are yet living 
 dreamed their little day dreams and mapped out their future career in tb j same manner as their 
 successors are doing to-day. They built their air castles in those happy school-day hours, which 
 have long since passed away, <inly to realize in after years liow' little of what we expect ever 
 conies to pass. But the knowledge gained in after years never made them unhappy or spoiled 
 an hour's pleasure. At that time all in school were on an etjual footing, and were not divided 
 into classes according to the wealth or profession of their fathers, and no attemjjt was made to 
 have one dressed better than another. All were dressed alike in clothes made mi>stly of the 
 flax, which was grown at home and prej'!i: ed at home from the stage of its existence as a plant, until 
 it became a raiment for the girls or boy? t,. <veai, and if it did not eciual in splendour the purple 
 and fine linen worn by King Solomop th»: children were just as ha])py as if it did. No shoos 
 wore worn by any of the scholars so iinvr as it was at all possible to do without them. In fact, 
 the children grow up like those in M.S. /icinan's ])oem "The Graves of a Household," who 
 grew 111 beauty units by oidtj, aUii iiil'hi uiie house with glee. Xheiv graves mc acatleievi iar 
 and wide, by stream and mount and sea. Many are in the church-yard laid, and some have 
 <lied at sea. Some of them have been called up<m to fill jiositions of honour and trust and have 
 lilled them in such a manner as to command the respect of their feUow citiaens, to bring honour 
 
to themselves, and to reflect credit upon the teachers who took such pains to train them up m 
 the way they should go, and to impress upon their minds that honesty should guide them in 
 all their dealings with their fellow men, and who taught them that " honour and fame from no 
 condition rise, act well your part, there all the honour lies. " and to their credit be it said that 
 the great majority of them lived up to this teaching. It was a very rare cast; indeed in wliich 
 any of those early scholars were ever accused of acting a dishonourable part. 
 
 Mr. A. CurrU, Teacher. — A number of teachers taught in the old schoolhouse No. 4 Talbot 
 Street, amcmg them being Mr. A. Currie the father of Rev. A. Currie, of Duart, Mr. Currie 
 had studied and for the ministry in the Scottish colleges, and was a scholar of more than ordin- 
 ary knowledge, being the thorough master of seven lanijuages. But coming to this country at 
 an early date, he gave up the ministry and began teaching school, and while the church lost one 
 who would likely have been a noted preacher the children of this place, who were so fortunate as 
 to come under his instruction, were the gainers thereby, for although sometimes severe in his 
 punishments, he was always anxious for his pupils to succeed, and spared no pains to impart 
 as much ot his learnhig to them as possible. Mr. Currie was also an extra good hand at making 
 quill pen'^. Steel pens were then unknown, and the only substitute used was a pen made out 
 of the quill feathers in a goose's wing. It was quite an ait to make these pens to write well, 
 and as it was vory oHsy to spoil them, we may be 8ure that th?. master was kept busy during the 
 writing hour repairing pens, and as it was easier waiting to get a pen mended than to write, 
 (luite likely he tenchor did not forget the art through lack of practice. Mr, Currie was faithful 
 and earnest in fulfilling all the duties of his position, and was revered accordingly. Like Gold- 
 smith's village preacher 
 
 A man he was to all the country dear. 
 
 And passiug rich with less than forty pounds a year. 
 
 Mr. i^teiviirf, Teacher.— Another of the teachers in tliis old schoolhouse was a Mr. Stewai't^ 
 who was a student studying medicine. His career here was not of long duration, owing to the fnct 
 that his love for medical science i)laced him in danger of his life in the following ways : The 
 knoll on which the schoolhouse sto<xl is yet often referred to as squaw hill, from the fact that 
 a good many years Ago it had been used as an Indian burial ground. Some few years previous 
 to the building of the schoolhouse a 8(|uaw had been buried there. The place of her burial is 
 still marked by a small hollow in the ground. Mr. Stewart, thinking this would be a gi'od 
 chance to secure a skeleton for the study of the human frame, with the help of some <)£ the 
 larger boys, raised the body and carried it into the schoolhouse, where he kept it for some time, 
 being, while there, a source of amusement to the older scholars and of terror to the younger. The 
 frame was kept together by wires and stood behind tlie door. The wires weie so arranged that 
 the skeleton could be made, by pulling the wires, to open and close its jaws. . . . 
 In the meantime the Indians heard of the grave robbery and were furious, threatening to kill 
 the author of the desecration. But before they had time to execute their mission of revenge, 
 Mr. Stewart heard I'f their intention to end his career and suddenly dejmrted. Sherifi McKellar 
 attended this school for some time, and here also he was the ruling spirit in all 8t)rt8 ot pranks. 
 
 Mr. John McDiurrnid, Teacher.— A schoolhouse was afterwards built a short distance below 
 the New Glasgow graveyard, in which Mr. John McDinrmid (a brother of Mr. F. McDiarmid) 
 taught for some time. This school was closed, and a school ojjened noar Brock's Creek, a nuni- 
 ber of people having settled in that district in the meantime, and wishing to have school privi- 
 leges for their children, they built a schoolhouse near where the Ba[)tiHt Church now stands. 
 
 Mins Catharine McDiarmid, Teacher. — When Port Glasgow was in the height of its glory a 
 school was oi)ened there. In this school Miss Catharine McDiarmid was the instructor of the 
 olive branches of the neighbourhood for some time, and us far as we know enjoys the distinc- 
 tion of being the first lady teacher employed in the schools of Aldborough. Many at that time 
 believing that it would be a great act of folly to engage a woman to kt-ep the children in the 
 (taths of right, or even to impart knowledge to their youthful minds. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy, Teacher. — Early in the history of the settlement, a school was estjiblished 
 near Fifty-Two Creek, in which Mr. Kennedy, a theological .student, taught for some time. 
 About this time was made. BO far as we are al)le to learn, the only attempt to intn duco a 
 private school system. Mr. Robert Young, who was a merchant engaged in business at Port 
 Glasgow, engaged ii governess to instruct his children j-rivately, but the general opinion was that 
 the better plan was that children, who liad to tight the battle of life sidi: by side, w ould bo better 
 able to su=ce==f"!"-y ftj?ht ttcir wav tlji'ouy;}'. life if they h.id tir.st t'..- endure the rouirh and tumble 
 life of the public school. . . The Fifty-Two Creek schoi)lht>u-ie, on the Aldborough and 
 
 Orford town lino, was also a noted institution of learning for a number of years, and this school- 
 house bud at times within its walls some very ablo teachers. aiiMmg wiiom was Mr. Kennedy, 
 afterwards ;i I'resbyterian minister. 
 
1H19 
 
 Chap. XXXIV. MISCKLLANEOUS PAPERS ON EDUCATION IN U. C, 1819. 
 
 165 
 
 leiu up in 
 le them in 
 e from no 
 t said that 
 . in which 
 
 ). 4 Talbot 
 Ir. Currie 
 lian ordin- 
 3<)untry iit 
 jh lost one 
 jrtunate as 
 ere in hi» 
 to impart 
 at making 
 made out 
 write woU, 
 during the 
 n to write, 
 'as faithful 
 bike Gold- 
 
 r. Stewai't^ 
 ; to the fact 
 ays : The 
 i fact that 
 ra previous 
 ir burial is 
 1 be a gnod 
 >me of the 
 some time, 
 iiger. The 
 anged that 
 
 ning to kill 
 >f revenge, 
 BMcKellar 
 of pranks. 
 
 ance below 
 ilcDianuid) 
 !ek, !v niim- 
 chool privi- 
 8taad». 
 
 its glory a 
 jctor of the 
 ;he distinc- 
 it that time 
 Iren in the 
 
 est^iblished 
 some time. 
 intr< diifo a 
 ess at Port 
 ion was that 
 lid bo bettor 
 
 (orougli and 
 this 8c1hk)1- 
 . Kennedy, 
 
 Teachem' Salane:< at this time ranaed from twelve to fourteen dollars per month, with the 
 privilege of paying their board out of this amount. In those days tlie chars^e for board was 
 only one dollar i)er werk, washing included, and this, in spite of the fact that the necessaries of 
 life cost from five to ten times what they do now. If they had been charged present prices for 
 board they would hardly have enough left of their year's salaries to buy tobacco. The balance 
 was paid out of the clergy reserve fund, which had not then been secularized. 
 
 If we consider that many of the early teachers were men who were well educated, and 
 consider the small salaries they received, we can only conclude that they must have had a 
 higher object in view than the mere gaining of the few dol!art. they M-ere paid for their services. 
 But while many of the teachers were well educafad, ;<ome few of them did not attempt to base 
 their claims for a certificate on their literary quaiitications. . . Some time m the forties a 
 
 new system was introduced, and this was that the teacher, in addition to the salary paid him, 
 was expected to board round, spending a week at a time in each family from which children 
 were sent to school. It made no difference whether the teacher liked the peop'e, (jr the 
 people liked the teacher, he was always expected to siiow up at every house in regular order, 
 howHver much it would d image his feelings to do so. If anyone was slighted, it was an unpar- 
 donable offence for which there was no forj,ivene3s. One thing the teacher could not complain 
 of, and that was lack of variety. In fome few houses the teacher would have a bed to himself, 
 but in the most of cases, owing to lack of room, he was expected to bunk with from two to four 
 of the " kids " who wore under his care during the day. This would give him a g od chance 
 to see how his pupils lehaved both day and night, but perhaps this would not add much to his 
 comfort. . . . But such was the custom of the time, and as such, they had to put up with 
 the general rule as best they could. 
 
 Mr. Archibald McLachliv, Teacher. — The lace Registrar, Mr. A. McLachlin, had some 
 experience of this mode of life, he having taught for some time in a schoolhouse on Lot 1, in 
 Concession 13, near where the schoolhouse in School Section No. 1 now stands. Mr. McLachlin 
 had only been a short time out from Scotland when he began his career as a teacher, and was 
 not very well acciuainted with the manners and customs of the people here. As a teacher he 
 was painstaking and industrious, and worked with all his might for the advancement of his 
 pupils. Now Year day worked its way around shortly after his coming here, and to celebrate 
 it ill old country style, treated all his scholars in royal style. [Mr. McLachlin afterwards edited 
 the St. Thomas Home Journal. He was subsequently \.he County Registrar, and, as a 
 man, was highly respected.] 
 
 Mr. A. Buchanan, Teacher. — The old red schoolhouse on Black's lane, in the 10th Con., 
 was also a famous histitution and the scone of many a hard fought battle between opposing 
 factions in the school, who were always ready to fight for the supremacj', and who were always 
 bound to maintain their rights ag .u.st all comers. The first teacher 'n this school was Mr. 
 A. Buchanan, who tried to train th>. souMfis in the path of right for quite a long time. 
 
 Old and Dimised SchoM llon^ies. — ?V.p Fnrnival School.— The old schoolhouse on the 
 Funiival, near Middle Strett, will also be remembered by many, although it is nearly twenty 
 years since it has been ust-ti for the purpose for which it wa° bnilt. It was used for a grange 
 hall for some time after being closed as a school room. 
 
 The New Glaiujow School, near New Glasgow ChurcV, I' t-; be seeu still standing. The old 
 schoolhouse, which has not been iised for the purpose fi '■ wu>h it v/ .airt-^uded for some fifteen 
 years, still stands as .% monument to bring back to the raeni iti*;'. of those who have spent many 
 happy days in the old building, happy thoughts of days got e r y. When first built the school- 
 house was seated by a long row of benches facing the wall. The desks were built against the 
 wall, which gave the teacher a good chance to pass behind the scholars and see just how they 
 were engaged. 
 
 The two rows of swats were sutficient for all the school for the first years of the school's exis- 
 tence. But as the acliolars increased it became necessary to make a change, and the schoolhouse 
 was reseated with benches which would hold six sc' ilars, each .seat having a long desk in front, 
 <^ne purpose which these Si ,irs served was that of uaking n noise. 
 
 When two <>r throe of t' " 'myH m a seat had to go to their classes tt) recite it was the usual 
 tiling to try and upset the se.ii, which was <uro to make a racket, and was, no doubt, very try- 
 ing to the teacher's nervous system, -nyw i_\, the seats were always thrown down by "acci- 
 dent," and if tiiere liapj)eiied to be a small l>oy on tho seat when it fell, so much the bettor and 
 so much the more reason for making an effort to make the seat fall accidentally. 
 
 During the last years of school life in the old school a combination seat and desk was used, 
 which spoil' d the best laid schemes t«) make a noise. 
 
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 DOCUMENTATIY HISTORY OK IDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
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 Mr. John S. McColl, Tecuher.—A list of all the teachers who put in time teaching th& 
 young and giving the pr >per training for the battle of life may be interesting to many. The 
 first teacher in this school was John S. McColl, afterwards Local Superintendent of Education 
 in West Elgin, and wlio has long since passed away. 
 
 Other LnUr Teachem.—'M.r. John S. McColl was followed by his brother, Mr. Ebenezer 
 McColl, now Superintendent of Indian Agencies in the Northwest. Several followed. In all, 
 nineteen teachers wielded the rod in the New (Jlasgow school during a peiiod of twenty years. 
 
 The 8chi>ol fiiwh of thene Early Uoy*. — Very little attention was ever i)aid in these days to 
 physics, botany, chemistry, statics, geometry and algebra, which are the terror of the luckless 
 child of to-day, wlio has to carry enough of books to make them tired physically as well as 
 mentally. On starling to school the child of bygone days simply had to carry a " shingle," on 
 which his letters were printed. This he would .study imtil tired, when he would quietly raise 
 up, place his book on the seat and sit down. There being no desks to hold the books, the 
 style of book was very handy, as there was no danger of the leaves being torn out. 
 
 After the letters were thoroughly learned, the first step in advance was promotion to the 
 class which was engaged in the study of the New Testament, the Bible being then the standard 
 test book for reading. The scholars were thoroughly drilled in the teachings of Bible truths 
 for a long time after learning to read fairly well. Cobb's spelling book was introduced. Not 
 until the scholar could read and spell well "was he allowed to begin to write, and a good deal of 
 pains was >aken to teach the scholar to write well. The pens 'ised wore made of goose quills, 
 the ink also was made of soft maple bark, oak galls or something of that nature. To buy ink 
 wj-s ii wssible at that time, and steel pens had not come into general use. The copy books 
 w • ton made of wrapping paper, foolscap jjapor being very scarce and expensive. A little 
 K 1 .tic was also taught, and this, in the majority of cases, was the total amount of educati(m 
 K she pupils, as a general rule, had the chance to receive, more advanced pupils were 
 
 t i . a little grammar, geogra[ihy and history. We will take, for an example, a geographical 
 1 M( on America, taken from a geography published about the year 1800, and which was the 
 onh jne used at that time. The first question is ; — 
 
 ♦Vhat is Am rica ( — The fourth part of the world, called also the New World. 
 How is North America divided ?— Into Old Mexico, New Mexico, Canada or New France^ 
 New tngland and Florida. 
 
 What is New France I— A large tract of ground about the River St. Lawrence, divided 
 into east and west, called also Mississippi or Louisiana. 
 
 What does the east parts contain ? — Besides Canada, properly so-called, it contains divers 
 nations, the chief of which are the Esquinals, Hurons, Christinals, Algonquins, Etechemins and 
 Iroquois. The considerable towns are Queliec, Tadoussac and Montreal. 
 
 What is New Britain ?— It lies north of New France, and is not cultivated, but the Eng'ish, 
 who possess it, drive a great trade in beaver and orignac's skins. 
 
 No other information about the North American Continent would be found in this book. 
 In a book for advanced scholars there is a short sketch of our country, which is not very 
 complimentary, and is as follows : 
 
 The British settlements of North America, previous to the late revolution, extended from 
 20 to 49 degrees north latitude, stretching upwards of 1,000 miles along the Atlantic ocean. 
 The Provinces of >uva Scotia and Canada, i he most northerly and the least valuable, alone 
 remaui subject to Great Britain. The most considerable is Canada, which supplies great (juan- 
 tities <'f furs, obtained by the Indian trade, also lumber and Kome provisitjns for the West 
 Indifs. Nova Scotia, a cold and barren country, is chieHy valuable for the excellent harbour of 
 Halifax. It carries on a considerable business at cod fishing, and supi)lie8 some timber for 9hij>- 
 buihling. This is all that the young Canadian historian, in the early ye irs of the settlement 
 here, ciiuld leain of what is now known as the Dominion of Canada, and certainly it dues not 
 flatter the country very mucli. But very little about this* country was known to the people of 
 Britain a hundred years ago, and, as there were no printing presses in the country for years 
 afterwards, all the books used wore either printed in Britain or the United States, the latter of 
 whom had no purticuliir love for anything Britlth at tliat time. They would not be likely to 
 write more favorably of Canada than they coidd jiossibly lielj). 
 
 The grammar which was used was called "A Grammatical Institute of the English Lan- 
 guage. ' The grammar proper only cimtained fifty-six pages, and nearly half of that was 
 takon up by notes expiaiaing the meaning of terms in the lesson. But to thu book is ntt.^cued 
 an appendix of sixty pages. From it we learn that there are just two genders— masculine, 
 which comprehends all males, and feminine, comprehending all females. In a fot)t note it is 
 ex|>1aincd that the English language knows no gender in the vegetable world. Tt leaves to 
 
181J> 
 
 Chap. XXXIV. MISCELLANEOUS PAIERS ON EDUCATION IN U. C, 1819. 1 6T 
 
 aching th» 
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 philosophy the sexes of plants, and considers all things without life as haying no sex. Into- 
 how many classes may words be distributed? Nouns, aiticles, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and 
 particles. Parsing, so far as we find here, was not studied. 
 
 I have also secured a book for advanced scholars, which contains arithmetic, book-keeping, 
 state and laws of trade, insurance, mercantile laws, and exchange laws between different 
 countries, and there are certairdy some curious facts to be found within the covers of this volume, 
 contAining as it does, some 530 pages. 
 
 As books were not published in Can.da in the early years of its history, books were "carce, 
 and a high price was charged for them, so we may be sure that, with money as scarce and hard 
 to got as it was in those days, as few books were bought a.s would do the term with careful 
 handling. A book once bought was oxpecte' do duty for each member of the family in turn. 
 ■The Bible itself, which w as the principal reau. ;^ book, was not as easily pr( cured then as now, 
 and, being held in great reverence, the greatest care was taken not to destroy its sacred pages. 
 But if the early scholars had not as many books to store their minds with knowledge, and 
 although very few of them would rank as fcholars if judged oy the standard of today, yet, 
 judged by the struggles they had to endure, and the dithculties they had to comiuer, we must 
 admit that, as a genend thing, they made better use of their opportunities than do the piore 
 favoured children of to-day, when education is free to all. 
 
 Mr. Silco.'-, Teacher.— Mr. Thomas Hnmmond of Aylmer, writes: The firet school ni 
 Aylmer was opened by a Mr. Silcox in an old log building in 1818. This log building was used 
 until 1838, when a grammar schoolhouse took its place. 
 
 Schools in Kingston in 1819. 
 
 Mr. A. S. Shaw, Trustee of the Kingston Board of Education, furnishes the 
 following information in regard to the schools in Kingston in 1819. He says : — 
 
 In 1819 the town was well supplied with pfivate schools. Mr. P. Hildreth advertised in 
 the Kingston Gaxette of April 28th, 1819, his terms, as follows : — 
 
 For each studying reading, writing and arithmetic, $1 per month. Those studying 
 English grammar by chart, which is the new approved p'an, $6 for six weeks, in which time, if 
 they have arrived to years of discretion and good understanding, by their diligent application 
 to the study thereof, he warrants them a good knowledge of it. 
 
 Particular attention will be paid to the pupil's gvanimar. 
 
 Scholars from 5 to 8 o'clock a.m. and from 4.30 to 7 o'clock p.m. 
 
 In May, 1819, another gentleman "Respectfully tenders his services to young ladies and" 
 gentlemen who wish to study the English language grammatically, systematic writing, arithmetic^ 
 or geography, etc. 
 
 , The Public Lirrary at Niagara, 1800-1820. 
 
 Miss Carnochan, of Niagara, read a paper at the Canadian Institute, Toronto,. 
 
 in January, 1894. From the report of the paper in the Toronto Mail of the 6th 
 
 of January, I make the following interesting extracts. In the absence of the 
 
 schools in the vicinity of the old Capital of Upper Canada, such a perennial 
 
 gource and centre of intellectual life as a public library would be must have 
 
 afforded a great ti'eat to the many intelligent inhabitants of the town. The Mail 
 
 report was as follows : — 
 
 The subject of the paper was " Niagara Library, 1800 to 1820," and the facts were compiled 
 from an old brown leather-covered bot)k, found accidentally a few months ago. 
 
 The contents (rf the book proves that in those early days a nK)st valuable public library 
 existed in the town of Niagara, and that, to the bnast made by Niagarians, that here was held 
 the fii-st Parliamont fur Upper Canada, that bore was published the first newspaper for Upper 
 Canada, that it {v.isitjiin?. .ilmnst t!>.',> -.'Ideat cliureh records, must now be added the honour of 
 having had the first [)ublic library and the first agricultural society. The varied information to 
 be gleaned from its pages may be thus classified : 1st, a list of namos of proprietors througli 
 the years from 180<» to 1820 ; 2nd, a list of their ])aymeut8. and those of non-subscribers ; 3rtl, 
 catalogue of library with prices of books ; 4tli money expended, 6th, rules and regulations \, 
 
il 
 
 168 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANaUA. 
 
 1819 
 
 <5th, aoctiunt of anniml meetings, c«ntin;{ent iueetiiii<B, etc.; 7th, list of bo.pks taki^i out and 
 dat<3i of return ; Hth, alphabetical list of subscribers with foparato page for tiin ii. It is int«r- 
 ««ting to follow tiie library during the years of the past, to note the style of reading, the timt 
 thirty being religious, very little fiction, but ('specially rich in history, travel and luaKazines. 
 Thu librarian, secrettiry and tretsurer was Mi Andrew Heron, the uncle of the late Andrew 
 Heron, who died in Toronto. His services in .ne capacities were almost gratuitous, as, during 
 the latter j'cirs he received a percentage on sinii jjaid, but thib was a mere IriHe, and he must 
 have been a great lover of books. The uponing words in tlu? hnn'n uro : — 
 
 " Niagiira Library, rtth June, IHOO. Sensible how mum we are at a loss in this new and 
 remote country for evii'y kind of useful knowledge, and ronvinced that nothing would be of 
 more use to diffuse kn< vledge amongst us and o ir offspring tliuii a library supported by sub- 
 Siription in this towi , we, whose names are hereunto subscribed, hereby associate ourselveg 
 together for that purpose, and promise to pay annually a sum not exceeding 84, to be laid out 
 in books, as agreed upon by a majority of votes at a yearly meeting to be held by us at this 
 town on the 15th of August annually, when everything respecting the library will be regulated 
 by the majority of votes." 
 
 Here follows the list of nanicH, which is intercHting and valu!il)le in itself, 41 in number, 
 afterwanls increased to about 1(K) during these twenty years, but at no riino muubering more 
 than forty-Hve proprietors, though there were many non-subscribers, as th'.iy re called, who 
 merely paid an annual fee. The names of Sylvester Tiffany, the edit<jr of the paper i)ubli8hed 
 in Niagara, and of Rev. Robert Add'son, the first minister of St. Mark's Church, Messiemti 
 Butler, McNab, (Jlaus, Dickson md Muirhead, occur. There were almost a thousand books in 
 the library, costing £500. In 1805 the Agricultural Society brought in fifty volumes, valuable 
 works on agricxdture, and were admitted as members Among the trustees are Andrew Heron, 
 Robert Addison, Martin McLellan, Tlai])h Clench, Alexander McKie, etc. Stringent laws with 
 regard to return of books were enforced by means of tines. There were no meetings during 
 the year 1813, when the town was in the hands of the Americans, and 1814, when it was a heap 
 of ruins, but in 1815 the trustees met as if nt-thing had hap[)ened, and more books were bought. 
 How i)re8ervod is not known, but many books must have been saved, as, from the issue of 
 books can bo seen, many not in the list of books to replace others are found. 
 
 The last record is in 1820, and is in these words : " Whereas the Niagara Library has been 
 greatly wasted, first by being plundered by the army of the United States, md has since been 
 greatly noglectod, very few of the proprietttrs having jiaid their ([uota to support the 8:tme, we, 
 whose names are hereunto subscribed, hereby relinguish our claims on the same to Andrew 
 Heron (who has now o{)ened a library of his own for the use of the public), in consideration of 
 his allowing us the use of his library for three years 'Vis he engages to do to all th' -le who 
 have paid up their yearly contributions to the year 18' ' t^ I'lsive. To those who have not paid 
 to that period he will allow according to their deticier ., i-. uose payments. We consider those 
 propositions as quite fair, and do thereto assent, ' a;/ f rooks, J. Muirhead, John Syming- 
 ton, John Wagstatf, John Powell, John McEwen, J r j'-r, George Young, John Grier." The 
 reison of this transfer was doubtless, because a large i> ',( Uioe was owing to Mr. Heron. So far 
 we know nothing more of these books. By a strange coincidence, however, a book has been 
 seen, now in Ancaster, which was saved from the fire; and is remembered to have been charred, 
 though now these jwgos have been t.m away. It is No. 51 ii' the catalogue, »nd it is hoped 
 -others m%y yet be heard from. Mr. Hercn was also the secretary and treiisurer of St. Andrew's 
 Church, Niagara, and the old record book, dating from 1794, when the tir-t church was built, 
 is, in its early pages, all in his peculiar, large handwriting. The i)aper closed with a reference 
 to the library <jf Rev. Robert Addison, now in possession of St. Mark's Church, contiiining 
 many old ami rare folio editions from Leydcn, (Jeneva, Rotterdam, Oxford, etc., numbering also 
 about one thousand volumes. St. Andrew's Church has a congregational library dating from 
 1833, also numbering about one thousand volumes, and the ]iiesent Mechanics' Institute Library 
 numbers over three thousand volumes. It may be hoped that the libraries of the i)resent day 
 may be favoured with secretaries, treasurers and librarians as faithful and painstaking as the 
 secretary, treasurer and librarian of the Niagara Libraiy, 1800. 
 
 The School-House at Thorold in 1820. 
 
 II 
 
 Mr. D. E. Miller, Secretary of the School Board at Thotold, writes: — 
 
 The tirsl achoi.'lhuusu in what is now the Town of Thorold was built by Mr. Henry C. Bali 
 and others m 1820, at the extreme east of the limits of the town, on the St. Dnvid's road, lead- 
 ing towards Homer. The first teacher was Mr. Rattray. The second school was built more to 
 the west of the present town, on the Keefer estate, wher« Mr. Myers taught. After this a 
 -school was built about the centre of the town, on the Orenville property. 
 
1819 
 
 Chap. XXXV. KDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINOS OF U. C LEOISLATURE. 1820. 169 
 
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 CHAPTER XXXV. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PKOOEEDINGS OP THE UPPER CAN 
 
 rURE TN 1820. 
 
 T>EGISLA- 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor 8ir Peregrine ait! 'nd, opened the ? oh session <>£ 
 the Seventh Parliament of Upper Canada, c i tlie twenty-Hrst day of February, 
 1820, with a Spf'och from the Throne, in which l\e thus referred to education :- 
 
 You will direct your lUtemi ii to such Iuas as are about to expire. Among these is the Act 
 fur the establishment of schools. Whilo you bear in mind that justice takes place of everli other 
 consideration, you will not forget that it is repugnant to the ih-crees of Ivovideni' *' it civil 
 liln-rty shi lid long maintsiin its ground among any peoplo disquaiitied by ignorance md licen- 
 tiousnoss from its enjoyment. Your disposition, therefore, to pr. ide tor this valuable object 
 will, 1 am persuaded, alu lyn keep pace with your moans on the piosent scale, and under the 
 present regulations of the Bdl. It is neither prudent nor pethaiMi desirable to proceed, but 
 measures may |.i ibly ho adopted, to produce the same good at a mot^ mf»der»te expense. 
 
 Provision for religious instruction and the diffusion of Educat •■.;coiiiing daily more 
 
 important in this Province. 
 
 EDU<'ATIONAt PrOiKEDINOS OF THE HoUSE OF As.SEMi 
 
 1820. 
 
 Slst Ffhntary, lS20.-~Mv. I'hilip VanKoughnet gives notice that he will, on Thursday next, 
 move for eave to bring in a Bill to continue, amend, and repeal part of an Act passed in the 
 hi y-sixt vuar of His Majesty's reipn, (1816), intituled, " An Act granting to His Majesty a sum 
 of iuon V to be applied to tlit He of Common Stlujols throughoi t this Province, and to provide 
 for the Regulation of the said iumon Schools. 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell gives lU'tice that he will, on Friday next, move for leave to bring in a 
 V'xW to increase the representation of the people in this Province and e University, in the Com- 
 mon) House of Assembly. 
 
 '2Srd Febnumj, 1820.— The Address to His Excellency, in answer to his Speech from the> 
 Throne, was agreed to. That part of it relating to educadon was ;is follows :— 
 
 We shall direct our attention to such hiws as are about to expire, and give to the revision of 
 the Common School Act that due consideration which its importance domands. 
 
 We are aware that ignorance and licentiouness are at variance with the true principles of 
 civil polity and rational freedom, and, in our deliberations on this important subject, it shall be 
 our study to keep in view the improvement of the moral and religious habits of the rising 
 generation. 
 
 24th Fehmary, JS20.~A Message was this day received from His Excellency the Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor, and was read by Mr. Speaker as follows : — 
 
 P. Maitlanu : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits a Schedule pn pared by the Inspector General show- 
 ing the various appropriations of sums amounting to £-'17, 85:^ 9 s. 1 d., for payment of which no 
 specific sum is designated, together with a statement from » 'a same Officer of the prob ible means 
 to meet this amount of appropriations. " It appears t! of the sum appropriated for Common 
 Schools, a large amount paid to District Treasurers 1 .uains unemployd, and cannot now be 
 legally expended." Yet the Law provides no remedy, but subject to the Lieutenant-Governor 
 to continued demands for fii't her advances to the very persons holding the same unaccounted 
 for. 
 
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 24th February, 1820. 
 
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 by Mr. Peter Robinson, moves for leave to bring in a Bill to increase the representation of the 
 Commons of thi.s Province [including a University,] in Parliament, which was granted, and the 
 Bill was read a first time. Mr. Burwell, soconded hy Mr. Robinson, moves that the said re- 
 presentation Bill be read a second time on Monday next which was ordered. 
 
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 SSth February. i«20.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Commons and University 
 Representation Bill was read a second time. 
 
 Mr. Mahlon Burwell. seconded by Mr. Peter Robinson, moves that the House do now go 
 into Conmiittee on the Commons and University Representation Bill, which was carried, and 
 Mr. Nelles took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Nelles reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again 
 to-morrow. 
 
 29th Febi-uary, 1820.— Agree&hly to thp Order of the Day, the House went into Committee 
 on the Commons and University Representation Bill, Mr. Nelles in the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Nelles reported the Bill as amended. On the question 
 fcr receiving the Report the House divided, and the yeas and nays were taken down m 
 follows : — 
 
 Yeas.— Messieurs Nelles, Cameron, Jones, McDonell, Nichol, Robinson, Fraeer, Burwell, 
 Burnham, Durand, Swayze and Cotter.— 12. 
 
 Nays. -Messieurs Secord, McMartin, VauKoughnet, Howard and Casey.— 5. So it was 
 carried, in the affirmative by a majority of seven, and the Report was received. 
 
 Mr. Burwell moves, seconded by Mr. Fraser, that the Commons and University Represen- 
 tation Bill be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow, which was ordered. 
 
 Id \farcJi, 1820. —Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the aforesaid Representation Bill 
 was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, moves, that after the word '; Province," 
 in the fourth clause, the words " and ia conformity to the Rules and Statutes of similar institu- 
 tions in (ireat Britain " be inserrad. 
 
 In amendment, Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. James Durand, moves that so 
 much of the Bill as provides for the representation of a University in the House of Assembly be 
 expunged. 
 
 Upon which the House divided, and the Yeas and Nays were taken down as follows :— 
 
 Ykas.— Messieurs Secord. McMartin, VanKoughnet, Durand, Howard, and Casey.— 6. 
 
 Nays.— Messieu-s Nelles, McDonell, Cotter, Nichol, Robinson, Jones, Burwell, Cameron, 
 Swayze and Burnham. — 10. 
 
 So it was carried in the negative by a majority of four. 
 
 The origin 1 question was then put and carried. 
 
 Mr. Mah'on Burwell. seconded by Mr. Cameron, moves that the Commons and University 
 Representation Bill do now {Mtss, which was carried, and the Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Peter Robins ^n, seconded by Mr. Cameron, moves that Messieurs Burwell and Nelle» 
 be a Committed to carry the said Bill to the Honourable the Legislative Council, and request 
 their concuirence thereto, which was carried. 
 
 Mr. Burwell, from the Committee to carry up to the Honourable the [.egiolative Council 
 the Representatiim in Parliament Bill, and to request their concurrence thereto, reported that 
 the Committee had done so. 
 
 Agreeably to notice, Mr. VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Durand, moves for leave to bring 
 in a Bill to repeal part of, and amend, .nnd to continue, an Act passed in the tifty-sixth year of 
 His Majesty's Reigu, (1816) intituled, ' An Act for ;;ranting to His Majesty a sum of money to 
 be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this Province, and to provide for the 
 Regulation of the said Common Schools.' Which was granted and the Bill read a first time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. James Durand, moves that the Common 
 School Bill bo read a second time on to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 2nd March, i^;?0.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Common School Bill was read 
 the Boc<md time. 
 
 Mr Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr. Peter Howard, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole, to take into consideration the Common School 
 Bill. Which was carried, and Mr. ZaccheuH Burnham took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House havinc resumed, Mr. Burnham reported progress, and obtained leave to sit at 
 again to-morrow. 
 
 Sril March, 1820.— TUbe House went again into Committee on the Common School Bill. 
 Burnham in the chair. 
 
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 Chap. XXXV. EDUCATIOXAL PHOCKEHINGS of U. C. LS-GISLATUKE, 1820. 171 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Burnham reported the Bill as amended. Ordered tha 
 the Report be received. 
 
 Mr. Philip VanKoughnet, seconded by Mr, Jonas Jones, moves that the Common School 
 Bill be engrossed and read a third time on to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. W. W, Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the Honourable the Legis- 
 lative Council a Message which he delivered and withdrew, when the Speaker read the same as 
 follows : — 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Honourable the Legislative Council retjuest a Conference with the Commons' House 
 of Assembly on the subject matter of the Representation in Parliament Bill, and have appointed 
 a Committee of two of its members, who will be ready to meet a Committee of the Commons' 
 House of Assembly for that purpose in the Legislative Council Chamber at one o'clock this day. 
 
 Legislative Council Chamber, 
 
 3rd of March, 1820. 
 
 Wm. Dummer Powell, 
 Speaker. 
 
 Mr. McMartin, seconded by Mr. VanKoughnet, moves that MiMsieurs Robinson, Jones, Bur- 
 well and Nelles, be a Committee to confer with a Committee of the Legislative Council on the 
 subject matter of the Commons and University Representation n» Parliament Bill at one o'clock 
 this day, which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Robinson of the Committee, to confer with a Committee of the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council on the Representation in Parliament Bill, reported that that ommittee had proposed an 
 amendment to the said Bill, to which your Committee have agreed, and recommend the adoption 
 thereof to Your Honourable House. On motion of Mr. Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. Peter 
 Robinson, the amendment was concurred in, and Messieurs Jones and Nelles be a Committee to 
 acquaint the Honourable the Legislative Council of such concurrence, which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the Honourable the Legis- 
 lative Council the Representation in Parliament B-ll sent up from this House, which they had 
 passed with some amendments, which they recommended to the adoption of this House. 
 
 The Messenger withdrew, and the amendments were considered and adopted. 
 
 Mr. Robinson, seconded by Mr. Nichol, moves that Messieurs Burwell and McMartin be a 
 Committee to acquaint the Honourable the Legislative Council that this House have concurred 
 in the amendments made by them to the Representation in Parliament Bill, which was ordered. 
 
 4f.h March, 1820. —Mr. Robinson, seconded by Mr. Feter Howard, moves that the Common 
 School Bill do now pass, and that it be intituled, " An Act to amend and continue, under certHin 
 modifications, an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign, (1816), intituled, " An 
 Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money to be applied to the use of Common Schools 
 throughout this Province, and to provide for the Regulat'on of the eaid Common Schools." 
 
 Upon which the House divided, and the Yeas and Nays were taken down as follows : — 
 
 Yeas.— Messieurs McDonell, Secord, McMartin, Cameron, VanKoughnet, Robinson Nt-llis, 
 Howard, Burnham, Jones, Fraser, Burwell, Cotter and Casey.— 14. 
 
 Nays. — Messieurs Nichol and Durand— 2. 
 
 It was carried in the affirmative by a majority of twelve, and the Bill passed, and was signed 
 by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Peter Robinson, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jones, moves that Messieurs Howard and 
 Burnham bu a Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative Council the Common 
 gchool Bill and to re(iuest their concurrence thereto. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Howard, first named of the Counnittee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council, the Common School Bill, and requast their concurrence thereto, reported that the 
 Coni'iittee had done so. 
 
 Gth March, ISSO.— Mr. W. W. Baldwin, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the 
 Honourable the Lenislative Council the Bill, intituled : " An Act to amend and continue under 
 certain iiKidifiejitioiis .i!-. Act, pjissivl •;, th« fifty-sisth yesr of Bis Majesty's reign. (1818), 
 intituled : * An Act for granting to His Majesty a sum of money to be applied to the use of 
 Common Schools throughout this Province, and to provide for the Regulation of the said 
 Common Schools," which they had passed without amendment. 
 
 1^ 
 
7th March 1830 -By coxmumd of His Excellency the Lieutenaiit-Gc.venior Black Rod 
 ■ummmed the attendance of the Members of the House of Assembly m the Legislative Council 
 SZber wtn?'S^^^^^^^^ -.me, the Lieutenant Governor assented to the following, 
 
 among other Bills, viz. : i • u «* 
 
 " An Act to amend, and continue, under certain modifications, an Act parsed m the fafty- 
 Bixth vearof His Majesty's reign (181.6), intituled, 'An Act granting to His Majesty a sura 
 of Money, to be applie-l to the^ use .,f Common Schools throughout this Province, and to 
 provide for the Regulation of the said Common Schools; also 
 
 "An Act to provide for increasing the Representation of the Commons (and of an Uni- 
 versity), in th s Province in the House of Assembly." 
 
 After whicJi His Excellency closed the Session of the Legislature with a speech from tho 
 Throne, in wh ch he .hus referred to the amended law relating to Common fcchools : 
 
 " l' was principally induced to call you together that you might consider what provision you 
 could make for the continuance of the Common Schools, established by an Act which would 
 soon have expired. * * * The Bill which you have enacted * * * is, I doubt not, the 
 result of your best deliberations. ■* * ♦ 
 
 Note.— Sir Peregrine Maitland referred also to the "Representation in 
 Parliatiient Bill," as " putting on a more eaual footing the exercise of the most 
 important privilege of a free people," but he said nothing about the University 
 Representation clause of it. There being no record of the proceedings of the 
 Legislative Oonncil preserved, I do not know what its action was in passing these 
 Acts. Th- following are copies of the " Common School Amendmeat Act," and the 
 section of the " Representation Act " relating to the University as passed : 
 
 L GEORGE IV., CHAPTER VII. 
 
 An Act to amend continue, undkk certain modifications, an Act passed in the fifty- 
 sixth YBAR OF His Majesty's reign (1816) intituikd, "An Act granting to His 
 Majesty a sum of Money, to be applied to the use of Common Schools throvgh- 
 OUT this Province, and to provide for the Regulation of the said Common Schools." 
 
 Sir Peregriw. Maitland, Lieutenant-Qovermr. 
 
 Passed 7th March, 1820 
 
 Most Gracious Sovereign. 
 
 Whereas it is expedient, for the encouragement of education, to c.>ntinue, 
 under ce tain modifications, an Act passed in the fifty- ixth year of His Majesty s 
 reign, intituled, "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum ot Money, to be appliea 
 t«i the use of Common Schools throughout this Province. Be it enactecl . y the 
 King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- 
 lative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canm a, constituted and 
 assembled by virtue of and under the authority o. an Act passed in the i arliameiit 
 of Great Britain, intituled, " An Act to repeal certmn parts of an Act passed ni 
 the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reijiii, intituled, 'An Act for making more 
 effectual provision for the Govenunent of the Province of Quebec in Worth 
 America and to mike further provision for the Government of the said 1 rovince, 
 and by the authority of the same that the said Act of the fifty-sixth year <>t His 
 Majesty's reign, except the first, tho tenth, twelfth, and so much of the thirteenth 
 clause as fixes the salary to be ^mid to any Common School to twenty-hve pouiiUs, 
 which is hereby repealed, be, and the same is hereby continued. 
 
 2 And be it further enacted by tho authority aforesaid that for the establish- £2,500 to be 
 nientof Common Schools in each and overj- District of this Province, f>'«re shall p«.dann„aUy 
 be annually paid, during tl... continuance of this Ait, the sum of two thousand bve ^ »J^' « ^JJ^ 
 
 Preamble. 
 Sec. 4 George 
 
 IV., 8688. 2, 
 
 ch. 8, 4 George 
 IV., ch. 36, 2 
 Vic, ch. 61. 
 
 6t(th Qeorfte 
 IIL, ch. 36, 
 continued 
 with certain 
 exceptions. 
 
1820 
 
 Chap. XXKVI. EDUCATIONAL PnOCEEDINOS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1820. 173 
 
 
 I 
 
 hundred pounds, in m»nner her.'inafter mentioned, out of any moneys which ar« 
 
 now raised or levied, or which here*ifter may be raised or levied by authority of 
 
 Parliament to and for the use of this Province ; of which said sum of two 
 
 thousanc uve hundred pounds there shall bo paid annually to the Home District Distribution. 
 
 two hundred and fifty pounds ; to the LMstrict of Newcastle, two hundred and fifty 
 
 pounds ; to the Midland Dir.rict, two hundred and fifty pounds ; to the Johnstown 
 
 District, two hundred and fifty pounds ; to the Fastem District, two hundred and 
 
 fifty pounds ; to the District of London, two hundred and fifty pounds ; to the 
 
 District of Gore, two hundred and fifty pounds; to the Niagara District, two Sec. 4 Georpe 
 
 hundred and fifty pounds ; to the Western District, two hundred and fifty ponn.ls ; IV., ch. 36. 
 
 to the District of Ottawa, two hundred and fifty pounda. 
 
 8. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the n.oneys SuniB to be 
 granted by this Act shall be equally portioned to the Teacliers of the several Com- equally divid- 
 mon Schools in each and every District of this Province, to be paid to the Teachers ^ Bmong 
 yearly or half-yearly, as may be directed by the said Trustees. Provided, never- ^^^c''^"'- 
 theless, that nothing herein contained sliall extend, or be construed or extend, to ^''oviso. 
 authorize the payment of a greater sum than twelve pourds ten shillings to the 
 several Teachers of the said Schools. 
 
 4. And be it furtlier enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may Board of 
 be lawful for the Bon-d of Education, in each and every District, to nr-minate and TruHtees' 
 appoint a Clerk to the said Board, and direct the Treasurer of the District to pay powers in 
 him annually out of the moneys in his hands for the purposes of this Act a sum ^^^ District, 
 not exceeding five pounds. ' 
 
 And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that anything in the 
 3t of the filty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign notwithstanding, it shall not 
 
 No warrant to 
 isBue to any 
 District Trea- 
 surer till the 
 sums hereto- 
 fare paid have 
 been account- 
 ed for. 
 
 Disposition of 
 balances in 
 the hands of 
 District 
 Treasurers, 
 Compensa- 
 tiona to the 
 Treasurer, 
 
 6, 
 
 said Act . „ „ „ ,,„„ 
 
 be lawful for the Governor. Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the 
 Government, to issue any further warrant on the Receiver General, under the pro- 
 visions of the said Act, to any Dihtrict Treasurer until a faithful account shall 
 be rendered, authenticated by proper vouchers, and attested by the oatr. of the 
 respective Treasurers, of the expenditure of the sums already alvanced, or which 
 may hereafter be advanced, on account, to their respective Districts. 
 
 P. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that when any 
 balance shall remam in the hands of the Treasurer r^ any District beyond the 
 payment of the lawful requisitions, orders or cerJificates, of the Trustees, 
 respectively, after the first day of July next, it shall and may be lawful for the 
 said Treasurer to retain so much thereof as is directed to be paid by this Act in 
 any one year t > the District of which he is Treasurer, to carry into eflfect the pro- 
 visions of thiS Act, and the balance thereof pay over to His Majesty'? Receiver- 
 General, for the public uses ot this Province, on or before the said first day of 
 July. 
 
 7. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the money How the 
 hereby granted to His Majesty sliall be paid by the Receiver-General in discharge moneys here- 
 of such warrant or warrants as shall, for the purpose herein set forth, be issued by by granted 
 the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or persons administering the Government of**"* *° ^* P*'** 
 this Province, and shall be accounted for by the Receiver-General of this pp^ *nd aooouated 
 vince to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners 
 
 of His Majesty's Tiaasury, for the time being, in such manner and form as His 
 Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall be graciously pleased to direct. 
 
 8. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that this Act shall Continuance 
 be, and is hereby declared to be, in force for and during the term of tour years of this Act. 
 and from thence to the end of the next ensuing Session of Parliament, and no 
 
 longer. 
 
 Note.— This Section was repealed by 4th George iv., chapter viii. This Act 
 
 itsftlf and thft othei siiKsennfint, Dnminnn Snlinnl Ar«fo V.o»t/^ Ke ^, i i • 
 
 '"' i ~ — "'-I "'--^' «^cu lepcujutisince cne 
 
 Union of the Canada^ by the 4th and 5th Victoria, chanter xviii. 
 
 a .HI 
 
 
174 
 
 DOCUMEXTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1820 
 
 University Representation in the Upper Canada Legislature, 1820. 
 
 The fourth s ^ion of the "Act to Provide for Increasing the Representation 
 of the Commons of this Province in the House of Assembly," passed in the fifth 
 session of the Seventh Parliament of Upper Canada, 7th March. 1820, 60th 
 George III., Chapter 2,* provides as folIo>ys:- 
 
 IV And be it furthor enacted by the authority aforesaid, that yherever an 
 University shall be organized and in ..peration as a seminary in this Prc.vmce, 
 STn conformity to the rules and statutes of similar uistitutions in Great Britain, 
 Tt shall ami may be lawful for the Go^'ernor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person 
 Ldminstering the Government ..f this Province, for the time being to declare by 
 proclaination the tract of land appendant to such University, and whereupon the 
 Lme is situated, to be a Town or Township, by such name as to him may see « 
 meet and that such Town or Township so constituted shall be represented by one 
 Member Provided always, nevertheless, that no person shall be permitted to 
 vote at any such election for a member to represent the said University m Parlia- 
 ment whoi besides the qualitications now by law required, shall not also be entitled 
 to vote in the Convocation of said University. 
 
 Whenever ' an 
 University 
 chall be estab- 
 lished in this 
 Province it 
 shall be repre- 
 sented by one 
 member. 
 
 By whom 
 fiuoh member 
 n.ay be 
 elected . 
 
 m 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVI. 
 
 THE CENTRAL (NATIONAL) SCHOOL OF YORK, 1820 
 
 The Central School was established at York in 1820. It was conduct'^d 
 on the educational principles o<= the Rev. Dr. Bell— known as the Madras, or 
 monitorial, system of teaching— a counterpart at York of the Lancaster system 
 then in great favour at Kingston, and in Lower Canada.f 
 
 From the Rev. Dr. Scadding's Toronto oj Old, it appears that from the south- 
 east corner of this six-acre square, " about half an acre had been abstracted, as 
 it were, and enclosed." On this half acre a Common school house had been 
 erected by subscription in'lSlB, as stated by Mr. Jesse Ketchum, (In his evidence on 
 the Appleton case, in 1828). Here Mr. Thomas Appleton taught until his services 
 were dispensed with in 1820, and the school house, by direction of Lieutenant- 
 
 •Oolleotii 
 nances ol^iue |^;„ „_i.„_ rTnner Canada, iwai. in inis coiiecmiii mm .^ji-bwui,'- m nmmiou »o mc uuvn 
 
 Barnster-at-Law fhe?' Statutes of Up" e Canada," U> the time of the Union of 1840. RevJHed and Pub- 
 f^rfl/Jinthoritv 18 WthUatatutVi. intituled: " Ist GeorRe IV.]' The note appended t,, it in this 
 hshed by ^"''^'';?74;,'^" Xi by the Act of Union," so that, in point of fact, the above fourth section 
 nS rme So\>peraron. for th^ Provincial University was not founded until 1842. nor m operation untd 
 
 1843 
 
 "+\fr SorsBB in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Assembly on the Appleton case, in 
 1828!pointed out what he considered as the difference between the Bell and Lancaster systems, as 
 
 *°"°g«««wn. -What is the Koueral system of education pursued by you ? 
 
 ■r>„,. -r^.f v^V,'a s-st.".r.\. which I con»id«r »« prior in invention to Mr. Lancaster's. 
 
 OumTi^m -"what is the'difference between these two systeirs ? 
 
 ^,ii«>cr-The prinoip*! difference is that Dr. Bell's sys^/jm is in accordance with the established 
 Pi.„r.K ^nri in mv sohoil I U4e the Church Catechism, and a Co'lect at mornmfr and evening prayer. But 
 the ohtld^en are /ot taught th. Church O.techism whan their parents object to .t. 
 
 
KWW"*' •;»•- 
 
 1820 
 
 <3hap. XXX VI. THE CENTRAL (NATIONAL) SCHOOL OF YORK, 1820. 
 
 175 
 
 Governor Maitland, was transferred to special Trustees, and was afterwards 
 known, (as Dr. Scadding states,) as the " Central School," and was what would 
 then (1873), he stated : 
 
 Be called a Common School, conducted on the " Bell and Lancaster " principle. Large 
 numbera fiequeuted it. Mr. Joseph Sprang, the Master of the school, had enjoyed the 
 superior advantage of a regular ti-aininsj in England as an instructor of the young.* . . . 
 {Pages 164, 165.) Mr. Spragg's predecestor at tlie Central School was Mr. Thomas Applet.on. 
 . . . and Mr. Appletou's assistant, for a time, was Mr. John Fenton, who acted as parish 
 clerk in St. James' Church. He was a proficient in popular science, a ready talker and lectuier. 
 
 In Market lane, south of King street, now known as Colborne street, was in olden time, the 
 Masonic Hall, a wooden building of two storeys, surmounted by a cupola— the first structure in 
 York that ever enjoyed such a distinction. . . . The lower part of this Hall was, for a con- 
 aiderable time, used as a (Common) School, (Page 109, 145, etc.) 
 
 This School was kept in 1816, by the Rev. Alexander Stewart ; in 1820, by- 
 Mr. Thomas Appleton ; and subsequently (as a private School), by Mr., after- 
 wards the Rev. Dr. Thomas, Caldicott, for some years Minister of the Bond Street 
 Baptist Church, Toronto. 
 
 The School in Market lane, or Colborne street, was conducted under the 
 Common School Act of 1816, and as a Common School of the Township of York. 
 In 1816, a new Common School House was erected by subscription, or shares, on 
 the south-east corner of the " College Square," and Trusteea were elected under 
 that Act for its management. 
 
 In 1820, when the Legislative grant of $24,000 a year in aid of Common 
 Schools was reduced to $10,000 a year, the District Board of Education dis- 
 continued this, (and other Schools in the Province,) without notifying the then 
 teacher, Mr. Thomas Applt 'on. He applied to the Trustees for redress and they 
 in turn, presented his case to the Lieutenant-Governor in the following statement : 
 
 May it please Youk Excellency, 
 
 We, the owners of shares in the Common School House of York, in a school meeting 
 assembled, (notice being given to all) respectfully beg leave to state : That early last season we 
 were informed that your Excellency had sent to England for a school-master to teach in the Bell 
 and Lancaster manner ; and that it was desired, that the Common School House should be Imd 
 for that use, accordingly engagements for short periods were made with the then Teacher, Mr. 
 Thomas Appleton, for the express purpose ; but as no teacher had arrived at the time mention- 
 ed, and as we had heard nothing more respecting him, we sujiposed that sc me difliculty hud 
 frustrated Your Excellency's intentions. 
 
 Therefore, the engagement with Mr. Appleton, th^ present Teacher was for six months ; the 
 expectation of both parties being, tliat if the Teacher satisfied his employers, he should be con- 
 tinued in his situation there. 
 
 His expectations have been increased and strengthened by the great increase of scholars, 
 and the approval of all, inducing him to engage an Assistant, thinking, as no notice had been 
 given him, that if any other Teacher was expected or wanted, he would be continued as Master. 
 
 We, therefore, doubt not but that Your Excellency will agree with us, that the present 
 Teacher's claims are too reasonable and just to be disappointed ; still desirous ot meeting 
 your Excellency's wishes, we feel anxious to demonstrate our gratitude to Your Excellency for 
 your parental care and goodness in any way we can, and .also take this opportunity of expressing 
 our tlunkfulness for Yt»ur Excellency's very liberal subscription and support toward building the 
 school house. By trder of the meeting, 
 
 En Playter, 
 
 Chairman. 
 York, 26th August, 1820, 
 
 m 
 
 \ , 
 
 si 
 
 «ystein 
 
 •In hia evidence on the Appleton case in 1828,| Mr. Sprajcg stated that he had " acquired the Bell's 
 Bin at the Central National^School in London, before coming to this Province." 
 
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 176 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1820 
 
 I I 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor replied, through Mr. George Hillier, his Secretary, 
 in the following indefinite terms :- ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ 
 
 Gentlbmem 
 
 I have the honor to acquaint you, that your application of the 28th instant, on the lubject 
 of the Common School of the Townahip of York, haa been received and submitted to the Lieuten- 
 ant-Governor . 
 
 His Excellency has desired me to acquaint you, that, as he is not aware of any communica- 
 tion having been made to you on the subject matter of your petition, he sees no occasion for 
 any reference to it. G Hiluer. 
 
 To the Trusteei of the Common School of the Toionship of York : 
 
 In the meantime, and at the instance of the Rev. Dr. Strachan. the Lieuten- 
 ant-Governor had sent to England for a Teacher, familiar with the then noted 
 system of the Rev. Dr. Bell, known as the Madras, or monitorial, system of teach- 
 ing. Mr. Joseph Spragg was the person selected, and he arrived in Canada about 
 the middle of the year 1820. The Rev. Dr. Strachan applied to the Trustees of the 
 York Common School for the use of their School building, which had been erected 
 in 1818 on the " Colltge Square " The request was refused. However, as the 
 Common School taught by Mr. Appleton had been discontini-ed by the District 
 Board of Education on account, as was alleged, of the decrease of the Legislative 
 grant, the Lieutenant-Governor directed Mr. Spragg to occupy the unused School 
 House, and thence forward it was known as the " Central School," so named 
 after the parent school in London, at whic*i Mr. Spragg was trained. 
 
 The case of Mr. Thomas Appleton, the discarded Common School Teacher 
 was not, however, permitted to pass out of public notice. Year after year he, and 
 those who regarded his case with sympathy, sought redress from the Lieutenant- 
 Governor and the Provincial Board of Education, but without success. At length 
 the House of Assembly took up the case warmly in 1828— -eight years after its 
 occurrence — and it thus became a cattle celebre, which evoked a great deal of 
 feeling, as well as a politico-religious discussion, which was acrimonious and bitter. 
 Although the originating cause was in itself, a minor one, as to its essence, yet, 
 with other causes, it developed into a prolonged struggle against the alleged 
 attempt to introduce a quasi state church system into Upper Canada. For this 
 reason, and from the position and character of the Members of the House of 
 Assembly who espoused Appleton's cause, the particulars of the case became interest- 
 ing. They will be found in detail in the Legislative proceedings of 1828. They 
 throw a vivid side light on the educational state, and official proceedings, of the 
 day. They also illustrate the efforts then made to introduce, by means of a novel 
 system of teaching, (which was very popular in England at the time), the 
 " National," or Church of England, system of schools into Upper Canada. No 
 dnnbt this effort, as well aa the successful one, of the Rev. Dr. Strachan, in pro- 
 curing a Church of England Charter for King's College in 1827, intensified the 
 feeling in the Appleton case, and excited the hostility— it may be unduly— of the 
 
1820 
 
 Chap. XXXVI. THE CENTRAL (NATIONAL) SCHOOL OF YORE, 1880. 
 
 177 
 
 * Secretary, 
 
 Bt, 1820. 
 
 )n the Bubject 
 the Lieuten- 
 
 y communica- 
 > occasion for 
 
 HlLUEB. 
 
 the Lieuten- 
 then noted 
 5111 of teach- 
 anada about 
 ustees of the 
 been erected 
 ever, as the 
 the District 
 3 Legislative 
 lused School 
 I," so named 
 
 lool Teacher 
 year he, and 
 1 Lieutenant- 
 8. At length 
 ears after its 
 jreat deal of 
 us and bitter, 
 essence, yet, 
 the alleged 
 da. For this 
 the House of 
 jame interest- 
 1828. They 
 sdings, of the 
 ms of a novel 
 he time), the 
 Canada. No 
 chan, in pro- 
 itensified the 
 idnly — of the 
 
 popular branch of the Legislature against the Administration of the day, and parti- 
 cularly against the Provincial Board of Education. At all events the compara- 
 tively simple, yet just cause of Teacher Appletcn, (which could iiave been so easily 
 and fairly settled at the time,) was suffered tc grow into the nature of a grievance,, 
 as it wa that of a hardship. The consequence was the growth of much acrimony 
 of feeling, which developed into a state of chronic warfare against, practically, an 
 intrenched camp, during which, however, the Provincial Board of Education as 
 an outpost was swept away, while useful legislation was retarded in the well- 
 intentioned but vain efforts, at the time, to right alleged wrongs, and to main- 
 tain equal rights in educational matters as between all classes of His Majesty's 
 subjects, and the various religious bodies in this Province. 
 
 FiKST Report of the Central School at York, 1820-21. 
 The title of this Report, as published at the time, reads thus : " First Annual 
 Report of the Upper Canada Central School on the British National System of 
 Education. Patron : His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Major General 
 Sir Peregrine Maitland, K. C. B. ; Trustees: The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Joseph Wells; John Beverly Robinson, Esquire, Attorney General ; Thomas 
 Ridout, Esquire, Surveyor General. Mr. Joseph Spragg, Master and Sec- 
 retary." 
 
 Eeport. — The Central School at York, Upper Canada, was opened in the autumn of 1820 
 with a very small number of scholars. In the cause of three months the number increased to 
 sixty-three, affording an opportunity of instructing according to the system of the Schools of the 
 British National Society. 
 
 Durhig the first year one hundred and fifty-eight children, ninety-five boys and sixty-three 
 girls, have been instructed in the school, ninety-one of whom had never before received any 
 educatiun and others but very little. 
 
 With the opportunity that has been afforded from the present population, it is hoped much 
 good has alrea y been done ; and the great improvement of those scholars in particular, whose 
 attendance has been ri'gular, is most manifest. 
 
 The numbtr of children that have received instruction since the commencement strengthena 
 the contidenoe entertained of the general benefit that will hereafter be felt from this institu- 
 tion. 
 
 The school is under the particular patronage of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor 
 who has rep.a'fdly visited it, with Lady Sarah Maitland, and their satisfaction at the pro- 
 gress of the children. Las been often warmly expressed. 
 
 Notwithstanding the progress that has been made, and the great advantages with which this 
 system of eductt'on has been pursued ii Great Britain and various other t^uarters of the globe, 
 by which the solid improvement of a large portion of the rising generation is constantly effected); 
 yet the warm co-npera'ion of those who have the general good at heart, will be always most 
 reffuisite to promote the great design, therefore the cordial assistance of such is earnestly called 
 for, and it is Jiojied this will not be withheld. 
 
 To train up, not only those who are destined for the higher departments of life, but also 
 the rising generntion in general, to proper and regulir habits of application and industry com- 
 bined with sound moral and religious notions, must be surely desirable, as being highly cal- 
 culated bitih for the individual and general good. 
 
 If as it has been said, knowledge is power, it necessarily becomes a duty, in an age when 
 the thirst for improvement is continually increasing among all ranks, to implant with useful 
 kiiowlctjgc, nii^Ci principlis and notions in the rising generations, such as will not only iit them 
 for the present life but (what is of infinitely greater importance) will prepare them for that 
 which is to come ; thereby providing the best defence against the insiduous arts of the ill-dis- 
 posed. 
 
 12 (D.E.) 
 
 111 
 
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4j<WMykya«w«<ii."<Witf<«i»<Miti^ 
 
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 178 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORT OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 ts«o 
 
 " In uncultivated Jands noxious weedB ipring up. . . . If the generous seeds of religion 
 and virtue be not refully .own in the tender minds of children, and ,f those "eed. be not 
 cultivated by good education, there will certainly sprnig up briars and ^,h«rn» of which parent. 
 wUl noronly feel the inconvenience, but everyb<.dy else that come, near tht.m. Tillktson. 
 
 Tuition bv the scholars themselves, who are rendered capable thereof, under the constant 
 Buperintendence of the Master, has proved to be the mo.t etfectual and expeditious method of 
 communicating sound education ; fcy which thowj who teach and those who are taught, are 
 equally improved and benefited. 
 
 Enaland and other polished nations of the globe, being convinced by experience, of thi. 
 truth schools, upon this system, on aa extensive scale, having been universally ostabhihed ; and 
 it is cumouted, that, in England, fully 2.50.000 children are now receiving education under this 
 system Of these, •' not less than 60.000 are annually sent forth to mix in the mass of society, 
 <irrvin2 into it that valuable improvement in religious and moral knt, ledge, in decent and 
 ord/rly habits and in attachment to the institutions of their country, which all so happily imbibe 
 who are tiught in the schools formed on this system." 
 
 It must be obvious lo the enlightened mind, that, in fonning a school on this system, how- 
 ever excellent the system may be, much is necessary to be done, particul irly in its commence- 
 ment to (lualify teachers and assistants for the different classes and thoroughly to establish the 
 rules and method of this instruction ; and where the superior advantages of the system are not 
 cenerally known, the earnest exertions of friends to the institution are most essential, m order 
 to extend its benetita by their recommendations in iti favor, and thus to remove any mistaken 
 orejudices that maybe created by its novelty, more especially where the population is small and 
 whore a change of many of the inhabitants is continually occurring ; for it is of essential con- 
 sequence, under the frequant change of scholari that takes place, to have always a good succes- 
 sion of those who have, by practice, become well qualitietl to be teachers. 
 
 Copying from the very successful exertions of the Central School of the National Society in 
 London, a suitable opportunity is now afforded here, by the immediate experience of the present 
 Master, to prepare other masters to spread thi. invaluable sydtem of education throughout the 
 whole of this Province. 
 
 The School is at all times open to the inspection of visitors, who, on duly estimating the 
 improved method of instruction, by the multiplication of power and division of labor, and in 
 particular the principles of this system of education, will, it is to be hoped, always take an in- 
 creasing interest in the same, at every rei)etition of their visit. 
 
 On establishing a new institution for education, although on a system that has, after full 
 exnerience, received the high sanction and support of the greatest characters in Europe, it 
 aopear- highly prope- to give the following account of some of the proceedings of the British 
 National Society, for Promoting Education on this system (patronised by His Majesty, and sup- 
 ported by the principal nobility and gentry in Great Britiin) and to add a few extracts from the 
 
 work of it. revered inventor, the Rev. Dr. Bell.* 
 
 Joseph Spraqo, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 It is clear from the Despatch of Sir Peregrine Maitland, in 1821^ to Earl 
 Bathurst, Colonial Secretary, (given below) that it was the intention of the Govern- 
 ment of that day to introduce, without the assent of the Legislature, the Church 
 
 -The following are some of these extracts, etc., r.ferred to in this Report :-" Rev Dr Bell, in his 
 instructfon. on the new system of education, says, 'The Madras, or new System of lulucatmg, has no 
 paraUel^n the history of mind. It differs not only essentially from every system m the principle, on which 
 ft is built but also materially in the laws by which it is conducted. . . . . It is founded on a uiscoyery 
 mi^e within the walls of a school for the mulitiplication of power and dm.ion of labor in the moral and 
 iStelSS world. ... To attain any good end in education, the grand desideratum is to fax attention, 
 tS «^U forth^xert on and to prevent the wa.te of time in school. Thi*, in the Madras School is achieved 
 to call ">"" «^*;™^ ^^j permanent hold which its machinery take, of the mind, and the deep imprewion 
 Which it makrt* on the heX This system rents on the simple principle of tuition by the scholars them- 
 TelieS. Itiritsdistin^uiBhin^chariiteristio. th»t the School, numerous so however, is taught solely by 
 theTupils of the instutlon, under a single Master, to whom by multifying his Ministers at pleasure, it gives 
 indeTmte powers. . . . The Madras School is arranged into forms or olMses each comnosed of scholars, 
 who have S a suiUble proficiency. The scholar ever finds his own level, not only in fi.s clasN but also 
 1^ the ranks of the school, being promoted or degraded from place to place, or class to class, according to 
 '."^ A^.5* „- _„4J -."_-!: ' E" tl>« n«rn«tual attendance of the Teachers on their classes, and their 
 
 unc^wlnir vfKilance'rW the love of imitation natural to children, by the incessant stimulus of emulation, 
 Md^^?Ee continual occupation of every member of every class the most effectual provision is made tot 
 the K^atSt discipline as well as the perfect instruction and rapid improvement of the whole school. . . . 
 This W^timl 0(^upation, along wit\, perfect instruction, conduces also greatly to, good order and silence. 
 Not a moment can be otherwise than pleasantly and profitably employed. . . . 
 
1S«0 
 
 Chap. XXXVI. THE CENTRAL (NATIONAL) SCHOOL OF YORK, 1820. 
 
 179 
 
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 of England National System of Schools into Upper Canada. With that object in 
 view and, as a preliminary step in that direction, the elementary " Central School," 
 taught by Mr. Joseph Spragg at York, was established three years before the 
 assent of the Home Government was given to the project. This new School dis- 
 placed the Common School at York, and, for its use, the School House, then 
 occupied by Mr. Thomas Appleton, the Teacher employed by Trustees, under the 
 authority of the Common School Act of 1816, was taken. This intention, on the 
 part of the Lieutenant-Governor, is thus expressed by him in his Despatch to Earl 
 Bathurst, in 1822, to which I have referred : — 
 
 It is proposed to establish one introductory school on the National plan in each 
 town of a certain size. It is supi^sed that a salary of one hundred pounds (£100) per annum to 
 the Master of each such school would be sutticiont. The number of these schools may be 
 increased as the circumstance} of t'.ie Province may require, and the meansallow. (No. 1.) 
 
 The xeply of Earl Bathurst to this dispatch is dated Colonial office, October 
 12th, 182?, and was addressed to Sir Peregrine Maitland, as follows : — 
 
 I am happy to have it in my power to convey to you His Majesty's consent that 
 you appropriate a portion of the [Crown] Reserves, set apart for the establishment of an Univer- 
 «ity, for the support of schools ou the National [Church of England] plan of education. (No. 2.) 
 
 It will thus be seen that two kinds of elementary schools were at this time 
 projected and put into operation — one, the ordinary Common School, established 
 and supported by the Legislature ; the other, the ordinary Church of England 
 National School, established by the authority of the Executive Government alone, 
 and sanctioned three years after its establishment by the Home Government. 
 These National Schools, as will be seen above, were to be supported out of funds 
 which had been specially set apart for the maintenance of a University for 
 Upper Canada, and without a vote of the Legislature to that effect. In fact, the 
 . Legislature, as such, knew nothing about it. 
 
 Proceedings of the Executive Government in Regard to the Central 
 
 School in 1822 and 1823. 
 
 Sir John Colborne, in a Memorandum addres' ^ to his Executive Council in 
 May, 1830, thus narrates the proceedings of hie V'redecessor, in regard to the 
 introduction of these Church of England " National Schools " into Upper Canada. 
 He said : — 
 
 1. That in 1822, Sir Peregrine Maitland submitted to His Majesty's Government a plan for 
 organizing a general system of education, and suggested the expediency of applying the proceeds 
 ■of the sale of part of the lands, under the title of School Reserves, to carry it into effect, and of 
 reserving the remainder for the future endowment of an University, should such an establish- 
 ment not be considered advisable at present, — and proposed also that an introductory school on 
 the National p'an in each town of a certain size should be established, and that the number of 
 such Schools should be increased, as the circumstance of the Province might require. 
 
 2. That Lord Bathurst, in his despatch of the 12th of October, 182jJ*[quoted above] in reply 
 io these proposals, having approved of a portion of those Reserves, (set aside for the establish- 
 ment of an University), being appropriated for the use of schools, on the National plan of educa- 
 tion. Sir Peregrine Maitland requested the attention of the Executive Council to this subject, in 
 order that a portion of the ^'chool Reserves might be disposed of, so as to form a fund to 
 «n<tble the General Board of Education to enter on its duties. 
 
■*»»■ .:^@fi 
 
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 180 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF BDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1820 
 
 3. That a Coimiiittee of the Exooutivo Council, on examining extracts from Lord Bathunt's 
 Despatch of the I2th of October, 1823, recoiiitnended that eight townsl \p8 be applied to carry 
 into eilect the intentions of His Majesty's Government m this matter. 
 
 In the following letter Sir Peregrine Maitland, through Mr. Secretary Hil- 
 lier, communicated his views on this subject to his Executive Council in a letter 
 dated the : 0th of May, 1823 :— 
 
 Sir : Earl Bathurst havin«, in a late despatch to the Lieutenant-Oovemor, signified the 
 sanction of His Majesty's Government to a plan proposed bv His Excellency of forming a 
 General Board of Education in this Province, as will be shovrn by the enclosed papers, numbers 
 1 snd 2 on page 179. 
 
 I have been commanded by His Excellency to re<|ue8t that this subject may engage the 
 early attention of the Executive Council. 
 
 A Board of (it persons to carry into eflfect the proposed plan will be immediately nominated 
 by the Lieutenant-Governor ; and it occurs to His Excellency that the object which, in the 
 first place, roiiuires consideration of the Committee of Council, is the appropriation of some 
 portion of the lands, set aside for the endowment of an University, in such manner as shall readily 
 and securely create a fund to enable the (toneral Board of Education to enter on its duties^ 
 either by conveying such portion of lands in trust to the Board of Education — (subject in all of 
 its proceelings to the sanction of the Executive Government) — or by such other mode as may 
 to Uie Committee of Council appear more expedient. 
 
 To THB Honourable thb Presiding Councillor. 
 
 G. HiLLIER, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 II 
 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVII. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL MATTERS DURING 1820-1824. 
 
 Nothing of special interest occurred in the Legislature of Upper Canada 
 during 1821. The following papers are, therefore, grouped together, relaiing to 
 educational matters connected with the years 1820-1824, etc. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly, 1821-22. 
 
 There is no record of the proceedings of the House of Assembly, or of the 
 Legislative Council, available for the first session of the Eighth Parliament of 
 Upper Canada. But during that session, an Act was passed to provide " for 
 compensating District Treasurers for Duties imposed on them by the several Acts 
 of this Province, relative to Common Schools." The Act was assented to by the 
 Lieutenant-Governor on behalf of His Majesty on the 14th of April, 1821- The 
 enacting clause is taken from, the Statute Book, as follows : — 
 
 It shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administrating 
 the Government of this Province to direct the Inspect<jr General, or other officer to whom the 
 duty appertains, to allow to the Treasurer of any District in this P7ovince, in any settlement of 
 accounts relative to moneys received, paid and expended therein, by Itim, for Common Schools, 
 the sum of threfc pounds for every one hundred pounds, which may have been paid through the 
 M.'iiius Or oticit treasurer : x roviueu, sucji rfeasufcf anajs prouucc pirt>pcf vo"chcn; to prove thafc 
 such sum or sums of money as may have be»>n paid into his hands for che use of Common Schools, 
 has or have been expended and paid, a cording to the intent and meaning of the Acta of this 
 Province relating to the said Common Schools. 
 
1820 
 
 Chap. XXXVII. MISCKLLANE0U8 EDUCATIONAL MATTEUS IN 1820-1824. 181 
 
 On the 2Gth of Decemlwr, 1821, the Petition of sundry inhabitants of the 
 Town of York and its vicinity v/as laid before the House of Adsoinbly and read. 
 It prayed for Lejjislative patronage and aid for establishing Sunday School institu- 
 tions. Mr. Robert Nichol, secontled by Mr. Attorney General Robinscjn, moves 
 that this petition be referred to a Select Committee to be composed of Messieurs 
 William Warren Baldwin and John Willson, of the county of Wentworth, that 
 they report by Bill or otherwise, which was carried. 
 
 Eithc the Comniittec did not meet, or, if they did meet, no report 
 from them in any form is recorded in the proceedings of the House of Assei^-bly 
 for the session of 1821-22. 
 
 Mr. William Wekkes' Leqacv for an Academy at York, 1821. 
 
 The second session of the Eighth Parliament of Upper Canada met on the 
 twenty-first day of December, 1821, and closed on the seventeenth day of January, 
 1822. In the Speech from the Throne, no reference was made to schools or edu- 
 cation. Nothing relating to education came before either House, except a 
 measure relating to the Weekes' legacy for en Academy at York. 
 
 On the 12th of December, 1821, Dr. W. W. Baldwin gave notice that he 
 would introduce into the House of Assembly a Bill for the nomination of Trustees 
 to carry into effect the last will and testament of the late William Weekes, 
 Esquire, in which, among other things, was devised certain estates towards the erec- 
 tion and maintenance of an Academy,or Public Seminary,for the education of youth 
 at York. On the 17th of December, the Bill was read a first time; on the ISth, 
 ihe st'ond reading took place, and the Bill considered in Committee, on the 20th, 
 the Bill was read a third time and passed. It was sent up to the Legislative 
 Council on that day and was there amended. The House of Assen- hly adopted 
 the.se amendments on the 5th of January 1822 ; and on the I7th of that month, 
 the Bill was assented to by the Lieutenant-Governor on behalf of His Majesty. 
 
 Under the authority of this Act, the following persons were appointed 
 Trustees for the puiposes named in it, viz., the Honourable and Reverend John 
 Strachan, D. D. ; the Honourable John Beverly Robinson, and the Honourable 
 Henry John Boulton. Mr. Weekes' Executors were Messieurs Charles P. Wyatt 
 and John McKay. Against these Executors various suits were brought during 
 ten years by creditors of the estate of Mr. Weekes, so that it was not until 1831, 
 thai the Trustees named were able to report in regard to their trust, whicVi wt»3 
 to apply the residue, (after the payment of debts,) of the moneys arising from the 
 sale of the real and personal estate of the late William Weekes to the erecting and 
 building the foundation of an Academy at York. This they did on the first of 
 February, 1831, as follows : — 
 
 Whatever may have been the condition of the estate when it came into the hands of the 
 Executors, there is no question as to its being now insolvent, exclusive of any claims for interest, 
 — not a trace of debts or personal assets of any kind belongiog to the estate appears in posses- 
 sion . 
 
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 182 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORV OF EDUCATION IN Un«B CANADA. 1821-22 
 
 Thus the Weekes' trust failed of beinjj carried out, and no Academy wa» 
 erected or built out of the lapsed estate. 
 
 Course of Study at the Common School at York in 1820-1821. 
 
 The Common School at York was conducted by Trustees, elected under the 
 provisions of the Common School Act of 1816, — first at Market Lane, (Colborne 
 St.), and afterwards in the new Common School House erected on the College 
 Square in 1818. It was discontinued in 1820, when the Common School grant of 
 $24,000 per annum, (originally made in 1816), was, in 1820, reduced to $10,000 a 
 year. The building was then transferred to new and special Trustees, by order 
 of Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, for the purpose of introducing 
 into this Province the then new and popular system of teaching in England, 
 since known as the Bell, or Church of England National school system of 
 elementary schools. 
 
 The following course of study pursued in the Common Schools of that day 
 will be interesting for the purposes of comparison with the programme of studies 
 of the corresponding schools of this day (1894) : 
 
 All the ClasBes (afc least four lessons a day) read, spell and parse. 
 
 Examinations are held every evening, in Grammar, Spelling and Arithmetic Tables. The 
 Church Catechism is heard once a week. The following is the daily order of studies : 
 
 
 Number of 
 
 
 Pupils. 
 
 First Class 
 
 
 8 
 
 of Beys. 
 
 
 
 .i'irst Class 
 
 
 4 
 
 of Girls. 
 
 • 
 
 
 
 Second Class 
 
 
 8 
 
 of Boys. 
 
 
 
 Second Class 
 
 
 7 
 
 of Girls. 
 
 
 
 Third and Foi 
 
 i-Ui 
 
 10 
 
 Class of Children. 
 
 
 First Class 
 
 
 8 
 
 of Foys. 
 
 
 
 First Class 
 
 
 4 
 
 of Girls. 
 
 
 
 Second Class 
 
 
 8 
 
 of Boys. 
 
 
 
 Second Class 
 
 
 7 
 
 of Girls. 
 
 
 
 Third and Fourth 
 
 10 
 
 Classes. 
 
 
 — 
 
 MORNINO. 
 
 Grammar Lessons, Exercises on 
 Grammar, Reading, Spelling 
 and Parsing ; Writing or 
 Arithmetic. 
 
 Grammar "Tasks" ; Definitions, 
 Correction of Erroneous Syn- 
 tax ; Reading ; Parsing and 
 Spelling ; Writing or Arith- 
 metic. 
 
 Grammar, Parsing ; Etymology, 
 Reading, Spelling and Writing. 
 
 Grammar Lessons ; Definitions, 
 Reading, Spelling and Pars- 
 ing ; Writing. 
 
 Spelling i Reading ; Analysing ; 
 Orthography. 
 
 AlTKRNOON. 
 
 Rending, Spelling and Parsing ; 
 Writing i)r Arithmetic. 
 
 Reading, Spelling and Parsinif ; 
 Writing and Arithmetic. 
 
 Reatting, Spelling, Parsir.g and 
 Writing. 
 
 Reading, Spelling, Parsing and 
 Writing. 
 
 Same as in the Morning. 
 
 Books U.sed. 
 
 Murray's English Reader, Mur- 
 ray's Grammar and Exer- 
 cises ; Gray and Walking- 
 hame's Arithmetic. 
 
 Enfield's Speaker ; Murray's 
 Grammar and Exercises ; 
 Carpenter's Scholar's Assis- 
 tant ; Walkinghame's Arith- 
 metic. 
 
 New Testament : Murray's 
 Grammar and Spelling Book. 
 
 Barrie's Reader ; Murray's 
 (jrammar ; Carpenter's 
 A ssistant ; Scott's Lessons ; 
 Writing. 
 
 Testament and Murray's Spell- 
 ing Book. 
 
 Same aa in the Morning. 
 
 Same as in the Morning. 
 
 Same as in the Morning. 
 
 Now Testament and Barrie's 
 Lessons. 
 
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Chap. XXXVII. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL MATTERS IN 1820-1824. 18$ 
 
 Dictionaries by Walker, Entick ; the Union by Brown ; Creigh ton's Scripture and proper; 
 names. 
 
 Hours of Instruction : From nine to twelve noon, and from one to four or five p.m. as oc- 
 casion requi'es. Mr. Thomas Appleton, Teacher , Blessieurs Jesse Ketchum, Jordan Post and 
 Dr. T. D. Morrison, Trustees. York. 28th of February, 1821. 
 
 List of Teachrr.s in the Home Disteict in 1820-1822. 
 
 Mr. John Devine, township of Toronto, in 1820. 
 
 Mr. James McEnrey, township of Toronto, in 1«20 ; Ux bridge in 1882. 
 Mr. John Neelands, township of Toronto, in 1820 ; Etobicoke in 1822. 
 Mr. R. Cathcart, township of York, in 1820, 18'1 and 18-22. 
 Mr. E Pengh, township of York, in 1820. 
 
 Mr. William Meigh, township of Markham, in 1820 ; Pickering in 1822. 
 Mr. Jacobe Scott, township of Markham, in 1820. 
 Mr. John Canning, township of Markham, in 1820. 
 Mr. Thomas Foley, township of Markham, in 1820. 
 
 Mr. James Cawdell, township of Whitchurch, in 1820 ; Vaughan in 1822. 
 Mr. R. Clark, township of Whitchurch, in 1820. 
 Mr. M. Clark, township of Whitchurch, in 1820. 
 Mr Miles Brown, township of Etobicoke, in 1820. 
 Mr. Benjamin Bernard, township of Vaughan, in 1820. 
 Mr. R. t'atterson, township of Scarborough, in 1820. 
 Mr. William Watson, township of Scarborough, in 1820. 
 • Mr. Alexander McCausland, township of East Gwillimbury, in 1820, 1821 and 1822. 
 Mr. William Moore, township of Whitby, in 1820. 
 Mr. George Bradford, township of Toronto, in 1822. 
 Mr. William Cassells, township of Markham, in 1822. 
 Mr. Alexander Jamieson, township of Markham, in 1822. 
 Mr. A. Hubertus, township of Markham, in 1822. 
 Mr. Samuel Halton, township of Markham, in 1822. 
 Mr. Charles B. Hasher, township of Whitchurch, in 1822. 
 Mr. James Jamieson, township of Whitchurch, in 1822. 
 Mr. Alexander McCeechenei', township of Vaughan, in 1822. 
 Mr. B. Preston, township of Vaughan, in 1822. 
 Mr. P. Carney, township of V .ughan, in 1822, 
 "^-Mr. Thomas Vaux*, township if Vaughan, in 1822. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Brooks, township of North Gwillimbury, in 1822. 
 Mr. James Collins, township of King, in 1822. 
 
 Payments on Behalf of Schools During the Years 1820-24. 
 
 f 
 
 Name. 
 
 Joseph Sprsm, Central School, York, salary, etc. 
 
 Hon. Joseph Wells, Trustee of the Centra! School, 
 
 York 
 
 Year 1820. 
 Sterling. 
 
 £ 8. d 
 391 15 1 
 
 Year 1821. 
 Sterling. 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 177 13 6 
 
 368 11 2i 
 
 Year 1822. 
 
 Sterling. 
 
 Year 1823. 
 Sterling. 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 263 13 li 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 249 4 
 
 Year 1824. 
 Sterling. 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 248 2 01^ 
 
 Aggregate Payments for the use of Grammar and Common Schools, 1825-28. 
 
 Teachers of the various DiBtrict (Grammar) Schoo'r*. 
 
 For Sunday School Books . 
 
 Year 1826. 
 
 Years 
 1326-27. 
 
 Year 1828. 
 
 £ 8. d. £ B. d. 
 
 1,164 16 9i 1,050 
 
 O. «Q7 17 1 9 OKft 
 
 "'wo .... "ieo 
 
 £ s. d. 
 632 3 lli 
 1 9Rn n n 
 
 "160 .... 
 
 'Appointed a Clerk in the House of Assembly in 1829 ; He was afteiwards Accountant of the House 
 of Assembly, and died in February, 1880. I knew him to be a most estimable man. 
 
M 
 
 184 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1823 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
 
 EDUCATION PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGISLA- 
 TURE IN 1823. 
 
 On the fifteenth of January, 1823, His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland, 
 the Lieutenant-Governor, opened the third session of the Eighth Parliament of 
 Upper Canada with a Speech from the Throne. In it he made no reference to 
 the suhject of education or sfihoola. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1823. 
 
 The members of the House of Assembly who took part in its educational 
 legislation, were Messieurs David Pattie, David Jones, William Morris, George 
 Hamilton, Robert Nichol, — Gates, Samuel S. Wilmot, John Clark, Reuben White, 
 Samuel Casey, Peter Shaver, John Willson, Robert Hamilton, David M. Rogers, 
 Thomas Homer, Jonas Jones, Alexander McDonell, Mahlon Burwell, Archibald 
 McLean, Henty Ruttan, James Crooks, James Gordon, Philip VanKoughnet, 
 William Chisholra, — Kerr, Dr. Wm. Warren Baldwin. 
 
 The most noted of these members, to whom I have not already referred to, 
 were Messieurs Archibald McLean (afterwards Speaker, and, in 1837, elevated to 
 the Bench) ; John Willson and Henry Ruttan, (both afterwards Speakers) ; Wil- 
 liam Morris, James Crooks and James Gordon (afterwards called to tlie Legisla- 
 tive Council. 
 
 The Honourable Levius Peters Sherwood (elected in 1813 and 1820), was 
 Speaker in 1821-1824 ; and, in 1825, was elevated to the Bench. 
 
 The Honourable William Morris was elected for the County of Lanark in 
 1825, 1830 and 1835. In 1836, he was called to the Legislative Council ; was 
 Receiver-General in 1844, and President of the Executive Council in 1846. He 
 ■died in 1858. 
 
 The Honourable James Crooks was elected for the County of Halton in 
 1820 ; appointed Member of the Legislative Council in 1835, and died in 1860, 
 aged 82. His son, the Honourable Adam Crooks, was the first Minister of Edu- 
 cation of Ontario, and was so appointed in 187C 
 
 Mr. Samuel' D. Wilmot was elected a member of the House of Assembly 
 in 1820. He was for many years Deputy Surveyor-General of Upper Canada. 
 
 17th Jammry, 18:S3.—M.r. David Pattio gives notice that he will on Thursday next move 
 for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of establishing A District ((irammar) School in the 
 District of Ottawa. 
 
 2Srd Jamwry, 1S2S. — Agreeably to notice Mr. David Pattie, seconded by Mr. David .Tones, 
 of Leeds, moves for leave to bring in a Hiii to usUbiish a Fublic (Graniiimr) iSuhuul in the Dia- 
 trict of Ottawa, which was granted, and the Bill was read a first time. 
 
 Mr. David Pattie, seconded by Mr. David Jones, of Leeds, moves that the Ottawa District 
 ^Grammar) School Bill be read a second time to-morrow, which was ordered. 
 
 I 
 
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 •«m 
 
1823 
 
 Chap. XXXVIII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C LEGISLATURE, 1823. 185 
 
 Mr. William Morrii gives notice that lie will, o)i Monday next, move for leave to bring in a 
 Bill to appropriate a sum of money towards the support of a District (Grammar) School and 
 Common Schools within the District of Bathur st, a 1 to grant a salary to the Sheriff of the said 
 District. 
 
 S^.h JaniMry, 1823.— Agreoahly to the Or«.; f the Day, the Ottawa District (Grammar) 
 School Bill was read a second time. 
 
 Mr. David Pattie, seconded by Mr. David Jones, < f Leeds, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into a Committee to take into consideration the Bill to establish a Public (Gram- 
 mar) School in the District of Ottawa, which was carried, and Mr. George Hamilton, of Went- 
 worth, took the chair of the Committee. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Hamilton reported the Bill as amended. 
 
 Ordered, That the Report be received. 
 
 Mr. David Pattie, seconded by Mr. David Jones, of Leeds, moves that the Bill to establish 
 a Public (Grammar) School in the District of Ottawa be engrossed and read a third time 
 to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 S5th January 1833.— AgreeAhly to the Order of the Day, the Ottawa (Grammar) School 
 Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Robert Nichol, seconded by Mr. David Pattie, moves that the Bill for establishing a 
 Public (Grammar) ochool in the District of Ottawa, be recommitted on Monday next, which 
 was ordered. 
 
 Mr. John Clark, of Liacoln, seconded by Mr. John Willson, of Wentworth, moved for 
 leave to bring up the petition of Mr. William B. Willson and others, praying for the payment of 
 moneys due to them as Common School Teachers in the District of Niagara, which was granted, 
 and the petition was brought up. 
 
 27th January, iS^5.— Agreeably to notice, Mr. "William Morris, seconded by Mr. Gates, 
 moves for leave to bring in a Bill to appropriate a sum of money for the support of Grammar 
 and Common Schools, and the payment of a Sheriff's salary within the District of Bathurst, which 
 was carried and the Bill read a first time. 
 
 Mr. Morris, seconded by Mr. Gates, moves that the Bathurst Grammar and Common 
 Schools, and Sheriffs Appropriation Bill be read a second time to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee on the Ottawa (Gram- 
 mar) School Bill, Mr. Samuel S. Wilmot in the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Samuel S. Wilmot reported the Bill as amended. 
 
 Ordered, That the Report be received. 
 
 Mr. David Pattie, seconded by Mr. John Clark, of Lincoln, moves that the Bill to estab- 
 lish a Public (Grammar) School in the District of Ottawa be engrossed and read a third time 
 to-morrow, which was ordered. 
 
 28th Janmry, iS;S3.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Ottawa (Grammar) School 
 Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. David Pattie, seconded by Mr. Reuben White, moves that the said Bill do now pass, 
 and that it be intituled : "An Act to provide for the establishment of a Public (Grammar) 
 School in the District of Ottawa," which was carried, and the Bill signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Samuel Casey, moves that Messieurs Pattie and 
 Clark be a Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative Council the Ottawa Dis- 
 trict (Grammar) School Bill, and to request their concurrence thereto. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Daniel Hagerman, seconded by Mr. Bostwick, moves for leave to bring up the 
 petition of Thomas Markland, Esquire, and others, of the Town of Kingston, praying for aid 
 to purchase books for Sunday Schools, which was granted, and the petition was brought up. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the petition from Mr. William B. Willson and others 
 praying for Legislative assistance to procure the public money due them as Teachers of Common 
 Schools in the District of Niagara, was read. 
 
 Mr. John Clark of Lincoln, seconded by Mr. Samuel S. Wilmot, moves that the petition 
 of Mr. William B. Willson and others be referred to a Select Committee composed of Messieurs 
 
 H„.„:!4.,-„ „t VV..,. I ..-,.-►!, rr-orvb-o otid Var-r onHflmf flio Baid finniniittftP havfi nower to Send 
 
 for persons, or papers, and to report by Bill or otherwise. Which was ordered. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day the Bathurst Grammar and Common School Bill was 
 read tlie second time. 
 
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 ; V 
 
186 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION JN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1823 
 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Peter Shaver, moves that the House do now resolve 
 ■elf into a CommitJee of the Whole on the Bill to appropriate a sum of money towards the 
 support of Grammar and Common Schools within the District of Bathurst, which was carried. 
 Mr. John Willson of Wentworth was called to tho < ' ir of the Committee. The House having 
 resumed Mr. Willson reported the Bill as amended. Ordered that the Report be received. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Robert Hamilton of Lincoln moves that the Bathurst 
 Grammar and Common School Appropriation Bill be engrossed and read a third time to- 
 morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 S9th Janmiry, 18S3. — Agreeably to the Order of Day, the Bathurst Grammar and Common 
 School Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. David M. Rogers, moves that the Bathurst Grammar 
 •and Common Schools Appropriation Bill be re-committed to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Robert Nichol, f econded by Mr. David Pattie, moves that it be an instruction to the 
 Committee on the Bathurst Grammar and Common School Bill that they separate the provisioit 
 for District Grammar and Common Schools, and for Sheriffs — (up to this point the Bill had 
 this double object)— and provide for the said purposes contained in the said Bill by separate 
 Bills. Which was ordered. 
 
 SOth January, 18S8. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the petition from Thomas Mark- 
 land, Esquire, and others of the Town of Kingston, praying for the purchasing of books for pro- 
 motion of Sunday Schools was read. 
 
 Mr. D'Arcy Boulton, Masti r-in-Chancery, brought down from tho Honourable the Legisla- 
 tive Council the Bill, intituled : An Act to provide for the establishment of a Public (Grammar) 
 School in the I istrict of Ottawa, which they had passed without amendment, and then with- 
 drew. 
 
 Slst Januarji, 1823. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee 
 on the Bathurst District Grammar School Bill. Mr. Thomas Horner in tho chair. 
 
 Tho House having resumed, Mr. Thomas Horner reported that the Committee had divided 
 the Bathurst fc-chi ol Bill into three distinct Bills, as follows : 
 
 (1) The Bathurst District Grammar School Bill ; (2) the Bathurst Common School Bill 
 and (H) the Bathurst Sheriff's Bill. Ordered that the Report be received. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Jones, of Grenville, seconded by Mr. Alexander McDonell, moves that the 
 Bathurst Common School Bill be engrossed and read a third time on,Monday next. Which was 
 ordered. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Jones, of Grenville, seconded by Mr. Alexander MoDonell, moves that the Bath- 
 urst Distiict (Grammar) School Bill be engrossed and read a third time on Monday next. Which 
 was ordered. 
 
 Srd February, 1823. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bathurst District (Grammar) 
 School Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Jones of Grenville seconded by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, mov <^ that the said Bill do 
 now pass, and it be intituled : ' An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the support 
 of a Public (Grammar) School in tho Bathurst District." Which was carried and the Bill signed. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Jones, of Grenville, seconded by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, moves that Messieurs 
 McLean of Stormont and Kerr be a Committee to carry up t<j the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council the Bathurst (District) Grammar School Bill, and to request their concurrence thereto. 
 Which was ordered. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, tho Bathurst Common School Bill was read the 
 third time. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Jones, of Grenville, seconded by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, moves that the Bill do 
 now pass and that it be intituled : "An Act granting His Majesty a sum of money for the aup- 
 I>ort of Common Schools in the Bathurst District." Which was carried, and the Bill signed by 
 the S])eaker. 
 
 Mr. J nnaa Jfnes, of Grenville, seconded by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, moves that Messieurs 
 McLean, of Stormont and Kerr be a Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council the Bathurst District (Grammar) School Bill, and to re<jueBt their concurrence thereto. 
 Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Archibald McLean, of Stormont, from the Committee to carry up to the Honourable 
 the Legislative C(»unpil the Bill intitlued : "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for 
 the support of a Public (Grammar) School in the Bathurst District," and the Bil' intituled " An 
 Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the support of Common Schools in the Bath- 
 urst District," and to lequest their concurrence thereto, reported that they had done co. 
 
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1823 
 
 now resolve 
 towards the 
 was carried, 
 [ouse having 
 aceived. 
 
 ;he Bathurst 
 ird time te- 
 nd Common 
 
 st Grammar 
 rdered. 
 
 ction to the 
 le provisioi» 
 the Bill had 
 by separate 
 
 omas Mark- 
 oka for pro- 
 
 the Legisla- 
 : (Grammar) 
 . then with- 
 
 Committee 
 
 lad divided 
 
 School Bill 
 
 es that the 
 Which was 
 
 It the Bath- 
 5xt. Which 
 
 1 (Grammar) 
 
 said Bill do 
 the support 
 Bill signed. 
 
 it Messieurs 
 ) Legislative 
 ice thereto. 
 
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 the Bill do 
 for the sup- 
 ill signed by 
 
 kt Messieurs 
 ) Legislative 
 nee thereto, 
 
 Hoi.o>;rable 
 )f money for 
 tituled "An 
 n the Bath- 
 
 le po. 
 
 Chap. XXX VI 11. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATUBB, 1823. 187 
 
 4th Febntary, 18^3.— Mr. David M. Rogers, seconded by Mr. Henry Rnttan, moves for 
 leave to bring up two petitions from inhabitants of this I'rovince. praying for money to purcUase 
 books for Sunday Schools. Which was granted and the petitions brought up. 
 
