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Las diagrammes suivants iilustrent la m^thoda. 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 [On tJierear of the Pedettat, and/aetng tJte/ront door of ttu OduoeUion Department.] ERECTED AS AN ENDURING MEMORIAL OF THE PERSONAL WORTH AND THE GREAT PUBLIC SERVI0]^ OF THfl, v REV. EGERTON RYERSON, D.D.LL.D., SON OF COLONEL JOSEPH RYERSON, rAY27 A BRITISH OFFICER DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND ONE. OF THE DEVOTED BAND OF UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS WHICH SETTLED THIS ANl OTHER PROVINCES OP THE DOMINION. HE WAS AN HISTORIAN OF THE HEROISM AND SELF- SACRIFICE OF THESE NOBLE AND EXILED UPHOLDERS OF THE UNITY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. A PIONEER MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS, AND A DISTINGUISHED MINISTER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH, 1825—1882. HE OBTAINED IN ENGLAND FOR THAT CHURCH A ROYAL CHARTER FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UPPEE CANADA ACADEMY AT COBOUEG, THE FIRST CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF THE KIND IN THE COLONIFP — AFTERWARDS THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA COLLEGE, OF WHICH HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT. IN FOUNDING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OF HIS NATIVE PEOVINCE, HE DISPLAYED THE RARE GIFTS OF A FAR-SEEING AND ENLIGHTENED STATESMAN, AND WAS THE ABLE ADMINISTRATOR OF THAT SYSTEM FOR 32 YEARS, 1844—1876. §0rn IN CHARLOTTEVILLE, COUNTY OF NORFOLK, MARCH 24, 1803. AT TORONTO FEBRUARY 19, 1882, AGED 79 YEARS. " It Is my earnest desire ... to provide for my native country a System of Education and facilities for Intellectual Improvement not second to those of any country in the world."— Letter, Accepting Office, 1844. " In the great work of providing for the education of the young .... let us endbavour to stamp upon the whole rinlng and coming generations of Upper Canada the principles and spirit of an active, a practical, a generous and Christian intelli- gence."— Oif/cia J Circular, 1860. ERECTED BY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM INSPECTORS, TRUSTEES, TEACHERS AND PUPILS, OF HIGH AND PUBLIC SCHOOI.a, AND FROM OTHERS INCLUDING A GRANT FROM THE LEGISLATURE OP ONTARIO, 1887.