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 A. FEW REMARKS 
 
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 MEETING AT MONTREAL FOR THE 
 
 FORMATION OP AN ASSOCIATION 
 
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 Promotion and Protection of the Educational 
 
 Interests of Protestants in 
 
 Lower Canada. 
 
 RepuUished from the Lower Canada Journal of Education. 
 
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 MONTREAL : 
 PRINTED BY EUSEBE SENEGAL, 4, ST. VINCENT STREET. 
 
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A. FE-W HEMABKS 
 
 ON THE 
 ^lEETIAO AT MONTKEAL FOR THE 
 
 FORMATION OF THE ASSOCIATION 
 
 FOll THE 
 
 Promotion and Pkotection or the Educational 
 
 Interests of Protestants in 
 
 Lower Canada. 
 
 A meetiii':: for the above obiects wne hoM ;,. ^k t\t i • . 
 at Montreal/on the 27lh Semjmbi, It w 'V ^ ^^'"^^ 
 
 report puih.hed in fhe city aner "t^es .h^, TL"r/"''r^'- ^''« 
 fair, though ,he hall was notSille I? Rev. M McVi'; ?'' T 
 report u, which it was stated that on uVe 30.h M .v the p'h "^ 
 man issneii to Protestant .Ministers S.-hnnl ri ^•^'- ^^''"'■" 
 others specially interested in Kes.ant edn • ^"'"'"'•^■^'O"^'-^- and 
 containing thefollowing queries ^^^'^^''^''^ « printed crcular 
 
 1st. Ill what respects are leo-islative pinnfmontc •. ■ . 
 
 adverse U, the uueiests of ProTest^ntTirLre'S;;;^^^^ 
 2nd. What facts can you fnrni<h to show tlT.f • 
 
 of the educafonal la/s is p ejudicia ^ P 1^^^^^ 
 
 your locality ? P'^^juiuciai lo 1 rotestant jnteresls in 
 
 3rd. What amendments would von snrrrr,.st f,,- »• 
 and protection of the educational i,tee.??P.o e^',' r""?'''] 
 
 A coMsulerable number of answers to thi, cir^n a w . T^-"' 
 from various parts of the rnnnfrv nlJ \r , ■ /^"'^ lecrived 
 
 renewed, ike LnJJ^la^Xlc ^^^Zl^^l 'jf '"Z^^'^y 
 submitted in the Report. ^"Jormation thus obtained was 
 
 The Report having been read, on motion nfi\Tr R r 
 
 A,,«,c,atio„,' for ti.e pra.nolion ainl pro leo I M of i ^ ^^'' '°'''' 
 «...r.M. of P,„,e„„„t, i„ Lower C^n.^ra^'ra^han,,:'':^;';;:!';] 
 
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gentlemen be the officers and coaimiitee, with power to add to 
 their number— Win. liUnn. i'>q., Chiiirman ; James Ferrier, Jr., 
 Esq., Tieasurer ; Secretaries : Revd. Messrs. Irvins ami McVicar. 
 Committee: Revd. Dis. VVilkes,Taylor, Bancroft, Hamilton, Kempt, 
 Bonner, Cordner, Elliot, Douirlass, Alexaniler and Brand ; and 
 Messrs. C. Alexander, E. At water, T. M. Bryson, J. Becket, J. 
 Court, VV. TI. A. Davies, (ieor;jre Frotliini?liam, John (ireenshields, 
 W. Kin;;, B. Lyman, II. Lyman, (J. Modatt, Jr., VVm. Murray, 
 Ceorsre H. Muir, James Milne, T. M. Taylor, Hu^h Taylor, John 
 Torrance, Jr., Joseph Watson, Rt;vd. L. C. Wurleie, Acton Vale j 
 Revd. W. Merrick, Acton Vale; E. S. Humming, Em\., Drum- 
 mundville ; D. Bain, Belle-Riviere; W. Morrisoi,, Esq., St. Eus- 
 tache; Dr. Cattinach, Alexandria; Principal Graham, Riclimondj 
 N. Botluvell, Esq., Wickham ; Jeffrey Hale, Esq., Quebec ; C. L. 
 Burroughs, E:»q. Lachute." 
 
 Proceedings were terminated with prayer by RevcK Dr. Snod- 
 grass, who also addressed the meeting, "commeting upon the 
 backwardness hitherto of Protestants, imputing to Miem.selves alone 
 all the blame for the unfavorable position of their schools and 
 educational system ; and making an eloquent appeal on behalf o 
 the two Protestant model schools of Montreal, urging Protestants tof 
 greater '. il and liberality in support of their educational insti- 
 tution .' 
 
 Wb ' >' e, as a strict rule, abstained in this paper from anything 
 which could savour of polemics, and have allowed all attacks oa 
 the Educational Department, and on the paper itself, to puf-r. unno- 
 ticed. We believe, however, that we would be wanting in our 
 duties to ourselves and the public did we not offer a few remarks 
 on the proceedings at the recent meeting and on the assertions 
 contained in the Report. 
 
 We will first call the attention of our readers to the nature of 
 the enquiries made by the Committee. Their correspondents were 
 not asked to inform them how the school laios operated, but "to 
 furnish the Committee with facts to show that the carrying out of 
 the Educational Laws is prejudicial to Protestant interests." All 
 the facts thus advertised for,and leported accordingly, were not indis- 
 criminately published; but, aftei a careful reviav, what hr.d been, 
 deemed the material part of the information was embodied in the 
 Report. It would be but natural tosuppo.se that ihese facts,thus care- 
 fully selected, are those which have been judi'ed the most likely to 
 support the proposition quod erat demonstrandum, id est, " that the 
 working of the school laws is prejudicial to Protestant interests." 
 
 It is also to be remarked that no enquiry was ever made by the 
 Committee at the Education OiTice to test the correctness of the 
 several allegations contained in the Report before submitlin2 it to 
 the meeting, which, also, without further enquiry, immediately upon 
 its being read, ordered it to be printed and extensively circulated, 
 thus accepting as well founded all the assertions put forth. 
 
 We will also observed that in the Repoit, and in most of the 
 speeches made on the occasion, it was implicitly assumetl that the 
 law relating to dissentient schools affects Protestants alone, the fact 
 
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 that there are Catholic dissentients and dissentient school*), and 
 that their interests are identical with tho.se of Protestants in the 
 matter, was altogether ignored. In fact, almost every sentence in 
 the Reprrt in which the word Protebtant occurs mij^lit be very 
 properly amended by adding tlie wonis and Catholic immediately 
 after. 
 
 According to the last Report of the Superintendent, there are 50 
 schools under the control otCalJiolic Dissentietit Tinslees, with an 
 attendance of 1,874 pupils ; ami 128 schools under Pr^lestant Dis- 
 sentient Trustees, with 4,263 pupils. 
 
 When it is asserted that the propeity of Protestants is taxt-d to 
 support Catholic schools, it should in common fairness be added 
 that the property of Catholics is also, in the same mjimier, taxed 
 to support Protestant schools. But, it may be askeil, is it not 
 possible that a law could be framed sotliat the property of Catholics 
 should never be taxed for Proles'ant sclioola and vice versa ? This 
 has not been as yet attempted, either in Upper or Lower Canada. 
 The laws in both sections of the country only facilitate the 
 establishing of separate schools by allowing persons of a different 
 religious persuasion from that of the majority to pay their taxes 
 towards the support of such schools where they can be estab- 
 lished. 
 
 In Lower Canada a difficulty arose as to the interpretation ofthe 
 word inhabitant. Judge Coursol (a Catholic) ileciiicd that under 
 that name a non-resident miijht pay liis taxes to tlie Dissentients; 
 Judge Short (a Proles'.ant) decided tliat tlie word inhabitant could 
 only mean a resident. The Attorney General, Hon. Mr. Sicotte, 
 brought in a bill containing the following clause : 
 
 •* Anil whereas doubts have existed respecting the payment of 
 the school Assessments by non-resident proprietors, be it enacted 
 that in future all non-resident proprietors in any municipality where 
 there shall exist a Dissentient school, shall have it in their power 
 to declare, in writing, in the same manner as all other rate-payers, 
 that they intend to support the Dissentient schools within such, 
 municipality, and on their doing so, they shall be liable to be 
 assessed for their lands situated therein by the Trustees of the 
 Dissentient schools only; and the lands belonging to non-resident 
 
 Proprietors who shall not have made such declaration as provided 
 y law, shall he asses>ed by the School Commissisners and for 
 the benefit of the Corporation of School Commissioners alone ; and 
 be it also enacied that no action shall lie against the School Com- 
 missioners or against the School Trustees for the recovery of 
 moneys which before the passage of this act shall have been paid 
 to them by non-resident proprietors, nor aganist non-resiilent 
 proprietors by the School Comrni--sioners for arrears of as-essment 
 which tliey may have paid to the School Trustees, and vice 
 versa." 
 
 This clause was made a matter of reproach, not only to Mr. 
 Sicotte but to the Superintendent, who was suppo.sed to have 
 recommended it, and the Montreal HV/ne.ss published the lollowiiig 
 remarks. 
 
*' Tho SiiperintencleiU himsolf knows well enouch that the law 
 is not at all decisive on this [)()int, that it settles iiotliiiiix about non 
 residents, and this is the very reason why, a year a<jo, lie had en- 
 trusted to Mr. Sicotte a bill to put in the law the very tking which 
 the judge, imagines to have, been already Jound there.'' 
 
 On this ttie Montreal Gazette said : 
 
 "This is so like an unblisliing untruth that we scarcely know 
 how otherwise to characterize it. The clause does just what all 
 men of common sense see ought to be done, — it puts the non- 
 resident ratepayer upon the same footirig as the resident in 
 respect to the appropriation of his taxes for the support of the 
 schools. It iloes not theret'ore support Judge Short's decision for 
 the tufurt', but abro^Mtes it." 
 
 We still believe that the passing of the clause abova alluded to 
 woulil set this matter at rest. The question of taxes paid by incor- 
 porated companies is one of greater difficulty. It cannot be said 
 that such companies belong to one reliijion or to another, and it 
 would be impossible to descrimiuate between the proportion of 
 shares held by Protestants and by Catholics respectively ; perhaps 
 Ihti easiest and most equitable manner would be to divi le taxes 
 levied on companies, or public bodies, between the Commissioners 
 and the Dissentient Tinstees, where Dissentient jsclioois are estab- 
 lished, in the same proportion as the Government grant. 
 
 After this, the most important subject iliscussed at the meeting 
 was that of the formation of school municipalities. IV'luch misun- 
 derstanding st^ems to exist on the subject. It has been frequently 
 stated that Dissentients were not allowed to establish their own 
 school-districts. Now there is nothing in the law which prevents 
 Dissentients from dividing the municipality for their own purposes 
 into as many school-districts as they require, and this has actually 
 been done repeatedly without any interference on the purt of the 
 School Commissioners or of the Department. The only dilRcnlty of 
 this kind that we have heard of was in a case in which Protestant 
 Dissentients complained of the division made by the Catholic 
 School Commissioners of their own school-districts, because they 
 thought that division might prove injurious to them in case they 
 should abandon their dissent antl return to the School Commis- 
 sioners. The fact is that the Law says expressly *< that the said 
 Trustees may constitute their own school-districts independently of 
 the school-districts of the School Commissioners," (4th subsection 
 of the 57th section.) 
 
