Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. Page 3: "+JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH"--the + denotes a cross symbol. * * * * * [Illustration: cover] [Illustration: Ryerson statue] RYERSON MEMORIAL VOLUME: PREPARED ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF THE RYERSON STATUE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ON THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 1889. BY J. GEORGE HODGINS, M.A., LL.D., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AND DEPUTY MINISTER OF EDUCATION. _TORONTO_: PRINTED BY WARWICK & SONS 68 AND 70 FRONT STREET WEST. 1889. PREFATORY NOTE. I have two reasons to give for the part which I have taken in the preparation of the latter part of this Memorial Volume. The first is mentioned in the following paragraph from the brief _resumé_ of the historical and personal facts given in the volume, and which I read on the day of the unveiling of the statue, as follows:-- "It devolves upon me, as Chairman of the (Ryerson Memorial Statue) Committee, and at the kind request of my colleagues--no less than as the life-long friend and fellow-labourer of him whose deeds and memory we honour to-day--to trace back to their source the origin and underlying principles of our system of education, and to show that these underlying principles and other vital forces were so combined by a master-hand as to form the groundwork, as they have, in their combination, become the charter of our educational system of to-day." The second reason is contained in the following paragraphs--containing a brief record of Dr. Ryerson's thirty-two years in the Public Service, taken from _The Story of My Life_, page 351. "During my connection with the Education Department--from 1844 to 1876--I made five educational tours of inspection and enquiry to educating countries in Europe and the United States. I made an official tour through each county in Upper Canada, once in every five years, to hold a County Convention of municipal councillors, clergy, school trustees, teachers and local superintendents, and thus developed the School system as the result of repeated inquiries in foreign countries, and the freest consultation with my fellow-citizens of all classes, in the several County Conventions, as well as on many other occasions.