ISBN: 9780217703666

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...11 Techn1cal, Commerc1al And Vocat1onal Educat1on 1n Montreal The earliest attempt at technical education before the capitulation of 1760 will be found in Vol. I, Under The French Regime. The modern movement remains to be chronicled, vol. n--21 1 THE BOARD OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES In 1859 the Board of Arts and Manufactures of Lower Canada established a central school at Montreal. In 1872, the Council of Arts and Manufactures made an attempt to put technical education on its feet. Hitherto the progress of industry had not been sufficiently perceived. The growth of manufactures following upon the National policy made the experiment more necessary. The early equipment was meager, the means small, and there were but few classes and few pupils. Still steady progress was made. In 1898 Mr. Thomas Gauthier became president and long steps in advance were made. There are now nearly three thousand pupils over the Province of Quebec, in Montreal, Quebec, St. Hyacinthe, Sherbrooke, Three Rivers, St. Jean, Lachine, Valleyfield, Sorel, Fraserville, Charny, St. Romuald, and Chicoutimi. In Montreal alone there are over one thousand five hundred and ten pupils in four schools, of which the Monument National is the most important. COMMERCIAL AND TECHNICAL MICH SCHOOL Technical night schools are also provided at the Commercial and Technical High School, the successor of the Montreal Senior School. This latter school was organized by the Protestant Board of School Commissioners in September, 1877, to accommodate the classes of what was then known as the second senior grade of the public elementary schools. For a year the school met in a building on Ontario Street, between Bleury and Mance streets, and in 1878 was transferred to the old high school building at... William Henry Atherton, Books, Biography and Memoir, Montreal, 1535-1914 Volume 2 Books>Biography and Memoir Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IX 1880-1885 IN LONDON. ? VACATION TOUR TO GERMANY AND ITALY. DEATH OF MRS. LOWELL.?DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND. LETTERS TO C. E. NORTON, H. W. LONGFELLOW, MRS. W. E. DARWIN, R. W. GILDER, JOHN W. FIELD, T. B. ALDRICH, W. D. HOWELLS, F. J. CHILD, J. B. THAYER, GEORGE PUTNAM, MRS. W. K. CLIFFORD, O. W. HOLMES, MISS GRACE NORTON. TO C. E. NORTON 37 Lowndes St., S. W., Aug. 17, 1880. ... I find that you have been very lenient in your judgment on my poems and have used a far finer sieve than I should have chosen if I had done the sifting. They always make me sad, thinking how much better I might have done if in the early years I had improvised less, and if in the later other avocations and studies had not made my hand more clumsy through want of use, than it might have been had I kept more closely to verse and to the mood which that implies. But it is something that three such friends as you and George Curtis and Child should still retain a certain amount of interest in what I have written. I not only approve, but shall perhaps go further if I once begin. The question was simply one of leaving out anything?for the terrible nianet litera scripta was staring me in the face, and positively made me unwilling to reprint at all. By the way, I spent Sunday with Mr. Leveson Gower (Lord Granville's brother and a charming host), and coming in from out of doors came upon John Bright reading aloud from the " Commemoration Ode." It sounded better than I feared?but when I am asked to read I never can find anything that seems to me good enough. . . . TO H. W. LONGFELLOW 37 Lowndes St., S. W., Oct. 3, 1880. My dear Longfellow,?I have just been reading, with a feeling I will not mar by trying to express it, your "Ultima Thule." You will understand the pang of pleasurable homes...<

ISBN: 9780217703666

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...11 Techn1cal, Commerc1al And Vocat1onal Educat1on 1n Montreal The earliest attempt at technical education before the capitulation of 1760 will be found in Vol. I, Under The French Regime. The modern movement remains to be chronicled, vol. n--21 1 THE BOARD OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES In 1859 the Board of Arts and Manufactures of Lower Canada established a central school at Montreal. In 1872, the Council of Arts and Manufactures made an attempt to put technical education on its feet. Hitherto the progress of industry had not been sufficiently perceived. The growth of manufactures following upon the National policy made the experiment more necessary. The early equipment was meager, the means small, and there were but few classes and few pupils. Still steady progress was made. In 1898 Mr. Thomas Gauthier became president and long steps in advance were made. There are now nearly three thousand pupils over the Province of Quebec, in Montreal, Quebec, St. Hyacinthe, Sherbrooke, Three Rivers, St. Jean, Lachine, Valleyfield, Sorel, Fraserville, Charny, St. Romuald, and Chicoutimi. In Montreal alone there are over one thousand five hundred and ten pupils in four schools, of which the Monument National is the most important. COMMERCIAL AND TECHNICAL MICH SCHOOL Technical night schools are also provided at the Commercial and Technical High School, the successor of the Montreal Senior School. This latter school was organized by the Protestant Board of School Commissioners in September, 1877, to accommodate the classes of what was then known as the second senior grade of the public elementary schools. For a year the school met in a building on Ontario Street, between Bleury and Mance streets, and in 1878 was transferred to the old high school building at... William Henry Atherton, Books, Biography and Memoir, Montreal, 1535-1914 Volume 2 Books>Biography and Memoir, General Books LLC<