 The real difiiculty consists in the fact that in some instances 
 small scattered bodies of the minority (Catholic as well as Protes- 
 tant), living on the borders of different municipalities, cannot com- 
 bine to have a school in common. This restriction, or rather want 
 of power to organize, is more severely felt, it is allegeil, from the 
 fact that the division of old municipalities into new, when brought 
 about eidier by act of Parliament, or under the Municipal Act or 
 the law for the establishment of parishes, or by a Proclamation 
 from the Governor, often breaks up Dissentient school-districts. 
 
 On this head we need har>ily repel as a most infamous calumny 
 

 the assertion made in several newspapers that the power of thus 
 chansin<j; the limits of municipalities iuis been useit by the Educa- 
 tion Department with a view to breaking up Protestant school- 
 tlistricts. It is equally unjust and still more absurd to say that 
 the law was framed with that object. The great difliculty which 
 was at first felt in organizing municipalities, was the evident motive 
 of that discretionary power left to the executive. When there was 
 great opposition to school assessment, it was only by organizing 
 such portions of parishes as were prepared and could be induced to 
 work out the school law that the system could be put in operation. 
 It was thus that sections of parishes were furnished with schools 
 one alter another until the operation of the school law was extended 
 ever the whole. Other reasons, of practical convenience, also 
 required that certain portions of a parish or township, as constituted 
 for municipal purposes, should be detached for school purposes ; 
 iu fact, ihat provision is itself a protection to minorities, Catholic 
 as well as Protestant, and has been used as such iu the readjust- 
 ment of the limits of parishes and townships. 
 
 We also deny that the changes effected through the Governor 
 General's Proclamations are made without notitying the parties 
 interested. On the first instance of a complaint of this nature, the 
 present Superintendent made it a standing rule that, in all cases, 
 notice should be sent to the School Commissioners and Trustees 
 of all the municipalities concerned whenever an application was 
 made to the Department ; and no action is ever taken until an 
 answer has been received, or a sufficient time has elapsed to show 
 that there is no desire to offer any objection. If any party objects 
 however, the matter is referred to the Inspector for report. 
 
 The printed form of notice sent in such cases has been in use in 
 the Educatton Office for several years past. 
 
 Although the law does not warrant any ratepayer residing within 
 the limits of one municipality in sending his children and paying 
 taxes lo the Dissentient school of another municipality, yet in 
 cases of liardship the Superintendent has advised the School Com- 
 missioners to grant this privilege, although he could not of course 
 compel them to follow his advice. 
 
 In numerous instances, the Dissentients, Protestant as well as 
 Catholic, are paid their share of the grant although they cannot 
 bring together the required number of children. In other cases, 
 the Dissentients of two adjoining municipalities have been allowed 
 to have but one united school for the two municipalities, although 
 to legalize their proceedings they have been advised to elect School 
 Trustees in each parish. Suchis the ca<e, for instance, of the 
 Protestant Dissentients at St. Joseph and St. Eustache, in the 
 County of Two Mountains, and at St. Gregoire and Ste. Marie de 
 Monnoir, in the County of Rouville. 
 
 We state these facts, not with a view of opposing any change in 
 the law that would provide increased facilities for Dissentients, but 
 in order to show that this grievance has been misunderstood and 
 misstated ; and that, far from having been aggravated by the action of 
 the Education\Department, it has been palliated as much as possible. 
 
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 In legislating to remove this cause of complaint, it would be in 
 the interest of the establishment of Dissentient schools, both Catho- 
 lic and Protestant, to impose snch restrictions as would prevent 
 the immunities granted from being taken advantage of for the 
 purpose of evading ail sctiool taxes. We have no doubt that such 
 an amendment would be approved of by Catholics — for the very good 
 reason, amons; others, that they have the same interest as Protes- 
 tants in the law aftecting Dissentients — and we see no reason why 
 it should not become law, unless indeed it be opposed by Protestants 
 thomselvtis, as in the case of Mr. Sicotte's bill which was opposed 
 in the press and actually petitioned against. 
 
 These two changes, that in relation to the taxes of absentees and 
 of incorporated companies and the one just now adverted to, are 
 asked for on the ground that the same thing exists in Upper 
 Canada. Such is not the case. In Upper Canada the properly of 
 absentees in any school section or division (which is more than in 
 any parish or township) is liable to be rated to support the schools 
 ofthe majority ; and although a Roman Catholic who gives the legal 
 notice that he is a Roman Catholic and a supporter of a separata 
 school, is exempt from the payment of all public school taxes or 
 school rates provided he resides within three miles in a direct line 
 of the school of which he professes to be a supporter, whether ho 
 resides within the section or district, or not, he is not exempt, from 
 taxes on property that he may own in other school sectionSf 
 whether there are separate schools in such secl'ons or districts or 
 not. School districts are quite different from municipalities, and 
 the restriction in some respects is much more stringent than it is 
 even now in Lower Canada. 
 
 It IS true that the dissentients of two municipalities are allowed 
 to have a united school for both : but we have already seen that 
 the same facilitity has been allowed in Lower Canada in certain 
 capes. 
 
 The argument tliat the schools ofthe majority in Lower Canada 
 are not non sectarian,h hardly fair when a comparison is established 
 between the two sections. Separate schools are allowed on the 
 ground of the consciencious views of those who do not find them- 
 selves at liberty to send their children to the schools of the majority; 
 and, to make the two cases pArallel, it is enough to say that Catholics 
 are as much forbidden to send their children to what are called 
 non sectarian schools as to Protestant schools. 
 
 It is also urged that the law ought to be so amended that the 
 school moneys could be paid directly to Dissentients, and not through 
 the hands of the School Commissioners. This is simply asking 
 for that which already exists. Such are the provisions in the law 
 (sub-sec. .3rd, sec. 57th chap. 15, Consolidated Statutes), and such 
 is the uniform practice of the Department, with the following excep- 
 tion. Inasmuch as the share paid to Dissentients is to be divided . 
 in the same proportion to the whole sum granted to the municipality, 
 as the entire number of children attending the Dissentients schools 
 bears to the entire number of children attending school in the 
 municipality, it is necessary, in order to make the division, that 
 
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 the reports, both of the majority and of the Dissentients, be received 
 at the Education OHice. Now it sonnetimes happens that llie latter 
 neglect to trnnsmit their returns, and as it is absolutely out of the 
 question to compel the majority to wait for an indefinite space of 
 time in the expectation that the dissentients may find leisure to 
 attend to their duly, the only practical solution of the difficr.lty 
 that has ofl'ered was the transleiring of the local grant to the major- 
 ity, subject to the condition of paying over tlie Dissentients' sliare 
 on receiving the necessary instructions from tlie Department, 
 which would of course be issued afterwards if a return were 
 received. Thus it will be seen that if the Dissentients have met 
 with difficulties or delays, they have none to bl.irrie but themselves. 
 The Department, in fact, has been so indulgent as to pay, in ad- 
 vance, tfie sums to which the Dissentients were entitled in such 
 cases, out of the following semi-annual grant accruing to the School 
 Commissioners when the money had been retained by the latter. 
 Such has been the case with Catliolic as well as with Protestant 
 Dissentients ; and Mr. Burrowes, of Lachute, was remarkably 
 unfortunate in his statement that •' where Protestants were in the 
 minority they had to receive their money tlirougli the secretary of 
 the majority, while in St. Andrews, with a Protestant majority, the 
 minority ilrew their grant direct from the Superintendent of Educa- 
 tion." The fact is that Protestant as well as Catholic Dissentients 
 draw their share of the grant direct from the Superintendent when- 
 ever they senil in their returns within a reasonable time ; and as to 
 the Catholic Dissentients of St. Andrews, they not havine sent in 
 their return in due time for the second half year of 186*2, the whole 
 grant was paid to the Protestant School Commissioners on the 22nd 
 January, 1863, which is precisely the reverse of the statement made 
 by Mr. I3urrowes. 
 
 The next grievance alluded to in the Report is that " Protestant 
 schools are examined by Roman Catholic Inspectors who do not 
 understand the English language, and who cannot therefore make 
 correct reports concerning them, though desirous to be impartial ; 
 and that sometimes rewards are given (to Protestant children we 
 suppose) connected with the Roman Catholic faith." 
 
 For every one who knows something of Lower Canaila, it is easy 
 to see that with a mixed population like ours, and with Protestant 
 schools scattered at ereat distances from each other in Catholic 
 districts, and vice versa, it is almost impossible that the schools be- 
 longing to one religious section of the community should not some- 
 times be visited by Inspectors of a different religious persuasion. 
 
 The first division of districts was nnade to secure to all large 
 sections of the Protestant community the advantage of having 
 Inspectors of their own faith, and every thing that has been done 
 since was with a view of extending that principle as far as pos- 
 sible. It is thus that when Inspector Hubbard was appointed, on 
 the demisR of the late Mr. Childs, the Piotestani schools of the 
 Townships of Chester Tingwick, Kingsey, and Durham (in the 
 district of Mr. Bourgeois,) were confided to him ; the Dissentients 
 of St. Foy, near Quebec, were also, at their own request, placed under 
 
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 the control of the Rev. Mr. PJees ; and when Mr. McCord (a 
 Catholio) retired from the inspectorship of the counties of Ottawa 
 and Pontiac, two Inspectors, a Catholic and a Protestant, vvere 
 appointed in his stead. 
 
 The following table of the Catholic and Protestant populations 
 forming the districts of the Protestant Inspectors, shows that if 
 there is good giound for complaint, it certainly falls to the lot of the 
 Catholic and French-speaking population. 
 
 Inspectors and Counties. 
 
 Protestants in each 
 
 county, 
 or part of county. 
 
 Total of Piotestants 
 
 in each 
 district of inspection. 
 
 Catholics in each 
 
 county, 
 or part of county. 
 
 Total of Cattiolics 
 
 in each 
 
 district of inspection. 
 
 Inspector Hume. 
 Mftc-antio 
 
 5046 
 
 1 
 
 832 
 
 9632 
 1299 
 
 10121 
 
 5859 
 7824 
 939 
 3296 
 3234 
 
 10192 
 11153 
 
 5562 
 
 24427 
 9451 
 3416 
 7418 
 
 7864 
 6002 
 
 "'5879 
 
 12843 
 4498 
 2581 
 
 
 Part of Beauce 
 
 
 do Dorchester .... . . 
 
 19922 
 
 Inspector Pi.ees. 
 Citv of Quebec 
 
 
 Part of the county of Quebec 
 
 Inspectoi Hubbard. 
 Stanstead 
 
 10931 
 
 3i333 
 
 ' 26907 
 
 
 
 2137 
 3025 
 
 
 Richmond . . 
 