 6th Februani, 2 A?.?. —Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the petition from sundry inhabit- 
 ants of tho Village of Cobourg, praying Legislative aid to enable tliem to establish a library tor 
 the benefit of Sunday School institutions, and the petition from sundry inhabitants of Brockville, 
 praying the aamo, were road . 
 
 Mr. D'Arcy Boulton, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the Honourable the Legis- 
 lative Council, a Message, and having withdrawn the t'peaker read the same as follows : 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Honourable the Legislative Council re(iuest a Conference with tho Common's House of 
 Assembly on the subject of the Bathurst District Common School Bill and have appointed a 
 Committee of two members who will be ready to meet a Coumiittee of the Common s Hous«; ot 
 Assembly, in the Joint Committee Room, for that purpose, at two o'clock p.m., to-morrow. 
 
 Wm Dummeu Powell. 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Legislative Council Chamber, 
 6th February, 1823. 
 
 Mr. John Clark, of Lincoln, from the Committee to whom was referred the ])etition of Mr. 
 W. B. Wilson ard others of the District of Niagara, informed tho House that the Committee 
 had agreed to a report which he was directed to submit for the adoption of the House. Ordered, 
 That the report be received, and it was read as fallows : 
 
 Mr. Speak'r : 
 
 The Committee to whom was referred the petition of certain teachers of Common Schools 
 in the District of Niagara, beg leave to report to your Honourable House, that they have ex- 
 amined into the merits of the said petition, and cannot do otherwise than agree with those who 
 have signed the same in behalf of themselves and the teachers of the Common Schools in the 
 said District : that their case is one of peculiar hardship, occasioned by no act of their own, and 
 tending much to depress learning in that part of the Province. 
 
 For remedy whereof your Committee beg leave to report the draft of a Bill, which they now 
 
 submit to your Honourable House for its approbation. 
 
 John Clark, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Committer Room, House of Assembly, 
 6th February, 1823. 
 
 The Bill for the relief of Mr. W. B. Wilson and other Teachers in the District of Niagara, 
 was then read for the first time. 
 
 Mr. John Clark, seconded by Mr. James Crooks, moves that the Bill for the relief of the 
 Teachers of Common Schools -in the Niagara District bo read a second time to-morrow. Which 
 was ordered. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Peter Shaver, moves that this House do accede to the 
 reriuest of the Honourable the Legislative Council on the subject of a Conference on the Bill, 
 intituled : "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the support of Common Schools 
 hi the Bathurst Distiict," and that Messieurs Jonas Jones, of Granville, Robert Nichol and 
 James Gordon do compose a Committee for that purpose. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. James Gordon, moves that a Message be sent to the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council, that the House of Assembly have appointed a Com- 
 mittee of four of its Members to confer with the Conferees of their Honourable House, at the 
 time appointed, on the subject matter of the Bill, intituled : " An Act granting to His Majesty a 
 sum of inonoyfor the support of Common Schools in the Bathurst District, and that Messieurs 
 VanKouglinet'aiid Gates do carry up the said Message. Which was ordered. 
 
 7th Febniary, i^^S. —Agreeably to the Order oi the Day, the Niagara District Common 
 School Teachers' Relief Bill was read the second time. 
 
 Mr. Philip VauKoughnet, from the Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legisla- 
 tive Council aMessago on the subject of a Conference on the Bathurst Common Schools Bill, 
 reporteil they had done so. 
 
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 188 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1823 
 
 Mr. William Morris, from the Committee appointed to confer with the Committee appoint- 
 ed by the H(iiourablo the Legislative Council on the subject matter of the District of Bathurst 
 Common School Bill, presented the following report : 
 
 Mr. Spe;»kek : . 
 
 The Committee appointed by your Honourable House to confer with the Committee o» the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council upon the Bill sent up by this House to that Honourable 
 House, intituled : "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the support of Common 
 Schools in the Bathurst District," in obedience to your orders, met the Committee of the Legis- 
 lative Council, who stated to your Committee that the words "and unappropriated " in the first 
 clause appeared to have been inadvertently left out, to which your Committee replied that they 
 would report the same to your Honourable House. 
 
 William Morris, 
 
 _ _ . Chairman. 
 
 Commons House of Assembly, 
 
 7th February, 18^3. 
 
 Mr. John Clark, of Linc<jln, seconded by Mr. James Crooks, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on the Niagara District Common School Teachers' 
 Relief Bill. Which was carried, and Mr. Archibald McLean, of Stormont, took the chair. 
 
 Tlie House having resumed, Mr. McLean reported progress, and asked for leave to sit again 
 on Tuesday next. Ordered, that the report be received, and leave was granted accordingly. 
 
 Mr. D'ArcyBoulton, Mascer-in-Chancery, brought down froi.i tho the Honourable the Legis- 
 lative Council the District of Bathurst Public (Grammar) School Bill, which they had passed 
 without amendment. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Niagara District Common School Teachers' Relief 
 Bui was read the third time. 
 
 13th Febriumj, 182:H.— Mr. John WiUson, of Wentworth, seconded by Mr. Ohisholm, moves 
 that Messieui-s Clark and Kerr be a Committee to carry up to the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council the Act for the relief of Teachers in the Common Schools in the Niagara District, and 
 request the concurrence of that Honourable House thereto. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. John Clark, seconded by Mr. George Hamilton, of Wentworth, mor^a that th'e Bill do 
 now pass and that it be intituled, "An Act for the relief of Teachers of the Common Schools in 
 the Niagara District," Which was carried, and the Bill signed by the Speaker. 
 
 20th February, 18SS.— Mr. Clark, from the Committee to carry up to the Honourable the 
 Legislative Council the Bill for the relief of the Common School Teachers of the District of 
 Niagara and request their concurrence thereto, reported that they had done so. 
 
 mh February 18SS. -Dr. W. W. Baldwin gives notice that he will, to-morrow, move for 
 leave to bring in a Bill for the establishment of a College in this Province. 
 
 ^7<^ Fehnutry, iS^5.— Agreeably to notice Dr. W. W. Baldwin, seconded by Mr. John 
 Willson, of Wentworth. moves for leave to bring in a Bill for the establishment of a College 
 within this Province. Which wm granted, and the Bill read a first time. 
 
 Dr. W. W. Baldwin, seconded by Mr. Samuel S. Wilmot, moves that the College Bill be 
 read a second time on Monday. Which was ordered. 
 
 ^8th Feh-uai-y, 1833.— The following Messages were received from the Lieutenant-Governor 
 by Mr. Hillier, his Secretary : 
 
 P. Maitlani/ : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of Assembly copies of such reports of 
 education as have been received since the last session of the Legislature. 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of Assembly copies of such reports of the 
 Boanl of Trustees of District Schools as have been received since the laat session of the Lecisla- 
 ture. ** 
 
 GOVFRNMENT HoUSE, 
 
 February 28th, 1823. 
 
 S8th Febr^iary 18^3.— Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Peter Shaver, inovea that an 
 liumblo AdureBs ha presented to His Exceiiuucy the Lieutenant -Govtrnor thanking him foi* 
 these Messages and the School Reports. 
 
1823 
 
 :tee appoint- 
 of Bathurst 
 
 nittoe ot the 
 Honourable 
 ; of Common 
 }f the Legis- 
 " in the first 
 ed that they 
 
 )RRIS, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 ou8b do now 
 ol Teachers' 
 ! chair. 
 
 to sit again 
 ordingly. 
 
 le the Legis- 
 had passed 
 
 hen' Relief 
 
 lolm, moves 
 
 Legislative 
 
 )iBtrict, and 
 
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 1 Schools in 
 
 lourable the 
 I District of 
 
 r, move for 
 
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 •f a College 
 
 lege Bill be 
 
 ttt-Govemor 
 
 I reports of 
 
 ports of the 
 tlie Legiala- 
 
 ves that an 
 ng him foi' 
 
 
 Chap. XXXVIII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1823. 189 
 
 4th March, 18SS. —Agreeibly to the Order of the Day, an Address to His Excellency the 
 Lieutenant-Governor, thanking him for his gracious Message, transmitting to this House the 
 Report of the Board of Education and Trustees of District (Grammar) Schools and the other 
 documents was agreed to, and signed by the Honourable Lovius P. Sherwood, Speaker. Mes- 
 sieurs Bostwick and Ruttan were appointed a Committee to wait upon His Excellency, and 
 present to him the said Address on behalf of this House. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the College Bill was read a second time. 
 
 Dr. W. W. Baldwin, seconded by Mr. Jonas Jono?, moves that the House do now resolve 
 itself into a Committee of the Whole on the College Bill, 
 
 In amendment, Mr. Sumuel Casey, seconded by Mr. Robert Nichol, moves that after the 
 word " resolve," the whole of the rest of the original motion be expunged and '' this day three 
 months" be inserted. Which was carried. 
 
 Note. — What the provisions of the Bill were.which was introduced in to the 
 House of As.sembly by Dr. Wm. Warren Baldwin it is difficult now to say, as no 
 copy of it is available. It may have been, and likely was, designed to give legal 
 effect to the desire of the late Mr. William Weekes, who, by will, had left a legacy 
 to found " an Academy, or Public Seminary," at York. This is the more probable, 
 from the fact, that Dr. Baldwin had, during the Session of 1821, procured the 
 passage of a Bill through the Legislature, vesting the Weekes' estate in Trus- 
 tees, who were authorized to apply the legacy as directed in the will. The estate 
 was, however, exhausted before the Trustees could act in the matter. (See 
 page 18 J.) 
 
 5th Mardi, IS'23. — Mr. Bostwick, from the Committee appointed to wait upon His Excal- 
 lency with the Address of this House, thanking him for his gracious Messages with 'School 
 Report etc, reported that they had done so. 
 
 2. — Educational Proceedings op the Legislative Council, 1823. 
 
 The names of the Members of the Legislative Council who took part in its 
 educational proceedings, are not given in its Journal for 1823. These proceed- 
 ings were, however, confined to the giving of the assent of the Legislative Coun- 
 cil to the three School Bills brought up from the Hou.se of Assembly. No 
 measure relating to education or schools originated in the Legislative Council 
 itself during the session. 
 
 28th January, 1828. — The Legislative Council met pursuant to adjournment. A deputa- 
 tion from the Commons House of Assembly being announced, it was admitted and brought up 
 for the concurrence of this House a Bill intituled : — "An Act to provide for the establishment 
 of a Public (Grammar) School in the District of Ottawa." 
 
 The deputation having withdrawn, the Bil\ was read the first time, and on motion made and 
 seconded, it was ordered to bo read a second time to-morrow. 
 
 SOth Janvary, 1823. — The House met pursuant to adjournment. Pursuant to the Order of 
 the Day, the Bill intituled : " An Act to provide for the establishment of a Public (Grammar) 
 School in the District of Ottawa," was repA a third time, and the question being put, that the 
 Bill do now pass, it was carried in the affirmative, whereupon the Speaker signed the same and 
 it waj by Mr. D'Arcy Boulton, the Master-in-Chanceiy carried down and returned to the House 
 of Assembly. 
 
 3rd Fehrnmy, 1823. — The House met pursuant to adjournment. A deputation from the 
 Commons House of Assembly beiiit; annou'^-ced, it was admitted and brousht up for the concur^ 
 rence of this House a Bill intituled : '' An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for 
 the support of a Public (Grammar) School in the Bathurst District ; " also a Bill intituled "An 
 Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the support of Common Schools in the 
 Bathurst District." 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA 
 
 182S 
 
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 6th February, 18S3.— The Home met pursuant to adjournment. 
 
 Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the Bill intituled "An Act granting to His Majesty a 
 sum of money for the support of Common Schools in the Bathurst District,' was read a second 
 time, and on motion, made and seconded, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the 
 Whole to take the same into consideration. 
 
 The House then wont into Committee, the Honourable John McGill in the chair. 
 
 The Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. McGill reported that the Committee had taken 
 the said Bill into consideration and had made some amendments thereto, which they recom- 
 mended to the adoption of the House. Ordered, that the report be accepted. 
 
 On motion, made and seconded, it was ordered, that a Conference be requested with the 
 Commcms House of Assembly on the subject matter thereof ; and a message ni the following 
 words, being signed by the Speaker, was, by Mr. D'Arcy Boulton, the Master-in-Chancory, 
 carried down and delivered to that House, as follows : — 
 Mr. isPKAKKR : 
 
 The Honourable the Legi-slative Council rei^uest a Conference with the Commons House of 
 Assembly on the subject matter of the Bill, intituled, "An Act granting to His Majesty a sum 
 of money for the support of Common Schools in the Bathurst District," and have appointed a 
 Committee of two Members, who will be ready to meet the Committee of the Commons House 
 of Assembly in the joint Committe Room, for tbit purpose, at two o'clock p.m. to-morrow. 
 
 Wm. Dummer Powell, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Leoislatitb Council Chambkr, 
 
 Gth Fetruaiy, 182:<. 
 
 The Honourable and Reverend John Strachan, and the Honourable Thomas Markland, 
 were apiiointeil a Committee for that purpuse. 
 
 Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the Bill intituled : " An Act granting to His Majesty a 
 Bun of money for the support of a Public (Grannuar) School in the Bathurst District," was read 
 a second time, and, on motion, made and seconded, the House resolved itself into a Committee 
 of the Whole to take the same into consideration. The House then went into Committee, the 
 Honour.ible George Crookshank in the chair. , 
 
 Thn Speaker having resumed the Chair, Mr. Crookshank reported that the Committee had 
 gone through the Bill and recommended it to the adoption of the House. Ordered, that the 
 report be accepted, and, on motion, made and seconded, the Bill was ordered to be read a third 
 time to-morrow. 
 
 7th Febnuiry, 1S23. — The House met pursuant to adjournment. Pursuant to the Order of 
 the Day. the Bill intituled, " An Act for the granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the 
 support of a Pul lie (Grammar) School in the Bathurst District," was read a third time, and, 
 the question being put, that the Bill do now pass, it was carried in the afiirmative whereupon 
 the Speaker signed the sanie. 
 
 A deputation from the Commons House of Assembly being announced, it was admitted and 
 brught up and delivered a Message in the following words : — 
 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Commons House of Assembly have appointed a Committee of four of its Members to 
 confer with the Committee appointed by the Honourable the Legislative Council on the subjeit 
 matt r of the Bill intituled : "An Act granting to Hi* Majesty a sum of money for " the support 
 of Common Schools in the Bathurst District, in the joint Commiitee Room, at two o'clock p.m., 
 to-morrow." 
 
 Levius p. Sherwood, 
 
 Commons Hou.se of As.sfmbly, Speaker. 
 
 6th February, 1823. 
 
 The deputation h>*ving withdrawn, the said Message was read. 
 
 The Committee a])pointed to confer with the Committee of the Commons House of Assembly 
 on the subject matter of the Bill intituled : " An Act, granting to His Majesty a sum of money 
 for the support of Common Schools in the Bathurst District," reported that they had done so. 
 
 20th February, lS?i3.— The House met pursuant to adjournment. A deputation from the 
 Commons House of Assembly being announced, it was admitted, and brought up for the con- 
 currence of this House a Bill intituled : "An Act for the relief of Teachers in Common Schools 
 in the Niagara District " 
 
18t8 
 
 His Majesty a 
 read a second 
 mittee of the 
 
 lair. 
 
 bee had t^ken 
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 Bted with the 
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 -in-Chaiicory, 
 
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 [ftjesty a sum 
 
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 nmons House 
 
 lUOlTOW. 
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 Speaker. 
 
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 lis Majesty a 
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 ' the support 
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 Chap. XXXVIII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, lS23. 191 
 
 The deputation having withdrawn, i:ie Bill was read a first time, and, on motion, made and 
 seconded, it was ortlered to be read a second time to-morrow. 
 
 24th Fehnuiry, ISM.— The House met purauant to adjournment. Purauant to the Order 
 of the Day, the Bill intituled : "An Act for relief of Teachers of Common Schools in the Niagara 
 District," was read a second time ; and, on motion, made and seconded, the House resolved 
 itself into a Committee o the whole to take the same into consideration. The House then 
 went into Committee, the Hon >urable Duncan Cameron in the chair. 
 
 The Speaker having lesumed the Chair, Mr. Cameron reported that the Committee had 
 made some progress in the Bill, and re(iuested leave U> sit again on Thursday next. Ordered, 
 that the report be accepted and leave given accordingly. 
 
 27th February, 151^5.— The House met pursuant to adjournment. Pursuant to the Order 
 •of the Day, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, U) take into further con- 
 sideration the Hill intituled, "An Act for the relief of Teachers of Common Schools in the 
 Niagara District." The House then went into Committee, the Honourable Duncan Cameron 
 in the chair. 
 
 The Speaker having resumed tlie Chair, Mr. Cameron reported that the Committee had 
 made some further progress in the Bill and requested leave to sit again on Wednesday next. 
 Ordered, that the report be accepted and leave given accordingly. 
 
 ^Sth February, 182S. —The House mot pursu mt to adjournmunt. A me83ago from Hia 
 Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor being announced. Major Hillier, the Governor's Secretary, 
 was admitted, who delivered to the Speaker the following Messages and papers, and having 
 retired, the Messsges were read as follows : — 
 
 P. Maitlani) • 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the Honourable the Legislative Council copies of 
 such Reports of the Board of Trustees of District (Grammar) Schools, as have been received since 
 the last session of the Legislature. 
 
 The Lieuionant-Goveriior transn.its to the Honourable the Legislative Council, copie? of 
 «uch Reports of the District Boards of Education as have been received since the la it session of 
 the Legislature. 
 
 P. M. 
 G0VBRN.MENT House, 
 
 York, 28th February, 1823. 
 
 6th March, 1833. — The House met pursu mt to adjournment. Purauant to the Order 
 of the Day, the Hmie resolved ifcielf into a Co n nl'.tua of thsWlnldt) ra'ce into furthjr 
 consideration the Bill intituled : "An Act for the Relief of Teichirs of C nnmm Schools in the 
 Niagara District." The House then went into Cjiu nittee on the Bill, the Honourable Thomas 
 Markiand in the chair. 
 
 Tie Speaker having resu ned the Ciair, Mr. Markiand reported that the Committee had 
 gone through the Bill, and recommended it to the atlopti m of the House. Order ad, that the 
 report be accepted, and on motion, made and seconded, it was ordered that the Bill be read a 
 third time to, morrow. 
 
 7th March, 1823. — The House met pursuant to adjournment. Pursuant to the Order of the 
 Day, the Bill intituled, " An Act for the relief of Teachers of Comm jn Schools in the Nia|ara 
 District," was read a third time ; and the question being put, thvt it do n )w pass, it was cirried 
 in the affirmative, and the Speaker signed the same. It was than, by Mr D'Arcy Bou'.ton, the 
 Master-in-Chancery, carried dow n and returned to the Com nous House of Assembly. 
 
 19th March, i.^^i.— The Home met pursuint to adjournment. On the Coinmoas House of 
 Assembly having been summoned to the Lo^isla'/ive C junoil Cham'ier by Bla-3k blol, Hn Eliccel- 
 lency the Lieutenant-Governor assented, in His Mijesty's nama, to the following, aumg other 
 BUls :— 
 
 1. An Act to provide for the establishment of a Public (Grammar) School in the Ottawa 
 District. 
 
 2. An Act for the re'.ief of Teachers of Common Schools in the Niagara District. 
 
 3. An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the support of a Public (Grammar) 
 School in the Bathurst District." 
 
 In fVTS ■\c.^> n."...-^..sp.d fin the 21)th of sTanuarv. 1823. Drovidin." for the establish- 
 ment of Courts, etc., in the Bathurst District, it was also enacted, 
 
 That the provision made for the support of District, (Grammar,) and Common Schools 
 , . . shall be, and are hereby, extended to the District of Bathurst, etc. 
 
.ma' 
 
 till 
 
 st« 
 
 192 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 182S 
 
 The Lioutenant-aovernor then closed the Session of the Legislature with a 
 Speech from the Throne. In it he nmde no reference to education or to the school 
 legislation of the Session. 
 
 The following are the three Acts relating to Schools, passed by the Legisla- 
 ture of 1823. ^^ GEORGE IV. CHAPTER XXVIl. 
 1 Ak Act gbastino to Hih Ma-tebty a sum ..f Money for thk SurroET of a Pubwc 
 
 1. AK ACT GBANTIN ^^^^_^^^^, ^^^^^^ ,^ .^HE BaTHURST DISTRICT. 
 
 Sir Pertgrine Maitland, Lieuteiuint-Govenujr. 
 
 Paused 19ih March, 18^3. 
 
 Most Gracious Sovkreiqn : 
 
 Whereas it is expedient that the like provision be made by law for the ostab- Preamble. 
 lishiLt ofa PublL School in the District of Bathurst as is extended to the other 
 DU nets this Province ; we beseech your Majesty that it may he enacted, and be 
 UenwSd by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con- 
 len"^f theLeSlative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada 
 Po Itrtoted ami assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in 
 S ParlSrt oTSat Brifai intituled :- An Act to R^l-l -'^^ JXe?^ «! - 
 Act passed in the fourteenth year o His Majesty's re.gn, (1791) f'»"l^« . /^'| 
 Act for makinff more effectual provision for the Government of the Province oi 
 QuebeTin North Anierica, and to make further provision for the Government of 
 the said Province." and by the authority of the same collected or here- £100 Rranted 
 
 That from and out of the rates and duties, raised, levied and <=«"'^'; %"^ ^^^ annually as a 
 after to be raised, levied and collected, to and for the Public uses of this Province. ^^, ,„ 
 fnd unanJoSted there be granted annually to His Majesty,. His Hmrs ^n^ TeacU ofa 
 SuLTorrr of one hundred P«umls which sum of .ne hun re pound, s^^^^^^ P„hhc^^ho^ 
 
 o^i,ch';arrant, or wai;ants,'as shall for that V^^^'!^^^:!^^ ^ ^^Z!r^\ 
 
 I paid by Recei- 
 ver-General 
 
 ,.,.., , and accounted 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor or person administering the Govem.nent of this Province ; forthroughth. • 
 
 arSL'^aSnted & to His Majetsy, His H^^" -J^f ----.^'mtn^^^^ Sn^e"«"'of 
 Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury, for the time ''?'"8.'n8»cr. manner Majesty's 
 and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors shall be pleased to direct. Treasury. 
 
 < ?.. 
 
 J 
 
 1:. 
 
 4th GE3R(JE IV, CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 2 An Act to pbovidb for the establishment of a Public (Grammar) School in the District 
 
 or Ottawa. 
 
 Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant-Oovernoi: 
 
 Passed 19th March, 1823. 
 
 Most Gracious Sovereign : 
 
 Whereas it is considered expedient, for the purpose of promoting the eJucat'O" Preamble, 
 of the vouth in the District of Ottawa, that a Public (Grammar) fechool should be 
 established n that Distnct, in like manner as Public (Grammar) Schools have by 
 Sw been sSbhshed in the'different districts in this Province. May it therefore 
 Dlease your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Kings 
 SorESlent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of he Legis- 
 ladveSuncQ and AssemblJ of the Province of Upper Canada, constituted and 
 wlembied by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed m the ParUamunt 
 JTSieat Br Jain, intituled, ' ' An Act to rej.eal certain parts of an Act passed in the 
 ot ureal oriwiii, inwvui , ^ /i^oiv ;..*;tnU,i • ' An Art fnrniakinflr more 
 
 SuafprSon f^^UtSmm^nt of the Pro;i;;c7of QuebeVin North America,' A Public 
 :S o make further provision for the Government of the said P^^-^^J^^^^^^^^^^ Sbttta 
 authority of the same, that from and after the passing of th.s Act provision be made ^ 
 bj law for the eatablishing a Public (Grammar) Suhool in the said District of Ottawa. 
 
Chap. XXXVIII, EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINaS OF U. C. LE<JI8LATURE, 1828. 198 
 
 T OF A PCBLIC 
 
 ?th March, 182S. 
 
 2. And be it further unacted by the authority aforesaid. That from and out £100 t^ranted 
 of the rates and dntios, riiiaed, levied and collected, (ir hereafter to be raised, toiMiTa 
 levied rttid collected, to and for the public UHes of this Province, and unappropriated, Tfjaoher's 
 there be granted annually to His Majesty, Hj Heirs and SuccosHors, the fcuuj of "^^O'- 
 one hundred pounds ; v/hich caid sum of one . undrfd pounds shall be appropriated 
 and applied and di8|M>8ed of in paying; the wdary of the Teachers of the said S. hool 
 which sail sum of one hundred poundf shall be paid by tiie Recoiver-Oener 1 of this 
 Province, in discharge of such warrant, or warranto, as rhall for that puiooso be 
 issued by the (»overnor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Person AdininisterinR the Govern- 
 ment of this Province, and shall bo accounted for to His Majesty, His Heirs and 
 Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, for the time 
 being, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors shall be 
 pleased to direct. 
 
 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the said School School to be 
 shall be opened and kept in the Township of Longueil, in the County of Prescott, ''•'Pt >n Lon- 
 at or near the place of holding the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the *'"^' * 
 
 said District, at such place as the Trustees appointed, or hereafter to be appointed, 
 or the majority of them, may thinV proper. 
 
 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the said School Under the 
 shall be established in like manner, and under the »ime rules, regulations and res- ■?*"•' renula- 
 trictions in every particular as are mentioned in the two several Acts of the Parlia- pubH^cliools. 
 mont of this Province, the one passed in the forty-seventh year of his late Majesty's 
 
 reign (1807) intituled : " An Act to establish Public Schools in each and everv Dis- 
 trict of this Province ;" and the other passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late 
 Majesty's reign (1820) intituled • " An Act to repeal part of, and to amend, the laws 
 now in force for establishing Public (Grammar) Schools in the several Districts of 
 this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same. 
 
 m 
 
 L IN THE District 
 
 mh March, 1823. 
 
 4th GEORGE IV, CHAPTER XXX VL 
 3. Ak Act for the Rklief of Teachers ok Common Schoous in the District of Niagara. 
 
 Sir Peregritie Maitland, Lieutenant-Oovernor. 
 
 Most Gracious Sovereign 
 
 Faaiied 19th March, 1823. 
 
 Whereas it appears that part of the funds advanced to the Treasurer of the Preamble. 
 Niagara District, under the authority of an Act i)a8sed in the fifty-sixth year of His 
 late Majesty's reign, (1816), intituled : " An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of 
 money, t<* be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this Province, and 
 to provide for the Regulation of the said Common Schools," have been applied under Error in appli- 
 the authority of the Board of Education for the District, in payment of certain con- cation, 
 tingent expenses thereof, not authorized by the said Act, or any other Act of this 
 Province ; and 
 
 Whereas in consequence thereof the sum granted by an Act passed in the six- A.ct of 1820. 
 tieth year of His late Majesty's reign, (1820), intituled : "An Act granting to His 
 Majesty a sum of money, to be applied to the use of Common School's throughout 
 this Provincrt, and to provide for the Regulation of the said Common Schools," has 
 been withheld from the Treasurer of the said District ; for remedy whereof, 
 
 Be it enacted by the King's moat Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and Remedy, 
 consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada con- 
 stituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the 
 Parliament of Great Britain, intituled, " An Act to repeal certain parts oi an Act 
 passed in the fcmrteenth year of His Majesty's reign, ( ), intituled : " An Act for 
 making more effectual provision for the Govtrnment of the Province of Quebec in 
 North America," and to make further provision for the Government of the said Pro- 
 vince," and by the authority of the same. 
 
 That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Receiver-Gen- 
 Governor, Lieutenant-Cjovernor, or person administering the Government of this ^'*' directed 
 Province, to issue his Warrant upon the Heceiver-General, in favor of the Treasurer ^eficienov^ 
 of the Niagara District for all such sum, or sums, of money as may appear to be in 
 
 13(D.E.) 
 
 "x::ag;S^asMSMa;rr 
 
if 
 
 194 
 
 DOCUMENTAllY UWTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1828 
 
 , for th» yakr one thouiand eisht 
 
 Jiki A ♦ ,,f fh« I^Rislature "f tnit 
 ♦h. -s^n of HU late Mnjeity j 
 ^h er •ccnied bv virt.io of the Aocountina. 
 
 uditure of the *»** win no 
 <> the 1**9 M force 
 
 arrears for the support of Common 8ch(»ol« there 
 
 hundred and twenty, uiwler and by virtu» r/f '"^ 
 
 Province, made and passo ' in the ""iitieth yon 
 
 and also such sum or sums .»' inouv y ^ "»»y hav 
 
 ■aid Act, upon tlio said Treasdrer accou. >H» i^ f»,i ._, 
 
 to bo issued by tlie Uecei ver Oonoral ol ikM province, al^ 'mg to 
 
 for that purpose : Proviilod always, 
 
 Th .t nothing in this Act contaittiA A»ll extend, or be construed m extend, to in \c* re« 
 reneal ivnv part of the said Act, or any othsr Act of the Legislature of this Province, pealed, 
 making the Treasurer, or any othirt- fimm, Oi ^.'^rsons, accounUbl for the moneys 
 placed in his or thoir hands by virtu* t4 tilds Act. 
 
 2 And b.' it further enacted by the aM#«f% aforesaid, that if the Trust ees of an y Truitees may 
 Common School shall have ommitted to im^e lh#i, Mt'scrterly reimrts. in coi.sequenf. "■•^^""*'*^ 
 of the non-payment of their certificates in favour of *.vhool masters, it shall and maj 
 be lawful for such Trustees to make reports of siiciv schools as shall have been 
 recularlv kept, in pursuance of the above recited Act ; and it shall and may be law- 
 ful for the Treasurer of the said District to pay to the Teachers of such fchool res- 
 Doctively, when the payments shall be approved by the Board of Education, and a 
 certiScato of «ood conduct shall be produced from the Trustees, such sum, or sums, 
 of money as such Teachers would respectively havo been entitled to receive, had 
 the reports of thoir schools been re!j;ulaily made. 
 
 w 
 
 II 
 
 hi 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIX. 
 
 MISdELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO EDUCATION IN UPPER 
 
 CANADA, 1823-1826. 
 In 181 H, Mr.|yNr*i4 "Wen Talbot and his Father came to Upper Canada, and, 
 having counselled with ti>^nr namesake, the Hon. Thomaa Talbot, founder of the 
 Talbot Settlement, (Coui.vy of Elgin,) made their home in the Township of West- 
 minster. While there, Mr. E. A. Talbot wrote a series of papers in the form of 
 letters on Canada, etc., which, in 1824, he republished in London, (England,) in 
 two volumes. From the second volume, I insert the following account which he 
 gives, (in I^etter xxx.,) of the state of Education in Upper Canada in 1823 : 
 While Mr. Talbot's remarks are somewhat superficial and flippant, yet they give 
 a good idea of how an educated observer regarded the educational and social 
 condition of Upper Canada seventy >ears ago. He said :— 
 
 The inestimable advantages resulting t; .m a well-educated and enlightened population, 
 cannot be experienced in Canada for many years U. come The great mass of the people aro 
 ^present oo.upletely ignorant oven of the rudi nents of the most couunon learning. \ ery 
 tew can either read or write ; and parents, wh. aro ignorant themselves ^Hissess so slight a 
 reUsh^"or itcrature, and are so litUe ac(,uainted with its advantages, that hoy fee . arcoly any 
 anxiety^ "ve the minds of their children cultivated. The axiom of the gr.at Philosopher 
 dorfot seem to have obtained with the inhabitants of Canada, for tiiey will not believe, that 
 •'kiiowledKe is power;" and, being convinced, that it is not in the nature of "book-learned 
 skill "to iiiiprovo the earnestness of their sons in hewing wood, or the readiness of their 
 dm 'hters in spinning flax', they consider it a misapplication of money to spend any suui m 
 obSinhig nstiuction for iheir offspring. Not' - ,, can afford a stronger j.roof of their indiffer- 
 ent "a this respect, than the circumstance of •'. nlectmg men o re,.re3ent them in the 
 ptovinoial i arliament, whose attainments iu le, nu>. v i n..'.^ instances, exceedingly small, 
 and sometimes do not pass beyond the horn-book. ^ v ^vc my v U been j-iesent n the Honour- 
 
 aiiu Hoiiit-tiujuo V4vy . I- ^ _ ., ^ _ vf, , »r ■ li b"'"" '>a""f' t^" bpi Chairmen of 
 
 able the House ot ASSOmDiy, wiiuii s-.-mc -rl tn' \{ > .r u -f— --= .-- -,- 
 
 CominitUswLimder the disagreeable and hl:T^v^r: ,,; jessity of ouesting other mem- 
 SrSi S The Bills before the Committee ; av. !. .he. a,, the diftert . clauses were rejected 
 ^^cjted to request these, their proxies, to signity the same m the common mode of writing. 
 
1828 
 
 Aooounting. 
 
 ;o So \ct re- 
 3, peftled. 
 
 y TriiiteeH may 
 "iftke oinitttid 
 ,y ' PorU. 
 
 n 
 
 [N UPPER 
 
 []!ana(la, and, 
 under of the 
 hip of West- 
 the form of 
 England,) in 
 int which he 
 ia in 1823: 
 et they fijivc 
 l1 and social 
 
 ed population, 
 the pooj)Ie aro 
 aniiiig. Very 
 esH so slight a 
 e! > arcely any 
 it Philosopher 
 )t believe, that 
 ' ' book-loarued 
 liness of their 
 id any sum in 
 f their indiffer- 
 it them in the 
 eedingly sroall, 
 in the Honour- 
 be Chairninn of 
 ng otlier mem- 
 8 were rejected 
 lodo of writing. 
 
 Chap. XXXIX. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPEB8 OF 1823. 
 
 195 
 
 I have no ac,,uainUnce with anv of th.« gentlemen, nor the J^-^^I^^'^'^J.^^^T^^^^^^^^ 
 
 ^' "Z rr^Zf!^:: lamentable want of i^X I^J^^l C^^-ff^': tl^^L^^. 
 
 a diiaaae under which he laboured. n » „# 
 
 ' '";:::.d. the ..rcity on.o^ inthe coun^y^H. .^^ 
 
 ^'"" ""1: "£ve hariirb^n fifofat eralirrn^^^^^^ entertain such a determined 
 
 !;S to all End of reaZg. a. they display, by acknowledging wah.-u. a blush, a. many of 
 ?» em do that they have never read a b<.ok through, since they loft .cho..l. 
 
 NUnyctu„.stance,c..ncur to make it impracticable for the Canadian., even .f they were 
 
 «vpable, to -l"-*«;;;f;, ™^^^^^ p,,„„ring labour, which I have already mentioned tho 
 fannl" isT/ nl^ 1 SmTo Iv'.t'e'hinueff entir ly to the cultivation ..f hi. ground, but 
 aU to ill n the lid of 'hi. son., a, ...on as they are able to .issmt hun. ^ ^ .^ , . . . 
 
 also to «•' n ^^ ^.^^^^ i„ Canada, and arekept a it during their 
 
 y 71 i thcv aJnuS' hose habit, of indolence which. 1 have before observed, are so general, 
 
 lives, unless they atquir_ .nose ' »""' . attention to any honest or e.iuitable sort of tiadu. 
 
 as to preclude t^o devotion o '^^ J^'j^^^^^^^.f ^^^^^^^^^^^ „"f ^,,,ttle, that a little child mav lead 
 S ■:andaty::::ylr:'l'rthlr^^^^^^^ as serviceable to hi. father, a. one tlat is 
 
 ^^^'^en the parent is -mciently comforUb^^^ t. di j.nse w.h the ^^:^;!;^^,f^^_ 
 
 ^^'"^'^rtCXnt.."™: be'r V frma r^^sident: in the midst ^f a condensed and well- 
 Great are *»»« '"l\*";*-^^'^ „°ner..U8 are the evil, which result from a scanty population 
 organised state of ^{'^fl'^'ll'^^^^^ While the Province was in its infancy, the 
 
 SSe 0rvLnn:;nt\v nc.1':1i^^",r;romnte the happiness of the settlers, by c^ling 
 
 the wishes of In. Majesty sUovunment. |n Majesty to appropriate a certain portion 
 
 have never yet been realized. . , r, • rn, „ „* 
 
 man, who is accounted a good mathematician. 
 
 Tn 1807 a Provincial statute was enacted to establish a Seminary in every Pistrict, in which 
 
 Hhomwasto 3nioya.akiyof£100perannum. 
 
 TV,«a« »r s have been now for seme time established ; and we may hope, that the country 
 .dlSv?;nsldeX\XX the knowledge, which they will thus ™ore gneraUy 
 
 lise. The low and ui^equate -W, howe-^^^^^ 
 
 SrnSrtCTlortS oTce^^^^ ^-"? ^'"'"« "^ 
 
 sSe^n^the ^1^^^^ Canada, on the salary of £100,-a sum, which, I know from experi- 
 Bottlemthewua8oiupp^y<uui , » sinale young man in thi. country. In 181H, 
 
 ^lIo^C klTa" SU fS- 1 1" esuSfent of C.^ sSiool. in every Township ; but this 
 R^n coJtatn. a claH whi^h in a great degree renders the wh.,le measure abortive. It declares, 
 f.^" r".S L a Sd^^^^^^^ town, village or place in whi. a wenty pupils can be collected. 
 'J o each of these echool. £'2b was to be appropriated. 
 
 r 
 
 PI 
 
 « Mr Talbot here misstates the c»se ; it was Governor Simcoe who first moved in this matter. 
 + Thete documents will be found on pages 16.26 ante. 
 
m '• 
 
 196 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF KDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 182S 
 
 Now, ftdmittii. , the population afc that time to amount to 100,000, one-fifth of whom mav 
 be supposed to be children fit for gchool. the annual sum of £25,000 would be require.) to carry 
 the scheme into ettect, which is at least three times the amount of what the provincial revenue 
 was at that time. 
 
 ... X Ti**® ^'^?^ "' *^® ^'^ ¥* »'*«8«',*''«»' f»"«<l •" its design. There was another clause, providinir 
 that the salary proposed shou'd only be given to such teachers as were British subjects • which 
 created so much jealousy among the people, that many of them preferred having no schools 
 at all, tc having them under the solo direction of Europeans^ or Canadians. 
 
 The opinions thus expressed by Mr. Talbot in regard to the Common School 
 legislation of 1816 are substantially the same as those contained in the article 
 written in 1819 on the History of Education in Uitper Canada, given on pages 
 153-159. The writer of that " History " remarked :— 
 
 Though the Legislature acted wisely in establifihii g District, (Grammar) Schools, as being 
 most beneficia to the pub he, yet that Body never lost .ight of the propriety of extending th? 
 berehtsof instruction to the lower orders throughout the P.ovlnce. Finding the revenue 
 greatly increased m 1816, a law was p.ssed, (containing many excellent provisi^s). for esUb- 
 lishmg am! E-porting Common Schools in every Village or Township in the Province. 
 
 Tins Bill WM very much hurt by the insertion of a clause that there should be a school in 
 every Town, Village or place where t^wenty scholars could be collected. These loose words 
 admit of a latit^ide of interpretation, which could not have been intended, and multiply schods 
 to an extent which it woul^ require three times the Provincial revenue to support 
 
 Schools in the Town of Niagara in 1820-1823. 
 Miss Oarnochan, of Niagara, sends me the following particulars :— 
 
 l«97!!^ J^7^''''"« '^*'?""*".^!:f ".f "'^ to Niagara in 1820, and opened a private school ; in 
 in 1825, et ^^'''''^'^ ^" '^e Board of Common School Trustees \ his school was in operation 
 
 In the Niagara «iea,ier of the 20th of June, 1823, the following item appeared :-At the 
 Niagara District Oramniar School examination, the following Trustees were present and slni! 
 
 General Board of Education for Upper Canada, 1824. 
 
 In 1822, Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant-Governor, wrote to Earl Bath- 
 
 urst. Colonial Secretary, in wiiich he said : 
 
 Much good might be effected by the organization of a General System of Education an 
 
 2n£trtro?i?siTeyt-cr'^ -' ^'^ ^'"'^^ ^^ ^--^^ ^^•'^''" «^ ^^^ '-^« -^ ^^ 
 
 To this suggestion a favourable reply from Earl Bathurst waa received. 
 This reply was communicated to Sir Peregrine Maitland's Executive Council by 
 Mr. Secretary G. Hillier on the 30th of May, 1823, a:, given on page 180, 
 
 Under the authority of the Act which follows. Sir Peregrine Maitland 
 appointed a General Boaid of Education for the Province, the Members which 
 were : — 
 
 The Honourable and Reverend John Strachan, D.D. , Chairman 
 
 The Hnnoiirable Jose'^'h Wells M. Y,. ("! 
 
 The Honourable George H Markland, M. L.C. 
 
 The Reverend Robert Addison. 
 
 John Beverley Robi .son. Esquire, Attorney-General. 
 
 Thomas Ridout, Esquire, Surveyor-General. 
 
1825 
 
 Chap. XXXIX. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS OF 182*. 
 
 107 
 
 of whom, may 
 quired to carry 
 'incial revenue 
 
 auae, providinj^ 
 jbjects ; -which 
 'ing no Hchools 
 
 amon School 
 n the article 
 en on pages 
 
 loola, as being 
 extending the 
 f the revenue 
 ma), for estab- 
 ance. 
 
 be a school in 
 B loose word* 
 iiltiply schools 
 
 ate school ; in 
 IS in operation 
 
 ired : — At the 
 ant and signi- 
 ;he increasing 
 the Reverend 
 Kobert Kerr, 
 
 Earl Bath' 
 
 education, an 
 ands set aside 
 
 la received. 
 Council by- 
 ISO. 
 
 e Maitland 
 ibers which 
 
 The attention which the Executive Council gave to the matter referred to it, 
 may be gathered from the character of the School Extension Act which was passed 
 by the Legislature of Upper Canada in the session of 1823-24i and which was 
 assented to early in 1824. 
 
 There being no records preserved of the proceedings of the Legislature of 
 Upper Canada for that Session, it is difficult to say what was the tone and temper 
 of the discussion in either House in regard to the measure finally passed, as evinced 
 by the motions which may have been made and agreed to, or rejected. The Act 
 provides for the permanency and extension of previous Common School Acts.. 
 It also gives effect to the prayers of petitions for aid in behalf of Sunday Schools, 
 presented to the House of Assembly in 1821 and 1823, and makes provision for 
 the first time, under the authority of the Legislature, for the education of the 
 Indians of Upper Canada. The Act itself is as follows, taken from the Consoli- 
 dated Statutes of 1841 : — 
 
 4th YEAR OF GEOROE IV., CHAPTER VIII. 
 An Act to make permanent and extend the pRoviaioNS of the laws now in fokce foe 
 
 THE ESTABLISHMENT AND REGDLATION OF COMMON SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THIS PROVINCE, 
 AND FOR GRANTING TO Hl8 MAJESTY A FURTHER SUM OF MONEY TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE 
 EDUCATION WITHIN THE SAME, 
 
 Sir Peregrine' Maitland, Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Most Gracious Sovereign 
 
 Passed, January 19th, 1824. 
 
 yfhereM it would greatly tend to advance the happiness of society to dispemi- Preamble, 
 nate moral and religious instruction among the people and to render permanent 
 the laws now in force relating to Common Schools ; We, your Majesty's dutiful 
 and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in I'rovincial Parliament 
 assembled, most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it, 
 therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice 
 and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper 
 Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act 
 passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled "An Act to repeal certain 
 parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty''? reign, entitled 'An 
 Act for making more efiectual provisions for the government of the Provuice of 
 Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the government of 
 the said Province,' " and by the authority of the same, 
 
 I. That, for the benefit of all classes of His Majesty's subjects and for the £^50 per 
 encouragement of Sunday schools and for affording the means of moral and religious annum for 
 instruction to the more indigent and remote settlements in the several districts Sunday 
 throughout this Province, there shall be annually paid, in addition to the sum now Schools, 
 by law directed to be paid for the use and benefit of Common Schools, the further 
 
 sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, which said sum of one hundred and fifty 
 
 Sounds shall be appropriated and applied in manner and form as is hereafter 
 irectod. 
 
 II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid : That the moneys 
 hereby granted shall be at the disposal «>f the general body that is or may be 
 appointed by theGovemor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the govern- 
 ment of this Pioviuce, for the supoiintendonce of education within the same, to i>e 
 by them laid out and expended for the purchasing of books and tracts designed to 
 afford moral and religious instruction, which said books and tracts, when so pur- 
 chased, shall be distributed by the said General Board in equal proportion ainongst 
 the several District Boards of Education throughout this Province. 
 
 Moneys 
 granted to be 
 expended by 
 the i?^n6ribi 
 Board of Edu- 
 cation. 
 Books for 
 moral and 
 religious 
 inHtiuction. 
 
 •\ ' 
 
wr' 
 
 198 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1823 
 
 ;'I t 
 
 :). li 
 
 III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesbid, That it shall and I>."*y «* J^'«- 
 may be lawful for the several District Boards of Education to make and order, at tnct Boards of 
 their discretion, a distribution of such books and tracts for the use and encourage- *^'"* ""'• 
 ment of Sunday schools, and to the benefit of the more indigent and remote 
 settlements in their respective Districts. 
 
 IV. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the eighth 8th clause of 
 clause of an Act passed in the first year of the reign of His present Majesty the Act of 
 C1820), intituled "An Act to amend and continue, under certain modifications, an 1816 repealed. 
 Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign (1816), intituled 'An Act 
 
 granting to His Majesty a sum of money to be applied to the use of Common 
 Schools throughout this Provinces, and to provide for the regulation of the said 
 Common Schools,' " be, and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the provisions Acts of 1815 
 of the above recited Act, and so much of an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of and 1820 to 
 His late Majesty's reign (1816), intituled "An Act granting to His Majp^ty a sum extend totha 
 of money to be applied to the use of Commtm Schools throughout this t rovince, lidians. 
 and to provide for the regulation of the said Common Schools," as is now in force, 
 
 shall be, and the same is hereby declared to extend to all schools that are now or 
 may be hereafter established and kept among the Indians who shall be resident 
 within the limits of any organized county or township within this Province, except- 
 ing such schools as shall or may be otherwise provided for ; provided, nevertheless, proviso, 
 that in all reports that may be made to the Board of Education before the first day 
 of June next, after the passing of this Act, from any school kept for the instruc- 
 tion and education of the children of the Indians, it shall not be necessary to cer- 
 tify to such Board that the Trustees of the school so reporting were chosen on the 
 first day of June last, any law or usage to the contrary, in any wise, notwith- 
 standing. 
 
 VI. And be it further enacted, etc., That every teacher of a Common School 
 before he shall be entitled to receive any portion of public money, shall be examined 
 by the Board of Education in the District in which he shall have taught or is about 
 to teach a Common School, or shall obtain a certificate from at least one member of 
 such Board, certifying his ability and fitness to teach the same due regard at all 
 times being had to the degree of education wanting, or to the branches necessary 
 to be taught in the township, village or place in which such teacher hath under- 
 taken, or ia about to undertake, to teach a Common School. 
 
 VII. And be it further enacted, etc.. That the moneys hereby granted to His 
 Majesty shall be paid by the Receiver-General of this Province in discharge of such 
 warrant or warrants as shall , for the purpose herein set forth be issued by the 
 Governor, Lieutenant-Governor or person administering the government of this 
 Province for the time being, and shall be accounted for by the Peceiver-General to 
 His Majesty, his heirs and successors, through the Lords Commissioners of His 
 Majesty's 'Treasury, for the time being, in such manner and form as His Majesty, 
 his heirs and successors shall be graciously pleased to direct. 
 
 Qualifications 
 of teachers to 
 be tested 
 before pay- 
 ment. 
 
 How grants 
 are to be paid 
 and accounted 
 for. 
 
 Trustees of the District (Grammar) Schools in Upper Canada, 1824. 
 
 H 
 
 Eastern, District. 
 Rev. Salter J. Mountain, 
 Hon. Neil McLean, M. L. C. 
 Samuel Anderson, \ & 
 Joseph Anderson, 
 John Crysler, 
 Alexander McMillan. 
 
 Ottawa District, 
 Alexander McDonell, 
 George Hamilton, 
 Charles Sheriff, 
 R P. Hotham, 
 John Kearns. 
 
 C 
 
 Johtiatovni District. 
 Rev. John Blakey, 
 Levius P. Sherwood, 
 Elnathan HubbeU, 
 J. Jones, 
 E. fiottum. 
 
 Bathurst District. 
 R-ev M. Harris, 
 James H. Powell, 
 George Thew Burke, 
 William Marshall, 
 William Morris, 
 Henry Graham. 
 
1828 
 
 i Duty of Dii- 
 I trict Boards of 
 Education. 
 
 > 8th clause of 
 r the Act of 
 
 Chap. XXXIX. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL PAPERS OF 1824. 
 
 19» 
 
 ii\ 
 
 1816 repealed. 
 
 i Acts of 1816 
 [ and 1820 to 
 I extend to tbe> 
 Indiana. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 1 Qualifications 
 I of teachers to 
 I- be tested 
 f before pay- 
 
 > y 
 
 ment. 
 
 ' How ^ants 
 1 are to oe paid 
 3 and accounted 
 I fcr. 
 
 ) 
 1 
 
 -DA, 1824. 
 
 Midland District. 
 
 Alexander Fisher, 
 Allan McLean, 
 Thomas Markland, 
 Peter Smith, 
 Thomas Borland. 
 
 Nevxadle District. 
 
 
 Walker Boswell, ,^ 
 Zaccheus Burnham, 
 Asa Burnham, 
 Robert Henry, 
 Elias Jones, 
 John Peters, 
 Leonard Soper, 
 Eliaa Smith, 
 John Bleeker. 
 
 Hcyme District. 
 
 Hon. Samuel Smith, M.L.C. 
 D'Arcy Boulton, Senior, ^ W 
 John Small. l-S 
 
 Duncan Cameron, 1 S" 
 
 Thoiisii;. Ridout. -' 
 
 Oore District. 
 
 James Crooks, 
 Matthew Crooks, 
 James Racey, 
 John Willson, 
 WUliam Enia. 
 
 Niagara District. 
 
 Hon. William Dickson, M.L.C, 
 Hon. William Claus, M.L.C, 
 Rov. Robert Addison, 
 Rev. William Leeming, 
 Richard Leonard, 
 Thomas Cummings, 
 Robert Kerr, 
 James Muirhead, 
 Ralph Clench. 
 
 London District. 
 
 Col. Joseph Ryerson, 
 John Harris, "1 ^ 
 
 John Bostwick, I ^ 
 
 James Mitchell, !-e 
 
 JohnRolph, 
 Mahlon Burwell. 
 
 Western District. 
 
 Hon. James Baby, M.L.C, 
 Hon. Anatus Mcintosh, M.L C» 
 Rev, R. Pollard, 
 Alexander Duff, Esquire. 
 
 i 
 
 m 
 
 Eastern District, 
 
 Donald McDonald, 1 g • 
 Archibald McLean, j ^ 
 
 Ottaica District. 
 
 John McDonell, Esquire. 
 
 Johnstoivn District. 
 
 Rev. John Blakey, 
 
 J. Jonea, ^ ^ 
 
 Elnathan Hubbell, I ^ 
 
 Levius P. Sherwood, )- g. 
 
 E. Bottum, I 3 
 
 Joel Stone. J 
 
 Bathurst District, 
 
 Rev M. Harris, 
 
 William Morris, 
 Anthony Leslie, 
 AiexttiiJei- McMiiian, i 
 George H. Read. J 
 
 District Boards of Education. 
 
 Home District. 
 The members of the General Boavd. 
 (rore District. 
 
 ires. 
 
 Elijah Secord, 
 Daniel O'Reilly 
 
 i Esqui 
 London District, 
 
 luirei. 
 
 James Mitchell, 
 John Rolph, 
 J. B. Askin, 
 George C. Salmon, 
 .John Backhose. 
 
 t» 
 
 V g. 
 
 09 
 
 f 
 
 NoTK.— In the four other Districts no Local 
 Board is reported. 
 
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200 DOCUM^PJTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1825 
 
 '1 
 
 CHAPTER XL. 
 
 I EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGISLA- 
 
 TURE IN 1825. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland opened the first session of the 
 Ninth Parliament of Upper Canada on the 13th of January, 1825, with the 
 usual Speech from the Throne. In it he made no reference to either education 
 or schools. 
 
 1. Educational Pkoceedings of the House of Assembly in 1825. 
 
 lj^\ Forty-tfero©- members constituted the House of Assembly in this Ninth 
 
 • Parliament, representing twenty-ii^ constituencies. The most noted of the 
 
 1^;^! members elected were Messieurs William Morris , John Rolph, George S. Boulton, 
 
 Marshall S. Bidwell, Peter Perry, Jonas Jones and John B. Robinson. Mr. 
 
 John Willson, of Wentworth, was elected Speaker. Of the forty-three members 
 
 I elected only ten took part in the educational proceedings of the session, viz.: 
 
 Messieurs Hugh C. Thomson, Duncan Cameron, Thomas Horner, William Morris, 
 
 Peter Perry, David Jones, Donald McDonell. Marshall S. Bidwell, James Wilson 
 
 \ and James Atkinson. 
 
 Two School Bills were passed by the House of Assembly, viz.: a Bill " To 
 incorporate the Trustees of the Waterloo School House," and a Bill to make 
 perpetual the Bathurst Common School Act of 1823, (4th George iv., chapter 
 xxvii). These two Bills were sent up for the concurrence of the Honourable the 
 Legislative Council. The Waterloo School House Bill was not returned from 
 the Legislative Council, but that relating to the Bathurst Common School was 
 concurred by the Council and returned to the House of Assembly, where it was 
 
 j apparently dropped, as neither of these Bills was assented to by the Lieutenant- 
 
 I Governor. 
 
 1 18th Jamuiry, 1825.— The Petition of Messiours Peter Knight and Jolin King, and others, 
 
 praying for an Act to incoriwrate certain persons as Trustees of the Waterloo School House, in 
 the Township of Kingston, was read. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, of Frontenac, gives notice that he will on to-morrow move for 
 leave to bring in a Bill, founded on the Petition of Mr. Peter Knight and others, to incorporate 
 the Trustees of tlie Waterloo School House, in the Township of Kingston. 
 
 19th Jamutry, i«^5.— Agreeably to notice, Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, of Frontenac, 
 seconded by Mr. James Atkinson, moves fcr leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate the 
 Tt, jtees of the Waterloo .School Houso, in the Township of Kingston, which was granted, and 
 the Bill was read a first time. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, of Frontenac, seconded by Mr. Duncan Cameron, moves that the 
 Waterloo School Houne Bill be read a second time to-morrow. Which was ordered. 
 
 SOth Janiuiry, IS'25. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Waterloo School House 
 Trustees' Bill was read the second time. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, of Frontenac, seconded by Mr. Marshall S. Bidwell, moves that 
 the House go int > Committee on the Waterloo School House Bill, which was carried, and Mr. 
 Homer was called to the chair. 
 
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 1825 
 
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 3n of the 
 with the 
 education 
 
 825. 
 
 lis Ninth 
 i of the 
 Boulton, 
 son. Mr. 
 members 
 sion. viz.: 
 a Morris, 
 58 Wilson 
 
 Bill " To 
 to make 
 , chapter 
 irable the 
 led from 
 ;hool was 
 re it was 
 sutenant- 
 
 ind others, 
 1 House, in 
 
 move for 
 incorporate 
 
 Frontenac, 
 porate the 
 ftiited, and 
 
 js that the 
 
 tool House 
 
 moves that 
 1, and Mr. 
 
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 Chap. XL. EDtrCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1825. 
 
 201 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Horner reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again 
 this day fortnight. 
 
 3rd February, 1825. — Mr. William Morris gives notice that he will on to-morrow move for 
 leave to bring a Bill to make perpetual the Bathurst District Common School Bill. 
 
 4th Febrruiry, 2825.— A.greeahly to the Order of the Day, the House went into Committee 
 on the Waterloo School House Trustee Bill. Mr. Horner was called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Horner reported the Bill as amended, 
 ordered to be received. 
 
 The report was 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, of Frontenac, seconded by Mr, Peter Perry, moves that the 
 Waterloo School H juse Bill be engrossed and read a third time on Wednesday next, which was 
 ordered. 
 
 7th February, 2.9^5.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, Mr. William Morris, seconded by 
 Mr. David Jones, moves for leave to bring in a Bill to make permanent the Bathurst District 
 Comm m School Law (4th George iv., Chapter xxvii,), which was granted, and the Bill was 
 read a first time. 
 
 Mr. VViUiara Morris, seconded by Mr. Donald McDonell, of Proscott, moves that the 
 Bathurst District Common School perpetuation Bill be read a second time on Friday next, 
 which was ordered. 
 
 9th February, J «^5.— Agreeably to the Order of the 'Day, the Waterloo School House 
 Bill was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Marshall Bidwell, seconded by Mr. James Wilson, moves that the Bill do now pass and 
 that it be intituled : " An Act to Incorporate Sundry Persons under the style and title of the 
 Trustees of the Waterloo School House, in the Township of Kingston," which was carried, and 
 the Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Mes ieurs H ugh C. Thomson and Marshall S. Bidwell, were ordered by the Speaker to carry 
 up to the Honourable, the Legislative Council, the Bill, intituled : " An Act to Incorporate 
 " Sundry Persons, under the style and title of the Trustees of the Waterloo School House, in 
 " the Township of Kingston " and to request their concurrence thereto. 
 
 3rd March, iS^5.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bathurst perpetuation Common 
 School Bill was read the second time. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr Donald McDonell, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into Committee of the Whole on the Bathurst School Bill, which was carried, and 
 "- Thomas Coleman was called to the chair. 
 
 The report was 
 
 Mr, 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Coleman reported the Bill as amended, 
 ordered to be received. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Donald McDonell, moves that the said Bathurst 
 Common School Bill be engrossed and read a third time on Monday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 7th March, i^^.T.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bathurst Common School Bill 
 was read the t bird time. 
 
 Mr. Morris, seconded by Mr. McDonell, moves that the said Bill do now pass, and that it 
 be intituled: "An Act to make perpetual an Act passed in the fourth year of His present 
 Majesty's reign (1824), intituled : 'An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money for the pur- 
 poses therein mentioned,'" which was carried, and the Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Messieurs William Morris and David Jones were ordered by the Speaker to carry up to the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled "An Act to make perpetuJ an Act passed 
 in the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign (1><24), intituled 'An Act giaiiting to His 
 Majesty a sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned,' " and to request their concur- 
 
 Majesty 
 rence thereto. 
 
 8th April, 1825.— Mr, D'Arcy Boulton, Master-in-Chancery, brought down from the Hon- 
 ourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled "An Act to make perpetual an Act passed in 
 the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign (1824), intituled 'An Act granting to His 
 Majesty a sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned,'" [(..e., for Common Schools in 
 the County of Bathurst]. which they h.-.d p.".s."-o.-! with-'-i-.t amendment, and withdrew. 
 
 No further action, in regard to this Bill, appears to have been taken by the 
 House of Assembly during the session. Why, does not appear in the Journal of 
 the session. 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPKB CANADA. 
 
 1825 
 
 2. Legislative Council Proceedings, 1825. 
 
 There being no record of any proceedings of the Legislative Council for this 
 session of the Legislature, (1st session of 9th Parliament, 1825,) either in the Par- 
 liamentary Library at Ottawa, or Toronto, I can give no account of its action m 
 educational matters, beyond what is mentioned in the last day's proceedings Qf 
 
 the House of Assembly. 
 
 On the 13th of April, 1825, the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, 
 prorogued the Legislature. He made no reference to schools or education in his - 
 closing Speech from the Throne. 
 
 Private Schools in Kingston in 1825 and 1826. 
 
 Mr. A. S. Shaw, School Trustee, Kingston, writes, and says :— 
 
 Two schools were opened for young ladies in February, 1825, by Mr and Mrs Twigg, and 
 Miss Greenland. Mr. Andrew Balfour, in 182G, opened a private achool to teach claMics, at one 
 por.dten shiliings (^), per quarter ; mathematics, at one pound («4) ; and arithmetic, at 
 fifteen shillings ($3). 
 
 The First Schools in Brantford, 1826. 
 
 In his report to the Board of School Trustees, Brantford, dated the 20th of 
 February, 1836, Dr. M. J. Kelly, the Public School Inspector, thus gives the 
 history of the early establishment of schools in the City of Brantford. 
 
 In its earlv days Brantford seems to have possessed no organized system of P»51g.;"«*'"f- 
 tion, A remote hamlet of the old Gore DUtrict, nestled on the banks of the Grand River and 
 surrounded by the red men. it possessed few advantages beyond those of trade with the Indians 
 Lid such as the navigation of tliose days afforded. Ancaster and Hamilton were the avored 
 places. Although the schoolmaster was abroad, his presence was html and his stay usually 
 short. 
 
 The first school in what is now the City of Brantford was held in a two storey frame build- 
 ing on the Market Square, and which served for town hall, court room, "lee*^^;'"'"^*"^ 
 Bchoolhouse. This wL about the year 1826. Here the fathers of Aldermen Read and /otte 
 were wont to cultivate letters and t,-ain the young Later, a school ^^ °P«n«^ J'^^'^^Xn 
 Ward, where, among others, Mr. Thomas James taught successfully, and another on Nelson 
 street; in the Queen's Ward, where Mr. Wellesley Johnstone, the late Mr. Orpheus Robmson, 
 1 believe, »nd others presided as teachers. 
 
 Schools in West Gwillimbury, 1824-26. 
 
 Mr. A. F. Hunter, M.A., Editor and publisher of the Barrie Examiner, had 
 written in his newspaper a series of sketches of the "History of Simcoe County." 
 In chapter thirteen, which he has kindly transcribed for me, he says :— 
 
 About the year 1824 those living in the " Scotch Settlement " of West Gwillimbury united 
 to secure instruction for their children, and built a log cabin to serA'e as a schoo house, on lot 
 number eight, concession six of the township It also served as a place of ^""'"P;^ ^'l^'^*^ 
 after its erection, the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland visited West Gwillimbury 
 and came to this the first schoolhouse there. Some of the young scholars then in attendance 
 never forgot the Governor's visit and his kind words to them. 
 
 Who the first teacher was is not recorded; but, in 1826, the settlem obtained the services of 
 Mr. John Carruthers. a tall, spare Scotchman, who had come from Scotland during the previous 
 summer. His salary as teacher was paid directly as fees by the parents of his pupils-there 
 being then no provision by the Government for the payment of teachers, or no official regula- 
 tions prescribed for the government of common schools, beyond the Act itself. 
 
 
I 
 
 1825 
 
 for this 
 the Par- 
 iction in 
 idings q£ 
 
 faitlaxid, 
 )n in his 
 
 Chap. XLI. KXCHANGE OF THE ORIQINAL UNIVERSITY LANDS, 1822-1827. 203 
 
 'wigg, and 
 sics, atone 
 .hmetic, at 
 
 J 20th of 
 rives the 
 :ord. 
 
 ilic instruc- 
 River and 
 he Indians, 
 the favored 
 ;ay usually 
 
 rame build- 
 r- house and 
 and Potts 
 in the East 
 r on Nelson 
 I Robinson, 
 
 liner, had 
 J County." 
 
 bury united 
 ouse, on lot 
 ip. Shortly 
 [jwi'limbury 
 1 attendance 
 
 e sorriccs of 
 the previous 
 upils — there 
 ficial regula- 
 
 Among those who received their first instruction in school from Mr. Carruthers was 
 Mr. Thomas D. McConkey, afterwards Member for the County, and subsequently its Sheriff.* 
 
 Mr. Carruthers tiught for two or three years in the " Scotch Settlement," west of Bradford, 
 and in 1832 was appointed as catechist and exhorter by the Presbytery of York. 
 
 CHAPTER XLI. 
 
 EXCHANGE OF THE ORIGINAL UNIVERSITY LANDS FOR CROWN 
 
 RESERVES, 1822-1827. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Strachan was one of those active public men, who, early in his 
 day, had earned the right to be heard in Provincial affairs. He was, therefore, 
 soon placed in civil positions of importance and influence, apart from his clerical 
 rank as Rector of York, (1812). • 
 
 In 181.5, he was, (as stated by Rev. Dr. Scadding, in his Toronto of Old: 
 page 164,) appointed an honorary Member of the Executive Council of Upper 
 Canada. 
 
 In 1817-18, he was, (as Mr. Charles Lindsay mentions in his Life of Mr. W. 
 L. Mackenzie, volume I., page 158,) promoted to be a full Member of the Execu- 
 tive Covmcil of the Province. 
 
 Bishop Bethune states (in his Memoir of Bishop Strachan, page 78) that Dr. 
 Strachan was appointed to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Upper 
 Canada, in 1820. 
 
 In 1823, as intimated by Lieutenant-Governor, Maibland in a letter written 
 by Mr. Secretary Hillier to the Executive Council, dated May 12th, 1823, Dr. 
 Strachan was appointed President of the General Board of Education for Upper 
 Canada, and, as such, was practically the Superintendent of Education for the 
 Province. (This office Dr. Strachan held until the Board ceased to exist in 1832). 
 
 In each of these positions, Dr. Strachan would naturally become an influen- 
 tial adviser of the Lieutenant-Governor for the time being. And so he was, while 
 he occupied these positions. Even after he had resigned them, and devoted him- 
 self to the discharge of his high office as Bishop of Toronto, he exercised an 
 influence in public affairs.f 
 
 •Sheriff McConkey was an old and valued friend of the Editor of thia Documentary History. Mr. 
 Hunter, in one of his sketches, thus refer* to him :— " With unfailing energy he built up a large business, 
 and soon amassed considerable wealth. He entered the field of politics and municipal life with as much 
 euerffy as characterized his business habits. He was elected to the first town coimcil of Barrie, and was 
 Reeve of the town in 1855, and again in 1859 to 1863, both years inclusive. In 1860 and 1861 he was War- 
 den of the County. In 1863 he contested the North Riding of Simcoe against Mr. Angus Morrison, and 
 was successful. He took a leading part and was mainly instrumental in founding the Examiner newspaper 
 in 1863 and January, 1864. In the historical debates on Confederation he took a prominent part, and by 
 his liberal attitude on the questions of the day he gained the respect of all ^lolitical parties. At the general 
 elections of 1867 he was returned by acclamation. In 1875 he was appomted Sheriff of Simcoe County. 
 Fok- nearly twenty years previously to this he had been a Justice of the Peace." 
 
 fMr. Mcaiuiien, in his History of Canada, vuiumu one, page 415, thus speaks of Dr. otfaehan'a retire- 
 ment from these offices :—" In 1836, he resigned his seat in the Executive Council; and, in 1840, also 
 retired from the Legislative Council, and disappeared altogether from political life, in which he had been 
 a conspicuous actor for twenty-two years . . . He commenced life by ruling boys; he finished it by 
 ruling men. . . i'or the ensuing twenty-seven years of his life, he was simply the blameless Christian 
 Bishop of his large diocese ; and, on the second of November, 1867, finally crossed that bourne ' whence 
 no traveller returns,' in the eighty-ninth year of his age." 
 
204 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORT OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1822-27 
 
 'III 
 
 1^ 
 
 Ah a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, his influence was 
 chiefly directed to the promotion of such schools as would in time become feeders • 
 to the University, which he laboured hard to have established in Upper Canada. 
 As to the steps which he twk to accomplish this object, he narrates them on the 
 occasion of the opening of King's College on the 8th of June, 1843, as follows :— 
 In his address on that occasion, he thus referred to the proceedings of the Govern- 
 ment of Sir Peregrine Maitland, in 1822-23, in regard to the proposed University 
 of Upper Canada : — 
 
 In 1822, His Excellency, Sir Perej;rine Maitland, invited t'^e attention of His Majeaty's 
 Government to the unproductive state of the school lands, and obtained leave to establish a 
 R)8rd for the general superintendence of education throutshout the Province, and to place at 
 its disposal, for the support of new Oranimar Schools, where they might be wanted, a portion 
 of the reserved lands, retaining a sufficient endowment for the University. The duti> s assigned 
 to the Board were various and important. All the schoolB in the colony were placed under 
 its care, and the President was required to make occasional visits to the different Districts, in 
 order to ascertain on the spot the actual state of the Common and District (Grammar) Schools ; 
 to correspond with the local authorities respecting education in their respective vicinities ; to 
 recommend proper school hooks, and thus introduce uniformity of system throughout the whole 
 country. During its short continuance, the Board was most active and useful ; but the colony 
 increased so rapidly in wealth and population, tinder the administration of that excellent and 
 amiable Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, that the want of a University became every day 
 more evident; and yet, after it was felt almost universally tojbe required, even in the opinion of 
 the most indifferent, there was no prospect of a productive endowment. We were greatly 
 discouraged by observing that even the Board of Education could not, with the most unremitting 
 exertions, dispose of their lands at any reasonable price ; for so longas the Government continued 
 to confer grants gratuitously on all applicants capable of becoming useful settlers, there were few 
 or no purchasers. 
 
 The cry. however, for the University, became daily more urgent, and the more respectable 
 inhabitants very justly complained that there was not. in either Province, an English Seminary 
 above ihe rank of a go<xl school at which a liberal education could be obtaijied. And thus the 
 youth of more than three hundred thousantl British subjects had no opportunity of receiving 
 nstruction in the higher branches of knowledge. 
 
 To the necessity of supplying this deficiency, the attention of the Provincial Government 
 was, in 1823, most anxiously directed, and as an available endowment was the great desideratum, 
 a method of securing one in a very short time was happily discovered. From the first settlement 
 of the Province, two sevenths of all the lands in the settled Townships had been reserved— one 
 for the maintenance of the Protestant Clergy, called Clergy Reserves- the other still remained, 
 for special purposes, at the disposal of the Government, and were called Crown Reserves. 
 These latter being still in the Crown, had become in many places very valuable, from the 
 setilenients around them, and, if brought into the market, would command reasonable prices, 
 much more than the lands which had been originally appropriated for the District (Grammar) 
 Schools and University, which had been carelessly selected, and continued, from their 
 remoteness, almost unsaleable. Now, to secure a competent endowment for a University, it 
 was submitted, by Sir Peregrine Maitland to His Majesty's Government to exchange a portion 
 of the School lands for a like (juantity of the Crown Reserves. For the mere purpose of grant- 
 ing lots to settlers, the School lands were as useful to the Government as the Crown Reserves ; 
 but such an exchange, if it could be effected, would place at His Excellency's disposal an 
 endowment which might be made almost immediately available. After examining the proposal 
 Sir Peregrine Maitland gave it his cordial approbation ; but not deeming it within his power to 
 make the exchange without special instructions, he determined to refer the matter to the 
 King's Government, and at the same time to apply for a Royal Charter for establialiing the 
 University.— (/V«cw(Ztfi^s at the Openhuj of Kinifi Vollfye, etc., Fa<jeH 36-38.) 
 
 Sir George Arthur, in a Despatch to the Marquis of Normanby, Colonial 
 Secretary, dated, Toronto, 8th of June, 1839, thus speaks of these educational 
 proceedings in Upper Canada in 1823. After refering to the passage of Grammar 
 and Public School Acts of 1807, 1808, 1816 and 182u, he says :— 
 
 Things appear to have remained in much the same state in regard to the provision for 
 e.lucation until 182.3. about which period the Secretary of SUte, (Earl Bathurst,) authorized the 
 formation of a General Board of Education, for the management of the lands set apart for the 
 purposes of education. 
 
 \ 
 
Chap. XLI. EXCHANGE OF THE ORIGINAL UNIVERSITY LANDS, 1822-27. 
 
 205 
 
 Under the auspices of this Board, tho question of establishing the proposed University had 
 been brought forward ; and it being determined, to effect, if possible, that object, as a prelimin- 
 ary step, a Royal Charter, was applied for and granted. 
 
 In addition to this mark of favour, as the remote situation of the school tf)wn8hip8 rendered 
 the land thereof of comparatively little value, the King munificiently resumed about 225,944 acres 
 out of them, alienating as an eouivalent, to the Corporation of the I'liiversity, the like (luantitv of 
 Crown Reserves, mostly under lease, in old settled 'J'ownships, where the lands bore a great value. 
 The project of the exchange of the original unproductive University lands 
 for the more valuable Crown Reserves, having, as ])r. Strachan states, commended 
 itaelf to the judgment of Sir Peregrine Maitland, he applied to His Majesty's 
 Government in England for permission to make the desired exchange, in the 
 following despatch, dated " York, Upper Canada, 19th December, 182o : — " 
 
 The occurrences of every year in this Province bring more forcibly before me the incalcul- 
 able importance of the establishment of an University. Education, it is evident, must have an 
 ascendancy to a certiiin extent in every country, and, to provide for that education being 
 received under circumstances that must produce a common attachment to our constitution ana 
 a common feeling of respect and aft'ection for our ecclesiastical establishment, is an object so 
 evidently desirable that I need not press it upon Your Lordship's attention. 
 
 Your Lordship is aware that about 450,000 acre-s of land have been set apart for a provision 
 for this object ; but some of these lands, though they possess the advantage of being in large 
 blocks, lie in tracts at present remote from settlements, and a considerable portion of them is 
 not of the first quality. 
 
 It has occurred to me that, if Your Lordship saw fit to allow that an equal quantity of the 
 best of these lands were exchanged for that ponion of the Crown Reserves which i-emains to the 
 Government, as being under lease, the latter could be almost immediately disposed of at an 
 average price of not less than ten shillings per acre. There are about '/iOO,000 acres of Crown 
 Reserves at present occupied, and a sum could thus be procured ihat would admit of the 
 immediate establishment of an University on a scale that would render it effective. 
 
 It was not until the 3 1st of March, 1827, that a formal reply to this despatch 
 
 of Sir Peregrine Maitland was written, although the assent of the Home Govern. 
 
 inent to his proposal was evidently understood by the Provincial Government. In 
 
 e reply, the royal assent was given to the exchange, and it was accordingly made. 
 
 In a Report of Commissioners appointed by Lord Elgin, Governor-General, 
 
 in July, 1848, to enquire into the affairs of King',s College, they state that: — 
 
 The Crown Reserves above alluded to were estimated by His Excellency, Sir Peregrine 
 Maitland, at 200,000 acres and worth, on the average ten shillings per acre. The Rev. Dr. 
 Strachan, in the following year, 1826, estimated these Reserves at 229,000 acres, and worth 
 " ten shillinpsProvincial Currency per acre." According to the Deed of Endowment of the 3rd 
 of January, 1828, the quantity of land conveyed to the University from the Crown Reserves was 
 225,914 acres ; which, however, by certain errors of measurement and prior alienations which 
 were subseciuently discovered, was reduced to 223,B38| acres. The Crown Reseives thus con- 
 verted into the University endowment consisted of lands situate in various parts of Upper 
 Canatla, in actual, or nominal, occupation, under lease, at rate of rental fixed by a certain scale 
 established by the Provincial Government, and a large proportion of the lots were in an im- 
 proved, or cviltivated, state The foUowing statement of the (juantities in the respective dis- 
 tricts will sufficiently indicate the value of tliese lands, so far as their location is concerned : — 
 In the Eastern District there were 4,350 acres. 
 
 " Ottawa " " 3,390 " 
 
 •• .lohnstown " " 13,342 •' 
 
 '^ Bathurst " ' 1,868 '* 
 
 '• Midland " " 30,628 " 
 
 " Newcastle " " 36,729 " 
 
 " Home " " 54,048 " should be 54,05*. 
 
 «» Gore " " 39,146 " 
 
 " Niagara " " 6,137 " 
 
 " Lundou *' " 34,481 " should be 34, 489. 
 
 " Western " " 2,825 
 
 Total 225,944 acres ; should be 225,967. 
 
 ^Eeport of the %mmissioners, pages 16 nt.d 17. 
 
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 CHAPTER XLir. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGISLA- 
 TURE IN 1826-27. 
 
 On the 6th of December, 1826, Sir Peregrine Maitland, the Lieutenant-Gov- 
 ernor opened the third session of the Ninth Parliament of Upper Canada with a 
 Speech from the Throne, but made no reference in it to either education or 
 schools. The educational proceedings of the House of Assembly were of little 
 public importance ; those of the Legislative Council were of even less importance. 
 They chiefly related to local matters. A petition from the Reverend Thaddeus 
 Osgoode,* asking for aid for Indian schools called forth an interesting Report 
 from a Committee of the House of Assembly, of which the Honourable John B. 
 Robinson, Attorney-General was Chainnan. 
 
 19th December, 18 JO. — Mr. Attorney-General Roliinson, scci nded by Mr. Williaiu Thomp- 
 son, moves for leave to brinj? up the Poti'ion of the Reverend Thaldeus Osgoode, Agent for 
 a Society formed for promoiiug education and industry in Upper Canada. 
 
 31d Ihcemlter, 1S2(>. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Petition of the Reverend 
 Thaddeus Osgo ,de, praying for legislative aid in establishin<; schools among the Indians and in 
 the destitute settlements of this Province was read. 
 
 Mr. William Thompson, sec )nded by Mr. William Morris, moves that the Petition of the 
 Reverend Thaddeus Osgoodo, be referred to Messieurs Hugh C. Thomson, .John Rolj)h, Francis 
 L. Walsh, and Edward McBride, with leave to rejwrt by Bill, or otherwise. Which was ordered. 
 
 20th December, 1S26. — Mr. Donald McDonell, seconded by Mr. .Jonas .Jones, moves for 
 leave to bring up the Petition of the Re' orond John McLaurin, a Member of the Established 
 Church of Scotland, which was granted, aid the Petition brought up. 
 
 2iml December, 1826. — Agreeably to 'he Order of the Day, the Petition of the Reverend 
 John McLaurin, praying that a Bill may bo ; ..ased authorizing him to grant to trus ees, and 
 their successors, one acre of land for the site of a District (Grammar) School house in the Dis- 
 trict of Ottawa, was read. 
 
 Mr. Donald McDonell, seconded by Mr. Thomas Colem»n, moves that the petition of the 
 Reverend John McLaurin be referred to a Select Committee to be composed of Mes.sieurs Ham- 
 ilton, Walker and Alexander McDonell, with power to report thereon by Bill or otherwi.se. 
 Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves for leave to bring up the 
 petition of James Atkinson, Esc^uire, of the Town of Kingston, which was granted, and the 
 petition brought up. 
 
 26th December, 1826. — Agrdwibly to the Order of the Day, the petition of .Tames At'tinson, 
 of the Town of Kingst >n. Esquire, praying for authority to vest in tru.»tees and their successors 
 in ottioe, a certain piece of land in the town of Waterloo, in the Midland District for school pur- 
 poses, was read. 
 
 Mr Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the Petition of James 
 Atkinson E8(iuire, be referred to Messieurs Donald McDonell andZaccheus Burnham, to report 
 thereon by Bill or otherwise. Which was ordered. 
 
 27th December, 1827. — Mr. Maishall S. Bidwell, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves for 
 leave to bring up the Petition of sundry inhabitants of the Counties of Lennox and Addington, 
 which was granted and the Petition brought up. 
 
 29th December, 1826. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Petition of sundry inhabit- 
 ants of the incorporated Counties of Lennox and Addington, praying that certain persons may 
 
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 Chap. XLIL BDUCATIOKAL PROCEEDINOS OF U. C. LEOISLATUUE, 1826-2.7. 107 
 
 Mr. Marshall S Bidwell, seoonded by Mr. Hugh C. Thomion, moves that the petition of 
 auiidry inliabieantttof the Counties of Lennox and Addin^ton be referred to a Select C >mmittee 
 <jou«8tinK of Messieurs Joum Jones and Peter Perry, with power to send for persons and papers, 
 with leave to report by Bill or otherwise. Which was ordered. 
 
 A,.! ■^^' ^^^^ ^' T''"'"*""' 'rom the Committee to whom was ro'erre I the Petition of James 
 Atkinson Enquire, informed the House that the Committee had agreed to report by Bill, a draft 
 of which ho was ready to submit whenever the House wou d please to receive it. The Report 
 was ordered to be received, and the Bill was road the first time. 
 
 „ **'• .^"8^ ^- Thomson seconded by Mr. James Wilson, moves that the Waterloo School 
 House Bill bo read a second time on Tuesday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 5tk January,, i^^/.-Mr. Doiiuld MoDonell. from the Committee to whon* was referred the 
 petition of the Rev John McUurin, informed the Hous.; that the Committee had agreed to re- 
 p(.rt by Bill a draft of which he was ready to submit, whonrver the House would please receive 
 the same. The Report was ordered to bo received and the draft of l)ill whs read the first time. 
 
 , Mr. Donald McDonell seconded by Mr. Alexander McDonell, moves that the Ottawa 
 District School House bill be reaa a second tune on Tuesday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 mh January, 1827~^lr. Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Alexander McDonell, moves 
 for leave to bring up the Petition of Th ,mas Gibhs Ridout. Esquire, and other inhabitants of 
 the Town of York, which was granted, and the Petition brought up. 
 
 .'?</iJaHwir}/, /^.'/.-Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Waterloo School House Bill 
 was read the second time. 
 
 «„ i 5''n^"*^^^'- ''r\T"vv.' T"»Js,^ by Mr. Hamilton Walker, moves that the House do now 
 
 %r i Lv""h"' vv .u '^' ^^'"^' n" l^' ^y"^*^^'"" ^'='^«°' House Bill. Which was carried, and 
 Mr. Alexander Wilkinson was called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr, Wilkinson rejmrted the Bill as amended, 
 ordfi'ed to be received. 
 
 The Report was 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Donald McDonell, moves that the Waterloo School 
 House Bill be engrossed and read a third time on Wednesday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 9th January 1827-kgteeMy to the Order of the Day, the Petition of Thomas G. Ridout. 
 Esqu.ra, and certain inhabitant, of the Town of York, in reg*rd to the Common School House, 
 and ]>raying for an Act of incorporation for school purposes, was read. 
 
 TK ^•••H%'hO. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Dune in Cameron, moves that the Petition of 
 Thomas G Ridout, Evimre. and others of the Town of York, be referred to a Select Committee 
 composed of Messieurs David Jones and James Lyons, with power to report thereon by Bill, or 
 otherwise. Which was ordered. ' 
 
 hriJ^,!!" fh'T'i'';- ^'*^'f\^^''i,^°''"?'nt^^^'«' ''««^on<l«d by Mr. John Rolph, moves for leave to 
 bro" rht u **''"" "^ *^'"- ^^""^'-^ Thompson Philan, which was granted, an,l the Petition 
 
 Mr Hugh C. Thonnon fron. th.„ Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Thomas 
 G. Ridout tfequire, and others of the Town of York, informed the House that the < ommittee 
 had agreed to report by Bill, a draft of which he was ready to submit whenever the House 
 would please receive the same. The Report was ordered to be received, and the Bill was read 
 tlie nrst time. 
 
 Mr Hugh C Thomson, seconded by Mr. David Jones, moves that the York Common 
 «chool House Bill be read a second time on Saturday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 ■ u ^/" ^'"?^'"" ?■ 1^'dwell from the Committee to whom was referred the I otition of certain 
 inhabitants of the ( ounties of Lennox and Addington in regard to the Bath .School Society, in- 
 formed the House that the Committee had agreed to report by Bill, a draft of which he was 
 ready to submit whenever the House would please to receive the same. The Report was order, 
 ed to be received and the Bill was read the first time. 
 
 Mr. Mirshall S. Bid well, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the Bath School Bill be 
 read a second time on Saturday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 mh Jammry, i&»7. -Agreeably to the Order of the Day the Petition of Mr. Edward 
 inompson Philan, praying for the allowance of school money, was read. 
 
 13th Janwiry, 15^7. -Agreeably to the Order of the Day the Ottawa School House Bill wa» 
 read the second time. 
 
 r„.ni"^'''-/^'i?'^''l McDonell seconded by Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, moves that the House 
 resolves Itself into a Committee of the Whole on the Ottawa District School House Bill, which 
 Tvas earned and Mr. Zaccheus Burnham was called to the chair 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HIOTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPrER (CANADA. 1826-27 
 
 The House having lesuniea, Mr. Hurnham reported the Bill without uniendnieiit. The 
 RejMirt wa« ordorwl to be rocoived. 
 
 Mr Donald MoDonell, seconded by Mr. Alexander McDoned, moves that the Ott*w» 
 District School House Bill be engrossed and read a third time on Tuesday next, which wa» 
 ordered. 
 
 Mr. John Matthews, second >d by Mr. Alexander Wilkinson, moves thit the Petition of 
 Mr Edward Thompson Philan l)e referred to a Select Oonimitloe, ..nd that MesHieurs William 
 Morris and Robert Randall do compose tho same, with power to send for persons and i^pers, 
 and to report thereon by Bill, or otherwise, on which the House divided, and the yeas and naya 
 bein^t taken wore as follows : — 
 
 Ykas.— Messieurs Atkinstm, Baby, Burke, Clark, Coleman, Fothergill, Hamilton, Matthews, 
 McCall, Peterson, Randal, Thomson, Wilkinson and Wilson- 14. 
 
 Nays.— MeHsieurs Beasley, Burnhani, Cameron, Gordon, D. McDonell, A. McDonell, 
 Morris, ScoUick and White— 9. 
 
 The question was carried in the affirmative by a majority of live, and waa ordered 
 accordingly. 
 
 litth Jnnnary /S^7.— Agreeably U» the Order of the Day, the Ottawa District School House 
 Bill wa^ read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Donald McDonoU, seconded by Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, moves that the Bill do now- 
 pass, and that it be intituled : "An Act to authorize the Bevorend John McLaurin to convey- 
 to tlie Ottawa District School Trustees a lot of land for the purposes therein mentioned. 
 Which was carried and the Bill signed by the Speaker. 
 
 Messieurs Dctnald McDonell and Mr. Alexander McDonell wore ordered by the Speaker to 
 carry the same up to the Honourable the Legislative Counol. and to request their concurrence 
 thereto. 
 
 Agieeably to the Order of the Day, the York Common School House Bill was read the 
 ■econd time. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Robert Randal, moves that the House do now 
 resolve itself into Committee of the Whole on the York Common School House Bill. Which 
 was carried, and Mr. Charles Ingorsol waa called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumud, Mr. Ingersol reported the Bill without amendment. The 
 Report was ordered to be received. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. .lames Atkinson, moves tliat the York Common 
 School House Bill he engrossed and read a third time on Thursday next, which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. D'Arcy Boulton, Mastor-in-Chancery, brought down from the Honourable the Legisla- 
 tive Council, the Bill intituled : " An Act to authorize James Atkinson, EBCjuire, to convey to 
 trustees a lot of land for purposes tlierein mentioned, to which the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council had made some amendments, and to which the concurrence of this House was requested, 
 and having retired, the amendments made V)y the Honourable the Legislative Council in and to 
 the Bill, intituled : " An Act to authorize .'amos Atkinson, Esquire, to convey to trustees a lot of 
 land for purposes therein mentioned," were read the first time as follows : — 
 
 Amendments made by the Honourable the Legi«lative Council in and to the Bill intituled: 
 "An Act to authorize James Atkinson, Esq., to convey to trustees a lot of land for purposes 
 therein mentioned." 
 
 I'reas 1, line 15. After the word "notwithstanding" insert " provided nevertheless that such pomon 
 or peroonH, and their siiocesaor aa afor*!Raid, m well as the master and teachers employed in such school, as 
 aforesaid, shall be British subjects." 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Donald McDonell, moves that the amendments 
 made by the Honourable the Legislative Council to the Bill intituled : " An Act to authorize 
 .lames Atkinson, Esquire, to convey to trustees a lot of land for purposes therein mentioned," be 
 read a second time on Friday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 18th Janiuiry, 18^9. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Town of York Common 
 School House Bill was read a third time. 
 
 Mr. Hugh f^. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Donald McDonell, moves that the York Common 
 School House Bill do now pass, and that i' he intituled ; ''An Act to Enable Certain Persons 
 therein mentioned to accept and fc»ke a <ieed of gift from Joiin SuiaU, of the Town • f York, 
 ?5squire, of a sufficient piece or parcel • f ground for the uae of a Common School." Which was 
 carried and the Bill was signed by the Speaker. 
 
Chap. XLII. EDFCATInNAL I'ROCBEDINOS OF U. C. LEOrHLATURE. 1826-27. 
 
 209 
 
 ntendinetit. The 
 
 trict School House 
 
 erein inentionud. 
 
 Bill was read the 
 
 amendment. The 
 
 n of York Common 
 
 Meuiuurs Hu^h C. Thomson and JameH Atkinson were ordered by the Speaker to cany the 
 same uj) to the Honourable the Legislative Council, and to retjuest their concurrence thereto. 
 
 Janiinry 20th, /5i?7.— Agreeably to the Onler of the Day, the \. , i School Bill was rmd 
 the second time. 
 
 Mr. Marshall 8. Bidwell, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the House do now resolve 
 iueli into a Committee of the Whole, on the Bath School Bill. Which was carried, and Mr. 
 Archibald McLean was called to the chair. 
 
 The HoUHo having reaunted, Mr. MoLeai: i»;ported the Bill without amendment. T^e 
 Report was ordered to be received, 
 
 Mr. Marshall 8. Bidwell, secondert by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the Bath School Bill 
 bo engn)»se<l and read a third time on Tiiesday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 Agreeably to the Oriler of the Day, the amendments made by the Honomab'e the Legisla- 
 tive Council in and tr) the Bill intituled : " An Act to aiithori/.e .James Atkingon, Esciuire, to con- 
 voy to trutttoes a lot of land for purposes therein nientioned," were read the second time. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thcunson, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the House do now resolve 
 itself into ft Committee of the Whole on the amendments to the Bill intituled, "An Ait to 
 authori/,0 .lames Atkunon, Esquire, to convey to trustees a lot of liind for purposes therein 
 mentioned " Which was carried, and V ,". Peter Perry was called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Perry reported the amendments made by the Committee* 
 and the leport was ordered t». be received. 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, seconded by Mr. Thomas Coleman, moves that the amendments 
 made by the HoniKirable the Legislative Council t-i the Bill intituled: "An Act to authorize 
 James Atkinson, Esquire, to c(mvey to irustee* a lot of land for purposes therein mentioned," 
 be read a third time on Tuesday next, which was ordered. 
 
 S8rd January, 18^. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bath School Bill was read 
 the third time. 
 
 Mr. Marshall S. Bidwell, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the Bill d(t now pass, 
 and that it be intituled : " An Act to Incorporate Certain Persons by the name of ' Iho Path 
 School Society.'" On which the House divided, and the yeas and nuys being taken, were aa 
 follows : — 
 
 Ykas. — Messieurs Atkinson, Beardsley, Beasley, Bidwell, Burnhaiu, Clark, Coleman, Cum- 
 ming, Lefferty, McDonell, Perry, Patterson, Randal, Rolph, Thompson, Thomson, Wilkinson 
 and White— 18. 
 
 Nay.s. — Messieurs Burke, Cameron, Gordon, Ingorsol, Charles Jones, David Jones, McLean, 
 McDonell. Morris and Walsh — 10. 
 
 The question was carried in the afhrmative by a majority of eight, and the Bill was signed 
 by the Speaker. Messieurs Bidwell and Perry were ordered by the S'peaker to cany the same 
 up to the Honourable the Legislative Council, and to request their concurrence therett). 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the amendments made by the Honounible the Legisla- 
 tive Conned in and to the Bill intituled : *' An Act to authorize .lames Atkinson, EH()uire, 
 to convey to Trustees a lot of land tor |)urpose3 therein mentioned," were read the third time, 
 passed, and signed by the Speaker, as follows : — 
 
 Prest, line 15. _ After the word, " notwithstanding," insert " provided nevertheless, that such person 
 or iMraonx, ond their giicce.Shurs, aa aforesaid, aa well as the Master and Teachers employed in guch School 
 SB aforeHsid, shall be Britinh subjects." 
 
 Messieurs A kiuson and Perry were ordered by the Speaker to carry up a Mesiago to the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council, informing them that this House has concurred in the 
 amendments made by that Honourable Body, in and to the Bill intitided : " An Act to autho- 
 rize James Atkinson, Esquire, to convey \o Trustees a lot of land for purposes therein mentioned." 
 
 25th Jowiian/, 1H27. — Mr. D'Aroy Boulton, Mastor-in-Chancery, brought down from the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled: "An Act to auLliorizo the Reverend 
 John McLaurin to convey to the Ottawa District School Trustees a lot of land, for the pur- 
 poses therein mentioned," which thty had passed without amendment ; also the Bill 
 intituled: "An Act to Enable Certain Persons therein mentioned to Accept and Take 
 a D^ed of Gift from John Small, of the Town of York, Esquire, a Sufficient Piece, or parcel of 
 Ground for tiie use of a 0<'mnion School," to txith of which the Honourable the Legislative 
 Council had made some amendments, and which he was directed to recommend to the adoption 
 of this House ; and having retired, the amendments made by the Honourable the Legislative 
 
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 -2X0 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1826-27 
 
 as 
 
 r< 1 „ a., ^ f^ Hifl Rill intituled • " An Act to Enable Certain Persons therein mentir ned 
 .^''A^ioit and ^ake a Deed ofS from John Small, of the Town of York, Esauire, of a Suffi 
 c4nt Pfece or JateloT Ground for the use of a Common School," were read tke first time a 
 follows : — 
 
 Preaa, 1 line 8 :-Expunge " aaid town," and insert " township." 
 
 Press' 1 lin« 21 :— Expunge " town " and insert " township." 
 
 Mr William Morris, seconded by Mr. Hugh C. Thomson, moves that the amendinonts 
 n^.^rbv the Honourable the Legislative Council to the Bill intituled : " An Act to Enable 
 Oerti Ve^onHherein mentioned to Accept and Take a Deed of Gift from John Small of the 
 Town of yX Esquire, of a Sufficient Piece, or parcel of Ground for the use of a Common 
 School," be read a second time on Monday next. Which was ordered. 
 
 ~/i, Fehruani 1827.— Indian Schools.— Mr. Attorney-General Robinson, from the Com- 
 n>ittoo o whom was referred the petition of the Reverend Thaddeus Osgoode, P/aymg for 
 mWaryS in favo. of a Society for promoting education among the Indians and destitute 
 KcS this Province, to which Society he represents himself to be Agent, have considered 
 the prayer of the said Petition, and have agreed to the following Report :— 
 
 Your Committee do m.t conreive that with respect to the means of oducafton, any con- 
 siderable portion of the population of this Province can prope-ly be said to t« ^^''tj^J^'*^' ^j'j^P* 
 during the existence of circumstances, which in some cases, interpose other difhculties, besides 
 the luere want of pecuniary means. 
 
 When a Township is first settled, and while it c.mtains but few inhabitants who are much 
 disoersed instruction cannot be conveniently dispensed to them. So soon however, as circum- 
 sZceswil admit of a number of children being assembled at any one pm.t, the assistance now 
 Sen from the puolic funds, for the support of Common Schools, is apphed for, and your Com- 
 mittee have no reason t<- suppose that it is not impartially dispensed. 
 
 The appropriation, which the Legislature has made for this object is large and liberal in 
 „ropor Urn t^. our revenues, and your Co.nmittee is of oj.inion that if the Legislature had the 
 Ens of"lev. ting a still larger sum to the :>romotion of education, n could not be more bene- 
 Sly applied than in increasing the funds for the support of Common Schools. 
 
 With resnect to the Indians, your Committee cannot allude without much satisfaction to the 
 cratifvina circumstances that many have been lately converted to Christianity, and that they are 
 beSn3 to associate themselves in villages and to avail themselves with eagerness of the means 
 of instruction within their reach. 
 
