In Upper Canada, also, the government is making great exertions to remove that cloud of ignorance in which the country was once involved. A college at Toronto is supported on a liberal footing. There are also grammar schools in every district, to the teachers of which 100l. yearly is allowed by the legislature. The scholars attending them amount in all to about 350. The sum of 7,380l. also was granted in 1835 for the support of common schools, estimated to amount to several hundreds, and to educate about 20,000 children. In the same year, the legislature voted 180l. and 90l. to the Mechanics’ Institutes at Toronto and Kingston.
CHAP. V.
IMPRESSIONS OF CANADA ON TRAVELLERS.
Among the various books on Canada, there is none which seems to us written with a more friendly, fair, and philanthropic spirit than that of Mr. Hodgson, who was there in 1822. A great part of his large volume is occupied with his rambles in the United States; but from that which is strictly Canadian, we extract the following interesting letters:—
Scene among the Thousand Isles.