 
 Compton 
 
 2386 
 5549 
 
 
 Wolfe 
 
 
 Sherbrooke 
 
 2603 
 
 15700 
 
 Part of Drnmmond and A"'thabaska 
 
 
 Inspector Parmelee. 
 Prouie 
 
 2540 
 
 7455 
 
 12217 
 
 
 Missisquoi 
 
 
 S'lefFord. 
 
 22212 
 
 Inspector Bruce. 
 Ci*v of Montreal 
 
 
 a .a : {'Ion 
 
 ?"" 1 1 of Chateauo-nay 
 
 
 8040 
 
 
 Jo Argenteuil 
 
 44712 
 
 4427 
 
 12467 
 
 Inspector Hamilton. 
 (Inspectorship now vacant.) 
 Ottawa 
 
 
 Pontiac 
 
 13866 
 
 
 
 
 
 Grand total 
 
 
 133628 
 
 
 70311 
 
 
 
 
I 
 
 :2 
 
 )0 
 
 ,2 
 
 .1 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 If we now deduct from the total Protef-tant population of Lower 
 Canada (168,313) (1) the Protestant population under the supervision 
 of Protestant Inspectors, we shall find that 34,685 Pro' tants only- 
 have their schools visited by Catholic Inspectors, .ule 70,301 
 Catholics are subjected to a disadvantage of the same nature. 
 These 34,685 Protestants are scattered over the whole surface of 
 Lower Canada, and all groups of Protestant population that could 
 be placed under the control of Protestant Inspectors, with the pre- 
 sent statf and present salaries, have had that benefit. Not so with 
 Catholics. In Messrs. Hubbard, Parmelee and Hume's districts, 
 the interests of large, compact French andCatholic populations are 
 confided to the care of Protestant and English-speaking Inspectors. 
 In Mr. Parmelee's district the Catholics are nearly one half, and 
 in Mr. Hume's they are more thaa three fourths of the popu ation. 
 
 The views of the present Superintendent on this subject are con- 
 tained in the following extract from his special report of the 23rd 
 April 1863, on the Inspection of Schools, printed by order of the 
 Legislative Assembly. 
 
 " I have drawn up a table marked B containing a plan of inspec- 
 tion on ttie footing of ten districts only, and comprising approxi- 
 mately the same heads of information with respect to them as the 
 other table does for the old districts. I believe that it would be 
 impracticable to throw the country into larger districts than are 
 comprised in this table, even if the number of visits were reduced 
 to one in the year. We might indeed further reduce the number 
 of districts to eight, if we disregarded the diiference between 
 Catholic and Protestant communities ; but 1 could not in this respect 
 recommend a deviation from the system introduced auti by me 
 sought to have extended. The aim of our educational legislation 
 is to give the most, the best possible guarantees to reliaious minor- 
 ities in the education of their children. We have separtite schools, 
 separate Boards of Examiners as far as practicable, and it seems 
 to me that as nearly as may bo, we ought to have separate Inspectors. 
 In Prussia and everywhere else throughout Germany the Inspectors 
 are even members of the respective clerical bodies. In England 
 and Scotland there are Inspectors for each religious denomination ; 
 and provision is even made by Order i.i Council that the heads of 
 the different religious bodies shall have a voice in the choice of 
 them." 
 
 This report was made at a time when the abolition of the office 
 of inspector having been proposed in Parliament, the administra- 
 tion of the day was considering the propriety of mollifying the 
 system, either by reducing the number of Inspection di.^tricts, or 
 by leaving the appointment and the payment of Inspectors to the 
 Municipal Councils. The frequent changes which have since taken 
 place in the government, and the ail absorbing questions which 
 
 (1) In our calculations we give Protestants all that are not r-ported 
 as Catholics, including Jews, persona without a creed, and persons 
 of creeds uuknowu. 
 
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 have been and are still discussed, may explain how the matter has 
 remained in abeyance. 
 
 Meanwhile the above mentioned circumstances may account for 
 the unusual length of time during which two Inspectorships (one a 
 Catholic, the other a Protestant) have been suffered to remain vacant. 
 The same reason may also apply to the case of the Catholics of the 
 Eastern townships who have petitioned the government for the 
 appointment of a Catholic Inspector. 
 
 The assertion made in the report of the Protestant Committee, 
 that books connected with the Roman Catholic faith are given as 
 rewards to Protestant children, is one which ought to be more 
 definite. It would be well to say where, when and by whom. If 
 the thing is done, it is in open defiance of the inslructions of 
 the Department. The books are classed, 1st, " Books to be given 
 indifferently to Catholics and Protestants," 2nd, "Books to be given 
 to Catholics only," 3rd, •< Books to be given to Protestants only," 
 as may be seen by a reference to the annual reports of the Super- 
 intendent which contain detailed statements. The class of books 
 last enumerated are chiefly supplied from the depository at the 
 Education Office in Toronto. 
 
 The only cases of complaint on this subject that have ever been 
 reported at the Education Office, are the following. An accusation 
 was made against the late Mr. Childs, a Protestant Inspector, who 
 had given a Catholic book to a Protestant child. The book was 
 one of those set apart for Catholics only, and Mr. Childs candidly 
 admitted that he had given it by mistake. As a set-off, a similar 
 compiaiiit was made against Mr. Hubert, a Catholic Inspector, 
 vrho had also by mistake given a Protestant book to a Catholic 
 child. We have no doubt that if it were proved that any Inspector 
 was disregardful of the instructions ot the Department in this res- 
 pect, he would be immediately dismissed. 
 
 It is further alleged " that Protestants are not represented in the 
 Education Oflice, and are, therefore, practically ignorant of its busi- 
 ness and can take no pait in diverting (sic) the apportionment of 
 grants of money to poor municipalities or the distribution of the 
 fund for superannuated teachers and school rewards and the en- 
 couragement of the two Journals of Education." 
 
 When it is complained of that in many other departments the 
 French and Catholic elements are altogether ignored, it is usual to 
 answer that fitness for office ought to be the only criterion. This 
 we admit is not a fair answer. In the present case, however, there 
 is this difficulty, that four fifths of the business has to be trans- 
 acted in the French language. That there is no systematic exclu- 
 sion of Protestants must be apparent from the (act that the very first 
 appointment recommended by the present Superintemlent was that 
 of a Protestant gentleman who was appointed clerk of the English 
 correspondence and assistant editor of the English Journal of 
 Education, We have already shown that there is a sufficient 
 number of Protestant inspectors, and that one of them has even a 
 large majority of Catholics under his supervision. 
 
 The insinuation contained in the same paragraph — that the Pro- 
 
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 testant population does not get a fair share of the funds therein 
 referred to— being made without any specification, could be met by 
 a simple denial. We find it, however, necessary to state that we do 
 not remember of any instance in which an application on behalf of 
 a Protestant municipality for a share of the grant to Poor Municipal- 
 ities was refused, that superannuated Protestant teachers, when 
 they have conformed to the regulations, have invariably received 
 their pensions from the pension fund in the same manner and at the 
 same time as Catholic teachers, and that a fair share of the prize 
 books is given to Protestants — the English books being, besides, 
 much more expensive than the French. 
 
 The last point in the Report is: " That in the common schools 
 80 called, teachers and pupils are sometimes forced to conform to 
 the rites of Romanism, and harshly treated in case they offer an 
 opposition." 
 
 Of this, two instances only are given, the one is the case of a 
 Protestant teacher who undertook to read the Bible to her Catholic 
 pupils, the other of a Protestant child who was dismissed from a 
 common school for refusing to join in the prayer. 
 
 The Montreal Gazette thus disposes of the first case : " One 
 rather amusing statement is made as proof of hardship, there being 
 a bit of unconscious intolerance about it which provokes a smile. 
 We are told that the Commissioners — a majority evidently Roman 
 Catholic — entrusted matters to a manager who hired a very com- 
 
 Eetent mistress with a diploma. Being a Protestant, however, she 
 ad a chapter of the Bible read, at which the Commissioners took 
 umbrage and dismissed her. Now the manager, the mistress, the 
 writer of the complaint and the speakers, all knew perfectly well 
 that that course was objectionable. How often have Roman Catho- 
 lics been denounced for refusing to read, or have read to them 
 without note, or comment, or explanation, our Bible ' Yet knowing 
 all this, the teacher goes in for a little cheap martyrdom, and she 
 received the reward she so directly sought." 
 
 In the other case, Protestant parents, in a place where there are 
 Dissentients, sent their child to the school of the majority, and as 
 they found fault with the regulations of the School Commissioners, 
 they were advised to join the other Dissentients. The faculty of 
 dissenting is expre.^sly given to meet such cases, as is clearly seen 
 by the text itself (Chap. 15, sec. 55): " When in any municipal- 
 ity the regulations and arrangements made by the School Commis- 
 sioners for the conduct of any school are not agreeable to any 
 number whatever of the inhabitants professing a religious faith 
 different from that of the majority, &c., &c." 
 
 Having now dealt with all the general allegations contained in 
 the Report, we shall briefly advert to such of the " carefully 
 selected cases," brought in support of them, as have not been 
 already disposed of. 
 
 The cases ot St. Scholastique and other municipalities, are 
 no evidence in support of the accusation made against the Depart- 
 mentof forming new municipalities with a view to breaking up Pro- 
 testant school-districts. These new municipalities, with one excep- 
 
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 tion, (1) have been created by the civil erection of parishes (see 26th 
 secticn, Chap. 15, Consolidated Statutes); and the practice of passing 
 and publishing Orders in Council is, in most cases, continued rather 
 as a notice to all parties interested than as a necessary legal proceed- 
 ing. It is not exactly correct to say that in one of tliese cases the 
 Superintendent refused the Dissentients the facility of joining those 
 of the next parish. They were threatened with suits for arrears of 
 taxes by the School Commissioners, and they asked legal advice 
 from the Department. It surely could not have been to their interest 
 to have exposed them to the costs of a lawsuit by advising them to 
 act contrary to law. 
 
 The case of Wickham was one which — on the Report of the 
 Inspector proving unfavorable to the pretensions of the Dissen- 
 tients — was left to the judicial tribunals where there vvere certainly 
 greater facilities for arriving at the truth as to the assertions of the 
 contending parties. Such cases have to go before the Courts not- 
 withstanding the disposition which exists in the Department to 
 prevent litigation. 
 
 With reference to the complaint from Edwardstown, a part of 
 the grievance has already been answered as we have shovvu that 
 it was through their own neglect in not sending in their reports 
 that Dissentients met with trouble and delay in receiving the 
 Government grant. As to the refusal of a share of the building fund, 
 it will suffice to say that there is no such fund — the provisions by 
 virtue of which the balance of the Common School Grant was 
 to be applied to this object having been superseded by the clause 
 applying the said balance to the Superior Education Fund. 
 
 Tiieie are also, in the speeches made, several assertions which, 
 not beuig included in the Report, call for some remarks. VVe shall 
 say nothing of that which may be mere matter of opinion. 
 