 Your Committee think it very desirable that every community of Indians which may be 
 thus formed should enjoy the advantage of a Common School such as most of the townships 
 nossess and is probible that the present Hommon School fund may not in anv case admit of 
 fScharge t^ e Coniniittee trust that the House will think t rracticable to attord allowance for 
 1 school master in each village or settlement of Indians, ami the details of the " Common School 
 let " notT'ing adapted to communities of Indians, your Committee has endeavoured to make 
 a suitable provision in the Bill which accmpanies this report. ^ ^ Robinson, 
 
 House of Assembly, Committee Room, Chairman. 
 
 February 6th, 1S27. 
 
 The Indian School Bill (no copy of which is inserted in the Journal of the House) was read 
 the first time, and ordered for a second readhig to-munow, which was granted. 
 
 (Note.— As this Indian School Bill did not come up for a second reading, it 
 must have" been dropped. Probably the provision in the Common School 
 Extendion Act of 1824 was considered sufficient. Petitions from the Muncey 
 and the Mississaugua (River Credit) Indians were received and referred to Com- 
 mittees, but these Committees did not report on them.) 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council in 1825. 
 
 The whole of the clueational proceedingp, of the Legislative Council during 
 this session of 1825 was confined to the first reading of the Bathurst Common 
 School perpetuation Bill, sent up from the House of Assembly, and its rejection 
 after having been considered in Committee of the Whole House. 
 
he first time as 
 
 House) was read 
 
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 €hap. XLIII. QRANTINO OF FIRST CHARTER OF KINO'S COLLEGE, 1827. 211 
 
 4-n^t •^*'"**»T/'/f^<'- -The Council met, pursuant to adjournment. A deputation from the 
 t^ommons House of Assembly being announced, it was adniitted, and brought up for the con- 
 currence of this House a Bill intituled : " An Aot to grant to His Majestyl su.n of money fSr 
 the purposes therein mentioned (i.e., perpetuation of the Pathurst District Common Schools)." 
 
 The deputation having withrawu, the said Bill was read a first time. 
 if.nl?" r°*'"n ""*''• f "^ seconded the said Bill was read a second time, snd the House resolved 
 wSlam Airan^nThfcrair"' ''^ '^''''' '"^ ''''' '""^ "^"'" "'*" oonsiden^tion, the Honourable 
 
 The Speaker haying remimed the Chair, the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 
 that the'ReCrr' "^ '^^ ?'" ff ''^"^^'^'^ ^^^' *" "^ ^g"^'" «"« day three months Ordered 
 enat the Iteport be accepted and leave given accordingly. 
 
 Thus the Bill was rejected by the Legislative Council. 
 
 ^i^jS;-^.SoT?het.=;giTi^^^^^^ ^'- ''-- -' -^ I'le-d^tfirt "tr^ 
 .ra:^^.?^^:s:s^=tih^';^^x:^^^^^^ --^ --- 
 
 He made no reference in his closing speech to school or educational matters. 
 
 CHAPTER XLIII. 
 
 GRANTING OF THE FIRST CHARTER OF KING'S COLLEGE IN 1827. 
 The exchange of the unproductive lands, assigned to the proposed Univer- 
 sity of Upper Canada, under the authority of the Duke of Portland's Despatch of 
 the fourth of November, 1797, for the more valuable Crown Reserves ( Jrecom- 
 mended by the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, in 1825) made 
 possible the establishment of the long-projected University of Upper Canada. 
 Accordingly the Rev. Dr. Strachan, its chief promoter, took active measures to 
 brmg about this result. He, therefore, prepared and submitted to the Lieutenant- 
 Governor m March, 1826, an elaborate statement of the reasons why steps should 
 be taken to found the proposed University. The statement which Rev Dr 
 Strachan submitted to Sir Peregrine Maitland was as follows • 
 
 means may be obtained for accomplishing so desirable an .bj2 ^ ^*^ ^^ "''"''' 
 
 the d?ff:rrtTowrhV/, ItsfrruSi s^viirrctfo? l^r ^" -'rv^'' ^^^^-^^^^^ 
 
 which are now, by thJekertions of Your ExcelLr}, placed on an exceTent fooS''*';''''- ""'' 
 nj other improvements than the means of multipMng their number whi^h Zf\l^''-uZ^ 
 granted as the finances of the Province become mo7e SodSijr In ah^^f/w^ T^^A ""i" ^^. 
 
 Council dunnu' mSs ^'^I'firen in rotation — the younger in summer whs 
 
 --it is not too much to "say that" n;a"rly"doubie"this number orTr'om "twelvi'^f. 'f ""i"'"" 
 thousand children, profit annually by the Common SolmoU tL *? fourteen 
 
 •t tho Leg..l.ture, Md at.Mi.hing Khool, it their ow» .xpe,,.™ ' «"'"""» 
 
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 212 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1827 
 
 I 
 
 ProviBion is made by law for the translation of acme of the more promising scholars from 
 the Common to th^District Schools, where the Classics and practical Mathematics are taught. 
 In thenerhooh. eleven in number, there are at present upwards of 3C0 young men acqmnng 
 an edu4tk,n ti quali y them for the different professi^ons ; and, although they can seldom sup- 
 Dort nTre than one mLter, several of the young gentlemen who have been brought up in them 
 Le now e.nfnent"n their professions, and would, by their talents and ^»"gh principles, do credi^ 
 f .r,^Jn,!ri«rof trreater name. But the period has arrived when the District Scho()ls will 
 £co~ rml^u e u[, Sylntiniug theiiSelves to the intention of their, first establishment, 
 naSy nursSs for a University-an institution now called or by the increased populaticm 
 and Scum^tunces of the Colony, and most earnestly desired by the more respectable 
 inhabitants. j u i ^ 
 
 There is not in either Province, any English Seminary above the rank of a good school, at 
 «hich a Hberreducat^n can be obt^inel Thus, the youth of nearly 300,000 Englishmen have 
 no op.v.r unity of receiving instruction within the Canadas in Law, Medicine or Divinity The 
 con e uence ilthat many young men, coming forward to the learned professions are obliged to 
 l^k beyond the Province for the bwt two years of their education-undoubtedly the most 
 muortant and critical of their lives. Very few are able, on account of the great expense, to go 
 r^n^ml or Scotland ; and the distance is so great, and the ditticulties so many, that Parental 
 anxiety reluctantly trusts children so far from its observation and control. The youth are there- 
 oirn some degree compelled to look forward to the United States, where the means of educa- 
 tion' though of a description far inferior to those of Great Britain, are yet superior to those within 
 the Province, and a growing necessity is arising of sending them to finish their education in that 
 cmintry Now. in the United States, a system prevails, unknown to or 'I^Pf .^^.sed, by any 
 oer nation. In all other countries morals and religion are made the basis of future instruc- 
 tion and the first book put into the hands of children teach them the domestic, the social and 
 thL rel Ui<.u8 virtues ; but in the United States politics pervade the whole system of instruction, 
 itschool bo<.ks. from the very first elements, are stuffed with praises of their owi institu- 
 tuttms and breathe hatred to everything English. To such a country our youth may go, 
 strXlv attached to their native land and to all its establishments, but, by hearing them con- 
 timmriv dem-ecated. and those of America praised, these attachments will, in many, be gradu- 
 aUv weaSJd. and some may become fascinated with that liberty which has degenerated into 
 Seirousn^ss and imbibe, perhaps, unconsciously, sentiments unfriendly to things of which 
 Shr.! are proud. It is^ indeed, easy to perceive the danger of sending our mos prominent 
 Sht a country to finish their education where they hear nothing m praise of their native 
 Cd and whtn" everything bespeaks hatred and defiance, where her merits are considered 
 de ects and all her noblest virtues and glories soiled by the poison of calumny ; nor can it be 
 exSed^harinyof them.on their return, will give up their hearts and affections to their 
 mrent state wS. the same cordiality that they would have done had they been carefully nur- 
 H within the British Dominions' What, indeed, can be more important to the true pros- 
 perity^ tl'" Province than the careful education of its youth ? In what other way can we ever 
 nhliinawellins-ructed population by which to preserve our excellent Constitution and our 
 SmiTctirwith the British Emp that respectable character to the country which 
 
 Sr i" u Tintelligent magistracy, and from having public situations filled with men of 
 aWlity and infor.nation ? What has been already done to effect this purpose .3 J^^hly credit- 
 SL b. t the Province. The two primary steps have been taken, and the third, though the 
 Jit mportant, s opposed by no seiious impediments which may not, it is hoped be removed 
 STvoTr Exc^lLicy. who has nothing more seriously at heart than the promotion of religion and 
 education throughout the Province. 
 
 Th« nstablishment of an University at the seat of Government will complete a 
 re^ulalsyst^f education in Upper Canada from the letters of the alphabet to the niost 
 ^f .?,ndTnvrstii^ations of Scieiice--a system which will be intimately connected with the Dis- 
 frkt S to"r aSy send up a number of boys to be instructed gratis-and the Distric 
 Schools may be connected w.tli the University by means of scholarships, to increase in number 
 as the revenues of the University shdl admit, either by the sale of lands appropriated for its 
 ^ndowmSor grants from the Provi.,. i.l Legislature. Ami the University might in time 
 Wm"cnnect?d with Oxford and Cambridge, in England, by possessing four Exhibitions at 
 r!ch for the benefit of its more promising sons. In this manner, the door to liberal education 
 woild be opened to all the inhabitants, and the children of the farmer and the mechanic might bo 
 Tound filUnKe highest ottices of the colony to which they had arisen by their superior talents. 
 Ltered by the ben^evolent institutions of the Province, and Upper Canada might b<.ast a place 
 «fnnV,li.- instruction rareiy e(iuaiie.Una u..t surpassea oy any in wie „orm. ..-- •——«••'• 
 Is bvcolSing all the pomising youth of tiie Colony into one place would gradually givo 
 riiew Sne to public sentiments and feelings ; and, should any portion of our people cherish a 
 leLinJ towards our neighbours, it would be removed or chocke5 by means, not in their nature 
 yloS W on the contrary, producing the must beneficial olleots on the whole Province. It 
 
1827 
 
 Chap. XLIII. GRAl'TINQ OF FIRST CHARTER OF KING's COLLEQK, 1827. 
 
 213 
 
 ig scholars from 
 itics are taught. 
 5 men acquiring 
 :an seldom sup- 
 ight up in them 
 liples, do credit 
 ,ct Schools will 
 establishment, 
 ^ed population 
 ore respectable 
 
 t good school, at 
 Inglishmen have 
 
 ■ Divinity. The 
 s, are obliged to 
 )tedly the most 
 it expense, to go 
 ly, that parental 
 youth are, there- 
 means of educa- 
 )r to those within 
 •ducation in that 
 )racti8ed, by any 
 )f future instruc- 
 ;, the social and 
 m of instruction, 
 leir own institu- 
 
 ■ youth may go, 
 Baring them con- 
 many, be giadu- 
 degenerated into 
 I things of which 
 r most prominent 
 ise of their native 
 its are considered 
 ly ; nor can it be 
 fvflfections to their 
 een carefully nur- 
 ; to the true pros- 
 r way can we ever 
 istitution anil our 
 he country which 
 lied with men of 
 
 \3 hiuhly credit- 
 third, though the 
 loped, be removed 
 ion of religion and 
 
 will complete n 
 habet to the most 
 icted with the Dis- 
 -and the District 
 norease in number 
 ppropriated for its 
 ty might, in time, 
 tour Exhibitions at 
 o liberal education 
 mechanic might bo 
 ir superior talents, 
 night boast a place 
 
 U. i Iff •— .f-f..?".. 
 
 Duld gradually give 
 ur people cherish a 
 not in their nature 
 ^hole Province. It 
 
 is indeed, quite evident that the con8e([uence8 of an University establishment, oven on a very 
 moderate scale, but possessing sufficient recommendations to attract to it the sons of the most 
 opu'ent families, would 8)on be visible in the greater intelligence and more confirmed principles 
 of loyalty to those who would be called to the various public duties required in the country. 
 Nor is the number small that are thus called upon to fill the various stations of magistrates 
 legislators and the ranks of different learned professions. 
 
 There are, it is believed, between forty and fifty young gentlemen in the Province studying 
 the profession of Law— a profession which must, in a country like this, be the repository of the 
 highest talents. Lawyers must from the very nature of our political institutions— from there 
 being no great land proprietors— no privileged orders— become the most powerful profession, 
 and must in time, possess more influence and authority than any other. Tliey are emphati- 
 cally our men of business, and will gradually engross all the colonial offices of profit and honor. 
 Is it not, therefore, of the utmost importance that they should be collected together at the Uni- 
 versity, become acquainted with each other and familiar, acquire similar views and modes of 
 thinking, and be taught from precept and example to love and venerate our parent state. It is 
 surely of great consequence that a class of intelligent men, belonging to a profession which 
 offers the highest inducements of reputation, wealth, influence, authority and power, should be 
 actuated by sentiments and feelings of attachment to the British Empire. 
 
 In regard to the profession of medicine, now becoming of great importance in the Province, 
 it is melancholy to think that more than three-fourths of the present practitioners have been 
 educated or attended lectures in the United States, and it is to be presumed that many of them 
 are inclined towards that country. But in this colony there is no provision whatever for 
 attaniing medical knowledge, and those who make choice of that profession must go to a foreign 
 country to obtain it. 
 
 There are, as yet, only twenty two clergymen in Upper Canada, the greater number from 
 England. It is essential that the young men coming forward to the church, should be educated 
 entirely within the Province, but for this there is no provision. It is true the few clergymen 
 in the country have been hitherto educated by their elder brethern, and the result has been 
 most satisfactory, for, in some respects, they have the advantage over brethren from England ; 
 they are better acquainted with the people and can address them with more effect ; and as they 
 bring over to the church their friends and relatives, the power and influence of the establish- 
 ment are increased. But the wants of the Province are becoming great, and however much 
 disposed the elder clergy may be to bring forward young men to the sacred profession, they 
 have neither time nor means of doing ic with sutticient effect. There can bo nothing of that 
 zeal, of that union and mutual attachment, of that deep theological and literary inquiry and 
 anxiety to excel, which would be found among youns? men collected at the University, and here 
 it IS not ir. >- levant to observd that it is of the greatest importance that the education of the 
 colony should be conduc ed by the clergy. 
 
 Nothing can bo more manifest than that this colony has not yet felt the advantage of a 
 religious establishment. What can twenty-two clergymen do, scattered over a country of nearly 
 «ix hundred miles in length? Can we be surprised that, under such circ imstances. the religious 
 benefits of the ecclesiastical establishment are unknown, and that sectaries of all descriptions 
 have increased on every side ? And when it is further considered that the religious teachers of 
 all other Protestant denomioations, a very few respectable ministers of the church of Scotland 
 etcepted, come, almost universally, from the Republican States of America, where they gather 
 their knowledge and form their sentiments. It is evident that, if the Imperial Government 
 does not step forward with eflicient help, tha ma«s of the population will be nurtured and 
 instructed in hostility to all our institutions, both civil and religious 
 
 Were the young men, destined for the professions or any other liberal pursuit, to have their 
 minds formed at a University, they would, certainly, compose a body continually increasing, 
 which, in union, resi)ectability and thought, would overmatch any tendency to disaffection that 
 might appear, and gradually produce a tone and feeling through the Province altogether 
 British. 
 
 It is scarcely necessary to urge, in addition to these forcible arguments, that, in Nova 
 Scotia, with a population not much exceeding half that of Upper Canada, two Colleges have 
 been established, and tliat even in New Brunswick, a Seminary of the same rank is, at this 
 moment, going into operation. 
 
 n„, ^'"°'" ?^^ which it appears highly expedient to es>Ublish a University at the Seat of 
 ,inve,rr.ni.".nt., t". rvn'-piet* the sj-atem of euucafcion in tho colony, at which »,]\ the branches 
 requisite for qualifying young men for the learned professions, may be taught ; since the 
 commencement of such an institution, even on a small scale, to increase as its revenues shall 
 admit, would be of incalculable benefit to this flourishing Province. 
 
 I| 
 
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 „, , .„ J_J-.x.aS5...- 
 
 214 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTOUY OF EDUCATION IN UPPEU CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 The following scheme is, then; fore, humbly submitted, as forming a very good beginning :- 
 Univerbitt oif Uppbr Oanaoa.— The President, or Principal, to be at first classed as Professor: — 
 
 Four Professors at £100 i)er annum, each 
 
 One Professor of Law, per annum 
 
 One Professor of Medicine, per annum 
 
 Tothe Library, anuually.. ■■■■■■■■ ■■• • 
 
 To a Philosophical and Chemical AjJt>Diatus, annually 
 
 To a Librarian, annually , 
 
 To a Botanic Gardener, annually 
 
 To a Gaidener, annually „ , • • ; „,» 
 
 To two Scholarships for each District, one of £60and one of £40 per annum 
 To Repairs and Servants 
 
 Deduct, if necessary 
 
 Required to begin, the annual sum of. 
 
 £ 
 1,600 
 100 
 100 
 100 
 100 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 
 1.100 
 
 260 
 
 3,6.50 
 1,600 
 
 2,050 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 £ 
 400 
 
 100 
 1,100 
 
 8. 
 
 1,600 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 The services of the President, or Principal, being chiefly those of superintendence, may be 
 commanded for a time, without emolument, or, rather, as these duties will not, at first, be 
 burdensonie he might, till the endowment became available, \«ath moral Philosophy and 
 Theology. .It would be desirable that the funds should admit ot the first column without 
 deduction, but the items lu the eecond column may be dispensed with at first. The President 
 may, by methodical arrangement and occasional assistance, conduct with three able aud zealous 
 I'r.fessors an excallent courst of instruction, till the funds shall admit of the appointment of 
 additional Professors. 
 
 The appropriation for the library and apparatus will require to be increased as soon aa 
 possible. 
 
 The salary of the Librarian may oe saved for some years by making some of the elder 
 students discharge the duties ot' that office. 
 
 The Scholarships may rest iu a'-^yance until the revenues of the institution shall admit of 
 the gradual adaption. 
 
 The following outline of study, which may be altered and modified at pleasure, is merely 
 suggested to g ve some idea of «bat may be accomplished under the above scheme, slender as it 
 may appear to be : — 
 
 1. Classical Literature, including English Composition. 
 
 2. Mathematics, Pr.ictical and Theoretic. 
 
 3. Natural History, including Botany. 
 
 4. Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. 
 
 5. Moral Philosophy and Divinity. 
 
 6. Surgery and Anatomy. 
 
 7. Civil and Public Law. 
 
 The University must ')o established by Royal Charter, to give it dignity and to enable it to 
 confer academical honors and degrees according to the forms established in the English 
 Universities. 
 
 It should be made to assimilate as much as possible with Oxford and Cambridge ; and for 
 this puqwse. Tutors in aid of the Professors should be appointed, as soon as the funds will 
 admit. 
 
 The Bishop of the Diocese will, doubtless, be appointed Visitor ; but great care will be 
 required in selecting the members who are to compose the Convocation, as the University has 
 the jKiwer, when estoblished, of sending a Member to the Assembly. 
 
 The Pri jipal and Professors, except tiiose of Medicine and Law, should be Clergymen of 
 the Establisjied Church ; and no tutor, teacher or officer, who is not a member of that Church, 
 should ever be employed in the institution. 
 
 The Professors of Surgery and Anatomy, and of Civil and Public Law, will, of course, be 
 professional gentlemen, not residing within the University. 
 
 Means at the disposal of His Majesty's Government for the establishment of a University 
 in Upper Canada : — 
 
'^ ■'■^,Ji ^ jJ m 'r A^i mr4a m -rm 
 
 Chap. XLIII. GRANTINQ OF FIRST CHARTER OF KIXO'S COLLEGE, 1827. 21& 
 
 £ 
 400 
 
 100 
 1,100 
 
 8. 
 
 d. 
 
 1,600 
 
 
 md as soon aa 
 
 of the alder 
 
 shall admit of 
 
 In 1798, about 549,000 acres of land were appropriated for the purposes of educaticin and 
 endowment of schools. Of this appropriation, lOU.STS acres have been assigned by His 
 Majesty s Government to the General Board of Education, leaving for the endowment of tha 
 University 358,427 acres, or about seven Townships. 
 
 Of these Townships several are very convenient for settlement, though not yot saleable to 
 settlers, because grants from the Crown are easily obtained. 
 
 It is, therefore, i)ropo8ed to exchange four of these townships for the Crown Reserves under 
 actual lease, or which have been applied for, and have not been made over to the Canada Land 
 * o^o'^nn' '^'^^ benefit of sucli an exchange will be reciprocal. Government will have a tract 
 of 248,000 acres at its disposal, in eligible situations, which may be assigned to any object for 
 which the Reserves may have been considered applicable ; and the University will be enabled to 
 go much sooner into o])eration, because many of the lessees are anxious to purchase the fee 
 simple of their lands, and those who are not will pay a reasonable rent. In either case an 
 oSq n lo'"*^*^'"" ".^^•="''°'i ^^ *'"-' Institution. The Reserves prayed for in exchange yield about 
 ^^y,000 acres which may be valued at ten sliillings per acre, provincial currency, or rather more 
 than 4,100,000 sterling. Some time must elapse before such a sum can be realized ; but it is a 
 clescnpti.m of property so certain, that on the exchange being made, there would, in my opin- 
 ion, be no risk in commencing the University by erecting and furnishing the necessary buildings. 
 In response to this statement from ])r. Strachan, Sir Peregrine Maitland, (as 
 Dr. Strachan states in his speech at the opening of King's College in 1843): 
 
 Determined to refer the matter to the King's Government, and at the same time to apply 
 tor a Royal Charter for establishing the University. As local information, and many explana- 
 tions might be required instead of confining himself to writing on the subject, His Excellency 
 committed to me the duty of soliciting in person such R. yal Charter and endowment, (i.f.. 
 exchange of lands). Entrusted with this agreeable commission, I left Toronto (then York) on 
 the 16th of March, 1826, and reached London the 27th of April, and lost no time in bringing 
 the objects of my journey under the notice of His Majesty's Government.* 
 
 ^ The parties with whom Dr. Strachan placed himself in communication on his. 
 arrival in England were Earl Bathurst, Colonial Secretary, Mr. (afterwards Sir) 
 James Stephen, Law Adviser to the Colonial Department, and Sir R. W. Horton, 
 Under Secretary of State ^or the Colonies. Speaking of the aid given him by 
 Mr. Stephen, Dr. Strachan, at the opening of King's College, in 1843, said : 
 
 Mr. Stephen not only suggested but assisted me in drawing up the articles proper to form 
 the basis of the Charter. Indeed, without his kind and able advice and assistance I must have 
 tailed. He was indefatigable in removing difficulties and meeting objections raised against the 
 principle upon which we deemed it wise to construct the Charter 
 
 The Charter of the University of King's College was not hastily settled. It was nearly a 
 
 whole year under deliberation. It was repeatedly referred to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the 
 
 Most Reverend Dr. Manners, who doubted the proprie-y of assenting to an instrument so free 
 
 and comprehensive in its provisions. (Proceedings nt the Opening of King'sCollege, 1843, page39.> 
 
 In the interval between Dr. Strachan's arrival in England in April, 1826, and 
 
 the granting of the Charter in March, 1827, he drew up an elaborate" Appeal " for 
 
 circulation in England, which he issued early in 1827, with the following title : 
 
 " An Appeal to the Friends of Religion and Literature, in behalf of the 
 
 University of Upper Canada. By John Strachan, Archdeacon of York, Upper 
 
 Canada." This Appeal, (substantially an echo of the lirst part of the foregoing 
 
 letter to Sir Peregrine Maitland), was as follows : 
 
 throJilfn.^tT^^^'ff*'*' "f t'^"*^*'*/'?" '" t^'« Province of Upper Canada consists of common .schools 
 S^lSnr« *'\^^/^'^''«"^ townships or ,,anshe8 established under various Acts of the Colonial 
 tho^mlnrofTnV,lH T" l»^^f '^."" "■ T'^ excellent footingand require no other improvement than 
 S^ '"^fr V - ^^"'" """^ • ""^ ""'" ^'^ "" ''""^^ «''«"^^'^' ^'' the revenue become.v 
 
 the LieuteS&rnor in oJ^rnhpr is5^^^^^^ tlie Despatch on these subjects sent to the Secretary by 
 after Dr. Sra^ht's'^ni^SSad^SnaJc^oSh':^! TPageUV'"'* '^««'^^*«^' -*" March, 182^. 
 
 , f I 
 
 4 
 n 
 
^^■^^^^■ppffp 
 
 si?dK £a £-= ai^':« - i.r »?^s^ 
 
 ^ i 
 
 216 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTOKY OF EDUCATION IN UPI-EU CANADA. 
 
 !H27 
 
 •P' 
 
 In about three Imndred and forty common schools ostabhshed in the different Distncts of 
 UDDor SSrfrou seven to eight thousand children are taught reading and writing he 
 Upper ^^'''f^*'"^ .;;■;.' .u„ tir°t principles of religion ; and, when it is considered that the 
 
 m^!^t?cl u Sr^ n "i^ in^otation. The younger in summer when the roads are 
 
 paionts coimu. miy sen" /^^ j^ j j^^^,,)^ t>,^,g number or from 
 
 ?::'.rfo fouHeen hor. and 'children profit annualljby the com'mon scliool. The consequence 
 i» Mmt the ..eoDlo scattered as they arc, over a vast wilderness, are becoming alive to the great 
 Tdtantat J SuckS thci, children and are seconding with laudable zeal the exertions of the 
 Le^lature ; insomuch so that tho schools supported by subscription are more in number than 
 those established by law. 
 
 Provision is made by statute for the translation of some of the more i-rcmising scliolars 
 from iho ct inon to the district schools where the classics and practiaU niathematics are Utught. 
 InUi sesc o sd^^^ number there are. at present, upwards of three liuiidred young men 
 
 ac.,unn2 an education to qualify them for the ditlerent professions ; and although they can 
 slcms^upport above one nl .ster! several young gentlemen, who have been brough up in them 
 fu-en!Iw eminent in their professions and would by their talents and high principles, do credit 
 to seminaries of greater name. 
 
 But the time has arrived when the district scho.ds will become still more useful by conhn- 
 uw them to the intention of their tirst establishment, namely, nurseries for an university, an 
 i, stituHon now called for by the increased popula ion and circumstances of the colony and 
 o t e nestly acBired by th/more respectable inhabitants. There is not in either Vrnvince 
 "ny EiL^lish seminary above the rank of a good school at which a liberal '^'l"'^^, " ' '^^^"/^f, 
 obtitined Thus the youth of three hundred thousand Englishmen have no opportunity of 
 receiving instruction within the Cai.adas in Law, Medicine or Divinity. 
 
 The consequence is that many young men coming forward to ^^'^ /e^^^'^ l^"']'''^^'"^^^^ 
 oblii/ed to look beyond the Province for the last two or three years of their education, undoubt- 
 :S J^ he most iniportant and critical period of their whole lives Very few -J-^f !«• ;- --"fJJ^ 
 of the great expense, to proceed to England <.r Scotland, and the distance is so gre«.t and the 
 d ti uEso inany that parental anxie'ty relucUntly trusts children so '"' J^^^^s observa on 
 and control. The youth are, therefo-e, in some degree, compelled to ook towards the Umted 
 Stat s where the means of education, though of a description far inferior ♦». ^^^-.^^ ;^f ^"^ 
 Britain, are yet superior to anything within the Province, and ''.g"^*'"^ "^^^^ /J *^,"3„"^ 
 sending thein to finish their education in that country. Now, in the Lnited Strt*es a custom, 
 pre V Is unk c w„ o . or unpractised, by any other nation ; in all other countries morals and religion 
 ire niade the basi. of public instruction aud the first b^.oks put into the hands of children teach 
 then U o domestic, thl social and religious virtues ; but in the United States P-l^t'cs per^.de 
 the whole system of education ; the school books from the very farst elements are stufled with 
 praises of their own institutions and breathe hatred to everj'thmg English. 
 
 To such a country our youth may go, strongly attached to their native lands and to all its 
 <,8tab8hn<^iL but by hearing theui continually depreciated and those of America praised, 
 
 utattadn:^nt\Slin^ii^^^ 
 
 liberty which has degenerated into licentiousness and imbibe, perhaps unoonsciously, sentiments 
 
 unfriendly to things of which Englishmen are jiroud. 
 
 It is indeed, easy to perceive the danger of sending our most prominent youth to a country 
 to fiJish'their educatfon Jhere they hear nothing in praise of theu' native land and where any^ 
 thing bespeaks hatred and defiance, where her merits «;« ^-^^^'^^^tf'^/Jff **"?,''" j^'J/f^^^^^^^^ 
 and ttlories soiled by the poison of calumny. Nor can it be expected that any of ttiem on their 
 Return wil g e up their hearts and affections to their Parent State with the si^me cordiality hat 
 the would have done had the been carefully nurtured within the British Domimons. What, 
 nTeed can be more importuit to the true prosperity of the P-vince than hecarefii^^ecW^^ 
 of its youth t In what other way can we ever obtain a well-instructed population by which to 
 preserve our excellent constitution and our connection with the B^^'^^^^^- '"''^.S.ve >.at 
 re.Hpectable character to the country, which arises from an intelligent magistracy and from ha^- 
 ing public situations filled by men oi ability and information. 
 
 What has been already d.me to effect this purpose is highly creditable to Province ; the two 
 primary ste^'. have been Uken, .nd tlie third which is the most imporlanl is oj.posed by no 
 serious impediments. 
 
 The establishment of an University at the seat of Government will complete a system of 
 educltion fn C,rCanada from the lett^.-s of the alphabet to the most profound invctigatiom 
 of scionce-a system which will i.o intimately connecled m all u,s urancacr, AhuoSL .h. '-'>""«•.■' 
 Schools are connected with the District Schools, as they may send up a-j^^t^}" "»«""■ "^/,"^;^^«, 
 ba instructed qratis ; and the District Schools may be connected with the Umveisity by means 
 of icholarshiprto increase in number a, the reyenue. of the University shall admit, either by 
 
5 827 
 
 <.Ai*;^ 
 
 Chap, XLITI, GRANTING OF FIRST CHARTER OF KINO'S COLLEGE, 1827. 
 
 217 
 
 Districts of 
 riting, tho 
 >(i that the 
 iB roads are 
 ler or from 
 unsecjuence 
 to tho great 
 tions of the 
 umber than 
 
 ii)g scholars 
 1 are taught. 
 
 young men 
 gli they can 
 
 ui> in them, 
 38, do credit 
 
 il by coiitin- 
 iiiversity, an 
 colony and 
 ler Province ^ 
 itiou can be 
 portuuity of 
 
 ofessions are 
 on, undoubt- . 
 J, (in account 
 reat and the 
 I uyjservation 
 la the United 
 lose of Great 
 is arising of 
 les a custom- 
 sand religion 
 ihildren teach 
 litics ])ervade 
 I stuffed with 
 
 and to all its 
 lerica praised, 
 ited with that 
 ly, sentiments 
 
 ;h to a country 
 nd where any- 
 all her virtues 
 them on their 
 cordiality that 
 nions. What, 
 reful education 
 on by which to 
 ( and give that 
 and from hav- 
 
 vince ; the two 
 opposed by no 
 
 etc a system of 
 1 investigations 
 st the Consmois 
 mber of bo > s to 
 rsity by means 
 Jmit, either by 
 
 tho sale ot lands iipproijrinlotl for its eiulownient or grants from the I'rovincial Legislature i jiiid 
 the University might, in time, become connected witli Oxford and Cambridge in England by 
 possossini; some exhibitions at each for the benefit of its more promising sons. In this manner 
 the dooito a liberal education would bo opened to all the inhabitants, and the children of the 
 farmer and mechanic might be found deservedly filling the highest offices of the Colony to which 
 they had arisen by their superior talents fostered by the benevolent institutions of the Province 
 and Upper Canada might boait a plan of public instruction rarely e<]ualled and not surpiissed by 
 any in the world. 
 
 This establishment, by collecting all the promising you'h of the colony into one place, 
 would gradually give a new tone to public sentinients and feelings ; and should any jwrtion of 
 the people cherish a leaning towards our neighbors, it would te removed or checked by means 
 not in their nature violent, but, on the contrary, producing the most beneficial etfects throuaih 
 the whole Province. It is, iude d quite evident that the consequences of a University estab- 
 lished even on a very moderate scale, but possessing sufficient recommendations to attract to it 
 tho sons of the most opulent families, would so m " 'i visible in the greater intelligence and more 
 confiniied principles of loyalty of those who would be called to the various j)ublic duties required 
 in the country. Nor is the nimiber small that are thu* called. upon to fill the stations of magis- 
 trates, legislators, and the ranks of the different learned professions. 
 
 There are, it is believed, at present between forty %nd fifty youpg gentlemen in the Pro- 
 vince studying the profes-tion of the law, a profession which mubt, in a country like this, bo the 
 repository of the highest talents. Lawyers must from the very nature of our political institu- 
 tions, from there being no great land pr prietors, no privileged orders, become the most 
 jwwerful profession and must, in time, possess more infiuence and authority than any (»ther. 
 They are emjjhatically our men of business and will gradually engross all the Colonial offices of 
 profit and honour, is it not, therefor, of the utmosr importance that they should be collected 
 together at the University, b come ac(iuainted with each other, and tamiliiir with similar views 
 and modes of thinking, and be taught from precept and example, to venerate and love our 
 Parent State. It is, surely, of great conse([uence that a class of intelligent men belonging to a 
 profession which otlers the highest inducements of rei)Utation, wealth, influence, authority and 
 power, should be attached by sentiment and teeling to the Briti.sh eiii])ire. 
 
 In regard to the profession of medicine, now becoming of great importarce in the Province, 
 it is melancholy to think that three-fourths of the present practitioners have been educated or 
 attended lectures in the United States, and it is to be presumed that many of them are inclined 
 towards that country. But in Upper Canada there is no provision whatever for attaining medical 
 knowledge, and those that make choice of that profession must go to a foreign country to 
 acquire it. 
 
 There are only twenty-four clergymen in Upper Canada, the greater number from England, 
 the remainder natives. Now, unless we can get respectable clergymen from England, it is 
 essential that the young men coining forward to the church should be educated entirely within 
 the Province, but for this there is no sort of provision. It is true that the few clergymen born 
 in tho country have I een hitherto educated by their elder brethren, and the result has been the 
 most satisfactory, for, in some respects, they have the advantage over their brethren from Eng- 
 land ; they are better accjuainted wth the people and can address them with more effect, and, 
 as they bring over to the church their friends and relations, the power and influence of the 
 establishment are increased But the w.ants of the Province are becoming great, and, however 
 much disposed the elder clergy may be to bring forward ytmng men to th^ sacr. d profession, 
 they have neither leisure nor the means of doing it with proper effect. There can be nothing of 
 that zeal, of that union and mutual attachment, of that deep thi ological and literary enquiry 
 and anxiety to excel, which would be found among young men collected at the University. 
 
 Nothing can bo more manifest than that Upper Canada has not yet felt the advantage of a 
 religious establishment. What can twenty-four clergymen do, scattered over a country of nearly 
 six hundred miles in length / Can we be surprised that, under such circumstances, tho religious 
 boMufits of a church establishment are unknown, and that sectaries of all descriptions have in- 
 creased ? And when it is farther considered that the religious teachers of all other Protestant 
 denominations, a very few respectable ministers of the Church of Scotland excepted, come from 
 the republican states of America, where they gather their knowlodgo and form their sentiments, 
 it is evident that, if the Imperial Government does not steji forward with efficient help, the 
 mass of the population will be gradually nurtured a'ld instructed in hostility to our institutions, 
 both civil and religious. 
 
 Were the youn<r men, destined for these professions i,v any otlter libor'v! pursuits, to have 
 to have their minds formed at a University, they would oomp ise a body continually inoeasing, 
 which, in union, respectability and strength, would overmatch any tendency to disaffection that 
 might appear, and gradually produce a tone and feeling through the Province, altogether 
 British. 
 
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 V 
 
 218 
 
 DOCUMENTAUY HISTORY OF KDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 The noble Lonl at tlie head of the Colonial Department, who has through life been tho 
 strenuous nnii upright friend r)f religion and the promoter of every meaHure that had a tendency 
 to advance the true prosperity of the colonies, having taken these circuniHtances into considera- 
 tion, has not only commanded in His Majesty's name a I oyal Charter to issue, establishing an 
 rnivorsity in Upper Canada, wliich shall have and enjoy all such and the bke privileges as are 
 enjoyed by the Universities of the United Kingdom of Grea Britain and Ireland, and has de- 
 clared it to be the iininiticent intention of our Beloved i^overeign to grant a sum of money for 
 the purpose of erecting the necessary buildings, and to confer such an Endowment as shall, in a 
 few years, place the Institution in full and active operation. His Majesty's Government having^ 
 thus done' all and oven mora than could have been expected, nothing would remain but patiently to 
 wait till tho Endowment yielded the means of counnencing the business of instruction, were not 
 the wants of the Province so urgent that the delay of five or six year?, wnich must elapse before 
 the University, under present circuin.-'tances, can be put in activity, may bo attended with evil 
 consequences which may never be retrieved. Under this apjjrehension, I am induced to appeal 
 to the friends of religion that we may be enabled immediately to collect around us the youth of 
 Canada for the purjtose of instruction. Already has the Venerable Society for the Propagation 
 of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, sensible of the urgency of the case, granted i'oOO towards pur- 
 chasing a library, and an o(iual or greater donation is confidently expected from the sister Society 
 for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 
 
 It is chiefly on religious grounds that this Appeal for the University of Upper Canada is. 
 made, which, while it oilers its benefits to the population, will, for a century to come, from the 
 peculiar circumstanr es of the country, be essentially a Missionary College, and the number of 
 clergymen which it will be called upon to furnish will be more than double what any other pro- 
 fession can require. 
 
 "Table of the Rklioious State of Upper Canada as it Respects the 
 
 Established Church." 
 
 [Note.— This Table comprised the Church of England statistics of the eleven 
 Districts then in existence, viz. : Eastern Ottawa, Johnstown, Bathurst, Midland, 
 Newcastle, Home, Gore, Niagara, London and Weston. Number of square miles, 
 28,260 ; number of Townships and Parishes, 260 ; estimated population, 200,000 ; 
 number of settled clergymen, 24 ; number of clergymen required, 112.] 
 
 This Table, in respect to its measurements, having been compiled from a map is not given 
 as fractionally exact, but will be found in all i)art8, substantially correct. 
 
 Assuming that there ought to be a clergyman for every 1,600 inhabitants, it will be seen 
 that 112 clerg\mpn are, at this moment, required for the Province of Upper Canada. But it i» 
 to be remarked that these 1.500 inhabitants are comnicmly scattered over a surface of several 
 hundred square miles, and that, if confined to this number, every clergyman must, to be useful, 
 itinerate and have many places of worhip to attend. Under such circumstances all the advant- 
 ages of a sedentary established clergy cannot be enjoyed. Even if one clergyman were settled in 
 everj- townshij) of which there are already 260, his labours would be groat, for these lown.shipa 
 or parishes are commcmly twelve by nine miles, containing more than 100 sciuare miles and, 
 consequently, equal in extent to eight or ton parishes in this country. 
 
 Again tht rapid increase of poptdation must bo taken into consideration, which will double 
 every fifteen or twciity years for a century to come. Now if the p .pulation in 182C amo\niting 
 to 2(")0,000 recjuire 112 additional clergymen, which, with the twenty-four already in the country 
 make in all 13(1, then in 184«, the population, which will at least be 4(10,000. will re(iuiro l.'lft 
 more clergymen for their religious instruction, or about .seven every year. Tlus new dt'mand. 
 together with the number necessary to fill up vaomcies, will require, during the early years of 
 the seminary a great and increasing number every season. 
 
 The University of Ui)|>er Canada will, therefore, necessarily bo a Missionary College, atid 
 will have to furnisJi a greater number of candidates, for Holy Orders than for any of the other 
 prf)fe8si(ins. In this point of view, it appears equally deserving of assistance with Bishop's Col- 
 lege at Calcutta ; for, if the >tter confine itself entirely to the re igious instructi(m of those 
 wlio (ire to becomo missionaries, it is because there is another semi ary supported by tho East 
 India Company, where laymen can ac(|uiro an academical education. In the Canada Univer- 
 sity both are combined, as sutiicient endowments could not have been procured for two ; but 
 tho wisdom of such separation may be well (luestioned, when it is considered that young men 
 aspiring to the sacred profession are frefjuently a check upon their companions studying for 
 
1827 
 
 Chap. XLIir. GRANTING OF FIRST CHARTER OF KlNO'S COLLEGE, 1827. 
 
 219 
 
 fe been the 
 . a tendency 
 I) cousidtTii- 
 iltliHliin^ an 
 leges as are 
 nnd has do- 
 [ iTioney for 
 a shall, in a 
 nent havinj^ 
 patiently to 
 in, were not 
 lapse before 
 ed with evil 
 3d to iippeal 
 »e youth of 
 Propagation 
 owards pur- 
 ster yociety 
 
 r Canada is- 
 e, from the 
 ! number of 
 y other pro- 
 
 -F.CTS THE 
 
 the eleven 
 
 Midland, 
 
 lare miles, 
 
 , 200,000 ; 
 
 is not given 
 
 will be seen 
 . But it i» 
 3 of several 
 to be useful, 
 the advant- 
 ro settled in 
 e lownshiiJS 
 3 miles and, 
 
 will double 
 
 I amounting 
 the country 
 reijnirc \'Mi 
 Liw (U-niand. 
 rly years of 
 
 ^Jolleate, and 
 )f the other 
 ishop's Col- 
 ion of those 
 by the East 
 iwla Univor- 
 >r two ; but 
 young men 
 tudying for 
 
 other purposes, and are found exerting over them an indirect moral influence of the greatest 
 advantago. Considering, therefore, this Institution in the light of a Missionary Seminary, and 
 the great want of clergymen in U_)(' • Canada, it must bo manifest to everycmo that, to put it 
 into immediate operation is of the i ost essential consoijuonce'; and, as His Majesty's Oovern- 
 nient has done so well, it is not perhaps, too much to expe.'b from the friends of pure religion 
 the assistance necessary for supporting the institution till the endowments become avaikble. 
 For this purpose six or seven thousand ]iounds would be suftioie- •■, a sum not exceeding what 
 was coUecteil by the American Bishops and their friends two ^ears ago. It is not for the pur- 
 pose of censuring the benevolence of my countrymen to the Sister Church in the United States 
 that I recall the visit of Bishops H jb.irt and C hase to remembrance, but to shew that the case 
 of IJpper Canada, even if it were not an integral part of the Empire and inhabited by fellow- 
 subjects and lielonging to the oame church, is much stronger than that of Ohio. In his appeal 
 to the British Public, Bishop Chase detailed, with much truth the many privations to which he 
 and his clergy were exposed, at.d the difficulties and dangers which they had to encounter in dis- 
 seminating religion in their diocese. To this affectionate appeal the hearts of the religious in- 
 stnntly opened, and the venerable Ri8ho{) returned in triumph with ample means for establish- 
 ing a seminary for briuj^ing up vtMing men to the ministry of the sacred word and ordinances. 
 The writer of this paper is contident that thi money thus bestowed will be appropriated in the 
 most judicious and disinterested irsanner to pr anote the great object for which it was given, and 
 that ikwill yield a rich harvest both here and hereafter to the generous donors. But he confi- 
 dently^ppeals to the same benevolence for like assistance in a case of still greater necessity. 
 For no person can fail to perceive that our missionaries in Upper Canada are exposed to greater 
 hardships and privations than can possibly be met with in the State of Ohio. Upper Canada is 
 560 miles long, Ohio only 200, their breadth is, I believe, nearly etjual. The population of 
 Upper Canada scattered over this immense country amounts to 200,000, that of Ohio to 800,- 
 000, or four times the number settled in a country not, perhaps, one quarter the area, thus 
 makini^ the population in Ohio about sixteen times more dense than in Upper Canada. For 
 every person that a missionary mei ts travelling through the woods in the British Province, he 
 will meet sixteen travelling in Ohio and consequently the roads are proportionally better. There 
 are not in Upper Canada four persons to a square mde, in Ohio upwards of forty. The differ- 
 ence of wealth is perhaps, still greater, because many of the inhabitants of Ohio are emigrants 
 from the neighboring States who fre-iuently bring with them large capitals, whereas Upper Can- 
 ada, since its first establishment, has continued the asylum of the poor and destitute. First 
 the refugee Loyalists who sacrificed everything for their king and country ; next, discharged 
 soldiers, who if not settled there, would have become a burden on this country, and now, since 
 the general peace, it is filling with paupers from the United Kingdom by which vast sums are 
 annually saved which had been spent supporting them before their emigration. While, there- 
 fore, I praise the benevolence extended to Bishop Chase, I am persuaded that all his benefac- 
 tors will freely admit that our claim is yfet stronger, and that, if their ability allow, they wil 
 feel conscientiously bound to extend to us similar help. 
 
 When it is corsidered that the Canadas are capable of maintaining a population of twelve 
 or sixteen millions, it is impossible to set limits to the influence which the University of the 
 Upper Province, if wisely and piously directed, may acquire over this vast jMipulation, the 
 greater portion of which may, through the Divine blessing, be brought up in the Communion 
 of the Church of England. A farther and more pressing reason for hastening the active commence- 
 ment of the University will be found in the fact that our Church, in its present state, uiay be said 
 to bo struggling for existence, attacked as she is by the Romish Church and all the seotaires who, 
 though agreeing in nothing else, join in opposing her, because she is the establishment of Eng- 
 land. We have to contend with 400,000 Roman Catholics in the sister Province of Lower Can- 
 ada, under a numerous and regular priesthood, headed by an Archbishop, and four sufi'ragaus, 
 and assisted by three colleges ; one at Quebec, one at Montreal and f)ne at St. Nicolet, where 
 the different branches of an academical education, as well as theology, are taught. 
 
 The paramount nflue ce of the Roman Catholics in Lower Canada, and their decided 
 majority in the Legislature, render all expectations of a great increase of our Church, or of 
 any solid improvements in educatinor the people, for a long time hopeless. The stream of 
 amelioration must flow from Upper Canada, and the Univeisity must be the source cf its sup- 
 ply. It will become the rallying point of the Protestant faith, the promoter of sound religious 
 principles and profitable instruction through both Provinces. Nor is there a moment to lose ; 
 for the recent emigrations from Ireland are daily adding strength to the Roman Catholics, and 
 diminishnig the comparative Superiority of Protestants even in Upper Canada. 
 
 But appalling as these civoumslauces are, I cannot help feeling the greatest encouragement 
 from an occurrence connected with the religious instruction of the Canadaa, which is now a 
 matter of history. The first step ever taken by the Imperial Legislature towards a recognition 
 of that obvious but still unacknowledged principle that the colonies of a country have as good 
 
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 S20 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 according to the forms and ceremomoB ..f tho Church of England. , , ^ • , 
 
 What indeed are the CTCftt objects of c.lonization but to provide for the redundancies of 
 
 What, ""^^^f'*7,,\"*'„^.,_i„„ industry the means and opi-ortunity -f suc- 
 
 popuhition, to afford to '""•"""""^^^"'^y ^,,,„ unheeded and uncultivated bounties of Nature ; 
 
 i^mS lands oThicliheJ commerce can be extended ; and. .n add.t.on. to d.rect to beneficial 
 remi.testlanastownicni. those whom the offended laws have banished from their 
 
 ii'atTe'Ld N w th e ..b ecU are beneficial to the parent st«te. producing Hettlements in the 
 native land, ^ow ^ " • , •• ^^ jj, ^j,,. ,.;^^ „f unhealthy climates and unexplored seas. And 
 
 Sdanrrr^ident t , the formation of such settlements for the advantHge of heir ""/ive land 
 and t h, tl e meantiine, deprived of their most precious rights and privileges / Surely, if they 
 /fiLif^ « 1 the com of a moral and religious educati<,n by remaining at home, much 
 
 morouiit^u^cl^^^^^^^^ -» - P-ible follow the... to .he remote 
 
 B^ttTemenU which they are employed in establishing. And, if any Co bny .*« have a para.nou t 
 c£Tv"r ano her to a priviege which is the common right of all, it is Canada more particu- 
 krWVppe Ca Ida. wh ch was first settled by men driven from their homes by the enemies of 
 heir country muy of who.n had sacrificed to principle the means which would have enabled 
 thmn to E procured for themselves and children the benefits of moral and religious instruc 
 
 ^'''"'it is to be lamented that this groat country in «"t'^^\i«'»"« '^"l^'"^''' ^,^,:='^^^^^^^^^ 
 her views to pecuniary advantage and seems to have forgotten that the attach >..ent of foreign 
 Lttlemrits derendsinfinitely ...ore upon moral and religious feeling than poht.cal arrangement or 
 co™S ,Sr C it is ^ 1'40,000 per annum (which is sca-cely the expense of 
 
 a SS^reg ment), spent in the support of a zealous clergy in the Nortli American Colonies 
 to3 do SeTn producing good failing and loyal ^t^''^^'-"* ^" ^'7.';! '« "ll^.^f^?^^^^^^^^^^ 
 infttitutions of England than one hundred times the sura spent in any other mannei. Keligu us 
 nstSon should be made sufficient and commensurate with the wants of the peoj.le in every 
 mrt of he EmSe norshould it be thought a matter of indifference in colonial po icy, or even 
 S^eSL dary Tonsid'emtio 1 It should take the lead of all others ; for to form colonics under 
 Christen SnciEi! one of the noblest and most beneficial purposes which g-nernments can 
 Si Tor Ire the present times, we confess, without some indications that a nobler policy may, 
 at leni^tr be adoptS^ K the Legislature which, in 1793, co.isidered the claims ot the colonies 
 toS'us'^iilrEonas the sugg'estion of visionaries and ^'^niirotru^ii/raf'systm o^ 
 Empir = had been lost by its neglect, has now sanctioned the adoption »^^^ "" "[J'^^yj^J'^^n 
 reliiious insl ruction for the colonies in the East, as well as in the West And, it it be »"|'"W«; 
 nn SenCv and ^ British Umpire will be established on a foundation more absolut^ 
 
 SmriiyXfhullloi'ed pow^^ hold in subjection for it will rest on .he opinions and 
 
 .ZS.oft.o hundred nlillion of men. Nor will ^-'^ ^ P;\-y/ .f"';^^^^^^^^^^ 
 IS and ureanant with tranquility and happiness, increase the pubhc expenditure, t r, as cne 
 inCncJof^ChrisUan principle, extend the charge for physical coercion w.U I'^come less inur^ 
 nurs «^11 give way t^ blessings and praise; and one-fourth of the human race being thus 
 roclainred, the rSnder will gradually follow, and thus the whole earth become the garden of 
 
 * But the return from thi. sublime and fascinating prospect, it may be reasonably ^sked by 
 
 L expected to yield something, and to increase gradually >",fX f ' Xe vounrSavmen 
 towns, which will soon be reasonably productive. Add to all this that the young clergymen 
 must and will serve for some years at a very moderate allowance. 
 
 The creat difficulty, therefore, which wj have to encounter, is a delay of five or six years 
 
 in commoiSgouTUnifersityand'the consequent increasing want of religious instruction It 
 
 hLrbeTn Sn that 112 additional clergymen are now required, and, by the time that our 
 
 endowments becone available, forty more will be necessary. , ,j o b, -^t. 
 
 Let the friends of religion reflect that this Appeal is in favour of the Household of *aith 
 
 ,..,. i:?i. L b! htrd bellfre that of the heathen ; that It is our brethren who are perishing « 
 
 fallin'ffliwav for lick of instruction. The corruption of humnu I'a ure is "^"Kmgiy v«iui= in 
 
 he cLn^^wSh trequently take, place among persons settled in the wilderness. At first they 
 
 tetZir d;stireVn.n/churche's and schools, but. by/egrees suc^i iamen^^^^^^^ 
 
 as well as the religious feelings from which they emanated. Living without restraint ana wun 
 
Chap. XLIII. GRANTING OF FIRST CHARTER OF KINO's COLLEGE, 1827. 
 
 121 
 
 At 1. IT fu r** '*.'""'' '''^^ T'r'- * '•'"*" "^ ''^""""-^ •»"•* "»''■«•■•>" frequently dwanpeari 
 divutw I') '^'r""'",'" '""/" Ix'ly things prions itself i,» all it. defomity. LliSfe Ti 
 men frT.ro Pi*"'* "*"*'"'' "^ fy^^ything SHcrecl n.ake their .ppcaranco. and a total iT.anie 
 ment from God cn.ues ; ano, although, from their Bituation, crime, against society are fe* Tha 
 
 ment. it f^h. ^r.'h'"'" *^"' '« e"«1«'"Kr '""'*»^'« ^''"1'^ '«""'"' "' ".anyTtho back settle! 
 To th«ir lllJ "^ "'fuatumi that the influence of the female sex is ,.. heautifully exemnlifie, I 
 SVSTj. P '"n'■^'*^"^^" '" attribute all the humanity and softness that renmh^Th' 
 
 the clostiny of the hu„ an race ' fThen ll -1? *^"»*,^"' ?«*'»"* '" ^''^ """'* ""^^ 'letermino 
 bright emanation from Heavrthehirbin' J, o^nf CJmstjan.ty to be what it professes, a 
 well as individuals : if we hrve fLnd E' , ^ *'^ "".1 J"^' '"^« '*"*^ ^"^''''ty ^o nations, as 
 smooths the pillow of lolth and Zls theZfTr.?"''"^ *l"r." P.""*^"l '^"'^ exalts our natur., 
 from labouring, by every ins in our nowfr?r/ "n™ortal.ty, how shall we excuse ourselve; 
 have been, from Wr LTappy ", ZtiordeoHvI^^^^^^^ *^««'-*« «^ those who 
 
 their bounty will become li^KateStm^^^^^ instruction ? Nor need any fear that 
 
 God,bea8^ood seed .own bri^iTn^ rtK^^^^^^ h^n^r'S"/' '/'''r^'V^'^ ^'^'"''"^ "^ 
 
 whom such assistance will enable us to eduLte and send f^,rfh. ^"It ^'^V^^ y"""« "^^". 
 the Lord, will not return empty handed Thpr„»r!f- T'""? ^^^ P^^P'^ '» »'»« »P'rit of 
 
 are desired by every nmn-roSn-s of dee Jaffl.ct^n o Ta.T^'V*''\'""^'^'**'""« «^ '•«"«i°" 
 weeping spirit bows io the voice of God anc? at such tiL» I "^'"^^ bereavements, when the 
 cannot fail of making a deep impression And indeed TnerieZ'nr '''"fl'^'^^ clergyman 
 a clergyman is placed, he very soon collects around hi.nfhl .V ^^^^ *'"*^' wherever such 
 
 respectable a.id incre*;8ing congregation neighbouring settlers and forms a 
 
 KING'S College Charter of 1827. with Rev. Dr. Stkachan's Emendations. 
 
 The printed copy of the o,i,nnal Charter of King's College, frn.n which the 
 followmg IS taken. .3 the one formerly owned by the Reverend Dr. Strachan 
 himself. ts value is enhanced from the fact that it contains, in Dr. Strachan s 
 own handwriting, the emendations which he made in it. and the altera ion 
 which he agreed to. as the basis of the amended Charter of lh;;7. in regard toTt 
 exclusive Church of England character. ° '*'•' 
 
 The reasons why he agreed to these changes and modifications are th„s 
 stated by his friend, the Rev. Dr. Bethune, in his Memoir of Bis/um ^l- 
 published in 1870-thi.ee years after he had succeeded Dr. StrUlt^t ' l^' 
 Bishop of Toronto. Dr. Bethune said : ^ 
 
 ter];?n|LXwHtrohZ^^^^^ 
 
 that he hHd expressed to Lord Bathurst h s Xect .mfo ff„ ' •"•' '^'«';et"'n from Fn^land, 
 of York for the time being, should be"x SciXetlnt of thi'ir"'"".''"'' *''« V^h^ieacon 
 h.s doubts as to whether it was judicious to lSJSrVf?om men W« fTT>^ ' **"'' ^'^ '*'*«'» also 
 tion to the Thirty-Nine Articles. (Page HO) »>^'"'^«™ «f ^U College Council, sul.scrip- 
 
 ^" '"I'oJ't ^-f * ^^''"'^ '' ""^"^'^ ^'^^'^' ^^ UPP- Canada fro.n i.s first 
 germ in 1797. to its .snnnrn««mn ;,. laxn^' , . ^ ^^^^^ 
 
 rk oi u T . ^'^ ••• .— ^, "as prcpareu Under the direction nf 
 
 Dr. Strachan. In .t was embodied his speech „„ the occasion „f ope,!; kL"! 
 
DOCU«»NT*»T mSTOKV or EDU0AT.OK .» UPPEE CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 I 
 
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 222 
 
 A i^^A \n iha.t sneoch was continued down to 
 
 mvre e^^^rrrrr— ^.e ... o.... .... 
 
 COPV or THK. K,NO'« CO.L.0K CHABTKK O. 1827, WHH AtTE«AT,„N». 
 
 « /. J » n,fl tTnitPtl Kim!(l<>in «>f Great Britain ami 
 
 Oreetino : „.., Province of UppfiCiinadtt. in North 
 
 Whereas the c«t«bli4.nie.a of a Co lege wiOun m.^ , 
 
 Knmbl.ai.i.iicati.n hatli been '"'^'i" ^'' "'1,*'^; putter for the more perfect eatabhshnient 
 :^„cr hat we would be pleased to ^^--,;;^\^Xe^ZTih^^^^^^^ thi purposes aforesaul ; 
 oi a College therein and for >"«'''^'i:''^»'„^"« '''" 1'™ ^into Our Royal consi.leration, and duly 
 Now Know Ye, that We, ^avmg t^k^n the pre-m • .^^^j,,^ jf^,,^ f our special g- ace 
 weighing the great utility and ''"P«'^**"°^. 'L'3 * nted, a..d do by these presents for U^ 
 rX "knowledge, and were motion "^i**" f .•^T^,^"^^^ 'f 
 
 :«fH iriand Successors, -<!;- "■^VSnlda n^^^^^^ "-' ^^H^'^f'. ^'^^ '^' "'tj'^S. 
 
 York in our said Province of Upper ^f "*7' "' '^ {„, the education and instruction of jouth 
 ^;rvn'e'g"s of an Umversity a» ~^^^^ ,. bo called King's College 
 
 Ld students in arts and faculties, to c „„,.^,,,,t„ «„J weH h'h.ved, the Right Revermd 
 
 Kni We do l^ereby declare and gra.itth^^tmf r^^J^ ^ ^^^ ^.^,^^^^^ ^^ . ^,,^ ^ ^ , / 
 
 the Huid prm,t Diocese of (^»eJ>ec. Strachan's own handwriting to 
 
 tNoTE. -The foregoing -o^^' -'.^^j^^J^f f. ^^M the mul Prorince."] 
 read as follows : " The Court of Kuuj » liemn j ^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 Sh.ll for us and on our behal be ^.^f^'j^lXZ^^^^^^ ."^ T '""^ 
 
 beloved Sir Ferey, u^. Maitland Loitered to MnCo^bon^ administrating the Govem- 
 
 ^Province. or th^-vemor ^J" f-^ ti^gX^^^ ,,, c'hancellor of our said College . 
 nient of our said Province for the Uine » ^^^^ ^^ .n ^i^es. be one Presi- 
 
 And we do hereby declare ordain and grant that t ^^ ^ ^,^^^^^ ^ 
 
 d*,nto"our said College [added by ^^;^^}7^^^''^.^^^^ of the Uiiited Church of Enu-md and 
 
 our pleasure. . , T>„„erend John Strachan, Doctor m Divinity, 
 
 And we do hereby grant and ordain ^^f fc^^;;^^^*'™;; ^11 be the Srst President of our 
 
 e4pu'ng«^ by Dr. Strachan]. Successors will, ordain, and grant that the said 
 
 And We do hereby, for l\«; ^r^J^f "roTelo« S^^^^^^ C-Uege, and all persons who shall 
 
 Chancellor and President, and ^he b*"!! P[«^"^J'^„ „j ^^^ said College, and their succeswrs 
 
1827 
 
 Chap. XLIII. QRANTINQ OF FIRHT CHARTER OK KINO's COLLEOE, 1827. 
 
 223 
 
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 ouality soever, situate and being withni Our n*id Province of Upper Canada, so as the same do 
 not exceed in yearly value, fhe sum of fifteen thousand pounds, sterling, above all charxuH, 
 and, moreover, to take, purchase, ao<|uire, have, hold, enjoy, receive, posdees and retain, all 
 or any goods, chattels, cliaritabie or other contributions, gifts or benefaotiors whatsoever. 
 
 And We do hereby declare and grant that the said Chancellor, President and Schf)lan», 
 and their successors by the same name, shall and may be able and capable in law to sue and be 
 sued, implead and bo imjdeadod, answer or be answered, in all or any Court or Cour 4 of 
 Hecord within our United Kingdom of Oreat Britain and Ireland, and Dursaid I'ro.uice of Upper 
 Canada, and other Our Dominions, in all and singular actions, causes, pleas, suiti. matters and 
 demands whatsoever, of what nature or kind scjover, in an large, ample, and beneficial a manner 
 and form, as any other body politic or corpor.ite, or any other Our liege hu1)JocU, being 
 ■ible and capable in law, may or can sue, implead or answer, or basued, impleaded ok answered, 
 in any manner whatsoever. 
 
 And We do hereby declare onlain and grant that there shall be within Our said College 
 or Corporation, a Coi-ncil to bo called and known by the name of "The College C.mocil," and 
 We do will and ordain that the said Council shall consist of the Chancellor and President for 
 the time being, and of seven of the Professors in Arts and Faculties of Our said CoUeifo ; and 
 that such seven Professors shall be members of the Established United Church of England and 
 Ireland, and shall lyremouiilii t„ their admiHsion into the mid CoUeri,:, severally aiijn and si^scribe 
 the 'Ihirty-mne Artidea of Religion as dedured and set forth in the Book of Common Prayer. 
 
 [Note— These words in italics were expunged by Dr. Strachan ) 
 
 And, in case, at any time, there sh uld not bo within Our said College seven Professors of 
 Arts and Faculties, being mombers of the EHtablished Church aforesaid, then Our will and 
 pleasure is and We do hereby grant and ordain that the siid College Council shall be filled up 
 to the recjuisite number of seven, excliisivo of the Chancellor and President for the time being 
 by such persons being graduates of Our said College, and being members of the Established 
 Church aforesaid, .;s shall, for that purpose, be appointed by the Chancellor for the time being 
 of Our College, rt a./ M-'/u'c/i >n.e»i^>ecji of Convxd shall in like manne-, subscribe the Thirty-nine 
 Artidea aforesaid, premonsly to their admission into the said College Council. 
 
 [Note— These words in italics were expunged by Dr. Strachan.] 
 And whereas it^s necewary to make pnjvision for the completion and filling up of t 
 CounaF. at the first institution of Our said College, and previously to the ajjpointment 
 
 Professors, or the conferring of miy Degrees therein ; now We do further ordain and 
 
 that the Chancellor of Our said Colle„'e for the time being, shall, ■non or immediately after the 
 first institution thereof, by Warrant under his hand, nominate and appoint s«von discreet and 
 proper persons, resident within Our Province of Upper Can ■li mstitue jointly with him 
 
 the said Chancellor and the President of Our said ( o!!^ tor tae time being, the first or 
 original Council of our said College ; which first or oruimai members of the said Council shidl in 
 like manner, respectively subscribe the Thirty-nine Artichs afir.said, previously to their admission 
 into the said Council. 
 
 [Note.— These words in italics were expunged by Dr Strachan], 
 
 And We do further grant and declare that the members of the said College Council, holding 
 within Our College the oftices of i hancellor, Prt ident or Professor in any Art or Faculty, shall 
 respective'y hold their seats in the said Council, -so long as they and each of them shall r,>tain 
 auch their said oftices as aforesaid, and no longer, and that the members of the said Council, 
 not holding ofKces in Our said Council, sbrdl, from time to time vacate their seat« in ihe said 
 Council, when and so soon as there sha!l bo an adetjuate number of Professors in Our said 
 College being members as the Established Chupch aforesaid, to till up the said Council t. 'he 
 requisite number before mentioned. 
 
 And We do hereby authorize and empower the Chancellor, for the time being, of > ,did Col- 
 lege, to decide in each case what particular member of the said Council, not holding any such 
 office as aforesaid, shall vacate his seat in the said Council, upon the admission of any new mem- 
 ber of Council holding any such office. 
 
 And We do hereby declare and grant that tho Clianc«llor, for the time h.nng, of Our said 
 College, shall preside at all meetings of the said College Council, which he may deem it proper 
 or convenient to attend, and that, in his absence the President of Our said College shall presi<le 
 at all such meetings ; and het in the absence of the said President, the senior member of > he said 
 Council present at such meetinfir. shall preside thereat ; and that thn i^aiA aotiioriHT 
 
 said 
 any 
 late 
 
 .f fi. 
 
 iCVe 
 
 ot the said Council, other than the Chancellor and President, shall be regulafed according to 
 the date of their respective appointments. Provided, always, that the membors of the said 
 Council, being Professois in Our said College, shall, in the said Council, take precedence over 
 And be considtred as seniors to the members thereof, not being Professors in Our said College 
 
S2^ 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 And We do ordain and declare that no meeting of the suid Council shall be < r be held to 
 be, a lawful meeting thereof, unless five members, at the least, be present during the whole of 
 every such meeting ; and that all questions and resolutions proiwsed for the decision of the said 
 College Council, shall be determined by the majority of the votes of tlie members of the Council 
 present, including the vote of the presiding member ; and that, in the event of an equal division 
 of such votes, the member presiding at any such mealing shall give an additional or caiting 
 vot«. 
 
 And We do further declare that, if any member of the said Council shall die or resign hi» 
 seat in the siid Council, or shall be suspended or removed from the same, or by reason of any 
 mental or bodily infirmity, or by reason of his absence fnm the Province, become incapable, for 
 three calender months or upwards, of attending the meetings of the said Council, then, and in 
 every such case, a fit iind proper peraon shall be appointed by the said Chancellor to act as, and 
 bo, a member of the id Council in the place and stead of the member so dying or removing, 
 or so suspended or removed, or incapacitated, as aforesaid ; and such new member succeeding to 
 any member so suspended or incapacitated, shall vacate such his office on the removal of any 
 such suspension, or at the termination of any such incapacity as aforsaid, of his immediate pre- 
 decessor in the said Council. 
 
 And We do further ordain and grant that it shall and may be competent to and for the 
 Chancellor, for the time being, of Our said College, to suspend from his seat in the Said Council 
 any member thereof for any just and reasonable cause to the said Chancellor appearing. Pro- 
 vided, that the grounds of every such suspension shall be entered and recorded at length by the 
 said Chancellor in the books of the said Council and signed by him ; and every person so sus- 
 pended shall thereupon cease to be a member of the said Council, unless and until he shall be 
 restored to and re established in. such his station therein by any order to be made in the 
 promises by Us or by thp said Visitor of Our College, acting on our behalf, and in pursuance of 
 any special reference from Us. 
 
 And We do further declaie that any member of the said Council, who, without sufficient 
 cause to be allowed by the said Chancellor, by an order entered for that purpose on the books 
 of the said Council shall absent himself from all the meetings thereof, which maybe held within 
 any six successive calendar months, shall, thereupon, vacate such his seat in the said Council. 
 
 And We do by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, will ordain and grant that 
 the said Council of Our siiid College sh.all have power and authority to frame'and make Statutes, 
 Rules and Ordinances, touching and concerning the good government of the said College, the 
 performance of Divine service therein, the studies, lectures, exercises, degrees in Arts and 
 Faculties and all matters regarding the same, the residence and duties of the President of Our 
 said College, the number, residence and duties of the Professors thereof, the management of the 
 revenues and property of Our said College, tl.e salaries, stipends, provision and emoluments of, 
 and for, the President, Professors, scholars, officeis and servants thereof, the number and duties 
 of such officers and servants, and also touching and concerning any other matter or thing which 
 to them shall seem good, fit and useful, for the well being and advancement of Our said College 
 and, allHgrooable to this Our Charter ; and also from time to time, by any new statutes, rules or 
 ordinances to revoke, renew, augment or alter, every or any of the said statutes, rules j nd 
 ordinances as to ihem shall seem meet and e.xpedient. Provided always, that the said statutes 
 rules and ordinances, or any of them, shall not be repugnant to the laws and statutes of the 
 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of Our said Province of Upper Canada or io 
 this Charter. Provided, also, that tlie said statutes, rules and ordinances, .shall be subject to 
 the approbation of the said Visitor of our said College, for Urn time he'nuf. And shall be forth- 
 with transmitted to the said Visitor for that purpose ; and that, in case the said Visitor shidl 
 for Us, and our behalf in writing siunify Aw [their] (lisa|)probation thereof, within two yeais of 
 the time of their being so made and framed, the SHme, or such part thereof as ohall be so disap 
 proved of by the siid visitor, shall, frum the time of such disapprobation being made known to 
 the said Chancellor of Our said College, be utterly void and of no efi'ect, but otherwise, shall be 
 and remain in full force and virtue. 
 
 [Note,— The words in italics wore struck out by Dr. Strachan, and '* their " substituted for 
 
 " /(IS."] 
 
 Provided, nevertheless, and Wo do hereby expressly save and reserve to Us, Our Hoirs and 
 Successors, the power of reviewing, confirming or reversing, by any order or orders to be by Us 
 or them, made in Our or their Privy Council, all or any of the decisions, sentences or orders, so 
 to bo made, as aforesaid, b\' the said Visit,or, for U« ftnd in Our behalf, in reference to ihsi s;vi.-! 
 statutes, rules and ordinances or any of them. 
 
 And Wo do further ordain and declare that no statute, rule or ordinance, shall be framed or 
 made by thesaid College Council touching the matters afortsaid, or any of them, excepting only 
 ■uch as shall be proposed for the consideration of the said Cliancollor, for the time being, of Our 
 ■aid College, 
 
Chap. XLIIL GBANTiNa of first chartee of king's college, 1827. 226- 
 
 eir " Bubstiluted for 
 
 And We do require and enjoin the said Chancellor thereof to consult with the President of 
 Our 8»id College, and the next genior member of the said College Council, respecting all statutee, 
 rules and ordnaances, to be proposed by him to the said Council for their consideration. 
 
 And We do hereby, for Us Our Heirs and Successors charge and command that the statutes, 
 rules and ordinances, aforesaid, subject to the same provisions, shall be strictly and inviolably 
 observed, kept and performed, from time to time, in full vigour and effect, under the penalties 
 to be thereby or therein imposed or contained. 
 
 And We do further will, ordain and grant, that the said College shall bo deemed and taken 
 to be an University, and shall have and enjoy all such and the like privileges as are enjoyed by 
 Our Universities of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as far as the aame are 
 capable of bei ig had or enjoyed by virtue of these Our Letters Patent, .md that the students 
 in the said College shall have liberty and faculty of taking the Degrees of Bacheh.r. Master and 
 Doctor, in the several Arts and Faculties, at the appointed times ; and shall have liberty, within 
 IhemselvfS, of performing all scholastic exercises for the conferring of such Degrees, in such 
 manner as shall be directed by the statutes, rules and ordinances of the said College. 
 
 And We do further will, ordain and appoint that no religious test or qualification i-hall be 
 required of, or appointed for, any persr.ns admitted or matriculated as scholars within Our said 
 College, or of persors admitted to any Degree in any Art or Faculty therein, save only, that all 
 persons admitted withm Our said College to any Degree in Divinity, shall make snch and the 
 same declarations and subscri}yti(ma. and take such and the same oaths, as are required of persons 
 admitted to any Degree of Divinity tji Our University of Oxford. 
 
 [Note.— The words in italics were altered by Dr. Strachan so as to read as follows : 
 ' respecting whom such regulations may be made as the College Council shall deem fit. "J 
 
 And We do further will, direct and ordain, that the Chancellor, President and Professors of 
 Our said College, and all persona admitted therein to the Degree of Master of Arts, or to any 
 Degree in Divuuty, Law or Medicine, and who, from the time of such their admission to such 
 Degree, shall pay the annual sum of twenty shillings, sterling money, for and towards the sup- 
 port and maintenance of said College, shall be and be deemed, taken and re[)uted to be, mem- 
 if^^i u^ *^^® Convocation of the said University ; and, as such members of the paid Convocation, 
 shall have, exercise and enjoy all such and the like privileges as are enjoyed by the members 
 of the Convocation of Our University of Oxford, so far as the same are capable of being had 
 and enjoyed, by virtue of these Our Letters Patent, and consistently with the privileges 
 thereof. i e> 
 
 And We will, and by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, do grant and declare 
 that these Our Letters Patent, or the emolument or exemplitication thereof, shall and may be 
 good, tirm, valid, sufficient and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning 
 or the same ; and shall be taken, construed and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial 
 sense, for the best advantage of the said Chancellor, President and Scholars of Our said College, 
 as well as in Our Courts of Record, as elsewhere and by all and singular Judges, Justices, 
 Otiicers, Minis ers, and other subjects whatsoever of Us, Our Heirs and Successors, any mis- 
 recital, non-recital, omission, imp.-rfection, defect, matter, cause or thing, whatsoever to the 
 contrary thereof, in anywise notwithstanding. 
 
 In witness whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. 
 
 Witness Ourself at Westminster, the fifteenth day of March, in the eighth year of Our 
 Reign (1827). 
 
 By Writ of Privy Seal, 
 
 BATHURST. 
 
 On the 31st of the same month, Earl Bathurst, Colonial Secretary, sent the 
 following Despatch, in regard to this Charter, to the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir 
 Perigrine Maitland : 
 
 I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty has been pleased to grant a Royal 
 Charter by Letters Patent, under the Oreat Seal, for establishing at or near the Town, of York, 
 m the Province of Upper Canada, one College, with the style and privileges of a University, for 
 the education and instruction of youth in Aits and Faculties, to continue for ever to be called 
 King s College. 
 
 i 
 
 15 (d. e.) 
 
 '^mKms'i^^ams-mmmmmsm-i^sM'mir 
 
226 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 \:l' 'I 
 
 VI 
 
 I am further to acquaint you that His Majesty has been pleased to grant one thousand 
 (i£l,000) per annum,* as a fund for erecting the buildings necessary for the College, to be paid 
 out of the moneys furnished by the Canada Company, and to continue during the term of that 
 agreement. 
 
 I have to authorize you, on the receipt of this Despatch, to exchange such Crown Reserve' 
 as have not b.en made over to the Canada Ci)mi)any for an equal portion of the lands set apart 
 for the purpose of education and foundation of a University, as suggested in your Despatch of 
 the 19th of December, 1825, and more fully detailed in Dr. Strachan's Report of the 10th of 
 March, 18'26 ; and you will proceed to endow King's College with the said Crown Reserves 
 with as little delay as possible. 
 
 BATHURST. 
 To Major-General Sir Perkorinb Maitland, K.C.B. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Strachan having been detained in England longer than was 
 expected, Lord Goderich, (formerly Lord Ripon), then Colonial Secretary, in suc- 
 <:ession to Earl Bathurst, certified the account of his personal expenses, in a Des- 
 patch to the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, dated Downing Street, 
 London, 28th of June, 1827, as follows : 
 
 You are already aware that a Royal Charter for establishing a University in the Pro- 
 vince of Upper Canada has passed the Great Seal, and of which the Rev. Dr. Strachan is the 
 bearer. 
 
 As Dr. Strachan was sent home to solicit this Charter, and has been detained on the con- 
 cerns of the Church and other matters of gr.-at interest to the Province, you will consider your- 
 self authorized to make him such remuner.ition from the Clergy Reserve Fund at your disposal, 
 as. on account of the length of his detention in this country, and the trouble and expense to 
 which he has been exposed, may seem reasonable. 
 
 GODERICH. 
 
 To Majob-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B. 
 
 These expenses of the Rev. Dr. Strachan not having been paid in 1827, 
 or some time afterwards, the Lieutenant-Governor directed the Honourable 
 Joseph Wells, Bursar of King's College, to pay them. His Secretary's letter to 
 the Bursar was dated the 8th of July, 1828, and is as follows : 
 
 In pursuance of the tenor of a De8i)atch received by the Lieutenant-Governor from His 
 Majesty's Priiicii)al Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 28th of June, 1827, I am com- 
 manded by His Excellency to convey to you his au'hority to pay to the Honourable and Vener- 
 able John Strachan, out of such moneys n^ are in or shall come into your hands, on account of 
 the University of King's College, tlio sum of six hundred and seventy-eight pounds, six shillings 
 and eightpence currency (£(i78 (is 8d), being the moiety of his expenses incurred on a journey 
 to and from England, and eighteen months' detention there, at the instance of the Secretary of 
 State, whilst engaged in soliciting from HIh Majesty's (Jovernment the Charter of King's College, 
 and attending to the atfairs of the Esublished Church. 
 
 To THE Honourable Joseph Well.s. 
 
 G. HILLIER. 
 
 * This one thousand pounds per annum was granted out of the yearly payments by the Canada Com- 
 pany for lands Bold to it m 1825 6, and for which that Company had affrc«'d to pay to the Government, by 
 mBtalmerts from 182(5 to 1842, at the rate of from .t'l5,C(X) to i'iO,(XX) sterhng per annum. 
 
-Chap. XLIV. GRAMMAR AND COMMON SCHOOL RETURNS FOR 1827. 
 
 227 
 
 ITHURST. 
 
 ODERICH. 
 
 HILLIER. 
 
 One boy is reading 
 
 CHAPTER XLIV. 
 
 GRAMMAR AND COMMON SCHOOL RETURNS FOR 1827. 
 
 The following returns of the Grammar and Common Schools in Upper 
 Canada for the year 1827. were sent in to the Rev. Dr. Strachan, Chairman of 
 the General Board of Education for Upper Canada, and were, by Message from 
 His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, laid before the Legislature in that 
 year, viz. • 
 
 +r..ffr^*7f*'''''"^^u^''""/"'''''n'-"''"'''--^" ^''^^^^'^ t" your communication, I be- leave to slate 
 that the whole number of pup.k attending the School b thirty eight, of ^hich eiX Le 2 rla 
 Of the boys, eighteen are learning Latin, and are divided into three classeras follow^^^^^ ^ 
 
 haviSSt^^^jS'Sl^il^ll/^.lS^SrS^^^ -' -' -''^ - '^-^ '^^^-^' 
 
 i^^i^z^^^yu:::^:::i^^u!fi!iJ^Sri^ ^^'^'^'« i"-duetionto 
 
 Virgn'"^ ^^''^'' ^''''''^^'"S of six, are finishing Rudimann's Latin Rudiments. 
 
 Of the remaining twelve boys, five are learning English Grammar and readier Murrav's 
 
 timefr^:i^ AriSSt^'^""'" ■ ^ ■"" ' "^^^"^ ''^ ^'^^^^'^P'^y '^--"^ -^'1 ^'^-^-n) -d four 
 
 This being my first report since my appointment to the charge of the Public School of thp 
 Eastern Distnc . I knoNv not whether I have enlarged too much or entered less into detail than 
 
 Zl flltTr^- ^" ^''^/' ''''' ^ ^'^ "'^' '"'-^y ^' '^«"'^^d '"^ ™y inexper eii 1 .my men 
 tion that I have engaged an assistant in the school since the month of Augu t last 
 
 H. Ubquhart. Master. 
 Ottawa District Grammar School. ~l received vour letter reduestincr tup in f,^,-«,„.A <■ 
 report of the state of the Ottawa District School. 'l„ J^lZ t!/ with' beg £ ve to a/tha? 
 issras'^-llcn^tJi" '' *'"""' '^*'""''"^' *'^ '"''''' '' twentyseven, and tltey are a^^d fn 
 
 r-rp.!'"''^!^^^ the honor of rei.oi-ting before on the state of the school, the scholars studying 
 Greek and Latin under me. have left the sch.u.l, and no others have yet supplied Sir oE 
 they liave gone to Bur mgton College in the Unite.l States, there being a greS te clency this 
 ]>lace to send their children to finish their education in the States. ° " '^«""«ncy in tins 
 
 to ac^^mmSfTonf Slolo^Jhrs.'""' "' ^^™" '^"^ '''''"' ^^^" ^"^^^ "^ ^'^^ ^^^^ --^^^ 
 
 The School is regularly taught by myself and Mr. Gates as my assistant and I have alwav, 
 
 since my appointment given every encmragement to education by making my feefveiyw! 
 
 John McLadrin, Master. 
 i»ivV/;,nui D,^<n-.<Gmmmrer School.-Tlm report contains simply the classification of the 
 fift^-Jil ^^ "^"'""'"^'''""^ "" '^'' -''^ '^*y "^ November, 1827. VS^of boys! 
 
 John Wilson, Master. 
 NewcaMe D/./W,-/ (h-amnyir S>-hod. }n reply to your Idtoi- of the 16th, uitiiu,, T betr leave 
 to stnte for the infornmt.on of the General Board of Education that the lumber' ori^,v?at 
 ,ux.sent^attend.ng the District School amounts to twenty-three .uid may be classed in U.e f,X,:* 
 mgonler . . During a part of the year the number generally amounts t.. .SO I mav -iko 
 
 wft " ilS a B3[.:,r '' "•""^''^''' '"" *^'""'*'™ ''' ^'^ ' •'^^'*''^««'"" "f ''- Law an<i"S nZ 
 
 Daviii Ovans, Master. 
 
•*«Manll>nlMl4UM 
 
 TM0 mvmi t i iimmm 
 
 ii! 
 
 I> ■! 
 
 228 
 
 DOCUMKNTAEY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPEB CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 Home District Grammar School.— The Rev. Thomas Phillips, D.D., tcie Teacher of the 
 Home District School, of York, in the Province of Upper Canada, in conjunction with the 
 Iloval Grammar School annexed thereto, by command of His Excellencv the Lieutenant- 
 Governor Sir I'eregrine Maitland, bes{S leave most respectfully to report to the Honourable and 
 and Reverend the President ..f the Board of Education and to the Trusteee of the said school in 
 the manner following : Number of pupils in the Royal Grammar and District School, this 
 dav the 13ih March, 1827, fifty seven, of which there are seven classes a^e studying the (Treek 
 Roman languaRes. All are studying the English language grammatically and are instructed m 
 reading, writing and arithmetic ; four classes are studying geography and tive of the young men 
 are studying mathematics and practical geometry. 
 
 On Friday, the 19th (.f January, 1827, His Excellet y the Lieutenant-Governor visited the 
 Roval Grammar School, York, and was pleased to signify his approbation of the manner in 
 which the young gentlemen performed their various scholastic exercises The Company present 
 was numerous and were highly gratified with the interesting scene. Several pieces were spoken 
 on the occsion: One, for the commeiicemeUD of the year 1827, was spoken by Master G. 
 Sherwood after a hymn was sung. One, to the ladies, was spoken by Master John Boulton, 
 immediately after he had repeated the original Greek Ode. U. E. Loyalist, York, January, 
 1827. 
 
 Niaqara BiHtrict Grammar */iooJ. —Report of the state of education in the Niagara Plstrict 
 School for the year 1827, by the Rev. Thomas Green, Master. Number of pupils, eighteen. 
 
 Mr Green was appointed Master of this School in 1822 ; and, in 1823-24, the number of 
 PUDils averaged 85, a majority <f whom were studying the classics. Walter Diokson, Charles 
 Secord Miles O'Reilly. Thomas Taylor and William Winterbottom, Students at Uw. received 
 their classical education principally in this school under Mr Creen. In consequence of the re- 
 moval of the head-(iuarters of the Regiment, the District School has been deprived of consider- 
 ■vble support from the officers' families. Some of our pupils have been removed to the Royal 
 Grammar School at York, and during the past two years two rival schools have been commenced 
 in this town Notwithstanding these circumstances Mr. Creen is happy to add that the Distnct 
 School is on a very respectable footing, and, with the valuable and cfKcient assistance of Mr. 
 Alexander, Assistant Master, will continue to be highly useful to the public. 
 
 Summar>j.—ln the eleven Districts of Upper Canada three hundred and twenty-nine 
 icholara attended the eleven District Grammar Schools in 18 i7. 
 
 Upper Canada Com.mon School Returns for the Year 1827. 
 
 There were three hundred andsixty-four Common Schools, and nine thousand, eight hundred 
 scholars in the eleven Districts of Upper Canada. 
 
 Edsterti District Common Schools.— In compliance with the provisions of the ninth section of 
 the Provincial Statute of 1816 for the establishment of Common Schools, the Board of Education 
 for the Eastern District respectfully have to report that the half year ending in December, 1820, 
 there were forty-five Common Scho( Is in the Eastern District, the teachers of which received 
 their respective portions of the provincial allowance. That from the report of the Trustees of 
 these schools there appears to have been one thousand one hundred and thirty-six scholars during 
 that neriod who were receiving instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic, and in some 
 instances geography and English grammar. From December, 1826, to June, 1827, there were 
 forty-six schools iind one thousand, one hundred and sixty-nine scholars. 
 
 The Board still entertains tlie opinion expressed in the report of last year, that the allow- 
 ance from Government, small as it certainly is to each teacher, operates as an encouragement 
 and an inducement to many of them to retain their situations, and to the [woror chiss, it affords 
 a stimulus to have schools established where, otherwise, there would be none. 
 
 The Trustees of the ditFerent schools expiess themselves satisfied with the conduct of the 
 teachers some of whom are extremely well ([ualified for their situations. Joseph Anderson, D. 
 McDoiif 11, A. McLean, Members of the District Board. 
 
 Ottami District Cotiimon Schools.— Wb, the subscribers. Member, of the Board of Educa- 
 tion in the Ottawa District, in compliance with the Official Circular of the 24th October, 18-45, 
 respectfully report, that the Common Schools of the said District are now eleven in number, 
 and are kept by Musters duly qualified, as the Act of Parliament directs, and we have recom- 
 
 . -j-j ^ui ...1. :„n„r, r.f tlia anm c.f £12() lOs for the support of the Sfud schools for the 
 
 yew'^ommencing the first June last. Ge-rge Hamilton, Alexander Grant, Philo Mali, Mem- 
 bers of the District Board. 
 
 
3827 
 
 sacher of the 
 tion with the 
 1 Lieutenant- 
 >nourable nud 
 said school in 
 ; School, thia 
 ng the Greek 
 instructed in 
 le young men 
 
 lor visited the 
 le manner in 
 iipany present 
 8 were spoken 
 cty Master G, 
 ohn Boulton, 
 >rk, January, 
 
 iagam District 
 , eighteen. 
 
 he number of 
 kson, Charles 
 Uw. received 
 ince of the re- 
 ■d of consider- 
 to the Royal 
 )n commenced 
 it the District 
 istance of Mr. 
 
 I twenty-nine 
 
 eight hundred 
 
 inth section of 
 d of Education 
 jcember, 1826, 
 irhicli received 
 he Trustees of 
 cholars during 
 , and in some 
 ?7, there were 
 
 that the allow- 
 sncouragement 
 ilass, it affords 
 
 conduct of the 
 Anderson, D. 
 
 jard of Educa- 
 Ootober, 1825, 
 en in number, 
 re have recom- 
 8chi)ol8 for the 
 o Hall, Mem- 
 
 
 Chap. XLIV. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION, 1826-27. 
 
 229 
 
 Bathnrd Distrkf. Gomnon Schools Snnim try.— TeAohcn, thirty nine, boys, five hundred and 
 seventy-three, gir s four hundred and thirty four. Michael Harris, G. H. Reade, Members of 
 the District Board. 
 
 District of NewcasUe Common Schnoh.— It will here bo perceived that twenty-one schools 
 are now on the books of the Board of Education for this District. Four have as yet tfiveu in no 
 report, but were passed at the last general meeting of thi Board, as approved. 
 
 Hitherto the number of schools has permitted an allowance of twelve pounds ton sliillings 
 perannum to each, but it is probable, from their increasing number, that next year, that amount 
 will be diimnishel. A. N. Bethune, Member of the District Board. 
 
 Miscellaneous Educational Information About Schools in 1826-7. 
 
 magara*~In the Niagara Gleaner of the 12th of August, 1826, the 
 following notice appeared : 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Handcock, A.B , of Trinity College, Dublin. Assistant Chaplain to the 
 torce at JNiagtra, inform « the public that he has opened an Academy for the instruction of 
 youths in Greek, L/itin, etc., at Butler's Barracks. 
 
 On the 9th of September, 1820, a strong appeal was made in a letter to The Gleamir for the 
 erection of a School House, as the population of tlie town was then over 1,200, and as they had 
 an able teacher in Mr. Thomson. 
 
 In 1827 the Rev. James Fraser, Presbyterian Minister, gave notice that he would open a 
 class for teaching the various branches pertaining to the literary professions. 
 
 On the 2nd of June, 1827, the following certificate was published by the Rev. Thomas 
 Green and the Rev. Thomas Handcock : "We have great pie sure in testifying to the ability 
 and htness of Mr. David Thomson, teacher of the Common School in the Town of Niagara, and 
 m congratulating the parents of the children taught by Mr. Thomson." 
 
 On the 23rd of February, 1827, the pupils of the school contributed eleven shillings and one 
 penny half-ponce for the distressed Greeks, as this was the year in which the naval battle of 
 Navarino was fought. (Mr. David Thomson was the author of the Hidov^ of the War of 1812, 
 published at Niagara.) 
 
 Among the pupils taui,dit by the Reverend Thmnas (keen—afterwards Rector of Niamra— 
 were Messieurs Miles O'Reilly, Thomas and \V. Fuller, Thomas Burns, B. Miller, W. H.^Dick- 
 son ; also Judge Miller and Captain fJoale. Several of his ex pupils placed a tablet to his 
 memory m St. Mark's Church. He was an Irishman although educated at Glasgow University 
 and was a good classical scholar. ° 
 
 St. Cathan MS.— \0n the 5th of May, 1827, a meeting was called by notice in the Farmers' 
 Journal and Vl dland Canal I,ddli(jencer, and was held in Mr. Dyers Merchants' Exchange "to 
 take into consideratum tlie propriety of raising subscriptions, and adopDin;,' measures, for erect- 
 ing a building suitible for an Academy in this village. ' The meeting was a large and respect- 
 able one. Dr. Chaunct-y Beadle was appointed Chairman, and Mr. Henry Mittleberger, Secre- 
 tary. The amount refjuired to be raised was \mi down at four th(jusaiul dollars, and the 
 toUowing gen-lemen were appointed to collect the same, viz., Messieurs Oliver Phelps, Lyman 
 Parsons, Nathan Pawling, Chauncey Beadle, H. N. Monson, John Gibfeon and John Lampman, 
 ot Grantham ; John Clark and William Adams, of Louth : Jacol) Keefer and Hall Daws, of 
 Jhorold; Alexander Hamdton, of Queenston ; James Mackleni. of Chippewa; liev. Mr. East- 
 mm and Smith (iriffin, of Twenty-Mile Cie«k, and Henry Nelles, of (Jiimsby. Shares were 
 apportioned at hfty dollars each, payable in three itistalments, and in cash, materials ov produce. 
 J . IS was the origin of the (kanthdni Academy, which was incorp(jr*ted in 1830. 
 
 In thesame paper of September 10th, 1829, a notice was inserted to the effect that the 
 
 irements, 
 
 Mr. Wil- 
 
 by 
 
 ■i-,^}^^1!'!i"'-'^^^;Tr^^'^ Township of Montague, bordering on the Rideau River, was surveyed in 
 1774 by Mr. Wiiliam Fortune. 
 
 In 1802 tlio settlers numbered about ninety, and then, soon afterwards, the education of the 
 youth commenced. 
 
 Condensed from information furnished by Miss Carnochan, Niagara. 
 tCondensed from information furnished by Mr. William Mauson, -St. Catharines. 
 Wondeneed from information furnishfd by Mr. Francis J. Frost, Smith's Fails 
 
230 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 182S 
 
 ^*! 
 
 In 1804, a school was opened in MuntiiyjU", Lot 20, Concession 2, under Mr. Jesse Mclntyre. 
 It wastau^lit ill his own house. Afterwards ii School House was built on Lot 2i, and in it other 
 teachers were engaged and tauglit, hut wliose names have been forgotten. 
 
 In 1815, ininiigranfs were arriving and took up farms on what was known as " The Settle- 
 ment of the Rideau." Here and there a school mras opened as the number of settlers increased. 
 
 Perth. — In response to n request which I made to the Board of Education at 
 Perth for particulars as to J;he schools first establislicd in that town, a Coniniittee 
 was formed to collect the desired information and send it to rae. This Committee 
 consisted of His Honour Judge Senkler, Dr. J. D. Kellock and Messieurs R. J. 
 Drummond, (Chairman), T. Cairns and Charles Mei;j;hen. The information sent, 
 although somewhat late in reaching me, is condensed as follows: 
 
 In 1815, under the colonization regulations, Hitjhlanders settled at and abf)ve the corners of 
 four townships, of Bathurat, Burgess. Elmsley and Drunnnond. The locality was known as the 
 "Scotch Line." The Reverend Williaii\ Boll accompanied the settlers, and was allowed i'iOO 
 a year as their Minister. Mr. John Holliday, (father of Mr. James Holliday, now an old resi- 
 dent in Perth.) was sent with the settlers as their 1 eaeher, at a salary of £50 per annum. Ho 
 taught the tirst school on the "Scotch Lino," (Lot No. 21, Concession 1 of Bathurst,) not far 
 from what is now the centre of the Town of Perth. 
 
 On the l.oth of Novemi)er, 1822, a Board of Quarter Sessions was constituted at Perth. lb 
 consisted of Doctors Thorn and Reade, (the Honourable) William Morris, Colonel Taylor and 
 Father John Mc onald. This Board received £100 a year for .school purposes, until the scliool 
 or schools should be self supportiui;. Under the District ((Jramiuiir) School Act of 1820, the 
 Board had the right to nominate ten pupils as free scholars in the Di-strict (Granniiar) School, 
 This gave rise to a good deal of hard feeling, because of the nomination now and then by the 
 Board of the sons of, or the sons of relatives of, members o' the Boaid. 
 
 Mr. John Stuart, was the tirst Master of this District (Grammar) School. He was succeeded, 
 in 1880, by Mr. William Kay. 
 
 The Reverend Ephraim P.itterson, late Rector of Stratford, was the last surviving free scholar, 
 nominated by the late Honourable William Morris. 
 
 Ill 1*^22, Mr. Benjamin Tett opened a school in a house, which is now Mr. John Rii^dell's 
 on Heriot Struet, and, in 1H2.5, opened school in a house opposite to the site on which is now 
 erected the Methodist Church. 
 
 Mr. Dawson Kerr kept a school next to the Methodist Church, now on Gore Street. 
 
 From 18:i7 to 1H;«, Mr. John Wilson, afterwards .Judge Wilson, kept a private ' ool in the 
 Fraser House on Craig Street, and afterwards moved his school to the Thompso .operty on 
 Gore i"treet. 
 
 On the road allowance between the Townships of Beckwith and Rams.iy, a school was esta- 
 blished in ' an unsi:^htly log shanty," at a place now in the middle of the Town of Carletm 
 Place. It was taught by Mr. Kent, who was said, notwithstanding the mean jireten.sion of the 
 Echool house, to '^"\ve been a good master. * 
 
 Wher.) the Village of Middieville now stands, in the Townahi,) of Ramsay, a .ichool house 
 was put up. and was occupied by Mr. Robert Mason and his scholars. 
 
