The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
Canada -- Biography; Canada -- History
=Education.= =Md= University endowment in Upper Canada, 28-30;
Macdonald's connection with separate school question, 82, 84; compulsory
education established, 116. =W= State of, in New Brunswick, 83; Wilmot's
interest in, 83; grammar schools, 85-86; college of New Brunswick, 86;
Madras System, 86-87; lack of public interest in schools, 88-90;
Wilmot's views on education, 90-91. =T= Improvement in school system,
20; King's College, 20-22. =WM= Limited to a few, but excellent, 23. =R=
In Upper Canada, 51-59; petitions, 54-55; Common School Bill, 1816,--its
provisions, 56-57; Board of Education, 58; provisions of amending Act,
1824, 58; the university question, 133-162; the common school system,
163-213; separate school question, 215-245; grammar or high schools,
247-268. =E= Gradual improvements in common school system after 1841,
87-89; Mrs. Jamieson on the Upper Canadian schoolmaster, 87; Lord
Elgin's interest in educational problems, 88. =BL= System of common
schools provided for in government programme, 1841, 89; Act passed, 105;
previous legislation for higher education, 105-106; for elementary
schools, 106-107; terms of new Act of 1841, 107-108; school laws of
1843,189-190; Baldwin's University Act, 190; history of the university
movement in Upper Canada, 191-197; under second La Fontaine-Baldwin
ministry, 281, 286, 292, 338-339. =Sy= Demand that Clergy Reserves
should be applied to purposes of, 240-242. =S= Simcoe's efforts in cause
of, 166. =C= In the clerical colleges of Quebec, 3-5; Lord Elgin on, 5;
Cartier's work for, in Lower Canada, 114; in Quebec, 37-38. =Dr=
Committee on, appointed, 226; conflicting views on, 227-229. =H= In Nova
Scotia,--Joseph Howe advocates compulsory education, 79; and an
undenominational provincial university, 82; again introduces his measure
for public schools, 115. =B= George Brown's views on, 47, 59, 61, 62-64,
75, 121-123, 145; separate school question, 121-123, 144-145. =Hd= In
the early days of British rule, 233-236. _See_ Ryerson, Egerton;
Strachan, John; Simcoe, John Graves; Grammar Schools; Universities;
Public Schools; Libraries; Manitoba School Question; Separate Schools.
=Bib.=: _Canada: An Ency._, vols. 2, 3, and 4; Chauveau, _L'Instruction
Publique_; Dawson, _Fifty Years' Work in Canada_; Hodgins, _Documentary
History of Education in Upper Canada_; Ryerson, _Story of my Life_;
Meilleur, _L'Education du Bas-Canada_; Millar, _Educational System of
Ontario_; Ross, _Universities of Canada_; _Education in the Canadas_
(Archives Report, 1899).
=Edward VII= (1841-1910). Succeeded to throne, 1901. =Index=: =E= His
visit to Canada in 1860, 7. =Md= Visits Canada in 1860, and opens
Victoria bridge, 87. =Bib.=: _Dict. Eng. Hist._; Morgan, _Tour of Prince
of Wales through Canada_; Gough, _The King's Visit to Canada_.
=Edward and Annie.= =MS= The vessel which brought the Red River settlers
from Stornoway to Hudson Bay, 150-151.
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