 We will not comment on the speech of the Revd. Dr. Wilkes 
 who said <' that the whole system of training in the Roman Catholic 
 schools in Lower Canada was entirely unfit to bring out the man 
 and woman thoroughly and fit them for the position they are to 
 occupy in life, and that the first great end to be attained was to 
 get the law so amended as that the Protestant might enjoy fair 
 play, and then he would like to see the common schools made non- 
 sectarian''^', nor on that of the Rev. Mr. Kemp, who said " that he 
 believed that the greater part of what they asked would be cor- 
 dially granted by their Roman Catholic fellow subjects, ?;Hf that 
 the rest must also be obtained; " nor even on that of Mr. Burrowes 
 of Lachute who it appears, complained *< that the Roman Catholics 
 had erected parishes and practised ceremonies in the Eastern 
 townships, where, in the act guaranteeing their rights at the con- 
 quest of the country, no such privileges were allowed them — they 
 being excluded from this section." 
 
 I'l 
 
 .is 
 
 (1) The exception is the annexation of Cote St. Joachim -which took 
 place in 1854, previously to the appointment of the present Superinten- 
 dent and, as we understand, at the request of all the parties interested. 
 
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 1 
 
 We will confine ourselves to such assertions as relate to matters 
 of fact. 
 
 Principal Graham of Richmond College, complains, in his speech, 
 of the rules and regulations made by the Council of Public Instruc- 
 tion for the examination of teachers. On his strictures we will 
 remark, 1st. That the French Reader of which he complains is 
 not the only book from which candidates are allowed to read, 
 they can read from Garneau's abridged history and we believe 
 there would be no objection to add any other reader. 2nd. There 
 is nothing in the regulations of the Council that compels the 
 candidate to prepare his examination on the History of Canada 
 with the aid of Gamtau's abridgment, except that it is, at present, 
 the best book on the subject. 3rd. As to the apocryphal books of 
 the Bible and other questions of religions controversy introduced 
 by that gentleman, all we can say is that there are in the Council 
 of Public Instruction, those who could ex professo attend to the 
 matter from a Protestant point of view. 4th. Mr. Graham says 
 " There is no examination on arithmetic — a thing not done by 
 omission ; but because if it were insisted on it would cut off nine 
 tenths of the French teachers." We simply deny the latter part of the 
 statement as an aspersion on French Canadian teachers ; as to the 
 first part, we quote from the tenth article of the Rules and Regula- 
 tions. " The candidate (for an elementary diploma) shall more- 
 over, as regards arithmetic, solve a problem in fractions and another 
 in the rule of simple interest." " Candidates for the Model School 
 certificate, if they are not already in possession of an Elementary 
 school diploma, shall undergo the tests above prescribed and also 
 answer at least four quef>tions in each of the programmes of 
 schedule G. They shall moreover solve a problem in compound 
 interest, a problem in algebra and another in mensuration," 
 
 The statement is the more surprif-ing from the fact that Principal 
 Graham is, we believe. Secretary to the Board of Examiners at 
 Richmond. Some of the gentlemen who took a prominent part in 
 tlie meeting are also members of the Montreal Board of Examiners. 
 
 Principal Graham has also alluded to the division of the grant 
 between the majority and the dissentients, and stated that 
 some Catholic dissentients in a municipality which he does not 
 name have fraudulently obtained a larger share of the grant than they 
 ought to have had, by '< carrying all the babies to the school and 
 having their names placed on the school book." The Department has 
 always held that the number of children to be taken into account 
 was the aggregate number of bona Jide pupils who had frequented 
 the school during the year ; and when any complaint has been 
 made on the subject, either by the School Commissioners or the 
 Trustees, it has always been duly investigated. 
 
 Principal Graham also complained of the distribution of the 
 Superior Education grant, and as an instance of its mismanagement 
 quoted the fact that two infant schools in the City of Quebec are 
 placed on tho list of grants to Model Schools. Now these two 
 infant schools are Protestant institutions, and, like many other 
 charities which formed part of the old special grants made by the 
 
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 Legislature, even previous to the Union Act, were placed on that 
 Jist whon the Government and Parliament created the Superior 
 Education fund, with an understanding that no special grants were 
 to be made in future. There was no option but that of leaving 
 these institutions unsupported or of placing them on that list. 
 
 " There was no system, said Mr. Graham, in the distribution of 
 money to either Protestant or Catholic schools. Last year $325 was 
 taken from St. Francis College, the reason assigned by the Super- 
 intendent being that it was to be given to new institutions. On 
 investigation he found there was not a word of truth in it. It was 
 given to old institutions. The grant to liis college was cut down 
 31 per cent., and only 5 per cent, as regarded other institutions." 
 
 The following correspondence will speak for itself: 
 
 5 '^T. Francis College, 
 
 I Richmond, C. E., April 13, 1864. 
 Hon. Sapt. of Education. 
 
 Sir. 
 
 Be pleased to inform me why the Grant to the College has been 
 reduced so much during the past year? 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 John H. Graham, 
 Principal, &c. 
 
 J Education Oppicb, 
 I Montreal, April 18th, 1864^ 
 
 John H. Graham, Esquire, 
 
 Principal of iSt. Francis College, 
 Richmond, C. E. 
 
 Sir. 
 
 In reply to your letter of the 13th Inst., I have to say that if you refer 
 to Chap. 15 of the Consolidated Statutes, Sec. G, you will see that it is 
 therein enacted ihat the Income Fund appropriated to Superior Educa- 
 tion shall be annually apportioned by the Superintendent of Education 
 to the Universities, Colleges, &c , in such sums or proportions as the 
 Governor General in Council may approve. 
 
 My Report recommending the usual grant to St. Francis College was 
 transmitted to the Honorable the Provincial Secretary on tbe 28th Jan- 
 uary last, and His Excellency the Governor General was pleased to 
 direct, by an Order in Council of the 21st March, that the sum of seven 
 hundred and fifty dollars ($'750 00) be paid to the Institution. 
 
 I am not authorised to assign any reason for the changes which His 
 Excellency has been advised to make in the annual distribution, but I 
 think that you will see by referring to the lists to be published in tbe 
 next number of the Journal of Edur.ntion that the relatirt number of the 
 pupils of each institution on the same list have been tai:k.en into con- 
 sideration. 
 
 , I have the honor to be. 
 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 PiKRUE J. 0. ChAUVEATJ, 
 
 Superintendent of Education.. 
 
 
 \ 
 
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 ^ St. Francis CoLi-KaB, 
 
 I Richmond, C. E., April 21, 18C4. 
 
 Hon. Mr. Chauveau, 
 Superintendent of Education. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Will you be pleased to inform me why St. Francis Col'es^e is not ranked 
 by you as a College in McGill University, and why it is not placed in the 
 tecond section of Institutions of the first class, and its Preparatory Depart- 
 ment (The St. Francis College Grammar School) placed in ihe second 
 c/a."!S of Institutions, namely, the Classical Colleges? 
 
 "We claim the above rank for the two Departments, and therefore 
 request you to have the goodness to answer the above at your earliest 
 convenience, in order that the matter may be fully considered by the 
 Trustees at a meeting to be held shortly. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 John H. Graham, 
 ,, Principal, &c. 
 
 ras 
 
 iin- 
 
 to 
 
 ren 
 
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 It I 
 
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 pn- 
 
 S Education Office, 
 I Montreal, April 25, 1864. 
 
 John H. Graham, Esq., 
 
 Principal of St. Francis College, 
 Richmond, G. E. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 In answer to your letter of the 21st Instant, I ha;^e to state that the 
 Universities only are included in the first list, if you allude to the lists 
 of distribution ; I suppose that the terms, second, section of Institutions of 
 the first class, refer to the statistical tables lit ^he triennial report. That 
 second section comprises schools of Theol-jgyj of Law, and of Medicine, 
 not being Faculties of a University. 
 
 St. Francis College has been up to \he present time placed on the list 
 of Classical Colleges along with t.'ne several colleges affiliated to the 
 Jiaval University, and Morrin College is put on the same list this year. 
 
 I liave the honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 
 PiBRRB J. O. OhAUVIAF, 
 
 Superintendent of Educatioir. 
 
 The fact i8 that the reduction for which the Superintendent is 
 thus assailed, was made by the Executive Government, and that 
 Mr. Graham was told so at once. Besides, the official letter of the 
 Provincial Secretarj^ will also speak for itself. This letter is pub- 
 lished in the appendix to the Superintendent's Report for 1863 : 
 
 Q 
 
Id 
 
 $ Offiob of ths Provincial Sbobitabt. 
 \ Quebec, 22Qd March, 1864' 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have the honor to tranamit to you the copy included herewith of an 
 Order in Council approving of your lists for the distribution of the grant 
 in aid of Superior Education for the year 1863, with some few changes. 
 
 I add the details which are not set forth in the Order in Oouncil. 
 
 List No. 1. — Universities. 
 
 Bishop's Oollege $1500 instead of $1721 
 
 List No. 2. — Classical Colleges. 
 
 St. Francis, Richmond $ 150 instead of $1032 
 
 Three Rivers 60U " 362 
 
 List No. 3.— Industrial Colleges. 
 
 Masson $1000 instead of $845 
 
 Ste. Marie-de-Monnoir 500 " 42 7 
 
 Rimouski 500 *' 455 
 
 St. Laurent , 500 " 466 
 
 List No. 4.— Academies for Boys or Mixed. 
 
 Sorel $400 instead of $304 
 
 Three Rivers, (Oath.) 250 •' 304 
 
 " (Prot.) 150 " 203 
 
 List No. 5. — Academies for Girls. 
 
 Sorel $350 instead of $203 
 
 List No. 6. — Model Schools 
 
 Sherrington $93 
 
 Shefford, West (High School). 15 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 
 E. Parent, 
 
 Asst. Secretary. 
 The Honorable P. J. 0. Chauveau, S. E., 
 Montreal. 
 
 Mr. Burrowes, of Lachute, made a similar complaint on 
 behalf of the College at that place. In this case also, the Super- 
 intendent had recommended the usual grant, but representations 
 having been made to the Executive to the effect that the Institu- 
 tion did not deserve the sum which had been hitherto allowed, one 
 half only of the usual grant was paid, the payment ot the other 
 half being suspended, and the Superintendent directed to visit the 
 College. In his Special Report he recommended the payment of 
 the balance ; but his recommendation was set aside, not on 
 
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 account of anything unfavorable to the teacherii, one of whom was 
 a gentleman of the highest literary attainments, but on account of 
 the very small number of pupils in attendance in the higher 
 department. 
 
 As the two speakers above mentioned have assailed the Depjirt- 
 ment on the subject of the distribution of the Superior Education 
 grant, we subjoin a table showing the distribution of the grant as 
 between Protestant and Catholic institutions. In many instances it 
 will 'oe seen that Protestant institutions, with a much smaller num- 
 ber of pupils, receive the same or larger allowances than the 
 Catholic institutions in the same place, and vice 'ersa. 
 