 Fn.in these school houses have issued many trained scholars, who have made a name for 
 themselves, and none the less so from among those who were the orisiinal scholars of the District 
 of B.athurst. Some still living have a keen recollection of corporal punishment inflicted by 
 early teachers, "not wisely, but too well."* 
 
 C(irmrall.\—Thc first school in Cornwall, of which there is any record, was the one esta- 
 blished by the Reverend John Strachan, in the year 1803. This school up to 1807, was carried 
 on as a i>rivate enterprise, when it came under che provisions of the District (({raujmar) School 
 Act of that year, (1H07). The Cornwall Grammar School soon became known through the length 
 and breadth of tiie land. The list of Mr. Strachan's pu[)il8 shows the names of many who were 
 in their day, ihe leailing men in Canada. 
 
 Note. — A list of these names will be found on page 43, ante. 
 
 •The remainder of this sketch, from the "early forties," will be Riven in its order lat«r on. 
 tContributed by Mr. C. J. Mattice, Treasurer of the United Counties of Sturmont, Dundas and Glen- 
 garry, Cornwall. 
 
1828 
 
 t' Mclntyre. 
 1 in it other 
 
 The Settle- 
 's incrensed. 
 
 ucation at 
 IJoniiDittee 
 IJommittee 
 eurs R. J. 
 ition sent, 
 
 e corners of 
 iiovvn as the 
 1 lowed ±*I00 
 iui old resi- 
 innuiu. He 
 rsit,) not far 
 
 } Perth. It 
 Tiiylor and 
 1 the school 
 rtf 1820, the 
 lar) Scliool. 
 then by the 
 
 B succeeded, 
 
 f ree scholftr, 
 
 in Rii^dell's 
 'hich is now 
 
 reet. 
 " oolin the 
 loperfy ou 
 
 ol WHS eata- 
 of Carlet')n 
 iision of the 
 
 chool house 
 
 a name for 
 the District 
 inflicted by 
 
 le one esta- 
 was carried 
 mar) School 
 1 the length 
 y who were 
 
 Chap. XLIV. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION OF SCHOOLS IN 1826-27. 
 
 281 
 
 as and Glen- 
 
 Betht;^:(a/terS Der J1^^;;S 'it°' "" '"'"'^' 7. ""l ^«^^'?"'J •^"^'" 
 
 Johnnton. Henry .James and Harry L^th ^^'' successors were the Reverends Joseph 
 
 a mos" Ss^hd^Teacier"' ^h'"'^ ""'lor the charge of the Reverend Hugh Un.uhart, who was 
 
 Bankers R.bert and r« rt V m! ^^'^^S'^^^' Barristers ; .L,hn Molson, William Molson, 
 Sinsoii M D. ^ Hamdton, Merchants ; Moss K. Dickenson, M.P., and J. J. 
 
 r^r^^^titinXrb-sixi^S^ 
 
 was intended. It was nsed for twenty years, whe.i the presettt^onuL.cHourbES^g w^stre^^^^^ 
 Peterboro,ujh.f~The first school house in Peterborough was erected in 18'« It wa« ,i Ire 
 
 .. a f illll"."""'"'^''"" "'" "" ^'^- *^'- ■"■"»■•" ■■""' » P<-I">l«««n of .ome 300 »a. kid out 
 
 .chor,! i,'.?-""" ''"""" «'"° '° ""-• "»»■ •'• ^"■'•"'^ Ma>d„„.Id In 1870, h, tto, ,.(„r«l to hi, .,1, 
 
 by their parents I workeT ata nst th«r.^^ atrlf h1 H "T ""'^ ^^" ' T]>? ^••'''' ^^^'^ *» ^^^ .nainUined 
 was cheered on by mrveneraWrprece ntorfnr ^nmnh r^^^M^*^^' Tk"^ ^V"''^ '''''^'^ succumbed but f.hat I 
 whom Canada shoul/be pro*d One o then nnScuLrv' H«'7 ""*"'' have struggled in that Sch..„l of 
 of the men our eastern district can boa«t,,f j"^; /,..„„! " . .f ""f "^ ^^'^ bnghtest and most talented 
 sphere of usefulness Need I sav thtt I rpfJrVf '"''*' has thought proper to take him away from his 
 koughnet-VVero Dr. Shart able to boa 7o i^^ ^^"'=^'' '^^^ •**« Chance'llor Van- 
 
 position and was as follows ' """"' "^ '"''''•"^ "'*' ^^""^ "P '" "'^ «t'"KKl« with my superiors in 
 
 fn.m Vhlteh No!?mber.' lSl2'rth'e 23'd'Semb'fr'la r^ll' TS^ '■ ''""^' '" '""^ i^*«*«^» '^-^^^^ S.hool, 
 cation were close and ass duo.. s and that his nm^rpL tV '^"'* ^'IT^ ''i** Pf"'"^ ^''^ industry and appli- 
 Ins attention, wa, highirXeotahle an i verTfn^^^^^^^ *w ««^'«'-'»' ''■'.'^nehe. of study, to which he directed 
 space of timi ; that the per8evera,!\n^^^^ ''''u'^'M ^,^?* '" "'"a'ly '"aJ-^ in the same 
 
 set of a classical aKatheSca edu"^^^^^^^^^ '**• '^:*<="'t'<'« *" be encountered at the out- 
 
 as indicating C(.nsider^b e eXgv of char^^ part.cuar remark and approval of hi. teacher, 
 
 studies. Moreover, tUt hirjeneral denSent 1^1^. th "'''' °^ ^"'^'^ *"'='=^'« '" ^^^ prosecution of his 
 ing, evincing at all time^i kfnXdif.^sltio^^^^^ "^^^ m .at exemplary, and becom- 
 
 to the discipline of tl^^scLo- and that fiheZ^ ' .f"""^ students ani a most respectful deference 
 occasion profit him, he is Sstl^ enUtled to both - '"^ °P"""" ""'^ ^'"^* ^''^'^^^ "^ »>'^ '«*°^«'- ««■> °" ""y 
 in that sch^L" '*" ''"'"""^ independence which I have maintained throughout my career, to my learning 
 Mr. Macdonald died in 1 872, in the si.^tieth year of his age. 
 
 tSlir,' 11 u' m'-J^- ^: '.''"'""' «--'-y-T--urer of the Board of Education, Peterborough. 
 TContnbutedby Mr. Edward McUrone, St. Thomas. 
 
w^^ 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 232 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPEB CANADA. 
 
 1827 
 
 Thfc villagers w><re leemingly M a saporior class, for aa early aa 1824, at a public meeting of 
 the inhabitants it was reiolved to erect a school house in which, to use the quaint phraseology of 
 the time, '• the classical languages should bo tjuaht." Until such a building could be got, a 
 Grammar School was opened by Mr. Stephen Randal, to whom belongs the distniction of having 
 l)een tlje first classical Master of St. Thomas, in a leased building, in the upper room of which 
 was held the Court of King's Bench. The fudge of which was the late Judge Sherwood, and 
 the King's Attorney the late Sir John Beverley Robinson. With such distinguishetl nei<ihbourt 
 the school could not fail to be a success, and was. The same year Colonel Malhon Burwell pre- 
 sented the inhabitants with a building lot part of the property now ol Judge Ermatinger. The 
 1 it of thirty-six snuare rods in area, was conveyed by deed to his Majesty Kiny Gdorge the 
 Fourth for school purposes, and out of it was erected a Public and a Grammar school ui 1825. 
 The Grammar School was removed to its now location and was known as the Talbot Seminary. 
 Mr. Ranual continued teaching there for several years, followed by.the Rev. David McKenzie, 
 John Walker, Rev. John Eraser and others. 
 
 Many teachers since Mr. Randal's time have come and gone, but the same spirit that 
 imbued the people of the ' ' long ago " still holds good with those of the present, and the good 
 work of the .Seminary, Grammar or High School is still continued with untligging zeal in the 
 present, and not a few pupils, "men of m^rk '' can look bick with thankfulness at the facilities 
 •they had of enabling them to fight the battle of life that the higher education in the old and 
 affectionately remembered school housi enabled them to attain. 
 
 I i 
 
 
 CHAPTER XL V. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IN 
 
 1828. 
 
 There being no copy of the proceedings of the Legislative Council for 1828, 
 in either of the Parliamentary Libraries at Ottawa, or Toronto, I am unable to 
 give any but the educational proceedings of the House of Assembly for that 
 year. 
 
 The Members of the House of As.sembly who took part in its educational 
 proceedings were Messieurs John Mathews, Alexander Wilkinson, James Gordon, 
 William Thompson, Edward McBride, Charles Jones, John Rolph, Francis L. 
 Walsh, (leorge Hamilton, Thomas Hornor, Paul Peterson, Marshall S. Bidwell, 
 Peter Perry, James Wilson, Robert Randal, Duncan McCall, William Morris, 
 and Alexander McDonell. 
 
 The most noted of these Members, not already montioned, were Messieurs 
 John Mathews, John Rolph, James Gordon, Francis L. Walsh, Peter Perry and 
 Robert Randal. 
 
 The Honourable John Rolph, M.D.,son of Dr. Thomas Rolph, was a native of 
 Gloucestershire, England. He came to Canada in 1 808, He returned to Enorland 
 and graduated at Cambridge. He was afterwards called to the Bar of the Inner 
 Temple. After he returned to Canada b*^ settled in the County of Norfolk He 
 wiLs an able soeaker. and esr>oused t _ ooniilar .side in the Oourlev and Bidwell 
 cases.* He and Captain Mathews, were returned as Members for the County 
 
 * For reference to theiie cases, see psi^es 80 and 122, ante. 
 
 V 
 
 if 
 
 I) 
 
1827 
 
 Chap. XLV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINQS OF HOUSE OF ASSKMBLY, 1828. 
 
 9M 
 
 c meeting of 
 iraaeology of 
 ill! be got, a 
 )n of having 
 una of which 
 Brwood, and 
 I iieiKhbours 
 Jurwell pre- 
 inger. The 
 Gdorge the 
 lool ill 1«26. 
 t Seminary. 
 McKenzie, 
 
 i spirit that 
 ind the good 
 
 zeal in the 
 the facilities 
 
 the old and 
 
 OLY IN 
 
 1 for 1828, 
 
 unable to 
 
 y for that 
 
 dueational 
 es Gordon, 
 Francis L. 
 i. Bidwell, 
 m Morris, 
 
 Messieiirg 
 Perry and 
 
 I native of 
 o England 
 the Inner 
 rfolk He 
 id Bidwell 
 16 County 
 
 T 
 
 I 
 
 of Middlesex in 1825 and 1829. For many years he occupied a prominent 
 place in public affairs, and was, in his later life, Commissioner of Crown Lands. 
 As a physician, he was distinguished for his ability and skill. 
 
 Mr. Peter Perry, a close friend of the Honourable Marshall S. Bidwell, exer- 
 cised a good deal of influence in the Legislature. He and Mr. W. L. Mackenzie 
 were also friendly actors together in the House of Assembly. 
 
 Mr. Francis L. Walsh was R^gistra; of the County of Norfolk after he 
 retired from the Legislature. He lived to the patriarchal age of over 99 years. 
 
 Captain John Mathews was censured by the War Office for having, as a 
 retired officer, improperly conducted himself in December, 1825, at a theatre 
 when American National airs were being sung. The House of Assemby investi- 
 gated the charge, and exonorated him. lie and M- Robert Randal were involved 
 in some financial affairs, which were also investigated by the House of Assembly, 
 and the matters were fully explained. 
 
 On the 18th January, 1828, His Excellency, Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieuten- 
 ant Governor, opaned the fourth session of the Ninth Parliament of Upper Canada 
 with the usual Sp.^ech from the Throne, in which referred to the University 
 Charter in the following terms : 
 
 f.r fl^*'^"?V''l! Plo*s»™ in announcing to you that His Majesty has very graciously provided 
 for the est.bl.8h„ie,it of an University in this Province, and has bestowed meaifs Zn it 
 ■H-hich will ensure the early accumplishmont of an object Ion- rei^rded bv me as ?mo.u, fhn,A 
 most to be desired fur the welfare of the Colony. ' '"^^'^'*^'^ *'> "^"^ *« ''"'""J? •^^ose 
 
 On the 21st January, 1828, the House of Assembly responded to His 
 Excellency's speech as follows : 
 
 We shall be highly gratitie.l to find that His Majesty has very graciously provided for tlie 
 ^stabhshment and endowment ot an University in this Province, if the principles u^.n wMoh ? 
 has been founded shall, up ,n en.u.ry pr,.veto U conducive to the advancement of true learn 
 ing and pioty, and friendly to th i evil and religiouj libarty of the people. 
 
 30th I.tnuarii /,'?.»,'? -Captain John Matthews gives notice that ha will, on Friday next 
 move for leave to h.ve that pirt of the Journals of the House of Assembly of the SLssTon 
 read which refers to the petition of Mr. Edvard Thompson Philan, Common School Teacher 
 
 Slst Jannanj /•'"'f -Mr. .Tamos Gord .n brought up the Petition of certain inhabitants in 
 i. r "I ,'^'»'^7«tb'"-b'H ana its vicinity in regard to the District (Grammar) .-chuol, which 
 was ordered to bo laid on the Table. 
 
 t.r. f'/'''"7?u {^'^■-^'^'•- William Thompsoi gives notice tha^ he will, on t .-morrow, move 
 SchoorBill' ^""^ -^uurnals of the House which relates to the York cJmmon 
 
 ^.aJ^'; Francis Biby brought up the Petition of the inhibitants of the Town of Sandwich in 
 regard to the District (Grainmir) .-Jcliool which wa. ordore I to lie on the Table. 
 
 5fh Febrnarn, IS^^.-yiv. Edw.ird M ; Bride brought up the Petition of the Trustees of the 
 lie oil the Tabk "'^' '^'" ^**''' "'"''''' l^'^^^'"^' ^"' '"^ -^"^ «* Incorporation, which was ordered to 
 
 fK.f i^T*^'^ ^^.T^'t^' Captiin John Matthews, seconded by Mr. Alexander Wilkinson, movei 
 that that par of the Journals ..f the last Session, namely, that of the 13th January 18:27 be 
 now re Id, which refers to the Petition of Mr Edward Thompson Philan, which was carried, and 
 in„ .lourp,-,,!; were read ay tiie Clerk accordingly as follows : 
 
 Mr l^J'r.i°il! ^*"'' ws, soonded by Mr. Alexander Wilkinson, moves that the Petition of 
 Mr. Edward Thompson Philan be referred to a Select Committee, and that Messieurs William 
 Morns aiid Robert Randal do comiiose the sime, with power to send for persons and papers and 
 to report thereon by Bill, or otherwise." papers, ana 
 
234 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTCY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
 ( \ I 
 
 ' I; 
 
 "On which the House (livi'led, and the yoan and nuys boin;? taken, were as follows : 
 
 "Yeas — Messieurs Atkinson, Baby, Rurke. Clark, Colonmn, Fothergill, Hamilton, Mat- 
 thews, McCall, I'oterson, Randal, Thonisnn, Wilkinson and Wi'*.n — 14. 
 
 " Nays— Messieurs Beasloy, Burnliam, Cameron, Gordon, D. McDonell, A. McDunoll, 
 Morris. Sccdlick and White —9." 
 
 *' Tlie ((uestion was carried in the atHrniativu by a majority of five and ordered iccordingly.' 
 
 Captain John Matthews, seconded by Mr. Alexander Wilkinson, udvos that the Petition of 
 Mr. Edward Thompson Philan be reforred to a Select Committee, and that Messieurs William 
 Morris and Robert R^mdal do compose the same, with power to send for persons and papers and 
 to report thereon by Bill or otherwise. Which was oruorod. 
 
 Cith FfbiHiiT]!, IS^S. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, tha Petition of sundry inhabit- 
 ants of the Town of Andieratburgh, praying that the District (Grammar) School be removed 
 from Sandwich to that Town 
 
 The Petition of the inhabitants of the Town of Sandwicii, praying that the District (Gram- 
 mar) School may not bo removed from th.^t place. 
 
 Mr. James Gordon, seconded by Mr. Charles .lone'*, moved that the Petition of sundry in- 
 habitants of the Town of Amherstburgh, respeitiug the Western District (Grammar) .School, 
 be referred to a Select Committee, with power to -end for persons and pai>ers and tu n port 
 by Bill, or otherwise, and that the said Committee be composed of Messieurs the Attorney- 
 General (J. B. Robinson,) and Francis Baby, which was ordoiud, 
 
 Mr. Alexander Wilkinson, seconded by r(i|)tain .John Mathews, moves that the Petitiim „( 
 the inhabiUmts of Sandwich, be referred to the same Committee to whom was referred ha 
 Petition of the inhabitants of the Town of Amhorstlnirgh, and that Messieurs John Rolph and 
 George Hamilton, be added to the said Committee which was ordered. 
 
 7th Fehrmiry, 1S2S. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Petition of the Trustees of 
 Grantham Acidemy, prayinij for an Act of incorporation, and the Petition of Mr. Bulkley 
 Waters and two hundred and nineteen others of different denominations of Christians in tiie 
 Counties of Lennox and Addington, praying the House to iuijuire into the [irinciple upon which 
 an University is to bo established in this Province, so that no power to hold lands, or other pro- 
 perty, be granted to, nor any addition to the number of Members composing the House of 
 Assembly be made from, or out of any ecclesiastical, or literary, body corporate, at wliose hands 
 danger coidd or might be apprehended to tlio Constitution, or to their religious liberties ; and 
 also that the House would inquire into the truth of certain charges and -statements therein men- 
 tioned, and to take such steps as to the House may seem mojt to preserve the pe'^'tionors and 
 their children from ecclesiastical domination etc., wero read. 
 
 Mr. Peter Perry, seconded by Mr. John Rolph, move.'; that the Petiticm of l»Ir. Bulkley 
 Waters and others bo referred to a Select Committee, with power to send for persons and papers 
 to report thereon, and that Messieurs Marshall S. Bidwell, John Mathews, Hugh C. Thomson 
 of Frontenac, and Goorgo Hamilton do compose the same. Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Edward McBride, seconded by Mr. James Wilson, moves tliat the Petition of tho 
 Trustceaof the Saint Cathtrines' ((Jrantham) .Academy be referred to a Select Committee, to 
 be composed of Messieurs John Clark and Robert Randal, with power to report thereon by 
 Bill, or otherwise. Which was ordered. 
 
 ^'h Ftbntarii lUiS. — Agreeably to tlio Order of the Day, the Petitions of Mr. Hugh Wilson 
 and tifty-two others, of the District of Gore ; Mr. John Bryning and ninety-three others, of 
 the District of Gore ; the Petiti<m of Mr. John Hamiltimand one hundred and sevenothers, of 
 the District of (iore ; the Petitions of the Reverend .\nBon Green and one hundred and twelve 
 others, of tho District of (Jore ; Mr. John Switser and ninety others, of the Midlan<l District, 
 Mr. Joshua Caverloy and seventy-seven others, of the Midland District, Mr. Jolin Grass and 
 fifty-seven otliers, of the Midland District ; Mr. Rowland Gilbert and one hundred and seventy- 
 nine others, of the London District, Mr. Michaid Rittenhouse and eighty-six others, of tha 
 Niagara District, Mr. Daniel Weirs and one hundred and tive others, of the Niagara District, 
 the Petition of Mr. William Hepburne and one hundred and thirty others, of the Niagara Dis- 
 stict, and the Petition of Mr. Thomas Duncan and tifty-nino others, of the Eastern District, 
 (identical with that of Mr. Bulkley Waters, presented to the House on the 7th of February, 
 1828,) praying that the House would inciuire into tho principle upon which an University is to be 
 established in this Province, etc., were read and referred to the Select Committee on the sub- 
 ject. 
 
 llfh Febrnari/, 1H28. — Tho Petition of Mr. Jesse Ketchum and two hundred and fifty others, 
 of the Home District ; of Mr. >amml Neal and Bcventy-four others, of the Western District j 
 of Mr. .S;imiiel Ri' h>irds<in and twenty others, of the Home District ; of Mr. Jidin D. Widson 
 and hfty-six others, i>i the Hiniie Di.strict ; of Mr. William King an 1 ninety o .ers, of the Hotna 
 
1828 
 
 ("bap \l. b©t~h-w«m. PiiocERmmH of house of assemuly, 
 
 1828. 235 
 
 >w> : 
 ilton, Mat- 
 
 McDonolI, 
 
 cordingly.' 
 
 Petitiitn of 
 irs WilliAiu 
 paperB tind 
 
 ry inhabit- 
 be removed 
 
 rict (Gram- 
 
 iiuidry in- 
 
 ar) Si'hool, 
 
 to u-port 
 
 Attoruoy- 
 
 Petitinn iif 
 forrt'd r lie 
 Rulph and 
 
 Crustees of 
 •. Bulkley 
 .na in the 
 pon whicli 
 othor pro- 
 
 HoU8(> of 
 
 lioso hands 
 irties ; and 
 erein nion- 
 ionors and 
 
 r. Bulkley 
 iintl papers 
 , Thomson 
 
 on of tho 
 imitteo, to 
 hereon by 
 
 i<5h Wilson 
 others, of 
 I others, of 
 \nd twelve 
 I District^ 
 
 Grass and 
 \d seventy - 
 srs, of tha 
 a DiHtrict, 
 iagara Dis- 
 ■n District, 
 
 February, 
 lity is to be 
 m the sub- 
 
 iftytjthnrs, 
 1 District ; 
 D. Willson 
 ■ the Uoina 
 
 Distiicts . of Mr. Joslma VanAllanan.l e.^hty-tive others, of the Homo District ; of Mr. San. el 
 
 f nlvt'l 'h '''■'';':V'^r'''«'VV'*''!'''''' "^"'" "'"»« Oi^tnct ; of Mr. David Thomnon Vnd 
 f.rty-t«., others of the Hon.e District; of Mr. John Bhu^k and seventy-seven otlu-rs, of ihe 
 
 Si^r J^ulo^^l;M^/J ''•■'"'' "^^^^ andHftoenothers, of the Home l' " 
 
 nf lif'r r f 1 ?• "'"■"'" !""• t;*"»ty-oij(ht others, nf the London District, -Christians 
 
 wi r Vl''."""\'"*"""''~P''''-''!"« ""'' ">'' """«« woul.l(as petiti.ne.1 by Mr. Uulki.y 
 
 uJ\lil4Zu\l^r!\T' ""T'l^^ ^'^ ^^'- '^■^""'"'' *^""""'' •»"^''^'' t''«t the Petition of Mr. 
 Jesse Ketchum a..,! others, and also other petitions on tho same subject, which 1 ave been read 
 
 Mr B^kll't' uiI;r'^H'\f '•' '''".l.*^'"^^' ^"'''''''"««- '" -^"•'" wasr'efe.red the Pet^ on of 
 Mr. Bulkley Waters and others, on the same subject. Which «as ordere.l. 
 
 Inav^'lf.f »'■"•'"•"• TrnT^'"- I'r'^^^'*"'-"'"' Jfi^^'« ""tice that he will to-nu.rrow, move for 
 Edwald. ■''' " *''"''"^'' ^'""^^ ^^"""'^ *'"') ^"'- ^'^'>""1« i" the County of Prince 
 
 rhiil'!/"''!"""'"' /'■•'•''^•- Afe'roeab'y to the Order of the Day. tho Petition of Mr. Archibald 
 Ch.sholn and seventy-one others o the London District, and of Mr. James Dougherty and 
 
 r.d 'fh. ,'r r T^'f'T u "'" ^'""' "" "'''^••'^*- ('^""^''^^^l -'^'^ ^^at of Mr. Bulkley Wa ers 
 and others, presented to the House .).. rho 7th of February, IH.'S,) were road. 
 
 i.'<A^V/>rK,.ry 7.S>.S'. --Mr. Marshall S. Bid well, secon.led by Mr. Hugh C. Thomson of 
 Fronenac, „.ove8thatan humble Ad.lr.ss be prese ted to His Excellency, the Lieu jn'ant- 
 Uovern.r, re.,uosting him to cause a copy of the Charter of the University, lately establis'.ed 
 
 ann'^nr^Ti'',"'"/! '"^''^■'"^"'■'i*'''*""'''''^"^ '"^'^'^"^^ ''i^'' ■''"'^'' informa ion relating., any 
 Ts t ;1 rT. >'° ^'Hlowment of such University, and such further informati. n oi 
 
 the subjec- .,f the Uinver..ty as it may be in His Excollency's p.,wer to communicate ; and that 
 Me. s,eursPetor Perry and Hu^h Peterson be a Committee to drkftand repo.. such Address ; and 
 
 wii^i^vi:s'i'::;ritdlii\'^""^ ^■^^^' «" ^-- -"'^-*" *^'« --i- 
 
 Mr, Perry from the Committee appointed to draft an Address to His Kxcollency, the 
 
 l:^^at^l':r"V'''^'"i^'^'''^^'^'^^'''r'^''^ ••"•'^"•^^'^ '^^^^^^ ^^^^^ was received 
 and read the hrat, and second time, adopted, and ordered for a third reading this day. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Excellency, the" Lioutonant-Gover- 
 
 7IuJi^ZT'^ r''^ 7-'^^''\'\V'''^'^ University, was re.d th(. third time, passec and 
 signed by the Speaker, and is as follows : , i .« 
 
 To RU Excellemij Sir Pereyrine Maitland, K.tJ.B. Lieutenant -<Jom-nor of Upper Canada, de. 
 Mat it Please Youk Excellency : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upj.er Canada, in Provincial 
 larl.ament assembled, request, \ our Jlxcellency to cause a copy of the Charter of the Univer- 
 sity lately established in this Province to be laid before this House, together with any informa- 
 tion relating to any appropriation .,f Und for the endowment of such University, or relating 
 generally to the subject of the Iniversity, as it may be lu Vour Excellency's power tocom.nuni- 
 
 Commons House of Assembly, 
 15th February, 1828. 
 
 John Willson, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Marshal h. Bidwell seconded by Mr. Hugh C. Tlnmison. of Front, nac, moves that 
 Messieurs J. J. Le erty and Richard Beasley be a Committee to wait up on H,. Excellency, to 
 oXred " ^ *° ''"''^"''' *''® Address, and present the same. Which was 
 
 lSthFebrnani,lSJS.~Aqr,'.mh\y to tho Order of the Day, the Petition of Mr. Jonath..,, 
 Woolverton and hfty others of the Townshij) of (Jrimsby (identical with that of Mr. Bulk'ev 
 Waters, presented to the House on the 7th. instant,) was read. 
 
 rM- ^^'f;f''^;"'"-'(' ^'T. -^'^ ^'^"'"■'' .M'-^R'-"'^. ^'•""' fh^ Select Committee, to which was 
 reteired the Petition of the Trustees of the Grantham Academy, reported that the Committee 
 had agreed to a Bill a draft of whicli he was ready to submit whenever the House would please 
 receive the same. The Rei-nt was ordered to be received, and the Bill was . ead the firtt time, 
 and ordered for a second reading to-morrow. 
 
236 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTOUY OP EDUCATION IN UPPKB CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
 ^'! 
 
 f 
 
 ii 
 
 Thvrsdait, ^td Fubniani, ISiS.—tlr. R'.h«rt Randal brought up the Petition of Mr. 
 ThoiiiM Appioton, Common Hchool Teiwhor, of York, wliich wiw kid on the Tablo. 
 
 AHr«ei»)iIy to the Order «.f th« Dwy, the Petition of Mr. John Harvey iind eighty-seven 
 others of the tHttrict of Nowwutle, (identical with that of Mr. Bnlkl«y Waters, presented to th« 
 House on the 7th, instimt. in regard to the Univarsiiy. eto.) was read. Also the i)etition of 
 Mr. CharleH P. Treadwell, of the Seignory .f Point a 1 Original, in the Ottawa District, praynig 
 for an Act to enable him to convey certain pieooH of land to trustees and their successors for 
 soliool purposes, buryiugground, etc., was read. 
 
 Mr. Archibald Mclie^n, seconded by Mr. William Morr",, moves that the Petition of 
 CharlesP. Treadwell, Ka<|uire, be referred to a Helect Committee, with pt»wer to report tijeroon 
 by Bill, or otherwise, and that Mtissieurs Junas Jones ami Duncan Cameron do compose the 
 said Committee. Which wa.i ordered. 
 
 Captain John Mathews, from the Committ, . to which waa referre<l the Petition of Mr. 
 BlwardTliompaon Philiiii. informed the House that l.ie Committee liad agreed to a report, 
 which he wan roaily to submit whenevor the Housn would please t<' recoiv«? the same. The 
 lU-port was ordered to be received, and it was reii.; as follows : 
 To Uif Speaker of Uie Home of A.i»emlily : 
 
 Your Committee, directed to ni ort on the Petition of Mr. Edward Thompson Philan, 
 respectfully Ht»te that they have very c*refully inve-itigated his claims ; thoy have examined his 
 documents ; they have been, during the la >' two sessions, in ctmtinued corre»pondenco with the 
 Trustees of the District Common School, in the Township of B«rtie, with the Secretary to the 
 Boanl of Eduoatiiin and with the Treasurer of the Niagara Disirict, and they liave very satis- 
 fac nrily a-tcertained that the sum of sixteen pouiiJs, twelve shillings and six pence (i;i0.12,fi) 
 duL" to him from the Common School funtls, and they, therefore, hope that the Board of Educa- 
 tion of the Niagara District v. 11 not connder the payment of this sum out of the first mmeys, 
 wliioh may come into their hands, as a violation .<f the law on the subject. 
 
 John Matthews, 
 CoMMOvs HousR or AssKMDtY, Chairman. 
 
 2l8t February, 1828. 
 
 Agreeably to the Ordar of the Day, the Pet:tion of Mr. Jojeph S. Lockwood and one hun- 
 dr<jd and seveutli-one others of the Midlaii I District, the Petit ion of Mr. Abrain Zavittz and two 
 humlred and sixty others of the District of Niagara, the Petition of Mr. Charles Powers and 
 
 le h mdrjd and twelve others of the District of Newcastle, the Pe itioii of Mr. David Cuuiming 
 anl thirty-nine others of the Disirict of Newcastle, the Petition of Mr. John Steele and two 
 h inlred and thirty others o' the N. wcastle District, thj Petition of Mr. James H- VViUoii and 
 sity-one othjrs of the D.s rict of Newcistle, the Petition of Mr. John Crtwford and two hundred 
 an I five others of tha District of Newcastle, the "etitiuii of Mr. Jiime» Rankin and one hundred 
 an I sixty others of the District of Newcastle and the Pdtiticm of Mr. John Hirvey and eighty- 
 seven others of t'le District of Newctstie (identical witli thit of Mr. Bulkloy Waters in regard 
 to the Provinciil Univeraity, etc., which was laid befcue the House on the 7th, instant,) were 
 read, and reforrjd to tha Select Committee on the subject. 
 
 S1r,l Fihrnary, 1H2S —A'ireJably to the Order of the Day, the Petition <>f Mr. Thomas 
 Appleton, Common School Teacher, of York, praying for relief in the premises, was read. 
 
 Mr. R)'i8rt Rinlit, sojonlol by Mr. Dancui McOall, movjs that the Petition of Mr. 
 Til >nu .Ajiplit),! bo referre I t > a Sjlect Go;n nittu'.^ t) hi co,n:))ie:l of Moisieur.s John Udph. 
 John M*tthewi. Ttiom is 'lorn )r and James Wilson that they have leave to sen \ for parsons and 
 pjipors and to report ihirao:i by Bill, or otherwise. Which wa.s ordered. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Petitions of Alexander Nickerson and eighty-six 
 others of the Niagara District, of Michael S. Dolard and one hundred and six y five others of 
 the London District, of John Fletcher and seventy-one others of the Home District, of Isaac 
 Lainoureaux and seventy-six others of the Houie District, of A. Everett and ninty-two others of 
 the Western District, of E[)hra'm Powell and two hundred and sixty others of the Newcastle 
 District, of Duncan Vanalstino and ninety-tw(j others of the Midland District and of the Rev. 
 Franklin Medcalf and four hundred aniUifty-oiglit o-Jiars of the Johistiwa District (similar 
 1 1 thit of Mr. B.ilkloy Wa'.ers, whioh wu laid bifora the Houidon the 7th. imtint, in regard to 
 the Charter of the proposad University, etc ,) were read and referred to the Select Committoo 
 on the subject. 
 
 27ih February, ;,'?2.'?.— Mr. MardiUl S. Bidwell, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves tliat 
 ft Messagabe tmt to the Honourab'e the Legislative Oouucil, re(niesting that the Honourable Logis- 
 
 1 itivo Council will bj pleiso I to pirmit the Honour.>b!e an I Venerable Dr. Strachan t > attend a 
 
1828 
 
 Cbap. XLV. EDUCATIONAL PROCFEDINOS OF HOUSE OF iSSEMBLY, 1828. 
 
 2:{7 
 
 ion of Mr. 
 
 ighty-Bflvon 
 Mitud to the 
 petition of 
 ict, prrvying 
 ucuHsortt for 
 
 Potition of 
 'ort lijoreon 
 onijKHu the 
 
 tioii of Mr. 
 to a report, 
 Banie. The 
 
 •on Philim, 
 xaminetl his 
 ICO with thu 
 etary tu the 
 u very ciatig- 
 o(i:i0.1'2.fi) 
 d of EdacH- 
 rtit iiimoyB, 
 
 lEWS, 
 
 ZJhairman. 
 
 id one hun- 
 
 ittz and two 
 Powers and 
 id Ciiinming 
 ole and two 
 VViUon and 
 :,wo hundred 
 jne hnndred 
 and eighty- 
 ira in regard 
 atant,) wore 
 
 Mr. Thoma» 
 ,s road. 
 
 iti')n of Mr. 
 ohn U)l|»li, 
 parsons and 
 
 \i eighty-six 
 ive others of 
 rict, of Isaac 
 bwo others of 
 he Newcastle 
 of the Rev. 
 ,rict (similar 
 , in regard to 
 ;t Committee 
 
 , moves tiiat 
 arable Legis- 
 II t > attend a 
 
 plln,m'7Ml"B„ruL'v'vv '! ^^ "'i" "v."""" ^ "^^^ '"^» consideration and report upon the 
 letiM<.n of Mr. Bulkley Waters and others, praying this Hou»e to on.iuire into the troth of 
 
 V«?«™^T''r^^'^"7' "! •"' ^'^ri-*"*"'"' (^h'«rt and Letter addressed by .he H.mourabTe .nd 
 Venerable Dr. htrachan t., His Majesty s finder Secretary of S ate f<,r the Colonies and into 
 
 onlied.'"' "''"" ■'' *"' ^''"^^"'^y '• ^" '•« o^t*blished in this Provinci wSL w.. 
 
 nrosi!Il';d ulTn.^'L^'ll"''''''^'' •«'=""^'M'.y Mr. Paul P.terson, moves that «n Addre«i b, 
 pi mentod to His Rxeeliency, praym- that His Excellency will be [.leased to permit the HmT.uV. 
 able and Venerable D.-. Strachan. a u.end.er of the Kxe.Ly. Con .cil, .o attend the Hole" SI 
 m ttee to whoui have been refe^nul the Poti-io . .,f Mr Hulklev Wnters and -thers and a num- 
 
 drlffa ;frr, t7u h'^^ddir ^^Wh'- r^ "'"' ""T'T '^"'''»^ ""** '^"^'•'» »>« '^ ComnutteeTo 
 araii ana report sucn Address. Which was carried and ordered. 
 
 T i«.,f!n./f"n" ^"^^'^' ^'■'"" ^'l" Coramitt.o appointed to draft an Address to His Excellency the 
 Lieutenantnovernor. requesting neriais.ion for the attendance of (lie H.mourable and Vi ner! 
 
 po t upl trPotUi'frMr 'h; lU " ^^""""'.'"•r*"*^'* '^y ^''" ««"-'• *<> exami"„e an.V re 
 port upon tliel otiti-.n ot Mr Bulkley Waters and others ropor»ed a draft of Address which was 
 received and read the fanit and second times, and ordered fo",, third iSing to morrow 
 ♦hn n '1 ';''";';T^' /.m-Agn-cably to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Excellency 
 thoLieure.. itUovernor, re.,uosti„gHi8 Excellency to bepleised t<. ,>ermit The ricmourablo' 
 a«.l Ve^erabe Archde.«5on Strach.n, a Member of the Executive Council, to artenraMelect 
 arS iT """"'' "'" '"^ *^* '^'"'^ ''"'"■ l"*'--'^' •""' •""•^-' ^y he Speaker? J^dT. 
 
 Upper Canada, etc. 
 
 To Ui» EfxeUennj Sir Peregrine MaiUm^^K.VD., Lkuteninv U,.n;mr, 
 
 May it Please Youu Exckllenuy : 
 
 We, H is MajeMy's dutiful and h.yal subjects, tlie Commons . ^ r,„..r Canada in Provincial 
 Parliau.ont sssembled, respectf u ly re.,uo8t that Your Kxcellen. *iii be pkied t" per ,t the 
 Honourable and \ enerable Archdeacon Stmchan, a Memb.r of fhelExecntrv.fc.r.ci u tend a 
 SeectComm.ttoe appointed by the House of Assembly, to oxau.ine and repov^ npon tho Petit i?m of 
 Mr Bulkley Waters and others praying this House to enquire into th'e truth . f clrtlin renre 
 K*niT"'l*" f^«l«*"'«i'«;''P,'"t''n^<L«tt.«r addressed' by the H.,nourablc and VonSh, 
 Doctor Strachan to Hi, Majesty s Undor-.Secr.t.iry of State, and into the l.rinciple upon w ch 
 an Lmversity is to be established in this Province. i»i"oipie upon wnicn 
 
 Commons House of Amsemuly, 
 2t<ih February, 1828. 
 
 John WaL.soN, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 . « i?ii? lu V^ . r"' r""'^.^'^ ^y ^^- P^*®"" P'^^'^y' ">•••«» that Messieurs Paul Peter- 
 
 son and Duncan McCall be a Committee to wait upon His Excellency the Lieutenant Govpr 
 nor, with the Address ,.f this House, and to present the same. Which was or.u'Jed 
 
 T •^';- ^'n"""^ Boulton, the Mast^r-in-Chancery, brought down from the Honourable the 
 Legislative Council a Message, and having retired, the Message wasre.id, as follows ! 
 
 Mk. Speaker : 
 
 The Legislative Council do give to the Honourable and Venerable Archdeacon Strachan 
 leave "to at end a Select Committee appointed by the House of Assembly to examine and 
 repor,up.m he Petition of Mr. Bulkley Waters and others, praving that House to em.uue 
 int<. the truth of certain representations in an Ecclesiastical Chart and Letter addressed by the 
 Honourabhand Venerable Dr. btrachan t„ His Majesty's Under-Secretary of State for the 
 if he thinks fit" principles upon which an liiiversity is to be established in this Province," 
 
 T „„. r, /-. William Campbell. 
 
 Leoislative Coi'NciL Chamber, • a \ 
 
 29th February, 1828. Speaker. 
 
 mh mrnnnj, i'^-'''^—Mr Secretary Hillier brought down from His Excellency the 
 Lieutenant-Governor, several Messages and having retired, the following Message relating to a 
 proposed University was read by the Speaker, as follows : fa b« reiauug to a. 
 
 P. Maitland : 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor, transmits to the House of Assembly, in compliance with its 
 
 R-ov'inc'e" '"^^ "^"^ ^''"*^' ^°' ''^°^*°« ^^^ University of King's^ColJege in this 
 

 238 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
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 m 
 
 
 ■ 
 
 H 
 
 
 ^■ii 
 
 
 M 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor further informs the House that His Majesty has been pleased 
 to ^rantas endowment for the Univeraity, two hundred and twenty-tive thousand nine hundred 
 and forty-four acres (iJ5 !Ul) of the Crown Lands, and to appropriate, from tlie revenues of 
 the Crown, the sum of one thousand pounds sterlinj,', (£1,000) per annum, [out of moneys 
 received from the Canada Company], for sixteen years, for the erection of the buildin<^», and 
 aho th*t several of the ralii?ious societies in England have contributed to the institution by 
 donations of money for the purchise of books, and, by the louiidation of sciholarships for 
 missionaries to the Indian tribes. 
 
 P. M. 
 
 Government House, Yokk, 
 29th February, 1828. 
 
 Mr. Mifshill S. Bidwell, seconded by Mr Jam3s Wilson, nnves that so much of the 
 Massa.'e of His Exce'lenjy the Lieutenant-'Ho/ernor, and the documents accompanying it, as 
 relitjs to the Univenity, 1)3 refjrre 1 to th3 Select Com.nicteo, to whom was referred the 
 Petition of Mr. Bulkloy Waters .and others. 
 
 The Charter of the University was then read by the Clerk. (See page .) 
 
 Id Mireh, lS.\'i. — Mr. Paul ''eterson, from thd Committee to wait on His Excellency, the 
 Lieutenant-G jvcrn ir, with an Address of this House, vejuouing pjrmission for the Honour- 
 able and Venerable Arch leac in Scrachan to attend a Committee of the same, reported that the 
 Committee delivered the Address, and chat His Excjllency hai been pleased to ravke thereto 
 the foUowinf? reply : 
 
 Gkntlemen i>f the Hou.se ok A.ssembly : 
 
 I shall not withhold from Archdeicon S'rachan p3rmission to a'tend your Committee, as 
 the mitter to ^hich yojr Adlrejs rofers, can have no connection with his duties as a Member 
 of Executive Council of this Province. 
 
 P. M. 
 
 Government Hou-se, Youk, 
 Ist March, 1828. 
 
 Srd Murch, ISi^^. — Agreeably to the Order of the D.iy, the Petition of Mr. Findlay 
 Malcolm and fifty-nine others, of the the District of London, (similar to that of Mr. Bulkley 
 Waters, in regard to the Clurter of the University,) wai read and referred to the Select Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 11th M'lich, lf^2S. — Agreeably to notice, Mr. John Matthews, seconded by Mr. William 
 Morris, moves for leave to uring in a B;il for t'lo relief of Mr. Edward Th )mp3on Philan, 
 Common School Teacher, which was sjrantod, and the Bill was read a first time, and ordered 
 for a second reading to-morrow. 
 
 Mr. MuMhall S. Bilwell, seconded bj Mr. John Ilolph, moves that an Address be presen- 
 ted to Hii Excellency praving His Excellency to cause to be laid before this House the Reports 
 of the District Boards of Educition, respecting Common Schools, according to the provisions 
 of the Provincial Statute I 'f 1810 (o'} George 3rd, Chapter 3(5) and also the Reports made by the 
 Trustees of District Scho ils, respecting District (Grammar) Schools.aoc ndingto the provisions of 
 the Provincial Statute of H19,('"''> f»« >i"g'» 3rd, Chapter 4), an 1 that tJio forty-tirst rule of this Hmse 
 be dispensed with, so far as r dates to this motion, and tli^it Messieurs Peter Perry and Paul 
 Pater.son be a Committee to <lraft and rep )rt «^lie same. Which wai carried and oriered. 
 
 Mr. Peter Perry, from tlie Committee appointed to dr.tft and Address to Uis Excellency, 
 the Lieutenant-fjovernor, priying for certain Rejiorts, reported a draft, wlilch was received 
 and read the first anl socon I time, ado^ited, an I ordered to be engrossed a"il real a third tnne 
 to-morrow. 
 
 An \dlr3as was pre.sented to His Excellency, the Lieutenant Governor, asking him to 
 permit the Honourable James Baby, a Member of the Executive Council to attend ami give 
 evidence bjfo-e a Select Cnaimittee of this House in rrfgwd to certain representations nude in 
 an Ecclesiastical Chirtanl Letter addressed by the Hon<' .able and Venerable Dr. Str-tchan, 
 to His Mijoity's flnder-Secietu-y of State for the (/olonies ; and into the principle upon which 
 an University is to be established in this Province. 
 
 [Note. — The answer was similar to that given in the c ■3 of the Reverend Dr. Stracban.] 
 
 A Mjssvge was received from r'la H )nourable the Legislative Council, giving leave to ttie 
 Honou able Mossi^'urs Jamo Baby, Thomas Clark and William Dickson, to attend a Select 
 Committee of the H m.se of Assembly in regard to the petition of Mr, Bulkley Waters and others 
 in regard to the University Charter, etc., if they ser "it to attend. 
 
 
1828 
 
 Chap. XLV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY 1828. 
 
 239 
 
 been pleased 
 nine hunilred 
 J revenues of 
 t of moneys 
 iuildin;j;!i, and 
 fistitution l>y 
 lolarships for 
 
 P. M. 
 
 nuiih of the 
 inying it, as 
 referred the 
 
 ;cenency, the 
 tlitf Honour- 
 rte<l that the 
 nike thereto 
 
 lommittee, as 
 as a Member 
 
 P. M. 
 
 Mr. Findlay 
 Mr. Bulkley 
 } Select Corn- 
 Mr. William 
 p3on Philan, 
 and ordered 
 
 )ss be presen- 
 u the Roporrs 
 ;he provision-i 
 
 made by the 
 3 provisions of 
 
 of tliis H'lUie 
 rry and Paul 
 rlered. 
 
 8 Excellency, 
 
 was rocuived 
 
 i a third tune 
 
 sking him to 
 end and give 
 tions niide in 
 Dr. Str^chaii, 
 le upon which 
 
 •. Strachan.] 
 
 ig leave to the 
 ;tend a Select 
 ;ors and others 
 
 , 
 
 IieuJfnL'^r:^;STetadv'rto'to*"schoo?5'' 1 '^' '"'''}''' ^**"^^«" *° ^is Excellency the 
 by the Speaker a^d is ^foJlowB ''°°' ^"P"'*"' '"^^ ""'^ *^>« '^^"^ ^ime. passed and signed 
 
 To His Excellency Sir Pere.jrine Maittand, K.C.B., Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, etc. 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 to be laid before this Hou?e, the Reports of the n«S J. r *'^5'«"«"c.y will be pleased to cause 
 mon Schools, according to the StatutfS is Prrwf.n^^^^ Boards of Education respecting Cora- 
 reign of His lato Majesty, (1816) inttuled- ''A,fAp7^n P^'^'^f '". H'^ hfty-s.xth year of the 
 no^ in force, for EsLblish n^ Publ c rGrlmma^WM 1 T^^ P*'* ?^A*"*^- ^° *""'"'^ ^^^ ^^""^ 
 and to extt nd the provisiorof the same '" ''°^' '" '''' '"''''^ ^''^"'^' "^ *^'« P'"^i°°«. 
 
 Commons HonsB op A.s.sembly, 
 12th March, 1828. 
 
 John VVillson, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 McCdranTSrM?Sl'brc^tm^^ Tatu-'^'^^rt^' T^'f. ''''' ^''"^«"- ■^"-- 
 
 this House, and to present the sa.L.""vS,Ss ordel^d " " ^'''^"""^ "•'' '''' ''-'^'''' "^ 
 
 ConnnonScaoomeports,reporteddeiverngLsanLa^^^^ re ative to District and 
 
 to make thereto the following reply : ^'''^'"^ tne same, and that His Excellency had been jdeased 
 
 Gentlemen of the House of A,s.sembly : 
 
 I shall direct that such of the Reports of the District and rnn,mr.n «„i, i i 
 
 received, be laid before your House. ^lamct ana Common Schools, as have been 
 
 GOVER? MENT HoU.SE, P- M. 
 
 York, 14th March, 1828. 
 
 by the Speaker, as follows : ^ retired, the Message was read 
 
 P. Maitland : 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor transmits to the House of Asspmblv nnr^i^a ^* ...»«, t> 
 specting District (Grammar) and Common Schools as have btTSved "^"''' '" 
 
 Government House, P. M. 
 
 YoKK, March 17th, 1828. 
 
 Mr. Marshall S Bidwell from the Committee to which was referred the Petition of Mr 
 Bulkley Waters, and others, and the various Petitions fro:n the difforont parts of the Pn,vi!f.; 
 on he same subject, informed the Hou.e, that the Committee had a. ee to a Itp^^ 
 Address to H.s Majesty, founded on these Petitions, which he was rLirtrsulS wlien Iv' >r 
 
 To the Honourable the Commons House of As.sem sly : ' 
 
 The Select Committee, to whom was referred the Petition of Mr Bulklov W..f«r<. „„^ 
 others, and various other Petitions of thu same tonor, [see pacre 2 HI si. ned Iv near] v ^fff , 
 sa,id,K,rsons, and also the Petition of Mr. E. W. Anistroi^g^ andt>\K!'u;^n:ru;^ foL!'';;^ 
 
 * The Petition of Mr V, W Anp'^mt"' -iH '?'f^ — »- - m r ■ ix- ^^ 
 
 ary, l82S, contains a mi^chTnoreVE^trarrlLnLn^'o^Thp'nr »n f '"^f M^^n!!"^ ^''*'"'=' ^■'*'«-d J^nu- 
 but it i. BubHtantially the Ban.e in subrance as that o? Mr Wat^^rTand „Vth« n.h^r"'? • f "^'"^f'" ^"''«»t/ 
 to the House of Assembly on this subject. vvacers and of the others which were presented 
 
.,«►,.»«...»...-.-,«.»> .*.>.«,awiri.M»m«.-i.i»i.i<a>»»f-a^^ 
 
 240 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
 \^ I 
 
 The Letter (and the Chart re'erred to in the Petitions) .b dated the S6th <.f Mav 1827, and was 
 addressed by the Honourable and Roverend Doctor Strachan, Archdeacon of York, a Member of 
 the LegiBlative Council of *hm Trovince. to the Right Honourable R. J. Wilniot Horton at that 
 time Under i-ecretary of State for the Colonies, for the information of Lord Goder.ch, then 
 at the head of the Colonial Department. It appears to have been intend, d as a document for 
 the infonnation of His Majesty's Government,Ui ->n which important measures on the'r parts, with 
 respect to this Colony, might have been founded. 
 
 [Note. The first part of this Report is devoted by the Committee to an 
 elaborate review of the " Ecclesiastical Chart " which had been enclosed in the 
 letter addressed to Mr. Horton. This " Chart " was intended to give " a fair and 
 accurate representation of the state of the different Denominations of Christians 
 in the Province." That the Chart was " fair and accurate," the witnesses exam- 
 ined by the Committee denied, and give their evidence to that eff"ect. As this 
 part of the Report of the Committee does not touch upon any educational point, 
 it is omitted from this Documentary History. That part of it relating to the 
 Charter of King's College is as follows :J 
 
 Upon an examination of the copy of the Charter of the University of the King's College, 
 transmitted to the Hou.se by His Excellency and referred to them, the Committee find that the 
 following are some of its provisions : 
 
 The Bishop of the Diocese is to be Visitor, and as such may disapprove of the by-laws made 
 f 3r the College by the Council, which thereby became void unless His Majesty in Privy Council 
 afterwards reverses this frder; the Governor. Lieutenant-Governor, or person adiiunistermg the 
 Government is to be Chancellor, the President is to be a Clergyman m Holy Orders of the 
 Church "f England ; tl e Honourable and Venerable Doctor Strachan, Archdeacon of York is to 
 be the first President, the Corporation is to consist of the Chancellor. President and Scholars of 
 King's College and is authorized to take and hold real estate not exceeding the yearly value of 
 £16 000 sterling. The College Council is to consist of the Chancellor, President and seven 
 other ppi-sons who are to be members of the Church of England, and to sign the 39 Articles of 
 that Church • the Council, under certain restrictions, are to make by-laws for the College, one 
 of these restrictions is that no religious test <.r -[ualification shall be required of or appointed 
 for any person admitted or matriculated as scho urs in the College, except that those admitted 
 to the Degree of Doctor in Divinity shall make the came declarations end subscriptions, and 
 take the same oaths as are rp.iuire.l of persons admitted to any Degree of Divinity in the Uni- 
 versity of Oxford. The Chancellor, President and Professors of the College and all persons 
 admitted in the College to the Dearee of Master of Arts, or to any Degree in Divinity, Law or 
 Medicine, who, from the time of such admission shall par the annual sum of 20b. sterling to- 
 wards the support of the College, are to be members of the Convocation. Fiom the Message of 
 His Excellency it uppers tiiat His Majesty has been pleased to grant as an endowment tor the 
 University 225,944 acres ..f the ( rown Lands, and to uppropriate, from the revenue of tlie Crown, 
 the sum of £1.000 sterling, per annum for Ui years, for the erection of the buildings, and also 
 that several of the Religious Societies in England have contributed to the Institution by dona- 
 tions of money for the purchase of books and by the founditioii of Sch.darships for Missionaries 
 to the Indian Tribes. 
 
 From the foregoing abstract of some of the provisions of the Charter, the sectarian char- 
 acter an.l tundencv of the Institution will be manifest. Ur. Strachan, by whose representat^ions 
 and efl'-'it.s, in a great measure, the Charter in its present stat ferns to have been procured, in 
 a i.amplilet imblished in London, entitled " An appeal to .he Friends of Religion am Literature, 
 in behalf of the University of Upper Canada," distinctly states that it will be esBentially a Mis 
 sionarv College "for the e.lucation of Missioiiari.s ..f the Church of Fngland, and as an argu 
 ment to obtain from the members of that Church contributions towards the funds of tlieCoUeg.; 
 uiaintHins that the effect of establishing this Tniversity, will be ultimately t.o make the greater 
 p.,rtion of the i^mulation of the Province, members of the Chuivh if England That such must 
 be the natural tendency of putting into the hands of tlia* Church the only seminary in tl.>' 
 country where a liberal education cJin be obtaine<l is obvious ; but the alarm and jeahjusly wliicli 
 this vt-rvcirnnmstance wUl imiduce through the I'rovince, and has in some measure, already pro 
 ducotl and which will prevent jiarents and guardians from seiKting their children io it, wlll,[Jelilap^, 
 counteract this tendency, although at the same time, it will in an e(jual degree, limit the benefit, 
 which might (jtherwise be derived from the Institution. An l^mversity ad.-;.ted to the char 
 acter and circumstance* of the people, would be the means of inestimable benefits to this Pro 
 
 inW«!*WKJM*»!i-sfe-a*Wft«K^iWr 
 
)A. 
 
 1828 
 
 Chap. XLV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, 1828. 241 
 
 ly 1827, pnd was 
 IK. a Member of 
 Horton, at that 
 Grderich, then 
 a document for 
 the'r parts, with 
 
 nmittee to an 
 closed in the 
 ,'e " a fair and 
 of Christians 
 tnesses exam- 
 Tect. As this 
 sational point, 
 slating to the 
 
 I King's College, 
 tee find that the 
 
 tie by-laws nia^e 
 in Privy Council 
 duiinisteringthtt 
 ly Orders of the 
 ■on of York is to 
 t and Kcholarsof 
 yearly value of 
 ident and seven 
 39 Articles of 
 the College, one 
 of. or appointed 
 t those admitted 
 bscriptions, and 
 inity in the Tni- 
 and all persons 
 ;)ivinity, Law or 
 SOs. sterling to- 
 n the Mes8M'.|e of 
 lowiuent for the 
 lue of the Crown. 
 Idings, and also 
 itiition by dona- 
 for Missionarien 
 
 le sectarian char- 
 L' represontationK 
 )een procuied, in 
 n Hiul Literature, 
 3Hgentially a Mis 
 " and as adi argu 
 ids of the Collegt; 
 make the greater 
 That Bttch must 
 ) seminary in the 
 id jealously which 
 nure, already pro 
 ioit wiii,{»eihHpt(. 
 limit the benenti- 
 ;)ted to the char 
 iietits to this Pro- 
 
 vince But to be of real serv-ice, the principles upon which it is established, must be in unison 
 with the general sentiments of the people. It should not be a school of politics, or of secrrian 
 views. It should have about it no appearance of partiality or e^cclusion. Its pJrtals should be 
 thrown open to all and upon none who enter, should an/ influence be exerted t.rit tech them 
 
 tTnn ''f1.fnw.lwh '''i '^""'•'- \' ^'^-^"^^ ^' '^ «""'''=*^ ofintellectual and n.oral light and animl 
 tion, from which the glorious irradiations of lite.ature and science may decend upon all wTth 
 equal lustre and power Such an institution would be a blessing to a^ country, its prWe and 
 «^,Z .i?T^ fT^h *'''"fr '' ^^*" ^" l^'»ented, that the principles of the ClSr are 
 calculated t« defeat its usefulness, and to confine to a favored few all its advantages That H?s 
 Majesty s Government coud even have contemplated such a limitation of its beneficence thaJ 
 they coud ever have intended to found it upon such te.ms as must either precSe from iS 
 benefits the greater part of those for whom it was intended, or subject them, nt an age ill maji 
 faed o guard against such attacks, to the silent, but powerful influence of a i revaihng s irit a, d 
 regular system of proselytism no one will believe. They could not have blen aware of the n 
 surmountable objections to which, from the circumstances of the couutiy. and th^sent ments of 
 the people, some of the provisions of the Charter were liable. They acted, undoubted render 
 the impression, and with the intention of providinc in -he most mcinn« VArl lihJ,„i „?^' 
 institution much noed'^dand desired by the neojje There rth^r^?.^ . . 'T' *" 
 
 thatany representations from the HoL':fTstmbiru "m'the'n a ^ woK:ro t^atfu? 
 
 As to the right of the University to elect a member of the House of AssemW th^ n 
 
 ?lsf gJo lirClL' T *'^" ", "" ^r."^"*^^ ^'^^« "^ (const'entr; withthe'Tn^p'eHa AcT' 
 31st, Geo III. Chap. .^1 commonly called our Constitutional Act) can give the right of remi 
 sentation to an tnive.sity or any other corpo.ation. By that Act the Pro^vinc^was divided Tntn 
 districts counties, circles, towns or townships, iv- the purpose of electing menilers of th« 
 House of A.semby, which was to be comp, .1 and constituted hi the manner the ein mentioned 
 tha IS, among other things of persons ch.,>on to represent some of these divisions Sauab 
 hcations prescribed f.,r voters in districts, circles or counties, differ from thos "prescribed f; 
 voters in towns. In the former, each voter must be Mossesstd, for his own use and benefit o? 
 lands or tene.nentsui such county, etc. held in freehold, fief voture, or by c^rtifiLe d.rLj 
 under the authority of the Governor and ( ouncil of the l^ovince <,f Ouebec of tL , 1 
 value of 40. steriing or upwards, over and above all vents and Xrjes paya^;ie o "-'"^^ 
 respect o the same, ,n the latter each voter must be possessed for his own use or be, ^ 
 
 dwelling house and ot o ground held in like manner, of the yearly value of £5 or upwa, [ or 
 having been resident w.thm the said town or township for the space of IL' calendar months nexl 
 before the date of the writ of Bummons for the election must bona fide have paid one gear's ren 
 tor the dwelling house m which he shall have .o resided, at the rate of £10 steriing or upwards" 
 By the Provincial Statute of 1820, 60th Geo. HI. Cha].. 2 it is enacted that, whor'iever an Uni* 
 versityshal be organized and in operation as a seminary of learning in the Province and iV 
 c.mformity to the Rules and Statutes of similar institutions in Great Britain, it shall ;ndmHv 
 be lawful for the Governor Lieutenant-Governor, or person administerng the Governn en for 
 tlie time being, to declare by proclan.ation the tract of land appendant to such Univ Sv and 
 whereupon the same is situated, to be a Town or Township,-by such imme as to him sh 11 
 seem meet, and that such Town or Township so constituted,\hall be represented Won" n em 
 ber. I rovidec, always neverthele.ss that no person shall be permitted at any such election 
 for aember to represent the said University in Pariiament, who besides tl.e qualificatioiTnow 
 by aw required, shall not also be entitbd to vote in the convocation of the said University. 
 
 The right of representation cannot exist until the University is organized, and in onera 
 tion as 1 feemiiiary of Learrnng and in conformity to the Rules and Statutes of simikr inst^fS' 
 turns m Great Britain, nor until the buildings for the University are actually erected. t the ' 
 belongs to the Town or Townshi,,, and not to the University. The Town or Township mus 
 be a tract of land apj.endant to the University, and that on which it is situated. These exnres 
 s.ons exclude all tracts <.f land separated from the University by lai.ds of other owJer 
 although such separate laiids may belong to the University, and all lands which do not Hona 
 to the University The title of it must be vested in the Corporation, if it is c.,rporate proS 
 ty, it cannot be a trvehold estate of any individual to qualify him to xote upon it as a Town 
 elechjr. No person can have a freehold estate in a dwelling liouse and lot in the Town n^ 
 he Corporation. That ,,ualification for any person to be a Town elector cannot exist^ hi t e 
 Uiuversity Town. The nght of voting at an election for such Town must be confined t( those 
 
 who, besides beinir nntitlnd t,. u^fco in tl... r..„, *-: i.-nr.,,.. .. • , , ^' """^-'i to tnose 
 
 ,n , , ,,7 'v; .■ " . ■ '• "'"i" hi^c ;c3itiuii Olio year in ilmf 
 
 iZ\ Tm T,-^''* ^'"'^ •'""V"'' i^;' ^^^"'"» ''""«" '» ^^■^*^l' •^'"^y «1'»" have so resided at the 
 rate of £10 steriing or upwards. The right of voting will, therefore, be confined probkblvto 
 a very few persons of whom, perhaps, the Lieutenant-Governor may be one. Proi^ftbly to 
 
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242 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF FDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA 
 
 1828 
 
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 I'i 
 
 With this report the Commitleo J resent to the Uouk the draft of an Address to His 
 Majesty upon the various subjects which have been mentioned and they respectfully recommend 
 that it be adopted. 
 
 All which Js respectfully submitted. 
 
 Marhhall R. Bidwell, 
 CojiMiTTEK Room, HofSE of Assembly, « Speaker, 
 
 loth March. 1828. 
 The Address to His Maje ty was then read the first time as follows : 
 
 To the King's Mont Excellent Majesty. 
 
 Most Gradious Sovbrbign • 
 
 We Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons House of Assembly of Upper 
 Canada, in the Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly bes? leave to represent to Your 
 Majesty. * * * [Tliat part relating to tbo Eccloscastical Chart is omitted] that while we 
 fully and gracefully appreciate Your Majesty's gracious intentions in granting a Royal Charter 
 for tbe establishment of an University in this Province, we would beg niost respectfully to 
 represent, that, as the great body of Your Majesty's subjects in this Province are not members 
 of the Church of England, they have seen, with grief, that the Charter contains provisions 
 which are calculated to render the institution subservient to the particular interests of that 
 Church, and to exclude, from its offices and honours, all who do not belong to it. 
 
 In consequence of these provisions its benefiis will bo confined to. a favoured few, while 
 others of Your Majesly's subjects, far more numerotis. a»id eqnaUy loyal and deserving of Your 
 Majesty's parental care and favour, will be shut out Irom a paiticipaiion in them. 
 
 Having a tendency to build up one particular Church to the prejudice of others, it will 
 naturally be an object of jealousy and disgusi. 
 
 IK influence as a Seminary of Learn'ii<T. will, upon these accounts, be limited and partial. 
 
 ^VJ. Iheiefore, humbly bog that Your Majesty will be j)leased to listen to the wishes of 
 Your MHJesty's people in this respect and to cause the present Charter to be cancelled, and 
 one granted, free f^om the objections to which, emboldened by a conviction of Your Majesty's 
 paternal and gracious feelings to Your loyal subjects in this Province as well as by a sense of 
 duty to the people, and a knowledge of tUeir anviely upon the subject, we have presumed tx» 
 avert. 
 
 (Note. — The concluding part of this Address, relating to the Clergy Reserves, is omitted.) 
 
 John Wiujwn. 
 OoMMONS House of Assembly of Upper Canada, Speaker. 
 
 York, 20th March, 1828. 
 
 Mr. Marshall S. Bidwell, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the House do resolve 
 itself intt) a Committee of the Whole to-morrow, on the Report of the Select Committee to 
 which was referred the Petition of Mr. Bulkley Waters and others, on the Address to His 
 Majesty, reported by that Committee. 
 
 30th March, 182S.—A-^reea,h\y to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Majesty on the 
 subject of a religiom ettablishment anl University in Upper Canada, was read the third time. 
 
 Mr. Willi.im Morris, seconded by Mr. Alexander McDonell, of Glenaarry, moves that the 
 Address do not pass ; but that it be now reconuuitted. Which was lost on a division. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Alexander McDone'l. moves that the words ; "and 
 internal imprnvement " in the fifth page of the Address, in the fifth line from the toj) be ex- 
 punged On which the House divided, and the yeas and nays being takc.i were iw follows : 
 
 Yea8.— Messieurs Beasley, Bidwell, Cameron, Lefferty, McCall, McDonell (of Glengarry), 
 McLean, Morris, Perry, Rolph, Thomson, and VanKoughnet. — 12. 
 
 Nays.— Messieurs Baby, Beardsley, Burnham, Coleman, Fothergill, Hamilton, Homor, 
 Jonas Jones, McBride, McDonell (of Prescott and Russell,) Mathews, Peterson, Randal, Scol- 
 lick, Thompson, White, Wilkinson and Wilson. — 18. 
 
 The ({ueiftion was decided in the negative by a majority of six, and wss lost accordingly. 
 On the (juestion of [lassingthe Address, the House divided, and the yeas and nays being taken 
 were as follows : 
 
 Ykas. —Messieurs Baby, Beardsley, Beasley, Bidwell. Coleman, Fothergill, Hamilton, 
 Hornor, Lefferty, Mc Bride. McCall. McDonell (of Piescott and Russell.) Mathews, Perry, 
 Peterson, Randal. Holph, Thomson. White, Wilkinson and Wilson. — 21. 
 
 Nays. — Messieurs Burnham, Camer.m, Jonas Jones, McDonell (of Glengarry,) McLean, 
 Morris, Scollick, Th'imps(jn and VanKoughnet. —9. 
 
1828 
 
 ddress to His 
 lly recommend 
 
 WELL, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 ibly of Upper 
 enent to Your 
 that while we 
 Koyftl (Jharter 
 respectfully to 
 i not members 
 viiis provisions 
 terests of that 
 
 red few, while 
 >erving of Your 
 ra. 
 
 others, it will 
 
 ;ed and partial, 
 1 the wishes of 
 cancelled, and 
 Your Majesty's 
 8 by a sense of 
 e presumed fx> 
 
 •M, is omitted.) 
 
 UMON. 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 use do resolve 
 
 Committee to 
 
 address to His 
 
 Majesty on the 
 the third time. 
 
 moves that the 
 ision. 
 
 B words : " and 
 the toj) be ex- 
 iis follows : 
 
 (of Glengarry), 
 
 lilton, Homor, 
 , llandal, Scol- 
 
 st accordinf(ly. 
 ys being taken 
 
 gill, Hamilton, 
 athews. Perry, 
 
 arry,) McLean, 
 
 Chap. XLV. EDUCATIONAL PB00I5EDIKGS OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, 1828. 243 
 
 pa.se?a7d"stnrd brtSt'ak'er*'' ''^^""^''^ '^ " "'^^^^^^ '' ^^^^^ ^^' '^^ ^<'«^-- - 
 
 h« n™^^^'"H•^'1^■''''n'''''''"^.'^ ^^ ^'- '^"hnRolph, moves that an humble Address 
 A JZf f i- H ' ^^"'^^^""^ -^^^ Li«utea«nt-(Jovernor, requesting him to transm t the 
 Address of this House to His Majesty, to His Majef^ty's Pr ncipal Secretary of State hat fh« 
 V^^LT^i^ ^r'"*> by him to His Majesty, i.u/that Meslurs iS Cr^a^^^ 
 Patterson be a Committee to draft and report the same. Which was carried. 
 
 Mr. Peter Perry seconded by Mr. Marshall S. Bid well, moves that that part of the Jour- 
 nals containing the Report ./the Select Committee on the Petition of Mr. JJ^lklev Waters 
 and others, (relating to the Charter of King's College etc ) and other PpriHmu. , f f),! 
 subject, together with the evidence appende'd .heiet^ 'and tie A ddres to H^Ma esty' wS 
 the proposed Amendments founded thereon, with the yeas and nays be the hrst nirf /.f f^i 
 Journals printed after the prorogation, and that the one'^thouTand e£a copfes uf t^ie sal t^ 
 printed for the use of the Members. Which was ordered. 
 
 T ■ P- ^ o*"" ^^"^ ^''°'" *''^. Committee appointed to draft an Address to His Excelloncv the 
 Lieutenant-G.njernor, requesting His Excelle.uy to transmit the Address ofThisSse to His 
 Majesty, to His Majesty's Prmcipal Secretary .,f State for the Colonies rem ted a draft 
 ^ti^^Z^^Z;:''''''''' ''''' -"' '^^'■^'^'^' --^ --'^ *--. «<^^Pted arreted 7or 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor 
 
 ^^:ti:^^:ii:^^:^Lt^T-'' ^^^ ^^^-^^' -- -^ '^ ^'>'^'^ tmiTp^^sTrd 
 
 To His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., Lizntenant Governor of Opper Canada etc 
 May it Pleask Youb ExcELLKNcr : ' 
 
 We Hi, Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of Tipper Canada in Provincial 
 Parhament as.ombled, requ. .t Your Excellency to transmit the Add ess of S House to His 
 
 toTs y^esty ' "^ '''''' '" "" ""''"""' ''''* '' ""^ ^^ him be presenSd 
 
 Commons Hou.se of A-shemblv, ^''^'' ^^^"^on, 
 
 York, 20th March, 1828. Speaker. 
 
 1 n ''■ ^"'^''n n ^''^"^"J}' «''''^.°"ded by Mr. Peter Perry, moved that Messieurs J J Leffertv 
 and Duncan McCall, be a C<,mmittee to wait upon His Excellency and learn when he will £ 
 pleased to receive this House, with the addres* to His Majesty, which was ordered 
 
 Mr. James Wilson from the Committee, to which was referred the Petition of .Vr Thomas 
 Appleton, Common School Teacher of York, informed the House that the Committee had aaS 
 to a Report which he was ready to submit whenever the House would be oIp ^Prl tlf , 
 the same. The Rei>ort was ordered to be received and it was i^aT ^ '"^'''^ 
 
 To His ExcelUncy Sir Pere,jrine Maitland, K.B.C. Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada etc 
 May it Please Youh Excellency : ' 
 
 We His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of Upper Cau.ida in Provincial! 
 Parliament Assembled, re(iuest Your Excellency to c use Mr Thomas A..,,ltt<,?. f 
 School Teacher in the Town of York to be paid sLa sum of I'ley a^Zy h^ ? ' ,.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 he funds appropriated by the Legislature to the Common Schools; as far as is warianteS bv hTH 
 testimonials according to theexistiug law <of 1816.) "ananieu oy his 
 
 On the question for the second reading of the Address, the House divided and tlu. v«,.» 
 and na.ys being taken were a- follows: ""o" uivmoa, ana the yeas 
 
 Yeas. -Messieurs Beaidsley, Beasley, Bid well, Ciark Fothenrill Hnmiif^.. u i.* 
 
 Bride. Matthews, P.rry, PatterLn, Ra./d'al. Rolph^ Vjompsoii aTwils^n -S^ ' """'' ^^'■ 
 ,T ^^\^:r7}^^ Attorney-(ieneral (Robinson), and Messieurs Burnham. Coleman L.naa i„r. .= 
 McDonell (of Prescott and R;.,ssell), McLean, Morris, Scollick, Va.llLuIZt^ Sl'^^S 
 
 The (luestion was carried in the affirmative by a maioritv of four tha A.1,lroa= , 
 
 the second time, and ordered for a third reeling uimtMlw.^ ' ^^'^'^""^ '^"' ''"''^ 
 
 ^_ 21d March. /.Vi>«. -Agreeably to the Order of the Day. the Address to His Exceilenc- -Hp 
 x.,eu.cn;uruovemur. repu.led by the Committee, to whfch was referred the PetuTou u/ Mr 
 Thomas Appleton, was read a third time. t-uuou ot ftir. 
 
 pass."" Vi™ riSed"'"'''' '^ '''■• '^'"^ ^'''''^"'^"' ™"^^^ ''''' '''' ^''"^^^'^ ^'« -ot now 
 

 
 \ii 
 
 S44 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 182» 
 
 y?4*h M'lrch, 1828, — The Speaker reporteilthat the Hcase had waited upon His Excellency 
 the Lieutenant-Oovern^r with the Address of this House requesting Hia Exc jUency to transmit 
 the Address to His Majesty, to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State )or the Colonies, 
 and that His Excellency had been pleased to nnke there' > the following repl) 
 
 Gentlemen of the House of Assembly : 
 
 I will transmit Your Address to His Majesty's Grovernment. * * ♦ The great impor- 
 tance of providing for religious instruction, and for education generally, is happily exempUfied 
 in the moral condition of the ■people of the United Kingdom: and the measures which have 
 been taken by His Majesty in order to secure the same blessing in this co'cny, subjecting no 
 portion of its inhabitants to burthens, or to civil disabilities of any kind, can.nt fail, in the end, 
 to be rightly underatuod and gratefully appreciated. 
 
 Government House, York, P. M. 
 
 •24th March, 1828. 
 
 Case of Mr. Thomas Appleton, Common School Teacher, 1820-1828, 
 
 As already intimated, (in connection with the proceeding.s of th^ - House of 
 Assembly of the year 1820, (page 17l> ante), the case of Mr. Thomas Appleton 
 involved the question of the right of the Executive Government to d^'al with 
 the question of educixtion, apart fron. and independently -A, the Legislature. 
 This was the point raised in the Ap^)leton case, .from the lact that while the 
 Leejisl&ture had in 1816, passed a law, providin>j- '( :>r the establishment in the 
 Province of Common Schools, (and continued it in optuMfcion in 1820,) the 
 Executive Oc ernment applied to the the Colonial Secvew ry in that year, (1820) 
 for His Majesty's sanction to the introduction of a .syytem of elementary schools 
 based upon the National (Church of P>)gland) isystera, and on the plan of the Bell 
 monitorial schools." Tl'is was done without the knowledge of the Legislature. 
 The sanction to this scheme was given by tii!:> Home Government in 1823 ; and 
 authority was then also gi^^c'n to defray the expenses of the pioneer National 
 Central School, then established at York, out of the funds set a]jart for a Uni-' 
 
 versity. 
 
 Mr. Appleton was the Common School Teacher at York in 1820, when he was 
 displaced, and, by authority of the Lieutenant-Governor, his School House was 
 assigjied to the Master brought out from England in that year to take charge 
 of the elementary school <>n tht Bell monitorial system of teaching. 
 
 Mr. Appleton had applied to the District Board of Education for redress, but 
 his request was unheeded. He then applied to His Excellency the Lieutenant- 
 Governor, as the next highest authority — the General Provincial Board of Educa- 
 tion not being then in existence. But tiom him, he only received a reply endor- 
 sing the action of the District Board of Education. His last resource was a 
 Petition to the House of Assembly, as he was unable, as he stated, to enforce his 
 claim by legal process. 
 
 *The Rev. Dr. Strachan in a letter to his friend, the celebrated Rev. Dr. Clialmers, on the Life and 
 Charactir of Bithop Huhart, written in 1832, thus refers to the Bell gystcm of Schools : "About the beifin- 
 ing of the present century the Rev. Ur. Bell b«Kan to introduce a new nytsem of education, which he 
 br'.'iJKh'- from the East Indies, (Madras), and which offers mreat facilitie- ■ the rapid acquisition of 
 elementary instruction. ... It is indeed (luestionaiiie notwilhstandi' . •'• excellence, wliethur it 
 would have come into general practice, had not .Sfr. Lancaster adopted it wif ' ne variations, and 8h<jwn 
 to the citizens of London the great ease and certainty with which its principles might be ap|)lied to the 
 education of a numerous population.'' (Page 26). Hence the sy.-item of teaching got to be popularly 
 known as " The Bell ami Lancaster System." Rev. Dr. Strachan recommended its introduction into U. C. 
 
i. 
 
 182a 
 
 Chap. XLV. THOMAS appleton's case in house of assembly, 1828. 245 
 
 lis Excellency 
 cy to transmit 
 the Colonies, 
 
 groat impor- 
 y exeinplitied 
 i which have 
 subjecting no 
 il, in the end, 
 
 P. M. 
 
 20-1828. 
 
 he House of 
 9 Appletou 
 ) df'ai with 
 Legislature, 
 b while the 
 ment in the 
 
 1820,) the 
 'ear, (1820) 
 tary schools 
 I of the Bell 
 Legislature. 
 
 1823 ; and 
 er National 
 for a Uni- 
 
 yhen he was 
 House was 
 take charge 
 
 redress, but 
 Lioutenant- 
 :l of Educa- 
 eply endor- 
 urce was a 
 i enforce his 
 
 the Life and 
 bout the be^in- 
 uion, which he 
 
 ftcquisition of 
 je, wtiPthur it 
 )nH, and shown 
 I applied to the 
 ' bo popularly 
 tion into U. O. 
 
 
 
 The House of Assembly entertained his complaint, — the more so because it 
 was found to be a case which involved the principle, if not of covert resistance to the 
 authority of the Legislature, in passing the Common School Acts of IM J 6-1820, 
 but clearly one of setting aside, for an insufficient reason, the authority of the 
 School Trustees under these Acts, and thus practically ignoring the very exist- 
 e7ice and binding force of the Acts themselves on all parties concerned. 
 
 Then, in tl^e view of Members of the House of Assembly, another objection- 
 i'hh feaiureo')t! vded itself in this case, and that was one which involved another 
 pi^i jcipl ;. m rt gj'rd to which the House of Assembly had, on more than one occasion, 
 strongly protested ; and that was the appropriation by the Executive GoverniBent 
 of the revenues of the Province, without the knowledge and consent of Parlia- 
 ment— or, as the House put it, " the expenditure of the revenues of the country 
 struggling s gainst ecclesiastical exclusion, which this case involved." 
 
 I have given prominence to this case for many reasons— chiefly because its 
 incidexits are strikingly illustrative of the anomalous condition of the administra- 
 t'ofi of educational affairs which existed in Upper Canada seventy years ago. 
 
 The case also revels what a chronic state of warfare prevailed in those days 
 between the two great powers in the State— not in regard to matters of policy 
 or expediency — but as to which of the two should exercise supreme authority in 
 matters which concerned the welfare and the future of the Province— the State. 
 
 The case also shows how crude, and how yet unformed were the opinions which 
 prevailed in the matter of public education; and how slowly was the evolution which 
 took place in the views of public men on this subject. In 1806, the District 
 (Grammar) School Act was passed for a limited period, as a tentative measure ; 
 in 1807, it was confirmed as a permanent Act ; in 1816, we find the Legislature, 
 under the inspiration of still more enlarged views, generously voting the large sum, 
 in those days, of twenty-four thousand dollars a year for the support of elemen- 
 tary schools, and yet, four years afterwards, when Schools were established all 
 over the country, reducing that sum to ten thousand dollars, and shutting up 
 more than one-half of the Schools then in existence. Thus, public opinion ebbed 
 and flowed without a master-hand to stay the current. 
 
 At this very time the Executive Government was pursuing a totally different 
 course and that too, without the knowledge or consent of the Legislature. By 
 its sole authority, the Common School in the Town of York, deriving a grant of 
 only $100 a year or less, was closed, and a new and expensive elementary school, 
 costing more than one thousand dollars a year, was established in its place. 
 
 Out of this singular proceeding arose the noted Appleton case, which, after 
 occupying more or less attention for eight years, was at length brought before the 
 House of Assembly. Its ecnsidoration there led to the expression of strong dissent 
 on the part of the Assembly, from the action of the District Board of Education, 
 then under the directioi; as it clearly was, of the Government. This Appleton 
 
U6 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1823 
 
 k I 
 
 f 
 
 i: 
 
 case evoked a stronj? hostile feeling against the Executive Government, which 
 was intensified all the more, when the character of the Royal Charter of King's 
 College and its conditions became known to the public in that same year, and to 
 the House of Assembly. 
 
 Thus began a strife for supremacy between these two chief powers in the 
 
 State, which was only ended, after years of conflict, in the passage of the Clergy 
 
 Reserves Act of 1854, which abolished all semblance of connection between Church 
 
 . and State, and recognized the claims of each Church in Upper Canada to equal 
 
 protection and the acknowledgment of an equal status, and of f^-^ual rights. 
 
 Report of the House of Asse.mbly on the Petition of Mr. Thomas Apple- 
 ton, 1820-1828. 
 
 To THE Honourable the Commons House of Assiimbly of Ui'pkr Canada : 
 
 The Select Oommittee to whom was referred the Petition of Mr. Thomas Appleton, of the 
 Town of York, beK leave to rep^ort : 
 
 That it appears that Mr. Thomas Appleton, a British born subject, emigrated to this 
 Provmce m the year 1819, and commenced teaching School ; and, from that time hitherto, has 
 been, and still is engaged in that occupation, with much credit to himself and to the satisfiction 
 of those by whom he has been employed. 
 
 That he received his share of the Leijislative appropriation, for Common Schools, for two 
 years and a tjuarter ; and without any reas m to expect a discontinuance, he applied for his 
 nllowance, for the six months he subiequently taught, but upon presenting the usual doournents 
 and testimonials from the Trustees, he was refused the usual allowance. He still, however, 
 continued to teach the Common School and made another application, and this was again 
 refused. 
 
 The Petitioner then applied to the Trustees : Mr. Jesse Ketchum, Doctor T. D. Morrison, 
 and Mr. Jordan Post, to interpose in his behalf. 
 
 These gentlemen, impressed with the justice of his claim, made application to the General 
 Board of the District, from whom it ai)pear8 they never received any answer. 
 
 The Petitioner then preferred a Memorial to His Excellency, Sir Peregrine Maitlaid, 
 setting forth the circumstances of his case, to which he received the answer annexed to this 
 report. 
 
 But notwithstanding the reason assigned for withholding the sum from the Petitioner, it 
 has been proved before your Committee that there were only nineteen Common Schools in 
 operation in the District at the time, although the sum appropriated by the Legislature would 
 have been sufficient to have paid i'lO each to twenty-two teachers. 
 
 Y<jur Committee further report it, as a matter of rej^rot, that tried and faithful teachers 
 who had devoted themselves to the occupation for years, and were looking forward to it as the 
 labour of their lives, should be supersedsd by the erection of what is termed a " National " 
 School, which is neither needed by the state of the country, nor the extent of the population. 
 
 This "National School " it appears has been supported out of the revenues of the Province 
 without the knowledge and consent of Parliament, and your Committee regret, that it would 
 have been further supported to the injury of other Common Schools, which, notwithstanding 
 the i.ijustice they have received, have, from their usefulness and merit, met with public 
 support. 
 
 The Teacher of this '• National " School was invited from England by His Excellency ; and, 
 upon his arrival, it appears th^t an application was made to the Trustees by the Honourable 
 and Venerable Dr. Strachan, in the name of H.is Excellency, for the use of their School House, 
 occupied by the Petitioner. 
 
 The Trustees refused to comply with the request upon the honourable ground, that it would 
 interfere with the just claims, expectations a. d merits of the Petitioner. 
 
 Mr. Spragg, as Teacher of the " Central School," receives £250 sterling, per annum, which, 
 with the contingent and other expenses advanced out of the revenues of the Province, amounts 
 to .iDout £300, and the average number of udioiais every year, from its institution to the 
 present time, has been sixty-three, which appears to be the number now actually present, 
 according to Mr. Spragg's statement, which, however, is not altogether corroborated by the 
 statements of others. 
 
18«S 
 
 nent, which 
 r of King'a 
 Year, and to 
 
 vers in the 
 tlie Clergy 
 reenGiurch 
 da to equal 
 ights. 
 
 iiiiS Applk- 
 
 3letoD, of the 
 
 ratod to this 
 hitherto, has 
 .0 satiaf iction 
 
 ools, for two 
 pplied for his 
 al documents 
 ill, however, 
 is was again 
 
 D. Morrison, 
 
 the General 
 
 le Maitlaid, 
 lexed to this 
 
 Petitioner, it 
 1 Schools in 
 ilature would 
 
 ful teachers 
 [i to it as the 
 
 " National " 
 > population. 
 
 ihe Province 
 lat it would 
 ivithstanding 
 with public 
 
 lency ; and, 
 Honourable 
 hool House, 
 
 ;hat it would 
 
 num, which, 
 tee, amounts 
 ution to the 
 illy present, 
 ated by the 
 
 Chap. XLV. THOMAS appletos's case is house of assembly, 1828. I4T 
 
 Upon exanuning the progress made by some of the children in this Central National School 
 and comparing it with the progress made by others in the Common Schools, in a far shorter 
 tune, your Committde find that the latter have made a far greater proficiency. 
 
 If the sum appropriated to the "Central School " were distributed as an encourage ment to 
 Schools in the interior of the country, where money is scarce, and the patronage both needed 
 and deserved, it would be moat beneficially felt in every Township in the Home District, and 
 m every other District in the Province also. 
 
 From tho tenor of the Act, 60 George HI. Chapter 7, (1830) making the provision in 
 question, it appears that the District Board of Education have exercised' an arbitrary power. 
 
 The Reverend Mr. Alexander Stewart appears to be another sufferer, excluded from the 
 Legislative bounty. 
 
 The " National School " is founded upon the Reverend Dr. Bell's system, and is professedly 
 adherent to the Church of Eajjland— and, therefore, ought not to be supported by the 
 revenues of a country struggling against ecclesiastical exclu ion. 
 
 Your Committe 3 report an Address to His Excellenoy, requesting him to orler that the 
 Petitioner be paid what is due to him, according to the provisions of the Common laws (of 1816 
 and 1820.) 
 
 James Wil.son, 
 
 „ „ , Chairman of the Commitee. 
 
 COMMON'S House of Assembly, York, 
 
 February, 1828. 
 
 Appendix.— The Lieutrnant-Goveunok's Reply to Mr. Appleton's Memorial. 
 
 Through his Secretary. Mr. George Hillier, Sir Peregrine Maitland thus 
 replied to Mr. Thomas Appleton's Memorial, under date of December the 16th 
 1822 : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor having ordered a reference to be made to the Board of Education 
 of the Home District for a report on the subject of your Petition of the 11th instant, I am 
 commanded to enclosa to you a copy of the report which has been received, and which I am 
 to acquaint you His Excellency deemed perfectly satisfactory. 
 
 ^ G. Hillier, 
 
 _ ,, Secretary. 
 
 To Mr. Thomas Appleton, Teacher. 
 
 Extract from the Report, to the Lieutenant-Governor, of the Home District 
 Board of Education on the case of Mr. Thomas Appleton, Teacher at York : 
 
 That after the great reduction in the'allowance for the support of Common Schools which 
 took place in 1820, the Board of Education for the Home District reduced the salaries of school- 
 masters to £10 per annum. 
 
 But on Tdfereiice to the number of Townships in the District they found that this could 
 not allow one for each and that it will in time bo again necessary to reduce tho salaries. 
 
 Tho Board further determined, that in Townships where there were several Schools, to 
 drop all except one, as new Townships applied. 
 
 Accordingly several Schools have stopped, among which is tho one taught by Mr. Appleton, 
 the Board ha.s thus been enabled to attend to new applications. 
 
 But the Board has another reason for witholding assistjince from this School. 
 
 His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Governor had been pleased to establish in the Town of 
 York, a National Scuotji to which the children of the inhaibtants may have access, thus affoiding 
 them a greater benefit than is enjoyed in any other part of the Province. 
 
 It appears, therefore, quite reasonable to the Board, to give the salary to another part of 
 he Township where it was more required. 
 
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 14(> 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HIST )RY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
 MiNUTiis OF Evidence in Mr. Thomas Appleton's Case. 
 
 Committee Room, House of AssKMBtv, 28th February, 1828. 
 
 Tho Ootnmiktea met, preiont ; Mesaioura .lames VVHh m, Chairman, Robert Randal, John 
 Rulph, John MatthowB and Thomas Hornor. 
 
 The Petition of Mr. Thoinaa Appleton, Ooinmon School Teacher, )f tho Town of York » 
 waa read aa folluwa : 
 
 To the Honourable the Ctmmont Honne of Aixemhly, of Upper Canada, ii < .,:inbUd : 
 
 The Petition of Mr. Thomas Appleton, Common Teacher, York, reapdC.*' u.y titieweth : 
 
 That your Petitioner was, in the year 1820, legAlIy chosen Toi.;hPr of tho Common School 
 in thia Town by the Truatoes thereof. 
 
 That som) time in che month of July, in the aame year (1830) the Honourable and Vener- 
 able Doctor Strachan applied to the Trustees, of tho Common School at York, in the nair-i and 
 on tho behalf of His Excellency, the LieutenantUovernor, to obtiiin the House of the said 
 School immediately, for tho use of .>fr. S|)raij4. This the Ueverend Doctor Strachan did. ' 
 out consulting your Petitioner, or obt lining his consent tn romovo from the Conimou juliool- 
 House. 
 
 That at a meeting of the Subscribers to tho said School, the Reverend Dr. Strachan's 
 demands were tjvkei into considuration, when it was resolved, that to comply therewith, would 
 be an act of groat injustice to your Petitioner. 
 
 In thia opinion the Trustees fully concurred. 
 
 That the Lieutenant-Governor was addresjod, ttirougli the Chairman of the said meeting, 
 wncerning the application whch hul been made h\ lli» Excellency's name, by tho Reverend 
 Doctor Strachan, tj which His Excellency replied, through his Secretary, Major Hillier, that 
 no application had been made by him on the subject m itter of the Address. 
 
 That, although your Petitioner had not, at any time, loss thin twenty scholars, but 
 frequontly more than thirty, hn was notwithsUnding, deprived l)y the Bomd of Education of 
 this District of his projmrcion of the public money, after ijavin< rocjived it for a year, (^'hich 
 also his predecessor had received) witlioui having had any prt-vious notice given, and wit'iout 
 any reason being assigned for witholding it. 
 
 The Trustees subsequently addressed the D:8trict Board of Education on the subject, but 
 never reci'ived any answer. 
 
 That the Board of Education for tho Distncr, instead of Jitpensing the public money 
 agreeably to the express provisionii of the Common School Acts of 18l() and 1820, have deter- 
 mined that a certain number of Schools only in this District, as your Petitioner is informed, 
 shall participate therein ; the said Schools so p*rticip!itin'< being of c"HP8e arbitrarily selected,' 
 contrary to the intentiim of the Lt„'islature in passing the said Aits, ivhich expresslv' provides 
 that a certiun sum shall be oriuiUy apportioned to the teachers of Uommm S;I;oolriin each 
 District, without limitation as to numbera. 
 
 That your Petitioner is (jualitied to receive his portion of said inon . in tei inaof said .' t«, 
 to which he considered fiimself justly entitled during the continual of tl. Acts, ai. . of 
 which ho conceives himself to have been unjustly and improperly deprived of several years. 
 
 That school fees not being uniformly woll paid, your Honourable House must be aware, 
 that the deprivation of tho public bounty, atforded to the Teacher of a Oommon School, most 
 very materially afTecr his interests. 
 
 That your Petitioner respectfully [.etitioned His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Governor, in 
 1823, but received no redress whatever. 
 
 That your Petitioner also complained to a former Parliament, through VV. VV. Baldwin, 
 Esquire. The claims of your Petitioner were thought to ba just and reasonable : t that 
 Honourable House seemed to bo of opinion, that your Petitioner might find redrtis In 
 and VV. W. Baldwin, Es(iuiro, in a letter to your Petitioner, intimated tho same. 
 
 Th'^t your Petitioner is not in circumstances to contend at law with the Home Uistnct 
 Board of Education, .and against the influences :" ncernod in the issue of the case. 
 
 May it therefore please Your Honourable House, who are the constitutional guardians of 
 pul--iic eitucttion, and the pfolcjtofs -of tho;,- .vhtj insrrucr, the y >uth of liiis Province, to cause 
 strict inquiry to bo made into tiie truth of these statements, which Your Petitioner is fully 
 prepared to substantiate, and to grant such relief as Your Honourable House, in its wisdom , 
 may deem meet. 
 
 ( 
 
1828 
 
 ry, 1828. 
 Landnl, John 
 
 )wu of Yorkt 
 
 ..'.mbled : 
 uewetii : 
 iimon School 
 
 ) and Vener- 
 .he uairj and 
 of the aaiil 
 ,n did. i-" 
 moK bcliool- 
 
 , Strachan's 
 with, would 
 
 iid meeting, 
 ho Reverend 
 Hillier, that 
 
 cholara, but 
 Education of 
 ^ear, (.vhich 
 and wit'iout 
 
 subject, but 
 
 ubhc money 
 have deter- 
 8 informed, 
 ily selected, 
 ssly provides 
 LooU in each 
 
 of said ' t», 
 icts, a, of 
 ral years. 
 
 it be aware, 
 chool, must 
 
 Sfovernor, in 
 
 V. Baldwin, 
 e : t that 
 r«8. la 
 
 9mb tJistnot 
 
 {guardians of 
 
 lue, til CHUHU 
 
 )ner ist fully 
 its wisdom, 
 
 Chap. XLV. THOMAS appleton's case in house of assembly, 1828. 240 
 
 (I 
 
 f 
 
 ke ntieHures to prevent 
 
 irpose, and bestowing, 
 
 .legislature, a precedent 
 
 independence of the lat- 
 
 Thomas Appleton. 
 
 Your Petitioner further prays, that Your Honourable House, w . 
 the Board of Educfttum in this District, from diverting from its prop 
 or withholding, hereafter, at its own pleasure, the bounty of tho 
 fraught with evil ccmsequence to schools and teachers, destroying' the 
 ter, in a certain degree, and necessarily militating against the former. 
 
 And Your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will over pray. 
 
 York, 20th February, 1828. 
 
 The following is the evidence in the Appleton case, given by Mr. Thomas 
 Appleton, Teacher ; Mr. John Fenton, Assistant Teacher ; Messieurs Jesse Ket- 
 chum and WiU'itn P. Patrick, Scliool Trustee; the Reverend Alexander Stewart, 
 Teacher; Dr. Thomas D. Monnon ; and Mr. Joseph Spragg, Teacher of the 
 National Central School. 
 
 Mr Thmiai, Apf}ldon, states that he is the Petitioner,— that he wus born in Yorkshire, 
 England, and emigrated to this Province, via Quebec in 1819. and has resided continually in 
 this Province, —has never been one night out of it- has been a teacher of schot.ls ever since the 
 year 1819. 
 
 He first taught m the Township of Scarborough a Public Common School, and received the 
 Government bounty, having tau>?ht it twelve months. 
 
 He next taught a Common School in the Township f King, for four months, and received 
 the public aid, as given i>y law. 
 
 He then taught the Common Schoolin the Town of Y... , (to which he was duly ap- 
 pointed,) twelve months, and received his proportion of the public money, according to law. 
 
 He then taught tiie 8,.ine school f ,r six months, and applied for his pay, and presented to 
 the Clerk the same documents he had In ..itofore done, when he procured his pay. It was then 
 for the first time refused, paym at of his claim. 
 
 He then taught the same school six months longer, and was again refused anything for it. 
 
 Upon this socontl refusal, the Trusteei : Mo-ssieurs Jesse Ketchum, .Tordan Post, and 
 ^■' mas D. Morrison .f.D. a|>i)lied to the District Board of Edu. ation, to know the cause of his 
 ueiag struct off the list of Teachers; rlie Trustees, he believes, never received any answer 
 from the BoHid. 
 
