[[42]] The Montreal Witness, December, 1845. "We do not mean to criticize those prohibitory regulations, but, however good their motives, the effect has been to girdle the tree of knowledge in Canada, by shutting out the people from the only available supplies of books."
[[43]] Lord Durham's Report, ii. p. 138.
[[44]] Strachan, A Journal of Visitation to the Western Portion of his Diocese (1842). Third edition, London, 1846.