 The reason is that the first distribution made under the new law 
 was, as much as possible, based on the grants made by Parliament. 
 A classification was made, but not so accurately as might have been 
 done had not the grants been previously voted by Parliament and 
 had it not been thought advisable to interfere as little as possible 
 with the old grants. In this way new institutions were allowed 
 only the minimum in the class in which they were placed, and 
 as the total sum to be distributed remained the same, even this 
 could only be done by taking a percentage off the old grants. 
 The number of schools of the same class already existing in each 
 section of Lower Canada was also to be taken into consideration, 
 so that the number of pupils was not the only rule, even as between 
 new institutions of the same class. The changes made by the 
 Executive in the distribution of 1863, and for which the Depart- 
 ment is wholly irresponsible, seem to have had for their basis the 
 number of pupils. 
 
 As to the proportion between Catholic and Protestant institu- 
 tions, the following will show that the Protestant section of the 
 community has, upon the whole, no ground of complaint : 
 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 
 Pupils 
 
 Grant. 
 
 Pupils 
 
 Grant. 
 
 Universities 
 
 
 $ 
 
 459 
 615 
 185 
 
 2200 
 40 
 
 3196 
 
 $ 
 4578 
 
 Classical Colieires 
 
 1438 
 2193 
 3777 
 
 8727 
 14914 
 
 9894 
 
 7742 
 
 6877 
 
 10390 
 
 12426 
 
 3406 
 
 Industrial Colieffes 
 
 178 
 
 Academies for Boys and mixed 
 
 Academies for Girls 
 
 7164 
 152 
 
 Model Schools 
 
 5065 
 
 
 
 
 31049 
 
 47329 
 
 6595 
 
 20533 
 
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 This distribution gives the Protestant institutions 30.25 per v, 
 of the whole amount. The Catholic population, according to 
 last census, was 943,253 ; the non-Catholic population, comprising 
 persons wiiosc creeds were unknown, was only 168,313. If the 
 ampunt was distributed according to population, the Protestant 
 institutions would receive 14.98 per cent. ; they now have more 
 than twice as much. If, on the contrary, the distribution was 
 based on the aggregate number of pupils, Protestants would 
 receive 17.48 per cent. 
 
 The results of a comparison between the grants made to Catholic 
 and to Protestant institutions in the Cities of Quebec and of Mont- 
 real are still more strikmg: 
 
 0lT5 or MONTKBAL. 
 
 
 Catholic. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Protestant. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 a 
 
 235 
 175 
 62 
 123 
 604 
 
 850 
 
 63 
 
 2112 
 
 a 
 ea 
 u 
 
 o 
 
 m 
 
 eu 
 
 D 
 pL, 
 
 296 
 
 262 
 212 
 
 151 
 
 121 
 
 1125 
 
 269 
 
 83 
 
 2519 
 
 3 
 
 d 
 
 2 
 o 
 
 St. Mary's College 
 
 Gath. Com. Academy. 
 Deaf aad Dumb Inst. . 
 Academic St. Denis... 
 
 St. Jame's School 
 
 Model School, Visita- 
 
 $ 
 
 1377 
 228 
 449 
 150 
 845 
 
 74 
 
 74 
 
 McGill College 
 
 To the same for the 
 Royal Institute | 
 
 High School, &c 
 
 i 
 
 Brit, and Can. School.: 
 
 Point St. Charles Mo-, 
 del school 
 
 $ 
 
 2407 
 
 671 
 
 1128 
 
 676 
 
 250 
 
 tion street 
 
 Free sch. in connexion 
 with American Pree- 
 byter'an society 
 
 Colonial Church sch. 
 society 
 
 
 St. Patrick School, 
 Point St. Charles . . 
 
 338 
 676 
 
 
 Panet St., Model sch. . 
 German school 
 
 Total 
 
 74 
 66 
 
 Total 
 
 3197 
 
 6276 
 
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 The Catholic population of Montreal is 65,896, and the non. 
 'Catholic 24,432. Thus, the I'rotestaiits, who are not one third of 
 the population, are receiving double the amount paid to Calholicg . 
 
 City or Quebec. 
 
 
 Catholic. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 i 
 
 Protestant. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 .2 
 
 '5. 
 
 9 
 
 6G 
 510 
 485 
 
 90 
 800 
 
 1951 
 
 Grants. 
 
 rn 
 
 1 
 
 127 
 24 
 C9 
 
 ■ 282 
 1 155 
 
 80 
 
 45 
 
 1 782 
 
 3 
 
 O 
 
 Quebec Com. Sclioo!.. 
 Soci6t6 d'Educ'itiou. . 
 Cath Model Schools.. 
 St. John's suburb Mo- 
 del school 
 
 s 
 
 152 
 94G 
 338 
 
 74 
 
 n 
 
 High School 
 
 1128 
 
 Alorrin College ' 
 
 St. Andrew's School. . 
 Brit, and Cftn. School. 
 
 -Viitional School 
 
 Infant School, Upper 
 Town 
 
 400 
 511 
 740 
 375 
 
 St. Sauveur 
 
 
 1G9 
 
 
 Infant School, Loweri 
 Towu 
 
 308 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 Total 
 
 1584 
 
 3G31 
 
 The Catholic population of the City of Quebec is 41,477, the non- 
 Catholic population 9,732. The Protestants, who are not one fifth, 
 get more than double the sum allowed Catholic institutions. 
 
 We have now reviewed all the grievances complained of by the 
 meeting and at the meeting. They have since naturally formed 
 the subject of various comments on the part of a portion of the Pro- 
 testant press, and have elicited the discussion of other points con- 
 nected with education. We shall say nothing of denunciations 
 such as those of the Presbyterian, which, finding the expressions 
 contained in the Report of the Committee, and even those used 
 by the Montreal Witness too mild, has declared that the tohole 
 thing was rotten to the core. We willonly allude to such reproaches 
 (which we have seen in newspapers; as have not so plainly given 
 evidence of predetermined and irreconcilable hostility. 
 
 It has been suggested that the Department ought to pay the 
 grants at fixed periotis and more prom^ly, that something ought 
 to be done to raise the salaries ot teachers, and that the Superin- 
 tendent ought to have prepared and secured the complete remodel- 
 ling of our school laws. 
 
 If by "the grants" the Common school grant ismeant,we can state 
 that it is paid regularly every six months on all school reports that 
 are regular and have been filed in due time. We have already 
 explained how the delay on the part of Dissentients in filing their 
 
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 returns rendered it necessary that their share of the grnnt should 
 be paid to them through the hands of the School Commissioners. 
 Payments are made with the greatest ])088ible despatch ; they 
 require, however, the filling up of blanlc receipts and numerous 
 entries, besides the examining otthe reports and the searching of the 
 registers for teacherM' certificates. If the Superior Education grant 
 is meant, we will admit that delays which are altogether beyond 
 the control of the Department have taken place. It was settled by 
 the Government that the payment for each year, on the reports due 
 in July, should take place in the month of January following ; but it 
 has been found impossible to proceed with the distribution at 
 that period of the year. The Superintendent, owing to financial 
 difficulties which have often been explained in his annual Reports, 
 must firHt ascertain whether he shall be allowed to distribute the 
 whole amount mentioned in the law. This is one cause of delay. 
 Then, when his Report, together with the lists of distribution, is 
 submitted lo the Executive, many circumstances will postpone its 
 approval. The last report is dated 25th January ; but trie Order in 
 Council approving of it, with the above mentioned changes, is dated 
 the 21st March, and the warrant issued on the 29th. 
 
 As to the salaries of teachers, it is first to be observed that the 
 total amount of the Common School Grant has never been really 
 increased, notwithstanding the sums which are yearly added to the 
 school grant by Parliament. A portion of th's supplementary aid 
 has been absorbed by the difference whirh the more rapid 
 increase of population in Upper Canada has caused in favor of 
 that section of the Province in the apportionment of the whole 
 grant, and the remainder goes to meet the deficiency in the Superior 
 Education Fund caused by the insufficiency of the revenues of the 
 Jesuits' Estates which are part of the income. Thus, while new mu- 
 nicipalities have been springing up everywhere, while new schools 
 have been opened in the old as well as in the new municipalities, 
 the whole grant is the same that answered to the wants of 
 Lower Canada more than twenty years ago. It is therefore evident 
 that the share of each municipality, and of each school, is much less 
 than it was twenty years ago ; and had not great efforts been made 
 to increase the local taxes, instead of the slight and inadequate 
 advance complained of, a considerable falling off in the salaries of 
 teachers v uld have taken place. 
 
 Much 1' 3 been done with a view of remedying an evil which is 
 certainly a great obstacle to the improvement of our schools. The 
 school rales and assessments, which were $406,765 in 1856, had 
 reached in 1863, $564,810 (J) ; but as a large portion of them are not 
 regularly paid, the attention of the Government and of the Legisla- 
 ture has been frequently called to the means of enforcing payment, 
 and also of providing against the miscomluct of secretary-treasurers, 
 which has been a great drawback on the prompt and equitable 
 
 a 
 
 (1) Of this sum $11,749 is to be deducted for building purposes, and 
 smaller amount levied by special asstssment for the pflyment of debts. 
 
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 remuneration of teachern. Several legislative provisions were 
 made, ami others were contained in the bill from which we have 
 already quoted. The establishment of Normal Schools, the enact- 
 ing of more stringent rules for the examination of candidates, and 
 the withholding of the grant from all municipalities employing 
 unlicensed schoolmasters, are also indirect means of raising both 
 the status and the salary of the teacher. 
 
 The power vested in the Department of granting indemnities to 
 teachers from the local fund when unjustly dismissed — or when 
 a change is attempted to be made at the end of the year with the 
 sole object of reducing the salary — has been a great boon to them, 
 and is we believe duly appreciated. 
 
 The suggestion of fixing a minimum salary for each class of 
 teachers, and of withholding the school grant when that minimum 
 is not paid, is one on which there exists a great difference of opi- 
 nion even among teachers themselves. It nas been discussed in 
 the several Teachers' Associations, and one of the strongest 
 objections to such a plan is the facility with which a regulation to 
 this effect might be evaded, owing to the great competition between 
 the holders of certificates. 
 
 The remodelling of the school laws, as a whole, was the very 
 first recommendation which the present Superintendent made to 
 the Executive immediately after nis appointment. The Govern- 
 ment for the time being were of opinion that amendments to the 
 existing laws would be preferable, and each succeeding government 
 has entertained the same opinion and acted accordingly. 
 
 In conclusion we will remark that while it is emphatically stated 
 that the Superintendent holds a most irresponsible position, every 
 effort is made to throw on his shoulders every imaginable kind of 
 responsibility. All that is done or omitted by the Legislature, the 
 Executive Government, the Council of Public Instruction, the 
 School Commissioners, or any one else having anything to do with 
 the administration of school affairs, is duly ascribed to nim. 
 
 It is but natural that a public officer entrusted with functions so 
 important to the welfare of the community should be carefully 
 watched, and it would be marvellous indeed if all his doings were 
 to escape censure. The admonitions of the public press should 
 have on his conduct their due weight ; but, like many others, he will 
 also find it difficult to yield to every kind of advice proffered. The 
 following quotations from two of our contemporaries, are bril- 
 liant instances of the great discrepancies which may be found in 
 the condemnations passed on the same functionary, Although 
 unexceptionable in their style, they show the great perplexity which 
 would fall to the lot of any public officer afflicted with a lust of 
 universal approbation. 
 