 Heth' memorialed '; 3 Exct- u> the Lieutenant-Governor, setting forth the circum- 
 stances ut u. ;aso, and prayinx for ills Excellency's interposition to do him justice. 
 
 In nnswer to theMent a he received the answer from the Lieutenant-Governor's Sec- 
 retary, (iNir. Hillier), wliicl. .io ^irese? '« toth" Committee, and the extract from tin- records of 
 the DL-itrict Board of Ed aion se" bin 
 
 After the arrival of Mr. Spra^. 
 
 ho 
 
 . _ keej..- what His Excellency calls the " National 
 
 School," the Reverend Dr. Strachan ma le a«i plication to the Trustees of the Common School in 
 York, for the use of the School- House, grcali;, to che Petitioner's prejudice, which application 
 was made in the Lieutenant iovernor s name. 
 
 The '1 stees then, by order of u general meeting, (convened for that puri)03e), memorialed 
 His Excell.iicy, a copy of which memorial is herewith presented, as also a copy of the answer 
 received to the memorial. 
 
 He has ever since, except during sickness, kept the Coininon School in the Market !^ [Uaro 
 Lane, [n v Colbome street] receiving occasional remunerati a from the subscribers. 
 His i>%y, as Common School Teacher, was stopped in l>i21. 
 He IS in religion t Methodist. 
 
 His pav was not8toppi-<l till tlu; Reverend Dr. Strachan wis refused the School House, 
 which he, (the Petiti ner,) occupied The Reverend Doctor arten ed the public n ting, made 
 An acousi'ii^ speech, and then immediately retired. 
 
 The Common School House, wished foi ^ the Reverend Dr. Strachan, was built by public 
 subscriptions. 
 
 Afr, ./i)Au fpfiton called in aud s.'iith : That ha w.ih !■.: 
 
 pate in the alio wanci f School moneys, by the Act ; bu< 
 Fenton,) and took all rssk npcm himself. It was repo ed 
 Spragg, whicli auperseued the Common School taught y M 
 reason why the money was withheld from Mr. Applet i. 
 
 M' Ap, 'eton Si 
 t' a free school was 
 
 ^ed i"- partici- 
 ied him, (Mr. 
 opened by Mr. 
 Appleton— that was the ostensible 
 
! 
 
 
 250 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OP E.^UCATION I' UPPER CANADA. 
 
 18t8 
 
 Mr. Fenton further stntoi, that Mvonty icholftrH were then taught by Mr. Appleton and 
 hiinielf, at fivu shillinga per month for each ■cholar. 
 
 Mr. Jetite Ketchnm* being examined aaid that the house used as a Common School Houa* 
 in York, waa built by aubsoriptitm in 1818. 
 
 The first teauhor was the Reverend Alexander Stewart. He was employed one whole year, 
 and for some months after, and was always paid his portion of the moneys granted by the Legis- 
 lature for such Coninion bchoolx. 
 
 Mr. Appleton was kepi f-ur months in smpenci, by the intimati'm given to him and the 
 Trustees, that His Excellency the Lieutonsnt-Governor had reijuosted that the said School House 
 should be reserved for another Teacher. 
 
 In the year 1820, a new election of Trustees took place, when Mr. Appleton was choaeo 
 Teacher, and was promised his proportion of the i)ublic money, with an un ' standing that if 
 tho said Thomas Appleton gave satisfaction to the Trustees, and the othei jiarties concerned^ 
 he H.iould be continued. 
 
 About six months af this, a teacher arrived from England, a Mr. Spragg ; and at this time 
 a meeting took place for the examination of the scholars, as to their progress. 
 
 A few day previous to this meeting, the Reverend Dr. Stra<;han made api)lioation to the Trua- 
 teoR for the School- House, and was told, that at the meeting about to take place, the matter would 
 be taken into consideration. 
 
 The Rev orend Dr. Strachan attended the said meeting and observed, that there had not been 
 sufficient notice of it given, and recjuested that an adjournment should bo granted, in order that 
 people might be more generally apprised of said meeting. 
 
 This was acceded to ; and at the second meeting the Reverend Doctor attended and made an 
 harangue, in consequence of the School House not being given up to him, and blamed the Trus- 
 tees, for not doing so, -saying, they had availed th'3'.nselves of ail the law allowed to such 
 schools, but had not done the auties refjuired of them by the same law. 
 
 From that timo to the present, witness states, the allowance for that school li.is been stop- 
 ped, and also His Excellency's subscription of jglO per annum, has been withheld from said 
 Common School. 
 
 That although the Trustees did on that occasion, apply to the District Board of Education, 
 for information on the subject, they have never yet been favoured with an answer. 
 
 Witness states, tiiat it is the pracfice, from all he has seen and heard, that the Distrist 
 Btiard of Education gives the money to whom it pleases, and withholds it from others, as thoy 
 think fit and proper. 
 
 Witness further states that said teacher, Mr. Thomas Appleton, commenced teaching on 
 the 28th of February, 1820, and iias contiimed to the present time. 
 
 Mr. WiUiam P. Falrick, be ng examined, stated that, while he was a Trustee for the York 
 Common School-house, he remembers being re<iuested by the Reverend Dr. Strachan to attend a 
 Sunday School meeting at his Church : and that while attending at that place according to hia 
 request. Dr. Strachan informed him that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor had sent ta 
 England for a School Master for the purpose of teaching a Common School in York, and that 
 
 •Jesse Ketchum was bom in Spsnoertown, Columbia County, New York, on the 31st day of March^ 
 1782. In the year 1799, he went to Little York, Canada, (now Toronto,) where an elder brother, Mr. 
 Seneca Ketchum, had a tannery in operation, and ent>^red into business with hiru. They were very suo- 
 oessful, and their tortunes jfrew rapidly. Mr. Jesoe Ketchum funnd it profitable to extflnd his businsss to 
 this city, (Buffalo), which was managed for him by aarents and proved remunerative. About 1832, finding 
 big fortune ample, he retired fro.n buiinettn, and in 18J5, removed to Buffalo, having[ acquired considerable 
 landed proptrty in this city, tlie inheritance of which he wished to descend to his children, and here he has 
 lived until his death. . . . The love of the deceased for children, and his interest in their welfare was 
 a marked and very beautiful trait in his character. He was a freiiuent vibitor to the public schools, where 
 he was always received with honour, and no less to the various Sunday schools of the city. On these visita 
 his capacious pockets were always filled with intructive b(X)ks, which it wai his delight todis'.ributa to the 
 children, after he had interest'd and improved them by well-timed advice. The ph'iisant face of Father 
 Ketchum will be sadly missed in our sohools. It was peculiar to Mr. Ketchum, and a fact tu which he 
 often alluded, that he was at once an American citizen and a British subject. Born in this country, he 
 was of course one >f its citizens. Having taken up his re.sidence in Canada before he was of age, he becam<s 
 a subject of the British Crown, and by the dogma, "once a subject always a subject," was so at the day of 
 hb death.— JSn/fa/o Courier. 
 
 Mr. Ketchum was a well-knwn character in Toronto, as in Buffalo. His visits to the Public and 
 Sunday schonis — cro, always b. s:od forwaid to with pieaaure for he aiwayi* bruUa[ht ha puukels iull ui 
 books for distribution. Am in Buffalo, so in Toronto he left large endowmeuti for tne purchase of Bibles 
 and other books, for distribution to both of these classes of schools, so that his name will alwajrs. 
 be rememl)ered gratefully by those who knew him. The writ-»r often accompanied him on his school visits. 
 He was elected to the Home of A»s»-iiibly for t Town of York, in 1839 and 1831, he died in 1867. 
 
18tS 
 
 Chap. XLV. THOMAS AI'PLETOn's CilSE IN UOl'SE OF AhSEMBLY, 1828, 261 
 
 'pleton RDd 
 
 hool Houaft 
 
 Krhole year, 
 f the LegU- 
 
 ni and the 
 houl House 
 
 ras chosen 
 ng that if 
 ooncerued^ 
 
 > this time 
 
 •n the Trus- 
 itter would 
 
 id not been 
 order that 
 
 III made an 
 d the Trus- 
 d to such 
 
 hoen stop- 
 from said 
 
 Education, 
 
 le Distrist 
 rs, as thoy 
 
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 to attend a 
 ding to hia 
 lad sent ta 
 xnd that 
 
 of March» 
 rother, Mr. 
 B very buo- 
 
 buiinsM to 
 HH, findings 
 lonsiderahle 
 here he hw 
 welfare was 
 iooIh, where 
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 I which he 
 sountry, he 
 , he became 
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 e of Bible* 
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 shool visits. 
 867. 
 
 arranpnnenta would be made, so that poor children, wh.. oould not otherwLw obtain edu'ition, 
 would Uj enal. led to receive it gratis ; and that it whn wished that the School Hc.ubu for which 
 he ,Mr. Patrick) was a Trust«e, should be reserved for the person sent for to EngUnd, by Ut« 
 Excellency, /m ho was expected about the fi. Hawing July. 
 
 Mr. rHtiiolc further stated, that after Mr. Sprang -.rrived from England—and some time 
 after Mr. Appleton had com.nencud teaching at a school meeting of the Trustees and Stock- 
 holders, etc., of said school, th« Reverend Dr. Strachan came there and wished the Trustees still 
 to give the jireference to Mr. Spragg, as a teacher, but the Trustees, being at the time well satis- 
 tied with the conduct and abilities of Mr. Appleton, and the time at which they had been led 
 to expect the arrival f Mr. Spragg, having pas8i;d for more than a year, tliey came to a reso- 
 lution, that they could not with propriety acceded to the Reverend Doctor's requcHt. 
 
 Being asked whether the conversaticm above referred to took place in His Excellency's 
 presence, Mr. Patruk says he cannot say that His Excellency hoard the. conversation that took 
 place, but that he was in the OliHrch ut the time. 
 
 n Y'""/™'!'"'"' ^«''""'''M''^". having boon ox*rninod stat.>d tliit he was a Clerk to the General 
 Board of Education appointed in 1823. Ho said in answer to the 
 
 Qit^ry : Do you know why Mr. Appleton's proportion of the Common School money wa» 
 stopped f ' 
 
 .^(Mtw: It was stopi)ed in consequence of an increase of population, and of the number 
 of Schools -twenty- L wo Common Schools only wore alio wed in the Home District: and that 
 was the reason why Mr. Appleton's name was struck off. 
 
 Query : How many Schools were there in operation at that time ? 
 
 A^uwer: ! believe about twenty, or twenty-one. At that time Mr. Appleton was teach- 
 \ng the Common School in York. 
 
 The Hemft.ul Alexander Stewart, being examined, stated that he is a Baptist Minister, 
 •ducated m Edinburgh. A native of Scotland he left it in 1818 for this Province, via Quebec. ~ 
 Upon coming to YorSz, he kept a Ccnnmon School, (tlio same as that afterwards kept by Mr. 
 Appleton) for about a year and a half, for which he received the Legislative bounty. " 
 
 He next kept h school in Toronto Township for a year, ending June 1826. Upon applying 
 for the Legislative bounty, wasrofused on the ground (as stited by tl,o Reverend Dr. Strachan) 
 that the District Board of Education limited the number of teachers to throe in that township. 
 
 He presented to the District Board a Petition, but received no answer. 
 
 He has known other teachers who have been refused the Legislative bounty, and he knows 
 no other reason than the one assigned to himself. 
 
 In the other Districts, th- nmnbuiM have not been so limited. In the Niagara District there 
 were two townships, where six Common Schools were allowed. He does not know of any such 
 limitation in any other District than this. 
 
 Thomas David M<>> , i,„n, M D.* being examined, stated that he was acquainted with Mr. 
 Appleton since 1819. He (Appleton) is, in his opinion, both as to m ral character, and liter- 
 ary accjuirements, well suitdii to teach the Common School in York. 
 
 He doeg not know the cause orf Mr. Appleton's being refused the Legislative bounty. He 
 (Apple^m) applied to the District Board by letter for the cause and received no answor. He i% 
 satisfaed that Ajjpleton could not be attempted to be removed for mistjonduct or want of merit. 
 
 An application was mado f<ii his removal in favour vi a Teacher patronized by His Excel- 
 lency, ami It faile.l, it being refused by the Trustees, who were Mr. Jesse K-tchum, the Witness, 
 and Mr. Jordan Pos. ' 
 
 rii^t tlie Reverend Dr. Strachan had made application to the preceding Trustees to have a 
 vacancy reserved for some other person than Appleton, who did not arrive. 
 
 The application appears to have been made in the name of the Lieutenant-Governor but 
 without hui knowledge. 
 
 The subsequent Trustees, above named, made an unlimited ei-agement with Mr. Appleton 
 It was expressly understood, that he should continue to be teacher -vhile deservini; of thei ■ 
 patronage, and of that of the public. 
 
 
 "n* M ^^^ ^uPu ^y®^'";'* ^!^"'l^ "f Methodism in Upper Canada, he thus refers to Dr. Morris.m : 
 .^.1^17 T^'"°a7 """u '"f"v ";""•"' T'- *'7 • -''^^'^J"; -Jfenefal'g ufBtx- had, indeed, while there, colieotea iu»i.eii»h 
 against Dr^Strachan s Eoalesisstical Ch»rt,-but, without any charge, or the slightest deficiency infsithful- 
 ness and efficiency, was dwmissed for the sinvple reason that he had become a Methodist. He then flevot- 
 ea himself to the medical profession. He was elected to the House of Assembly for York in 1835 defnatinir 
 the Attorney-General. He was also elected Mayor of Toronto , in 1836. He was the Writer's [and the 
 i!.(litor 8j physician during life ; died in great >oe, strong in faith, giving glory to God. (Pages 188 189 ) 
 
252 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
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 I,' 
 
 if 
 
 Mr. Joseph Spratig, senior, being examined, ufciited that he was Master of the Upper Can- 
 ada Central School ; he commenced teaching the said school in September, 1820, and believes it 
 to bo H free school, except to people whi) wish to pay for the education of their children ; to 
 them the fee is at the rate of 28. (id. currency ])er month ; — but, unless they choose to pay, they 
 are free, upon a recommendation, or order, from the Lieutenant-Governor, the remuneration 
 for superintending said school waa £160 sterling per annum, — witness understands that the said 
 Central School is paid out of the Crown Revenues. One hundred male and female children 
 sometimes attend the aaid school ; there are about fifty regular scholars ; — sometimes seventy 
 who are taught, ReadiuK, Spellir.g, Grammar, Writing and Arithmetic. 
 
 The Committee put the following c]uestions to Mr. Spragg. 
 
 Query : What is the general system of education pursued t 
 
 Answer : The Reverend Dr. Bell's system, which I consider as prior in invention to Mr. 
 Lancaster 8. 
 
 Qtierg : What is the difference between these two systems ? 
 
 Atmrer: The principal difference is that Dr. Bell's system is in accordance with the L.'- 
 tablished Church ; and in my School, I me the Church Catechism, and a Collect ao mornirii^ 
 an' evening prayer. But the children are not taught the Church Catechism, when their 
 parents object to it. 
 
 Qu How many parents have made nuch objections ? 
 
 Anstoer : Not more than two, that I recollect. 
 
 Query : You have stated, that Reading, Writing and Arithmetic are taught in your school, 
 are those branches taught to all / 
 
 JiMioec : To all who are able to learn them. 
 
 Query : Are all taught grammar, and what grammar do you use ? 
 
 Amuyer : Not all ; about seven or eight. I use Murray's Abiidgment of the English 
 (irammur, 
 
 Qmry : What other allowances have you, besides the salary of £150 sterling, which you 
 receive from the Crown Revenue i 
 
 Answer : Allowance for house rent £40 sterling. 
 
 Fuel and candles 30 " 
 
 In lieu of rations , 10 " 
 
 £80 
 Qitery : Whence do you understand this is paid ? 
 
 Answer: From the Crown Rovonue. 
 
 Query : What do you receive for scholars, and how many have you received payment 
 from ? 
 
 Answer: I receive at the rate of 29. 6d. provincial currency, per month, for each scholar, 
 but not more than from six to ten of th3 whole number pay anything. 
 
 Query : How were you appointed ? 
 
 Answer : I was recommended by Mr. Wilborforce ; and was appointed by His E.\collency, 
 Sir Peregrine Maitland. I acciuirej the Bell's system at the Central Nationd Scliool in Lon- 
 don, before coming to this Province. 
 
 Query; What length of time do the scholars generally remain with you ? 
 
 Answer : A few have remained froir. the commencement to the present time. The greater 
 number remain from six to eiglitoen months. 
 
 Query: What are the terms of the tickets of admission. 
 
 Answer: f hey are given by Hisi Excellency. Thoy require free instruction to be given 
 u itil further order.-*, but I have never n-oeived a coiintormiind in any case. 
 Qncru : To whom are you responsible as Superintendent ? 
 
 Ansuvr : To the Tru.steos, ulio are, Cnlonel Wells, Surveyor-General Ridout, -Vttomey- 
 <iuneral Robinson, Grant Powell, Esrjuire, and Mr. Jmtdco WilUs, wlio are appointed by His 
 Excellency. 
 
 Qnerii : Are you in nay way subject to any other Board of Trustees < 
 
 Answer : I cannot say that f am not, subject t > the (Joiieral Board of Education of which 
 
 the Reveron I Dr. .Straclian. is, I understand President, but there has baeii, as yet, no inter- 
 
 fttniiice. 
 
1828 
 
 e Upper Can- 
 ind bolieves it 
 r children ; to 
 le to pay, they 
 remuneration 
 } that the said 
 male children 
 times seventy 
 
 ention to Mr. 
 
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 at as morniij^ 
 
 when their 
 
 1 your school, 
 
 t the English 
 
 ig, which you 
 
 .£40 sterling. 
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 ved payment 
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 8 Excellency, 
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 ^et, no inter- 
 
 Chap. XLV. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, 1828. 253 
 
 (Note.- The following Witnesses were also examined, or written to, for 
 
 information on this ease, but their evidence is not material or important, viz., 
 
 Messieurs David Wilson, James Parker, and Stephen H eward. Several additional 
 
 questions were put to Mr. Spragg. His reply was as follows :) 
 
 T rr^I'Th ^ ""^Y.'l'y. yesterday morning before the Committee, on the Petition of Mr. Appleton, 
 1 gave (hem all the niformation in my power on that subject. 
 
 ,-n«Hf^!t'fl'"!H'' M-*i' '.i'l Pajtif^^lars now applied for, I beg to inform you, that as Master of an 
 ™1f Inn f /''"^ ^7 ^'''' ^''""'"' ''"^ snpporteJ by the Crown Revenue, I do not consider 
 hI f;^«1 w ^.^ 't" T * statement, ,n the manner you desire, without the permission of 
 nis Uixcellency the Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 CHAPTEU XLVI. 
 
 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON THE KING'S 
 
 COLLEGE CHARTER, ETC., 1828. 
 
 In the printed proceedings of the public meeting held at York on the 10th 
 December, 1830,— to which reference is made on page 258,— it is stated that to 
 the Address to the King, adopted by the House of As.sembly on the 20th of 
 March, 1828, " no answer hps yet been sent," up to the date of that meeting. 
 
 This, however, was not the case ; but that Address and the proceedings of 
 the Horse of Assembly on the King's College Charter were acknowledged "in a 
 Despatch from the Colonial Minister in September, 1828. Thev were also brought 
 under the notice of a Committee of the House of Commons " appointed to inquire 
 into the state of the Civil Government of Canada " in May, 1828. The Report of 
 this Committee was made to the House of Commons on the 22nd of July, 1828. 
 It was reprinted by order of the Lower Canada House of Assembly in 1829— 
 two hundred copies of which were ordered by the Upper Canada House of 
 Assembly. The Lower Canada edition extends to 377 pages. It deals chiefly 
 with matters relating to that Province. 
 
 I give the extracts from the Report relating to the Charter of King's College, 
 arid also the evidence of the late Reverend George Ryerson, and that of the Ri^dit 
 Honourable R. J. Wilmot Horton, then Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. 
 
 The Reverend Dr. Strachan, in his speech at the opening of King's College, 
 in June, 1843, thus refers to the proceedings of the House of Assembly in 1828' 
 and of the Committee of the Imperial Parliament on the subject of the Royal' 
 Charter of King's College, etc He .says :— 
 
 rnlloi\"tT, '""r-r'"* ".'/'"' J- '■'n'"'''- ^^'tJ\H'" 9'^''''^^'" ""^ ""tl'^rity for the en<lowment(of King's 
 College , the Chancellor. Sir Peregime Maitiand, l-st no :in.e in fornuni< the College Council 
 Schedules of the lands were prepar,.!, and, in obedience t.. His Majesty's c.-mmands thev were 
 secured by ,.atent to the Corporatiu,, of the Uni^•ersity of King's College '"™'"""' ^''^^ '^^'^^ 
 
 H.s Lett... i'atent, beari^^ date^at Westnunsterrthe im^enl h day" "^^S^^ ifoSl.S '^^ 
 of hm reign, estabhshmg in the Province a College, with the «tyle and p.n-ilegt" ra IW^t; 
 bo cal ed 'King - College," to which was annexed a nnuuHcent en,liwmenl-an event wS 
 
 h^wSeoUh^SoCy'^'*^^^^^ ^^" -'""^^ ''^ '- *^-'-l f- 
 
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1554 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
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 In acknowledging; this communication, the Legislative Council expressed their grateful feel- 
 ings for so valuable a boon ; but the House of Assembly returned th inks in very measured 
 terms. (See page 233 ) . . . Indeed much pains had been taken ... to poison the 
 minds of the people against the Charter, and induce them to send petitions against it. . . . 
 Nevertheless, these petitions had the effect of inducing the House of Assembly to pass an Address 
 on the 15th of February to the Lieutenant-Go /ernor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, lequesting a copy 
 of the Charter, information respecting the endowment, and other matters connected with the 
 institution. A d'py of the Char'er, and an account of the endowment, were transmitted, as 
 requested, on the "iOth of February ; and on the '20th of March, an Address to His Majesty was 
 agreed upon by the House of Assembly, in which objections were urged against the Charter of 
 the University, hs being of a nature too exclusive. (See pages 239-243, nnte.) 
 
 This Address attracted the notice of a Select Committee of the House of Commons ; and, 
 in their Report on the •22nd of July, 1>>28, they advise a change in the constitution of the College 
 Council, so that no religious test may be rtjquired ; and that a Theological Professor of the 
 Church of Scotland should be established in addition to that of the Church of England, whose 
 lectures the candidates for holy orders in the res])ective churches should be required to a; tend. 
 
 The Ibllowing is a copy of that part of the Report of the Select Committee 
 
 of the House of Commons rehiting to the Charter of King's College, to which 
 
 reference has been made. The document is headed as follows: — 
 
 The Select Committee appointed to enquire into the state of the Civil Government of 
 Canada, as established by the Act 31 George HI., Chapter 31, and to report their observa- 
 tions thereupon to the House ; and to whom several petitions for an alteration in the pre- 
 sent Government were referred ; have examined the matters to them referred, and agreed 
 to the following report* : — 
 
 The attention of the Committee having been drawn to the establishment of the University 
 of King's College, at York, in Upper Canada, they thought i; their duty to examine the Charter 
 granted to that « 'ollege ; that Charter was granted unde'r the Great Seal, and it is t(j be observed 
 that it does not impose on the students an obligation to subscribe to the thirfy-nine articles, 
 which was done in the case of the other North American Colleges. Your Connnittee find it 
 provided, amongst other arrangements for the conduct and government of this institution, that 
 the Archdeacon of York for the time being shall, by virtue of his otlice, at all times be Presi- 
 de it of the said College. 
 
 It is further ordained that there shall be within the said College or Corporation a Council 
 to bo called and known by the name of the College Council, which shall ccmsist of the Chancel- 
 lor, the President, and of seven Professors ni Arts and Faculties of the caid College ; and ihat 
 such said Professors shall be meuibr'is if tlie Estabhshed Clnircii of England and Ireland, and 
 shall, previously to their admission, isign and subsrribe the Tliivty-Niiie Articles of Relii.'ion. T<p 
 this Council the whole government of the College is confided. Of the great advantage which 
 the estAblishmeiit of a Cidlege for the luirposes of general education in Upper Canada is likely 
 to cctnfer upon the I'rovince, your Comnntteo entertain the strungost conviction ; they lament 
 only that the Institution should be so constiluted .'is uiateriaily to (limiiimh the e.\tent to which 
 it might l)e u.seful. 
 
 it caniio;, they think, be doubled, ax. the guidance and goveninient of the College is to be 
 vested in the hands uf the meniljers of lu' <_'huifli of Kiigiaiid, tliat in the election o Pr<»fessors 
 a preference would inevitably be shown to iier.sons of tiiat persuasion ; and in a country where 
 only a small proportion of the iiihabitants adlieie to that Church, a suspicion and jealousy of 
 religious interference would necessarily be created. 
 
 For tlifHe and other reasons, tlu! Coniniittiio are desir ms of stating their o])iiiion, thac great 
 l-entifit Would accrue to tiie I'rovince by changing the cuiistitutioii of this body. They think 
 tiiat two Thi^ological Professors should be estaolislied, one of the Clinrch of Knglaiid and another 
 of the Church of Scntland, (wlmse lectures t!ie ivspecti\e candidatL's {i<v holy orders should be 
 required to attend), but that with respect to the IVesideiit, Profonsorj, and all other^i connected 
 with the College, no religions test whatever should be ri'quired. 
 
 That in the selection of Professtira no rule should be followed, and no other object sought 
 than the ii'iminafioii of the most learned and discreet persons, and that (with exception of the 
 Theologii:al I'rofes.soi-.s) tlit^y should be required to sign a declaration tlia% as far as it is necessary 
 
 •In a piimpliVt publiifuHl at Toronto in 1854 by Mr. Jolm Macara, a law vitudent, (lately from Edin- 
 htirgh); '*nt!t!ed ** Tli^* r^risrit^i Hi'*t'>ry and Mitna^'eHient of the Univer^itv af KinLrV. C?;;!!!*"**, Ts'rr.ritrt " 
 Mr. Maf:ara stafi's tlii,t thix Connnittee wa." ajipointtd <in niotiim uf Mr. HuikiHHoii, tlit-n i'oloniat .Secre- 
 livry The Coinnnttce consisted of Mi'ssimira HuHkiii-im, Wynn, WilniotHorton, VescyKitzgHrttld, .Stuart- 
 W'ortli'y, J'ai'in»;, Henry Laboueliore : the Solicitor-tieneral, ijord Francis Leveeon-Oower, ViBCount 
 Situdou, Mr. (afterwards Lord) Stanlt^y, and Sir James Mackintush, etc. 
 
^.. 
 
 1828 
 
 r grateful feol- 
 fery tne-»8ured 
 to poison the 
 st it. . 
 
 tass an Address 
 [nesting a copy 
 jcted with the 
 transmitted, aa 
 is Majesty was 
 the Charter of 
 
 animons ; and, 
 of the College 
 ofessor of the 
 Ingland, whose 
 red to aitend. 
 
 t Committee 
 
 rre, to which 
 
 Jovernraent of 
 their observa- 
 on in the pre- 
 )d, and agreed 
 
 the University 
 lie the Charter 
 I r.o be observed 
 '-nine articles, 
 inniittce find it 
 istitution, that 
 mes be Preei- 
 
 tion a Council 
 if the Chancel- 
 ego ; and that 
 d Ireland, and 
 if Ht!li<.'i(in. T<i 
 vantage which 
 Canada is likely 
 ; they lament 
 ixtent to wludi 
 
 ^dlege is to be 
 n n I'nifossors 
 cDuntiy where 
 nd jealousy of 
 
 licm, tliac great 
 f. Tlii^y think 
 nd and another 
 lers sliinild be 
 heri connected 
 
 object sought 
 xception of the 
 H it is nocessiiry 
 
 atf-ly from Kdin- 
 
 n (Juldtii.il Secre- 
 it^Rerald, Stuart- 
 lowiT, V'iBCdunt 
 
 Chap XLVI. IMPERIAL REPORT ON THE KING's COLLEGE CHARTER, 1828. 255 
 
 for them to advert in their lectures to religious subjects, they would distinctly recognize the 
 truth of the Christian Revelation, but would abstain altogether from inculcating particular 
 doctrines. 
 
 Committee Room, House op Common.s, 
 22nd of July, 1828. 
 
 Appendix. — Sxtkacts feom Minute.s of Evidence. 
 
 Mr. Oeorgn Rytrson called in and examined on the 18th of June, 18S8, as foliates :— 
 
 Q. Are you acquainted with the Provinces of the Canadas I 
 A. Yea, I am. 
 
 Q. In what capacity have you become acquainted with them ? 
 A. I have lived there about twenty-eight years. 
 
 Q. Of what country are you a native ? 
 A. I am a native of- Nova Scotia. 
 
 Q. Are you a landholder in either of the Canadas ? 
 
 A. Yes, I am a landholder and Magistrate in tlie District of London in Upper Canada, and 
 have been for a number of years. 
 
 Q. Did you come here as agent for any Petition ? 
 
 A. I was a()pointed agent after I came here ; I came on private business. 
 
 Q. What Petition is that which you have been appointed to represent ? 
 
 A A Petition relative to the constitution of the University of Upper Canada, and the appro- 
 priation of the clergy reserves. 
 
 Q. By what numbers was that Petition signed ? 
 A. By about eight thousand. 
 
 Q. What were the prayer and the objects of the Petition 1 
 
 A. The object of the Petition was to procure such an alteration in the Charter of the pro- 
 posed University in Upper Canada as would render the institution equally beneficial and .acces- 
 sible to all denominations of Christians, and to solicit the (ioveriimeiit to sell the clergy reserves 
 and to' apjiropriate the proceeds for the support of public schools free from religious tests, and 
 for the pur^/oses of internal improvement in Upper Canada. 
 
 Q. What schools are thti'e connected with the Church of England establishment ? 
 
 A . The District (Oram mar) Schools, of which the Rev. Dr. Thomas Phillips is the teacher 
 at York ; and a Central School on the National system at York also. 
 
 Q. Are there any District Schools for the other denominations ? 
 
 A. There are two large schools that consist of Methodists, Presbyterians, and others. 
 
 Q. I'id the Select Committee of tie House of Assembly express any opinion upon the Uni- 
 versity that has lately been founded in Upper Canada, with reference to its religious character / 
 
 A. Yes ; thej' disapprove of tlie charaLter of it, and I believe it is generally disapproved rf 
 by the largest proportion of the people in Upper Canada. 
 
 Q. Upon what grounds / 
 
 A. On account of its being under the exclusive control of one denomination of Christians, 
 and recjuiring religious tests, and the large apprtipriatioii of lauds which is made for its supjoort 
 renders it unlikely that other institutions will be founded, open to other denominatiuns of 
 Christians. 
 
 Q, Have you a copy of the resolutions relati\e to the appropriation of the clergy reserves, 
 which were jiaased in the House of Assembly of Ujiper Canada on the 22nd of December, 1820 ! 
 A ^ 1 MiiVi*. T w ill rf*;i(l t^"iT! , 
 
 (Note. — Witness read them all ; but only the seventh, eighth and ninth refer 
 to education. Thev are as follows : — ) 
 
266 
 
 DOOTTMENrARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 182» 
 
 7th. Resolvpd, T hat in a thinly inhabited country, such as Upper Canada, where the means 
 of moral instruction to the poor are not easily obtained, it is the bounden duty of the Parlia- 
 ment to afford every assistance within its power towards the support of education. 
 
 8th. Resolved, That the present provision for the support of district and common schools i* 
 (juite inadequate to the wants of the people, and ought by every reasonable exertion to be 
 increased, so as to place within the reach of the poorest inhabitant the advantages of a decent 
 education. 
 
 9th. That it is the opinion of a great proportion of the people of this Province that the 
 cleiyy lands, in place of being enjoyed by the clergy of an inconsiderable part of the population, 
 ought to be disjiosed of, and the proceeds of their sale applied to increase the provincial allow- 
 ance for the support of district and common schools, and theendowmentof a provincial seminary 
 for learning, and in aid of erecting places of public worship for all denominations of Christians 
 These resolutions were carried by the following vote :— Yes, 31. Nays, 2. Majority, 29. 
 
 Q. What do you conceive would be the best way of settling a provision to supply the 
 religious wants of the country in Upper Canada i 
 
 A. I think that at least nineteen-twentieths of the country wish that the clergy reservea 
 should be appropriated for the establishment of schools. 
 
 Q. Does the Legislative Council consist of placemen ? 
 A. Ye«. 
 
 X- 9,' ^*", ^■'^^ ^'^® *^? Committee any statement relative to the persons of whom the Legisla- 
 tive Council IS composed ? ° 
 
 wii^ •^A''""uHf 111" • r'i'' *^^ '"embers of the Executive Council : They are the Honourable 
 William Campbell, Chief Justice ; the Speaker ; the Right Reverend the Bishop of Quebec : the 
 Honourable James Baby, Inspector-General ; the Honourable and Venerable Archdeacon 
 btrachan ; and the Honourable George Markland. Seven of the other members of tne Council 
 ^j;® P*"»*V"» ''"''l'"g "tti<-e8 of emolument under the Govenmient ; they are the Honourable 
 VVilliam Duuimer Powell, who is now in England on a pension ; the Honourable John McGiU 
 the late Inspector General, etc., who is retired on a pension ; the Honoura le Joseph Wells 
 who IS on half pay, and a Commissiuner, etc ; the Honourable Duncan Campbell, the Provincial 
 becretiiry ; the Honourable John Henry Dunn, the Receiver General ; the Honourable Thomas 
 Ridout, the SuiTeyor-'.eneial ; and the Honourable William Allan, who holds numerous offices • 
 the other fave are persons not holding places of emolument under Government, and they are 
 the Honourable Ihomas Clark; the Honourable William Dickson ; the Honourable N-il Mc- 
 . i*"ri, Honourable George Crookshank, and the Honourable Angus Mcintosh ; the Honour- 
 able Ihomas Talbot has never taken his seat as a Legislative counsellor. 
 
 Q. Do you conceive that any alterati.m in the composin-m of the Legislativfe Council is 
 generally desired by the inhabitants of Upjier Canada .' 
 
 f rr''^" ^o* ' "i"*^ ^ believe that nearly all our grievances would be removed by the Le.'islaturo 
 of Lpper Canada, were the Legislative Council independent ; without some change in thfs part of 
 our constituti..!! I believe no remedy can be eflettual ; and this 1 have reason to think is the 
 general opinion in L pper Canada. 
 
 Mr. William Hamilton Merritt was called in and examined on che 26th of 
 June, }H'2H : hut none of his evidence related either to schools or education. 
 
 The Eight Honourahle Rohert John Wilmot Horton, a member of the Com- 
 mittee, was examin.-d on the 1st of July, 1828. His evidence relating to the 
 University Oiarter is a.s follows : — 
 
 The Committee have bytn informed that the ostalilishnicnt of the University of Upper 
 Canada, from the Government, of «hich all denominations <,f Protestuits. excei)i those thaf. 
 belong to th.. Church of England, have bevn excluded, lia.s i.mterialiy tended to increase the 
 jealousy that already existed in I pper C^aiiada, with regard to the Church of England. 
 
 Q. Can you inform the Committee under what instructions that University was so founded i 
 
 A It was founded by a Charter under the Great Seal, and it relieved the students from the 
 obligation to subrtcnbe to the Thirty Nine Articles, which had been an obligation impostd by the 
 Constitution of the otlier North American Provinces. i ^ "i "'"' 
 
 
DA. 
 
 182S 
 
 where the means 
 ity of the Parlia- 
 >n. 
 
 immon schools i* 
 
 exertion to be 
 
 iges of a decent 
 
 •ovince that the 
 f the population, 
 provincial allow- 
 >vincial seminary 
 ns of Christians, 
 ijority, 29. 
 
 I to supply the 
 
 clergy reserves 
 
 lom the Legisla- 
 
 the Honourable 
 > of Quebec ; the 
 sle Archdeacon 
 1 of tne Council 
 ihe Honourable 
 B John McGill, 
 e Joseph Wells, 
 I , the Provincial 
 ourable Thomas 
 J merous offices ; 
 , anil they are 
 urable Nail Mc- 
 h ; the Honour- 
 
 ^tiv6 Council is 
 
 the Leyislaturo 
 e in this part of 
 :o think is the 
 
 the 2dth of 
 ucation. 
 
 of the Com- 
 lating to the 
 
 rsity of Upper 
 tcepi thoae that-, 
 to incit'Hso lhi< 
 Inland. 
 
 was HO founded I 
 
 u<tentsfroin the 
 impostd by the 
 
 Chap. XLVI. REPORT ON the king's college charter, 1828. 
 
 25r 
 
 . ,9- I" yha way is the University endowed ? A. It is endowed with lands, and an .pprc 
 pnation K £1,000 a year as a grant towards a building fund, for sixteen y^ars] from ^the 
 proceeds of the Crown Reserves sold to the Canada Compffny. ■' 
 
 Q. Has not the College Council the appointment of the Professors ? A. Undoubtedly. 
 
 land?" i'Ves! **" ^^^ ^«'n^«" "^ the Council re.iuired to be Members of the Church of Eng- 
 
 Note. This Report was sent to Sir Peregrine Maitland on the 31st July, 1828. 
 
 The foregoing Report practically embodied in the Colonial Secretary's 
 Eeply to the House of Assembly's Address of the 20th March, 18:^8. 
 
 On the 12th of May, 1828, the Lieutenant-Gover-.u.', Sir Peregrine Maitland 
 transmitted to the Colonial Secretary the Address of the House of Assembly 
 of the 20th of March, in regard to the King's College Charter, etc. 
 
 In the meantime a change in the Colonial Department, and in the "outenant- 
 Governorship took place. Sir George Murray, who had acted for a short time as 
 Administrator of the Government of Upper Canada in 1815, (see pacre 88) suc- 
 ceeded Earl Bathurst as Colonial Secretary, and Sir John Colborne, (Lo°rd Seaton) 
 replaced Sir Peregrine Maitland as Lieutenant-C overnor, late in the year 1828. 
 
 In obtaining such an expression of opinion on the King's College as was 
 embodied, the foregoing Report of an influential Committee of the Imperial 
 Parliament, the Colonial Secretary was greatly assisted in framing his reply to 
 tlie Address of the Upper Canada House of Assembly to the King against the 
 terms of that Charter. That Address was by the preceding Colonial Minister Mr 
 Huskisson, referred to the Committee for its consideration and report liiereo'n. 
 
 Sir George Murray, as Colonial Secretary, under date of the 29th of Sep- 
 tember, 1828, acknowledged this Address of the House of Assembly of March of 
 that year. He also referred to other matters in his Despatch. I give only how- 
 ever, those portions of the Despatch which refer to the Charter of Ving's College 
 etc. In addressing Sir John Colborne, the new Lieutenant-Governor, he said :— 
 
 1 have to acknowledge the receipt of a Despatch from Sir Pere-ine Maitland, dated Hie 12th 
 o. May last, enclosing an Address from the House of Assembly to His Majesty (See^ge 242 ) 
 
 In the Address it is stated that only a small portion of the inhabitants of the Province are 
 members o the Church of England, and that the University recently established uner the 
 Royal Charter will pro.luce no practical beneiit to the majorit/of the people, but\v4H be reaar 
 I -duMth distrust i„oonse.,uence of the peculiar privileges whi.'h it .'onflrs upon members uf 
 the tnglKsh Church ; it is, therefore, desixed ttiat a new Charter may be gra , ted uZn more 
 comprehensive principles. ■' s'»"i'Ou upon more 
 
 it would be deservedly a subject of regret to His M.ueny s (iovernment if the l^nvAr^ii-,, 
 recent y established at York, should prove to have been r- uudod upon prinapL^ 
 
 Intended"'" "' ' ''"' '"^"'"^ ^'''"'^' "''^ "•"'"'''■" "^ ^''-'' ^^ whoU ad^lntai^'t'lS 
 
 =' ■,■,,'.',.; "■; , Cummaod u> convoy, Tnnuiuh you, i... iiio House of Assemblv tim 
 
 exju-ession of His Majesty fdesirej at all times to receive\vithti.e most serious alSn 4? 
 Up^rCamS;.'.!;;;: ""'■ ""^''^ '" ^"" ''' '*'" ^'epresentatives of His faithf^Sj^l^tHJ 
 
 17 (D. E.) 
 
 
258 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1828 
 
 I I 
 
 I .: 
 
 1 have obsorvod that ynur predecessor in tho Government if Upper CV.nacIa difi'ers from 
 the House of Assembly as to the general [)revalonce of objections to the ('niversity. founded 
 upon tlie degree of exclusive connection which it has M'ith the Cliurch of England it seems 
 reasonable to conclude, however, tjiat on such a subject as this, an Address adopted in' a full 
 House of A8seiid)ly, with scarcely any dissentient voices, must be considered to express the 
 ])revailini{ oj)inion in tlie Province upon this subject. 
 
 In the event, therefore, of its ajipearinj^ to you to bo proper to invite the Legislative 
 Council and House of Aesend^ly to resume the consideration of this (juestion, you will a])])ri8e 
 them that their lepi'esentations on the existint,' Charter of the University have attracted the 
 serious attenti'in ot His Majesty's (Jovernmeut, and that the ojMnions which may bo expressed 
 by the Legislati\e Council and H<)U3e of Assembly on that subject will not fad to receive the 
 most prompt and seiious attention. 
 
 GeOROB Mt'RRAV. 
 
 Wliat Sir George Murray here suggesterl, rather than directed, was carried 
 out by Sir John Colbo.ne when the Legishiture met in 1829. He .sent a message 
 to either House on the subject, in which, while he adhered to the tenor of the De- 
 spatch, and montione.1 its receipt by him, he did not disclose its nature, except in 
 general terms, nor did he intimate the purpose for which it was sent to him by the 
 Colonial Minister. This, ])robably, was the cause why, in his address at the opening 
 of King's Coll.'ge, long after Sir John Colborne had left Canadrt, the Reverend 
 Doctor Strachan was partly at a loss to understand why it was that the proceed- 
 ings and policy of Sir John Colborne, on the question of the University Charter, 
 differed so widely from those of his predecessor^ Sir Peregrine Maitland. 
 
 When asked by the Legislative Council, (of which the Reverend Doctor 
 Strachan was a member,) and by the House of Assembly, for a copy of the 
 instructions which he may have received from His Majesty's (Jovernment on the 
 subject. Sir John Colborne replied that the.se instructions could " not with pro- 
 priety be separated from other topics wiiich the Despatches from His Majesty's 
 Government embrace." He, therefore, declined to accede to the request of the 
 two Houses on the subject. 
 
 This reticence on the part of Sir John Colborne, as to the views and opinions 
 of the Imperial (Government in regard to King's College Charter, may have misled 
 the public meeting held in the Town of York on the 10th of December, 1880, when 
 it i)ublished the Address of the House of Assembly to the King, of the -'0th of 
 March, 1828, " to which [it stated] no answer had yet been sent " And yet the 
 bubstance of the reply to that Address which he acknowledged to have received 
 had been communicated by Sir John Colborne to the two Housiss of the Legisla- 
 ture in January, 1829. In the Reverend Doctor Strachan's speech, at the 
 opening of King's College, in June, 1848, he said : — 
 
 A few days after Sir .John Colborne, now Lord Seaton, a.ssumed the adiuhiistration of the 
 Colony (in 1828), he convened the College Council, and acting, it i.s 8uppo.sed under special instruc- 
 tions, stated tliat no further stejm sliould he taken towards bringing the I'niversity into opera- 
 tion. His Excellenoy':) communication was made in terms the most positive, for he declared 
 that not one stuno should be put upon another, until certain alteiations had been made in the 
 Charter, and he utterly refused, as Chancellor, to concur in any measures having for their ol)ject 
 tiic progress of the institution. 
 
 tn 
 
 l-'iider the circumstances thus announced, in a manner altogether unusual, and not likely 
 
 coneiderrttion of tiie subject would lead to a rem 
 in my judgment, and I believe m that of any mem 
 ings, pages 41, i'J.) 
 
 al of the |)rohibiti(in for which there was not, 
 ber at the time, adetjuate cause. (Proceed- 
 
Chap. XLVIT. educational proceedings of legislature of u. c, 1829. 259 
 
 CHAPTER XLVII. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF UPPER 
 
 CANADA IN 1829. 
 
 The first ses.sion of the Tenth Parliament of Uoper Canafla, was opened by 
 Sir Jolin Colborne, the newly arrived Lieutenant-! n vemoj-, by the usual Speech 
 from the Throne. In it lie made the i'ollowinfi; reference to the Public (Gram- 
 mar) Schools of the Province, and especially to the one then in operation in tlie 
 Town of York, wliich was then designated aa the " Royal Grammar School." He 
 gave no intimation tlien (a.s he did on the 17th of January, page 261) that he had 
 received a communication from the Colonial Secretary on the subject of the 
 Charter of King's College, and on which the House of Assembly had addressed 
 the Imperial Government during its last session. He, however, intimated to both 
 Houses the scheme which he evidently had decided upon, to make the "Royal 
 Grammar School " at York an adjunct to the projected University. He said :— 
 
 The Public (Oraniiniu') Schools are generally increasing, but their present oi'^anization 
 appears susceptible of improvement. '^ 
 
 Measures will be adopted, I hope, to reform the Royal Grammar School, and to incorporate 
 It with the University recently endowed by His Majesty, and to introduce a system 
 in that Seminary, that will o|.en to the youth of the Province the means of receiving a liberal 
 and extensive course of instruction. 
 
 Unceasing exertions should be made toattract able ma;sters to this country, where the popu- 
 lation bears no proportion to the numi)er of offices and employments, that must necessarily be 
 held by men of education and a^iuireinents, for the su])port of the laws and of your free insti- 
 tutions. 
 
 Referring to this speech to both Hous'^s by Sir John Colborne, the Reverend 
 
 Doctor Strachan, in his remarks at the 0},'^»iu g ;«f King's College, said:— 
 
 Tn his Speecli to tlie Legislature, on the Hth of J(. > .arv. 1821),, Sir .John Colborne, notices 
 the University very slightly, and only in conn.ction with Upper Canaii College, etc. (Page 42.) 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly in \i29. 
 This being a new Parliament,— the tenth, — several ntv r/i.-mber^ tcr^k their 
 seats in the House of Assembly for the first time. There wi.r. twenty-six con- 
 stituencies, repre.sented by forty-five members. The most noted of the new 
 members elected were Messieurs William Lyon Mackenzie, whose name is so 
 largely identified with the after history of Upper Canada ; Thomas Dalton, after- 
 wards well known as the spirited Editor of the Toronto Patriot (Conservative) 
 new.spaper ; Jesse Ketchum.the m-ted philanthrophisc, of Toronto and Bufialo ; 
 Caleb Hopkins, who was, down to lat^ years, a member of the House of Assem- 
 bly, and Dr. William Warren Baldwin, a distin-ui-shed public man of his day, 
 and father of his well known son, Robert Baldwin, the leader of the Rtform 
 party, and the champion of thi principle of responsible goveinrnent," as it was 
 termeu in the early forties. 
 
 educational proceedings of the House of 
 C Thomson, John Rolph, William Lyon 
 
 The members who took part in the 
 Assembly in 1829 were Messieurs Hugh 
 
■i : 
 
 260 
 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 Ib29 
 
 Mackenzie, John Willson (the former Speaker), William Buell, junior, William 
 
 Woodruff, Thomas Hornor, [or Horner, as it sometimes appears in the Journals of 
 
 the House] James Wilson, Archibald McLean, William Morris, John Nfathews, 
 
 and Doctor John J. Lefferty— twelve in all. The Honourable Marshall Spring 
 
 Bid well was elected Speaker. 
 
 9th JuHuani, 18^0.— Mr. Hugh C. Thomson gives notice, that he will, on Monday, the 
 nineteenth instant, move for leave to bring in a Bill to repoHl an Act passed in the fifth [fourthl 
 year of His Majesty's roign (1824. 4th George IV, chapter 8), granting the sum of one hun- 
 dred and tifty pounds (£150) annually for the purchase of Sunday School books. 
 
 inthJanuarii, 1829.— Mr. .John Ilolph. seconded by Captain John Mathews moved that 
 It be resolved that this House will, on Monday, the twelfth instant, resolve itself into a Com- 
 mittee of the Whole upon His txcellency's speech. Which was carried. 
 
 im JanuapjlSS9.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day. the House went into Committee 
 on the Speech of His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Governor, at the opening of the present session 
 Mr. Donald McDonald was called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. McDonald reported that the Committee had agreed to a 
 series of Resolutions, which he was directed to submit for the adojjtion of the House. On the 
 question f'>r ? ;eiving the Report the House divided, and the Report was adopted by a'vote of 37 
 to 4, maj jf 33. The Resolutions, from one to nine, (relating to general subjects) were 
 
 severally id carried. The tenth Resolution was then put and carried, and was embodied 
 
 in the Ai , to the Lieutenant-Governor, as follows : 
 
 To Hi$: M( ency Sir John Colborne, K.C.B., Lieiitenant-Oovernor of Upper Canada, etc.: 
 Mav it Pl' iSE Your Excellency : 
 
 We, F 4 Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provin- 
 cial Parlia.ient assembled, humbly thank Your Excellency for your gracious Speech from the 
 Throne at the opening of «he present session. 
 
 We will direct our anxious attention to the state of the Public Schools and consider what 
 improvements in the present impel feet and unsatisfactory system are best calculated to open 
 to the youth of this Province the moans of receiving a liberal and extensive course of instruc- 
 tion ; and we are fully sensible of the vast importance of unceasing exertions to attract able 
 masters to this country, where the population and wealth bear no proportion to the number of 
 ofiBces and employments which ought to be held by men of education and acquirements, dis- 
 posed to supjjort the laws, and. \khat we are highly gratified to find so favourably mentioned by 
 Your Excellency, the free institutions of our country. 
 
 While we thus welcome the resiiect of Your Ex ellency for the just liberties of the 
 peoi)le. Your Excellency may rely upon our dutiful regard for the constitutional exercise of His 
 Majesty's Royal Prerogative. 
 
 MAR.SHALL S. BiDWELL, 
 
 Commons House ok Amsembly, Sneaker 
 
 13th of .lanuary, 1829. 
 
 L^th January, 1829.— The House met. Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the 
 fore;.!oiiig Address, in answer to His Excellency's Speech at the opening of the present session 
 was read the third time. 
 
 On the ((uestion of passing the Address, the House divided and the yeas and nays were 
 taken. Yeas 37, Nays 1. The question was carried in the affirmative by a majority of 3G, and 
 the Address as above was signed by the Speaker. 
 
 On motion of Mr. John Rolph, seconded by Mr. Robert Dickson. Messieurs .John Mathews 
 and George Hamilton were appointed a Cuwmittee to wait upon His Excellency to learn when 
 he would receive the Address from this House. 
 
 (NoTK.— The Address was presented to Sir John Colborne on the 14th of .January, 1829.) 
 Mr. John Roli)li gives notice, that he shall, on to-morrow, move for the apjiointiiiont of a 
 Select Committee to enquire into the present state of education in this Province ; to report what 
 cn.-4i!;,'t;j arc ex{)i;dient in the present system «f District (Grammar) aiiti Common Schools ; and 
 upon the prai ticability of putting into early operation a College opening to the youth of this 
 couutiy the means of receiving a liberal and extensive course of instruction, pursuant to His 
 ExceUar ■'•'s rtc-immendation, in his gracious Speech from the Throne. 
 
Chap, XLVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINQS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C, 1829. 261 
 
 1/fth January, 1829.— Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie gives notice, that, on to-morrow, he 
 will move the following resolution : — 
 
 i^eso^iwi, That on to-morrow at 12 o'clock, noon, the following Standing Committees be 
 appointed to continue during the present Session. . . . 
 
 5. Standing Committee on Education. — Five Members. 
 
 15th January, 1829.— Mr. John Willson gives notice, that he will move, on Thursday next, 
 that the House do resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole, to take into con9iderati(jn the 
 state of Educaiion in this Province, and the inadequacy of '' e nieans now by law. applied to 
 the futherance of that object ; and to enquire whether i,: v , and what other, or further pro- 
 vision, may be made, to ensure the attainment of so great and important advantages to the 
 people of this Province. 
 
 16th January, 1829.— Mr. John Rolph. seconded by Captain John Mathews, moves, that 
 it be resolved, that a Select Committee be appointed to enquire into the present state of Edu- 
 cation in this Province, to report what changes are expedient in the present system of District 
 (Grammar) and Common Schools, and to consider and report upon the best and most practicable 
 means of opening to the youth of this Province the means of receiving a libera, and extensive 
 course of instruction, and that Messieurs William Warren Baldwin, Peter Perry. Robert Dick- 
 son and William Buell, junior, be that Committee, with jwwer to send for persons and papers 
 and to report by Bill, or otherwise. Which was ordered. ' 
 
 Mr. Hugh C. Thomson gives notice that he will, on Monday the 26th inst»nt. move cer- 
 tain resolutions relative to the appointment of Trustees of District (Grammar) Schools within 
 this Province. 
 
 17th January, 1829.— The Speaker announced to the House the receipt of a Message frora 
 His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, and, rising uncovered, read the same to the House as 
 follows : — 
 
 J. CoLBOKNE : — 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor, acquaints the House of Assembly, that His Majesty's 
 Secretary of State for the Colonies has acknowledged the receipt of a Despatch with 
 an Address from the House of Assembly of the last Parliament, praying that the moneys arising 
 from the sale of lands set apart in this Province for the support and maintenance of a Protestant 
 Clergy, may be placed at the disposal of the Legislature of the Province, (for defraying the 
 expense of certp.in public works for the internal improvement of the country,) and for the pro- 
 motion of general eiucation ; and prayin:,' tliat the University recently endowed, may be estab- 
 lished on more comprehensive principles, than those on which it is placed by the present 
 Charter. ' 
 
 (Note. — The omitted paragraphs relate to the expressions of loyalty on the 
 part of the House of Assembly, in its Address to the King of the 20th of March, 
 1828, and to the disposition of the Clergy Reserves.) 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor has no doubt that it would be deservedly a subject of regret to 
 His Majesty's Government, if the principles on which the University is founded cannot be made 
 to accord with tlie general feeling and opinion of those for whose advantage it was intended ; 
 and he believes that the tirst change in the Charter wliich should be recommended and which 
 would conduce more than any other to its becoming eminently useful to the Province, is the 
 connecting the Royal Grammar School with King's College, in such a manner that its exhibi- 
 tions, scholarships and chief support may depend on the funds of that endowment. 
 
 The advantages that will result from .in Institution conducted by nine or ten able Masters, 
 under whose tuition the youth of the Province could be prepared for any profession, are indis- 
 putable and if such a school were i)ermanently established, and the Charter so moditied that 
 any Professor shall be eligible for the Council, and that the students in the College shall have 
 liberty and faculty of taking degrees in the manner that shall be hereafter directed by the 
 Jstatutes and ( Jrdinances framed by His Majesty's Government, the University must llourish. 
 and prove highly beneficial to the Colony. 
 
 GoVEKNMENT HoUSE, 
 
 York, 17th -Tanuary, 1829. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 Mr. William Morris, seconded by Mr. Alexander Fraser. moves that an humble Address' be 
 presented to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, thanking His Excellency for his Message 
 of this day, and assuring His Bxcjllency that this Hjujc will take the matter thereof into its most 
 
262 
 
 DOCL'MENTAHY HISTORY OF BDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1829 
 
 li 
 
 presentiwl 
 
 serious consideration. Which wns carried. (The Address, in these terms, ' 
 John Ci.jl/orno on rhe 20th of January, 1829.) 
 
 19fh JaniMiif, IS.'H.—'Mv. William lliiell, junior seconded by Dr. Williimi VVtirren lUld- 
 win, moves th;it the Mosshkc of His Excellency, roHi«ii' lis? the Clerf^y Rtmerves mid Education, 
 of Saturday laar, be referred to the Select Coniiuittue w, Educati'-n. Whicli was oiderud. 
 
 ^Sii^i Jnniiiiiij, l>fJi!}.—Mi: William WoodruH' lirought up th ■ Petition of Mr. Chauncey 
 Boadle, and of Mr Jacob Keefer, and others, Trustei » of the rriantham Academy, which wero 
 laid on the Tai le 
 
 i'.'fth Jannanj, /^-J.^.—Ajirooably to the Order of the Day, tha Petition of Mr. Chauncoy 
 Beadle, and four others, TruHtoea of tho fJrantham Aoidemy, prayinj? lor an Act of ino(>ri)ora- 
 tiou, and another Petition from rhesanu- iinrs.ins, in the same ciii)acitv, praying for pecunitry aid 
 to enable them to jjiocure suitable fut.,r8 for said Academy, wire read. 
 
 ::fli Jitnaani. lS.".t. — Mr. WilliHiii Lyon Mackenzie, nt-ooiiled by Mr. .lohn Cawtlira, moves, 
 that an humble Address be presBiited (■> Mis Exculloncy the Lieutonant-tiovernoi , n;(|uesting 
 Hi.s Excellency to cause to be laid before this House for its information, a statcoient of the 
 funds which have been obtained, iml set apart, for the erection of an Univorsily in tb * town, 
 or neij^hbourhood, as well as the appn.priaticms nude from and out of said funds: .ud that 
 Mes.sieurs Robert Randal and J.ssu Ketchum be a Committee to draft I'ul report the same, as 
 also that the .'VJnd rule of this House be dispensed with, ho far a.i it may relate to this motion. 
 Which was ordered. 
 
 Mr. Randal, from tliia Committee, reported a draft of Address, which was rejeivod and 
 read a first and sec »nd time, cimcurred in and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time 
 this day. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order or the Day, the Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor for information in regard to the Ca-iial an I Territorial Revenue Accounts and of the 
 University fund was read the third time passed and signed by the Speaker as follows : — 
 
 To Hi* ExcelUiicn Sir John ColburnH, K.C.B., L'tnk'uant-Govti nor of Upper Canada, etc.: 
 Mav it Plea.sk Yoi'u Excellkncy ; 
 
 We, His Majosty'.H dutiful and loyal subjects, the Comnu)ns of Upper Canada, in Provincial 
 Parliaibont Assembled, humldy rec^uest Your Excellency to cause to be laid before this House, 
 ft)r its information, . . . a stateiiiea'^ of the Funds which h.-.' bi'cn oiitnined anil set apart fm 
 the erection of an University in this Town, or neighborliood, <s ^ M as the appropriations made 
 from, and out of, said Funds. 
 
 M,,lt'.U,U.l, S. BiDWELI-, 
 
 CoMMON.s HoisE OF ASSEMBLY, Speaker 
 
 27lh January, 1829. 
 
 Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, sccondtd by Mr. Jesse Ketchuia. moves that Messieurs 
 John Rolph and Donald McDonald be a Committee to present to His Excellency he said 
 Address. Which was ordered. 
 
 J!)th JiiHHanj, IK.':) —Mr. John Rolph, from the Commiitee to wait upon His Excellency 
 the Lieutunaiit-(;overnor, with the Address of tiiis H use, re(|Ue3ting His Excellency to cause 
 to bo laid before them certain accounts of Casu.al and Ton it trial Revenue and University Funds 
 rejjorted delivering the same, and that His Excellency had been pleas, d to answer the Address 
 in the following manner ; — 
 
 m 
 
 i 
 
 '3. 
 
 Gentlemen :— 
 
 The statements applied for respecting the University, shall bo laid before the House. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 GOVEKN.MKNT HoTSE, 
 
 YoKK, 29th of January, 1829. 
 
 iJth Fi:brn/ir;i, IH>9.- Mr. William Buell. juninr, from the Committee aupointed toonijuire 
 into the present State of Education in this Province, etc., reported as their first Report, an 
 Address to His Excellency, on that subject, which was received, and road twice, concurred in» 
 and ordfred to bo engrossed and read a third time this day. 
 
 ' t 
 
3A. 
 
 1829 
 
 Chap. XLVI EDncATioNAL rjHXJEKT-iNos OF rRoiMf ATUHE or u. r 1829. 263 
 
 pri'senti^d to Sir 
 
 u VViirron lliild- 
 saiirl Ediieation, 
 
 HS oiilei'od. 
 
 f Mr. Chiiuncey 
 my, which were 
 
 f Mr. Chfuiiicoy 
 
 Vet of iiiuorpoi'ii- 
 foi' pecuniary aid 
 
 Civwthra, inoveH, 
 no)', roiiuesting 
 tiittfiieut of the 
 ity in tb < town, 
 funds ; iiid that 
 ort the snniu, as 
 j to this motion. 
 
 as rejeivod and 
 'ead a third time 
 
 uiitenant-Uover- 
 nt3 iuul of the 
 llowa : — 
 
 mda, etc.: 
 
 in, ill Provincial 
 foro this Home, 
 and set apart fm 
 'uiiriatioiis made 
 
 r.L, 
 peaker. 
 
 that Messieurs 
 jellency ho said 
 
 His Excellency 
 jllency to cause 
 iiivorsity Funds 
 ver the Address 
 
 le House. 
 J. C. 
 
 Client of the Ap- 
 ia Company, 'is 
 itement was an 
 
 inted to cmpiire 
 irst Report, an 
 e, ooncurred in» 
 
 7fh h'tihriiary /«*».— A reeably to the Ortler of the Day, tho Address to His Excellency the 
 LieutBiiant-Oevarnor reporte<l by the Ooniraitteo on Education, was read the thi ' 
 [•attsed and signed b^ the Spt aker, and is as follows : 
 
 ' nne. 
 
 Til His Ej-cdknc>i Sir Jiftii. Colborne, K.O.B., I ite.nanl-( rnor oj Upper (\m(i'la, ti 
 May it Plrask Yoim Excklleni v : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and h)yal subit s, the Commons , Upper Canada, in 1 .vin- 
 Ci Parliament aisembled, humbly request Your Excelleiiy ti inform this House, the extent 
 of i^iiid rcHerved for Schools n, the several Townships of this Province; the number of hits 
 sold ; to whom, ami at what price ; the lunis paid, and the sums yet due theteon, and how such 
 funds have been appropriated. 
 
 Mahshali. S. Bidwbi r., 
 
 SjM-aker. 
 
 C<».MM(»NH H<it SE OK ASSKMBLY, 
 
 7^h F.lTuary, 1»2!>. 
 
 xMuas 
 wiU 
 led. 
 
 referred 
 I louse, that 
 as ready to 
 
 Mr. .lohu Rolph, st-'orwlcd by Captain John Mathews, moves, that Mef«i< 
 i irnor » -l Fmlay Malcohu oe a Committee to wait upon His Excellency to ki 
 l)e pleasotl to receive the Address last read, and to present the same. Whioh 
 
 9th Febni'irij 7S2,'' — Mr. William WoodrnT, from the Committee to wli 
 the two several Petitions from the Trustees of ilie Grantham Academy, informed 
 the Committee liad vijrted to maki> their tirsl Rejioit by Bill, a draft of which 
 hubmii ! henever the House would be pleased to receive the same. The Report wab as follows : — 
 
 To the Hinwnrubh ^ rithall S. Bidiri'U, Speaker of the Cominonn House of AsKumbly : 
 
 TheCoiiiriittfc, Lu whom was referrt ' the Petition of .lacob Keefer and others, praying for 
 aid to the proposed Grantham Academy, jvectfully submit the following Report : 
 
 Y(.ur Comii: ttee are of opini-n that it wouUl be exp.dient to grant a sum of money not 
 exceeding t' annm.lly for tho term of years towards the support of the Grantham 
 
 Acivdeiiiy. 
 
 In a new country where cai)ital is scarce, and tho best directed enterprise, inadequate to 
 -ontend with the dirticulties and expenses wliitli press upon such an institution at its commence- 
 ment, it has often been found beneficial to afford a bounty, or temporary aid. 
 
 There can be few objects more importjint than the extension of education in this Province ; 
 and as the District (Grammar) School is provided with only one Teacher, whose unassisted 
 exertions cannot be expected efHeieiitly to embrace the various branches of learning and know- 
 l.df;e, the utility of such an Academy is the more obvious. 
 
 But the first expense in providing teachers on a more extended scale than hitherto enjoyed 
 in the Province, with even moderate salaries, >'ould require assistance, until from being in useful 
 operation, the Academy had an o[)portunity ot attracting the attention ui the public and receiv- 
 ing a more liberal share of its iiatronage. 
 
 Your Committee, however, recommend this pecuniary encouragement to be given only upon 
 satisfactory testimonials being aftbrded to His Excellency from the publi exhibitions in tho 
 school, and from a report by disinterested persons appointed by His Excellency from time to 
 time to examine into its state. 
 
 Willi* , Woodruff, 
 Committee Room, Common.s House of Assembly, Chairman. 
 
 9th of February, 1829. 
 
 The Report vras ordered to be received, and the Bill was read the first time, and ordered 
 for a second reading to-morrou 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hornor, from the Committee to wait on His Excellency the Lieutenant- 
 Governor, with the Address of this House, reported by the Committee on Education, and adopted 
 by this House, raported delivering the same, aud that His Excellency had been pleased to make 
 thereto the foUuwing answer : — 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 The information solicited in this Address shall be laid before the House of Assembly. 
 
 J. C 
 
 Government Hou.se. 
 
 York, 12th February, 1829. 
 
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 ISth February, 1829. — Mr. Donald McDonald brought up the Petition of Mr. Simon Cass 
 and others of the Township of Hawkeabury, in tho Ottawa District, which was laid on the Table. 
 
 14lh February, 1829. — Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Petition of Mr. Simon Oass, 
 of the Township of Hawkesbury, in the Ottawa District, praying for an act of incorporation to 
 hold ground for a school-houne, was read. 
 
 ISth February, 1829. — Mr. Secretary Mudge brought down from His Excellency the Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor a Message, with other documents, and having delivered the same to the Speaker, 
 retired. 
 
 The Speaker then read the message, as follows : — 
 
 J. COLBORNB : 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor transmits for the information of the House of Assembly a state- 
 ment of the tunds which have been received and set apart for the erection of an Univenity in 
 this Province, in compliance with the Address of that House of the P9th of January. 
 
 J. 0. 
 
 OOVBKNMENT HoUSE, 
 
 York, I8th February, 1829, 
 
 A Statement of the Funds and Sources of Income, etc, set apart for the 
 Erection and Support of King's College, Upper Canada. 
 
 1. A grant from His Majesty towards erecting the building of £1,000 sterling per annum 
 for sixteen years from Ist January, 1828, of which one year has been received (as per accom- 
 panying abstract of the Bursar's account current. ) 
 
 2. A grant of 223,944 acres of the Crown Reserves assigned over to the College. The 
 revenue aribing from which cannot be at all accurately ascertained until the reports from the 
 different surveyors now employed in the general survey of these lands shall have been received, 
 inasmuch as it appears by reference to the Surveyor-General's Office that very many of the lots 
 were merely applied for, and many others which were ordered for lease, it is well known, still 
 remain in their wild state, and are likely to remain until leased or sold to other applicants ; the 
 original lessees havmg evidently abandoned all intention of occupying their respective lots, by 
 their having suffered the leases to expire, without, in many instances, paying any rent whatever 
 upon them, in others but a small proportion, and in both making no improvement upon the lands. 
 Furthermore, »,s the College Council is selling off a certain proportion of their lands, it follows 
 that every sale diminishes the rental arising from leases. 
 
 N. B. — The probable rental from the leased lands at the time they were transferred to the 
 College may be estimated at less than £1,000 per annum. 
 
 3. A future additional source of income will arise from the interest upon the proceeds of the 
 sales of lands exceeding in amount the former rents on such lands ; but of this increase of 
 revenue no estimate can at present bo formed. 
 
 Of these lands there hive been sold — 
 
 To the 3lBt December, 1828, 3,167 acres for £3,756 10 
 From Ist to 31st January, 1829, 2,790 " 3,165 
 
 Total, 5,957 " £6.921 10 
 Of which has been paid in i>art — 
 
 To the 3l8t December, 1828, ^773 1 
 
 Fromlstto31st January, 1829, 288 7 6 V 
 
 As credited in the accompanying 
 abstract of the Bursar's ac- 
 count current, £1,061 8 
 
 6 1,061 S 6 
 
 Balance to be hereafter collected, £5,860 16 
 
 This balance of £5,860 Is. 6d. is claimable only by annual instalments of one-ter.th of the 
 original purchase, with interest payable upon each instalment, the purchasers having the option 
 of completing their entire payments as much within the nine years as they may deem expedient, 
 and which permission some have already availed themselves cf '. this tlierefore will ssrvs to 
 account for the balance remaining unpaid as above, being less than nine-tenths of the amount of 
 
 sales 
 
 * 
 
 Kmo'j CoLLEGB, February, 1829. 
 
 Joseph Wells, 
 
 Bursar, King's College. 
 
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 m the Table. 
 
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 Ohap. XLVII. EDUCA.TIONA.L PROCEEDINaS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C, 1829. 266 
 
 19th February, 1829 — .\greeably to the Order of the Day the Address to His Excellency 
 the Lieutenant-Oovemor, thanking him for his Message of yesterday, was agreed to and signed 
 as follows : — 
 
 To Bis Excellency Sir John Cdbome, K.G.B., Lieittenant-Ocvemor of Upper Catiada, etc. : 
 
 May it flkase Your Excbu.snc;y : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provincial 
 Parliament assembled, humbly thank Your Excellency for your Message of yesterday, respecting 
 the funds reserved for the University in this Province. 
 
 Marshall S. Bidwkll. 
 Commons Housk of Ashembly, Speaker. 
 
 19th February, 1829. 
 
 SOth February, 1S29. — Mr. Secretary Mudge brought down from His Excellency a Message, 
 and having delivered it to the Speaker, retired. 
 
 The Speaker then read the Message, as follows : — 
 
 J. COLBORNE : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits, for the information of the Houbo o' Assembly, a copy 
 of a report made to hiiu by the President of the General Board of Education, together with 
 copies of all Reports of the Trustees of the Public District (Grammar) Schools, and of the District 
 Boards of Education, which have been received. 
 
 J. 0. 
 
 GOVBRNHRMT HoUSE. 
 
 York, 20th February, 1829. 
 
 The following is the Report from the Reverend Doctor Strachan, President 
 of the General Board of Education of Upper Canada, to Ris E ^llency Sir John 
 Colbome, Lieutenant-Governor : — 
 
 May it please Your Excellency : 
 
 The General Board for the superintendence of Education throughout the Province have the 
 honour to repjrt that the President, during last summer, visited in person all the Districts of 
 the Province, and not only inspectdd the Grammar Schools, but examined minutely the systems 
 of management adopted by their respective Teachers. 
 
 In several of the schools he found the attendance thin and discouraging ; but in others the 
 business of instruction was well conductor' and the system such as to merit his approbation. 
 
 Among those which appeared in a prosperous condition he cannot forbeai- to mention the 
 Western Gore, Midland and Eastern District (Grammar) Schools. 
 
 In the two last, several of the pupils had made great progress for their age in Mathematics ; 
 and. at Cornwall, a boy was produced by the Master, the Rev. Mr. Urquhart, hardly twelve 
 years old who demonstrated in a very satisfactory marnerbne of the most difficult proposition 
 in Euclid's elements. 
 
 In order to produce a greater uniformity of Kystem, and to supply, in some measure, the 
 want of experience to younger teachers, the President has submitted an outline of study for the 
 Grammar Schools (see page 109), the adoption of which the Board cannot but think would be 
 highly beneficial, and produce a hii;her standard of tducation through the Province. 
 
 The following taile will place under Your Excellency's notice, at one view, the state of 
 education, as it is represented in the various Ueports from the several Districts of this extensive 
 Colony. 
 
 Summary Tabh of Didrict (Grammar) and Common Schools. 
 
 ter.th of the 
 { the option 
 a expedient, 
 
 rill Uav*n£^ ^r\ 
 
 e amount of 
 
 OoUege. 
 
 Number of Cjcholan at Dis- 
 trict (Grammar) Schools. 
 
 Number of Common 
 Schools. 
 
 Number of Scholars at 
 Gommua Schools. 
 
 Average Gnmmon School 
 annual salary paid. 
 
 372 
 
 401 
 
 10,712 
 
 «7. 11.81 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 Remarks appended to the foregoing Report by the Reverend Doctor 
 Strachan : — 
 
 The returns of the Common Schools for the Gore and Midland Districts hpve not been made 
 for this year ; they are supplied from former years ; many schools continue in operation only 
 six months, others eight months, in which other cases the Board is enabled to give to Teachera 
 of these schools a greater salar]' than an equal division among their schools would allow. 
 
 Of the scholars attending the District (Grammar) Schools, it will be eeen, from inspecting 
 the Report, that in some places girls are admitted. This happens from the want of good female 
 schools, and, perhaps, from the more rapid progress which cinldren are supposed to make under 
 experienced and able Schoolmasterp. It is to be wished, hcwever, that separate schools for the 
 sexes were established, as the admission of female children interferes with the government 
 which is required in classical seminaries ; it is, nevertheless, an inconvenience of a temporary 
 nature, which will gradually pass away as the population increases in wealth and numbers.* 
 
 There appears to be more than ten thousand in daily attendance in the Common Schools 
 throughout the Province, which shows an increase oyer last year "f nearly two thousand scholars. - 
 And, if we suppose that half as many more receive some benefit ol education, through the year (as 
 the children of the same family often go in rotation,) we shall have fifteen thousand receiving 
 instruction in the course of the season. 
 
 Many schools are established by the i)eople which do not share in the public bounty ; and 
 Sunday Schools are increasing greatly in number, and if we suppose that five thousand children 
 receive benefit from these Sunday Schools, we shall have an aggregate of twenty thousand 
 children who are provided with some course of instruction at the various schools Public, Private 
 and Sunday Schools throughout the Province. 
 
 That the provision in this sc&le io totally inadequate to the wants of the Colony is manifest 
 from the consideration that, in a population of nearly two hundred thousand, at least one-fifth, 
 or forty thousand, is composed of children, between the age of 5 and 15, who should bo going to 
 school ; — perhaps one-tourth, or 50,000, would be nearer the truth. 
 
 The appropriation made by the Provincial Legislature for Common Schools amounts only 
 to £2,750 (811,000) per annum, or about five shillings f^r each scholar which attends school daily 
 during that period. 
 
 Taking the number of those who are benefited at fifteen thousand (15,000), then the expense 
 to the Province is about three shillings and nine pence for each pupil. But if this approprwtion 
 be averaged upon all the children in the Province capable of going to school, and probably 
 amounting to f(,rty or fifty thousand (50,000); it is scarcely one shilling for each pupil. 
 
 From the preceding table, it ai)peara that in some Dijtricts, the salaries allowed to the 
 Schoolmasters of the Common Schools are exceedingly small. In some, li*-''i more than five 
 pounds each (£6, and, in one case, even less than that triSing sum. Tlit ige as shown in 
 
 the Table is only £7.11.3| (830.27). 
 
 In other Districts the Board, it would appear, have granted a larger salur;- to each Teacher, 
 and have, in con-iequence, established a smaller number of schools. It is, nev...theles8, gratify- 
 ing to know that the class of Schoolmasters has, in many Districts, >;.uch improved. 
 
 In the Home District, the greate? number of those who came to be examined for Teachers' 
 Certificates last Jut e wero so well qualified as to make it a matter of deep regret to the Board 
 that persons so capable were pn inadequately remunerated. 
 
 It must, at the same time, be admitted that the natural consequence of this state of things 
 is that superior Teachers desert the Common Schools ss soon as they can procure any other 
 employment, and that many persons resort to the occupati'/n of Teachers merely as a temporary 
 expedient. The«e latter are without that experience which is all impt rtant to nn instructor of 
 youth ; and they can have little desire to establish a reputation in an employment to which they 
 have only had recouise for present convenience. It is, therefore, manifest that before we can 
 have able professional teachers greater encouragcinf^nt must be given to those now employed 
 than the system at present afi^ords ; and it is most desirable that the people should be deeply 
 impressed with thii, truth in order that they msy feol it to be their duty, as well as their interest, 
 to give more attention to schools where the characters of their children are, in some measure, 
 to be formed, and no longer indulge a disinclination to make adequate compensation for the 
 services of skilful teachers. The business of education should be committed to the best talenti 
 in the country, hut it is vain to expect that they can bo procured for an incoiae below that of 
 
 Cfsl 
 
 *In this matter thu Reverend Doctor Straohan's expectations were not realized, for in 1868, grirls, by 
 diiestion »f the then Attorney-Uenorsl, th"i Hanonrable .Fohn Sandfield Macdonald, (after a digcngsion in 
 the House of AHsembly,; were formally admitted as pupils of the Qrammar Schools, and they have ever 
 since been admitted as regrular pupils of the High Schoi>l« and Golletriate Inf^titntes "f On»a<-in. 
 
 ' I 
 
1829 
 
 Chap. XLVII. EDLTOATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C, 1829. 2(J7 
 
 d Doctor 
 
 ibeen made 
 ration only 
 to Teacher* 
 ,ow. 
 
 I inspecHng 
 food female 
 nake under 
 ools for the 
 {ovemmenb 
 temporary 
 ibers. * 
 
 ion Schools 
 id scholars, 
 tlie year (as 
 d receiving 
 
 )unty ; and 
 iid children 
 y thousand 
 lie, Private 
 
 is manifest 
 it one-fifth, 
 bo going to 
 
 cunts only 
 chool daily 
 
 he expense 
 propriation 
 d probably 
 il. 
 
 iwed to the 
 ) than five 
 9 shown in 
 
 ih Teacher, 
 88, gratify- 
 
 r Teachers' 
 the Board 
 
 « of things 
 ) any other 
 temporary 
 structor of 
 which they 
 ire we can 
 employed 
 be deeply 
 if interest, 
 ) measure, 
 m for the 
 lest talents 
 )w that of 
 
 8, griris, by 
 isciiMion in 
 j; h»ve ever 
 
 'in. 
 
 It IS respectfully submitted, that the Law, by giving th«? same sum for each District, whetiier 
 populous or not, attords to the inhabitants of the Province unLMjual benctit, and, in that |).ir- 
 ticiilivr, re([uiies alteration. Thus, the Midland District, with a poi)u]ation of :}0,000, and afford- 
 lag SIX or seven thousand children capable of attending school, receives the same appropriation 
 with the Ottawa District, the population of which is scarcely one-tenth that of the other, lit 
 the Sister Colony of Nova Scotia, the sum (,f four thousand pounds (£4 000) in annually appro, 
 priated to tiie Common Schools, and divided among twelve Counties, not eijually, but m proiior- 
 tion to the population. Thus, the County ol Cape Breton receives inure than double that of 
 Halifax. In pursuance of the same object, it is fr.rther to be observed that, since upwai-ds of 
 twenty thousand (20,00i)^ children appear totally without aid from the Provincial Revenue, ai d 
 that the i)eace and happiness of the community, the preservation of our institutions, and of all 
 that 18 valuable in society, depend upon the character of the people, and essentially upon theii- 
 intelligence, there is no oliject ot greater importance in Legislation, or i.ossossing a more impera- 
 tive rlaim upon the jiublic revenue, than the establishment of schools for the public which must 
 ever be the basis upon which the peace, good order and prosperity of society are to rest. The Pror 
 vincial Boartl, therefoio, would submit with all deference, th^it, iiiaddititm to the public allowance, 
 even if increased beyond iti present amount, a power should be given to the Townships to assess 
 themselves for this spiHJial purpose. For such a measure precedents are not wanting, and, as 
 the principles on winch the present system of education established in the Province, and the 
 connection between H» .lifierent parts »ie in themselves excellent, all that is necessary to make 
 It ethcient is more liberal supjwrt, so that the blessings of education may be extended to all 
 classes, and encouragement given t() persons well 4iiaiitied, of respectable character and exem- 
 plary conduct, to undertake the office of schoolmaster. 
 
 In Nova Scotia, it is in the Sclioo. Statute, among other things, i)rovided that two-thirds of 
 the freeholders may, under certain forms and conditions, tax themselves, acct)rding to their 
 ability, for the support of education, and thnt no school of thirty scholar) shall be entitled to 
 the stipulated aid oi twenty pounds (£20) unless the teacher receive? bowx Jide, from his 
 employers, forty pounds, together with this sum, exclusive of. and, in addition to, bis board and 
 washing ; and tlvit no school ui fifteen scholars shall l)e entitled to the stipulated sum of fifteen 
 pounds (£15) from the public ajipronnation unles-s the teacher receives from his employers 
 twenty-five pounds (£25) per aniui . .is aforesaid. Thu.<., the income of the teacher would in 
 one case, be nxty pounds (£00) per annum, and in the other forty pounds (£40), not includiiiff 
 board and lodging. i- v /> » 
 
 In one of the neighboring States, it is enacted that no Township, or school district, shall par- 
 ticipate in the proceeds of the Education Fund, unless it raises, in the first place, a sum e.jual 
 to that which is t( be allowed, and power given to raise double that sum, if thought necessary, 
 besides what may be re<iuired for miilding schoolhouses. for fuel and other appendages. In 
 other places, no district appropriation is made by the Legislature, but the schools of each town- 
 ship are entirely supported by a local tax. The general principle is an assessment imposed 
 upon l;hemselves by the inhabitants of the townships, or school districts, which is more or less, 
 according to the public aid awarded to each, while proper care is taken, by general boards and 
 superintendents, to produce a uniformity o[ system among the schools, and to take care that 
 the sums are appropriated exclusively to the purposes of education for which they were raised.* 
 
 The Board has distributed among the several District Boards of Education, and through 
 them to the Common Schools, a large (luantity of useful school-books procured by the grjints "of 
 the Legislature for 1825 and 1826, and it is with great satisfaction that they state that the Soci- 
 ety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, being made aware of the wants of the Province, gave 
 for £300 currency, or about £240 sterling, reckoning the loss in exchange, the amount of the 
 appropriation for two years, books to the value at prime cost of £388 5s. 8d. sterling ; by which 
 liberality nearly double the supply expected, has during the last year, been in the course of 
 distribution 
 
 The appropriation for books for 1827, 1828 and this p'^esent year (1829) remains unex- 
 pended ; but it will be the duty of the Board to lose no time in tansmitting it for books to the 
 same Society, as they doubt not but they shall experience a continuance of the sam liberality. 
 
 The Board has also sent donations of Mavor's Spellin<j[-books to the several Districts for thw 
 use of the Common Schools and they have contracted for two thousand (2,000) copies (^f ihi» 
 excellent work, to be executed on cards for the township schools throughout the Province ; the 
 expense of which will be defrayed from the re.sources committed to their care by His Majesty's 
 Government. There appears to be a great scarcity of Arithmetic Books in the Province, and 
 those in nsH are ill general too difficult, or definiont in tnatt«r and arratigement ; the PreMdent 
 has, therefore, undertaken to draw up a short manual on the subject, suitable to the state and 
 
 *The Reverand Doator Straohan here pointed oin the true principles of sohool suppo.-t and mana 'e- 
 meat, but they did not receive legislative sanction in Upper Canada until 1850, nor fully so until 1870. 
 
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 SeS DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1829 
 
 i '': 
 
 buBiness ofthe country with a key for the advantage of teachers, which, it is honed will be 
 found beneficial and facilitate this useful study. (See page 46.) ^ 
 
 • The 9?"®™!.?°'":^ "f Education for the Province cannot close this Report without exoress 
 ing the high gratification they feol in perceiving the warm interest whFch S ExceCcv 
 
 charity it is a charity of whfch the blessings are ii^St alloy ' 't dl?nrno%SB scruUn^ 
 of the claims of is applicants, nor does it rec:uire to be so stinted as not 1^1," tS ?LTr TuZ 
 ber. The obliRations therefore, « hich re^t upon every Christian Government to nrnnfnLf^. 
 great interest are sufficiently obvious and im ^ing. LrTs it e ough that tt chiEn of se 
 
 Sas'^Zad^Tnta^esrinrelcri e^pTc^ir C^elS^t^fanS &:£fT^- 
 second distinction among men, and that useful knowledge is tL 
 
 All of which is humbly submitted by Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant. 
 
 John Strachan, 
 
 VTOKK. 6th February. 1829 '"'''^'"* "^ '^' ^'""'^^ ^'"'''^ *^' ^''"°''*'"" ^°' ^>P«' Canada. 
 A.« f*'''' Str"'"''' ■'^f ^---AgJ-eeably to the Order of the Day, the St. Catharines rOrantham^ 
 
 Th« Ull ?°"'* having resumed Mr. Buell reported tha Bill as amended by the Committee 
 MoUariexT "'^"■"' *" ^' ^"'"^"'^ *"^ *''^ ^'" '^ ^'^ -S^^'^^ -"'J real a thiS'ime on 
 
 readme £d1imr-^«'^^'''^*"''^^^''«'^ «' *^« ^-^y- ^^^^ Grantham Academy Bill was 
 
 »n,l kf'-f ^''/i""" WoodrufF seconded by Dr. John J. LeflFerty, moves the following as a rider- 
 and be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful for tae saM Cornorat on tT hold stS f^ 
 the purposes aforesaid, to a larger amount than five thousand pounds^ wShLs carried 
 
 ^hir.A^'^^'^^^^l^^'tu'''^^''''^ *''^ ^^y* *'^e "''^"^ t" t**® Grantham Academy Bill was read the 
 third time, and the Bill was passed and sis^ned by the Speaker. 
 
 "A B?n f!^'J' *'" ^^*'?*^''"'* seconded by Dr. John Lefferty, moves that the Bill be intituled - 
 A Bill to Incorpcirate the Trustees of Grantham Academy." Which was carried and M«» 
 Bieurs John J. Lefferty and William Woodruff were ordered bv the ^aker to Tr?; tEe s^me" 
 up to the Honourable the Legislative Council, and request their concurrence therX 
 
 Assembly during its last session may be considered, and relief granted. 
 
 I j'^J- P'»°''e*«i'7 Mudge brought down from the Lieutenant-Governor, a Messaae and having 
 
 handed the same to the Speaker, retired. The Speaker then rea.i the MessSTs'f'drows :- ^ 
 
 J. COLBOKNE : 
 
 Btate'^oui;: Wrern dS;^^^ '° '""^ ^'"""^ «^ '^«-'»^'^' '^^ — > I^'^P-t^of the 
 
 Government House, 
 
 York, 5th March, 1829. 
 
 (Note. -This Report, and the Proceedings of the House of Assembly in regard to it will 
 be found m the records of the Session of 1820, further on.) 
 
 mJlfarcA,i«^9.— Captain John Mathews, seconded bv Mr. William Mnrr.« «.,,„„» fj.of 
 so much or tile Jouiiinis of the last Se«ioii ot the last Parlianient, as relates to the Report'of 'the 
 
 sTX'l fPPT'"^ *" "J"l"*f .'"'" '^' '"'' "f Mr. Edward Thompson pLian Common 
 School reacher. be no .v read, an 1 that the 3 >nd Rule of this House he dilpensed with as fLTas 
 relates to the hamo. Which whs carriefl. and the Journals were read 
 
1829 
 
 Chap. XLVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C. 1829. 
 
 2G9 
 
 oped, will be 
 
 ihout express- 
 iir Excellency 
 ich they anti- 
 
 the ignorant, 
 rfgarded aa a 
 alous scrutiny 
 ily their num- 
 proinote this 
 ildren of set- 
 e pleasure as 
 le beneficence 
 ntable beings, 
 wledge is the 
 
 I servant, 
 
 pper Canada. 
 
 (Grantham), 
 Vhole House. 
 
 e Committee, 
 hird time on 
 
 emy Bill was 
 
 ; as a rider — 
 
 old stock for 
 carried. 
 
 ■ be now read 
 as relates to 
 1 ordered to 
 
 ivas read the 
 
 intituled : — 
 3d, and Mes- 
 rry the same 
 
 M Appleton, 
 
 as A ;)pleton, 
 io House of 
 
 , and having 
 Hows : — 
 
 Report of the 
 J. C. 
 
 to it, will 
 
 eport of the 
 ^n, Common 
 th, m far as 
 
 a B Ar^L^^£f^?r E=^ ^ to b.ing 
 
 MorS' m;:;:^fiH:a7e?oTrln|f in rBll?fo??h:'" II" .^ll^^^' --"'J-l ^l ^r Willinn, 
 was granted, and the Bill re^a^n^rr dtr^s/i' IZTio^Zr'' ''^"""- ^''^^ 
 
 and SrSfh;Sn7y''cyMiSdll"x1n^^^^^^^^ *^« ^^^'""^ «^ Mr. Ira Schofield 
 
 District (Grammar) Set..; ITlTVTict; as "a'To^TK^ ^^""^^^ °^ *^« 
 
 was r'idJe'd rd?eadl' Mlt"::-' *'' Committee of Finance, presented a first Report, which 
 
 Report of School Payments, by the Committee of Finance 
 
 fDSsIt' ^.*"°°"-*""'""' ""'""»' ""Kto-'T^aurom for Di..,ic. (Gr™m»,) School., 
 
 Omimon &lw«l,.-Amomt divided immng elev.n di.Crict., f 2,876 0.. Od. 
 District (Grammar) and C&mmim SrhmJa x>9 «";; j, u • , 
 
 School appropriations, a^nd £939 iTcd^t'^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 mitte^'e' *'^« '^PP'^^'*«- ^^ ^^is money no satisfactory account has been laid before your Com- 
 
 posin^g"?t;tm1n'eTi;tr£^ 
 
 tho evidence on last y^Jsjl^rZ ^ ''*^"*'^" '" '°"'*^ "^ ^'^^ '^'^'ricts, which appear from 
 
 utedlS^fTepS^mi^i'ourorthtm^^^^^^ f' Legislature annually, the most min- 
 public accounts. ^" ™*''^ important appropriation, along with the other 
 
 '^^®^'i'^'»n<iDi8tnc', with upward-, of thirty thousand r-^Ofmm ;«u k-* i. 
 
 'peSroT! """ '"» °«*"" «»'"«' «o„f.i'„t rfy isr.!,;e.\t'„rd(3Xr„£' 
 i. nol' SL''r&'.?„t^er^^.t:5^r;rJ^v;r '"-i ■"" - *• ■■»«" 
 
 the p^'u'wi?"™' <°"""'""' *"'°°' '•"""■ "»• "»' l>™'"»'i tK" Wfioi.1 effect, .ntidpaled bjr 
 
 CoMMiTTKE Room. House oi- Assembly Thomas Daeton, 
 
 YoBK. Marcli 8th, 1829. * Chairman. 
 
 (Gmnuaar) Sclmol ma^ be reLvid from'^tttla t„ itdo.''wasS '''' ''' ''*^'"'=' 
 
 Monday, 16th March, 1S29 —Mr William TImoII ^„.,;' r a. -. , 
 
 Education, presented a Report, whid^tcl've'Jund Sr'istuows"-''^"' ^"""""^« «» 
 
 First Report of the Select Committee on Education. 
 
 To the Himuurable the Conutio-ns House of Assembly • 
 
 rep„rT"i?=:r„;:ytT,p7die'SS^^^^^^ °j ^'f- 'V"- ''■-'"■■" '» 
 
 and .„ coneider and repo^rt BpoiJ ,he best ^d ^7^,^25 n™':ro;'tp':;;;!„?;oTh,";„th 'S 
 
^70 
 
 DOCUMENTARY IIISTOnY OF EDUCATION IN UPPKR CANADA. 
 
 1829 
 
 thi* Province the means of receiving h liboriil and extensive course of education, rojpoctfuUy 
 submit : 
 
 That they huve taken as extensive a view of the subject as circumstances would i)erinit. 
 From the inspection of tho leturnH cjf the District ((iraiumar) Schools, as stated below, connected 
 with obsertfation and information derived from various ([uartora, it a|)])uars to your Comniittoe 
 that those schools are, for tlie most part, very inoHicient, and tlie advant:ii,'e» derived from them 
 inui'h inferior to what might have been expected from the amount of funds appropriated to their 
 supp )rt. Tho causes of their inutility are principally those : the iniproper appointment of many 
 of their Trustees, (they being selected, as would seem, more from a desire to favour particular 
 religious views than to promote that gonorous hburality of feeling wiiich is so ossential to tho 
 well-being an 1 peace of tho inhibitiuts of a colon v constituted as ours is) ; the improper selec- 
 tion of teachers, resulting from Boards constituted of such Trustees, many of the schools being ap- 
 parently converted into stepping-stones to the Episcopal Uliurch ; the neglect of the Trustees to 
 inspect and re[)ort conscientiously on tho state of tho schaols, and, in some instanuos, the high 
 sums charged for tuition has operated as a barrier to tho instruction of children of respeotrtble 
 individuals whose means wore not oiiual to the ])aymont of such ch.irges. But the cause which 
 operates most againit these schools is to be found in the state of the country whore there are 
 comparatively fewperions possessed of the means of sending their sons abroad for their educa- 
 tion, from the dirticulty of procuring cash to pay the charges, who coidd very well board them 
 at home and afford a modest coiupensjition to a toachor. Owing to this cause the District 
 Schools, when properly con lucted, have been, with a few exceptions only, beneficial to those 
 who reside in their immediate neighbourhoods. The difference of accommodation between plac- 
 ing our youths at the District Schools or sending them a grtater distance where a more extensive 
 (iourso of instruction may be had being so small that no protection is afforded thein other than is 
 to be dorivo-i from their own merits. Many young persons have in consequence received their 
 education in the United States, where the charges for living and tuition are, for the most part, 
 cheaper than in this Province. 
 
 The following is the state of the District (Grammar) Schools, so far as returns have been 
 Bubmitted to the Committee : 
 
 The Eleven Districts. 
 
 '5. 
 
 s 
 
 
 
 d 
 
 i 
 
 m 
 
 'J 
 
 In English 
 Grammar and 
 Mathematics. 
 
 1 
 
 o 
 
 .S ot 
 
 ■c.S 
 
 11 
 
 a" 
 
 l-H 
 
 General Remarks. 
 
 Eastern 
 
 31 
 20 
 
 19 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 13 
 
 
 
 Ottawn 
 
 Bathurst 
 
 
 Johnstown 
 
 Midland 
 
 Newcastle 
 
 Home 
 
 17 
 44 
 30 
 31 
 33 
 29 
 29 
 24 
 
 281 
 
 11 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 19 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 10 
 13 
 16 
 12 
 10 
 18 
 12 
 
 9 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 10 
 
 61 
 
 The general average for different 
 branches of education is taken m 
 the Home and (tore Districts, as 
 the numbers are not; particularized 
 in these schools. Part of the Gore 
 School, as well as that of London, 
 is composed of females. 
 
 Gore 
 
 Niagara 
 
 London 
 
 Western 
 
 Total 
 
 108 
 
 112 
 
 
 From the above it appears that there are altogether in ten Districts 281 pupils receiving 
 instruction, of whom 108 are in the languages, 112 in English grammar and mathematics, and 
 6i in reading and speiling, etc. Of these about 25 are femaiea. In one Disriet only, the Gore 
 School, does it appear that any attention has been paid Ui tho provisions of the Act of 59th, 
 George 3rd, Chapter 4, (page 148) for th ) education of 10 pupils in each school gratis. 
 
