CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Biographical | [7] |
| II. | Education in Upper Canada from 1783 to 1844 | [33] |
| III. | Education in Upper Canada from 1783 to 1844—(Continued) | [58] |
| IV. | Education in Upper Canada from 1783 to 1844—(Continued) | [83] |
| V. | Ryerson's First Report on a System of Elementary Instruction | [110] |
| VI. | Ryerson's School Bill of 1846 | [123] |
| VII. | The Ryerson Bill of 1850 | [144] |
| VIII. | Ryerson and Separate Schools | [173] |
| IX. | Ryerson and Grammar Schools | [204] |
| X. | Ryerson and the Training of Teachers | [232] |
| XI. | Ryerson School Bill of 1871 | [257] |
| XII. | Conclusion | [264] |
| Bibliography | [269] | |
Egerton Ryerson and Education
in Upper Canada
CHAPTER I.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Egerton Ryerson was born in 1803, in the township of Charlotteville, now a part of the county of Norfolk. His father was a United Empire Loyalist who had held some command in a volunteer regiment of New Jersey. After the Revolution the elder Ryerson settled first in New Brunswick, coming later to Upper Canada, where he took up land and became a pioneer farmer. The young Ryersons, of whom there were several, took their full share in the laborious farm work, and Egerton seems to have prided himself upon his physical strength and his skill in all farm operations.
He received such an education as was afforded by the indifferent Grammar School of the London District, supplemented by the reading of whatever books he could secure.