 " Probably few men," says the Richmond Guardian of the 24th 
 April, "could have done better than Mr. Chauveau has done, 
 and we heartily accord to him all that is his due as a very efficient 
 and industrious officer. But wo contend that many of his acts are 
 80 arbitrary as to render it a duty to challenge them and call him 
 
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 to account. That these arbitrary acts grow necessarily out of the 
 irresponsible nature of his ofTice is plain ; and it is quite time 
 therefore to inquire whether we are not nursing a power which 
 may by and bye imperil both our religious and civil liberties. We 
 might amplify this matter and detail a long catalogije of ' enact- 
 ments, ' * orders,' and < regulations ' conceived in the fertile 
 brain, and put in force by the unchecked hand of the Honorable 
 Superintendent, until the law itself has been well nigh superseded, 
 and a structure has been reared which may be very fitly denomin- 
 ated < JMr. Chauveau's decrees for the enforcement of education 
 amongst the people.' In fact, the whole system is built up and sus- 
 tained by this one-man power, and that power absolutely uncon- 
 trolled and irresponsible. Wow we grant that Mr. Chauveau is 
 thoroughly in earnest with his work and that his machinery is 
 intended by him to do the work well, but we think a little vent- 
 ilating of the mysteries of the Education Office would .^e both for 
 his benefit and for that of the people." 
 
 On the other hand the Montreal Transcript of the 20th Septem- 
 ber has the following : 
 
 " We have personally great confidence and faith in Mr. Chau- 
 veau ; and we know that his heart is in the vocation to which he 
 has been called. But we have no faith in the system pursued in 
 his office — handed down to him no doubt by his predecessors and 
 kept up religiously without the shadow of a change. We expected 
 better things in this respect from Mr. Chauveau. We believed and 
 still believe him to be an advocate of progression, one who would 
 move with the times. But somehow or other since he got seated 
 in his cozy arm-chair the coils of red tapeism seem to have 
 enveloped him ; and he has let things jog along as they may. The 
 
 meeting '■f Tuesday will do something to alarm him There 
 
 is t^e Tiore reason, therefore, that Mr. Chauveau should shake off 
 thi letha -gy and supineness which seem to have overcome him, 
 and do something to redress the grievances complained of and 
 make himself still felt as a power in the State." 
 
 If the name was not affixed to each portrait, one could hardly 
 believe that the over-zealous functionary whose fertile brain has 
 invented so many rules and regulations, and whose unchecked ha,nd 
 sets every body and every thing at defiance, and the very lazy 
 Superintendent whose supineness and lethargy let things jog on so 
 easily, are one and the same functionary. If he were allowed a 
 voice in the matter he would perhaps modestly ask for a mezzo- 
 termine between the two extreme views thus taken of his adminis- 
 tration, and would not unlikely add with Racine : 
 
 Et je n'ai m6rite 
 Ni cet exces d'honneur ni cette indignite. 
 
 In the meantime, the following extract from his last annual 
 Report will give some idea of the coarse which he conceives he 
 
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 ought to follow in the difficult and by no means irresponsible posi- 
 tion in which he is placed : 
 
 " I have pointed out in my previous reports the best measures to 
 be adopted for the perfection of our system of education ; and 1 
 would repeat that important as are some of the measures proposed 
 and stiil under the consideration of the Government, particularly 
 those that were adverted to in my report on the inspection of schools, 
 a great deal also depends on the influence which public opinion 
 can bring to bear upon the local authorities, in whose hands the 
 law has placed so large a share of the initiative and responsibility. 
 The most difficult task is that which consists in directing these 
 local authorities without infringing on their powers, or discouraging 
 any of the school commissioners or functionaries who may be very 
 bravely struggling against difficulties, without, however, being able 
 to obtain all that might be desired in the interest of the progress of 
 education. If, in this matter, the Department should have appeared 
 to some persons as wanting in energy or firmness, it may be well 
 to observe that on many occasions a different course might have 
 j'eopardized the results which, unimportant as they may appear, 
 have only been obtained with much difficulty." 
 
 Table of the Apportionment of the Superior Education Fund 
 for 1863, under the Act 18th Vict., Cap. 54, as between 
 Catholic and Protestant institutions. 
 
 List No. 1. — Universities. 
 
 
 Cath /lies. 
 
 1 _ 
 
 i Protestants. 
 
 i 
 
 NAME UF INSTITUTION. 
 
 Number of 
 pupils. 
 
 Annual grant for 
 1863. 
 
 : O 
 
 3 p.. 
 
 ! 
 
 1 
 
 i 296 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 Annual grant for 
 1863. 
 
 McGill CoUese 
 
 
 2407 00 
 
 To the same for one )'ear's salary of 
 the Secretary to the Royal Institu- 
 tion, the salary of the Messenger, 
 and for continn^ent expenses i 
 
 
 
 671 00 
 
 Bishoo's Colleire 
 
 
 
 163 
 459 
 
 1500 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 4578 00 
 
 
 
 
 
26 
 List No. 2. — Classical Collxoes. 
 
 I 
 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 NAME OF INSTITUTION. 
 
 Number of 
 pupils. 
 
 Annual grant for 
 1863. 
 
 Number of 
 pupils. 
 
 Annual grant for 
 1863. 
 
 Nicolet . „ - - 
 
 210 
 252 
 191 
 248 
 195 
 235 
 
 1721 00 
 1721 00 
 1377 00 
 1721 00 
 1377 00 
 1377 00 
 
 
 
 St. H vacinthe 
 
 
 
 Ste. Therese 
 
 
 
 Ste. Anne de la I'ocatiere 
 
 
 
 L'Assomotion 
 
 
 
 Ste. Marie, (Montreal) 
 
 262 
 
 127 
 
 102 
 
 
 Hieh School of McGill CoUeee 
 
 1128 00 
 
 « " of Quebec, for the edu- 
 cation of 30 pupils named by Go- 
 vernment 
 
 
 
 * 
 1128 00 
 
 St. Francis. Richmond 
 
 
 
 750 00 
 
 Three Rivers 
 
 107 
 
 SCO 00 
 
 
 Morrin 
 
 24 
 515 
 
 400 00 
 
 
 1438 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 9894 00 
 
 3406 00 
 
 
 
27 
 List No. 3.— Industrial Colligm. 
 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 NAMI OF INSTITUTION. 
 
 Number of 
 puoiis. 
 
 Annual grant for 
 1863. 
 
 Number of 
 pupils. 
 
 .2 
 
 a 
 
 — 00 
 
 p 
 a 
 c 
 < 
 
 Joliette 
 
 168 
 313 
 106 
 130 
 92 
 131 
 194 
 120 
 142 
 
 845 00 
 1000 UO 
 845 00 
 845 00 
 338 00 
 845 00 
 500 00 
 338 00 
 500 00 
 
 
 
 Mawon 
 
 
 
 Notre-Dame de Levis 
 
 
 
 St. Michel, Bellechasse 
 
 
 
 Laval 
 
 
 
 Rigaud 
 
 
 
 Ste. Marie de Monnoir 
 
 
 
 Ste. Marie de Beauce 
 
 
 
 Rimouski 
 
 
 
 Lachute 
 
 185 
 
 178 GO 
 
 Vercheres 
 
 147 
 100 
 
 48 
 318 
 194 
 
 338 00 
 253 00 
 253 00 
 342 00 
 500 00 
 
 Varenne;> 
 
 
 
 Sherbrooke 
 
 
 
 Longueuil 
 
 
 
 St. Laurent 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total i 
 
 2193 
 
 7743 00 
 
 185 
 
 178 00 
 
 
28 
 
 List No. 4.— Academies for Boys, or Mixed. 
 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 NAME OF institution. 
 
 o 
 ■o a. 
 
 68 
 
 a 
 
 — CO 
 
 < 
 
 <4-l 
 
 o 
 
 XJ CL 
 
 a 
 rt l-t 
 
 < 
 
 Avlmer. f Catholic") 
 
 228 00 
 
 
 Avirrier. CProteslanti 
 
 36 
 
 228 00 
 
 Beauharnais. St. Clement 
 
 233 
 
 125 
 
 118 
 
 65 
 
 228 00 
 228 00 
 152 00 
 169 00 
 
 
 Bonin, St. Andrews, Argenteuil. . . . 
 
 
 
 Baie du Febvre 
 
 
 
 Baie St. Paul 
 
 
 
 Barnston 
 
 160 
 
 152 00 
 
 Berliner 
 
 160 
 19 
 83 
 81 
 21 
 
 340 00 
 
 76 00 
 
 340 00 
 
 178 00 
 152 00 
 
 
 Buckinghana '. . . . 
 
 19 
 
 76 00 
 
 BelcDil 
 
 
 Chambly 
 
 
 
 Cap Sante 
 
 
 
 Clarenceville 
 
 69 
 56 
 88 
 70 
 84 
 35 
 
 304 00 
 
 Clarendon 
 
 
 
 152 00 
 
 Coaticook 
 
 
 
 135 00 
 
 Cassville 
 
 
 
 152 00 
 
 Connpton 
 
 
 ........ 
 
 152 00 
 
 Cookshi re 
 
 
 
 152 00 
 
 St. Cyprien 
 
 145 
 
 152 00 
 
 
 Charleston 
 
 24 
 84 
 42 
 81 
 
 70 
 
 480 CO 
 
 Danville 
 
 
 
 228 00 
 
 Dudswell 
 
 
 
 152 00 
 
 Dunham 
 
 
 
 304 00 
 
 Durham, No. 1 
 
 
 
 135 00 
 
 St. Eustache 
 
 80 
 233 
 
 228 00 
 203 00 
 
 
 Farnham, (Catholic) 
 
 
 
 Farnham, (Protestant) 
 
 65 
 74 
 
 228 00 
 
 Freleighsbur"' 
 
 
 
 203 00 
 
 St. Colomban de Sillery 
 
 113 
 
 152 00 
 
 
 Ste. Foye 
 
 60 
 
 152 00 
 
 Gentilly 
 
 90 
 
 152 00 
 
 
 Granby 
 
 59 
 
 304 00 
 
 
 1634 
 
 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 2978 00 
 
 1166 
 
 3689 00 
 
29 
 List No. 4.— Academies fok Boys, or Mixed. — {Continued.) 
 
 NAME or INSTITUTION. 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 Georgeville 
 
 St. Gregoire 
 
 Huntingdon 
 
 St. Johns, Dorchester, (Catholic). . 
 St. Johns, Dorchester, (Protestant). 
 
 St. Jean, Island of Orleans 
 
 Knowlton 
 
 Kamouraska 
 
 Laprairie , 
 
 Lotbiniere 
 
 L'Islet 
 
 Montreal Catholic Com. Academy. 
 
 Montmagny 
 
 Ste. Marthe 
 
 Missisquoi 
 
 Pointe-aux-Trembles, Hochelaga . 
 