 Part of the exercises in the Home District School are of a religious nature, and confined to 
 the doctrines of the Ejuscopal Church. 
 
ion, rospoctfully 
 
 iurns have been 
 
 Chap. XLVII. EDUCATIONAI, PROCKEDINGS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C, 1829. 271 
 
 p..t llZtZ ft Hchif wh"I^>'' '''"^?'' '""''' '-^^""''''^ «'n«truction ^hich could be 
 ?u.ilH HH,;e^rB LuSoniy"^^^^^ Hwolling the n.unber. „f thoir 
 
 taught in -h'e Con.m.,u Hdu2,7 anTx7eil to tho Provh ."' 1 f^ZT^ "^^'"^ u'""'*^ "°* ^« 
 f<.r tuiuon by the parent, and guaXns '^f thV,?u,IilB "'" "^ ^^'^' '"^'"•^'^'' '^" ""'"' '"""^ 
 
 Eduction andtransnnttodto i ^A HorSj witrtt Dt'lcrron^^^^ "'' '^^"«''^^«T'^ "^ 
 
 of no law of the Province authorizing ucrH.^ fficc thov « T' /7""' Com.n.ttee know 
 cmsuniption, a.s well as the authority by wi ch s o me of th7n 1 l " "'""T^ for such an 
 
 honourable gentleumn in c..ntradict on t., t lo wo of Ih« S^ /^f ^ '•? ^'r*^:* ^" ^^"^ 
 
 be made to tin. Lieutenant-(;over. or and !. m O . ,. ., f '"^**"^'^\^»"«" l'!-''^"!^ that they shall 
 of t300 t,. a President of a Genm 1 H, .r/ f p i ^"'J '''*"" '"^ '""^ consider the appropriation 
 
 retir^ which ough by ll to f u^^h^d d r^^n'^'f *'"""';r^ « '"''^r '^""[i^ ^r'« l' ^^■^«' ^ ^''««^ 
 un.ler who.e nmnage.nJnt a^ mdue pre uS in SoL ?' 0^ "T'^" I','-*?" ««''»«»'=>'. *"d, 
 as the custom (sic) of a surplus thL' and a^vn^^ IV " ,C'>"'-';\>'f '»»>l'f I'.'.ent is pronunent, 
 
 .oney;a^tl!eylcomn.ef:d.ts;itr^-;:r.::^^;rth"1nr^^S^^^^ 
 
 n.ost'pa^rtKE'.::;;;:;^;^^^ s; tS:^r:'^?t^ r- ^tt"- '--' ^- «- 
 
 District Schools, yet they arc not rustfu aT^ uTl.^wi^r ^ '"'J". '^^P^'^f^' "» tlie>'i.than the 
 number of proper and canabl.. t1! ,lr« tk' ! wished, owing lo the want, of a sufficient 
 
 Province, the Provincial allowance bein-r i?, «mni^nJ/ ^ ? Teachers m many parts of the 
 to this, tiie u.e which is ge ura ly Se o it fn d. . n'' '"'''^''''^'^^ » '"*^r« Pi"ance. Add 
 rather than allow it to operate as a boun^^ " 'T'^"'" .'" Proportion 
 
 For it is manifest that no person wTXlrsSl to^hi' '^^e Properly quaUfied to offer, 
 education to better advantage in other pur u its The e n?lrl^ T^" "*" ^'''''" '^'^^'-l^"]'' ""d 
 apply in all cases, as your Committee are lappv to find that thp'' . l"''"'""' "i" \'f T'""^''^ '^ 
 some of the Schools which have been erected b. \J^L u 7^ V '"7 v'*'"**''^ Teachers in 
 posed and felt the necessity of having suh me ai^ H.'em .' 1[ '''"' '^^ 'T'?'" ""'! ^''■ 
 adequate provision by adding to the Provi cirboZ ^sicrfurt l'b?r;'"'""^ '"'" 'T*^'' ■'''^ 
 an object for goo.l teachers to make a tender ol theirJervTces "'^»'^«"'«"ts as rendered it 
 
 The following is a summary statement of the Common Schools in Upper Canada, 1828 : 
 
 The Eleven Districtn. 
 
 Western 
 
 London 
 
 Niagara 
 
 Home 
 
 Nev-astle , 
 
 Johnstown 
 
 Bathurst 
 
 Ottawa 
 
 Eastern 
 
 Gore, and Midland , 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 a 
 
 Cm 
 
 I 
 
 Total 
 
 26 
 40 
 82 
 38 
 22 
 30 
 40 
 11 
 63 
 
 697 
 
 1,168 
 
 864 
 
 1,076 
 
 600 
 
 750 
 
 999 
 
 292 
 
 1,395 
 
 OB OP 
 
 S> 0. Ol 
 
 291 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 
 10 
 
 6 5 
 
 7 16 3 
 6 11 6 
 
 11 7 
 
 8 6 8 
 6 19 
 
 12 10 
 4 10 5 
 
 General Remarks. 
 
 7,731 
 
 Not returned. 
 
 e,p.trr£pi^iLt;'.TSiX^^^ 
 
 i 
 
272 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1829 
 
 The ditlicultiea of procuring proper Bchool hooks likewise operate against the advancement 
 of educiition in this Province ; the encouragement not being aunitient to induce men of capital 
 to embark in the printing and publishing of elementary IxMikH on reasonable terms. The coun- 
 try ia, tlierefore, neceaaarily in a great meaauro, dependent on the parent State, or the United 
 States, for a aupply, in either if which casea auch barriera interpose aa necessarily prevent per- 
 sons living in remote piirts trom procuring them on terms adequate to their means. 
 
 Your Committee therefore suggests that a permanent Institution ahould be provided in aome 
 haaltliy and central situation, founded on liberal and proper principles, where the youth of the 
 country could resort for instruction in the higher branchea, tree from sectarian influence, on 
 terms equally low and advantageous with thoae offered by our neighbours. That the District 
 Schools be abt)lished, and that the moneys now ai)propriiited to the support of each school be 
 divided and given to four achoula in each district to operate as encouragement to superior teach- 
 ers, whose (pialificationa should be specified ; the achools to be placed in the most central situa- 
 tions and under proper regulations, that the f-rnds may not bo misapplied. That the Common 
 Schools be limited in each district, with a fixed allowance to the teachers, which allowance should 
 oidy be given where a corresponding sum should be made up by the jjcrsons interested, as 
 should also be the case with the four superior schools ; the whole to be under the superintend- 
 ence of a Board of Trustees, of whom not more than one should be elected from any one town- 
 si ip, who should have power to appoint the places where the schools shall be taught, examine 
 the teachers and tranaact all necessary business pertaining to the schools. That encouragement 
 be given to the publishing and circulating of elementary books in the Province, and in all 
 branches of manufacture connected therewith. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 William Bukll, .Junior, 
 Committee Room, Commons House of Assembly, Chairman. 
 
 March 10th, 1829. 
 
 Note. — The comprehensive character of the Report of the President of the 
 General iioard of Education for Upper Canada (on pages 265-268) and of this 
 Report renders it unnecessary to insert the Reports of the local Grammar and 
 Common Schools, as they are generally statistical and very meagre.' 
 
 nth March, 1839. —Mr. John Rolph, from the Select Committee on Education, reported 
 that the Committee had agreed to report by an Address to His Excellency, whenever the House 
 would be pleased to receive the same. The Report was received, the Address was read twice, 
 concurred in, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time this day. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor on the subjeci, of Education, was road the third time and passed, and is as follows : — 
 
 To His Excellency Ulr John Colborne, K.C.B., Lieuieixant-Governor of Upper Canada, etc. : 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada in Provincial 
 Parliament assembled, humbly represent to Your Excellency that we have taken into consider- 
 ation the important subject of Education, and have bestowed upon it as much attention as the 
 preasu'e of public business and the delays usually incident to the first session of a Parliament, 
 would peniiit. 
 
 We have directed the Officer of our House to furnish Your Excellency with a copy of the 
 First Report made to our House upon the subject of Education, in which, we are happy to find, 
 Your Excellency takes so deep an interest. 
 
 We trust that Your Excellency, regarding the importance of economy, will not continue 
 the appropriation of three hundred pounds (£30(1; a year to a President of a General Board of 
 Education,— a Board wiiicli can be of no use if the District Boards of Education are constituted 
 of persons active, zealous and conscientious in the discharge of the duties appertaining to their 
 appointm-^nt. 
 
 By the present law the District (Grammar) School Reports ought to be made directly to 
 Y"our Excellency, by whom they are laid before the Legislature. 
 
 No systems are improved by being made more complicated ; and the objection acquires 
 greater force from the consequent increase in the number of <ifficer8 drawing upon the revenue 
 devoted to Education, and from the diminished importance of the Local Boards of Education, 
 whoae .•ictlvity aiul Wocfuhiuss will vary with the respect following thoir independence and direct 
 responsibility to Your Excellency. 
 
Chap. XLVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C, 1829. 
 
 27» 
 
 GaiMda, etc. : 
 
 J made directly to 
 
 ChriBtian Ohurche.. ' ^ ''^*" employed to favour one. to the oxclu.ion of other 
 
 Scho!l^:;'3: S Z ^^n't! (iS'vorEx^elir*' ""'""'' *" ""^"^ ''^^ -y-^- ^^ Common 
 (Grammar School," of liberal nSoi.Z Efin ^^^'V."' '*"*""" *" ""ticipate), of a "Royal 
 altering the present syrnroi KSt (GramlrT^^hS "' ''"''' •^""^''^^^ the^xpedienc/ol 
 
 ver4' - r 'cSatheVorerto The' tl^e"^" ™*^ ^'" P'"P""«'^ '"«^'*"*'- ^^^ the Uni- 
 therefore, wholly ropose in Your Excellencv to I ''"T"" »"P«""t«ndinK the latter, and we. 
 mar School," which we wish thollS"^f.,.L'^ on' ''T""'« ""'1 '"«'«•• '' " R<'y«l Oram- 
 
 under the nv.st able maSs and TeriviU ^uLda from " hf' "f"" V^"".""* '"'«^*' f'^'"°T'«^. 
 Excellency. 'unvmg lunUs from the sources already mentioned by Your 
 
 .i.«Tv:;r^Ar™T^coVutu» '47 v™°r' fe'!i""""T' ""■' ^ -■" '° """'• ■«■ 
 
 «xt«n,l it> .i.efulneu. "J""«""n -vitii Your Excellono,, l„ promote il> mtere.l. and 
 
 CoMMoN.s House of Assembly 
 19th March, 1829. ' 
 
 Marhhall S. Bidwell. 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Buel^ ui'?a^?S;„:iTtcL'L.n;e'a"SnmiUe '"''^'"^ A'^^ '^--- ^^'"-m 
 
 whe.j,. wni bo plea.d to receive thVLdrSrorttVoU^STpr'^Lf £1= ^ ^"- 
 
 Legislative Cou\^:UhtSnnritlr':Vl^^^ f-- the Honourable the 
 
 Act ^li'^zssr^:^? S:=;j:^f ijs;:^:r;s;:^s;j^o ^ b.i .tituied .. An 
 
 wor^?f£-.^^-a^--'--'i-t..w.hthe."l:rr.^^^^ 
 
 .s .^f^X:^i::^li n^^i^::^:iS^i:ZS^;^^^^ fri^^^' t^at „„ person who 
 
 of tht G:Uta?Sirto7Ei?uc"L7f"o? ihe'^frtirAt^,''? ^'^ ''"'^""^y »'°--d. that the President 
 Academy, „nce in each and every year, and o recn,i f o be laid S' ^^ ""'.''"['^y »" viHiftheS 
 acadeniy are hereby directed to comply with such remiislt-on t\t ^.l ""'"i "•"'^ ^^e officers of the said 
 
 The Speaker havi„g left ,h. Ch.ir, Mr. William Morri. ,e™„,ed the eh.ir of the Committee 
 Ji^d^ri-erer-""' "'■ "••'"• "'>»"»- "■« ■*»' -'■-' —.l-ent. The rl,!« 
 
 "r<f;^i\Sr::;r:fi'pi^'thrs"Bir.Td .Tra."-' '"t"" "■"■"«>'• 
 
 read a thud time this day. ' *"° *hat the same be engrossed and 
 
 second t.me th.s day three n.onths, wSich ^^^cL'STnL^^^^^^^ ^« ^^^ ^ 
 
 (JNoTE— Thus, the Bill failed to pass.) 
 
 Tij;iS;;,;;s„-mi,rstiv?eSe°^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 C„,„m,tte.„n|^e Whole Ho».. Mr. jS KM^ IZ SSJSI'lVZir' ""'"" "' ' 
 
 was 
 
 Mr 
 House 
 
 i f 
 
 If 
 
 .ill 
 
274 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 ]829 
 
 The Houii IiHviiiK refiiiinud, Mr. 
 report was ordiirotl to l)u received. 
 
 Kotchuin ruiHirted the Hill without amoiidmeut. The 
 
 Captain .Foliii Mathews, Htcomled by Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, nioveH that the 41it 
 Rule of this Houho he .lispHUH, 1 with an far aH relate* to tlio Philan Uoliof Hill, and that the 
 lanie bo oiiKrotHod iitid read a third time, tliia day. Whieli was carried. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bill for the relief of Mr. Edward Thomjmon FJiilan 
 Common .Scliuol Tcachur, was read the third tirne and paHxed. ' 
 
 Captain .lohn MathowH, socondod by Mr. William Morris, movoa that the title of the Hill 
 bo " An Aot for the Ftolief of Edward Thompson Phihm," which was tarried ; and Mossieurs 
 John Mathews and James Wilson wore ordtTcd by the Speaker to carry the suno up to tlio 
 Honourable the Legislative Council, and to ro(|ue9t thoir concurrence thereto. 
 
 ■mh March, IS^U.—nr. William Buell, junior, from the Select Committee to carry ui. to 
 His Excellency the Addrers of this House on the subject of Education, reimrted having d<j., so 
 and that His Excellency had been pleased to make thereto the following answer ■— " » 
 
 Oentlemkn : 
 
 The Bills which are now before me for my assent, prevent my giving a due consideraticm 
 to the subject of this Address at present, but 1 shall direct my attention to it during recess. 
 
 Government Housk, 
 
 York, 20th of March, 18-29. 
 
 Mth Mar'h, 1S2'.K—Uv. William Buell, junior, from the Select Committee on Education 
 informed the House that the Committee had agreed to several I{.'solutions which he was directed 
 to submit for ailoption to the Htmso, whenever it would Iw j)K;i8ed to receive the same The 
 Report WHS ordered to be received and the Resolutions were severally put and carried as fol- 
 lows : — 
 
 Resolmi, That the thanks of this House are due to His Majesty for his gracious intentions 
 in erecting and endowing a University in this Province. 
 
 Rt»<jlve.d, ThU much erroneous information has been communicated to His Majesty's 
 Government upim tha^ subject, under which misinf .rmation this House apprehends the Char- 
 ter was granted, with iirovisions not suited to the condition and wishes of the people, for whoso 
 benefit it was intended. 
 
 liesoh'ed. That it is inexpedient that the (iovornor, Lieutenant-Governor, or i)erson 
 administering the Government of t!iis Provinca for the time being, should be Chancellor of the 
 said University, because all such responsible situations should be tilled by person.-* who are 
 amenable to some tribunal for their public conduct. 
 
 man 
 
 Resohed, That the provision requiring the President of the said University to be a clergy. 
 
 in holy orders of the United Church of Kngland and Ireland, and to hold his ottice during 
 pleasure is highly inexpedient, because, in the only seminary of general It-arning in the country 
 all collegiate ottices and literary rewards should be conscientiously awarded according to moral 
 and intellectual merit ; should be enjoyed under no dependent tenure and should bo held forth 
 88 incentives to all candidates for academic honours, without making such honours subservient 
 to favoritism. 
 
 Resdred, That it is for the above reasons highly inexpedient, tliat the Archdeacon of York 
 for th« time bein^, by virtue of his ottice, should be at all times President of the said University! 
 
 Resob^, That the provision refpiiring the President and the seven professors, constitutin ' 
 the College Council, to be members of the said Established United Church of England and 
 Ireland, and to subscribe the Thirty-Nine Articles, is highly inexpedient. 
 
 Resolved, That the Chancellor, President, and Members of the Council, the Professors and 
 other Teachers of the said University ought, after the organization of the same, to be elected by 
 a Senate, composed of the Members of the Council and others, who have taken a degree in the 
 said University above Bachelor of Arts, having their names on the books of the Ccdlege such 
 election to be made from the graduates of the ^lid University, or from the graduates of the 
 Universities of Kngland, Ireknd, or Scotland, of sufficient stending in their respective Uni- 
 versities to be mndidates for such oflice, or trust. 
 
 ResolKd, That it would be exi)edient that the Chancellor elect of the said University should 
 preside in a court, with powers, jurisdiction and proceedings, c..rre8j)onding to those possessed 
 by the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in his court, so far as to enable him, assisted 
 by th^ Ch!!-f .l!-,a! !.'■.". r.f fhr. Kir.g^;? Bench f t the time being, to hoar, try, and deLerminu any 
 appeal to his c-urt by any i.erson whatever, suspended by any authority from his otiice in the 
 said University. 
 
 i..«^kfca.aA:;ii ji:...r.-i*i -Ak 
 
UDA. 
 
 1829 
 
 Chap. XLVJI. EDUCATJOBTAL ntOCEKDINCS OF LEOISLATURB OF U. C, 1829. 275 
 
 b atneiuimont. Tim 
 
 iiDveii that the 41it 
 )f Hill, Biitl thiit the 
 
 d 'I'hoinpBon Fhilan, 
 
 tho titlo of thu Hill 
 ied ; and MoiHieurH 
 the Btmu up to thu 
 ■o. 
 
 ittoo to carry up to 
 rted having «li).. , so, 
 iwer • — 
 
 ; A due consideration 
 : during recosH. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 ittoe on Education, 
 liich he WHS diivcted 
 i)ive the aanio. The 
 t and carried as fol- 
 
 I gracious intentions 
 
 . to His Majesty's 
 )prohond8 the (Jhar- 
 le people, for whose 
 
 overnor, or jHsrson 
 le Chanc'lJor of the 
 oy person- who are 
 
 rsity to be a clersry 
 old his office during 
 ling in the country, 
 according to moral 
 ihould be held forth 
 hono^r8 subservient 
 
 irchdeacon of York, 
 the said University. 
 
 Fessors, constituting 
 ch of England and 
 
 the Professors and 
 ne, to be elected by 
 ken a degree in the 
 f tho Oidlege, such 
 le graduates of the 
 eir respective Uni- 
 
 d University should 
 i to those, possessed 
 inahle him, assisted 
 Mill deturmnio any 
 m his cffice in the 
 
 thosot^'i:^Sl'L^r'Si7Mne^A!;1c&rt/ ^^'^^r ,vt'f ^"n^^' '-""«-' *« 
 
 Knglun.! a. ' Ireland, but th H 2uld le nV i. iV V^ '""' y'"'"*' ^'*""''' "' 
 
 (Jhristi.u, f Jth, shall/after .iue a. I inilT.nK ^^ f Kraduate., who. professing the 
 
 said [Jn.ver.it;. evince the classica H li^ J m «"'*'"""'♦"'"» '» *»»> l-I'lio school, of the 
 ac,,uired by candidate. J'.l-suran honour. ' '''"' ''"'''""« '""' '"''«--»'i"'". l"-"l'er to be 
 
 the e^i^iSil'^^iJ^iuilL^rlzii;'!':" iT^'vr^ ? V"°*''""' ^'^'-^^ --« -"--• ^o 
 
 manner as the ch^ssic. i,, the Jmvor i'tv f X l'r„(..,ov out of the H.ble. in the same 
 
 out of standard authors, leavi ,7 LS ,,» v U f " I"" "V,"'"!;^'! "I'"", an.l taught any ...ience 
 Hil.lir.tl Cntioisn., Theo o„y Kv i.l 'ncef , hL^^^^ /^^ <" *'''J f^"-" '"«'<"•«. ""ly i" lecturing on 
 hr;.,.ulH.Hof learn ng L y^h^ a , te^io S^^ ^"T\ """,'"^' 'V' ^^hatover collateral 
 
 he obviated the principal^difHc K annrelTen.h^ l^^ ''"'^ ""^^ ' ''>', "'"^•'' •"^•''"'' """'^l 
 
 of students profLsing'^he f-u^ oniCSil:;;l.!;;:;^,;!;:r';^L';:;;;:r'" '""« "'" '""''■""^"" 
 «.i.. v:^:ii^^!'^;^:zz:^:s^:::^ '' ^"^ '^^^^^ «•-• « -'-'- ^'--ter .. the 
 
 iial 
 hly 
 
 suspem 
 obs 
 
 '^l^trS:u::n\7'::^i:ii!]:!::^^t^^ -otanan princples. and une,, 
 
 expedient to follow theii^nstXnand"no3e,.Trt//cti^^^^^ T "''•^'""' *' '" '"«'>1>^ 
 
 n,odificati<.ns as experience nu»y point out! ' ""''""« ''"'" *""« *" t'»'« ""^'h 
 
 wisdoln t:^;!^;:ie:;li^•tI:i"if::::;^'::f 'Sirs^^i^""' ni'^ --i-t m those to who.e 
 
 observance c,fecon.,my in thrwhTsv^stl,2hn^^^ be contided : without a strict 
 
 professors of acknowledged Uv^LTuZ-o^^^^^^^ ^""'''- *''^'*'" "'"1 ^'^J'""! 
 
 which wouM n.erge the reward of honour i,^^h^^1^^ that extravagance 
 
 without nmking gran<leur JSenl ^d ,., earann , ' H ,*^''l'^''-''"»';.'» "^ pe.un.i.ry gainf and 
 tiouH utility, the university cannot KainmLrcST, '"'7>«''':'|" P'-'"-'!''^'^! '"'d o.tenta- 
 His Majesty. ^ ^ ' '^"'' '-'"'»'«^-n'-'" or realize the gra.-'.us intentions of 
 
 pe^nirt'W^ruVns'^fllTs'L'SU'to "put To on" T'''^^^ "' '""^ P^-n^ Charter will 
 lervanceof those liheral princi.Swhic ulTcXntT f'^^^T'T ^""^'" ' " '""^' ^y the 
 and recommend, to ..pen. with a. 1 tt e dS/.v „f ' '^".^ '"'' '''^^'''^^ P''"'"«^ *" patronize 
 
 inferior to those contelaplaterby'hepl^po^elfuniSv* '''''^"'■^-"^'- "^ -'"--'" "'^ way 
 
 present^lt' H.f £eCT'itietna?Sv\n;^ ?^" l^-'»''« -Address be 
 
 House on the subject of the University Charter TV . the foregoing Resolutions of this 
 
 Speaker, „rai..,f<,ll„w,,:-'" "'"' "'» """' ""'»■ I"""! Md .ignod by Ihe 
 
 T« m, &„«,„, Sir J.kn Colbor,^, K. O.B., ii.,.fc„„„(.Se»r,»r ./ Upper C^a.lu, *, , 
 May it Pi.ease Your Excellency : 
 
 pariir;:;„T:sSbS'hS; ?:' X'^^tfiitv^^ t ^^^^^ ^-^^-^ ^-vinci^i 
 
 accompanying' this a.ldress ; and^ve furC hum 1 17 \"»vourablc attention to the resolutions 
 
 Excellency has nmnifested K^rtJm promc t . n o "ej'ucatioa KThf^'pf ""^ '°'' '^' "''''''' y^^ 
 the wishes, feelings and genius of the people "''"''*""" '" ^^'^ Provu.ce, m a way suited to 
 
 Commons House of A.ssembly Marshall S. Bidwell, 
 
 20th March, 1829. ' Speaker. 
 
 was himself a M7m'b;"rT,r\hriQnTversitv"of Camhri^ll !l''f{'*'^ ^^^ ^^^ Honourable John Rolph, who 
 
 therefore, who had any Personal kno:?e'fc'fEn""i'!'^^'„i::Ji^ '" the House of Arembly: 
 
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 276 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 182& 
 
 Mr. Dickson from the Select Committeo appointed to present to His Excellency the Addres* 
 of this House, with the Resolutions relative to the University, reported having done so, and that 
 His Escollency had given thereto the following answer : 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 I thank you for this addiess and I shall not fail to give immediate attention to the Resolutions 
 which acconipany it. 
 
 The Bills which are now before me for niy assent., prevent my giving a due consideration to 
 the subject of this Address, and accompt.nying Resolutions, at present, but 1 shall direct my atten- 
 tion to it during the recess. 
 
 J. C 
 Government Hocse, ' 
 
 YoKK, 20th of March, 1829. 
 
 2. Educational Proceedings of the Le;gislative Council in 1829. . 
 
 The Legislative Council met on the 8th of January, 1829, when the Honour- 
 able James Baby presented his Commission from the Lieutenant-Governor as 
 Speaker of the Council. 
 
 On the 9th of January His Excellency Sir John Colborne opened the first 
 session of the Tenth Parliament of Upper Canada with the usual Speech from the 
 Throne, in which the passages relating to education are inserted on page 259. 
 
 The Members of the Legislative Council during this Session were the Honour- 
 able James Baby, Speaker; the Honourable and Venerable Archdeacon John 
 Strachan ; the Honourable Messieurs William Cisimpbell, Chief Justice ; William 
 Dummer Powell, ex-Chief Justice, since 1825 ; John McGill, Thomas Clark, 
 William Dickson, Neil McLean, George Crookshank, Angus Mcintosh, Joseph 
 Wells, Duncan Cameron, George H. Markland, John Henry Dunn, Thomas Ridout,. 
 William Allan, Peter Robinson, Charles Jones and James Gordon. 
 
 Of these nineteen members, six were absent during the session. The names 
 of those who took part in the educational proceediiigs of the Council are not 
 given in its Journal, as its mode of proceedure did not require the names of the 
 movers and seconders of the motions to be given. 
 
 Tho Members of the Council who were office holders during 1829 were the 
 Honourables Messieurs James Baby, Inspector- General ; William Campbell, Chief 
 Justice ; John Henry Dunn, Receiver-General ; Thomas Ridout, Surveyor-General ; 
 Joseph Wells, Bursar of King's College; Duncan Cameron, Provincial Secretary; 
 William Allan, Post Master, etc.* 
 
 The Honourable John henry Dunn was a native of England. He came to 
 Canada in 1820, having been appointed Receiver-General of Upper Canada, and a 
 
 •In reply to enquiries fr-m Sir Georate Murray, Colonial Secretary, in regard to the Constitution of 
 the Leffislative Council, etc., Sir John Colboin<i, the Lieutenant-Governor, under date of the 16th of Feb- 
 ruary, 1829, thus referred to this «ame Legislative Council, as then constituted :— " Composed as the Legis- 
 lative Council is at present, the Province has a right to complain of the greit influence of the Executive 
 Government in it. The Legislative Council consists of seventeen Member', (exclusive of the Bishop of 
 Quebec,) ; of these not more than fifteen ever attend their Legislative duties. Thus, out of the number 
 
 iy0nnral)v iir«tKn,ife aiv i&ro <if f}iA T^vAniifitm .1<^,,noi1 >.n>1 f^n*. 1.^^1.1 <aW4»» ..mJ». t-U^ o . i. t.. ? 
 
 r- • ' • '■- -— - ^— .»,»-«.,-. w, — .......... ...... {..... ,.,r- ..,t> ,nf ....r" T,T','rr-i liriicilt. xt X- 
 
 exceedingly difficult to find persons qualified for it (the Councir. But if eight or ten more can be selected 
 from different parts of the Province, and the majority be considered independent, there can be no good 
 reason assigned for excluding the Expc\itive Council." 
 
ADA. 
 
 182» 
 
 Bllency the Addresft 
 i done BO, and that 
 
 . to the Resolutions 
 
 ie consideration to 
 all direct my atten- 
 
 J. C. 
 
 L IN 1829. . 
 
 en the Honour- 
 Qt-Qovernor as 
 
 pened the first 
 speech from the 
 n page 259. 
 
 sre the Honour- 
 chdeacon John 
 istice ; William 
 rhomas Clark, 
 Intosh, Joseph 
 ["homas Ridout,^ 
 
 a. The names 
 iouncil are not 
 3 names of the 
 
 1829 were the 
 :;arapbell, Chief 
 v^eyor-General ; 
 cial Secretary ; 
 
 He came to 
 Canada, and a 
 
 the Constitution of 
 of the leth of Feb- 
 poBfld M the Leffis- 
 e of the ICxecutive 
 e of the Bishop of 
 out of the number 
 
 -* .. Ti. ?- 
 
 .Tvrriuuirilt., XV IM 
 
 ore can be selected 
 re can be no good 
 
 Chap. XLVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C, 1829. 277 
 
 member of the Executive and Legislative Councils. He held the office of Receiver- 
 General until the union of the Provinces in 1841, and soon afterwards returned 
 to England, where he died in 1854. He was a most estimable public officer. His 
 son, Colonel Dunn, greatly distinguished himself during the Crimean War, and, 
 on his visiting Canada soon afterwards, was received with great enthusiasm, and 
 & handsome sword was presented to him. 
 
 Ijth January, 1829.~ln the answer of the Legislative Council to the Speech of His 
 Excellejicy the Lieutenant-Governor at the opening of%he Legislature the follSfpaLfel 
 
 Notwithstanding that Your Excellency considers the organization of the Public Schools 
 susceptible of improvement, and hopes that measures will be adopted to reform the Ro^al 
 ifnT^-^'iS''"^' ^"'^.^ '"''orporate it with the University recently Ldow^d by His Mafesty 
 " rece iTlTb^rTand eTtlnl'''"'"'''^ T'" "P**" *« **>« ^^"^^ '''"^^ Prtte theTeaS 
 :5;anS;Zr lirar^^re^^V/rn^re^Lnr" ""' '' " '^'^^ '""'^"^ '° '^^™ '"** '"^ 
 
 mh January, i«f9.-The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read. 
 
 A Message from His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor was delivered by Mr Secretary 
 fdlofs':- ' ^"^ '"''"'^' '^' '''""^'' ''^^ '^' "'*'"«' ^»d it was again read X the ClertS 
 
 J. COLBORKB : 
 
 i.U\I!!\\u^'^^'''"'V-^ ^"""u ^^'^8 constituted President of the College, by virtue of his office 
 to tteTLi3frr * incu.nbent is eminently qualihed for that importfn appo ntment) appeS 
 Sncewtddderiveb^^^^^^^^^^ ^k'"^ the Charter, and he thinkt thatthrPro 
 
 thrSoustest sne^^^^^^^ Professors being declared eligible to the Council without 
 
 Slr?rth:?etrarArt:Lnd"L''u"'"'^ ^'^'"^ '\' ^^S^-« °^ BaclXfMaS a^S 
 
 fe^ion " """'""' "'"* *^" ""^•^^ '^^"^ fit ^»'- ^^^ l^niversity, or for anj Si 
 
 r>,.t ?n n"^' "I IT^ a School is felt and acknowledged everywhere ; and he is fully persuaded 
 that a College of th.s kind co-operating with the senior King's Co lege, would roduce that 
 which 18 most required in the Province : religion, knowledge and good taste ' ' 
 
 Government House, 
 
 York, 19th January, 1829. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 ^2na January, i*^9.-The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read. 
 
 Addilss^^Terntld to m^'/.? n 8*^^"""?" ^'f * ^' ^1"' "'' ^""^''y "«'^^' •""-« <*" humble 
 Aamess De presented to His Excellency the Lioutenaut-Govern-.r, praying that His Excellonov 
 
 CoTe7e ^'^ ^^ ««''«'«'nent relative to any alterations in the Charter of Kilig's 
 
 the nf?f{?H""*'' -'^^^^ -The House met pursuant to adjournment. Pursuant to the Order of 
 the win J r'' "^"^ P"* "'""r Committee of the Whole on the Messatje from His Exillency 
 ?oni t.?k the Sr"" '"P"''"^ '^' ^""■'^"•'^ "^ ^'"»'« ^°"««- Th'e Honourable ChaS 
 
 ii 
 
t*f 
 
 TTS 
 
 t)OCUJ«ENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPRR CANADA. 
 
 182D 
 
 fe.U^;^?^ '"r^« *'™« **'« House resumod. snd the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 fc.ken the said MesH^go into C()nsideration. had made some progress therein, and asked leave fo 
 SI ^again on Monday next. Ordered, that the Report be received, and leave grTted accord" 
 
 fh«f?^*nl!'''f the Day for an Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Oovernor, praying 
 that he will bo pleased to be caused to be laid before thi. tfouse a copy of such InstrucCaf 
 of S- p'lr'' K '* ^'■'"" ^}\^^i''^y} Government relative to anv alterations iS the Charrer 
 Monday nexl^^"' ^'"^ '' ' """" "'^"''^ ^^"'' '^ ^" discharged, and that the .ame sUnd foj 
 
 •n^Jlf «''"""■''• ^f.'\-'^^}? Minutes of Friday were read. Pursuant to the Order «-f the 
 Day the Hoiise went into a Committee of the Whole on the Message of His KxcXncv the 
 Lieutenant-Governor, received on the 19th ultimo, respecting the cLrter of KiS Seue 
 The Honourable Charles Jones tock the chair. »- & "' ^^'"K ■ ^voutge. 
 
 After soiiio time the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the said Message into consideration, had made some progress therein, a^nd asked leave to 
 ::,coSgir ^^*^*^-«^»y ""*• ordered, that the Report b'e received, 'rd leave granted 
 
 Pursuant to notice, it was moved and seconded that it be 
 
 Besolved, That an humble Address be presented to His Excellency the Lieutenant 
 
 ?o"Jl"'7 '"'^T'?^ '^"^ ^' ^'^^^^ P^''^'^ ^« ^i^^''' *»>« Pr^P^'- officer to kJbSore thU Hrsa 
 copies of any Instructions or other communications which he m.y have received fiom His 
 
 An^'!:::';J:^l^^^[^:!^,^- ^« '^^^-^^^ --^^^ ^^ ^^^ P-»^ i-tanc. 
 Ite.solved, That an humble Address be presented to His Excellency the Lieutenmft 
 ?ZZZ' P'^y^"? *»>*^1^« ^il' be pleased to cause to be transmitted to thTs^o^e copfe of any 
 Instructions or other documen s, which he may have received from His Majesty's Government 
 
 t7ve and it i:, ■■'" ^"^" ''""'^" ''''' "''"'' '^'"« ^"^' '' "^ carU in the affi'ma 
 
 Ordered, That Messieurs Thomas Clark and Charles Jones be appointed a Committee to 
 present the said Address to His Excellency. v^ommiuec to 
 
 4th February, 1829.~Tho House met pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read. 
 
 Ri. p'l'l.I?''"*'"r^*''^T 7^""'"^ ^}^^^' f'^™ the Committee appointed to present an Address to 
 St J t!. hT'i^ ' Lieutenant-Governor, praying that he will be pleased to c^use to be trau^ 
 mitted to this House copies of any Instructions, or other documents which he may have received 
 from His Majesty's Government relative to the Charter of King's College, reported tEhev 
 had done so, and that His Excellency was pleased to make the following reply? ^ 
 
 Qbntlemen : 
 
 Such extracts of Despatches from His Majesty's Government respecting the Charter of 
 Kujg s College as I am authorized to transmit to the Legislative CouncU shafl be laid before 
 
 Government Horga, 
 
 YoHK, 4th February, 1829. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 MessIJe ?f'^Hi^^l''^V''^ ^"I'^'t "T® ^^^ ^^ P"* '"'^*' '' Committee of the Whole on the 
 Message of His Excellency .he Lieutenant-Governor, received on the 19th ultimo, respecting 
 the University of Ku-g's College, being read, it was respecung 
 
 Ordered, That it be discharged, and the same stand for Friday next, 
 delivirld Iw M^'^ i6'^9. -A Message from His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor wa« 
 
 J. COLBORNE : 
 
 ;i »k. 
 
 The T.ieuten«nt-Governor informa th« Lefiala^^^ivo D/. .._. ,^ __ 
 
 ^H^r.h/p?!:"""""*' |l»\'n«J'?^«''«n«« to the tirm. of the University Chart^r'wcentirg^nt^^ 
 Z n '*"' P**'*'""- "".that subject cannot with propriety be separated from other toji^ which 
 the De8i)atches from His Majesty's Government embrace. 
 
K. 
 
 182D 
 
 le Comniittee had 
 ,nd asked leave tu 
 I granted accnrd- 
 
 fovemor, praying 
 ih Instructions as 
 ns in the Charter 
 he ittme stand f(jr 
 
 the Order of the 
 « Rxcellency the 
 ■ King's College. 
 
 e Comniittee had 
 nd asked leave to 
 id leave granted 
 
 the Lieutenmnt- 
 )efore this Hoiisa 
 ceived from His 
 leing put, it was 
 
 )resent instance. 
 
 ;he Lieutenant- 
 use copies of any 
 ty's Government 
 id in the affirma 
 
 a Comniittee to 
 
 ites were read. 
 
 it an Address to 
 itise to be trans- 
 ay have received 
 )orted that they 
 
 the Charter of 
 be laid before 
 
 J. C. 
 
 Whole on the 
 imf>, respecting 
 
 r-Qovemor was 
 une, and it was 
 
 cently granted, 
 er topiofl which 
 
 Chap. XL VII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINQS OF LEGISLATDRE OF U. C, 1829. 
 
 27» 
 
 tions in tC ,t L Cha 7; ^'''^T' ".TT*" '^^^ LegisUti.e Council that the representa- 
 S, and tL Ts^di^red to rrL^*r«^ *f' 'TT^ *^*«"""" "^ «'» Majesty's Cover n- 
 opinions tb." . ^beexDressod hv hi T .ir«t'«" before then. ; and he is assur^ that the 
 to i^eive a >. .pt !ueE ^ '^' Legislative Council and House of Assembly will not faU 
 
 GOVBRNMBNT HoUSE, 
 
 York, 13th February, 1829. 
 
 3. 0. 
 
 Th^ questio'n being ?ut, it w'a,carVled7n t^^^^^ ''"'' '''' ^""'^ ^« •*'«^'''"^^'^'^- 
 
 16fh Febr.u.ry 18,9 The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read. 
 
 on the" MTslg^ ^ ^ m^L1e;,tc^;Ih:'L•^„^nanT^^^^'" ^"^ '"^^ ' ^i"""-^^- "^ ^^« ^^^'^ 
 respecting the Charter of tSlSiStv o£Tr,?''''"''''.Pu^^^^^ "" *^« ^^^'^ "1"™"' 
 took the chair. Lniveis.ty of King s College. The Honourable Charles Jonoi 
 
 taken^SsS Mrage'int^orn^EaS r^ '"^^ ^---"- '-<i 
 
 sit again on Thursday next? wTich was gmntd ''"' ^'"'''"' '^''''"^ "'"^ '^'^'^ '«^^« *° 
 
 Chanlfe^^rd^nlf'tre^^ltTATsL^blvrf '"^ "^"r;. P^^^^' '"^^''^^ *'-*--- 
 CouncilLveldoptedtheReport of theSnffr f*r'^"*;"'='^^^ House th t the Legislative 
 the Library of thl two HoS S the LegislSe Conference on the subject of increasing 
 
 Whore"rThVVi'sL^^1^''HL'F,>' '^^?T ^-^ ''^'''■" ^^' i«^" - Committee of the 
 
 J. COIBOKNE : 
 
 GOVERNMKM HoUSE, 
 
 York, 20th February, 1829. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 (NoTE.-Thi8 Report of the President of the General Board of Educatiou 
 for Upper Canada will be found in extenao on pa^es 265-268 ) 
 
 papers. Ordered, that the Report be received ' ^^ P"*"' "^ """"^ ^°'" P^"^"'' *°d 
 
 Ordered, That Messieurs Robert Dickson, Joseph Wells Georffe H MarL-Un^ p .. 
 Robinson and Charles Jones be appointed a Committei therefor ^ Markland, Peter 
 
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 DOCUMBMTART HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1829 
 
 •i, 
 
 in . 
 
 A Message from the House of Commons with two Bills, being announced, the Chairman 
 left the chair, and the House formed. 
 
 Thb House was again put into a Committee of the Whole on the Bill intituled : " An Act 
 to Incorporate me Trustees of the Grantham Academy." The Honourable William Allan took 
 the chair. 
 
 A Message from the House of Assembly with a Bill, being announced, the Chairman left 
 the chair and the House formed. 
 
 The House was again put into a Committee of the Whole on the Bill intituled "An Act 
 to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy." The Honourable William Allan took 
 the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 lAken the said Bill mto consideration, had made some progress therein, and asked leave to sit 
 agam on Monday next. Ordered, That the Report be received, and leave granted accordingly. 
 
 1 *. .^ Messige from His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor being announced, the Chairman 
 left the chair, and the House formed. 
 
 A Message from His fixcellency the Lieutenant-Governor was delivered by Secretary 
 Mudge. who being retired, the Speaker re^d the same, and it was again read by the Clerk as 
 follows : — 
 
 J. COLBORNE : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the Honourable the Legislative Council the Annual 
 Report of the state of the Western District School. 
 
 J C 
 
 ■GOVBRNMBNT fioUSB. ' * 
 
 York, 5th March, 1829. 
 
 (NoTB. — See note in regard to this Report on page 268.) 
 
 \ 
 
 *!, ?XT^'¥^*'"*'''' {'*^^-— Pursuant to the Order of the Day the House waa put into Committee of 
 the Whole on the Grantham Academy Trustee Incorporation Bill, the Honourable William 
 Allan in the chair. 
 
 u "^^*if '^ some time the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the said Bill into consiuoration, had made some progress therein, and asked leave to sit 
 agam on Thursday next. Ordered, That the Report be received, and leave granted accordingly. 
 IMh March, 1829.— The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read, 
 
 ,, P"r*^*n' \'^}^^ ^''^^^ of **>« Day, the House was put into a Committee of the Whole on 
 the Bill intituled : "An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy," the 
 Honourable William Allan m the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the Bill into consideration, am' had made some progress therein, and asked leave to sit 
 again on Monday next. Ordered, That the Report be received, and leave granted accordingly. 
 
 13th March, 1829.— Ordered, That on account of the indisposition of the Honourable Robert 
 Uickson, the H<mourable Thomas Clark be substituted for him in the Select Committee on the 
 Messages of His Kxcellency the Lieutenant-Governor, received on the 19th of January last on 
 the subject of the Charter of the University of King's College. 
 
 nth March, 1829.— The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read. 
 
 Ordered, That an address be presented to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor re- 
 questing that he will be pleased to permit the Clerk of the Executive Council and the Surveyor- 
 General to attend the Select Committee of this H.mse, to whom was referred His Excellency's 
 Messages relative to the University of King's College, to give information in regard of lands 
 granted for the University and for Schools in this Province ; and also to give information rela- 
 tive to the surveys of the several townships which have been referred to a committee as re(iuir- 
 mg Legislative enactment to establish their true boundaries. Ordered, That Messieurs Joseph 
 Wells and Charles Jones be appointed a Committee for that purpose. 
 
 16th March, 1829.— The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read. 
 
 XI- P'^ Honourable Joseph Welis, from the com-ittee appointed to present an Address to 
 His Excellency the Lieutenant-(iovemor requesting ...:\t he will be pleased to iipiniiih Hi« niork 
 of the Executive Council and the Survoyor-tJenerai to attend the Select Co'mmitteo of this 
 House to whom was referred His Excellency'v! Measagei relative to the University of King's Col- 
 ^ge, to give information in regard of lands granted for the University and for Schools in this 
 I'rovince; and also to give information relative to the surveys of the several townships which 
 
 I 
 
 ' 
 
IDA. 
 
 1829 
 
 Bd, the Chairman 
 
 tituled: "An Act 
 V^illiam Allan took 
 
 ,he Chairman left 
 
 bituled : " An Act 
 Villiam Allan took 
 
 le Committee had 
 asked leave to sit 
 mted accordingly. 
 
 ied, the Chairman 
 
 red by Secretary 
 d by the Clerk as 
 
 )uncil the Annual 
 J. C. 
 
 \ 
 
 into Committee of 
 nourable William 
 
 e Committee had 
 asked leave to sit 
 mted accordingly. 
 
 ites were read. 
 
 1 of the Whole on 
 a Academy," the 
 
 le Committee had 
 sked leave to sit 
 nted accordingly. 
 
 onourable Robert 
 
 lommittee on the 
 
 January last, on 
 
 utes were read. 
 
 int-Governor, re- 
 nd the Surveyor- 
 His Excellency's 
 1 regard of lands 
 information rela- 
 mittee as re(|uir- 
 ifessiours Joseph 
 
 tes were read. 
 
 it an Addi'ess to 
 permit the Clerk 
 munitteo of this 
 ity of King's Col- 
 r ScIiooIb in this 
 townships which 
 
 r 
 
 i 
 
 Chap. XLVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C. 1829. 
 
 281 
 
 have been referred to a Committaa <ia i-anm'^..^ t • i i- " 
 
 boundaries, reported that tLyhlS ZeToTn^d teHtS- '° n *'"'"' *" ^"*'^^'i'^ *^«^^ *'''« 
 following reply .— ' '°' *"** '"*' ^is Excellency was pleased to make the 
 
 J. COTBOBNK : 
 
 Clerk^oTtrExi^uSJe'crndl to^ttM^ ^-f^^ -*'"« Surveyor-General and the 
 
 in their power respecting the su%:S:"l'^llfrL^tlTA&^:^ "^ '^•'"' '"'"^ '"'^™**-'^ 
 
 GOVKRNMBNT HoDSE, J. 0. 
 
 ifoBK, 16th March, 1829. 
 
 Bill StS?:*^. An ASTot'ctn^o'^tftlfT""."''^ '^"V"*'^ * <^°™-^**«« «' the Whole on the 
 able William A llan"n the chaT ^ ^™''^''" "^ '^« Grantham Academy," the Honour- 
 
 made'^stme' amendrente'tErt^ "" whlch^hr'^ '^' Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 pleased to receive th:tmr0^de:erTht Se^ttttcTi^ed^^rmotow"""- ^-'^ '' 
 
 from't'S £mitteTotTh^"^i!l^n%h^^^^^^^^ P?' ff Honourable William Allan, 
 
 of the Grantham Academy," reported that thev ha, Iv "^f/"* ^° Incorporate the Trustees 
 made some amendments t£reto 3 recommenLS tl ? ^^^ i-*™*" '"*° consideration, had 
 House. Ordered, That the Sport be rSve^^^ " "^'^ amendments to the adoption of the 
 
 The said amendments were then read by the Clerk as follows :— 
 Prew 3, line 12.- After the word " land " in.ert " with the " 
 IZl I' 'Z^'^!''' ''I"""' " •^«-'^''— '^ " '— t the word, " hereto appertaining." 
 
 P ' line irT"" .7"' " '" " ""' '""^ ^"'^ " *'^« " --* *»»« word ^every." 
 
 rress 4, nne 11.— Expunge the word " other." 
 
 whoi;K!.iraffcufc* o;i??.^.tS?t ru^b*^^!^'' authority aWaid. that no person 
 
 ment orbyan Aetof the Leginlature of thisTott s^a^/^P ^^^^^^^^ *•]« B"^'''*' P^rii" 
 
 AsMBtantin the aiid Academy." rrovmce. shall be capable of bemff a Teacher or Master or 
 
 to belaid before him, and the officersTf the said ttd^viiehr'h/H*^ .^L\ "''^'^ T*^' »°<J "> '«^««« 
 sition, the rulBH, regulations and by-laws thereof andTlLf! n«'^«''y ^'reeled to comply with such requi- 
 mentof the number of scholars in atterdanceaWthrd,*^^^^^ him with a correct report or state- 
 the said Academy. Provided always that ^othh./hereincoSJ'^^^ ""^^ **»« ^^^ »«ed i" 
 
 Sa^rnr^attd^su"^.-^ 
 
 .nd tt7S:nVer„VpTt ifwV^^^^^^^ - *hesame be put to-morrow, 
 
 currence in each of th'e S ameLTnts b^ ^ut to mctr '^''"''' ^''^' ''"' ^"^^^''°" ^'^ *=- 
 
 on the't^'Sg' i.Sd~men"rtVe" s'lUntureV'^'^'f ^ T^^""" "f concurrence was put 
 the Grantham Academy " intituled . An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of 
 
 ^.^^ The question of concurrence being put on the first amendment, it was carried in the «ffirma. 
 affirnTatU"'"*''" '^ concurrence being put on the second amendment, it was carried in the 
 affi Jativr'''^'" °^ concurrence being put on the third amendment, it was carried in the 
 affirluvr""^"" "^ '^'^"^^urrence being put on the fourth amendment, it was carried in the 
 ^.^^ The c,uestion of concurrence being put on the fifth amendment, it was carried in the nega- 
 timctSJw''* '^' amendments be engrossed and that the Bill as amead.d bo read a third 
 lOth March 18,, The House n.et pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read 
 
^<ife»ii: 
 
 llWril lM IM 
 
 III 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTOBY OF EDUCATIOX IN UPPEll CANADA. 
 
 182» 
 
 House be now again put into a Committee of the Whole on the same. The House was again 
 put into a Committee of the Whole on the Bill intituled : " An Act to Incorporate the Trustees 
 of the Grantham Academy," the Honouniblo William Allan in the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed, and the Cnairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the said Bill into consideration, and had made further amendment thereto, which they 
 recomme ided to the adoption of the House. Ordered, That the Report be received. 
 
 The said amendment was then read by the Clerk as follows : 
 
 After the Ia»t clausfi insert " And be it further enacted by the authoiity aforesaid, that the President 
 of thd General Board of Education, for the time being, shall have powc.T and authority to visit the said 
 Academy once m each and every year, and to reeiuire to be laid before him, and the officers of the said 
 Academy are hereby directed to comply with such requisition, tlie rules, regulations and by-laws thereof, 
 and alHo to furmsh him with a correct report or sUtemnot of the number of scholars in attendance, and of 
 the different branches Uughf and the books used in the said Academy. Provide! always, that nothing 
 Jierein contained shall be construed to authorize the said President of the General Board of Education in 
 any manner to interfere with the government of the said Academy." 
 
 The question of concurrence being put on the said amendment, it was agreed to by the 
 House, and it was ordered, That the 44th Rule of the House be dispensed with 
 during the remainder of the session, and that thr said amendment be engrosssed and the Bill, 
 as amended, be read a third time this day. 
 
 The Honourable George H. Markland, from the Select Committee, to whom was referred the 
 Message of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the 19th of January last, respecting the 
 Charter of the University of King's College, presented their report as follows :— 
 
 To the Speaker of the Legislative Cowncil:. 
 
 The Select Committee, to whom was referred the Message of His Excellency relative to the 
 Charter of King's College, beg leave to report the following Resolutions : — 
 
 Resolved, That on examining the Charter of King's College, your Committee find by one of 
 its provisions that the Arch-deacon of York is constituted, by virtue of his office, the President 
 of the University. 
 
 Your Committee are of opinion that it would benefit the Institution to render this high 
 situation less exclusive, and its interests would be sufficiently promoted by declaring that the 
 President must necessarily be a Clergyman of the Church of England, in Holy Orders. 
 
 Resolved, That in order to place the Establishment on a more open and liberi. i footing, it is 
 desirable that no test should he required from members of the Council. 
 
 Resolved, That in order to obtain a preparatory Seminary, it is expedient to connect the 
 Royal Grammar School with the University, as a Minor College ^ but in the infancy of the 
 Establishment, before it has commenced the business of Education, they cannot recommend 
 interfering with the Endowment granted by the Royal Bounty. 
 
 All of which is humbly submitted by Order of the Committee. 
 
 Committee Room, Legislative Council Chamber, 
 March 19th, 1829. 
 
 Thomas Clark, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Ordered, That the Report be received, and that the House be put inlo a Committee of the 
 Whole on the same this day. 
 
 Pursuant t« Order, the House was put into a Committee of the Whole on the Message of 
 His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, of the 19th January last, on the subject of the Charter 
 of ths University of King's College, The Honourable Dimcan Cameron took the chair. On a 
 question of order, the Chairman left the chair, and the House formed. His Honour, the 
 Speaker, was called upon to decide whether the Honourable Joseph Wells was in order in read- 
 ing his Spec jh. His Honour, the Speaker, decided that, having received the permission of the 
 Oommittee, he was in order. 
 
 The House was again put into a Committee of the Whole on the Message of His Excellency. 
 
 After a time the House resumed, the Chairman reported that the Committee had taken the 
 Report of the Select Committee on the Message of His Excellency into consideration, and 
 recom:nended it to the adoption of the House. Ordered that the Report be received. 
 
 The <ju«dtioii of concurrence being put on the first resolution, it was carried in the nogativo. 
 
 The question of concurrence being put on the second and third resolutions, they were carried 
 in the affirmative. 
 
. ;XTa'^-'5'.''':X'": t. ri'f-.f'f Wlf.y>f_' V*"^^ 
 
 3A. 
 
 182» 
 
 Chap. XLVII. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINQS OF LEGISLATURE OF U. C, 1329. 
 
 2S3' 
 
 House was again 
 rate the Triutoes 
 
 3 Committee had 
 peto, which they 
 sived. 
 
 ihat the Prenidont 
 y to visit the said 
 officers of the Haid 
 d by-laws thereu/, 
 attendance, and of 
 ray.1, that nothing 
 i af Elduoation in 
 
 igreed to by the 
 dispensed with 
 ed and the Bill, 
 
 was referred the 
 t, respecting the 
 
 y relative to the 
 
 se find by one of 
 e, the President 
 
 ender this high 
 3c1aring that the 
 )rder8. 
 
 rai footing, it is 
 
 } to connect the 
 ) infancy of tlie 
 not recommend 
 
 RK, 
 
 )hairman. 
 
 mmittee of th& 
 
 the Message of 
 t of the Charter 
 le chair. On a 
 is Honour, the 
 n order in read- 
 Tmission of the 
 
 His Excellency. 
 
 e had taken the 
 aideration, and 
 lived. 
 
 m the nogativa. 
 
 ey were carried 
 
 ^ fl 
 
 with amendment..^to which^S; ^e^Le^r^ott^eL^^ftt H^^^^^^ '''' «^"' 
 
 (N<)TE.-The Amendments made to the Grantham Academy Trustee- Incor- 
 poration Bill by the Legislative Council were rejected by the House of Assembly 
 on the 19th of March, 1829. [See page 273]) 
 
 drew. leacher, to which they requested the concurrence of this House and with- 
 
 (N0TE._This Bill was not considered, or proceeded with, by the Legislative 
 Council, as it was only sent up from the House of Assembly at live o'clock of 
 the day preceding the prorogation of the Legislature.) 
 
 mh March, 1829.-The House mot pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes were read 
 
 of H2lrc:n:n:rth:2rt:„t;rovro" ^:^i^rSi^'r'^ '''fr'' ^'^« ''^-''^^ 
 
 ?^tlrn?htM^etSH^^^^^^ 
 Iast.onthetJI:cp^?;LSr:!te^^^ 
 
 the .tlmlXl into coTde'Srirhad mal"""" "'"''^"^ 't' '""^ ^^'^^i"- ^'^^ ^^-- 
 again, which was granted *^ "'''^^ ''''"^ ^'''-'^'^ *^«'^«'"' ^""^ "^^ed leave to sit 
 
 able S;™iolrfn the':>hli;"'° **""" "'"* ^"'" """""^"^^ "^^ '"^^ ^"^ Message, the Honour- 
 
 passet/anlXs^trnL ESeTvThe'Ke^^ '"^P"^^^^ '"'-''' '\' Co™-ittee had 
 
 adoption of the House ''''*=®"^"*=y **>« Lieutenant-Governor and recommend the same to the 
 
 The said Address was then adopted by the House as follows :- 
 
 To His Hxcellemy the Lieute^utnt-Governor K.C.B., LieutautnUGovemor of Upper Canada, etc : • 
 May it ptEASE Your Excellency : 
 
 of UpS; ciSln^thi"p * **""•"/ ^^V'^y"^ «"^J«^^«' *h« Legislative Council of the Province 
 
 Legislative Council Chamber, '^^*'*''' ^t®^' , 
 
 20th of March, 1829. Speaker. 
 
 mitte^et prtsenf the'sa^"'"""' """"'"" ''''^'' ^"^"^ '^^ '-"^^ Henry Dunn be a Corn- 
 Address' to msTxieVer;' "^'"^ '"" '^"^ '^'^ ^""""'"^^ ^^i'-^^^ *•>''* '"^-y had delivered the 
 
 wSch lirstiJ -'" ""^ ''°'"^ '^' ^'"'^'' "^ '^^ Legislature ^ith a Speech from the TJir^ie: i" 
 I cannot close this Session without nmrAa.Jr.™ „,„ .. j-l-j. ^u , •" - • 
 
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 DOCUMFNTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
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 CHAPTER XLVIII. 
 
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 THE FOUNDING OF UPPER CANADA COLLEGE. 1829. 
 
 Nothing showed more distinctly the diflference as Colonial Governors, 
 between Sir Peregrine Maitland and his successor, Sir John Colborne, than the' 
 manner of their intercourse with, and treatment of, the popular branch of the 
 Legislature. 
 
 It is more than likely that the attitude assumed by Sir Peregrine Maitland 
 toward the House of Assembly, during the ten years of his administration, (as 
 shown in his despatches, and the accompanying addresses from the Legislature), was 
 distasteful to the Imperial Government. This may be gathered from the tenor of 
 the Despatch from Sir George Murray, (Colonial Secretary, and a former acting 
 Governor of Upper Canada) to Sir John Colborne, on his assuming the Lieuten- 
 ant-Govemorship-of Upper Canada. That Despatch contained a more than im- 
 plied censure on Sir Peregrine Maitland's administration of affairs, and an 
 almost imperative direction, couched in diplomatic language, that the vexed 
 questions of King's College Charter and the Clergy Reserves, then agitating 
 Upper Canada should be definitely submitted to the Legislature for its considera- 
 tion and judgment. 
 
 An example, drawn from the educational proceedings of both Governors will 
 be.st illustrate their mode of dealing with the House of Assembly. I leave out 
 of view the acts of the Legislative Council in this matter, because Sir Peregrine 
 Maitland's proceedings were largely, if not wholly, influenced by prominent Mem- 
 bers of that Body, who were also Members of his Executive Council. . (See page 276.) 
 In 1820, without consulting the House of Assembly, and even without its 
 knowledge. Sir Peregrine Maitland established at York the first of a number of 
 elementary schools, which he designed to be put into operation in various places of 
 Upper Canada. This was designated the National Church of England " Central 
 School ;" and for its support he appropriated part of the proceeds of the University 
 endowment fund to the extent of about £300 sterling a year. The Home Govern- 
 ment was slow to recognize this departure from constitutional practice, as under- 
 stood in England, and did not give its consent to the project until three years 
 alter the " Central School " was put into operation. The action of Sir Peregrine 
 Maitland and his Council in this matter was repudiated by the House of Assembly, 
 and referred to it as an unwarrantable invasion of the right of that House to deal 
 with and to appropriate the revenues of the Province. (See page 247.) 
 
 Sir John Colborne, no doubt aware of this unwise proceeding on the part of 
 
 his predece^or. followed a verv rliffpronf. Uno r.f r^^i;««, :^ «„ :__ _..i i • 
 
 --•• I'-^.tvj iii v;aiij-iu^ uui ilia 
 
 educational project. Being desirous of establishing a superior classical school, on 
 the model of the one which he had lately, as Governor there, resuscitated in the 
 
rADA. 
 
 Chap. XLVIII. THE FOUNDING OF UPPER CANADA COLLEGE, 1829. 
 
 285 
 
 S. 1828. 
 
 lial Governors, 
 Iborne, than the 
 kr branch of the 
 
 jgrine Maitland 
 ninistration, (as 
 legislature), was 
 'orn the tenor oF 
 t former acting 
 ig the Lieuten- 
 more than im- 
 kffairs, and an 
 phat the vexed 
 then agitating 
 r its considera- 
 
 Governors will 
 y. I leave out 
 I Sir Peregrine 
 'ominent Mem- 
 (See page 276.) 
 en without its 
 'f a number of 
 irious places of 
 land " Central 
 ;he University 
 Home Govera- 
 tice, as under- 
 ;il three years 
 Sir Peregrine 
 3 of Assembly, 
 House to deal 
 247.) 
 
 on the part of 
 ying out his 
 ical school, on 
 citated in the 
 
 If.l-.nd of Guernsey,— the School of Queen Elizabeth, or " Elizabeth College."— he 
 s : .itted the matter first in general terms to the legislature on its assembling 
 soon after his arrival in Upper Canada. He afterwards gave details. His pro^ 
 position was a moderate one: to the effect that the then existing District Grammar, 
 School in the Town of York— which, although known as The Old Blue School, 
 was, in the Public Accounts of 1827-28, designated as the " Royal Grammar 
 School,"* should be enlarged in its scope,— made the means of affording " a liberal 
 and extensive course of instruction," under " able Ma.sters," and " incorporated 
 with the University recently endowed by His Majesty," so as to prepare, as he 
 said to the Legislature, " men of education and acquirements for the support of 
 the laws, and of your free institutions." 
 
 So frank an appeal to good sense and patriotism of Members of the Legislature 
 had the effect desired by Sir John Col borne. Both Houses responded,— each in 
 its own way— to this appeal. The Legislative Council response was partly an 
 echo of the Governor's speech ; but it desired to know what were the Lieutenant- 
 Governor's " instructions " in the matter. The report of the House of Assembly 
 was fuller, and more comprehensive, and it was followed up by a distinct resolu- 
 tion, proposed by Mr. (afterwards so well known as the Honourable) Dr. John 
 Rolph, in which he referred to " the practicability of putting into early oppiration 
 a College opening to the youth of this country the means of receiving a liberal 
 and extensive course of instruction." 
 
 Under all the circumstances of the case, and considering the feeling of the 
 House of Assembly in regard to the Charter of King's College, it is more than 
 likely that Sir John Colborne hoped to solve, in the practical way which he pro- 
 posed, the educational difficulties which had arisen in regard to the Charter. 
 
 The Charter, he knew, was unacceptable in the Province. This the Home 
 Government also knew, but declined to modify it, on the ground that the Upper 
 Canada Legislature was more competent to suggest the necessary changes in it, 
 (which would take time to consider and make) than was the King's Government 
 Besides, the Lieutenant-Governor was aware that the endowment available 
 was quite insufficient to maintain a University satisfactorily, and, therefore, its 
 immediate establishment was impracticable. Whereas a " minor College," as pro- 
 posed, would meet the immediate wants of the country, and would, for the time 
 satisfy those in it who desired a University, pure and simple. 
 
 The educational feeling of the House of Assembly was not only favourable 
 to the establishment of the proposed preparatory College, but was desirous of 
 remedying the defects in the present system of Grammar and Common Schools. 
 For this purpose a Committee of the House on Education was appointed. Thi» 
 
 * In a brief report of this School in the Appendix to the JournalB of the House of Assembly for 1828 
 the Reverend Thomas Phillips, D. D., is stated to be " the Teacher of the Home District School at York, in 
 t.,,e , ri!V!r.."a !>. , 'p.;-#r Osnada, m eoiijuriction vf ith the Royu! Gijtiumar School, annexed thereto." The 
 number of pupils reported as "in tho Royal Grammar and District Scliool this day. the 13th March 1828 
 67." What was the nature of this dual cliaracter of The Old Blue Selwol does not appear. (See a reference 
 tothisroyal title on page 228, an<c.) . 
 
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 Committee brought in a comprehensive report, endorsinjr the proposal of estab- 
 Ushir)^ a " j.ermanent institution," to be nameti '• Colborne College," and making 
 several important suggestions for the improvement and expansion of the Crrammar 
 an<l Common Schools of the Province. This Report was unanimously adopted by 
 the House of Assembly, and was sent to the Lieutenant-Governor for his informa- 
 tion. The way, was therefore, thus opened for the Governor to carry out his pro- 
 ject ; and he was sure of the support of the House of Assembly in doing so. The 
 Legislative Council on the 19th of March, 1829, passed several resolutions to the 
 ^flect that while it " concurred in the esf "jlishmcnt of a preparatory seminary, 
 it could not, before it has commenced the business of education, recommeufl inter- 
 fering with the endowment granted by the Royal Bounty." The difference in 
 the temper of both Houses on this question is strikingly exemplified in their 
 attitude towards the Lieutenant-Governor. The House of Assembly was frank 
 and outspoken in its intercourse with him. The Legislative Council, on the other 
 hand, persistently urged the necessity of being informed of the Lieutenant- 
 Governors " instructions " from His Majesty's Government, on the subject, heiore 
 they could definitely " recommend interfering with the endowment granted by 
 the Royal Bounty." The Governor declined, (for the prudential reasons which 
 he gave), to accede to the requests of the Council, and to inform it of the nature 
 of his " instructions " in this matter. The Council, in return, declined to concur 
 in the Upper Canada College Bill passed by the House of Assembly in 1830. 
 
 Sir John Colborne, the Lieutenant-Governor, prorogued the Legislature on 
 the 20th of March, 1829. He immediately proceeded to give effect" to his pro- 
 ject of founding the " minor College," as an adjunc* to the proposed University. 
 On the 31st of the sane month he addressed the following letter to the Reverend 
 Doctor Jones, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, asking him to take 
 steps to select a principal and masters for the proposed College at York. Sir John 
 Colborne's letter was as follows*: — 
 
 My Dear Sir, — 
 
 I am about to impose on j'ou, I am afraid, an unreasonr.ble task, but, as I know you will 
 agree with me in thinking that there is no place in which education i. re.iuired more t,?be 
 encouraged taan in Upper Canad.. I trust that I may calculate on your assistance iu estab isli' 
 mg abeminary, which is destined to supply thoiatende.l University with students 
 
 I therefore will proceed in communicating my plan of obtaining, through 7our good offices 
 three Classical Masters and a Mathemaccal Master. We wisii the gentlemen," chat y, u mav be 
 able to enlist, forwardetl to Upper ( anada College before October ntfxt, if possible. 
 
 We shall call our College, The Upper Canada College The Head Master shall be styled the 
 
 The Principal will have a fixed salary at six hundred pounds (£CO0) sterling per annum 
 He wdl be provided with a home, allowe<l t.. take boarders, and will regulate the stuEt^"" the 
 whoe school, which will consut of four Classical Masters, a Mathematical Xlaste two Fm^^^^^^ 
 Masters, t j.o Writing Miisters and a Drawing Master. On the reputation of the piucimT the 
 College will chiefly depend. Therefore much care will be le.iuiied in select ing one whose name 
 
 • »ui iudebted to Mr. J. Ross Robertson, of the Toronto Dativ Tclearam. fnr fh;« ..,,1 „»k„ ■~ t ~ 
 tion in regard to Upper Canada College. ' ^'^"Sram, lor this and other informa 
 
Cbap. XLVIII, THE FOUKDINO OF UPPER CANADA COLLEOE. 1829. 
 
 287 
 
 wil give iupport to the institution. He .nuat have Ukon a first chws dec(reo in eliwHicfi ami mathe- 
 niatics Ah a generation may ,.„.,Hwav in cmreM.oncling acrow the Atlantic, 1 an.l the Tni* ew 
 ,^ the Co le^eg.vo you nl ,mvver tonolect our Principal, a.d the two Cla^si^al Ma>U,r» a 1 thJ 
 Matheumt.cal Mas or. l!ut ,f you shouhl not winh to be charf^od with the ro.po;,slhi!ity ent rely 
 T bt.« you to have the Koodno.8 lo co.Muit Mr. Stoeker, of the ( Juoru.ey cIlleBe «ln. C had 
 E"t^l!'collo^ ■/'"'"■''' '"" ' ^'l'""""'^" "' ^''« •«l««=tion of masters, .nd Air. Chnrles young, of 
 
 Thus, probably, these gentlemen ..lav have no ohjeouon to decide among the candidate, 
 that may offer The^wo junior CiusMeaf »fnslers will^ecdve iViOO per anuu.n for E fixed 
 salnno,, and will a so have a house provided, and will he alh.wed to take hoarders. The MaUie 
 inatical Master will have the same advancjiKes. iuauie 
 
 newspaperi !-"'''" ^"" ^"^ ''"''" "'^ f"ll"«ing notice inserted in the Oxford and Cambridge 
 
 • . "J''« "^'"''^'''P "f l^^PI'«r .C^'^'mda Colh-^re beinK vMcant, a Principal is rtM.nired to carry 
 into effect the sysiom o education u, be aflo,.ued at that inntiaition. Ho mn.t I e a «ra.lu3 
 rnen.ber of one of the Universities. ,,nd possessed of hi,di classical a.ul mathematical know e.to 
 He w.l receive a hxed salary of iOOO sterling; per annum, and will be a lovve.l .o take bIrcWs 
 and wU be prov.de.1 with a house for that purpose. Candidates for the api.ointu.eot ...ay n ake 
 application to the VKe-Chancellor of the University of Oxf..r.l for further particulars "' 
 
 I am persuaded of your zeal in the cause, an.l re.k..n upon it to overcome all the difficultie. 
 that you may encounter in completing the cargo of Master for Upper Canada before next winter 
 
 A Matheniatical Master is re.,uired for the same College, and two Classical Masters They 
 
 OOVERNMENT Hot'SE, 
 
 York, SJst of March, 1829. 
 
 l)ormi 
 
 J. COLBORNE. 
 
 is and other informa 
 
 Russell Square, the Site of Upper Canada College. 
 
 At a meeting of the General Board of Education for Upper Canada, held on 
 the 4th of April, following, a copy of this leti^er was laid before the Board by the 
 President, the Honourable and Reverend Doctor Strachan. 
 
 Un,1 '?nT/-^'"V^'° present at the meeting, the Honourables J<.8eph Wells anil George H. Mark- 
 
 Su^e at ll lirrJ^ ^^^■'"""r • ^''^'T' ''^ r'''''''' "^ '^'' "'" "^ "'« proposed Coll ge was 
 ctifioussed at ..he Board, and it adjourned until the 80th of April, 1829. At that meetini/ the 
 
 I^jronhe c' ll ''^ '^n •'' '?:' '''f' '^r^^" ^'"^ "»'■"'"» »f ^''" P"'«''l respecting the teWd 
 tLwL!„^l ;'^»^^^^?'P'';^";''^'i?'''^ ''''*'; '^^ """-t expedieat to him to place it at 
 
 the west end of King Suvet ; cimo Hm EiceHeocy, however, siill coni^u.ued to prefer that part 
 o the mil.ta.y reserve he had before li.e.f on, a. it would create an addilional demand n the 
 funds to procure the other, and mi^ht cause delay 
 
 - S.J'l.nnr'"''"^ ""^ 'i'*" ^'T'r "'^ 'H '-^^ ''• *'«>' 1«29. thequestion of the sit3 again came up. 
 'n consequeoce ot a not.licntiou from Mr. Marklan.l that His E.vcellency. Sir .lohn Col- 
 borne, was P eased to submit foi the decision of the Board, • whether the site of the College of 
 
 iarfrif r.t ' ^^^ r"" 'V'T", ^'"J^''^- "•- «" '^ '^'^'■^ "f ^''« ^"'li^'^'-y reserve near e fvood 
 will b«?ni T^'m""''^ T*'';'!;' ^'"''" '». ''p-'^'de ntion of the i.cre.fsed convenience which 
 will be afforded to the youth of the tovvn, it is expedient to place rhe buildings for the College 
 on some pare of Russell !;qu.Hre, to be hereafter deiennined up(.n." ^""egt. 
 
 The following advertisement, calling for building tenders for the College, 
 appeared in The Loyalist of May 2nd, 1829 :— 
 
 (on R,Sl*'^, ??';''"^iiT^*"''^'^ tenders for erecting a School H.^usc and four Dwelling Houses, 
 (on Russell fe(,uare) will be received on the first Monday of June next. Plans, olevati.ms and 
 specihcations may be seen after the 12th instant, on application to the Honourab e GeorgL Mark 
 land, from whom further information will be received. 
 
 Editors throughout the Province are reciuested to in.'.nrt tbia nr.fiou ,„>f;i t-y.^ *^„i., lyr-ir-^-ir 
 ill June, and forward tlieir accounts for the ^ame to the Office of The LayalLt,' Yo^ ' 
 
 York, Ist May, 1829." 
 
288 
 
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 In the Reverend Dr. Scaddin^'s Toronto of Old, he thus describes the site 
 chosen bv Sir John Colbome for Upper Canada College :- 
 
 -Uo^'lsf^. '*"°"" " " ""vemmont Hou,e - w.. originally the private 
 
 Pmi,li^:a:^U.''ZtnZt::Tj't^^^^ '-- of «n.u„.l. naa.d after 
 
 .mv.rt«d into . .i.r^l, .^^^cat"!;:;:;'!*!^;;;^:;;::^^ ''" .n.trumentuUty 
 
 roaideiiut 
 Putk 
 
 idlnR 
 'hii>- 
 
 •Jt mr John Colbom. 
 
 Emzabeth Colleuk, Guernsey, the Model of Upper Canada Coi...EaE. 
 
 P J^\f'''''''^ ^J^^^' ^^^^'^^i^g Sr-es the following description of Elimbeth 
 t^n!fri ' T^'^'"^' ""^ ""^^"^ ^' P^'^*^ ""' ^h'^t Upper Canada College is the 
 
 oayed Public SchoLrarprosent knot n as Ebeirr Tl"'''™ «"" '^'''f ^"^ ^"^ "-"^'^"^l » ^e- 
 
 Of a^ instituti^ ^^^S^^^^^f^^':£=:±:^^^ 
 
 Inasmuch a« in the School which resulted— or '• m;....- n ii .. •. , 
 
 lUmtrator, (183i), ve g Tther that Sf/abe h rnlf ^P '"*'""■ '" ^'•«."'«!' « Graphic and HMomal 
 
 of Queen Eiizali/^^ having Len^.u,^^^^ ^»'« "School 
 
 1563. tobea "Gra^nnarScB in wh.SSv» h f^^^^^^^ ^?',^."'^ ^'■'"" **"'* S'^^«reig« in 
 
 structed in good learning and virtue " '•^'"""*'"' """^ ''^ ''«"«* *»- 
 
 appofnTecra'cotmSeVt inl" ^^^^^^^ ^^'"^^'^ f ""'^ P"^''« "*'"^y- Sir John Colborne 
 
 ascertain the best odo oMtXtu^ cam,,,,,a ^ith the school, and to 
 
 the intention of the fourdress T fe end of uH H?,^ '"'^ '""* P^r"^^' '^'^'^'^"^ perverting 
 a cost of £44.754-the foundation ^neowVcirb.!^^ newb..ddi„g (figured in Aayley) at 
 the 20th of August, 1829, the revived instif^H i ^,^"" •'?'"' ^ollwrne in 1826. On 
 
 pupils. In the mean t me S?r Toh, ?^ w T^ "^P"""*^' *"'» ""« ''""'^re.! and twenty 
 
 Canada. "^ ^" ''"''" ^^olborne had become Lieutenant Governor of Upper 
 
 the now familiar 
 Townshij) on the 
 
 Ifif 
 
 Toro'nto. 3 ttd fn ferTltfl.^hrth fcrth/i.='ot R^^ Y,% ^^^"^^H^;^^^^^^^^^^ 
 was, in the year 1798, dedickted by the Cr^wnU a , i,h7 °^ ^"'"*" ^'1'""^ = "" "^y = *»'« "aid snuare 
 then laid o«tVpon the Crown Jand.f and th^rm^aVd h-^.,,??''' "^5 "".rL*" "^ t^*" ^own of Yor\c, as 
 plan upoi, .a« gaid s.mare. ' """ "'''* designation oi Ruggell Square api^eared on the said 
 
 the p an of the second or Usterly extent orofeTri of'' Yoric InH 'X'^ '"'? Tf '^"'^ P^^^^^^"^ ■"> 
 patented as BO f nt nir on the said souarn ■ unrl lv,„ , *" , .' *"** t^r >.• I ts w.-, a granted and 
 granted accordin. to tlie «id^rn Z'upon'uifer 1^:7 '"'' ^'^°"'" "P°" *"•= "'^ '"• -«« -'^ » ' 
 n.mdyrl^t^rrl*l'fe^lLt in'a^^^^^ !?'« and .ranting .: ,. • .. .„d out thereon. 
 
 tnne to^ti^e order or ™..e, pursuant to '^^^^^S. that i J°R= Sqi'^wt'strgS 
 
 the S::n^^1""'T„^ltnu".:i're"S?rn' of 'y^oT'^"' fh"""""' VL^^« T'^ *'-*• --l by and with 
 Grainmar Sch»oi vcwr-. r. Ucper CaMda Coneire/ul. h'- '" /^e year 1829, the buildings of the Royal 
 
 .nd;^-op;no«;:^;;.;;;t.;^:^^^'^;^^^^"i^':^„^--i^ 
 
.NADA. 
 
 1829 
 
 Chap. XLVIII. THK FOUNDINQ OK UPPER CANADA COLLKOK, 1829. 
 
 I8» 
 
 describes the site 
 
 riginally the private 
 
 ;rountl, naniud after 
 I thu initrunientulity 
 
 IDA Coi'.mE. 
 
 ion of Elizabeth 
 a College is the 
 
 le Govemor«hip of 
 had revivoii a de- 
 
 nion that the new 
 the scale oontom- 
 the establighment 
 
 community. 
 
 was long popularly 
 Jolm Col borne had 
 ;(ird to the latter, 
 ental, but evident, 
 phicand U'mtoncal 
 3!illed the " School 
 that Sovereign in 
 mp/ bo better in- 
 
 lir John Colborne 
 ;he scliool, and to 
 rithout pervertinj^ 
 Ted in Brayleif) at 
 me in 182tf. " On 
 idred and twenty 
 overnor of Upper 
 
 1 the now familiar 
 Township on the 
 
 knd, a Barrister in 
 i.ya : the said square 
 ■ Town of York, as 
 P{)eared on the said 
 
 8 fronting upon and 
 
 i'-' duly published as 
 
 , wi.e granted and 
 
 i'i«.' were sold a> 1 
 
 i,» ud out thereon, 
 »re not required for 
 3on trust to observe 
 Council should from 
 re was so originally 
 
 St, and by and with 
 dings of the Royal 
 :ed on a part of the 
 
 <•! I urn., auti trie 
 
 youth of the town. 
 
 Endowment of Upper Canada College, 1829-1838. 
 From an elaborate " Report of the Coinmissionpr of Inquiry into the Affair* 
 of King'^ College University nd Upper Canad r 'ege." appointed by Urd 
 Elgin, Governor-General, and « chancellor of the University, in 1848, the following 
 statement of Me original endowment of Upper Canada College is taken. The Com- 
 niisHioners were John Wot.^nhall, E8<mire, then M.P. for Halton ; R( uert East^ti 
 Burns, Eaquire, then County .1 idge of the Home District, and, in 1850, a Judge of 
 the Court of Queen's Bench; Joseph Workman, Esquire, M 1)., ChairmaT< in 1850, 
 of the Public School Board, Toronto.* The Report was not j)ubli«hed until 1862. 
 The following statement is printed on page 339 of that Report :— 
 
 The r.overnment of Upper Canada College (founded in the your 1823), wai. by »n order of 
 th(> Provincial Ooveniment, vested in a Board of Managers, designated the resident Director! 
 ami Trustees of Upper Canada College, until M.irch, 1833, when it was trarmfened to the Council 
 of Kii.j^ 8 ( ollege. The endowment bestowed upon Upper Canada College consisted of the fol- 
 lowing lands, VIZ : — 
 
 1st.- Block "A" known as "Russell S<iuare," and containing nine acres, constituting the 
 present site and grounds of the College, granted in 182}). 
 
 2iid.— 20,()00 acres of land in the Townships of Mosa, Ekfrid and Seymour, granted on 
 December l<jth, 1832. 
 
 ard — 1,080 acres of land in the Township of York, granted July 4th, 1834. 
 4th.— 42,188 " in various Townships, •« May 16th, 1835. 
 
 63,2«8 acres. 
 6th. --Part of Block "D," in the Town of York (now City of T ronto), east of Church 
 Street, and north of Newgate, (now Adelaide street), containing five and h ..uarter acres, divided 
 into town lots, on ihe 28th of November, 1834. 
 
 The above total of 63,268 acres has, by exchanges of lands and re-surveys, been increased 
 to 03,994^ acres. These lands were situate in various parts of Canada ; in ome Townships the 
 quantity appears to have been large. 
 
 In addition to the above lauded endowment, the College received an allowance from the 
 Government of two hundred pounds sterling in I8;i0 ; this sum was increaseci on the first day of 
 January, 1831, to hve hundred pounds sterling per annum ; and on the first of January, 1834 
 it was further increased to one thousand pound per annum to the first of July, 1838. ' 
 
 On the 27th June, 1830, the General Board of Education met and decided to offer for sale 
 the ground known as the College or School square, north of St. James Church [Block " D " as 
 above], in the centre of which stood The Old Blue School. The ground wh laid out in lots 
 26x90 feet, and on the inth July the lots were sold to the highest bidders. The proceeds were 
 applied to the payment of the cost of erecting the new College buildings. 
 
 Sir George Arthur on the Foumdinq of Upper Canada Colli je in 1830. 
 Tn a Despatch written by Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Coven ir of Upper 
 Canada, to the Marquis of Normanby, Colonial Secretary, dated the th of June. 
 1839, he thus referred to the proceedings of Sir John Colborne in ft mding and 
 endowing Upper Canada College : — 
 
 Soon after Sir John Colborne assumed this Government, his attention bocam ■ directed to 
 the 8t«te of education in the IVovince ; and. a.'i the theme had long been a favor te one with 
 him, he applied himsell with vigour to the task of effecting such ameliorations ii a defective 
 system as was in his power. 
 
 ♦ ■ ^H^y^A^^I^^^' i "^f'?unf ^''}*"'""' County of Antrim, was a citizen of Torrato from IFM until the 
 time of h,8 death m April, 1894 He was then in his 89th year. When he cawe to Canada , - settled in 
 Moiitrealj and, at the tune of his death, was the oldest living graduate of MoGill College. H wan one of 
 iiic nrsc rrr;:o3sn... :n t.-ic rtnnouraDJG ,>, itoiph's Tuiouto Sciioui of Medicine. He was appo ilprt Medi^ 
 cal Superintendent of the Lunatic Asy. m, Toronto, in 1853,-a post which he hsld for twent six vears 
 He was quite an authority on mcints diseases, and being an accomplished linguist, he translated from 
 various foreign medical journals articles and papers on medical science. He was formerly a Member of th« 
 Toronto City Councd, and was the farst Chairman of the Public School Board 
 19 (D.E.) 
 
■*'' — rt" 
 
 ! !■ 
 
 HI 
 
 ^90 
 
 nOo'UMEMTARY HESTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1829 
 
 vo 
 
 confer, inestimablo henefit upon the country , iilthuugh its establish mont in the capital has Riven 
 use to local jealousies ; and opinions are entertdned that the benefits of the Seminary ought in 
 justice to have been distributed by the improvement of tlie country schools at its expense 
 
 This institution superseded the endowed " Royal Grammar School,"— which was also a Dia 
 trict (Grammar) School —that had previously existed in Tonmto ; and t»'e proceeds arising from 
 the sale of the land whereon the one had stood, partly contributed to defray the expense of erect 
 ing the buildms^s roijuisite for the other. 
 
 Sir John Colborna assigned, with the after approbation of His Majesty's Government a 
 very eligible location at the west end of Toronto, as the site of this new College, and endowed 
 it with some town lands. About 60,000 acres were also granted to it as a further endowment 
 from the residue of the geneml school lands. (Page51, Part iii., of the Correspondence relativ^ 
 to the Affairs of Canada, 1840. ) 
 
 Opening of Upper Canada College in 1830.— Its Fir^t Masters. 
 After the site for the new College on Russell Square had been selected, it 
 ^as resolved that tho College and buildings should be placed on a line with 
 King street, one hundred and thirty-two feet from the street, and, with this idea; 
 the foundations were laid, the period for the completion of the College being con- 
 sidered the 1st January, 1830, and for the dwelling houses 1st September, 1830. 
 The District School House had, in the meantime, been moved, repainted, and 
 improved, and fitted up for the accommodation of the " Minor College," pending the 
 completion of the new edifice. The third week in December saw the furniture 
 of the College in position in the old District School House, and, on the 17th Decem- 
 ber, 1829, the Upper Canada Gazette contained the following announcement : 
 
 ''Upper Canada College establlshed at York . Visitor, the Lieutenant-Governor for the 
 time bem?. This C^dlege will open after the approaching Christmas vacation on Monday the 
 8th January, 1830, under the conduct of the Masters appointed at Oxford, by Vice-Chancellor 
 Jones and other electors m July last. Principal, the Reverend J. H. Harris, D.D., late Fellow 
 of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Classical Department- Vice-Principal, the Reverend T Phillins 
 D.D.,of Queen's College. Cambridge, late Head Master of the Home District School- First 
 ^ lassica Master, the Reverend Chas. Matthews, M.A., of Pembroke Hall. Cambridge ; Second 
 Classical Master, the Reverend W. Boullon B.A., of Queen's College, Oxford Mathematical 
 Department-The Reverend Charles Pade, M.A., Fellow of Caius College, CambridKe. and late 
 Ma hematical Master at Elizabeth College. French— Mr. J. P. de la Haye, for some time uiu 
 ployed at the College of Louis le Grand, at Paris and at Vincennes, a native of France and an 
 experienced instructor. English, Writing and Arithmetic— Mr. George Anthony Barber and 
 Mr. (afterwards the Reverend) James Padfield. Drawing Master— Mr. Drury an eminent 
 artist. (Then follow terms, etc.). Signed : G. H. Markland, Secretary to the Board of Educa- 
 tion. York, Upper Canada, December 2iid, 1829." 
 
 The Contractor for the new College had, however, undertaken a work that 
 he could not accomi)lish, and, accordingly, the work was taken out of his hands 
 and finished under the superintendence of officials appointed by the Governor. 
 
 The College classes were in the meantime carried on, until 18,'U, in I'he Old 
 Blue School, which had been refitted. When the new buildings were completed, 
 the entire staff was removed, with the pupils, to the new and handsome pile on 
 King street west. The old Grammar School was then closed. It was af^aiu 
 occupied for Grammar School purposes, for the east end of Toronto in 1836- 
 under Mr. Charles N. B. Cosens, who was appointed Head Master, and who was 
 succeeded, in 1838, by Mr. Marcus C. Crombie, when Mr. Cosens received an 
 appointment as Resident Master of Upper Canada College Boardin» House. 
 
CANADA. 
 
 Chap. XLiX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 2dl 
 
 rewarded by the estab- 
 i which, as a seminary, 
 Ferred, and continues to 
 in the capital has given 
 fho Seminary ought in 
 ols at its expense. 
 — which was also a Dia- 
 ^0 proceeds arising from 
 ly the expense of eruct- 
 
 ijesty's Government, a 
 
 College, and ondoweil 
 
 1 a further endowment, 
 
 'orrespoiidence relative 
 
 iRiT Masters. 
 d been .selected, it 
 jed on a line with 
 and, with this idea', 
 1 College being con- 
 !t September, 1830. 
 ived, repainted, and 
 allege," pending the 
 saw the furniture 
 on the 17th Deeem- 
 Qnouncement : — 
 
 inant-Governor for the 
 tion on Monday, the 
 i, by Vice-Chancellor 
 •ris, D.D., late Fellow 
 leverond T. Phillips, 
 )i8tricfc School ; First 
 , Cambridge ; Second 
 sford. Mathematical 
 , Cambridge, and lato 
 e, for some time em 
 ve of France, and an 
 Anthony Barber and 
 Drury, an eminent 
 the Board of Educa- 
 
 ;aken a work tliat 
 I out of his hands 
 y the CJoverno)-. 
 1 18.31, in The Old 
 i were completed, 
 handsome pile on 
 d. It was again 
 Tornnto, in 1836> 
 iter, and who was 
 isens received an 
 ling House. 
 
 CHAPTER XLIX. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL PEOCEEDINGS OF THE UPPER CANADA LEGIS- 
 LATURE IN 1830. 
 
 With the Session of the Legislature in 1830, there opened up a new era in 
 the educational and other practical affairs of Upper Canada. The friendly atti- 
 tude of the new Lieutenant-Governor inspired the members of the House of 
 Assembly with a desire to be equally frank with His Excellency, and to give a 
 more diligent attention than hitherto to matters relating to education. Of this 
 they assuved the Lieutenant-Governor ; and, as an earnest of their sincerity in 
 this matter, called his attention to what they had already done as a preliminary 
 step in this direction, during the preceding Session of the House. 
 
 The establishment of Upper Canada College tended to moderate the desire 
 which had been felt in certain quarters for the establishment of a University. 
 The general feeling, as represented by the House of Assembly, was, that this 
 '■ Minor College." with its highly qualified Masters, supplied a want long felt for 
 such a superior education as would fit young men for the learned professions and 
 for important business undertakings. It would also put a stop to the " exodus " 
 of these young men to the Colleges of the United States for that education which 
 Upper Canada College, when in operation, was destined to afford.* 
 
 That a University was not an immediate necessity in Upper Canada while 
 the state of education'in the Province was in so unsatisfactory a state, was a fact to 
 which the opening Speech of the Lieutenant-Governor called the attention of the 
 Legislature. In response to this part of Sir John Colborne's Speech, the House 
 of Assembly stated that : " While willing to support a College for instruction in 
 the professions, and in the higher branches of science, we feel it to be a primary, 
 and more imperative, duty to provide for the general extension of the means of 
 education among the people in every Township." 
 
 The Legislative Council, on the other hand, made no response at the time to 
 His Excellency's remarks in regard to Upper Canada College, or to education 
 jrenerally No doubt this silence, on the part of the Legislative Council, was 
 due to the fact that the Lieutenant-Governor ha d declined to accede to the earnest 
 
 *In his "Appeal "on behalf of a Universitv in Uooer CanadB iaanoH k« «.v.„ d j t^ 
 
 Strachan in England, in 1827. he dwelt on this pJint at ,oTe length. ' In th2 Jourse ofw^TeL^W? h' 
 said:-" There are, it is believed, at present between forty and hW yoim^ lentyemen in th» P • *"* 
 Cfelentr'"""" "' *'' '-./.Pfofe-iou which mujt in a counWikf tf^?tTe reUtry'^rt"."! 
 
 ff s»:t which aliWl edlJaTon'-can^Ve-^fieS.-'Ss'iFi^ S'JTCVufel^^^^^ 
 Lng iBhraen have no opportunity of receiving instruction within the CanaSas in Law MeSeIr SvZtv 
 . .The consequence is that many young men coming forward to thp lfi«.rn«H ,,,,>f.t.;!, ':"!„''' i:^I'".''y 
 
 mi rr----- ---J ■- •■■"B ..«>.. HVI..L.U wiLiiiii uie <_/aaaaaa m ijaw. Medicine or Divinit-v 
 
 The consequence is that many young men coming forward to the learned urofeMions ar« «w^^ Y" 
 look beyond the Province for the last two or three years of their eduoatio^ undoubtediv /h« mn«f • *^^ *.* 
 ant and critical, period of their w.ole lives. Very feware able on ^conn? of "K'f »^J!iL^^^ !.T-- 
 iur,ngiana or acotiana, ttUd tUe distance is so gieat and the ditlicultiea bo limnv" thVrf.Viir^VIT '"^ ^ 
 reluctantly trusts children so far from its observation and control The yoith are theref^r^n L*,^'""^'^ 
 gree, compelled to look towards the United States, where the mekns of education thSoT' a H«.n?^^^" 
 far inferior to those of Great Britain, are yet superior to anytS within the Provic^ I J description 
 necesH.ty is arising of sending them to finfsh their education fn that c™?y." (See pi^s2T6 2?7 f "°* 
 
request of the Council to furnish its Members with a copy of the Imperial 
 " instructions " which he had received in regard to King's College and its Charter. 
 They evidently felt that, as His Excellency had refused to take this higher branch 
 of the Legislature into his confidence on a subject in which it had specially taken 
 so deep an interest, and one of its leading Members an active, personal part, they 
 would be equally reticent on the very subject which had hitherto engrossed their 
 attention, and which he had now brought officially before them. In the end 
 better counsels prevailed, as will he seen by the proceedings of the Legislative 
 Council on the 27th of February, 1830. 
 
 On the 8th of January, 1830, Sir John Colborne, the Lieutenant-Governor, 
 opened the second session of the Tenth Parliament of Upper Canada with a 
 Speech from the Throne, in which he said : — 
 
 The nocessiiy of reforming the Royal Grammar School, was evident from your Report at 
 the olose of the last Session. 
 
 Tn establishing % College at York, under the guidance of able Masters, the object wLi- ' ^e 
 have in view, will I trust, be speedily attained. 
 
 The delay that may take place in revising the Charter of the University ; or in framing one 
 suitable to the Province and to the intention of the endowment, must, in fact, under present 
 circumstances, tend to the advancement of the Institution, as its use depended on the actual 
 state of Education in this Province. 
 
 Dispersed as the population is, over an extensive territory, a general efficiency in the Com- 
 mon Schools cannot be expected ; particularly whilst the salaries of the Masters will not admit 
 of their devoting their whole time to their profession. 
 
 1. Educational Proceedings of the House of Assembly, 1830. 
 
 Of the forty-five Members of the House of Assembly, the following took 
 paii in its educational proceedings during the session of 1830, viz : — Messieurs 
 William Woodruff", John Rolph, Peter Perry, William Lyon Mackenzie, Stephen 
 Randal, William Morris, Robert Radenhurst, George Longley, John Cawthra, 
 William Buell, junior, John Kilbora, George Brouse, Paul Peterson, Donald Mc- 
 Donald, John J. Lefierty, Robert Dickson, Peter Shaver, John A. Wilkinson, 
 Charles Fothergill. Duncan McCall, George Hamilton, Jesse Ketchum, Roljert 
 Baldwin,* Thomas Dalton, William Terry and Ambrose Blacklock (26.) 
 
 9th January, IfiSO. — Mr. William WoodruflFgave notice that he will on Monday next, the 
 11th instant, move for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham 
 Academy. (See Proceedings of the 16th instant.) 
 
 IMh Ja mary, 1S30. — Agroeabiy to the Order of Llio Day thu House went into Committee 
 of the Whole on His Excellency's S])eech. Mr. John Rolph, seconded by Sir. Peter Perry, 
 moved a series of Resolutions on the subject, which wore read. This sixth and eighth RohhIu- 
 tions relating to Education were put and carried, numine co'iUradicente—ihiTly-ouo Members 
 beitii! i>ref>e>it, 
 
 *The Honourable Robert Baldwin took his seat in the House of Assembly for the first time this Sm- 
 ginn. He was elected for the Town of York, in place of The Honourable John Beverley Robiuson, 
 who had been appointed Chief Justice of Upper Canada, and Speaker of the Legislative Council. 
 

 CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Chap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 293 
 
 )y of the Imperial 
 ege and its Charter, 
 e this higher branch 
 had specially taken 
 personal part, they 
 }rto engrossed their 
 them. In the end 
 3 of the Legislative 
 
 ieutenant-Governor, 
 per Canada with a 
 
 from your Report at 
 
 rs, the object -whUl. we 
 
 ■sity ; or in framing one 
 in fact, under present 
 epended on the actual 
 
 I efficiency in the Cora- 
 Masters will not admit 
 
 3EMBLY, 1830. 
 
 the following took 
 30, viz : — Messieurs 
 Mackenzie, Stephen 
 ley, John Cawtlira, 
 terson, Donald Mc- 
 Fohn A. Wilkinson, 
 3 Ketchum, Robert 
 dock (26.) 
 
 on Monday next, the 
 itees of the Graiitliara 
 
 )e went into Cominiitee 
 I by Mr. Peter Porry, 
 xth and eighth Kexulu- 
 !«— thirty-one Meuibera 
 
 jr the first time thin Sec- 
 John Beverley RobiusoD. 
 fielative Council. 
 
 ISthJaniMry, 1S50.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Address in answer to His 
 Excellency's Speech from the Throne at the opening of the present session, was read the third 
 time, passed and signed by the Speaker. That part of it relating to Education is as follows :— 
 
 To His Excellency, Sir John Colbome, K. G. B., Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Ckmada, etc. 
 May it Please Youk Excellency : 
 
 **************** 
 We do not doubt the necessity which existed, upon the accession of Your Excellency to the 
 Government, for the reformation of the Royal Grammar School ; and we shall derive much 
 gratification from the renewal of the inquiries we, last session, instituted into the state of edu- 
 avtion, upon finding that the reformation (of the Royal Grammar School) mentioned by Your 
 Excellency is grounded upon those equal rights and liberal principles which we so earnestly 
 pressed upon Your Excellency's attention. 
 
 Without the faithful observance of those equal rights and liberal principles as a foundation, 
 and the stability of that foundation duly secured against the varying policy of diflFerent adminis- 
 trations, we cannot but regard such institutions as threatening to entail, under the appearance 
 of some present good, those exclusive and dominant establishments which have perpetuated so 
 much unhappiness in European nations, and the introduction of which into this country, the 
 people are wisely most solicitous to avert. 
 
 We are glad to find that Your Excellency still anticipates a modification of the Charter of 
 King's College, which, as at present constituted, is undeserving of public patronage, and likely 
 to foment sectarian jealousies, and to prove equally injurious to the purity of our religion, and 
 to the liberties of the people. 
 
 While we are willing to support a College for instruction in the professions, and in the 
 higher branches of science, we feel it to be a primary and more imperative duty to provide for 
 the general extension of the means of education among the people in every Township. 
 
 But we concur with the opinion expressed by Your Excellency, that dispersed, as the popu- 
 lation IS. over an extensive territory, a general efficiency in the Common Schools cannot be 
 expected ; particularly while the public salaries of the Masters, and the small remuneration 
 which their patrons, in the present condition of the country, can afford to give, will not admit of 
 their devoting their whole time to their useful calling. 
 
 **************** 
 
 We respectfully refer Your Excellency to our Journals of last session, from which Your 
 Excellency will find that we bestowed important consideration on the subject of education. 
 
 15th January, i 550. —Agreeably to the Order of the Day, The Petition of Mr. Chauncey 
 Beadle and four others, of the Niagara District, praying to be incorporated as Trustees under 
 the style and title of '« The Incorporation of the Trustees of the Grantham Academy," with per- 
 petual succession and a Common Seal, etc., was read. 
 
 Agreeably to notice, Mr. William Woodruff, seconded by Mr. Robert Randal, moves for 
 leave to bring in a Bill founded on the Petition of Mr. Chauncey Beadle and others for the incor- 
 poration of the Grantham Academy. Which was granted, and the Bill read and ordered for a 
 second reading to-morrcw. 
 
 19th January, 1830.—M.t. William Morris brought up the Petition of the United Presbytery 
 of Upper Canada, which was laid on the Table. 
 
 Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that it be resolved that 
 an humble Address be presented to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, reciuesting His 
 Excellency to cause to be laid before the House a Statement of. the sources of income set apart 
 for the erection and support of the College, or University, now in progress, with the receipts 
 therefrom accruing, and the expenditure ; also, a detailed statement of the number of acres of 
 Crown and Clergy Reserves sold on behalf of the said Institution, particularizing the rates per 
 acre obtained, and sums now outstanding, with a memorandum of all donations, gifts or grants 
 made towards the said Institution ; also, an account of the appropriations, receipts and expen- 
 diture of the land set apart for the purposes of Education, commonly called the School Reserves, 
 with the lots, town lots and timber thereto appertaining. 
 
 mh January, iS50.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day. the Address to His Excellency 
 *^{J? Lieutenant-Governor relative to revenue accounts, etc.. of the Univerity, etc., was read the 
 third time and passed, nemine contradicente, and was signed by the Speaker, as ft)llows : 
 
 if ilis E.ccalcncy Sir John C'olbarne, K, C. B., Lieutenant-Governor of Upper UaiMda, etc. : 
 May it please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provincial 
 Parliament assembled, humbly request Your Excellency to cause to be laid before this House a 
 atatoinent of the sources of income set apart for the erection and support of the College, or 
 
^iSS^#*# 
 
 !•' 
 
 294 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTOKY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 urn 
 
 University, now m progress, with the receipts therefrom accruing, and the expenditure ; also i 
 detailed statement of the number of acres of Crown and Clergy Reserves sold on behalf of the 
 said Institution, panicularizing the rates per acre obtained, and the sums now outstanding with 
 a memorandum of all donations, gifts or grants made towards the said Institution ; also in 
 account of the appropriation, receipts and expenditure of the land set ai)art for the purposes of 
 education, commonly called School Reserves, with the lots, town lots, and timber thereto anuor 
 taimng. ^^ ^' 
 
 MaRSHAU S. BiDWElL, 
 
 Speaker. 
 Commons House of Assemblv, 
 20th January, 1830. 
 
 (Note. The College Council objected to give this information. See its communication to 
 hir John Lolbome on the subject, Chapter L, ^o. 3, page 316,— also pages 264 and 289.) 
 
 A^eeably to the Order of the Day, the Grantham Academy Bill was read a second time and 
 referred to a Committee of the Whole House. Mr. George Longley was called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Longley reported the Bill as amended. The Report was 
 received, and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time on Friday nextT 
 
 January 21st, iS50.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Petition of the Unit2d Pres- 
 bytery of Upper Canada, praying that they, and others in similar circumstances, may be enabled 
 to provide for the education of the youth under their care, was read. 
 
 (See Proceedings of the House of. Assembly on the 24th of February, 1830, page 298.) 
 
 JSndJamiarn, i.«50. -Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Grantham Academy Bill was 
 read a third tune and passed. j «»» 
 
 Mr. William Woodruff, seconded by Mr, Robert Randal, moves that the Bill be intituled 
 • ,iTM^ Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy." which was carried, and Mes- 
 
 sieurs William Woodruff and Robert Randal were ordered by the Speaker to carry the same up 
 to the Honourable *ho Legislative Council, and to request their concurrence thereto. 
 
 Mr. William Buell, junior, seconded by Mr. John Kilbom, moves that so much of His 
 Jixcollency s speech as respecta education be referred to a Select Committee, with instructions 
 to enquire into the state of education generally; and that Messieurs Robert Baldwin, Peter 
 Ferry, George Rolph and James Lyons do compose said Committee, with power to send for per- 
 sons and papers, and report by Bill, or otherwise, which was carried. 
 
 Mr. William Woodruff, from the .Committee appointed by the Speaker to carry up to the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled "An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of 
 the Grantham Aca<lemy " and to request their concurrence thereto, reported having done so. 
 
 TT ..*^'""T>^*y'*'° ^^J^l"' seconded by Mr. Thomas Radenhurst, moved that the Petition of the 
 United Presbytery of Upper Canada be referred to the Committee on Education, which was 
 ordered. ' 
 
 (Note. This Petition will be found on page 298, and the Report on it, on page 307.) 
 
 SSrd January, 18S0.—Ut. John Cawthra, from the Committee appointod to wait upon His 
 Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor with the Address of this House, informed the House that 
 Mis Hixcellency had been pleased to give the following answer : 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 The statement of the sources of income set apart for the support of the University and all 
 the information required will be found in your Journals of the last session, except the receipts 
 and expenditure for the year 1829, which shall be laid before you. 
 
 If the information apj)lied for refers to the College lately opened, the only funds at present 
 appropriated for its support are from the proceeds of the sale of lots of land set apart in Y(jrk 
 f<)r the endowment of a Grammar School, the salary of the Master under whom the Royal 
 Grammar School was placed, and the quarterage of Scholars ; but I shall use every exertion to 
 induce His Majesty s Government to endow liberally this Institution, which will, I hope, raise 
 the standard of education in the Province and supply it with able instructors. 
 
 In the meantime the House of Assembly will see the exijediency of protecting it. 
 
 Government House. 
 
 York, 23rd of January, 1830. 
 
 J. C. 
 
ANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Chap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 2t>."J. 
 
 a expenditure ; also, a 
 sold on behalf of tho 
 now outstanding, with 
 Institution ; also, na 
 rt for the purposes of 
 timber thereto apper- 
 
 S. BlDWElt, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 I its communication to 
 i 264 and 289.) 
 
 Bad a second time, and 
 I called to the chair. 
 
 led. The Report was 
 1 Friday next. 
 
 n of the Unit3d Pres- 
 mces, may be enabled 
 
 1830, page 298.) 
 
 im Academy Bill was 
 
 the Bill be intituled : 
 was carried, and Mes- 
 to carry the same up 
 :e thereto. 
 
 that so much of His 
 ee, with instructions 
 obert Baldwin, Peter 
 lOwer to send for per- 
 
 jr to cany up to the 
 orate the Trustees of 
 ^d having done so. 
 
 at the Petition of the 
 Education, which was 
 
 t, on page 307.) 
 
 tod to wait upon His 
 rmed the House that 
 
 le University and all 
 a, except the receipts 
 
 only funds at pre sent 
 ind set apart in Yurk 
 der whom the Royal 
 use every exerti(3n to 
 :h will, I hope, raise 
 .rs. 
 
 otecting it. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 1st February, 1830.-1 he Speaker reported that the Master-in-Chancery had brought down 
 from the Honourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled : " An Act to Incorporate the 
 Trustees of the Grantham Academy," to which they requested the concurrence of this House. 
 
 The prmcipal amendments made by the Honourable the Legislative Council in and to the 
 Bill entitled : 'An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy " were then road 
 as follows, and ordered for a second reading to-morrow : 
 
 Press 2, line 26.— After " vacancies " expunge "should" and insert "shall." 
 
 Press 2, line 29. -After "appoint " insert " V. " "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid 
 that no person not a natural born subject of Zlia Majesty or a subject naturalized by Act of the British 
 Parliament or by an Act of the Legislature of this Province, shall be capable of being chosen or appointed, 
 after the passing of this Act, to be a Teacher of the said Academy." fF" » 
 
 Press 3, line 14.— After " lawful " expunge " when or." 
 
 Press 3, line 21.— After "stock " insert " property or effects." 
 
 SndFehniary, 1830.— Mr. William Buell, junior, from the Select Committee on Education, 
 informed the House that the Committee had agreed to two Addresses to His Excellency, which 
 he was ready to submit whenever the House would be pleased to receive the same. The Report 
 was received and an Address to His Excellency, requesting him to transmit to this House the 
 several Reports of the Boards of EduLation, was read twice, adopted, and ordered to be 
 engrossed and read a third time this day. 
 
 The Address for information relative to Upper Canada College, was read twice, adopted, and 
 ordered for a third reading this day. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor 
 requesting him to transmit to this House reports from the Boards of Education, was read the 
 third time, passed and signed, and is as follows : 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colbome, K. C. JB., Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, etc.: 
 
 May it please Your Exckllency : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provincial 
 Parliament assembled, humbly request that Your Excellency will be pleased to lay before thia. 
 House the Reports of thediflerent Boards of Education, in the several Districts of this Province 
 
 Marshall S. 
 
 Commons Hou.se of Assembly, 
 2nd February, 1880. 
 
 BlDWELL, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 Mr, Wilham Buell, junior, seconded by Mr. George Longley, moves that Messieurs John 
 Kilborn and Peter Shaver be a Committee to wait upon His Excellency to know when he y/ii\ 
 be pleased to receive the foregoing Address, and to present the same. Which was ordered. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor 
 requesting information on the subject of the Upper Canada College, was read the third time' 
 passed and signed by the Speaker, and is as follows : *' 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Volborne, K. C. B., Lkutenant- Governor of Upper Canada, etc. : 
 May it please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provinciat 
 Parliament assembleil humbly ro(iuest Your Excellency to lay before this House the particulars 
 ot the foundation of Upper Canada College, the manner in which the present Principal, Mast era 
 and Tutors were appointed, and in which they will hereafter be appointed upon vacancy, with 
 all other particulars and details respecting the principles and economy of the Institution 
 
 MAR.SUALL S. 
 
 BlDWELL, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 CoMMON.s House of Assembly, 
 2nd of February, 1830. 
 
 n — "j T^""\W' ' J" ,"■' -^'Ontica uy ujLi: vicorgo Longloy, moves tnat Messieurs Geortftt 
 
 brouse and Paul Peterson, be a Committee to wait on His Excellency to know when he will be 
 pleased to receive the Address just passed, and present the same. Which was ordered. 
 
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 S96 
 
 DOCLTMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 jlfth Febnuiry, 18S0.— Mr. John Kilbom, from the Committee to wait on His Excellency 
 the Lieutenant-Ciovernor with the Address of this House on the subject of Reports from District 
 Boards of Education, reported delivering the same, and that His Excellency had been pleased 
 to make thereto the following answer : 
 
 Gentlemkn : 
 
 I will direct all the Reports of the District Board of Education that have been received 
 to be laid before you immediately. 
 
 Government House, J. c. 
 
 York. 4hh February, 1830. 
 
 Mr. George Brouse, from the Select Committee to wait upon His Excellency the Lieutenant- 
 Governor with the Address of this House for information relative to the Upper Canada College, 
 reported delivering the same, and that His Excellency had been pleased to make thereto the 
 following answer : 
 
 Gentlemkn : 
 
 I cannot convey much more information on the subject of tliis Address than has been 
 already laid before the House of Assembly. 
 
 It will, however, be satisfactory for the House to find, that nearly ninety scholars have 
 been admitted into the College since the 4th of last month, — the day on which it opened ; and 
 that many others are preparing to enter from diflFerent parts >f the Province. 
 
 No doubt can, therefore, be entertained as to the necessity of fixing permanently in the 
 Province a Seminary, accessible to all, where a liberal and extensive course of instruction can 
 be obtained on moderate terms. 
 
 The Principal, and most of the Masters of the College, were elected at my request, by the 
 Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, in conjunction with two electors of high reputation, with reference 
 only to their erudition, academic honours, and experience. 
 
 To ensure the efficiency of the Upper Canada College, and a succession of men of abilities 
 in every department, the Masters will receive a remuneration in proportion to the advancement 
 and iadependence which they could obtain in the Parent State, from tl.eir acquirements and 
 learning. 
 
 Before I leave the Province, 1 shall endeavour to procure for the Institution, such protec- 
 tion as may enable it to counteract the influence of local jealousies, or of ignorance, or vice, 
 to which, in a new country, it may sometimes naturally be exposed. 
 
 The Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge will be invited, with the sanction of the King, 
 to elect Masters when they may be required, and to notify the vacancies that may occur in the 
 College to those Universities. 
 
 The College will be placed under the special care of a Visitor, (the Lieutenant-Governor for 
 the time being), and thirteen Trustees. 
 
 The Trustees will regulate the affairs of the College, and the financial concerns. 
 
 With this view, 1 have solicited His Majesty's Government to aid in providing for its 
 immediate support, and to endow it liberally. 
 
 The Provincial Legislature should, I think, afford some assistance until it arrives at matu- 
 rity, either by establishing Scholarships for the maintenance of pupils to be elected from the 
 District (Grammar) Sciiools, or by appropriating an annual eum for the general expenditure. 
 
 The Principal will be responsible for the course of instruction followed at the College and 
 for the discipline of the School. 
 
 Eight pounds per annum will be demanded for each scholar for his education. 
 Masters will be encouraged to take boarders. 
 
 The Masters will be chosen entirely on account of their (jualiScations, without regard to 
 Beet or profession. 
 
 Government House, J. C. 
 
 York, 4th February, 1830. 
 
 rdh Februnru, IS.HO. —Mr. Peter Perr\'. seconded by Mr. William Buell, junior, moves that 
 His Excellency's reply to the Address of "this Home, on the subject of Upper Canada College, 
 be referred to the Education Co'umittee. Which was ordered. 
 
ADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Ohap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 
 
 297 
 
 n His Excellency 
 )orts from District 
 ' had been pleased 
 
 avo been received 
 
 J. C. 
 
 By the Lieutenant- 
 
 iv Canada College, 
 
 make thereto the 
 
 ss than haa been 
 
 lety scholars have 
 ih it opened ; and 
 
 ernianently in the 
 of instruction can 
 
 y request, by the 
 on, with reference 
 
 if men of abilities 
 > the advancement 
 ao(\uiremants and 
 
 ition, such protoc- 
 ^norance, or vice, 
 
 Btion of the King, 
 may occur in the 
 
 nant-Governor for 
 
 icems. 
 
 I providing for its 
 
 t arrives at matu- 
 } elected from the 
 1 expenditure. 
 
 ,t the College and 
 tion. 
 
 without regard to 
 
 J. C. 
 
 junior, moves that 
 ir Canada College, 
 
 nth February, 1830.— The S^. laker reported that Mr. Secretary Mudge had brought down 
 from His Excellency the Lieutenant- 'xovernor several Messages and documents : Having retired, 
 the Message relating to education was read by the Speaker, as follows :— 
 
 J. COLBORNK : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor, transiiits to the House of Assembly copies of suoh of the 
 annual Reports of District (Grammar) and Common Schools as have beeu received. 
 
 Government House, 
 
 York, 11th February, 1830. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 l:Sth February, 1830. — Mr. Secretary Mudge brought down from His Excellency, the Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor, several Messajjes and documents. Having retired, the one relating to educa- 
 tion was read as follows : 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of Assembly, a statement of the Receipts 
 and Expenditure of moneys arising from School Reserves ; in compliance with the Address 
 of the House. 
 
 Government House, J- 0. 
 
 York, 12th February, 1830. 
 
 17th February, 1«50.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the amendments made by the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council, in and to the Bill intituled : "An Act to Incorporate the 
 Trustees of the Grantham Academy," wore read the second time, and referred to a Committee 
 of the vVhole House. Mr. Donald McDonald was called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. McDonald reported that the Committee had agreed to the 
 amendments, without amendment. The Report was received, and the amendments were ordered 
 to be read a third time to-morrow. 
 
 ISth February, 2550.— Agreeably ♦^ the Order of the Day, the amendments made by the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council, in and to the Bill intituled : "An Act to Incorporate the 
 Trustees of the Grantham Academy," were read the third time and passed, and were signed by 
 the Speaker. 
 
 Messieurs William Woodruff and John .1. Leflerty were ordered by the Speaker to carry the 
 same up to the Honourable the Legislative Council, and inform that Honourable House that 
 this House had agreed to the amendments made to the Bill by it. 
 
 19th February, 1830.— Mr. Buell, junior, from the Select Committee on Education, informed 
 the House that the Committee had agreed to a third Report by Bill, a draft of which he was ready 
 to submit whenever the House would please to receive the same. The Report was received, 
 and the Education Bill was read the first time, and ordered for a second reading to-morrow. 
 
 Mr. Robert Dickson, seconded by Mr. Peter Shaver, moves that one hundred copies of the 
 School Bill, as reported to this House by the Committee on Education, be printed for the use 
 of the Members. Which was ordered. 
 
 20th February, 1830.— Br. John J. Lefferty, from the Committee to carry up to the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council the Bill intituled : "An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of 
 the Grantham Academy," with its amendments, concurred in by this House, reported having 
 done so. 
 
 22nd February, 1830.— TAr. John A. Wilkinson gives notice, that he will on to-morrow, 
 move that so much of the Journals of last session be read as relates to the report of the Trustees 
 of the Western District (Grammar) School. 
 
 2Srd February, 2850.— Agreeably to notice, Mr. John A. Wilkinson, seconded by Mr. 
 George Hamilton moves, that thit part of the Journals of last session be read, -which relates to 
 the Report of the Trustees of the Western District (Grammar) School. Which was carried, and 
 the Journals were read accordingly. 
 
 Mr. John A. Wilkinson, seconded by Mr. Charles Fothergill, moves, that the Report of 
 the Trustees of the Western District (Grammar) School of last session be referred to a Select 
 Committee composed of Messieurs William Buell, junior, Robert Baldwin, George Hamilton, and 
 John Willson, with power to send for persons and papera, and to report thereon. Which was 
 ordered. 
 
 24th Febrnarv, 2550.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Education Bill was read the 
 aecnnd time and referred to a Committee of the Whole House. Mr. Duncan McCall was called 
 to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. McCall reported progress and asked leave to sit again this 
 day three months. 
 
 '<m' 
 
298 
 
 DOCUMENTAKY HISTOIIY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 il I! « 
 
 I 
 
 
 On the ijuestion for recoivinif tlie Report, the House divided, and the Yeaa and Nays beinir 
 taken down, were as follows: 
 
 Yeah.— Messieurs. Baby, Ikrczy, Bethune, B acklock. Dickson, Frasef, Hamilton. Hender- 
 ^?,".'. . *^*"'*'>'' Longley, McDonald, McLean, McM.rtin, Morris, Radenhurst, Samson, Thomson 
 Wilkinson, .John Willson and Woodruff— 20. 
 
 Nays.— Messieurs Buell, Cawthra, Ewing, FotherKill, Hopkins, Hornor, Ketchum, Lock- 
 wood, Lyons, McCall, Mackenzie, Malcolm, Perry, Peterson, Randal, Georye Rolph, John 
 Rolph, bhaver and Smith — 19. 
 
 The (luestion was carried in the attirinative by a majority of one, the Report was received 
 and leave granted accordingly. (Note.— So this Education Bill was dropped.) ' 
 
 Mr. Jesse Ketchum, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves that the Petition of the United 
 Presbytery of Upper Ca--*da, on the subject of education, bo entered on the Journals of this 
 House, on which the House divided, and the Yeas and Nays being taken down, were as follows : 
 
 Ykas. -Messieurs B'acklock, Buell. Cawthra. FothergiU, Hamilton, Hopkins, Hornor, 
 Ketchum, Letfert; , Lock wood, Lyons, McCall, Mackenzie, Malcolm. Morris, Perry, Potersor 
 Rad-inhurst, Randal, George Rolph, John Rolph, Shaver, Smith, Wilkinson and Woodruff— 26. 
 
 , , «*T^'~'^r^i''"" ®*^'y' l^erczy, Bethune, Dickson. Frascr. Henderson, Longley, McDon- 
 ald, McLean, McMartin, Samson, Thomson and John Willson- x3. 
 
 The question was carried in the affirmative by a majority of 12. 
 
 The Petition of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada, as entered on the 
 Journals of the House of Assembly, was as follows : — 
 
 To the HonourMe the Commons House of Assembly of Upper Cattada ; * 
 
 The Petition of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada humbly sheweth : 
 That your Petitioners are deeply impressed with a sense of the beneficial influence of a 
 virtuous and extensive system of education in promoting the good order, intelligence and happi- 
 ness ot society, and with the necessity of extending its advantages to all c asses of the com- 
 
 From the manner in which your Petitioners, in their ministerial capacity ' « connected 
 
 with a very large portion of His Majesty's subjects in this Province, they ha. means of 
 
 knowing, and It is with deep regret they are compelled to say that the state of eaucadon is, in 
 general, in a aeplorable condition. 
 
 • ^u'^^«""^^' ^°'",™»"y y^'a™. a liberal provision, has been made for the education of the youth 
 m thus Province, the benevolent designs of the Legislature have failed in effecting the object 
 they had m view. ** •• 
 
 • 7^^t appointment of Trustees from one communion alone has occasioned a jealousy in the 
 mmds of the people and destroyed that confidence which should ever be placed in the oublic 
 institutions of our country. *^ 
 
 It might have been expected that, as all classes of the community and all denominations of 
 Christians have to bear the expenses of these institutions, the interests of all would have been 
 consulted, and that person-s of intelligence and education of all denominations would have been 
 allowed to participate in their superintendence. 
 
 ^, Your Petitioners, with deoi) regret, find that this is not the case ; and that the Trustees of 
 these institutions, which ought to be impai-tially managed for the benefit of all, have been almost 
 exclusively appointed from one denomination of Christians, and. consequently, your Petitioners 
 and their congregations, as well as others in similar circumstances, have been deprived of that 
 benefit which they had a right to expect would have arisen from them. 
 
 1 • u^u^ Petitioners having numerous and large congregations under their superintendence, in 
 winch there are thousands of young people growing up in want of education, feel anxious that 
 they should be provided with the means of instruction which would render them intellitrent 
 Christians, and useful niembers of society. 
 
 As these institutions are now managed your Petitioners have no alternative left but to 
 apply to your Honourable House to afford them provision for other Schools to be placed under 
 
 m ", ' -—«-—«.-, „.,..!,. J. ..r.. !!"., i-rr.niiiteu tj iiavc niiy suiiro iH tHo appomtuient ol 
 
 leacliers or in the management of the District (Grammar) Schools now in existence. 
 
DA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Ch«p. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 
 
 299 
 
 18 and Nays beijij^ 
 
 imilton. Hender- 
 Mnaon, Thomson, 
 
 Ketchuin, Lock- 
 rge Rolph, John 
 
 irt was received, 
 » 
 
 )ii of the United 
 Journals of this 
 were aa follows : 
 opkins, Hornor, 
 Perry, Poter»or» 
 d Wootlruff— 25. 
 
 jongley, McDon- 
 
 ntered on the 
 
 il influence of a 
 {enco and happi- 
 sea of the com- 
 
 ""•^ connected 
 
 means of 
 
 eaucacion is, in 
 
 ion of the youth 
 cting the object 
 
 jealousy in the 
 id in the public 
 
 [enominations of 
 'ould liave been 
 ivould have been 
 
 the Trustees of 
 lave been almost 
 your Petitioner* 
 leprived of that 
 
 erintendence, in 
 )el anxious that 
 ;hem intelligent 
 
 itive left but to 
 be placed under 
 appointment of 
 snce. 
 
 May it therefore please your Honourable House to make such provision as in your wisdom 
 may appear to be necessary, to enable your Petitioners, ,iud others, in similar circumstances, to 
 provide for the education of the youth under their care. 
 
 And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
 
 Signed by order and in the name of the Presbytery. 
 Prescott, William B«ll, William Smart, 
 
 January, 1830. • Presbytery Clerk. Moderator, 
 
 S5th Febniary, 1830.— Mr. Robert Baldwin, seconded by Mr. Robert Randal, moves that it 
 be resolved, Th.-*t a Message be sent to the Honourable the Legislative Council rei)uesting per- 
 mission for the Honourable James Baby, a Member of that House, to attend aud give evidence 
 before the Select Committee to whom has been referred the Report of the Trustees of the 
 Western District School. Which was carried, and Messieurs R )bert Baldwin and Robert 
 Randal were ordered by the Speaker to carry up the Message to the Council. 
 
 Mr. Robert Baldwin, seconded by Mr. Robert Randal, moves that the name of Mr. John 
 A. Wilkins(m be struck oflf the list of the Committee on the Report of the Trustees of the 
 Western Distr'ct School, and the name of Mr. I'eter Perry be added to the said Committee. 
 Which was carried. 
 
 Friday. 2Hth Fehnuiry, 1830.— Mr. William Buell, junior, from the Select Committee on the 
 subject of Education, informed the House, that the Committee had agreed to a Report by Bill, a 
 draft of which he was ready to submit whenever the House would be pleased to receive the 
 same. The Report was received, and the " Upper Canada College Bill " was read a first time 
 and ordered for a second roading to-morrow. 
 
 Mr. William Buell, junior, seconded by Mr. Peter Shaver, moves, that the second reading 
 of the Upper Canada College Bill be the first thing on the Order of the Day for to-morrow. On 
 which the House divided, and the Yeas and Nays, being taken down were as followc : 
 
 Yka.'^— Messieurs Buell, Cawthra, Dalton, Ewing, Fothergill, Hornor, Ketchum, Lefferty, 
 Lockwood, McCall, Mackenzie, Malcolm, Randal, George Rolph, John Rolph, Shaver and 
 Woodruff— 17. 
 
 Nays.— Messieurs Berczy, Bethune, Blacklock, Eraser, Henderson, Longley, McLean, 
 McMartm, Morns, Radtahurst and John Willson— 11. 
 
 Tlie question was carried in the affirmative by a majority of six, and ordered accordingly. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Dalton gives notice, that he will, on to-morrow, move, for leave to bring in a 
 Bill to promote education, (1) by preventing the holding of any description of public office of 
 trust or emolument by persons who cannot read and write ; (2) also to prevent all persons bom 
 since the year 1825, from serving on Juries or voting at elections who cannot read and write ; 
 (3) and also to prevent all persons born hereafter, from contracting marriage within this Province 
 who cannot read and write, (4) and finally, to make public provision for the care, maintenance 
 and education of destitute orphans. 
 
 S5th Febniary, 1830.— Dr. John J. Lefferty brought up the Petition of William Rees, of the 
 Town of York, Surgeon, which was laid on the Table. 
 
 Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Petition of William Rees, of the Town of York, 
 Surgeon, praying that the old Parliament Buildings may hi fitted up for certain scientific pur- 
 poses was read. 
 
 Mr Lefferty, seconded by Mr. Blacklock, moves that the Petition of William Rees be 
 referred to the Committee of Supply which was carried. 
 
 1st March, i550.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Upper Canada College Bill was 
 read a second time, and referred to a Committee of the Whole House. Mr. William Terry was 
 called to the chair. 
 
 The House having resumed, Mr. Terry reported the Bill as amended. The Report was 
 received, and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow. 
 
 Jwi March, i«50— Agreeably to the Order of the Day the Upper Canada College Bill was 
 read a third time, aAd passed, ri£rnbie cnntr.jdic<"nte. 
 
 Present.— Messieurs Blacklock, Robert Bddwin, Borezy, William Warren Baldwin, Buell 
 Cawthra, Dalton, Dickson, Ewing, Fothergill, Hami ton, Hopkins, Ketchum, Lefferty, Longley. 
 McCall Mackenzie, Malcolm, Perry, George Eolph, John Rolph, Shaver, Thomson, Wilkinson 
 and Woodruff. 
 
 <. A ***■ ^^'^*'*™ ^"®'^' junior, seconded by Mr. Peter Perry, moves, that the Bill bo intituled : 
 All Act to Establish Upper Canada College." Which was carried, and Messieurs William 
 Buell, junior, and Peter Perry were ordered by the Speaker to carry the same up to the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council, and to request their concurrence thereto. 
 
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 11 
 
 300 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 * k d"' M(*rrJi, 1S3(K—Mr. Robort Baldwin, from the Soloct Committee to whom was referred 
 the Report of the Woiteni District School, presented a Report which was r^-oeived and read at 
 follows : 
 
 Beport of the Sehct Cvmmittee to whom itve» refer, ed tht Repmrt of the Trtisteea of the District 
 {Gramn^ar) School of the. Western District for 182S. 
 
 Committee : Messieurs Robert Baldwin, John Willson, George Hamilton, William Buell 
 junior, and Peter Perry. ' 
 
 To the HonoHrabU the Commons House of Aasem'Jy in Provincial Parliament Assembled : 
 
 The Committee to whom was referred the Report of the Trustees of the District Grammar 
 School of the Western District, for the year 1828, having considered the subject matter of the 
 •aid Report, and examined every person within their reach, whom they were given to understand 
 could afford any information thereupon, have agreed to the following report, which they beg 
 leave most respectfully to submit to the consideration of your Honourable House : 
 
 Your Committee find in the Report of the Trustees, an implied, rather than a direct 
 recommendation, that the school be removed from Sandwich to some other part of the District, 
 and this recommendation the Trustees seem to found upon two grounds, the first of which is ': 
 ''That the people in the vicinity of that Town are principally composed of worthy but illiterate 
 farmers, who are unable to appreciate the advantages of a liberal education, and consequently 
 unwilling to have their children taught anything more than the first elements of learning." 
 
 With respect to thia point, your Committee find, that Sandwich and its neighbourhood is 
 principally inhabited by Canadians of French extraction, but the evidence will not warrant them 
 in attributing to that portion ot their follow subjects, an indifference to the education of their 
 children : should, however, such indifference actually exist among them, your Cominitt»j.» think it 
 
 * "trong reason for placing the District (Grammar) School as near their doors as possibie, ii^at such 
 indifference, may as soon as possible be overcome. 
 
 The second ground upon which the Trustees found their recommendation, is the unhealth- 
 iness of the Town of Sandwich, which they say is now nearly depopulated from that cause. 
 
 In considering this part of the subject, your Committee necessarily turneu attention to the 
 enquiry : " What other part of the District would be a proper place to fix upon for the District 
 (Grammar) School, should it be removed from its present situation?" 
 
 It appears that an attempt was formerly made to have the School removed to Amherstburg ; 
 •uch removal, however, your Committee, as at present advised, cnnrot recommend ; nor do' 
 they find that, from the evidence before them, they could satisfactoti' v .ame any other place in 
 the District uniting so many advantages as the Town of Sandwich ; atri they are far from find- 
 ing that that town " is depopulated from the unhealthiness of its situation.'* 
 
 Your Committee, therefore, most respectfully submit it as their opinion, that the District 
 (Grammar) School of the Western District be not removed from the Town of Sandwich. 
 All which is most respectfully submitted. 
 
 Robert Baldwin,* 
 
 T, T Chairman. 
 
 OoMMrrTEE Room, House of Assembly, 
 York, 6th March, 1830. 
 
 The witnesses examined by the Committee were : 
 
 The Honourable James Baby, a Member of the Legislative Council. 
 
 Mr. John Gentle, late of Sandwich, now residing at York, Gentleman. 
 
 Peter McDougall, 2squire, Merchant, York. 
 
 Francis Baby, Esquire, Member of the House of Assembly, residing at Sandwich. 
 
 William McComiick, Esquire, residing near Amherstburg. 
 
 Thomas Hornor, Esquire, a Member of the House of Assembly, residing in the District of 
 London. 
 
 John A. Wilkinson, Esquire, a Member of the House of Assembly, residing at Sandwich. 
 William Berczy, Esquire, a Member of the House of Assembly, residing at Amherstburg. 
 In addition, the Reverend William Johnson, formerly Master of the District (Grammar) 
 School at Amherstburg, and now Master of the one at Sandwich, submitted to the Committee, 
 
 throiiorVi Mr WilL-incioii a lofnt,. Ani-,,{\ir^,. uia 2«l,««i »^n~_:»..-~ ;., K.-^+l. — 1--, 
 
 * The subject of this report is not very important in itself, but the report in notfiworthy as being the 
 first of the late Honourable Robert Baldwin's parliamentary iwts as Chairman ot a, Committee of the House 
 of Assembly. 
 
A. 
 
 1830 
 
 Chap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LE< iSLAlxRE, ' ' iO. 
 
 301 
 
 tn was refurrod 
 ed and read »s 
 
 0/ the District 
 
 W^illiam Btiell, 
 
 nbled : 
 
 trict Grammar 
 
 matter of the 
 
 I to understand 
 
 (rhich they beg 
 
 ■ than a direct 
 of the District, 
 st of which is : 
 y but ilMtorato 
 d consequently 
 learning." 
 
 ighbourhood is 
 b waTant thom 
 icatici of their 
 imitto't think it 
 isibie, .;i'at such 
 
 8 the unhealth- 
 ihat cause. 
 
 ittention to the 
 for the District 
 
 Amherstburg ; 
 imend ; nor do 
 (T other place in 
 B far from find- 
 
 at the District 
 dwich. 
 
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 Chairman. 
 
 wich. 
 
 the District of 
 
 it Sandwich, 
 imherstburg. 
 rict (Grammar) 
 bhe Committee, 
 
 rthy as being the 
 itee of the House 
 
 The report of Western District School for 1828, on which this rei an 
 Committee of the House of Assembly is founded is ,vs follows. It was .sign. ..y 
 Messieurs Charles Eliot, W. Berezy, and James Gordon, Trustees : 
 
 The Trustees, in transmitting this Report, think it but justice to the Teacher to express their 
 Xu'l C ?i ''"' "'""^rl and CHj«city during the short fuL he has had the management "he 
 schoo ; but they regret that his talents are, in a great measure, rendered unavaihible from the 
 f.!! .°1"!L collocH ion of the school, which must ever, in their 'opinu.n, prevail agains it. use 
 fulness as a classical seminary : First, because the people in its vicinity is principally composed 
 of worthy bur. Illiterate farmers who are unable to appreciate the advantages .raTberal 
 education, and consecjuently unwilling to have their children taught anything m.,re than the 
 fars element* of learning ; and secondly, the unhealthiness of the Town of Sandwich, wher^ it i* 
 situated, which IS now nearly depopulated from that cause, must ever prevent children being 
 sent there from the more dist^u.t parts of the country. The present school is composed princ^ 
 pally of very young children, learning the first rudiments of the English languagj, and Lung 
 ii^ (i eiglrmonths *" ' "" ""' ** *" '"'^^''"'"'^ ' '''" '^"^ ^^^'^ ""'^ commenced within 
 
 Bill, intituled : An Act to Establish Upper Canada College.* 
 
 The following is a copy of Bill which unanimously passed the House ol 
 A.sserably of Upper Canada on the 2nd of March, 1830, but which the Legis- 
 lative Council did not pass (see page 305) : 
 
 Whereas, His Excellency, Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant-Governor of this Province ha 
 
 been pleased to reform the Royal Grammar School and to establish a College at York, culled 
 
 Upper Canada College," under the guidance of able Masters, and ' 
 
 Whereas it would conduce very much to the happiness of this Province, and to the exten- 
 sion of true learning and piety m the same, were the privileges and capacity of he said insti?u ion 
 enlarged and secured by legislative authority, so a. to suit the wants and wShes of HU 
 Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects within this Province «ia»e» 01 nw 
 
 Be it therefore enacted, etc.. That the Seminary lately openod at York, by His Excellency 
 Sir John Colborne be, ^.id the sa.ne is hereby erected and made a Colleg;. with the style S 
 privileges of a College, as hereinafter provided, for the education and insfruct.on of youth and 
 students in Arts and Faculties, to continue forever, to be called " Upper Canada College. " 
 
 2. And be it enacted, etc That the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor or person administer, 
 ing the Government, for the time being, shall be the Visitor of the said College. '^"""'«'°f- 
 
 3. And be it enacted, etc.. That there be, at a'l times, one President of the said Collo're 
 -^nd as many Professor. Tuf.rs and Lecturers in the ditterent Arts and Faculties wiS tfe 
 College, as from tune to time shall be deemed necessary or expedient, and as shall be appointed 
 in the manner hereinafter provided. * ' "i^ou 
 
 4. And be it enacted, etc , That there shall be within the said College a Council to be called 
 and known by the name of " The Council of Upper Canada College." which CcSsSll con 
 sut of twelve persons one half of the number of which persons' shall be Snated y the 
 
 shTh?'.!r?H"7h' ":i^ '^" "'^ •' ^^^ ^y '^''' ^T^ "^ '^« «"'^'y ' ^'"«'^ I»^""ns so no„,i?a ted 
 shall be certihed by the respective Houses to the Governor. Lieutenant-Gov ernor, or person 
 administering the Government for the time being, an.l shall hold their ofKces for four vears 
 from the day of such nomination, and thence until the next ensuing session of the Provincial 
 Parliament, and no longer. 
 
 5. And be it enacted, etc.. That, if any incumbent of the said Council shall die or shall be 
 suspended, or removed from his said office, or shall, by reason of any mental or bodily infirmity 
 or by reason of his absence from the said Province, become incapable, for six calendar month; 
 or upwards, of attending the mee mgs of said Council, ihen and in ever, such case, a fit and 
 proper person shall be appointed by the rest of the Council, subject to the approbation of the 
 
 ♦In a pamphlet printed in London, England, in 1836, containing an account of the nr-jceedinpR of «. 
 public meeting held at York, on the 10th of December. IMO, with codes of docZent. relating to Loetit on 
 
 tur/of^tL^n' r P*T«d the Hous of Assembly in Upper Canada in 1830. «Luwo7«/i,, forThe^e^u a 
 tion of the Upper Canada Collejre. which the Legislative Council did not pass-and snfficientlv marks t... 
 opinmn of that Assembly and of the people of that Province." (Pages 3o!-41.) tL S»ble re^on wh^^^ 
 It did not pass the Legislative Council is given on page 305. prou.ioie reason wny 
 
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302 
 
 DOCl MENTAHV HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPEK CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 I 
 
 I i 
 
 l» 
 
 ChanotiUor of the Mid ColleKe, to act and he aa a Member of tlio mid Council in the place and 
 »U ad nt the member so dyiii/, or ao luapended, or removed, or inca|Micitated, ua aforuaaid, and 
 the Hppointnient of such new member of the aaid Council shall becommunicate<l to the Provincial 
 LeKislaturo through the Uovernor, Liuutunant-Oovunior, or person adniiniBterin)< the (iovem- 
 nient for the time being a their next leaaion ; and it Hhall be lawful for that branch of the 
 Legislature by which the person dying or suspended, or removed, or incapacitated, hs nforesaul, 
 was appointed, either to contirm the said temporary appointment made by the Council afore- 
 said, or to appoint another, as such branch of the Legislature uhall think tit. 
 
 <5. And be it enacted, etc., That no meeting of the Council shall bo or be held to be a lawful 
 meeting thereof, unless nine members, at the least, be present during the whole of every such 
 meeting and that all ((uostiona and resoluti jus proposed for the decision of such College Council 
 shall be determined by the majority of the members of the Council present, including the vote 
 of the Presiding Memboi ; and, that in the event of an e<inal division of such votes, the Member 
 presiding at any such meeting ahall give an additional, or casting vote. 
 
 7. And be it enacted, etc.. That any Member of the Council may, at any time, be suspendtMl 
 or removed by a joint resolution of the two branches of the Provincial Legislature. 
 
 g. And be it enacted, eto. , that it shall and may bo lawful for the said Council of the «aid 
 College, from time to time, to nominate and elect so many Professors, Tuters and Lecturers in 
 the several Arts, Sciences, and matters of learning, as shall to them seem tit and necessary for 
 the system of education in the said College. 
 
 9. And be it enacted, etc. , That the Chancellor, Preaiden', Profetsors, Tutors, Lecturers, 
 Graduates, Under Graduates, Otiicers and Servants of the said College, and every person hold- 
 ing any situation of honour or trust in the same, shall be subject to all and every of the Rules 
 and Ordinances of the said College, made and provided according to this Act. 
 
 10. And be it enacted, etc., That the said Council of the said College shall have power and 
 authority to frame and make rules and ordinances touching and concerning the peace, welfnrs 
 and g(K>d government of the said College, the studies, lectures, exercises and degrees in Arts 
 and Faculties and all matters reuarding the same, the duties of the President of said College ; 
 the number, remuneration and duties of the Professors, Tutors and Lecturers thereof ; the 
 management of the revenues and property of the said College ; the salaries, stipends, provision, 
 and en»<dument8 of and for, the President, Professors, Tutors, Lecturers, Scholars, Oflicers and 
 Servants thereof ; the number and duties of such Ufficers and Servants, and also touching and 
 containing any other n'atter or thing which to them shall seem good, tit, and useful, for the 
 well being and advancenunt of the said College ; and also, from time to time, by any nijw Kules 
 «r Ordinances to revoke, renew, augment or alter all, every or any of the said rules, as to them 
 ahall seem meet and expedient. 
 
 Provided altvayx, That the said Rules and Ordinances or any of them shall not be repugnant 
 to the laws and statutes of the said Province of Ui)per Canada or this Act ; provided also that 
 the said Rules and Ordinances shall be subject to the approbation of the Chancellor of the said 
 College for the time being, and shall forthwith transmitted to the said Chancellor for that 
 purpose. 
 
 11. And be it enacted, etc.. That the said College shall be deemed and taken to be an 
 University, and shall have and enjoy all such and the like privileges, as are enjoyed by the 
 Universities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and, as far as the same are 
 capable of being had or enjoyed, by virtue of this Act. And that the Ktudents in the sa'd College 
 phall have liberty and faculty of taking the Degrees of Bachelor, Master and Doctor, in the 
 ■everal Arts and F'aculties, at the appointed times ; and shall have liberty within themselves of 
 performing all scholastic exercises for the conferring of such Degrees, in such manner as shall 
 be directed by the Rules and Ordinances of the said College. 
 
 12. And be it enacted, etc., That no religious test or qualification whatever fhall be re((uired 
 of, or apj>ointed for any persons admitted or matriculated as scholars within the said College, or 
 of persons admitted to any Degree in any Art or Faculty therein, whether such degree be con- 
 ferred in Law, Physio or Divinity or other Art or Science. 
 
 13. And be it enacted, etc., That the President, Professors, Tutors and Lecturers of the 
 said College and all persons admittetl therein to the Degree of Master of Arts, or to any Degree 
 in Divinity, Law or Medicine, or other Art or Science, and who, from the time of such their 
 admission to such degree shall pay the annual sum of twenty shillings lawful money of Upper 
 Canada, for and towards the support and maintenance of the said College, shall bo and be 
 deemed, taken and reputed to be Members of the Convocation of the said University, and, as 
 such members of the said Convocation, shall have, exercise and enjoy the right and privilui^e of 
 electing a Chancellor of the said University, which Chancellor, upon such election, shall have, 
 exercise and enjoy for the term of four years next after such election, such rights and powers as 
 shall, from time to time, bo conferred by any Rule or Ordinance made as aforesaid, under and 
 by viitue of this Act. 
 
1830 
 
 rhap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL rUOCKEUINOS OF U. C. LEOISLATUHK, 1830. 
 
 303 
 
 n the pUco and 
 8 aforuRaid, and 
 
 the Provincial 
 m the (lovem- 
 : branch of thu 
 )d, HI nfore«a<<l, 
 B Council aforo- 
 
 d to bo a lawful 
 le of every such 
 College Council 
 sluding the vote 
 bes, the Member 
 
 e, be Buapemlud 
 
 re. 
 
 incil of the said 
 
 id Lucturers In 
 
 id necessary for 
 
 bora, Lecturers, 
 iry peraon hold- 
 sry of the Rules 
 
 have power and 
 peace, welfurs 
 degrees in Arts 
 oi Haid College ; 
 :t thereof ; the 
 ends, provision, 
 irs, Oilicers and 
 lo touching and 
 i useful, for the 
 ' any new Kules 
 lies, as to them 
 
 ot be repugnant 
 Dvided also that 
 illor of the said 
 icellor for that 
 
 taken to be an 
 enjoyed by the 
 IS the 3Anie are 
 the sa'd College 
 
 1 Doctor, in the 
 in themselves of 
 uanner aa shall 
 
 hall be required 
 said College, or 
 degree be con- 
 
 octurers of the 
 r to any Degree 
 Hi of such their 
 loney of Upper 
 shall bo and bt; 
 iversity, and, as 
 and priviluwe of 
 ion, shall have, 
 :8 and powers as 
 said, under and 
 
 Pntouhd alwa^B, that from and aft4»r the passing of this Act, His Excellency, Sir John 
 Colhonie, the pr»)««nt Lieutenant-dovornor of this Province, shall, during the continuance of 
 his ail ministration of the (iovernmenf " >hii Province, or so long im he shall continue to reside 
 within the same, be and continue to '-. ,y virtue of this Act, Chauoellor of the said University. 
 
 14. And bo it onaotetl, etc.. That the present Teachers (in what is now called Upper Canada 
 Ooilogo) sHail, from and after the pa^8ing of thi^ Act, hold their present situatums, unless 
 removed therefrom at any time hereafter, under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 16. And be it enacted, etc. , That tiie Members of the said Council and their successora for- 
 ever. sh»ll be one dnfinct and separate body oolitic and corporate, in deed and in name, by he 
 name and style of l pjier Canada College, and that by the same name they shall have perpetual 
 succession and a common so'il, and that they and their successors shall, from time to time, have 
 full power to alter, renew, or change such common seal at their will and pleasure, and as shall 
 be found convenient. And that by the same name, they the said Council and their successors, 
 from time to tiiuo, and at all times hereafter, shall bo able and capable to have, take, receive' 
 purchase, acquire, hold, possess, enjoy and maintain to and for the use of the said College, any 
 messuages, lands, tenements, and hor»»ditaments of what kind, na^ure or (luality soevoi, situate 
 and being witliin the said Province of Upper Canada, so that the same do not exceed in yearly 
 value, the sum of ±'10,000 lawful money of Upper Canada, above all charges ; and moreover, to 
 take, purchase, aciiuiro, have, hold, enjoy, receive, possess and retain all or any goods, chattels, 
 charitable .r other contributions, gifts or benefactions whatsoever, and that the said Council and 
 their successors by the same name shall and may be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, 
 implead and bo impleaded, answer and be answered, in all or any Court or Courts of Record 
 within the said Province of Upper Canada, in all and singular acticjns, causes, pleas, writs, suits, 
 matters and demands whatsoever, of what nature or kind soever, in as large, ample and 
 bonoficial a manner and form as any other body politic and corponvte, or any other persons able 
 and capiblo in law, may, or can sue, implead or answer, or be sued, impleaded or answered in 
 any manner whatsoever. 
 
 16. And be it enacted, etc., That it shall and may be lawful for any denomination of 
 Christians ui this Provmce, to maintain at the said College, a Lecturer on Divinity, (upon making 
 suitable provision, to the satisfacticm of such Lecturer), for the benefits of students professing 
 the f«ith of such donomin ition of Christians, which Lecturer so appointed and provided for, 
 shall have liberty to lecture in the said University, upon Divinity, in the same manner ami 
 under the same regulations and restrictions as shall be provided for the guidance of Profersors 
 and Lecturers generally, in the said University, by any rules and ordinance made in that behalf . 
 
 17. And be it enacted, etc.. That it shall and may be lawful for the Council of the said 
 UnivoAity to suspend from his oftice the President, or any of tin Professors, Tutors or Lecturers 
 or any member of the said Council, who shall be incapacitated by bodily infirmity; or for any 
 just and reasonable cause to the said Council appearing, provided that the grounc? , of every 
 such suspension shall be recorded in writing, and bo verified on oath of two or mov; credible 
 and disinterested witnesses, and be entered and recorded at length on the Journals oi the said 
 Council, and be signed by the President of the said Council. 
 
 18. And be it enacted, etc., That every person »» suspentled shall thereupon cease to be a Mem- 
 ber of such Council, or President of the said Uuivorsity, or a Professor, Tutor or Lecturer 
 within the same, as the case may bo, unless, and until ho shall be restored to and re-established in 
 such his station tlierein, by any order to bo made in the premises by a joint resolution of the 
 Honourable thu Legislative Council and the House of Aasembly. 
 
 19. And be it enacted, etc.. That it shall and may be lawful for the said Council of the said 
 Collogo from time t > time, to establish Scholarships in the said College for the benefit of the 
 pupils of the District Schools in this Province, provided that the amount of each Scholarship 
 shall not exceed the annual value of £50 per annum, and provided also that such Scholarships 
 nhtM hi open to general competition for the pupils of all the District Schools in this Province, 
 without reference to their profession of religious faith, and bo awarded after a public and 
 suitable examination in the Scliools of the said College, to the best and most deserving of the 
 said competitors without undue favour, which public examination shall be under the'superin- 
 tendouce of the President of the said Colhge and such learned men as ho maycilltohia 
 asnatance, in the presence of the College Council and such of the public as shall attend. 
 
 20. And be it enacted, etc.. That it shall and may ))0 lawful for the said College Council 
 and all other persona whatsoever atticliod to the said College, and they are hereby required at 
 all times, without reserve, to lay before the several branches of the Legislature of this Province, 
 whatever information sh-iU he by them requirod tv.Uting in any way whatever to the said Collogo' 
 and the concerns thereof. 
 
 21. And be it enacted, etc.. That whenever any Rule or Rules, Ordinance or Ordinances 
 shall be passed by the said Council as aforesaid, containing any provisions which shall in any 
 
,»fe 
 
 304 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 i I 
 
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 ',y 
 
 manner relate to, or effect the enjoyment or exercise by the ProfesBors, Tutors, Lecturers, 
 Scholars, Graduates, Undergraduates, Servants, or others whomsoever connected with the said 
 College, of any religious form or mode of worship, or in any way whatever prevent or restrain 
 them or any of them from attending on the Sabbath or other days, whatsoever place of worship 
 they choose ; or shall impose or create any penalties, burthen, disabilities or disqualifications ; 
 or confer any peculiar or exclusive favours or privileges in respect of the same, or shall, in any 
 manner relate to or affect the observance of any rules or discipline appertaining to any Church 
 or Society of Christians to which any of the aforesaid persons may belong, every such rule or 
 rules, ordinance or ordinances, shall not have any force of effect whatever, till the ?ame has 
 been laid before the three branches of Provincial Legislature, and shall, after having been so 
 laid before them or each of them for the space of ten days, receive the sanction thereof. 
 
 22. And be it enacted, etc.. That it shall and may be lawful for the said Council, and they 
 are hereby required to meet in the said College at York, at and for the periods following : 
 namely, commencing on the first Monday in January, and on the second Monday in April, on 
 the third Monday in June, and on the first Monday in November, in each and every year, and 
 ending on the Saturday following ; at which stated and periodical times, and at no others, it 
 shall and may be lawful for the said Council to do, perform and execute all the duties and trust 
 imposed by this Act, or by any Rule or Ordinance of the said College, made under and by virtue 
 of ^his Act. 
 
 23. And be it enacted, etc., Thak it shall and may be lawful for each of the Members of the 
 aaid Council, while in the active discharge of his said duties at the periods aforesaid, to have 
 and receive from and out of the funds of the said College, the sum of ten shillings lawful money 
 of Upper Canada, for every day's actual attendance, during the said weeks, and the like sum for 
 every twenty miles in travelling to the said College and returning therefrom to his place of 
 residence. 
 
 Provided aUrays, That it shall not be lawful to claim or receive any such daily remuneration 
 until the annual receipts and resources of the said College shall amount to £2,000 lawful inoney 
 aforesaid. 
 
 a4. And be it enacted, etc, That it shall and may be lawful for any Member of the said 
 Council to tender his resignation during any Session of the Provincial Legislature, to that 
 branch whereof by which he was nominated and appointed, and, upon the acceptance of such 
 resignation, such person shall cease to be a Member of such Council, and it shall, thereupon, be 
 lawful for the said branch of the Provincial Legislature, accepting such resignation, forthwith 
 to nominate and appoint another person to be a Member of the said Council, in the place and 
 stead of the person so resigning, as aforesaid. 
 
 25. And bo it enacted, etc. That if any Professor, Tutor, Lecturer or other person elected 
 by fh» said Council to any Professorship, Tutorship, Lecturership or other station in the said 
 College, shall die in the interval between the periodical meetings of the said Ccfuncil, limited by 
 this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the various Prttfessors, Tutors, and Lecturers who have 
 beon elected by the said Council, to appoint a fit and proper person to discharge the luties of 
 the said Professor, Tutor, or Lecturer so deceased, until the next meeting of the said Council, 
 and uo longer. 
 
 26. And be it enacted, etc. , That it shall and may be lawful for the said Council at their 
 appointed meetings, and they are hereby required to keep at every such meeting a Journal of 
 their proceedings, specifying the day and hours of assembling, the names of the Members of the 
 Council in attendance, the resolutions and matters proposed, with the names of the Members 
 voting for and against each resolutirn and matter, whether the same be rejected or adopted by 
 the said Council, which record, or Journal, of the said proceedings of the said Council shall at all 
 reasonable times be open at the said College to the inspection of the Visitor, Chancellor and 
 other Members of the said College, and shall be laid before the several branches of the Provincial 
 Legislature, whenever by them, or either of them, it is required so to do. 
 
 27. And be it enacted, etc.. That no religious test or qualification whatever shall be 
 required of any Chancellor, Professor, Tutor, Lecturer, Scholar, or other person, being a candi- 
 date for any situation in the said College ; nor shall the eligibility of any person to any of the 
 aforesaid stations in the said CoMege, or to any other stations that may hereafter be created, be 
 in any way or degree, dependent upon or regulated, affected or prejudiced, by the particular 
 Christian faith of any such candidate. 
 
kNADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Chap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 
 
 305 
 
 9, Tutora, Lecturers, 
 nnected with the said 
 r prevent or restriiin 
 jever place of worship 
 8 or disqiialitications ; 
 ame, or shall, in any 
 aining to any Church 
 g, every such rule or 
 ver, till the fame has 
 after having been so 
 tion thereof. 
 
 lid Council, and they 
 le periods following ; 
 Monday in April, on 
 I and every year, and 
 and at no others, it 
 1 the duties and trust 
 e under and by virtue 
 
 )f the Members of the 
 )ds aforesaid, to have 
 hillings lawful money 
 , and the like sum for 
 •efrom to his place of 
 
 :h daily remuneration 
 £2,000 lawful iuoney 
 
 y Member of the said 
 I Legislature, to that 
 ;he acceptance of such 
 ; shall, thereupon, be 
 resignation, forthwith 
 ncil, in the place and 
 
 other person elected 
 ler station in the said 
 id Crfuncil, limited by 
 i Lecturers who have 
 ischarge the luties of 
 g of the said Council, 
 
 ) said Council at their 
 meet ing a Journal of 
 f the Members of the 
 ames of the Members 
 ejected or adopted by 
 id Council shall at all 
 isitor. Chancellor and 
 jhes of the Provincial 
 
 m whatever shall be 
 erson, being a candi- 
 ■ person to any of tlie 
 ■eafter be created, be 
 id, by the particular 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Legislative Council, 1830. 
 
 On the 8th of January, 1830, His Excellency Sir John Colborne, the Lieut- 
 enant-Governor, opened the second Session of the Tenth Parliament of Upper 
 Canada with the usual Speech from the Throne. (See page 292). 
 
 The members of the Council present during its Sessions were the Honour- 
 able John Beverley Robinson, Chief Justice, and the newly appointed Speaker ; 
 the Honourable and Venerable Archdeacon Strachan j the Honourable Messieurs 
 James Baby, William Dickson, William D. Powell (ex-Chief Justice), Joseph 
 Wells, Duncan Cameron, George H. Markland, John H. Dunn, William Allan,, 
 Peter Robinson, John McGill, Charles Jones, George Crookshank and Sir Wil- 
 liam Campbell (ex-Chief Justice). 
 
 It will be noticed that at the opening of the Session the Legislative Council 
 was very non-committal in its educational utterances, in response to the Lieut- 
 enant-Govtrnor's opening speech. In fact, it would be difficult to ascertain from 
 that response that the Governor had made any reference whatever to the pro- 
 posed College, or to the projected University. As the Session progressed a better 
 spirit prevailed ; and the Reverend Doctor Strachan, true to his scholastic and 
 educational instincts, broke the silence of the Council by proposing a compre- 
 hensive series of resolutions, highly appreciative of the energetic and practical 
 proceedings of Sir John Colborne, in founding the " Minor " College, as the 
 forerunner, and, in time, the great source of supply for the larger and more com- 
 prehensive Seminary yet to be established at the Capital of Upper Canada. 
 
 While the Legislative Council thus heartily endorsed the Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor's action in founding Upper Canada College, it declined to entertain, or pass, 
 the comprehensive Bill : " To Establish Upper Canada College," sent up to it by 
 the House of Assembly. Upon examining the Bill, it was evidently found by 
 the Members to be quite too comprehensive for the object aimed at, and its 
 machinery too complicated for the purposes of a purely preparatory, or " Minor," 
 College. The Bill was clearly not the kind of one intended to carry out the 
 simple design of the Lieutenant-Governor to establish a preparatory College. No 
 doubt the Bill was framed with a double purpose in view, viz. : (1) as a protest 
 against the character of the King's College Charter ; and (2) to put on record 
 what the House of Assembly understood should be a non-exclusive and Provincial 
 Institution. It was, however, a University Bill, pure and simple. It pro- 
 vided in the seventh section that the "College shall be deemed and 
 taken to be an University, etc.," and it provided in other sections for a Chan- 
 cellor, Professors, Tutors and all the usual officers of a University, and also for 
 the taking of degrees in the several arts and faculties, etc. Such an hybrid 
 institution wan clearly not acceptable to the Councii. Hence its Bill was 
 rejected ; and this rejection was commented on by the speakers at the public 
 meeting held in York on the 10th of December, 1830. (See page 301.) 
 20 (D.E.) 
 
306 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 8th January, 18S0. — Ordered, that an Address be presented to His Excellency the Lieut- 
 enant-Governor, in answer to his Speech at the opening of the Session. 
 
 Ordered, that the Honourable Messieurs Powell, Wells and the Honourable and Venerable 
 the Archdeacon of York, be apjwinted a Committee to prepare such an Address. 
 
 11th January, 18S0. — The Honourable and Venerable the Archdeacon of York, from the 
 Select Committee appointed to prepare an Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, 
 in answer to his speech at the opening or the Session, reported a draft thereof, which was read 
 a first time and referred to a Committee of the Whole. The Committee reported the draft 
 without amendment. It was read a second time, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. 
 
 ISth January, 1830. — Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the Address to His Excellency the 
 Lieutenant-Governor was read a third time and passed. [The part of it evidently relating to the 
 College Charter is as follows] : 
 
 It is gratifying, as well as interesting, for us to leani that the questions submitted to His 
 Majesty's Government, whatever difficulties may have occurred in determining them, or in 
 reconciling the respective interests with which they are connected, are passing through a diligent 
 investigation, as it evinces the earnest desire of His Majesty that this portion of his Dominion 
 should reap the full benefit of good laws and free institutions. 
 
 John B. Robikson. 
 
 Speaker. 
 Lkoisiative Council Chahbeb, 
 
 York, 12th of January, 1830. 
 
 Ordered, that the Honourable Messieurs Wells and Allan be a Committee to wait on His 
 Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, to know when he will be pleased to receive the House with 
 their Address. The Committee reported that His Excellency had appointed to-morrow at ten 
 o'clock a. m. for that purpose. 
 
 ISth January, 1830. — At the hour appointed the House proceeded to the Government 
 House, and having returned, the Speaker reported that His Excellency had been pleased to 
 receive their Address, and returned an answer thereto as follows : 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen : 
 
 I return you my thanks for this Address. 
 
 Govbrnment House, 
 
 YohK, 18th January, 1830. J. 0, 
 
 Wth January, 1830. — The Honourable William Dickson brought up the Petition of the 
 United Presbytery of Upper Canada, which was laid on the Table. 
 
 22nd Jamiary, 1830. — The Petition of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada, praying 
 for an Act to be passed providing for the education of the Presbyterian youth in this Province, 
 was read. 
 
 A deputation from the Commons House of Assembly brought up a Bill, intituled : "An Act 
 to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy," to w' ;cn they requested the concur- 
 rence of this House, and withdrew. 
 
 The Bill intituled : " An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy " was 
 read, and the same was ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday next. 
 
 ^th January, 1830. — Pursiant to the Order of the Day, the Bill intituled : " An Act to 
 Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy " was read a second time ; and it was 
 ordered, that the House be put into a Committee of the Whole cm the same to-morrow. 
 
 28lh January, 1830. — Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the House was put into a Com 
 mittee of the Whole on the Bill intituled : ''An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham 
 Acadenj • " '1 he Honourable Charles Jones took the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the said Bill intcj consideration, had made some progress therein, and asked leave to sit 
 again to-morrow. Ordered, that the Report be received, and leave granted accordingly. 
 
 2!Hh January, 1830. — Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the House was again put into a 
 Committee of the Whole on the Bill intituled : " An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Gran- 
 tham Acaiiemy. "" The Hiniourable William Allan took the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the said Bill into conwidoration, had made some progress therein, and asked leave to sit 
 again this day. Ordered, that the Report be received, and leave granted accordingly. 
 
 Mi 
 
NADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Ixcellenoy the Lieut- 
 
 rable and Venerable 
 ross. 
 
 I of York, from the 
 ieutenant-Governor, 
 :eof, which was read 
 I reported the draft 
 lird time to-morrow. 
 
 ) His Excellency the 
 ently relating to the 
 
 ns submitted to His 
 mining them, or in 
 ig through a diligent 
 ion of his Dominion 
 
 0BIK80N. 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 ittee to wait on His 
 eive the House with 
 ed to-morrow at ten 
 
 to the Government 
 Lad been pleased to 
 
 J. a 
 ;he Petition of the 
 
 er Canada, praying 
 th in this Province, 
 
 ntituled : "An Act 
 quested the concui- 
 
 am Academy " was 
 
 uled : "An Act to 
 1 time ; and it was 
 ;o-morrow. 
 
 'ak% put into a Coni- 
 Des of the Qranthani 
 
 the Committee had 
 asked leave to sit 
 iccordingly. 
 
 as again put into a 
 rusteesof theOran- 
 
 ;he Committee had 
 I asked leave to sit 
 ordingly. 
 
 Chap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 307 
 
 SOth January, 1550 -Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the House was again put into a 
 Committee of the \\hok, on the Bill intituled : "An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the 
 Grantham Academy. The Honourable Joseph Wells took the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed, and the Chairman reported, that the Committee had 
 t»ken the said BiU into consideration, had made some air.ondments thereto, and recommended 
 the same to the adoption of the House. Ordered, that the Report be received. 
 
 The said amendment was then read by the Clerk as follows : 
 
 Press 2, line 29.- After '• appoint " insert "6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid 
 That no person not a natural born subject of His Majesty, or a subject naturalized by Act of the BrS 
 Parliament, or by an Act of the Legislature of this Province, shall l>e capable of being chosen or appoint^ 
 after the passing of this Act, to be a Teacher in the said Academy . " appointeo, 
 
 The said amendment being read a second time, and the question of concurrence beinir out 
 It was agreed to by the House, and it was ordered, that the amendment be engrossed and the 
 Bill, as amended, be read a third time on Monday next. ' 
 
 lat February. 1«S0.— Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the Bill intituled • "An Act to 
 Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy," was, as amended, read a third time 'and 
 the question being put, whether this Bill as amended should pass, it was carried in the affirma 
 tive ; whereupon the Speaker signed the amendments, and it was ordered that the Maeter-in 
 Chancery do go down to the Assembly, and acquaint that House Miat the Legislative Council 
 have passed this Bill with amendments, to which they desire the concurrence of the Assembly. 
 
 9th February, 18S0.-On motion made and seconded, it was ordered, that the Petition of the 
 United Presbytery of Upper Canada, praying that the Education of the Presbyterian vouth in 
 the said Province may be provided for, be referred to a Select Committee, with power to send 
 for persons and papers, and to report upon the allegations set forth in the said Petition Ordered 
 that the Honourable Messieurs William Dickson and Geoive Crookshank be apDointed a Com 
 mittee for that purpose. 
 
 mh February 1830.— The Honourable William Dickson, from the Select Committee 
 appointed to consider and report upon the Petition of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada* 
 presented their Report. Ordered that the Report be received. The same was then read and 
 b as follows : " 
 
 To THE Honourable Sfeakbr of the Legislative Council : 
 
 The Select Conamittee appointed to examine into and report upon the subject matter of a 
 Petition from the United Presbytery of Upper Canada have made enciuiry into the allecations 
 contained in the said Petition, and beg leave to report : 
 
 2. That the Petition set.^ forth : 
 
 "That from the manner in which your Petitioners sUiid connected, in their Ministerial capacity with 
 a very large portion of His Majesty's subjects in this Province, they have the means of knowinV^ind ft is 
 with deep regret they are compelled to say, that the state of Education is in general in a dephrable condi! 
 tjon. Although for many years a liberal provision has been made for the education of youth in thi« 
 Province, yet the benevolent designs of the Legislature have failed in effecting the object thev had in 
 view. 'The appointment of Trustees from one communion alone has occasioned a jealousy in the minds o^ 
 the people, and destroyed that confidence which should ever be placed in the Public Inst^SnT of our 
 country. It might have been expected that as all classes of the community, and all denomkiationR of 
 Christians have to bear the expenses of these Institutions, that the interests of all would havTb^n eon 
 suited, and that persons of intelhgence and education of all denominations, would have been Xw«S^to 
 participate in their superintendence. Your Petitioners, with deep regret find that this is notthe cjwr" 
 
 3. For these allegations your Committee, after the minutest enquiry, have discovered that 
 there is not the slightest foundation ; and they think it a matter much to be regretted that a bodv 
 of men acting under so respectable a name as the " United Presbytery of Upper Canada " should 
 have advanced statements so entirely unsupported by facts, especially as these statements are of 
 a nature calculated to excite jealousies and discontent, where none ought in justice to exist. 
 
 4. The Act of 1807, under which the District (Grammar) Schools were established, has nothing 
 exclusive in any of its provisions. It authorizes the Government to appoint not less than five tit 
 and discreet persons in each District to be Trustees of the District (Grammar) School • these 
 trustees m each District are to nominate a tit and discreet person to be the Teacher and to 
 exfunine into his moral character, learning and capacity , and the Governor may aflir'm'or dis 
 afbrni their nomination. It will thus be seen that the law exacts no conformity to any uarticu' 
 
 ar creed or worship, either in the Trustees or Teacher. Fitness, discretion, moral character 
 Icrtrnuig and capa.ity, are the only qualifications the SUtute speaks of. ' 
 
 .„,! "-f" ^"'W "J ^' ^^ii'^!"a ;rin bo found on page 288. The biweedliigH of the Presbytery on this subiect 
 and Its reply to the Report of the Legislative Council on the Petition will be found at the end of the S. 
 lative Council proceedings, page 315. ^^^ i^egis- 
 
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 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
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 5. But the complaint is, that the Statute haa not been carried into effect in a liberal spirit- 
 That an exclusive system has been adopted, under which, it is stated, that the benefits intended 
 have been enjoyed but in a very partial manner, "except by the followers of one Church, 
 meaning, no doubt, the Church of England. 
 
 6. The District (Grammar) Schools, with respect to which the allegation is made, have been 
 established for twenty-two years. 
 
 7. Your Committee are aware, that in those Schools roost of the youth of the Province have 
 been educated who now fill the several professions in this Province, and <>f whom many do credit 
 to their respective Teachers. They are also aware, that the opportunities which these Schools 
 l»ve afiforded have been ever open equally to the youth of every religious denomination, that 
 the parents of all have appeared equally desirous that their children should profit by those 
 opportunities ; and this is the first occasion, within the knowledge of your Committee, in which 
 it has ever been intimated that the inhabitants of this country did not equally participate in the 
 advantages of those Schools without questiofi as to their religious faith, or without a distinction 
 of auiy kind founded on that principle. It is asserted in the Petition : 
 
 " That the Trustees of these Institutions, which ought to be impartially managed, for the benefit of 
 all, have been almost exclusively appointed from one denomination of Chriscians, and consequently your 
 Petitioners, and their congre^atiOM, as well as others in similar circumstances, have been deprived "* 
 that benefit which they had a right to expect would have arisen from them." 
 
 8. On reference to a list of the Trustees appointed on the 13th of March, 1807, soon after tho 
 passing of the Act, it appears that they were selected by the Executive Government from among 
 the most respectable inhabitants of the several Districts, without any regard to their religious 
 opinions, for Roman Catholics and Presbyterians, as well as members of the Church of England 
 are found among the number ; and in the District of Newcastle, there was at first, only one out 
 of six Trustees, a member of the Established Church. (See page 61.) 
 
 9. But if this assertion of the Petitioners were ct.rrect, avS it most certainly is not, it coi^ld be 
 of little moment as the Trustees have nothing to do with the education of the children, unless it 
 could be shown that, in consequence of such a selection of Trustees, the Teachers have been 
 exclusively taken from thisone favoured denomination, and that those opportunities of educ<ation 
 have in conse(juence been either denied to other denominations, or that a system of education has 
 been pursued which might materially render them disinclined to send their children. No com- 
 plaiat of the kind last supposed is even insinuated, and we are convinced that it coxild not be 
 advanced with any degree of justice. 
 
 10. It remains therefore to examine in what spirit ihe law has been acted upon in the 
 appointment of Teachers. .,>. 
 
 11. To enable your Honourable House to proitouftce upon that point, your Committee 
 submit the following list of Gentlemen who have h«d charge of the several District (Grammar) 
 Schools from their commencement to the present period ; and they have stated to what religious 
 denomination they believe the several Gentlemen to have belonged. 
 
 12. [n some very few cases their information is not positive, but they are only in doubt with 
 respect to two or three. That a difficulty of this kind should be found in any case arises from 
 the fact in the selecting Teachers no rule such as has been imputed has been observed : 
 
 The Reverend Samuel Armour of Toronto and Peterboro'. — An ordained Minister of the 
 Presbyterian Church when appointed, and while he held tho school ; he has since taken orders in 
 the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend W. D. Baldwyn of Cornwall. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 (Page 83.) 
 
 Mr. George Baxter of Kingston. — A Presbyterian. 
 
 The Reverend John Bethune of Cornwall. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend William R. Brown of York. — Clergyman of the Church of England, 
 
 Mr. John Burns of Niagara. — Presbyterian. 
 
 Mr. Hugh Bushby of Brockville. — Church of England, 
 
 Mr. E. Chad wick of London. — Congregational Minister. 
 
 Mr. Richard Cockrel of Niagara and Ancaster. — Believed to be a Presbyterian. 
 
 The Reverend Thomas Creeii of Niagara. — I'resbyterian Minister, has since taken orders in 
 the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend Rossington Elms of Toronto and Brockville. — Clergyman of the Church of 
 England. 
 
 Mr. James Fulton o? Cornwall. — Church of England. 
 
 liftf 
 
NADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 ict in a liberal spiril- 
 he benefits intended 
 3rs of one Church, 
 
 I is made, have been 
 
 )f the Province have 
 bom many do credit 
 which these Schools 
 denomination, that 
 ould profit by those 
 [Committee, in which 
 ily participate in tlie 
 without a distinction 
 
 (d, for the benefit of 
 ind consequently your 
 Ave been deprived "* 
 
 , 1807, soon after thii 
 3niment from among 
 i to their religious 
 ) Church of England 
 ^t first, only one out 
 
 \y is not, it coqU" be 
 le children, unless it 
 Feachers have been 
 bunities of education 
 teiii of education has^ 
 children. No com- 
 that it could not be 
 
 1 acted upon in the 
 
 it, your Committee 
 
 District (Grammar) 
 
 ted to what religious 
 
 e only in doubt with 
 ny case arises from 
 . observed : 
 
 led Minister of the 
 since taken orders in 
 
 jliurch of England. 
 
 f England. 
 >f England. 
 
 pterian. 
 
 ince taken orders in 
 
 1 of the Church of 
 
 Chap. XLTX. educational proceedinqs of u. c. legislature, 1830. 
 
 309 
 
 Mr. Henry James of Cornwall — Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend Joseph Johnston of Cornwall — Presbyterian Minister. 
 
 Mr. William Johnson of Amherstburgh and Sandwich. — Presbyterian when appointed, has 
 aince taken orders in the Church of England. 
 
 Mr. John Law of Hamilton.— Presbyterian. 
 
 The Reverend John Leeds of Brockville. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend Harry Leith of Cornwall. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend Ral^ih Leomingof— , Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend William Maoaulay of Cobourg. — Clergyn^an of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend Alexander Mcintosh of Sandwich. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend John McLaurin of Hawkesbury. — Clergyman of the Church of Scotland. 
 
 Mr. William Merrill of — , Church of England. 
 
 Mr. James Mitchell of London. —Church of Scotland, afterward Judge of the County Court 
 of London. 
 
 Mr. David Ovans of Cobourg. — Believed to be Church of England. 
 
 Mr. James PadCeld of Brockville.— Methodist when appointed ; afterward Church of Eng- 
 land Minister. 
 
 Mr. William Pitt—, of Church of England. 
 
 Mr. Alexander Pringle of — , Presbyterian. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Phillips, D.D. , of York. — Clergyman of Church of England. 
 
 Mr. Stephen Randal of Hamilton. — Church of England. 
 
 Mr. David Robertson of Sandwich. — Presbyterian when appointed, and while he held school, 
 ^ut has since taken orders in the Church of England. 
 
 Mr. George Ryerson of London. — Chu eh of England when appointed, now a Methodist 
 Minister. 
 
 Mr. John Stewart of Perth. — Believed to be a Presbyterian. 
 
 The Reverend George Okill Stuart of Kingston. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend John Strachan of York. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 The Reverend Hugh Uniuhirt of Cornwall.— Clergyman of the Church of Scotland. 
 
 The Reverend John Wilson of Kingston. — Clergyman of the Church of England. 
 
 Mr. John Whitelaw of Kingston and Niagara. — Presbyterian. 
 
 It appears, therefore that according to this Hat, which we believe to be correct, twenty of 
 the Teachers appointed during the whole period have been members of the Church of England, 
 and eighteen have been members of other religious persuasions, including in those eighteen, 
 aixteen Presbyterians, and six [altered to eight on the 27th of February, 1830,] of these in 
 Holy Orders. 
 
 It is also observable that those who held tha situations for the longest periods of time, are : 
 
 Of the Church of England. 
 
 1 
 Years. 
 
 16 
 
 7 
 
 Of Presbyterians. 
 
 Years. 
 
 The Reverend Dr. Strachan 
 
 Mr. John Whitelaw 
 
 9 
 
 The Reverend John Wilson 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 Mr. John Burns 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 13. And it also but just to state, that for a long time ivnd in several of the Districts the resi- 
 dent clergymen of the Church of England was the only Gentleman either able or desirous to take 
 charge of a classical school, and that these being selected in such cases certainly afi'ords no proof 
 of an illiberal spirit. When to those facts it is added, from information aftorded to the Comn.:*^^- 
 tee by an Honourable member of this House, that on theoccasiua ot a vacancy occurrnig m the 
 District of Johnstown the Reverend Mr. William Smart, the very gentleman who in the capacity 
 of Moderator of the Presbyterians signs the Petition referred to us, might have obtained the 
 situation of Teacher of the District School of that District, in which he then resided and still 
 
310 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPEtl CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 ;'i 
 
 resides, and that ho declined underUking the charge. Your Committee think it unnecessary to 
 go into other details to show how little the allegatiuns in the Petition correspond with the facts. 
 14. Your Committee cinnot but express deep regret that the sanction of any respectable 
 signature should have been given to statements calculated to mislead public opinion, and to create 
 an- excitement injurious to the peace of society. 
 
 William Dickson, 
 
 r ^ „ „ Chairman. 
 
 Leoislative Council, Committee Room, 
 
 19th February, 1830. 
 
 Ordered, That the House be put into Committee of the Whole on the foregoing Report to- 
 morrow. 
 
 A deputation from the Commons House of Assembly returned the Bill int tuled : "An Act 
 to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grantham Academy," and acquainted this House that the 
 Commons House of As-embly had agreed to the amendments made to the same by the Legisla- 
 tive Council. 
 
 kiOth Fchniary, ZAW.— Agreeably to the Order of the Day. the House went into Committee 
 of the Whole on the Report of the Select Committee on the I'etition of the United Presbytery 
 of Upper Canada. ' 
 
 The Honourable George Crookshank took the chair. 
 
 After some time- the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the said Report of the Select Committee into consideration, and had agreed to a 
 Resolution which they recommended to the adoption of the House. Ordered that the Report 
 be received. 
 
 The said Resolution was then read as follows : \ 
 
 Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee that the Report be again referred to the 
 same Select Committee with instructions to reconsider the same, in order th»t all the statements 
 may be carefully ascertained to correspond with the facts, and in particular avoiding the 
 . designation "Church of Scotland," as distinguished from " Presbyterians " when they are not 
 certain that the Teacher belonged to that Church. The (|uestion of concurrence being put, the 
 said Resolution was agreed to by the House. (See page 315.) 
 
 aSrd Fehrnary, 18S0.~The Honourable and Venerable the Archdeacon of York gave notice 
 that on Thursday next, he will move certain Resolutions on the subject of Education in this 
 Province. 
 
 S5th February, 1830.— A deputation from the Commons House of Assembly brought up and 
 delivered at the Bar of this House a Message in the following words, and then withdrew : 
 Mr. Speaker : 
 
 The Commons House of Assembly request permission for the Honourable James 
 Baby, a Member of your Honourable House, to attend and give evidence before a Select 
 Committee of this House to which has been referred the Report of the Trustees of the Western 
 District School. 
 
 Marshall S. Bidwell, 
 
 Si)eaker. 
 Commons Hou.sb of A.««embly, 
 
 York. 25th February, 1830, 
 
 Ordered, that Mr. D'Arcy Boulton, the Mastor-in-Chancery, do go down to the Assembly 
 and acquaint that House tfiat the Honourable James Baby has leave to attend a Select Committee 
 of the Commons Houie of Assembly, as desired by that House in their Messase of this day. if he 
 thinks tit. s j. 
 
 Pursuant to notice, the Honourable and Venerable the Archdeacon of York, laid on the 
 Table certain Resolutions on the subject of Education, and it was ordered that the same be tsiken 
 into consideration on Saturday next. 
 
 ^7tk Fehrnary, iifSO. — Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the House took into consideration 
 certain Resolutions on the subject of Education, proposed by the Honourable and Venerable John 
 Straclian, which were read as follows : 
 
 1. Resolmd, That this Hou.se would do injustice to their feelings, were they to suffer the 
 present segsiou to teiuiiuale without an oAprossion of their sentiments upon a subject of such 
 deep interest to the inhabitants of the Province as that of Education. 
 
 2. Eeioloed, That this House has beheld with gre^t satisfaction the successful issue of the 
 exertions made by His Exoellency to ostoblish in this Province a Classical School of so superior 
 
DA. 
 
 1830 
 
 ik it unneci!8»ary to 
 jond with the facta. 
 
 of any respectable 
 linion, and to create 
 
 Dickson, 
 Chairman. 
 
 iregoing Report to- 
 ut tuled : " An Act 
 lis House that the 
 une by the Legisla- 
 
 >nt into Committee 
 United Presbytery 
 
 (le Committee had 
 
 had agreed to a 
 
 1 that the Report 
 
 i 
 
 ;ain referred to the 
 t all the statements 
 iular avoiding the 
 vhen they are not 
 »ce being put, the 
 
 f York gave notice 
 Education in this 
 
 bly brought up and 
 1 withdrew : 
 
 onourable James 
 :e before a Select 
 ees of the Western 
 
 !. BlDWELl, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 n to the Assembly 
 , Select Committee 
 e of this day, if he 
 
 York, laid on the 
 the same be taken 
 
 into consideration 
 id Venerable John 
 
 they to suffer the 
 a subject of such 
 
 ^essful issue of the 
 hool of so superior 
 
 Chap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 311 
 
 a description that it well merits the appellation of a College, and it is earnestly hoped that it 
 may receive on all hands that protection which is necessary to secure it stability and to increase 
 and perpetuate the iiiestimable benefit* which it is at this moment conferring. 
 
 3. Resolved, That the Legislature of this Colony has not hitherto lost sight of the obligation they 
 were mder to provide for the diffusion of Education among all classes of the people. From an 
 early period a Classical Seminary has been established in each District of the Province, 
 encouraged by a salary provided for the Teacher from the Public Revenue ; and Common 
 Schools have, at a great charge, been maintained in most of the settled Townships ; and it is 
 hoped that the increasing means of the country will, in a short time, justify the Legislature in 
 putting those valuable institutions which have already been productive of much good, upon a 
 still more respectable footing. 
 
 4. Resolved, That by an Act of Royal Munificence justly apprecinted, our Graciou* 
 Sovereign has liberally endowed an University, which in the course of a very short time, will 
 open to the you*' of this Province the advantages of the highest branches of knowledge, and a 
 complete system of Education, not to be exceeded on this Continent, and afTord them, in their 
 native land, the opportunity of obtaining literary honours, under the instruction of able Professor* 
 from our Mother Country, 
 
 6. Resolved, That t<i give the full benefit of such an Institution by preserving the distinctive 
 character of an University, it was wisely judged by His Excellency, that a great Public School 
 or College ought to be established in a situation the most convenient to the Province generally, 
 in which the means might be afforded, at a very moderate charge, of advancing in classical 
 learning and the mathematics, upon an uniform system of instruction, commencing with the 
 elements, and preparing the youth for entering the University well qualified to iiiprove, to the 
 utmost, the atlvantage which will be opened to them. 
 
 6. Resolved, That what was only designed a few months ag(j is now most happily accomplished. 
 We have at this moment in Upper Canada a very gratifying distinction of possessing means of 
 education that leave to parents nothing to envy or desire, in comparing the advantages of 
 instruction enjoyed in by their children with those which are presented by some of the first 
 Public Schools in Great Britain. We find five gentlemen, who have graduated in English 
 Universities, superintending the Classical and Mathematical departments of the Upper Canada 
 College, while instruction in the very desirable accomplishments of the French language and 
 drawing is given by Masters highly qualified for the charge. 
 
 7. Resolved, That this House is not surprised that this admirable provision for education 
 should so rapidly have attracted attention, that there are now not less than ninety pupils in the 
 College , a flattering proof of the great extent to which its benefits will hereafter be felt. 
 
 8. Resolved, That this House cordially congratulate His Excellency upon the entire success 
 which appears to have attended the judicious means employed in the selection of the Principal 
 and Masters, and we welcome their arrival in the Colony with the most sincere satisfaction, not 
 (juestioning but that, in the very extended field which they will find open to their important 
 labours, they will so exert themselves as to lay the foundation of incalculable good for future 
 generations, and procure for themse'ves the gratitude of thousands who, by their instruction and 
 example, will be rmdoredvirtuous.andv enlightened members of Society. 
 
 9. Resolved, Taat this House is not insensible to the lesponsibility which His Excellency 
 has assumed in th's promptly carrying into effect so very lib.ral a design, and in the humble 
 hope that their testimony may contribute in some measure to relieve His Excellency from its 
 weight, it is deemed proper to express the unanimous convicition of the Legislative Council, 
 that every motive of sound policy concurs in pointing out the expediency of placing on a sure 
 and permanent footing the Institution which has had so auspicious a commencement. 
 
 10. Resolved, That this House presumes not to suggest resources nor to enter upon details^ 
 which, doubtless. His Excellency ha« duly considered, and will not fail to take paternal 
 consideration of His Majesty's Government, but content themselves with declaring their opinion 
 that, so far from injuriously interfering with the University of King's College, this Institution 
 will eminently conduce to its utility, and was necessary to prepare the way for its beneficial 
 intention. 
 
 11. Resolved, That this House feels that the zealous exertions of His Excellency in so 
 speedily eft'ecting this great public object has entitled His Excellency to the sratitude of the 
 people of Upper Canada, and that this House is persuaded that His Majesty's Government will 
 not fail to perceive the incalculable advantages which must result from giving the most liberal 
 support to Hm Excellency's efforts in the cause of Education. 
 
 12. Resolved, Thet an humble Address to the Lieutenant-Governor be founded on these 
 Resolutions, and that the same be presented to His Excellency. 
 
 On motion made and seconded, it was ordered. That the House be put into a Committee of 
 the Whole on the above Resolutions on Monday next. 
 
312 
 
 IX)CUMENTAUY HISTORV OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 11 ir^ 
 
 27th February, i<<50.— The Honourable William Dickson, from the Select Oonunittee to 
 -whom was referred the PetiDion of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada, praying that the 
 education of the Presbyterian youth in tapper Canmla be provided for, presented their Rfjjort. 
 Ordered, that the report bo received. The same was then read, and is as reported on the IJIth 
 of February, 1830. On motion made and seconded it was ordered, that the above Petition, 
 together with the Report on the same, be printed.* 
 
 Ixt March, IHSi). — Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the House was put into a Committee 
 of the Whole on the Resolutions introduced by the Honourable and Venerable John Strachan, 
 on the subject of Education. The Honourable Peter Robinson took the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed, and the CI irman reported th it the Committee had 
 taken tho Resolutions into consideration and recomm led them to the adoption of the House. 
 Ordered, that the Report be received. The (juestioa of concurrence being put on each, the 
 said Resolutions were severally agreed to by the House, and it was ordered, that the Honour- 
 able William Dickson and tho Honourable and Venerable the Archdeacon of York be appointed 
 a Committee to prepare an Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, founded on the 
 foregoing Resolutions. 
 
 2nd March, 1830. — A deputation from the Commons House of Assembly brought up a Bill 
 intituled : " An Act to Establish Upper Canada College," to which they requested the concurrence 
 of this House, and withdrew. 
 
 The Bill intituled " An Act to Establish Upper Canada College," was read a first time, 
 and it was ordered, that the same be read a second time to-morrow. 
 
 3rd March, 1830.- -Extract from the Report <.if the Special Committee appointed to inquire 
 into and report upon the present division of the Province in Districts and Coimties, etc. 
 
 The only provincial demand from the new District will be the annual salary of one hundred 
 pounds for the Schoolmaster, with the advantage of the Common School Fund in an augmented 
 population. 
 
 Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the Bill 'ntituled "An Act to Estiblish Upper Canada 
 College," was read a second time, and it was ordeitd, that the Houst, 'lo put into a Committee 
 of the W^hole on the same Bill to-morrow. 
 
 4th March, 1830. — The Honourable William Dickson, from the Select Committee appointed 
 to prepare an Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, founded on certain Resolu- 
 tions on the subject of Education, reported a draft thereof which he read in his place. It was 
 ordered, that the Report be received. The said draft wus then read by the Clerk. 
 
 On motion made and seconded, it was ordered, that the House be now put into Committee 
 of tho Whole to ttke the said Address into consideration. The Honourable Peter Robinson 
 took the chair. 
 
 After some tinae the House resumed, and the Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 gone through the said Address and recommended the same to the adoption of the House. 
 Ordered, that the Report be received ; and ordered, that the Address be engrossed and read a 
 third time this day. 
 
 Uh March, 1830. — Pursuant to order, the Address to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Gov- 
 ernor on the subject of Education was read a third time and passed. 
 
 On motion made and seconded it was ordered, that the Honourable William Dickson and 
 the Honourable and Venerable the Archdeacon of York be appointed a Committee to wait on 
 His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor to know when he would be p'eased to receive this 
 House with their Address. 
 
 Pursuant to the Order of the Day, the House was put int^ a Committee of the Whole on 
 the Bill intituled : " An Act to Establish Upper Cantda College." The Honourable .Joseph Wells 
 took the chair. 
 
 After some time the House resumed. Tho Chairman reported that the Committee had 
 taken the said Bill into consideration, had made some progress therein, and asked bave to sit 
 again this day three months. Ordered, that the Reporc be received and leave granted accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 (Note —Thus, the Bill to establish Upper Canada Ctdlege was rejected by the Legislative 
 Council. For the prob vble reasons for this rejection, see page 306). 
 
 jlit 
 
 *The only change made by the Select Committee, to which this Report was referred back, (page 810), was 
 the preBxing to the ninth paragraph of the foUuwiner words : " Your Committee have no reason to sup- 
 pose any ether intention has governed in filhng up the vacancies, whatever may happen to be the rehgious 
 persuasion of the present Trustee;! in any of the Districts." (See page 315). 
 
\DA. 
 
 1830 
 
 lect Committee to 
 praying that tlie 
 nted their Rpixnt. 
 ported on the lJ)th 
 le above Petition, 
 
 into a Committee 
 lie John Strachan, 
 r. 
 
 le Committee liad 
 tion of the House. 
 ; put on each, the 
 that the Honour- 
 York be appointed 
 or, founded on the 
 
 brought up a Bill 
 ed the concurrence 
 
 read a first time, 
 
 •pointed to inquire 
 inties, etc. 
 
 kry of one hundred 
 d in an augmearud 
 
 liah Upper Canada 
 into a Committee 
 
 mmittee appointed 
 on certain Kesolu- 
 his place. It was 
 lerk. 
 
 ut into Committee 
 e Peter Robinson 
 
 he Committee had 
 ion of the House, 
 grossed and read a 
 
 3 Lieutenant-Gov- 
 
 lliam Dickson and 
 umittee to wait on 
 led to receive this 
 
 J of the Whole on 
 rable .Joseph Wells 
 
 he Committee had 
 asked iDava to sit 
 ve granted accord- 
 by the Legislative 
 
 back, (page 310), was 
 e no reanon to .sup- 
 m to be the religious 
 
 Chap. XLIX. EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF U. C. LEGISLATURE, 1830. 313 
 
 6th March, 1830.— The Honourable William Dickson, from the Select Committee appointed 
 to wait on His Excellency tho Lieutenant-Governor to know when this House would be received 
 wi'h 'heir Address on the subjoct of Education, reported that they had done so, and that His 
 E.v'.e ency had appointed to-morrow at ten of the clock for that purpose. 
 
 6c7i March, 1H30. — At tin; hour appointed their Honours waited upon His Excellency the 
 Lieutenant-Governor with the Address to the King and the Address to His ExcoUenoy, and 
 having returned, the Speaker rep "-ed that His Excellency had been pleased to make the follow- 
 ing reply : 
 
 HOKOCKABLE GeNTLBMRN : 
 
 I thank the Legislative Council for this Address. I trust that the Seminary established at 
 York umler very favourable circumstances will be protected by His Majesty's Government, and 
 receive continued encouragement from the Provincial Parliament. 
 
 J. C. 
 
 OOVBRNMHNT HOUSB, 
 
 York, 6th March, 1880. 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor, having directed the Members of the Commons House of Assem- 
 bly to be summoned to the Legislative Council Chamber. On their arrival His Excellency was 
 ploased, in the King's name, to assent to the following Bill :— " An Act to Incorporate the Trus- 
 tees of the Grantham Academy." 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor then closed the session of the Legislature with the 
 usual Speech. Jn it he .made no reference to the subject of Education. 
 
 The following is a copy of the Act to which the Governor's assent had been 
 given : 
 
 11th GEORGE IV., CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 An Act to Inoorporatk the Trustees of Grantham Academy, St. Catharine."}. 
 Sir John Colbonie, Lieuteuaiit-Oovemor. 
 
 Passed 6th March, 1830. 
 Most Gracious Sovereign : 
 
 Whereas subscriptions have been entered into by divers inhabitants of the Vil- Preamble, 
 lage of St. Catharines, in the District of Niagara, and its vicinity, for the purpose 
 of establishing an Academy in the said village, and it is considered that if the stock- 
 holders sh'uld be incijrporated and vested with powers for the regulation and good 
 government of the said Academy, the same would become of great benefit and 
 advantage to the public ; And whereas, Robert Campbell, Jacob Keefer, John Petitioners. 
 Gibson, Chauncey Beadle and Lyman Parsons have, by their petition presented to 
 the Legislature, prayed for such incorporation ; Be it therefore enacted by the 
 King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legisla- 
 tive Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada^ constitutod and 
 assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament 
 of Great Britain, intituled : "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in 
 the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, ' An Act for making more 
 effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North 
 America,' and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province," vj »• < 
 and by the authority of the same. That on the first Monday in May in this present subscribers to 
 year, and in every year thereafter, there shall be held a meeting of the subscribers be held in St. 
 to the Grantham Academy in the Village of St. Catharines, of persons holding stock Catharines, in 
 therein, at which meeting shall be chosen from amongst the subscribers or stock- May to elect 
 holders, by a majority of them then there present, five Trustees, three of whom ^^® Trustees, 
 shall be a quorum for transacting all business relating to the said Academy, and 
 tlio appointment of a Treasurer, Secretary, Masters, Assistants and other necessary Appointment 
 officers and their salaries ; and by-laws shall then and there be made for the govern- Trecwurer^^' 
 raent of the school, and such other matters as to the said Trustees shall appertain Masters As- 
 to do ; and it shall be the duty of the said Trustees for the time being, to give aistants,' etc. 
 public notice at least two weeks previous to the meeting of the stockholders, which 
 is to be held on the first Monday in May annually. 
 
 ir. Ar.fl hf it. fsirther enacted hy the Ruthc-rity sfore-aid. That the said Triis- TrustcCT, 
 tees, together with the Treasurer and Secretary for the time being, and their sue- Treasurer and 
 cessors, to be chosen as aforesaid, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a ^«:ret"y de- 
 body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name of the Trustees of the ^"^^* *"""' 
 Grantham Academy, and shall have perpetual succussiim and a common seal, with 
 
314 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTOUY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Ml 
 
 Oorporation 
 may hold five 
 acres of land. 
 