 Phillipsburg 
 
 Sherbrooke 
 
 Sorel, (Catholic) 
 
 Sorei, (Protestant) 
 
 Stanbridge 
 
 Sutton 
 
 ShefFord 
 
 Stanstead 
 
 St. Timothee 
 
 Three Rivers, (Catholic) 
 
 Three Rivers, (Protestani) , 
 
 Vaudreuil 
 
 Yamachiche 
 
 Quebec Commercial and Lit. Acad. 
 
 St. Andrews, Argenteuil 
 
 Roxton 
 
 Total. 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 3 
 
 1634 
 
 114 
 
 167 
 
 89 
 
 80 
 150 
 
 24 
 
 8^^ 
 175 
 225 
 
 80 
 
 82 
 
 352 
 
 125 
 36 
 
 104 
 
 130 
 
 66 
 
 60 
 
 3777 
 
 a 
 a • 
 
 u. CO 
 tyLCD 
 
 < 
 
 2978 00 
 
 152 00 
 
 304 00 
 
 152 00 
 
 338 00 
 203 00 
 135 00 
 228 00 
 228 00 
 253 00 
 152 00 
 
 304 00 
 
 400 00 
 
 135 00 
 250 00 
 
 152 00, 
 228 00 
 152 00 
 
 133 00 
 
 6877 00, 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 S = 
 
 44 
 
 121 
 
 64 
 
 82 
 
 175 
 
 19 
 
 120 
 
 2200 
 
 c 
 
 »- CO 
 
 fclCD 
 
 — CO 
 
 3 I-, 
 
 1166 
 37 
 
 3689 00 
 152 00 
 
 38 
 
 338 00 
 
 61 
 
 304 00 
 
 96 
 
 304 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 '"48 
 90 
 
 233 00 
 
 "i52 '66 
 338 00 
 
 135 00 
 
 228 00 
 192 00 
 304 00 
 542 00 
 
 150 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 7154 00 
 
30 
 List No. 6. — Academies for Girls. 
 
 
 Catholics 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 NAMJC or INSTITUTION. 
 
 Number of 
 pupils. 
 
 Annual grant 
 lor 1863. 
 
 Number of 
 pupils. 
 
 p 
 2co 
 
 < 
 
 Ste. Anne-de-la-P6rade 
 
 160 
 100 
 180 
 136 
 112 
 
 85 
 105 
 
 61 
 120 
 157 
 
 79 
 
 135 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 135 00 
 
 114 00 
 
 114 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 152 00 
 
 127 00 
 
 152 00 
 
 
 
 St. Ambroise de Kildare 
 
 
 
 L'AesomDtion 
 
 
 
 St. Vitne 
 
 
 
 Bale St. Paul 
 
 
 
 BelcBil 
 
 
 
 Boucherville 
 
 
 
 Les Cedres 
 
 
 
 Chamblv 
 
 
 
 St. Cesaire 
 
 
 
 Ste. Croix 
 
 
 
 Covvansville 
 
 
 152 00 
 
 St. Charles, Industrie 
 
 326 
 
 100 
 
 259 
 
 178 
 
 132 
 
 122 
 
 100 
 
 205 
 
 90 
 
 81 
 
 80 
 
 76 
 
 290 
 
 162 
 
 77 
 
 70 
 
 400 
 
 155 
 
 262 
 
 80 
 
 104 
 
 4644 
 
 203 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 152 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 203 00 
 
 96 00 
 
 228 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 93 00 
 
 304 00 
 
 135 00 
 
 135 00 
 
 135 00 
 
 133 00 
 
 228 00 
 
 203 00 
 
 304 00 
 
 169 00 
 
 152 00 
 
 
 Chateaujruav 
 
 
 
 St. Clement 
 
 
 
 St. Cyprien 
 
 
 
 St. Denis 
 
 
 
 Ste. Elisn,beth 
 
 
 
 St. Eustache 
 
 
 
 St. Greeoire 
 
 
 
 Ste. Genevieve 
 
 
 
 St. Henri de Mascouche 
 
 
 
 St. Hilaire 
 
 
 
 St. Huffues 
 
 
 
 St. Hyacinthe, ScEursde la Charite. 
 St. Hyacinthe, Soeurs de la Present. 
 L'Islet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ile-Verte 
 
 
 
 St. Jean, Dorchester 
 
 
 
 St. Jacaues de I'Achiean 
 
 
 
 St. Joseoh de L6vis 
 
 
 
 Cakouna 
 
 
 
 Kamouraska. 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 4639 00 
 
 152 00 
 
31 
 
 List No. 5. — Academies for Girls. — (Continued.) 
 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 NAMK OF institution. 
 
 »- tc 
 
 -S ex 
 S 2 
 
 Iz; 
 
 4644 
 142 
 390 
 136 
 130 
 46 
 12 
 127 
 113 
 90 
 72 
 37 
 66 
 78 
 100 
 102 
 78 
 142 
 134 
 134 
 403 
 151 
 60 
 117 
 192 
 107 
 109 
 90 
 223 
 82 
 146 
 61 
 9C 
 123 
 
 872'; 
 
 Annual grant 
 for 1863. 
 
 Number oi 
 pupils. 
 
 Annual grant 
 for 1863. 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 Laprairie 
 
 4639 00 
 93 00 
 304 00 
 93 00 
 203 00 
 152 00 
 449 00 
 152 00 
 169 00 
 93 00 
 228 00 
 93 00 
 93 00 
 93 00 
 203 00 
 203 00 
 174 00 
 228 00 
 101 00 
 304 00 
 350 00 
 93 00 
 152 00 
 135 00 
 228 00 
 169 00 
 152 00 
 152 00 
 228 00 
 195 00 
 93 00 
 133 00 
 93 00 
 150 00 
 
 40 
 
 152 00 
 
 Lonsrueuil.. 
 
 
 
 St. Lin 
 
 
 
 St. Laurent, Jacques-Cartier 
 
 Loncue-Pointe 
 
 
 
 
 
 Montreal, board 12 Deaf & Dumb F. 
 
 
 
 Ste. Marie-de-Monnoir 
 
 
 
 Ste. Marie de Beauce 
 
 
 
 St. Martin 
 
 
 
 St. Michel. Rellechasse 
 
 
 
 St. Nicolas 
 
 
 
 St. Paul de I'Industrie 
 
 
 
 Pointe-Claire 
 
 
 
 Pointe-aux-Trembles, Hochelaga. . . 
 Pointe-aux-Trembles. Portneuf.. . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Riviere-Ouelle 
 
 
 
 Rimouski 
 
 
 
 Ste. Scholastique 
 
 
 
 Sherbrooke 
 
 
 
 Sorel 
 
 
 
 Ste. Th^rese 
 
 
 
 St. Thomas de Pierreville 
 
 
 
 St. Timothee 
 
 
 
 St. Thomas de Montmagny 
 
 Varennes 
 
 
 
 
 
 Yamachiche 
 
 
 
 St. Benoit 
 
 
 
 Trois-Rivieres 
 
 
 
 Ste. Famille 
 
 
 
 Terrebonne.. . 
 
 
 
 Trois Pistoles. No. 1 
 
 
 
 Vaudreuil . 
 
 
 
 St. Denis St. Academy, Montreal . . 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 Total 
 
 f 10390 00 
 
 1 152 00 
 
 
 
32 
 
 List No. 6. — Model Schools. 
 
 
 j Catholics. 
 
 i 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 NAME OF INSTITUTION. 
 
 1 ° 
 
 c 
 
 bf.CO 
 00 
 
 ■«- 
 
 < 
 
 o . 
 
 3 O- 
 
 69 
 212 
 
 32 
 282 
 155 
 151 
 
 a 
 
 s *- 
 
 < 
 
 St Andrew's School. Quebec 
 
 
 511 00 
 
 British & Canadian Sch. Soc, Mont. 
 
 
 
 676 00 
 
 Col. Chnrch & Sch. Soc, Sherbiooke 
 
 
 
 169 00 
 
 British & Canadian Sch. Soc. Queb. 
 
 
 
 740 00 
 
 National School, Quebec 
 
 
 
 376 00 
 
 Point St. Charles, Montreal 
 
 
 
 250 00 
 
 Society of Education, Quebec 
 
 « " Three Rivers 
 
 510 
 295 
 
 946 00 
 509 00 
 
 
 
 
 Free Sch. in con. with the American 
 Presbvterian Sch. Soc, Montreal. 
 
 121 
 1125 
 
 338 00 
 
 Col. Church and School Soc, Mont. 
 
 
 
 676 00 
 
 Liorette. Girls' school 
 
 26 
 19 
 25 
 31 
 
 133 00 
 
 133 00 
 
 56 00 
 
 169 00 
 
 
 " Boys' " 
 
 
 •"•"•••" 
 
 Stan fold 
 
 
 
 St. Francis. Indian school 
 
 
 
 Quebec, Lower Town, Infant School. 
 
 •45 
 80 
 
 169 00 
 
 Quebec, Upper Town, Infant school. 
 St. Jacaues. Montreal 
 
 604 
 
 485 
 
 58 
 
 113 
 
 155 
 
 62 
 
 236 
 
 83 
 
 38 
 
 122 
 
 40 
 
 88 
 
 64 
 
 83 
 
 3137 
 
 "845 66 
 
 338 00 
 
 152 00 
 
 114 00 
 
 IM 00 
 
 1 .0 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 308 00 
 
 To the Cath. Com. of the City of Que. 
 .Deschambault 
 
 
 
 
 
 St. Constant 
 
 
 
 St. Jacques le Mineur .... 
 
 Point Claire 
 
 
 . 
 
 
 - - - • 
 
 Lachine 
 
 
 
 Cote des Neisfes 
 
 
 
 St. Antoine de Tilly 
 
 
 
 St. Edouard de Napierville 
 
 Ste. Philomene 
 
 
 
 
 
 St. Francois du Lac 
 
 
 
 Laprairie 
 
 
 
 LacoUe 
 
 
 
 
 2272 
 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 Ii 
 
 4253 00 
 
 4212 00 
 
 
 • No number given in report. 
 
33 
 
 otestants. 
 
 511 00 
 676 00 
 169 00 
 740 00 
 375 00 
 260 00 
 
 338 00 
 676 00 
 
 
 169 00 
 308 00 
 
 12 00 
 
 Li^T No. 6.— Model Scuoolh.— (Continued.) 
 
 NAME OF INSTITUTION. 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 
 I. 00 
 
 fcJCO 
 
 00 
 
 — Ui 
 
 = ,3 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 Coteau St. Louis 
 
 Riviere dii Lihi|), 
 
 Ste. Anne dp [.aperaile 
 
 St. RoiTiua.'d de Levis. 
 
 St. Ctiivrles, Si. Hyaciiitlie.. . . 
 
 St, Ciejioire 
 
 St. Henri, Hochelai^a 
 
 Beanmont 
 
 St. Andre, Kamonraska 
 
 StH. Anne des Plaines 
 
 St. Ce>aire 
 
 St. Joachim, Two Mountains. . 
 
 Boncherville 
 
 Lacldne, Dissentients 
 
 Mall.aie 
 
 St. Heimas 
 
 Ste, Rose 
 
 St. Deins, Karnauraska 
 
 St. Hyaeintiie. 
 
 Chi(;ontirni. 
 
 St. Severe 
 
 St. Pierre, Riviere du Sud 
 
 Bury 
 
 Chateauouay 
 
 St. Ililaire 
 
 Ste. Seiiolastiqne 
 
 St. Joseph de Levis. 
 
 St. Michel Archano-e 
 
 St. Jean Deschai lions 
 
 St. Gervais. ... 
 
 St. Nicolas, Levis 
 
 St. Isidore 
 
 St. Henri de Lauzon 
 
 3I.S7I 
 
 18.5' 
 
 45: 
 
 76: 
 
 149^ 
 
 135 
 
 65; 
 
 196 
 78 
 61: 
 96 
 
 15-' 
 80 
 
 110 
 
 60 
 
 48! 
 
 79^ 
 128i 
 214 
 147' 
 
 80 
 .31 
 
 Carried forward. 
 
 72 
 47 
 92 
 190 
 I6I; 
 671 
 31i 
 ..0| 
 891 
 62l 
 
 4253 00 
 74 00 
 
 74 ()()| 
 74 OOj 
 74 00; 
 74 00 
 74 (10' 
 74 Ooi 
 74 00! 
 
 74 00:, 
 
 74 00 
 74 OOi 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 It = I 
 
 i = Cl 
 
 2272 
 
 Jr, '^ 
 
 CI ;o 
 _ CO 
 
 74 00 
 74 00: 
 74 00 
 74 00| 
 74 00 
 140 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 74 OOj! 
 74 OOm 
 74 (lOi 
 74 00 : 
 74 00 I 
 74 00! 
 74 00'' 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 4212 00' 
 
 73 
 
 74 00 
 
 52 
 
 74 00 
 
 6193! 6613 00 12397 
 
 I 'i 
 
 4360 00 
 
34 
 
 List No. 6.— Model Schools.— (^Continued.) 
 
 
 Call 
 
 lolic!*. 
 
 Proiestaiits. 
 
 NAME or INSTITUTION. 
 
 o 
 
 It 
 
 Annual irrani 
 for 1863. 
 
 3 . 
 1- % 
 
 ^ ... 
 
 ~ c_ 
 2i 
 
 2397 
 
 1 
 
 •'52 
 
 00 
 
 — ^H 
 — L. 
 
 < 
 
 Cariiecl forward 
 
 Graiitle Biiie 
 
 1 
 
 6193 
 !)7 
 47 
 
 102 
 81 
 5ti 
 
 118 
 
 165 
 62 
 55 
 43 
 86 
 94 
 67 
 
 1:M 
 72 
 
 6613 00 
 74 00 
 152 00 
 74 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 56 OOj 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 4360 00 
 
 SoininttK-el 
 
 
 
 S.e. Genevieve de Baliscaii 
 
 
 
 St. Viileiitiii 
 
 
 
 Si. Viiicciil de Paul 
 
 
 
 SiH. Mailiiie, (lioys) 
 
 
 
 Heciiii'mK 
 
 
 
 St. Hiiheit 
 
 Si. .lerome 
 
 
 
 St. G.'iiriide 
 
 
 
 Si. diaries, Belleclias.«e, (boy.s).. 
 St. George, Cacouna 
 
 
 
 
 
 Poiiile-aiix-Treiribies, Portiieut'. . . 
 
 
 
 St. Cecile, lieauhaniais 
 
 
 
 EboiileiriHiits 
 
 
 
 Plot. Mitdel Sch., Panel St., Mont. 
 
 269 
 i25 
 
 74 00 
 
 St. Laurent, Montmorency 
 
 Rawdon 
 
 100 
 
 74 00 
 
 74 00 
 
 St. Geivais, (Convent) 
 
 70 
 182 
 112 
 1.59 
 
 8.50 
 100 
 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 "74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 
 Nolre-D.ime-de-la-Victoire, Levi> 
 
 
 
 Rij^and, (Convi'nt) 
 
 
 
 St Vniceht lie Paul, (Convent). .. 
 
 
 
 Scii. Vi>itaiion N|,., Moiitlreal .... 
 
 
 
 St. Jean Port Jotf. girls' schoid . . 
 Lacoile, Dissent ents 
 
 104 
 
 20 
 
 83 
 
 74 66 
 
 St. Ain No. 2, Kairionra-ka 
 
 Melbourne, liirl.s' aomlemy 
 
 77 
 
 56 00, 
 
 74 66 
 
 German Prole.staiil Strb. of Mont. 
 Polnle dn Ij-.h' 
 
 '"'ro 
 
 1.30 
 56 
 45 
 
 ..... .| 
 
 1 
 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 56 00 
 
 Si I'Monard Temific. girls'pcLool 
 
 
 
 Chaieau-Ricber 
 
 
 
 Loibiuiere 
 
 2998 
 
 
 
 
 Carrieil forward 
 
 9433 
 
 8545 00 
 
 4712 00 
 
35 
 
 List No. 6 — Mouei. Schools. — {Continued.) 
 
 
 Calh 
 
 olicH. 
 
 Piotefitaiils. 
 
 NAME OK INSTITUTION. 
 
 •eI 
 
 c 
 r; • 
 
 ;i'X) 
 
 _ CO 
 
 a '■* 
 
 o 
 
 ii. 
 
 2998 
 
 Annual cranl 
 for 1863. 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 Riviere-Oiieile 
 
 9433 
 33 
 
 66 
 65 
 56 
 108 
 71 
 
 8545 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 ( 
 74 00 
 74 0(1 
 74 00 
 
 4712 00 
 
 Si. NiircissB 
 
 
 Si. Pi.^cli;il 
 
 
 Su'. Fiirnille. Isliiiid of Orleiins.. 
 Sle. Foye. . . . , 
 
 
 
 St. Si ill lis las 
 
 
 
 I.Ht^ils 
 
 42 
 
 74 00 
 
 Si. H^iiri de lVlH>t'oiU'lie 
 
 84 
 
 J18 
 
 119 
 
 26 
 
 98 
 
 78 
 
 1J5 
 
 63 
 
 90 
 
 84 
 
 .';0 
 
 126 
 
 105 
 
 102 
 
 90 
 
 35 
 
 30 
 
 93 
 
 70 
 
 150 
 
 65 
 
 95 
 
 80 
 
 800 
 
 74 
 
 20 
 
 74 00 
 56 00 
 66 00 
 56 00 
 .*)6 0(1 
 56 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 74 on 
 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 74 00 
 
 
 EiMliellils 
 
 
 
 St. .lean Ci v<o»i6ine No, 2 
 
 
 Rivieiti-de-i-Praini^s 
 
 
 
 St. [^(iiiis de Goii/airue 
 
 
 Si. Leon 
 
 
 
 St. Anne 
 
 
 Calh. Sell. .Point Si Cliarle«,MoMt 
 
 
 St. Jolin's Siibnib, Quebec. .... 
 
 St. Aiidie Aveliii 
 
 St. Ale.vandre, Iberville 
 
 AcadiH 
 
 
 
 Ste. Caire, 
 
 
 
 S'. Cliarles, Bellecha.'^se, girls 
 
 
 
 Cap St. I"nace 
 
 
 
 St. Anseltne, bnyis' school 
 
 Escoiimiiis 
 
 
 
 
 
 St. Ivloininl, Temiscouiiia, boy^ . . 
 Si. Frederii'k, Drnrnfnoiiil 
 
 
 
 
 
 Iberville 
 
 
 
 Si. freiiee 
 
 
 
 St. Piiilip 
 
 
 St. Ca ixtH de Sornrner.^et 
 
 
 
 St. Saiivenr, Quebec 
 
 St. Rocli de l'A('tn<'fan 
 
 
 
 
 
 St. Re^ris "^ 
 
 
 
 
 |3040 
 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 12702 
 
 10823 00 
 
 4786 00 
 
 
 
30 
 
 List No. 6.— Modkl liciioois.— {Continued). 
 
 
 1 
 
 Catholics. 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 NAME OF INSTITUTION. 
 
 'o, 
 a. 
 o 
 
 0) 
 
 B 
 
 =3 
 
 
 
 *-• 
 
 c 
 
 C 
 
 c 
 
 < 
 
 ■5, 
 
 B 
 1 
 
 E 
 
 s 
 
 3040 
 52 
 
 a 
 
 *^ 
 
 c 
 
 1- CO 
 
 _ 00 
 rt ^ 
 
 s 
 c 
 
 
 < 
 
 Ciurieil forwaid 
 
 St. Henri. Uissmit ilmiIs 
 
 l-270i 
 
 10823 00 
 
 4786 00 
 74 00 
 
 Heiirivil le", Ibervi ItJ 
 
 94 
 116 
 
 i 80 
 36 
 88 
 41 
 98 
 250 
 110 
 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 74 00; 
 74 OOJ 
 56 00; 
 56 00' 
 56 00 
 
 
 AitliubuskiiviilH 
 
 St. AiisBliiit.!, (Convent) 
 
 . . .» 
 
 j . . . . 
 
 
 Bii'ifolville 
 
 % 
 
 i 
 
 Ciirlfcton 
 
 Coteiiu ilu Luc 
 
 
 Dt!st'.li;irubiiiilt, (Convent) 
 
 St. Henri. H()cliela"^a 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ste. Helene, Kiunouraska 
 
 
 
 Inverness 
 
 34 
 
 56 00 
 
 Ste. Jnlie. Mecranlic 
 
 50 
 75 
 64 
 73 
 
 56 00 
 74 00 
 56 001 
 56 00 
 
 
 St. Lne 
 
 
 
 St. Lambert, Levis 
 
 
 
 Mataiie 
 
 
 
 JVla'^oo" 
 
 33 
 
 .... 
 
 74 00 
 
 Maria, Ronaventure 
 
 60 
 106 
 
 \9 
 
 88 
 
 107 
 
 ! 75 
 
 118 
 
 45 
 110 
 
 35 
 
 74 00 
 56 00 
 56 00! 
 74 00 
 56 00! 
 
 74 00; 
 
 93 00' 
 74 00 
 56 00 
 56 00 
 
 
 Ste. Martine, "iris 
 
 
 
 Nicolet 
 
 
 
 St. Placiiie 
 
 1 
 
 
 St. Ursule 
 
 1 , , . , 
 
 
 Sault-anx-RecoUets 
 
 1 
 
 
 Sherrinifton i 
 
 ! 
 
 
 Huntin'^doii. (Convent) ! 
 
 j. . . . 
 
 
 Henri VI lie 
 
 
 
 St. EtieiMie, Ottawa ! 
 
 
 
 West Sheftbrd ' 
 
 37 
 
 75 00 
 
 St. Romuakl, Levis 
 
 "90 
 124 
 
 40 00 
 
 56 00 
 
 56 00' 
 
 i 
 
 
 St. Sninice 
 
 
 
 Cao Rou"e 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 3196 
 
 
 Total 
 
 14914 
 
 12426 00 
 
 5065 00