 Shares Jt'2.10 
 each. 
 
 Stookholders 
 to vote in pro- 
 portion to 
 ■hares held- 
 
 None to be 
 T-u«tees or 
 Oiticers except 
 stockholders 
 and British 
 subjects. 
 
 None but Brit- 
 ish subjects to 
 be appointed 
 teachers. 
 
 Statement of 
 the aSfairs to 
 be laid before 
 the stock- 
 holders . 
 Annual elec- 
 tion of trus- 
 tees. 
 
 Shares to be 
 transferable. 
 
 Extra roeet- 
 ins* may be 
 called. 
 
 A Public Act. 
 
 Stock, or 
 effects, not to 
 exceed £5,000. 
 
 power t ) ehaiicte, alter, break or mnko uow the siine ; and thoy or their successors 
 by the name aforesaitl. may suo and bo suwl. defend and be defended, in all or any 
 court or courts of record and i»U';o8 of jurisdiction within this Province ; and hhiill 
 lawfully hold, use, receive, enjoy, possess and retain for the end and purpo8«'8 of 
 this Act, and in trust and for the benefit of the stockholders in the said Academy, 
 all such sum and sums of money us have been hud, subscribed and kIvou, or shall 
 at any time or times hereafter be paid, subscribed or n'lvon by any person (jr per- 
 sons, to and for the advantage of the said Academy ; and that they and their sue 
 cessors, by the name aforesaid, siiall and may, at any time hereafter, take, receive, 
 have, hold, posiesa and enjoy, for the use and benefit of the said Academy, five 
 acres of land, with the tenements or hereditaments thereto appertaining, and also 
 all goods and chattels, for the purposes of the said stockholders, and for no other 
 purpose whatsoever, and the said Trustees and their successors, or the majority of 
 them, shall have full power to pay and dispose of the revenues, and manage the 
 said estate and affairs of the said stockholders in the said Academy, in sucli manner 
 as they may judge to be most advantageous to them. 
 
 III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That a share in the 
 stock of the said Academy shall be two pounds ton shillings, and that each stock- 
 holder shall be entitled to a number of vo es proportioned to the number of shares 
 which he op she shall have held, in his or her own name, at least three months prior 
 to the time of voting, according to the following ratios, t*>at is to say : One vote 
 for each share not exceeding thr^e ; four votes for six shires ; five votes for eight 
 ■hares ; six votes for tea shares ; and one vote for every five shares above ton. 
 
 IV. And bo it furthei enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person 
 shall be eligible to the office of Trustee, Treasurer or Secretary, or be appointed to 
 the same, who shill not be a stockholder to the amount of one nhare, or who is not 
 a natural born subject of His Majesty, or a subject nabiralized by an Act ot Uie 
 British Parliament, or by any statute of this Province ; and that in case any vacancy 
 or vacancies sliall at any time happen among the Trustees, Treasurer or Secretary, 
 by death, resignation or removal from the Province, the same shall be filled for the 
 remainder of the period of service by such per-son or persons as the majority of the 
 Trustees may appoint. 
 
 V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That no person, not 
 a natural born subject of His Majesty, or a subject naturalized by Act of the British 
 Parliament, or by an act of the Legi«lature of this Province, shall be capable of 
 being chosen or appointed, (after the passing of this Act), to be a teacher in the 
 ■aid Academy. 
 
 VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That it shall be the 
 duty of the Trustees, Treasurer and Secretary, at every meeting appf)inted for the 
 election of Trustees, Treasurer and Secretary, and previous to the proceeding to the 
 election, to give an exact and particular statement of the affairs of the ins itution, 
 and to inake, at such meetings a;B aforesaid, a dividend of the profits of the institu- 
 tion, if any, after deducting the proper and necessary expenses thereof. 
 
 VI r. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the shares of 
 stock in the said Academy shall be transferable, and may, from time to time, be 
 transferred by the respective persons so subscribing or afterwards holding the samo ; 
 Provided, that such transfer or transfers be entered in a book or books kept for 
 that purpose by the said Secretary, to which books and all other records of the pro- 
 ceedings of the Trustees, every stockholder shall, at all times, have fiee access. 
 
 VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and 
 may be lawful, at any time, when at ler st one-half of the stockholders shall wish to- 
 call an extra meeting of tlie stockholders, to give notice, as above stated, to take 
 into consideration any further measures connected with the interest of the school. 
 
 IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this A< t shall 
 be taken to be a Public Act and be judicially noticed as such in the Courts of Jus- 
 tice in this Province, without bein.< specially pleaded. , 
 
 X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall not be 
 lawful for the s^id Cjrpor.ition to hold stock, property or effects, for th« purpose* 
 aforesaid, to a larger amount than five thousand pounds. 
 
\DA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Chap. L. MATTERS HELATINO TO UI'I'EU CANADA LEdlSLATION, ISIJO. 316 
 
 or their successurs 
 jnded, in nil or any 
 'rovineu ; nnd hIihII 
 td and purpom-B of 
 the said Academy, 
 md Kiveii, or shall 
 any person or per- 
 ;hoy and their suo 
 kfter, take, receive, 
 said Aoadeisy, tive 
 ertaining, and also 
 and for no other 
 or the majority of 
 >, and manage the 
 iiy, in such manner 
 
 Phat a share in the 
 d that each stock - 
 e number of shares 
 : three months prior 
 to say : One vote 
 ive votes tor eight 
 iroa above ten. 
 i, That no perHon 
 or be appointed to 
 •hare, or who is not 
 by an Act o( Mie 
 in case any vacancy 
 surer or Secretary, 
 tall be tilled for the 
 the majority of the 
 
 hat no person, not 
 ly Act of the British 
 shall be capable of 
 e a teacher in the 
 
 rhat it shall be the 
 g appointed for the 
 le proceeding to the 
 of the ins itution, 
 •otits of the institu- 
 thereof. 
 
 Triat the shares of 
 I time to time, be 
 Is holding the samo ; 
 or books kept for 
 p records of the pro- 
 ave f I ee access. 
 , That it shall and 
 olders shall wish to 
 )V0 stated, to take 
 irest of the school, 
 rhat this A<t, shall 
 the Courts of Jus- 
 
 'hat it shall not be 
 8, for th« purposea 
 
 CHAPTEU L. 
 
 VARIOUS MATTERS RELATING TO THE UPPER CANADA LEGISLA- 
 TION OB' 1830. ETC. 
 
 1. Proceedings of the Upper Canada Presbytery in UEcukD to its Petition! 
 
 On Monday, the 11th of January, 1830, the United Presbytery of Upper Canada met in the 
 Presbyterian Church of the Reverend Mobeit Boyd, Prescolt. The minutes of the last Presby- 
 tery being read, the Committee of the Literary and Theological Institution was called on for 
 their Report. 
 
 The following was submitted and referred for future consideration ; 
 
 The Committee, in reporting the result of their enquiries, are happy in informing the Pres- 
 bytery that the erection of a Litorai-y Institution, embracing a course of app'opriate studies for 
 such as are assigned for the Christian ministry, meets with the most decided and undivided 
 approbation of the friends of Christ and the public in general. 
 
 The Coinmitteo, in the prosecution of their inciuiries, have felt great encouragement that 
 Divine Providence has offered such a door of usefulness to the Church, and are cheered in the 
 prospect of the imperishable blessings that will be reaped by the present and future generations 
 throi;.gh the medium of the contemplated Seminary. 
 
 The Committee have no doubt but Ho in Whose hands are all hearts will influence the 
 friends of science and religion to establish and .support an Institution that cannot but be a bless- 
 mg to the community and the Christian Church in particular. 
 
 The Committee would respectfully but deeply impress o the minds of the members of the 
 Presbytery that the Institution is of vital importance to the prosperity of tjtn Redeemer's King- 
 dom, and therefore urge with affectionate solicitude the prompt prosecution of this object, and, in 
 order that no time be lost, they would recommend the folluwnig to their serious c(msideration : 
 
 1. That a plan of the Institution be drawn up, embracing the studies to be pursued, rules 
 for the government of the same, together with an elevation and ground plan of the buildings, in 
 order that a correct view may be had of the design uf the Institution. 
 
 2. That a respoctfi-l application bo made to the Provincial Government, praying for such 
 assistance as they in their wisdom may deem most expedient. 
 
 3. That an appeal be immediately prepared and addressed to the public, agents appointed 
 to circulate subscription papers and receive contributions in books and money. 
 
 4. That an immediate correspondence be entered into with the diflferent ecclesiastical 
 bodies, especially the General Assembly of the Church cf Scotland, Synods, Presbyteries and 
 Associations in Great Britain and Ireland, soliciting their aid and concurrence in the objects of 
 this Presbytery and on the subject of the seminary in particular ; such being the extent of our 
 deliberations, to your consideration all is most respectfully submitted. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be insUuctod to write immediately to the Reverend William Bell 
 to ascertain whether he has forwarded to the Legiwlature the Petitions respecting the state of 
 education in Upper Canada and relating to the District Grammar and Common Schools, and, if 
 forwarded, by whom aunt.— BrockviUe Recorder, .January, IS.V). 
 
 2. Reply of the Upper Canada Presbytery to the Report, by the Leg's- 
 LATivE Council, on its Petition to the Legislature. 
 
 On Tuesday evening, Ist June, 1830, the United Presbytery of Upper Canada assembled in 
 the Presbyterian Church, Brockville. Among other subjects tlwt came before them, a paper 
 i)urporting to be a Report of a Committee of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada upon a 
 Petition from the Presbytery upon the subject of Education was laid bef(U-e them. A Com- 
 mittee was appointed to consider this Report and they submitted the following Report : 
 
 " Your Committee having considered the Report of the Legislative Council, they are of tho 
 opinion that it does not fairly meet the ground of complaint contained in the Petition, and 
 appears designed as an aitaok upon the integrity of the Prestjytery. That the Presbytery were 
 correct appears from the number of shifts that the Council tiy in order to evade the main ground 
 of complaint. They tell us that there is nothing exclusive in the statute of 1807 which makes 
 provision for the District (Grammar) Schools. But this only shows that the Presbytery had the 
 
 H 
 
_..|, " •""a.jawi ii www.-i i .nii iT ,»'iJm 'i i»ni| 'i ' 
 
 316 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 greater roMon to complain, for, although tliero is nothing exoluaive in tho atatuto, it han been 
 acted upon in an exclusive manner. Bonidou, their referring to the Act ia nothing ))Ut an evii- 
 Hion ; for tho Presbytery did not complain of the Htatute, but of the juannor in which it wa» 
 carrieil into etlect. Tlio Presbytery complaintd principally of the lessening of public contidonoe 
 in the District ((Jrannnar) Schools in constKiuonce of the almost oxclusive appointment of Trus- 
 tees from one conununion. This, the Connnittee of tho Legislative Council lias not proved, nor 
 sttompted to prove to be otherwise, which they, no doubt, would have done, if they could, by 
 publishing a list of the Trustees of the District Schools and niemberi, of the Board of Education 
 of the several Districts and showing to what religious doiominitiou they belonged. The oidy 
 particulars into which they enter respecting Trustees are with regard to only one District and 
 that upwards tif twenty years ago, instead of exhibiting what is really tho case now. This is an 
 evidence, however, that they did not misunderstand the purport of the Petition. Although 
 they did understand it, instead of giving a list of Trustees, and making itaj)] ear that the spirit 
 of the statute hiis not been violateii, the Committee of the Council, in order to mislead the public 
 and totally evade the n.ain ground of complaint, give a list of Teachers of District Schools and 
 notice that ihey have not all belonged to the Church of England. But. if this proves anything, 
 it proves too muoli, for they have thus unintentionally given us an additional proof of tho evil 
 tendenay of the exclusive system that has been pursued. F.n* if those Teachers that were not 
 originally Episcopalians, before they came under the inHnence of this exclusive system, it is a 
 remarkable fact, and one deserving of pariicular notice, that many have, (to use their own 
 words), " Since that taken orders in the Church of England." The Committee of tho Presbytery 
 are fully as8ure<l from their own accjuaintance with the existing state of things that the state- 
 ments contained in the Petition are correct, jind that tht Trustees of the District Schools are 
 almost exclusively aj)pointed from one religious denomination, and that they are not aware that a 
 ■ingle Clergyman of any denomination other than the Church of England has ever been appointed 
 Trustee of the District (Grammar; Schocds, or that any Clergyman of the Church of England 
 resident in the town or village where the District ((Jrammar) School is established has been 
 passed by. But, in order that the i)ublic may be thoroughly convinced of this by a minute and 
 accurate proof, Your Committee recommend to the Presbytery : 
 
 " 1. That a respectful application be made to His Excellency tho Lieutenant Governor for an 
 authenticated copy of the Report of the Legislative Council on tho subject of the Petition of the 
 Presbytery on Education and also an oflic al list of the Trustees of the District (Grammar) 
 Schools, and of the members of tho Boards of Education throughout the Province. 
 
 " 2. That the Clerk be instructed to write to the absent members of this Presbytery and 
 other respectable individuals and request thorn to furnish the Moderator with a list of the Trus- 
 tees of the District (Grammar) Schools and the members of the Poard of Education in their 
 raspective Distriota and the respective denominations to which they belong, — the said reports to 
 be made to the Moderator, if possible, on or before the Ist of July. All which, etc." 
 
 Brockville, May, 1830. 
 
 Robert MoDowall, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 3. King's College Council and thh Upper Canada Legislature, 1830. 
 
 The Upper Canada House of A.s.sembly having requested Sir John Colborne, 
 the Lieutenant-Governor, to obtain for it information in regard to the receipts 
 and expenditure, up to that year, of the propo.sed University of King's College, 
 His Excellency re(iue.sted the College Council to furnish him with the desired 
 information. An account of the proceedings of the Council in regard to this 
 request, made in February, 1830, is giv.n in the Report of the Commissioners, 
 appointed by Lord Elgin in IH-l-S, to encjuire into the financial management of 
 the University. 
 
 The Commissioners of 1848, referring to this subject in their Report, say : 
 
 Tho CoUeRe Council, at so early a date as February, 18.30, manifested a repugnance tfi the 
 submission cf its tiscai aifairs to the Provincini Legislature Tiie following eitracl from Uio 
 Council minutes will show the views entertained Uy that body on this subject : 
 
 " The attention of the Board was called to the i ircunistanco of an application made by the 
 House of Assembly t. His Excellency the Lieuteimnt-tiovernor, for information relative to its 
 
[)A. 
 
 1830 
 
 tutu, it hnH btiun 
 ^hiiig hut an evu- 
 jr ill whicli it was 
 
 public ctinliduiico 
 )intinont of Trua- 
 ifi not proved, nor 
 
 if they could, by 
 lard of Education 
 jD.(;od. The only 
 ' one District and 
 ) now. This is an 
 itition. Althouj^h 
 Mir that the spirit 
 ntisluad the public 
 strict Schools and 
 s proves anything, 
 
 j)roof of the evil 
 ers that were not 
 vc systeni, it in u 
 to use their own 
 i of the Presbytery 
 igs that the state- 
 strict Schools ari! 
 ro not aware that a 
 irer been appointed 
 lluirch of England 
 itabliHhed hiis been 
 is by a minute and 
 
 int Governor for ail 
 the Petition of the 
 )i8trict (Grammar) 
 irinco. 
 
 lis Presbytery and 
 k a list of the Trus- 
 Bducation in their 
 -the said reports to 
 ch, etc." 
 
 WALL, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 ISLATURE, 1830. 
 
 r John Colborne, 
 i to the receipts 
 f King's College, 
 with the desired 
 a regard to tliis 
 e Commissioners, 
 management of 
 
 ir Report, say : 
 
 « repugnance to the 
 ig u&tracL from iiiu 
 ct : 
 
 lication made by the 
 nation relative to its 
 
 Chap. L. MATTERS RELATING TO UPPER CA^fADA LEGISLATION, 1830. 317 
 
 funds and the oipenses incurred ; and it was decided tliat the following communication should 
 be transmitted to His Excellency : 
 
 CoLLBOK Council Chamber, 
 
 YoKK, 8tli of February, 18.'K). 
 To Sir John Cdborne, K.C.B., Lieutefiant-Oovetiior of Upper Caiuula : 
 
 Sir,— In transmitting, at Your Excellency's desire, this sUtement of the funds of King's 
 Cf'llege, and the expenses incurred, thereby .Sbrding information upon those subjects on which 
 the Council have the least reason for wishing; reserve, thoy, nevertheless, deem it proper thus 
 early to solicit Your Excellency's consideration of a cjuoition which may in time become import- 
 ant, namely, how far the Legislature can sssume a right to inquire into the tinancial or other 
 concerns of an Institution resting wholly on Koyal foundation and deriving neither privilege 
 tior aid fiom any other ({uarter. Any discussion or dirticul'y upon this (|uestion may lead to 
 perplexing results ; and the Council feel that it is but prudent to shev that they are not 
 insensible to the embarrassment that may then be found to have Injen created by repeated accjui- 
 escence. In offering this observation, the Council desire not to be understood as advancing an 
 objection to a compliance with the request for the information which is now placed in \our 
 Excellency's possession. 
 
 (Pages 20, 21 and 133 of the Commissioners' Report.) 
 
 I have, etc,, H. Bo¥.s, 
 
 Bursar. 
 
 4. British House of Commons' Request for Information in Regard to 
 
 King's College. 
 
 The College Council having before them a communication from His Excellency, Sir John 
 Colborne K.C.B., enclosing a Despatch from Sir George Murray, one of His Majesty's j>rinci- 
 pal Seci-etaries of State with the copy of an Address of the House of Commons to His Majesty 
 praying "that he will be pleased to give directions that there be laid before the House an 
 account of all grants of land to t'ustees, or other officers, appointed by Charter fur the main- 
 tenance, and establishment of any College or Seminary tor Education in Upper ( nada, with 
 any valuation or estimate that may have been made ' the same," have the honoui to report : 
 
 That the Charter for the establishment of King't lege within the Province of Upper Canada, 
 in North America with all the powers and privileges at a University, was granted by His late 
 Majesty, King George IV. .n March, 1827, and was soci after transmuted to His Excellency, 
 Sir P. Mainland, then Lioii<>nant-Governor of the Cvlony, by L< ' Bathurat, one of His 
 Majesty's principal St<'" ' aies . f State. That in virtue of the provisions of the Charter, seven 
 members were name( ., Sir P. Maitland, who, together with the Chancellor and Piosident, 
 compose the Colhgo Council ; a Registrar and Bursar were also appointed and the institution 
 regularly organized. 
 
 That a gnint was given by His late M: Usty, towards erecting the necessary buildings, of 
 £1,000 per annum, to continue sixteen years from lat January, 1828, of which two years have 
 been paid. 
 
 That 1 ^'rant of 225,944 acres of the Crown Reberves, the greater part of which aie occu- 
 pied and under lease, was gi'en to the cf>rporation for the support of the University. 
 
 That the probable rental arising from the leased lands, at the time they wore transferred 
 to the College, may be estimated at less than £1,000 per annum. (Page 104 and 105 of the. 
 Commissioners' Report). 
 
 York, September 30th, 1830. 
 
 In regard to the value of the University endowment of lands, the Commis- 
 sioners appointed by Lord Elgin in 1848, say in their Report : 
 
 On the 30th of September, 1830, the College Council, in a report to His Excellency, Sir 
 John Colborne, the Lieutenant-Governor, state the valuo of the University Lands to be "pearly 
 XiOO.OOO.'" Tho Council valued the annual rental at " less than £i, 000 j-or annum." Tiiit* wa« 
 very much under the actual amount. It must have been at least £3,000. The average price 
 on the whole of the sales, (say 134,057 acres), up to the 3l8t of Decetiber, 1849, has been 
 €1.4.3^ per acre. 
 
t i 
 
 318 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 ill ;/ .' r 
 
 : li 
 
 
 i ; 
 
 
 The proceedinfys of the College Council on this subject are reported by the 
 Commissioners of 1848 as follows : 
 
 5. Report on the Memorandum of the Lieutenant-Governor to the 
 
 Executive Council, in May, 1830. 
 
 Extract of a Report of the Executive Council to the Lieutenant-Governor, 
 
 in reply to his memorandutn of May, 1830, dated the 17th of November. 1830 : 
 
 The Council entirely concurs in the recommendations of Your Excellency that an equivalent 
 in lands may be so arranged in the proposed exchanges, as neither to prejudice the interests of 
 the Crown, nor of the School Fund, and, indeed, it appears to the Council that the measure 
 suggested will be highly favorable to the public interests, in affording the Crown the means of 
 dispensing more genendly through the country the many respectable emigrants arriving from 
 Europe. 
 
 (Note. — After quoting the proceedings of the Executive Council, and of Sir 
 
 Peregrine Maitland, from 1819 to 1823, the Lieutenant-Governor concluded his 
 
 memorandum as follows :) 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor is of opinion, that central Township Schools should be formed 
 and endowed ; that each endowment should be secured under the Great Seal ; that no Masters 
 should be appointed to these schools, unless qualified to teach the elements of the Latin 
 language, and of Mathematics ; and that the District (Grammar) Schools should also be endowed 
 with land. j, c_ 
 
 GOVKRNMBNT HOCSE, < * 
 
 York, May, 1830. 
 
 6. Meeting at York on December the 10th, 1830, in Regard to the 
 
 Charter of King's College and General Education, etc. 
 
 A meeting of friends of Religious Liberty residing in the Town of York and its vicinity 
 wa« held on Friday, 10th December, 1830, to consider the propriety of pe itioning the Imperial 
 Government respecting the Clergy Reserves, General Education and the enjoyment of equal 
 religious privileges by all classes of His Majesty's subjects. Mr. Robert Baldwin was called to 
 the Chair, and the Reverend William Smith was appointed Secretary. 
 
 Dr. T. D. Morrison moved the adoption of the following Resolution : 
 
 1. Besolved, "That it is expedient to address the House of Commons by Petition, requesting 
 that Honourable Body to take the subject of promoting relisfion and education in Upper Canada 
 into their most serious consideration ; praying that Honourable House to take such steps as 
 
 may be within its constitutional powers, that the Charter of King's College be 
 
 modified so as to exclude all sectarian tests and preferences — and that the proceeds of the sale 
 of the lands heretofore set apart for the support of a Protestant Clergy be appropriated t« the 
 purposes of general education and various internal improvements." Carried unanimously. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the following Petition to the Imperial Parliament bo adopted. Carried. 
 
 To th« Honourable the KnujhU. Oittxna and Burgesses, representimj the Commons of the United 
 Kingdom of (heat Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled : 
 
 The Petition of His Majesty's faithful subjects, the undersigned inhabitants of the Pro- 
 vince of Upper Canada, in British North America, Humbly Sheweth : 
 
 That your Petttioners addressed your Honourable House about three years ago, on subjects 
 )!y connected with the vital interests of your Petitioners, their children and the 
 
 indispensal 
 
 Province at large, namely 
 
 sive system of eiducation. 
 
 the establishment of a partial, unsuitable and oppres- 
 
 A liberal and e<juitable sys'em of education your Petitioners consider of e<iual import- 
 ance to the well-being of this Province, with a just and wise policy in respect to religion. And 
 they regret to have it to say that the Charter of King's College has, as yet, undergone no modi- 
 fication, and that the principles on which it is estAblishedare iacoiupatible with a state of 
 public opinion and unsuibthle t<j the circumstances of the people. 
 
 Your Petitioners feel persuaded that nothing would contribute more to the tranquility of 
 Upper Canada . than an equality c/f privileges and immunities among all Christian 
 
 denominations, and a system of education umler the control of the Provincial Legislature, witii 
 
ADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 Chap. L. MATTERS RELATING TO UPPER CANADA LEGISLATION, 1830. 319 
 
 reported by the 
 
 Schools and CoUegea in which there should be no preference of sectarian tenets, or interests, 
 and whose portals and honours would be equally accessible to meritorious industry of every 
 relizious creed. 
 
 NOR TO THE 
 
 nant-Governor, 
 
 Esmber, 1830 : 
 
 that an. equivalent 
 9 the interests of 
 I that the measure 
 wn the means of 
 nts arriving from 
 
 ticil, and of Sir 
 concluded his 
 
 should be formed 
 ; that no Masters 
 nts of the Latin 
 d also be endowed 
 J. C. 
 
 ^ARD TO THE 
 ETC. 
 
 I and its vicinity 
 ning the Imperial 
 oyment of equal 
 twin was called to 
 
 itition, requesting 
 in Upper Canada 
 ike such steps as 
 King's College be 
 ceeds of the sale 
 •propriated to the 
 iianimously, 
 
 lopted. Carried. 
 »M of the United 
 
 «nts of the Pro- 
 
 9 ago, on subjects 
 children and the 
 table and oppres- 
 
 of e(|ual import- 
 to religion. And 
 dergone no modi- 
 i with a state of 
 
 ho tranquility of 
 long all Christian 
 Legislature, with 
 
 In addition to one-seventh of the Province, a grant of 226,944 acres of the Crown Lands 
 has been made to endow King's College, established at York, U. C, and an annual sum from 
 the Imperial Government of £1,000 for sixteen years. The College Council have passed an order 
 to dispose of none of this land for less than four dollars per acre, and much of it has been sold 
 at a higher rate. According to this valuation, this single grant amounts to upwards of £200,000, 
 <ir between eight and nine hundred thousand dollars, besides an annual appropriation of £1,000 
 for sixteen years. The terms of the Charter place this munificent endowment also under the 
 control of the Clergy of the Church of England, as also the entire government of the College. 
 
 When, therefore, it is considered that .... the funds arising from the sale of the 
 Clergy lands might be converted from a worse than useless purpose to the promotion of various 
 and important internal improvements ; and that the Charter and Endowments of King's College 
 are partial and exclusive, your Petitioners cannot but remonstrate against the manifest injustice, 
 impolicy and evil of thus appropriating so large a portion of the Province, and of making such 
 invidious distinctions on account of religious opinions. 
 
 May it, therefore, please Your Honourable House to take the subject of promoting religion 
 
 and education in Upper Canada into your serious consideration ; to modify the 
 
 Charter of King's College established at York in Upner Canada, so as to exclude all seciurian 
 tests and preferences — and to appropriate the proceeds of the sale of lands heretofore set apart 
 for the support of a Protestant Clergy to the purposes of general Education and various internal 
 improvements. And your Petitioners, etc. 
 
 Signed by 10,000 and upwards of the inhabitants of the Province. 
 
 7. Early Establishment of Schools in Upper Canada, 1813-1831. 
 
 The following information, in regard to the early establishment of some of 
 the schools in various parts of the country, was not received in time for insertion 
 in its proper chronological order. It is therefore inserted here. 
 
 Port Hope.* The first Common School taught by a female Teacher in Port Hope was 
 opened about 1813, or earlier, by a Miss Burns — one of a family of early settlers at Smith's 
 Creek, (now Port Hope). She was succeeded in about 1815 by a Mr. Hobbs, an American. Mr. 
 George C. Ward, Registrar of East Durham, (now in his 83rd year,) attended this school in 1817. 
 The school building, the first one erected here, was situated on the south east corner of what 
 are now King and William streets— the present site of Mr Ward's private residence. Mr. 
 Hobbs was .acceeded by Mr. Patrick Lee. in 1824-25 ; by Mr. John Bengel in 1820. In 1830 
 the school was taught by Mr. Rattery, and afterwards by Mr. Ge ):^e Hughes in 1830-32, assisted 
 by his two daughters,- -one of whom is Mrs. Matchett o-TOmemee, now of Lindsay. Mr. Ward 
 and Mr. Riovdan (now in his 78th year) attended a school in 1819 on what is now Cavan street, 
 taught by a Mr. Taylor. Mr. Wan' also attended The Old Blue School, York, in 1821. The 
 tirst private School, or Seminary, in Port Hope was established by the Reverend James 
 Coughlan, B.A., Rector of Port Hope in 1831 or 1832. Ho erected a large building upon the 
 glebe lands for his residence and the School of a most substantial charac'er, and althour^h a 
 wooden structure, it is to-day quite as good as at the time it was com|)leted. Mr. Coughlan 
 returned to England in 1835. 
 
 Anro7-a.f In 1826, the first log Schoolhouse was built on the farm of Mr. Simpson, in 
 tlie first concession of the Township of Whitchurch, one and a quarter of a mile north of the 
 town. Mr. Caudle (a French otticer of the Imperial Army) was the Teacher in 18^7. He was 
 succeeded by Mr. Douer, a retired otticer of the British Army. In 1829 the School House was 
 destrwyed by fire ; and a new frame building was erected at MachoU's Corners in the Township 
 of King. Mr. Harvey, also a retired officer of the Britisli Army, was appointed Teacher. 
 
 *Conclonsi"d from information furnished by Mr. GeorRe M. Furby, ot fort Hope, in May, lsa4. From 
 information derived from His Honour Judge Benson, and from Messieurs George Ward and George M. 
 Healy, Town Treasurer. 
 
 tContributed, as inserted, by Mr. William Willis, of Aurora, in April, 1894. (Remainder further on.) 
 
 ■ *'t^i»ffi**,Lf;-':i 
 
320 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 mm 
 
 London* The first School was opened in London about the year 1828. The building, in 
 which this School was kept, was probably a very plain structure. Among the first Teacher's of 
 any note were Mr. Routledge, Messieurs John Hawkins, Edward Allen Talbot and his Brother 
 John Talbot. Each of these kept school for a brief period only, between the years 1828 and 
 1837. Mr. Hawkins' school was on what is now King street, opposite the present Market 
 grounds ; and Mr. Edward Allen Talbot had his school at first on what is now Richmond Street 
 near the comer of Queen's Avenue, and afterwards on the present York Street, west of Ridout 
 Street. There were also schools kept by female Teachers, the best known of whom were Miss 
 StiuBon, Miss Cronyn and Mrs. Pringle. 
 
 St. Catharines.— Tf^e Oiantham Academy. f We have it recorded in the St. Catharines 
 JouDud of June, 1829, that the then Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, Sir John Colborno 
 visited the Grantham Academy Building on the 22nd of that month, »nd expressed himself 
 highly pleased with the Building and its surroundings ; and on that occasion referred to the fact 
 that contracts had just been let to erect on King Street, opposite the Government House, in 
 Toronto, the building of Upper Canada College. In the Jmirnal of the 5th of August, 1829, 
 appeared a notice to the effect that the Academy would be opened on the second Monday of 
 September. (See page 220.) To this announcement the Trustees added the following : "No 
 part of the duty of tlie Trustees has been attended with more difficulty than the obtaining of 
 competent Teachers ; nor is there any in which they have been more fortunate" [than in the 
 present ones : Mr. William Lewis, and Miss Cornelia Con vers, niece of the ate Dr. Convers] 
 So, (the writer proceeds,) from Monday, the 16th of September, 1829, we may, as an historical 
 fact, fix the formal opening of the dear old "Grantham Academy,"— the first Classical School 
 established in the Niagara peninsula. The names of the first Trustees were : Messieurs Chaun- 
 cey Beadle, Jacob Keefer, Lyman Parsons, Robert Campbell and John Gibson. ... By 
 the books of the Registry Office in this city it will be seen that after the passing of the Act of 
 Incorporation in 1830, the late Honourable William Hamilton Merritt made a deed conveyius' 
 m fee simple the land, one acre and one-hundredth of an acre— on which the building was then 
 erected, to the Trustees of the Grintham Academy, which land, from aught that appears on the 
 record, is still vested in the said Trustees. The lot itself of four hundred acres was originally 
 patented on the 6th of May, 1796, to the Honourable Robert Hamilton, from whom the site of 
 the Academy was purchased by Mr. Merritt. ... Mr. Lewis, the Master, resigned in 
 August, 1830, and Mr. Walker, assistant to Mr. Lewis, was appointed in his place until Decem- 
 ber, when Mr. Thirkell was appointed Principal. ... In October, 1830, Miss Margaret 
 Anderson, (afterwards Mrs. Thomas Adams), who was educated in Edinburgh, was appointed 
 to the Female Department. ... In September, 1831, Mr. William McLaren, of Union 
 College, Schenectady, succeede'd Mr. Thirkell. The other Teachers were Mr. Swait and Miss 
 Convers. The Trustees at this time were Messieurs Hiram Leavenworth, Lyman Parsons, 
 William C, Chace, Henry Wilkinson and Simon Vandecar. (See page 313.) 
 
 Niagara Chammar Schod.X Dr. John Whitelaw was appointed Master of the District (Gram- 
 mar) School in 1830, and held that post until 1851. He was a good classical scholar, and hiul 
 a school of forty pupils. Many received here a sound education. He had different assistants, 
 among whom was his son John, a young man of great promise, who died early in his career. 
 He is still remembered for his lectures on Chemistry and his interesting experiments in it. 
 Among Dr. Whitelaw's pupils were Judges Burns, Miller and Baxter, Sheriff MoKellar, the 
 Reverend Mr. Trew, and Messieurs J. G. Currio, S. D. Woodruff, Walter Meneilly, James M. 
 Dunn and Frank Harkness. 
 
 Miss Black's School St. Catharines. i; In the Farmers' Journal, etc., of September, 1829, Miss 
 Black informs her friends and the public that her Select School will recommence on Tuesday, the 
 15th September, 1829 ; that she will receive only a limited number of pupils, and that she will 
 personally superintend their moral and religious instruction. No day scholars will be admitted 
 Board £6 10s., ($26) ; Tuition, £2, ($8) per quarter. Other acoomplishmeuts as usual. 
 
 Cornwall Orammar School. In addition to the information in regard to the 
 Cornwall Grammar School, given by Mr. C. J. Mattice, on page 230, the following 
 
 XT- , ?'®P??!''' "* •'rP'y *° S^ Circular to the Board of Trustees of the 6th of February, 1894, by Mr. 
 Nicholhs VVilBon, a fonner Teacher, and published by him in the London Free Press of May the 7th, 18U4, 
 Sent to me by Mr. W. J. Camon, Public School Inspector. The remainder will bo inserted in its propel 
 place. 
 
 +CQntj'!butsd to the What !^st n( Tie^^zr..-^. ... 
 
 ate Institute Literary Society," by Mr. John McKeown. 
 
 I proper 
 ••-•1, — re puuiiostion issued by the "3« Cathariofca'Coliegi- 
 
 iCondensed from information furniahed by Miss Carnoohan, Niagara, 
 g Information furnished by Mr. W. Manscn, St. Catharines. 
 
 ill 
 
CANADA. 
 
 1830 
 
 128. The building, in 
 ig the first Teachers of 
 albot and his Brother 
 1 the years J828 and 
 B the present Market 
 now Richmond Street, 
 S'reet, west of Ridout 
 1 of whom were Miss 
 
 in the St. Catharines 
 la, Sir John Colborne, 
 end expressed himself 
 on referred to the fact 
 overnment House, in 
 B 5th of August, 1829, 
 he second Monday of 
 the following : "No 
 than the obtaining of 
 •tunate" [than in the 
 do ate Dr. Convers]. 
 B may, as an historical 
 
 first Classical School 
 ro : Messieurs Chaun- 
 ibsun. ... By 
 i passing of the Act of 
 lade a deed conveying 
 the building was then 
 it that appears on the 
 id acres was originally 
 rom whom the site of 
 e Master, resigned in 
 his place until Decem- 
 
 1830, Miss Margaret 
 burgh, was appointed 
 1 McLaren, of Union 
 e Mr. Swait and Miss 
 rth, Lyman Parsons, 
 3.) 
 
 of the District (Gram- 
 isical scholar, and had 
 i different assistants, 
 ad early in his career, 
 g experiments in it. 
 Sheriff McKellar, the 
 Meneilly, James M. 
 
 leptember, 1829, Miss 
 lence on Tuesday, thit 
 ()ils. and that she will 
 lars will be admitted, 
 euts as usual. 
 
 )n in regard to the 
 230, the following 
 
 February, 1894, by Mr. 
 u of May the 7th, 18»4. 
 bo mserted in its proper 
 
 '~3<i Catharines' C'oiiegi- 
 
 Chap. L, MATTERS RELATING TO UPPER CANADA LEGISLATION, 1830. 
 
 321 
 
 particulars relating to the Teachers of the»Cornwall School are taken from His 
 
 Honour Judge Pringle's " Lunenburgh " :* 
 
 After the Reverend Mr. Strachan's departure from Cornwall the School was carried en by 
 the Reverend John Bethune, afterwards Dean of Montreal, until 1815. In the year 1817 the 
 Reverend Joseph Johnston, a Presbyterian Minister, was appointed Master. He, no doubt, 
 did all ill his power for the School, but he was unable to keep up the standing it had acquired 
 in the time of its founder, and his connection with it ceased about 1820, when the Mastership 
 was given to the Reverend Henry James, and was held by him until 1822. The next Teacher 
 was the Reverend Harry Leith, a Minister of the Church of Scotland, and a native of Aberdeen, 
 who held the position until 1826. . . . He was a good scholar, and an active and energetic 
 Teacher, but he did not win the affection of his scholars, (probably because he followed too 
 strictly the precept of Solomon: "Withhold not correction," etc.) In 1827 the school was 
 placed under the charge of the Reverend HugkUrquhart, who had been eilucated at King's College, 
 Aberdeen, and ordained a Minister of the Church of Scotland. He remained in charge of the 
 Eastern District Grammar School until 1840. , . . He was p. ripe scholar and a conscien- 
 tious and highly successful Teacher. His assisfaiits were Messieurs Lawrence Donahue, William 
 Kay and William Bain — afterwards Presbyterian Minister for many years at Perth. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Circular issued by the Editor of this Documentarv^ History. 
 To the Chairman and Members of School Boards in Cities and Towns of Toronto : 
 
 Dear Sirs,— In preparing for the Department of Education, (under the 
 direction of the Honourable the Minister,) the Documentary History of Educa- 
 i, ■•. '1 Upper Canada, from 1791 to 1876, it appears to me that the History 
 v\, ;id not be complete without a brief record in it of the establishment of the 
 first Grammar, or Public School, (or noted Private School or Seminary, etc.), in 
 the chief Cities, Towns and larger Villages of the Province. 
 
 I should be thankful, therefore, if your School Board would favour me, as 
 soon as convenient, with such a statement of facts, names and dates, connected 
 with the establishment and history of schoc\s, (such as I have described,) in your 
 municipality, as the Board may be able to procure and send to me. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 J. GEORGE HODGINS, 
 
 Librarian and Historiogkapher to thk Department of Education. 
 Education Department, 
 
 Toronto, 5th February, 1894.. 
 
 Memorandum in regard to the Foregoing Circular, 
 Up to the date of this memoraudura, I have received no reply to the above 
 circular from your Board. 
 
 Since it was sent to the Board, the compilation and printing of the Docu- 
 mentary History have progressed, chronologically, from 1807 to 1830, so that 
 replies to the circular will soon be too late to be available for this History. 
 
 Of course, replies are optional ; but my desire .las been that each School 
 Trustee Board in Ontario should have an opportunity to contribute, or not, at its 
 pleasure, to this record of our educational history. 
 
 Education D epaut.ment. 
 
 
 Toronto, May 12th, 1894. 
 
 "Lunenburgh, or the Old Eastern District, etc., by J. F. Pringle, Judge, County Court, Cornwall, 1890 
 pages S3U, 240. 
 
 21 (D.E.) 
 
Me 
 
 # 
 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Academy, Ernestown, at Bath, v., 79, 85, 
 
 oD, 132. 
 Academy, Grantham, at St. Cathannas, iv.. 
 
 229, 234, 285, 263, 2fl8, 273, 279, 280, 281 
 
 282, 283, 293, 294, 296, 297, SObI SO?! 313 
 
 314, 320. 
 Acts, Common School, 101. 102. 104 111 
 
 on^' il^ ^*''' ^^' 1^^' 1^2, 173. 175, 197,' 
 
 Act, Common School, to Relieve Teachers in 
 the Niagara District, 193, 194. 
 
 Acts, District (Gramm»r) School, 60, 63. 64 
 65 66. 68, 71. 73, 75, 86, 94. Ill, 118 
 122. 136, 147. 148. 149, 150, 165. 204. 
 
 Act, District (Grammar) School, in Ottawa 
 District, 192, 193. 
 
 Act. District (Grammar) School, in Bathurat 
 District. 192. 
 
 Act, to incorporate the Midland District 
 School h'cxjiety, 92, 93. 
 
 Act to Provide Education for Orphan Chil- 
 dren, 29. 
 
 Act to Procure Cert«in Scientific Apparatus, 
 
 56. 
 Addison, the Rev. Robert,, Teacher, Niagara. 
 
 18, 30, 168, 196, 199. 
 Alcock, Hon. Chief Justice, 80. 
 Aldborough schools, 1G2. 
 Allan, Hon. William, 132, 256, 276, 305. 
 Anderson, Miss Margaret, Teacher in St. 
 
 Catlunnes, 320. 
 Apparatus for the Promotion of Science. 50. 
 
 53, 54, 55, 56. 
 Appeal of Rev. Dr Strachan on behalf of a 
 University in Upper Canada, 215-218, 291. 
 Appleton, Mr. Thomas, a Teacher in York, 
 Case of. 174, 179, 176, 177, 179, 286, 248, 
 244, 246, 247, 248,249,260, 251, 252 253 
 268. ■ 
 
 Armour, Rev. Samuel, Teacher at York and 
 
 Peterborough, |81, 308. 
 Arthui, Rev. Mr., Teacher, Niagara, 80, 32. 
 Arthur, Sir George, 204, 205, 289, 290. 
 Arts and Science Bchool, Kingston, 129. 
 Atkins, Mr. D. A., Teacher at Napanne, 30. 
 Atkinson, Mr. James, 200. 
 Aurora Scho(ds, Teachers in the, 319. 
 Aylmer School, Teachers in the, 167. 
 
 Baby, Hon. James, 70, 80, 142, 256. 276 
 283,300, 305. . , . , 
 
 Bain, Mr. James, junior, 3, 4, 31. 
 Bain. Rev. William, a Teacher at Cornwall, 
 
 Ba'ker, Mr. tianry. School at Kingston, l.W. 
 Baldwin, Hon. Robert, 47, 160, J61, 269, 
 
 292, 300. 318. . . , , 
 
 Baldwin, Dr. William Warren, vii.. 31. 33. 
 
 47, 81, 181, 184, 188, 189, a48, 259. 
 
 Baldwyn, Rev. W. D., 83, 808. 
 Banks, Sir Joseph, 5, 8, 10, 11. 
 Barclay. Commodore Robert, 42. 
 Bath Academy (See Ernestown.) 
 Bathurst District Common School Act, 200, 
 
 3sll. 
 
 Bathui-st District, Grammar School, 185. 18^ 
 
 187, 188. 190, 191. 192. ^> 
 
 Bathurst, Eari. 178. 179. 225, 226. V 
 
 Beikie, Mr. John. 96, 100, 101. 
 Belford'a Magazine, v. 
 Bell, Rev. Dr. Andrew. 89, 174, 175. 176. 
 
 178, 182, 244. 247. 252. ''''"' 
 
 Bel!, Rev. William, 230, 299, 315, 
 BelK Mr. Williaiii, Teacher of Six Nation 
 
 School, 37, 88, 39. 
 Belleville, Teachers in the Schools of, 31. 
 Belleville, named after Governor Gore's wife, 
 
 59. 
 
 Bengel, Mr. John, a Teacher in Port Hope. 
 
 319. ^ 
 
 Bethune, Right Rev. Bishop, 42, 107, 109. 
 
 «03. 215, 221, 229. 
 Berkeley College, Bermuda, 13. 
 British and Foreign School Society, 89, 131, 
 
 Brown, Rev. Professor, 42. 
 Brown, Rev. William R., Teacher at York, 
 309. 
 
 Buell, Mr. William, junior, 260, 272. 274, 
 292, 300 J . . , , 
 
 Buchanan, Mr A., Teacher in Aldborough, 
 
 165. 
 Burnhain, Hon. Zaccheus, 115, 118, 136, 199. 
 Bidwoll, Mr. Barnabas, Teacher at Bath, 80, 
 
 123. {See Ernestown.) 
 Bidwell, Hon. Marshall S.. iv., 80, 123. 200. 
 
 282, 242, 260, 262, 263, 265, 273, 275, 294 
 
 295, 310. 
 Binniger, Mr. John, Teacher to the Six 
 
 Nation Indians, 37. 
 Bill tt) establish Upper Canada OoUese. 301. 
 
 305. 312. 
 Black's, Mrs.. School in St. Catharines, 320. 
 Blakey, Rev. John, 198, 199. 
 Blayney, Mr. James, Teacher at Niagara, 30, 
 
 Blue School, York, the Old, iii, 105, 106. 
 132, 160, 176, 289, 290, 319. 
 
 Board of Education, General, 176, 196, 199. 
 203, 215, 227, 245, 247, 248, 265, 266, 267, 
 268.277,289. *■ 
 
 Boards of Education, District, 101, 111. 199. 
 
 Oy«l7 OCT » I , , 
 
 — »I , a": . 
 
 Books, School, in 1819, 166 ; in 1820-22, 182. 
 Boulton. Hon. George 8., 200. 
 Boyle. Hon. Robert,' 40. 
 Boys, Dr, Honrj', 317. 
 Brant, Captain John, 40. 
 
. ^■,.i.»iiMij.i,it^»«?w'iw>"rB.i-r1Baill),y^l^^lil||j,||^|ji) iiii I . 
 
 m\ 
 
 ■I n 
 
 iMI 
 
 Iff 
 
 m 
 
 I 
 
 «24 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 ill 
 
 BiHut, Captain Joseph, 36, 40. 
 
 Brantford Schools, Teachers in the, 202. 
 
 Brock, Sir Isaac, 10, 75, 78, 87. 
 
 Burns, Rev. John, Teacher at Niagara, 30, 
 
 308. 309. 
 Burns, Hon. Mr. Justice. R.E., '2H9. 
 Bums, Miss, a Teacher in Port Hope, 319. 
 Burwell, Mr. Mahlon, vii., 86,89, 100, 111, 
 
 114, 115, 116, 163, 169, 184, 199, 232. 
 
 Caldicott, Rev. Dr. T. P., Teacher at York, 
 
 175. 
 Osmeron, Hon. Duncan, 199, 200, 276, 305. 
 Cameron, Mr. John, 114, 115. 
 Campbell, Sir William, 237, 256, 276, 306. 
 Canada Company, Grant from Payments of, 
 
 to University, 226. 
 Canada, Upper, Education in, 34, 123, 133, 
 
 1.34, 136, 164. 155, 156, 157, 158, 169. 
 Carrulhers, Mr. John, Teacher in West 
 
 (Jwillimbury, 202. 
 Carleton, Sir Guy. (See Dorchester, Lord.) 
 Carnochan, Miss, contribution by, 167, 196, 
 
 229, 319, 320. 
 Carson, Mr. W. J.. 320. 
 Car. wright, Hon. Richard. 9, 28, 42, 54, 61, 
 
 70. 73, 74, 76, 80, 86, 122. 164, 156. 
 Centrftl (Church of England National) School, 
 
 i»., 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 244, 246, 
 
 248, 284. 
 Chad wick, Mr. S., Teacher at London, U. C, 
 
 308. 
 Chalmers, Rev. Dr. Thomas, 9, 41, 156. 
 Ohaias, Count de, 31. 
 Chisholm, Mr. William, 184. 
 ChrUtian Recorder, 43, 104, 1^, 122, 153, 
 
 158, 169, 160. 196. 
 Chart, Ecclesiastical, 240, 241, 242. 
 Charter of, and King's College, v., 13, ^ 
 
 157, 159, 171. 204, 211, 215, 221, 222, 
 
 234, 235, 240, 242, 263, 254, 267, 268, . i, 
 
 274, 277, 232, 2 8. 292, 293, 318, 319. 
 Church and State, Union of. Abolished, 246. 
 Church of England Schools. {See Central 
 
 School.) 
 
 Clark, Colonel John, 10, 61 ; Mr. John, 184, 
 187. 
 
 Clark, Hon. Thomas, 142, 256, 276, 282. 
 
 Clarke, Mr. Jonathan, Teacher in Fredericks- 
 burgh and Matilda, 30. 
 
 Claus. Hon. William, 81, 142, 199. 
 
 Clench, Mr Rup'a, 49, 50, 64, 97, 100, 168, 
 196, 199. 
 
 Cochran, Hon. Mr. Justice, 48, 52. 
 
 Cockrol, Mr. Richard, Teacher in Niagara 
 and Ancastor, 10, 11, 30. 32, 165, 195, 308. 
 
 Colborne, Sir John, 150, 179, 257, 258, 2.59, 
 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 268, 272, 274, 
 
 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281. 283, i184, 
 285, 286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293. 294, 
 296, 297. 301, 306, 313, 316. 
 
 Cuiborno C/'ollege. (!iee Upper CauadH 
 College. ) 
 
 College, Elizabeth, 285, 288. 
 
 College, King's. (See Charter of, and Univer- 
 sity of.) 
 
 College, Upper Canada, 282, 284, 286. 286, 
 
 287, 288, 290, 291, 301, 305, 312. 
 Colonial Office Correspondence, 11, 12, 13, 
 
 14, 16, 17, 19, 25, 26, 27, 257, '^58. 
 Committees of the House of Assembly, 121, 
 
 240, 242, 254, 255, 260, 261, 285, 800. 
 Company, New England 89. 
 Contents of this first volume, viii. 
 Convers, Miss, a Teacher in St. Catharines, 
 
 320. 
 Coojier, Mr. William, Teacher in York, 30, 
 
 3^, 33. 
 Cornwall, School and Teaohera of it, v., 34, 
 
 41, 42, 83, 166. 227, 230, 231, 321. 
 Cosens, Mr. Charles N. B., 290. 
 Coughlan, Rev. James, a Teacher in Port 
 
 Hope, 319. 
 Cotter. Mr. James, 115. 
 Council of King's College, 294, 316. 
 Council, Executive. (See Executive Council.) 
 Course of Study for Grammar Schools Sug- 
 gested by Rev. Dr. Strachan, 109, 110. 
 Course of Study at York Common School 
 
 (1820), 182. 
 Cowan, Captain David, 52, 63, 64, 
 Coventry, Mr. George, 10, 92, 94. 
 Cranahan, Mrs , School, Adolphustown, 31, 
 Creen, Rev. Thomas, 'Teacher at Niagara, 
 
 196, 228, 229, 308. 
 Crombie, Mr. Marcus C, 290. 
 Cronyn, Miss, Teacher in London, U. C, 320. 
 Crooks, Hon. James, 184, 199. 
 Crooks, Hon. Adam, 184. 
 Crookshank. Hon. George, 256, 276, 305, 310. 
 Crown Reserves, 22, 205, 211, 317. 
 Crysler, Mr. John, 58, 61, 63, 64, 85, 100, 
 
 115, 198. 
 Currie, Mr. A., Teacher in Aldbormigh, 164. 
 
 Dalton, Mr. Thomas. 259, 269, 292, 
 Dickson, Hon. William, 50, 52, 59, 67, 142, 
 
 196, 199, 256, 276, 305, 810. 
 Dickson, Mr. Thomas, 100. 
 Dickson, Mr. Robert, 292. 
 District, Bathurst, 200, 211, 229, 271. 
 District. Eastern, 71, 76, 77, 83, 123, 198, 
 
 227, 228, 268, 270, 271. 
 District, Gore, 124, 126, 149, 199, 265, 270, 
 
 271. 
 District, Home, 61, 107, 109, 183, 199, 228, 
 
 247,270,271,290. 
 District, Johnstone, 61. 128, 149, 270, 271. 
 District, London, iv., 61, 62, 63, 71, 72, 126, 
 
 199, 270. 271. 
 District, Midland, 61, 77, 70, 111, 127. 128, 
 
 129, 181. 199, 227, 266, 267, 269, 270, 271. 
 District, Midland, School Society, 86, 87, 89, 
 
 90, 91, 92, 93, 131, 132, 156. 
 District, Newcastle, 61, 76, 78, 86, 12S, 199, 
 _ 227, 229. 270, 271. 
 DisLnct, NiaK»ra, 61, 127, 199, 228, 270, 271 ; 
 
 Relief of Teachers in, 186, 187, 188, 190, 
 
 191, 193, 194. 
 
 District, Ottawa, 124, 184 185, 189, 191, 
 
 192, 193, 198, 227. 228, 267, 268. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 325 
 
 282, 284, 285. 286, 
 I, 305, 312. 
 mdence, 11, 12, 13, 
 
 27, 257, i!58. 
 se of Assembly, 121, 
 J, 261, 285, 800. 
 
 89. 
 unie, viii. 
 r in St. Catharines, 
 
 eacher in York, 30, 
 
 sachers of it, v., 34, 
 30, 231, 321. 
 B., 290. 
 a Teaclier in Port 
 
 B, 294, 316. 
 5 Executive Council.) 
 mmar Schools Sug- 
 rachan, 109, 110. 
 rk Common School 
 
 i2, 63, 64. 
 
 0, 92, 94. 
 Adolphustown, 31. 
 
 Peach er at Niagara, 
 
 , 290. 
 London, U. C.,320. 
 
 1, 199. 
 
 e, 256, 276, 305, 310. 
 , 211, 317. 
 61, 63, 64, 85, 100, 
 
 in Aldboruugh, 164. 
 
 9, 269, 292. 
 50, 5,;, 59, 67, 142, 
 », 810. 
 X). 
 2. 
 
 Jll, 229, 271. 
 , 77, 83, 123, 198, 
 
 ,' 149, 199, 265, 370, 
 
 , 109, 183, 1P9, 228, 
 
 128, 149, 270, 271. 
 62, 63, 71, 72, 125, 
 
 7, 70, 111, 127, 128, 
 ►, 267, 269, 270, 271. 
 ISociety, 86, 87,89, 
 i, 150. 
 76, 78, 86, 128, 199, 
 
 r, 199,228, 270,271; 
 186, 187, 188, 190, 
 
 L84 185, 189, 191, 
 1, 267, 268. 
 
 District. Western, 01, 128, 265, 270, 271, 
 300, 301. 
 
 Districts, School Reports from Various, 126, 
 127, 128, 2(i6, 270, 271. 
 
 Divinity Students, Rev. Dr. ^trachan's peti- 
 tion for aid towards educating, 117, 118. 
 
 Donahun, Mr. Lawrence, Teacher at Corn- 
 wall, 321. 
 
 Donovan, Mr., Teacher at Kinjjston, 30. 
 
 Dorchester, Lord, (Sir Guy Carleton), v., 15, 
 153. 154. 
 
 Dorland, Mr. Thomas, 58, 63, 64, 69, 71, 78, 
 199. 
 
 Drumniond, Sir G. G., 50, 75, 83, 84, 87, 88, 
 90. 
 
 Dunoombe, Dr. Charles, vii. 
 
 Dundas, Right Hon. H«nry, 8, 10, 11, 12. 
 
 Dunn, Hon. John H., 256, 276, 305. 
 
 Dunn, Colonel, 277. 
 
 Durand, Mr. Charles, 96, 96, 98, 100, 112, 
 115, 120, 136, 170. 
 
 Eaton Hon. General John, vi. 
 
 Edgar, Mr. and Mrs. J. D., 30. 
 
 Education, General Board of, 196, 265, 268. 
 
 Education, District Boaros of, 101, 111, 128, 
 176, 199. 
 
 Education, House of Assembly Committees 
 on. --469, 270, 271, 272, 297. 
 
 Education, Meeting at York, in regard to, 
 (1830), 318, 319. 
 
 Education, State of, in Upper Canada, 34, 
 13 «, 134, 135, 153. 154, 155, 156, 167, 158, 
 15f>, 196, 319, 321 
 
 KdiicaLional Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the years 1791-1793. 
 None. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the years 1794-1797. 
 Nij records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1798, 17-19. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1799, 28-30. 
 
 Educational P roceedings of the Upper Can- 
 aHa Legislature in the years 1800-1803. 
 None. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1804, 47-49, 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1805, 49-51. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1806, 51-56. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 acla Legislature in the year 1807, 67-61. 
 
 Eductvtional Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1808, 62-66. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1809. No 
 records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year IdlO, t)6-70. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1811, 71-75. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1812, 75-78. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1813. No 
 records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1814, 84-83. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1815. No 
 records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1816, 94-104. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1817, 111114. 
 
 Educational froceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1818, 114-122. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1819, 136-150. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1820, 169-174. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the years 1820-1821. No 
 records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the years 1821-1822, 
 180-181, 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1823, J 84- 194. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature intheyearl824. N^o records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1825, 200-203. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the years 1826 1827, 
 206-211. 
 
 . 'ducatioiial Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 'vda Legislature in the year 1828, 232-263. 
 
 Edi national Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1829, 259-283. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislature in the year 1830, 291-314. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upppr Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the years 
 1791-1793. None. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the years 
 1794 1797. No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Up])er Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 1799, 2-1. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the y.yars 
 1800-1803. None. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 
 1804, 48. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 
 1805, 60-51. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 
 1806, 52-64. 
 
 Educational Proceeding < of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 
 1807, 67. 
 
 Educational Proceodingsof the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 
 1808, 62-64. 
 
SBfci 
 
 t! 
 
 326 
 
 Educational ProceedinRs of the Upper CRti- 
 
 to-ln XT*" "^ Assembly during the year 
 
 loOD. No records. 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1810 66"70 °^ ^'^^"'^^y ^"""K ^he year 
 Educatmnal Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 ^ul. «",T„"^ Assembly during the year 
 1811, 71-73. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1812 Tb"*^ of Assembly during the year 
 
 Educatbnal Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 ?o?„ v?"'" "' Assembly during the year 
 lolj. ISO reoords. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 
 1814. 85, 86. ■/ b J »« 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Tipper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly during the year 
 
 1815. No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Ujjper Can- 
 
 1816 94-10/ ^"""'''^y •^"'^"K *•»« y«ar 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada House of Assembly tiuring the year 
 1817, 111-114. 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1818 114'.l2? ^^^'""y •^"""« *^'^« ye*"- 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1819 136-H? ^"^"''''y '^"""8 '*»« year 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1820 109-174^ Assembly during the year 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1821-2""l8(?i81 "'*'"'''^ *^"""^ *^* ^^" 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1823. isTie? "^"'"'"^'^ ''"'■'"* ^^^ y*" 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ton, "^^r^ "^ Assembly during the year 
 I8z4 No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 1826, 2(Xr2of ^"^'""y ^"""8 ^^e year 
 
 Educati»,nal Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 ;82V?r"2?K;:2n."''"''^'"""« '''' ^«''™ 
 Educational Proceodinigs of the Upper Can- 
 
 1828 23?-25? ^"^^^'^^ **"""« '*'*' y^*"" 
 Educational Proce dings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1859.*26r27tf^ Assembly during the year 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 1830, 202'.y/ ^■^^'"bly during the year 
 
 Educ-'i- ' Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 aoR xisiative Council diirinff fho «— »« 
 179l-rtf3. None. = -~ ^...., 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the years 
 1791-1797. No records. 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Educational Prcweedings of the Upper Can- 
 V-L ^^'i^"^"^'"'^ Council during tho year 
 
 Educational Procoe<' igs of the Upper Can- 
 
 1^00 of '**'''® ^'o«"»cil during the year 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 
 ?2^^X''*v''*-' ^""""' ^^"""8 *'»« years 
 JoUU-loUj, None. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the vtar 
 lt04. 49. * ^ 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 1805. None. 
 
 EducationHl Proceedings of the Upper Cnn- 
 18n ^"8'*''**^'^*' Council during the year 
 
 Educational Procoedings of the Upi)er Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 
 t Jucational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 
 1808, 65. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 
 1809. No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the jt-ar 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ad-i Legislative Council during the year 
 1811, 73, 75, 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada legislative Council during the yeat 
 1«*12, 78. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Cm- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 
 1813. No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 
 1814, 86. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the yeara 
 1815-1818. No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 1819, 142, 143. ^ 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 18^0. No records. 
 
 Educational PrcKseedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 1821. Mo records in part. 
 
 Educa-ional Pnceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 1822'. No records in part. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upp r Can- 
 ada Legislative Council durinu the vear 
 
 1823. 189-191, •* " 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Couucii during the year 
 
 1824. No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the vear 
 
 1825. i\'o records. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 327 
 
 of the Upper Can- 
 I during tho year 
 
 )f the Upper Can- 
 I during the year 
 
 it the Upper Can- 
 during the years 
 
 af the Upper C»n- 
 I during the ytar 
 
 ^f the Upper ( an- 
 during the year 
 
 f the Upper Cun- 
 during the year 
 
 f the Upper Can- 
 during the year 
 
 >f the Upper Can- 
 during the year' 
 
 ■ the Upper Cun- 
 during the year 
 
 f the Upper fan- 
 during tlie jvar 
 
 the Upper Can- 
 during the year 
 
 ' the Upper Can- 
 during the yea^ 
 
 the Upper Cin- 
 during the year 
 
 the Upper Can- 
 during the year 
 
 the Upper Can- 
 during the yeara 
 
 the Upper Oan- 
 during the year 
 
 the Upper Can- 
 during the year 
 
 tlie Upper Can- 
 during the year 
 
 the Upper Can- 
 iuring the year 
 
 the Upp r Can- 
 lunng the year 
 
 the Upper Can- 
 Lturing the year 
 
 the Upper Can- 
 luring the year 
 
 Educational Proceeding! of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during tlie year 
 
 1826, 210. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Couucil during the year 
 
 1827, 210. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 
 1828. No records. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legisl, tive Council during the year 
 
 1829. 276-2-3. 
 
 Educational Proceedings of the Upper Can- 
 ada Legislative Council during the year 
 
 18:iO, 305-313. 
 Elgin, The Earl of, iv.. 205, 289, 310, 317. 
 Elizabeth College, 285, 288. 
 EJiot, John, Apostle to the New England 
 
 Indiana. 39. 
 Elliott, Mr. Matthew, 71. 
 Elms, Hev. Rossington, Teacher, York and 
 
 Brockville, 308. 
 Emsley. Hon. Chief Justice, John, 16, 19, 
 
 iO, 23, 80, 288. 
 Emendations in King's Collegj Charter by 
 
 Rev. Dr. Strachan, 221. 
 Endowment of Kings College, 16, 17, 20, 
 
 2(^, 288, 264,317. 
 Endowment of Uppor Canada, 239, 294. 
 Ernestown, Schools at, and Teachers in them, 
 
 31, 79, 85, 86, 127, 128. 132. 
 Examination of the Rev. Dr. Strachan's School 
 
 Ht York, 34, 106, 160. 
 Executive C ouncil, 20, 24, 26, 151, 179, 180, 
 
 197, 244. 245, 318. 
 
 Fairrield, Mr Benjamin 70, 86. 
 
 Fenton, Mr. John, Teacher, York, 175. 
 
 '''wrguson, Mr. John, 37, 48, 49. 
 
 iJ'irth, Hon. Attorney-General, Firth, 76, 81. 
 
 Flj;oh.^i, Rev. Alexander, Teacher, Ernes- 
 town, 1.32. 
 
 Fliudall, Mr. John, Essay on Education by, 
 133. 
 
 Fothergill, Mr. Charles, 292. 
 
 Founding of Upper Canada College, 284. 
 
 Frank, Castle, 7. 
 
 Frost, Mr. Francis J., contribution by, 229. 
 
 Fraser, Mr. Isaac, 111, 114, 116, 118, 136. 
 
 Eraser, Hon. Thomas, 142. 
 
 Free Press, London, Ontario, 320. 
 
 Free School Principle, Dr. Strachan on, 267. 
 
 Full?r, Right Rev. Bishop, 42, 46. 
 
 Fulton, Mr. James, Teacher at Cornwall. 309. 
 
 Furby, Mr. O. M., contribution by, 3'i9. 
 
 Furnival School, Aldborough, 166. 
 
 Guzette, Kingston, 82, 90, 92, 104, 129, 133, 
 167. 
 
 Gazette, Upper Canada, 33, 34, 52, 131, 290. 
 York 30, 47. 106. 
 
 George III., Memorable Saying of, 89. 
 
 Gibson. Mr.. Teacher at Thiirlnw ?.\. 
 
 Girls admitted to the Graunnar Schools, 266. 
 
 Girls, Rev. Dr. Strachan against their admis- 
 sion to Grammar Schools, 26(i. 
 
 Goderich, Lord, 2iG. 
 
 Gordon, Hon. James, 184, 1:32, 276, 301. 
 
 Gore, Lieutenant-(;overnor, 67, 69, 60, 62, 
 66, 67, 7*,^7, 94, 109. lil, 114. 120. 121. 
 
 Gore Distn.t named after the Lieutenant- 
 Governor. 
 
 Gough, Mr. Thomas B., 67, 71, 76. 
 
 Gourley, Mr. Robert, 106, 112, 122, 123, 
 127, 133. 
 
 Goveniors of Upper Canada, 7, 14, 16 87, 88. 
 
 Grammar School Acts. (/See Acts, District 
 Schools). 
 
 Giaminar School at York, Royal, iv , 259, 
 285, 292, 293, 294. 
 
 Grant, Hon. Alexander, 51, 65, 80. 
 
 Grantham Academy. {See Academy, Gran- 
 tham). 
 
 Gray, Hon Solicitor-General, 18, 19, 48. 62. 
 
 Gwillimbury West, Schools and Teachers in 
 them, 20i, 203. 
 
 Hagerman, Hon. Christopher A., 90, 132. 
 
 Haldiinand, Sir Frederick, 36. 
 
 Hall, Mr. George B., 115. 
 
 Hamilton, Hon. Robert, 9, 29, 66, 61, 80, 
 
 155, 320 ; Mr. Robert, 184. 
 Hamilton, Mr. George, 184, 232, 292. 
 Handcock, Rev. Thomas, Teacher, Niagara, 
 
 Harris, Hon. Dr. T. W., 3. 
 
 Harris, Mr. Thomas, School, Kingston, 131. 
 
 Hatt, Mr. Richard, 118, 136. 
 
 Healey, Mr. George M., contribution by, 319. 
 
 Highlanders of Glengarry, Petition for 
 
 Schools, 48, 49. 
 Hill, Mrs., School at Kingston, 131. 
 Hildreth, Mr. P., Teacher, Kingston, 167. 
 History of King's College, 221, 254. 
 Hobbs, Mr. , a Teacher in Port Hope, 319. 
 Home District. (^See District, Home). 
 Home District, Teachers in the, 1820-22, 183. 
 Hope, Lieutenant Governor (L.C.), 13. 
 Hopkins, Mr. Caleb, 269. 
 Horner (or Hornor), Mr. Robert, 184, 200, 
 
 232, 260, 300. 
 Horton, Right Hon. R. J. W., 215, 240, 253, 
 
 256, 257. 
 Hough, Rev. William, Indian Missionary, 40. 
 Howard, Mr. Peter, 60, (54, 69, 116, 118. 
 Howland. Mr. Oliver A., 288. 
 Hughes, Mr. George, a Teacher in Port Hope, 
 
 31!). 
 Hunter, Lieutenant-Governor, 15,26,27 47, 
 
 48, 49, 51, 80. 
 Hunter, Mr. A. F., contribution by 202. 
 Huskisson, Mr., 257, 
 
 Indians, Six Nations, Education of, 40, 197, 
 206, 210. 
 
 Jackson, Mr. John Mills, 121. 
 
 Jj^okson Point, Lake Simeoe, !21. 
 
 James, Mr. John, Teacher at Hay Bay, 
 
 (Adolphustown), 31. 
 James, Mr. Henry, Teacher at Cornwall, 
 
 231, 309, 321. 
 
T* 
 
 328 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 i I 
 
 ^llll 
 
 Jaiiio*, Mr. ThomaB, Teacher, Brant ford, 202. 
 
 Jarvifl, Mr. William, 3]. 
 
 Johnson, Sir John, lo. 
 
 Johnson, Sir Willinni, 100. 
 
 Johnson, Rev. William, a Teacher at Am- 
 
 horstburg and Sandwich, 309. 
 Johnston. Hev. Joseph, Teacher at Cornwall, 
 
 231. 3(9,821. 
 Johnstone District. (See District, Johnstone^ 
 Johnstone, Mr. Wellesley, Teacher, Braut- 
 
 ford, 202. 
 Jones, Mr. David, 184, 200. 
 Jones, Hon. Jones, 42, 43, 111, 112, 116, 
 
 118, 130, 184, 200. 
 Jon 8, Mr. Charles, 232, 276, 305. 
 Jonos, Rev. Dr., 280. 
 •Tonrnal of Education fw Upper Canada, 43, 
 
 Journcly St. Catharines, 230. 
 
 Kay, Mr. William, a TeacJier at Cornwall, 
 
 321. 
 Kellock, Mr. J. D., contribution by, 230, 
 Kelly Dr. M. J., 39. '202. 
 Kennedy, Mr , Teacher, Aldborough, 164. 
 Ketchuin, Mr. Jesse, 174, 183, 234,246,249, 
 
 250, 269. 292. 
 King's College. (Sep Charter, King's College). 
 Kingsford, Mr. William, C E., 3, 4. 
 Kingston School, v., 83,84, 127, 128, 129, 
 
 167, 202; Library in, 111. 
 
 Lancaster, Mr. Joseph and his Monitorial 
 System, 89, 131. 
 
 Lathivm, Mr. Henry, 130. 
 
 Langhorne, Rev. John, 82, 83. 
 
 Law, Mr. John Law, Teacher, Hamilton, 809. 
 
 LeflFerty, Dr. John J., 2G(), 292. 
 
 Leeming, Rev. Ralph, a Teacher, 196, 209. 
 
 Legislation, Educational, Disturbing Influ- 
 ences on, 120. 
 
 Legislature, School. (See AcJs, School, etc.) 
 
 Leith. Rev. Harry, Teacher at Cornwall, 
 231, 309, 321. 
 
 Lee. Mr. Patrick, Teacher in Port Hope, 319. 
 
 Leeds, Rev, John, a Teacher at Brockville, 
 309. 
 
 Leslie, Mr., a Teacher in Belleville, 31. 
 
 Lewis, Mr. Levi, 67. 
 
 Lewis, Mr. William, a Teacher in St. Cath- 
 arines. 320. 
 
 Liancourt, Due de, 6. 
 
 Library at Kingston, 84, 111 ; at Bath, 82 ; 
 at Nmgara, 167. 
 
 Lindsay, Mr. Charies, 3, 203. 
 
 London District. (See District of London). 
 
 London, Teachers in the Schools of, 320. 
 
 Luggar, Rev. Robert, Indian Missionary, 40. 
 
 Lyons, Mr., a Teacher at Hay Bay, 30. 
 
 ~..u 
 
 Roir William 
 
 To 
 
 nt. f!r 
 
 bourg, A'.% 309. 
 Mackenzie, Mr. William Lyon, ^69, 292. 
 Macara, Mr. John, Writer of the "Origin 
 
 and History of King's College," 2/54. 
 
 Macdonald, Hon, J. Bandfield, ScIhjui ,^ 
 
 of, 231,266. 
 Madrass System of Teaching. (See Bell, Rev, 
 
 Dr.) 
 Mail, The Toronto, 167. 
 Maitland, Sir Peregrine, 5, 118, 120, 136, 
 138, 140. 144, 145, li8, ISl, 152, 157, 161, 
 168, 161), 172, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 191, 
 197, 202, 203, 204, 206, 211, 225, 226, 233, 
 246, 247, 284, 318. 
 Mallory, Mr. Benajah, 50, 54, 57,68, 68,67, 
 
 71, 73, 74, 75. 76, 85. 
 Mansmi, Mr. Wilham, contribution by, 229, 
 
 319. 320. 
 Markle, Mr. Abrahan), 67. 
 Markland, Hon. George H. , 43, 90, 132, 196, 
 
 266, 276. 287, 290, HOP, 
 Masters, First, of Uppei Canada College, 290. 
 MathewM. CapUin John, 232, 23», 236, 2H0. 
 Mattice, Mr. C. J., oontrib'ition by, 230. 
 Merritt, Hon. William H., iv., II, 256, li-'O. 
 Merrill, Mr. William, a Teacher, 309, 
 Messages from the Lieutenant-Governor to 
 til Leuislature, 98, 138, 140, 144, 145, 169, 
 191, 233, 239, 261, 263, i66, 268, 274, 276, 
 277, 278, 279, 280, :i81, 294, 296, 297, 306, 
 318. 
 Midland District, (See District of Midland). 
 Midland District Scuool Society. {See Dis- 
 trict of, Midland School Society). 
 Millar, Mr. D. E., contribution by, 168. 
 Milnes, Sir Robert Shore, 16. 
 Minor College. (See College. Upper Canada). 
 Mi-siesagua Indians. (See Indians), 
 Mitchell, Mr. James, Teaclu r, and County 
 
 Judge, London District, 155, 199, 309. 
 Militia Men, Education of, in 1812, 81, 82. 
 Mohawk Indians (See Indians). 
 Montague, Schools in, 229, 230. 
 Moon, Mr. William, on Suuday Schools, 
 
 King8t<m(I817), 129. 
 Moore, Most Kev. Archbishop, 8. 
 Morgan, Mr. Henry J., 36. 
 Morris, Hon. William, vii., 184, 18«, 198, 
 
 199, 200, 230, 2H2, 260, 292. 
 Morrison, Dr. T. D., 183, 246, 249, 261.318. 
 Morrow, Mr. W. G., contribution by, 231. 
 Mountain. Right Rev. Bishop Jacob, 10, 12, 
 
 13, 14, 16, 42, 266. 
 Munro, Mr. George, Teacher, Aldborough, 
 
 162. 
 Munro, Hon. John, 80. 
 Murmy, Sir George, 28,87, 92, 257, 25-», 
 
 276, 284. 
 Myers, Mr., a Teacher in Thorold, 166. 
 
 McBride. Mr, Edward, 932. 
 
 McCall, Mr, Duncan, 232, 292. 
 
 McCallum, Mr, W,, Teacher, Aldborough, 
 
 163, 
 McColl, Mr. Archibald, contribution by, 162. 
 M''Coll. Mr. John S.. Teacher. Aldborough. 
 
 166. ' ' 
 McColl, Mr. Ebenezer, Teacher, Aldborough, 
 
 166. 
 McCoriaick, Mr. William, 108. 
 
 Jll 
 
diield, &sch<uol .{« 
 ng. (See Bell, Rev. 
 
 5, 118, 120, 1.%, 
 151,152,157, "«1, 
 179, 180, 182, 1«1, 
 211,225,226.233, 
 
 54, 67,58,68,67, 
 itribution by, 229, 
 
 . , 43, 90, 132, 19«, 
 
 inula College, 290. 
 3'J, 233, 23(5, 2tJ0. 
 » ition by, 230. 
 , iv., 11,256, 320. 
 ■aclier, 309, 
 inant-Govornor to 
 140, 144, 145, 169, 
 265, 268, 274, 276, 
 294, 296, 297, 306, 
 
 strict of Midland). 
 
 ocioty. (iSee Dis- 
 
 Society). 
 
 ition by, 168. 
 
 16. 
 
 e, Upper Canada). 
 
 Indians). 
 
 chi r, and County 
 
 165, 199, 309. 
 
 in 1812,81, 82. 
 iiana). 
 
 230. 
 Sunday Schools, 
 
 lop, 8. 
 
 '., 184, 188, 198, 
 292. 
 
 246,249,251,318. 
 bution by, 231. 
 Lop Jacob, 10, 12, 
 
 tior, Aldborough, 
 
 \7, 92, 257, 25«», 
 'horold, 166. 
 
 292. 
 
 her, Aldborough, 
 
 tribution by, 162. 
 her. Aldborough, 
 
 (her, Aldborough, 
 
 108, 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 32 9 
 
 McCrone, Mr. Kdward, contribution by, 281. 
 McConkey. Mr. Sheriff, Thonms D., 208. 
 MuDamiid, Mr. John, Teacher, Aldborough, 
 
 164. 
 McDarmid, Misa Catherine, Teacher, Ald- 
 
 Iwrough, 164. 
 McDonell (or McDonald), Mr. Donald, 199, 
 
 200 292. 
 McDonell, Hon. Alexander, 40, 48, 63, 68 ; 
 
 Mr. Alexander, 48, 184, 232. 
 McDonell, Mr. Angus, 40. 48, 49. 
 McDonell, Lieutenant Colonel John, 78. 
 McDougall, Mr., Teacher at Hay Bay, 31. 
 McDougall, Mr. John, Teacher, Aldborough, 
 
 163. 
 McDougall, Mr. Lachlin, 182 
 McDougall, Mr. Colin, Q.O., 162. 
 McOill, Hon. John, 24, 66, 69, 70, 142, 266, 
 
 276, 305. 
 McGregor, Mr. John, 100. 
 Mcintosh, Hon. Angus, 256, 276. 
 Mcintosh, Rev. Alexander, a Teacher at 
 
 Sandwich, 609. 
 McKellar, Sheriff Archibald, 162, 163, 184. 
 McKeown, Mr. John, (in What Not, St. 
 
 Catharines), 320. 
 McLachlin, Mr. Archibald, 166. 
 McLaurin, Rev. John, Teacher at Hawkes- 
 
 bury, 206, 2:^7, 309. 
 McLaren, Mr. William, Toacher in St. Cath- 
 arines. 320. 
 McLean, Hon. Allan, 50, 68, 91, 144, 145, 
 
 147, 198. 
 McLean, Hon. Arf'hibald, Chief Justice, 42, 
 
 43, 76, 132, 184, 199, 260. 
 McLean, Hon. Neil, S56, 276. 
 McMartin, Mr. .\lexandor, 100, 118, 186, 
 
 171, 
 McMullen, Mr. John M., 3, 4, l ', 114, 203. 
 McNabb, Mr. James, 76. 
 
 National, Church of England, Central 
 
 :r School, York, 179, 244, 245, 246. 
 
 Newburgh Acadei-'y, iv. 
 
 New England Company, 39. 
 
 Nelles, ven. Archdtacon, 40, loO. 
 
 Nelles Mr. Robert, 49, 6.', 63, 64, 96, 97, 
 
 100, 111, 115, 118, 136,170. 
 Nelles. Rev Dr. S. S.. iv. 
 Newcastle District. (See Diatrict of Ne\. 
 
 castle). 
 New Glasgow School, 165. 
 Niagara District. (See District of Niagara). 
 Niagara, Town of. Teachers in the Schools of, 
 
 196, 229, 320. 
 Niagara. Library in, 167. 
 Nichol, Mr. Robert, 94, 100, 111, 114, 186, 
 
 170, 181, 184. 
 Normandy, Marquis of, 204, 289. 
 Nova Scotia, Schools in, 267. 
 
 " Old Blue School " at York. (See Blue 
 
 School, etc. ) 
 Opeiiiug ol Kings Uuiiege, vl84i), 9, lo2, 
 
 204, 268, 259. 
 Opening of Upper Canada College, 290. 
 22 (D.E.) 
 
 O'Boilly, Mr. Edward, Teacher, 81. 
 Orphan Children, Act relating to, 28, 29. 
 Orphan School at St. Catharines, 31. 
 Osgoode, Hon. Chief Justice, William, 80. 
 Osgoode, Rev. Thaddeus, 90, 91, 206. 
 Ottawa District. (See District of Ottawa). 
 Ovans, Mr. David, Teacher at Cobourg, 827, 
 309. 
 
 Padtield, Rev. James, Teacher at York and 
 
 Brockville, 290, 809. 
 Papers, Miscellaneous Educational, 79, 129; 
 
 I'iO, 194. 
 Parliamentary Debates in thoGrHiiimar School 
 
 at York, 107. 
 Patrick. Mr. Will'am P,, 260. 
 Pattie, M- David, 184. 
 Penmanship Taught in 1812, 81. 
 Perry, Mr. Peter, 20O, 232, 238, 292. 
 Perth, Sch<x)l8 in, 230. 
 Peterborough, Sch(M>ls in, 231. 
 Peterborough, Named after Mr. Peter Rob.- 
 
 inson, 112. 
 Peterson, Mr. Paul, 232, 292. 
 Philosophy, Natural, Lecture by Rev. Dr. 
 
 Straohan, on, 132. 
 Philan, Mr. Edward, Teacher, case of, 207^ 
 
 208, 283, 236, 268, 269, 273, r74, 283 
 Phillips, Rev. Dr., 228, 265, 285, 290, 309. 
 Pitt, Mr. William, a Teacher, 309. 
 Playtor, Mr. Eli, 176. 
 
 Port Hope Schools and Teachers in them , 319.^ 
 Portknd, Duke of, 14, 17, 19, 20, 23, 26, 26. 
 
 150, 151, 152, 164, 195, 211. 
 Potter. Mr. James, Teacher, Belleville, 31. 
 Powell, Hon. Chief Justice, Wm. Dummer, 
 
 114, 116, IvO, 1H8, 142, 143, 144, 147, 152, 
 
 160, 171, 187, 190, 266, 276, 306. 
 r'rosbytery of the Oanadas, Address of, 161. 
 Presbytery of Upi)er Canada, Petition of, 293, 
 
 298, 299, 306, 807, 315, 816. 
 Prescott, Sir Robert, 1 6. 
 Presidents "I Upper Canada, 87. 
 Pringle's, Mrs., Ladies' School in Kingston, 
 
 83 
 Pringle's, Mrs., School at Lf^ndon, Upper 
 
 Canada, 320. 
 Pringle, Mr Alexander, a Teacher, 309. 
 Pringle, Judge J., jr.. 231, 321. 
 Prospectus of the Midland District School 
 
 Society, 90. 
 Purcell, Mr. John J., Teacher, York, 31. 
 
 Qualilication of School Teachers in 1799, 33. 
 
 Radenhurst, Mr. Rotert, 292. 
 Randal, Mr. Robert, 282, 233. 
 Randal, Mr. Stephen. 232, 292. 309. 
 Ratterv. Mr., a Teacher (Thorold and Port 
 
 Hope), 168, 319. . 
 
 Read, Mr. 1 avid B., Q.C, 65. 
 Recorder, Christian (See Christian Becortler). 
 Religious In8tructif)n, Lieutenant-Governor, 
 
 Sir Peregiine Mrtitiand, oii ueeiro for, 168 
 Report of House of Assembly re Mr. T. 
 
 Appleton's Case, 247. 
 
sso 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 i: 
 
 i ll 
 
 W 1^ 
 
 Report of Houie ..f Assembly, re Eooleaiasti- 
 
 cal Chart. 240. 
 ReiK>rU of House of Assembly on Education, 
 
 Ko|)ort of Legislative Council on Petition of 
 
 Hresbytery- of Upper Cimadft, 307, 310. 
 Keport of tin (Jeneral Boartl of Education. 
 
 iSef Boftni, (jenoral.) 
 Report of the Central School, York (1821) 
 
 177. 
 Report on the Case of Mr. Thomas A pploton, 
 
 *'t7. 
 Representation, University, 136, 13«, 139. 
 
 141, 142, 145, 140, 153, 169, 170, 171, 172. 
 
 Reaen Crown. {See Crown Reserves.) 
 Ridout, Hon. Thomas, 30, 31, 97. luO, 101. 
 
 1U5, 177, 19«i, 199. 2ft6, 276. 
 Rol)ert*(m, Mr. J. Ross. 4«, 105, li)7, 161. 
 
 286. 
 Rohertson, Mr. David, Teacher at Sandwich. 
 
 309. 
 Robinson, Sir Frederick P., 87, 88. 
 Kobinson, Hon. Chief Justice, 36, 42, 48, 70 
 51, 177, 181, 196, 200, 20(i, 210, 232, 292. 
 
 Robinson, Mr. Malcolm, Teacher, Aid- 
 borough, 162, 163. 
 
 Robinson, Mr. Orpheus. Teacher, Brantford. 
 202. 
 
 Uobinson, Hon Peter. Ill, .12, 116, 118 
 136, 170, 2T«, 305. 
 
 Rochefocauld, Due do la, 34. 
 
 Rogers. Mr. David McG., 18, 28, 49, 62. 63. 
 67,58,64,66,71,78,184. 
 
 Rolph, Hon. Dr. John, vii., 199, 200. 232 
 233, 259, 276, 285. 289. 292. 
 
 Rottenburg, Count de, 88. 
 
 Routledge, Mr., a Teacher in London, 320. 
 
 Royal Grannnar School at York, iv 5 47 
 228, 259, 285, 290, 292, 293, 294'. '(Se'e 
 Blue School, Old). ^ 
 
 Rules for Schcul Teachers. 167, 
 
 Russell, Hon. Peter, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 
 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, lOo, 150. 
 
 Russell Square, York, 287, 288, 289, 290 
 
 Rattan, SheriflF Henry. 31, 184. 
 
 Ryerson, Rev. Dr. Egerton, iii., 7, 10, 57, 
 81. 
 
 Ryerson, Rev. George, iv., 263, 255, 309. 
 
 Ryerson, Col. Joseph, 10, 61, 63, 199. 
 
 Ryerson, Rev. William. 10. 
 
 Salaries of Teachers in 1819, 165. 
 Salisbury, Mr., Teacher at Sophiasburg, 31. 
 Scadding, Rev. Dr., 5, 7, 11, 31, 35. 43, 47. 
 
 65, 107, 114, 153, 168, 160, 174. 175, 203 
 
 288. 
 School, Central, at York. {iSee Central School.) 
 School Acts. (JSee Acts, ^chool, etc.) 
 School. Indian. See. Indian.) 
 School, Sunday. (.See Sunday Schools. ) 
 Schools in Upper Canada in 1817, 1819, etc. 
 
 (See Canada. Qcurlev and St^H-''.-.— \ 
 Scott. Hon. Chief Justice, Thomas 58. 64 
 
 65. 70, 73, 81, 97, 98, 142. 
 
 Senkler, Judge. Contribution by, 230. 
 
 Shaver, Mr Peter, 184, 292. 
 
 Shaw. ""»• /^^"eas, 20, 24, ?8, 66, 66, 70, 
 
 Shaw, Mr A. S., Contribution by, 167, 202 
 Sheafl'o, Major General, 10, 76, 87, 88. 
 Sherwood, Hon Levius P., 184. 189 190 
 198, 199. . , , iw, 
 
 Sherwoml, Mr. Samuel, 49, 60. 61. 63 68 
 
 61, «3. 64. • • 
 
 Silcoi, Mr., Teacher in Aylnior, 167. 
 Himcue, Lieutenant Governor, 5, 6 7 8 9 
 
 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 40. 80. 161, 154, 195. 
 Simooe, Captain John, 6. 
 Simcoe, Lieutenant Francis O., 7. 
 Simooe, Mrs.. 5, 6. 
 Six Nation Indians. (See Indiana ) 
 Smart, Rev. William, 299, 809. 
 Smith, Hon. D. W„ 16, 20, 24, 25, 27, 105 
 Smith. Professor, Charles S., vi. 
 Smith, Professor Goldwin, 7. 
 Smith, Hon. Samuel, 5, 116, 118, 122. 199 
 Smith, Mr., a Teacher in Ernostown, 30. 
 Society, Midland District School. (See Din- 
 
 trict Midland, etc.) 
 Society, New England. {See New England ) 
 Soveroii^n Mr. Phi! : , 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 76. 
 Spragg, Mr. Joseph, leaeher of the Central 
 
 School, York, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179,246 
 
 248, 249, 250, 261, 262, 253. 
 Scjuare, Hussell. {See Russell Scjuare.) 
 Statistics of the Church of England in Upper 
 
 Canada. 218.221, 2.37. ^ 
 
 Statistics, 8cho<d (1817), 123 ; (1829), 26."). 
 Stewart, Mr., a Teacher in Aldborough, 164 
 Stewart, Mr. John, a Teacher in Perth. 309*. 
 Stewart, Rev. Alexander, a Teacher in York' 
 
 175, 251. ' 
 
 Stinson, Miss, a teacher in London. U. 
 
 320. ' ' 
 
 Street, Hon. Samuel, (57, 70. 
 Strachan, Rev. Dr., v., 9, 31, 34, 41, 42, 43 
 
 44, 45, 46, 106, 107, 109, 110, 117, 132! 
 
 136, 162, 153. 158, 160, 176, 181, 195, 196 
 
 205, 211, 215, 218, 221, 222, 226, 230, 248 
 
 249, 250, 251, 253, 256, 258, 259. 286, 266 
 267, 268, 271. 287, 305, 309, 810. 321 
 
 Stuart. Rev. Dr. John, 13, 16, 30, 31, 33 
 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 61, 82, 90. 
 
 Stuart, Rev Dr. G. Okill, 41, 46, 61, 91, 93, 
 ouy. 
 
 Study, Course of. for Grammar Schools, 109. 
 
 Study, Course of, at York Connnon Scho(d 
 (1820), 182. 
 
 St. Catharines, Teachers in the Schools of 
 
 31, 229, 320. 
 St. George, Mr. Quetton, 31, 
 St. Thomis, Sclioolsin. 231. 
 Sunday Schools, 129, 181, 185, 186, 187, 197. 
 Swait, Mr. Teacher in St. Catharines, 320. 
 Swayze, Mr,. Isaac, 85, 97, 100, 118. 
 Systems of Bell and Lancaster, 89, 174, 178. 
 
 Taibot, Ii..n. ThoUntH, 85, 1S4, 266. 
 Talbot, Mr. Edward Allen, 194, 199, 320. 
 Talbot Settlement, 162, lb7. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 881 
 
 it'uin hy, 230. 
 
 2»2. 
 
 24, ?8, 56. 65, 70, 
 
 bution by, 1«7, 202 
 10, 76, 87, 88. 
 P.. 184, 189, 190, 
 
 49, 60, fil, 63, 68, 
 
 lyliiior, 167. 
 
 mor, 5, 6. 7, 8, 9, 
 
 30, 151, 164, 196. 
 
 cU O., 7. 
 
 '■ IndUni.) 
 I, 809. 
 
 50, 24, 25, 27, 105. 
 I S., vi. 
 ',7. 
 
 115, 118, 122. 190. 
 Ernt'itown, 30. 
 School. {See Dis- 
 
 (iStee Now England.) 
 , 68, «9, 71, 72, 76. 
 ■hem! the Central 
 
 176, 177, 179, 246, 
 
 253. 
 
 Bsell Square.) 
 
 England in Upper 
 
 123 ; (1829), 265. 
 n Aldborough, 164. 
 clier in Perth, 309. 
 a Teacher in York, 
 
 in London, U. 0., 
 
 70. 
 
 31, 34, 41, 42, 43, 
 09. 110, 117, 132, 
 170, 181, 195, 196, 
 222, 226, 230, 24«, 
 258, 259, 285, 266, 
 309, 810, 321. 
 3, 16, 30, 31, 33, 
 I, 82, 90. 
 41, 46, 61, 91, 93, 
 
 aniar Schools, 109. 
 k Common Scho(jl 
 
 n the Schools of, 
 
 31. 
 1. 
 
 185, 186, 187. 197. 
 Catharines, 320. 
 , 100, 118. 
 later, 89, 174, 178. 
 
 194, 256. 
 
 , 194, 199, 320. 
 
 i7. 
 
 Taylor, Mr., a Teather in Port Hope, 319, 
 
 Teachers prior to 1800, 31, 
 
 Teachers m the Home District in 1820-22 
 
 1«3. 
 Teachers, Qualifications of, in 1799, 33. 
 Teachers, SkufcheH uf Noted, 40, 47. 
 Teaciiers of ( } ramniar Schools in UpperCanad \ 
 
 to 1830, 3C)8, 309. 
 Telegram, Toronto, 36, 286, 
 Thirkell, Mr,, Teacher in St. Catharines, 
 
 Thompson. Mr. William, 232. 
 Thomson, Mr. David, a Teacher and Author. 
 Niagara, 229. 
 
 Thomson, Mr. Hugh C, 90, 98, *131, 132,200, 
 
 2J9. 
 Thorold, Sell MflJIouse in, 168, 
 Thorpe. Hon. Mr. Justice. 62, 59, 67, 121 
 Tolkien, Mr., Private School, KiiiKston 
 
 (1817), 130. ** 
 
 Trayea, Mr. Deacon, Teacher in Port Rowan, 
 
 "Trent Affair," The, 56, 
 Trustees of Grammar Sch' 1807) 61 • 
 (1824) 1!»B. ". *. 
 
 Tyler's Boarding School, \u /...la, 3 . 3$. 
 
 University of King's Oc log 
 
 and King's College.) 
 University Representation. 
 
 tation.) 
 Upper Canada College, iv., 284, 286, 286. 
 
 287, 289, 291, 299, 301, 306. 
 Urquhart, Rev. Di. Hugh, 231, 266, 309, 
 
 821 . 
 
 Vaux, Mr. Thomas, 183. ~ 
 
 Vauko.ighnet, Hon. Philip, 43, 111, 112. 116 
 
 118,136,139,109,184,231. 
 Victoria University, iv. 
 
 Walker, President of Harvard University, 
 Walker, Mr., Teaclier in St. Catharines, 320. 
 
 '*• .'harter 
 Jtf iieprosen- 
 
 ilsh, Mr. Francis L., 2\S. 
 Ward, Mr. Oecjrge, Port i 'ope, 319 
 Washburn, Mr. Ebenezui . 4«, 49, 50, 61, 67. 
 68, 63. ' ' • 
 
 Waterloo School House Hill, 200. 
 Watkins, Mr. John, Teacher, llelleviLe, 31. 
 Weager, Mr. John, 48, 49. 
 Weekes, Mr, William, 60, 62, 69, 07, 181, 
 
 Wells, Hon. Joseph, 177, 196, 226, 26» 264, 
 
 Wesley, Rev. John, 37. 
 
 West, Rev. John, Indinn Missionary, 40. 
 
 Wotenhall, Mr John, 'Zod. 
 
 White, Mr. Reuben, 184. 
 
 Whitelaw, Dr, John, Teacher, Kingston and 
 
 Niagara. 83, 90, 130, 156, 309, 320. 
 Wilkie. Sir David. 41, 
 Wilkinson, Mr. Alexander, 282. 
 Wilkinson, Mr. John A., 292, 300 
 VVilJcocks. Mr. Joseph, 50, 62, 63, 66 «7. 68. 
 
 70,71,73,75,76,78. ' 
 
 Wiiha, Mr, ^Villiam, Contribution bv, '.la 
 Willson, Hon. John, 94, 99, 100, 101, 181. 
 
 184, 199, 200, 236, 287,239, 242, 243, 260. 
 Wilmct, Mr. Samuel D., 184. 
 Wilson, Mr, Crowell, 66, 67, 68. 
 Wilson, Ml. James, 67, 200, 232, 247, 243, 
 
 Wilson, Rev. John, Teacher, Kingston, etc.. 
 132. 227, 309. 
 
 ^Vilson, Mr, Nicholas, Teacher, London, Ont., 
 
 oZO . 
 Winthrop, Governor John, .39. 
 Wolfe, General, 6. 15, 
 Woodruff, Mr. William, 2(iO, 262, 292. 
 Workman, Dr. Jo8ei)h, 289. 
 Wright, Rev, William, Teacher, Belleville, 
 
 Yeigh, Mr. Frank, 64, 100 
 Young, Mr. James, 85, 86. 
 York District Grammar School. 
 School, Old.) 
 
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