The University of Toronto and Its Colleges
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Excerpt from The University of Toronto and Its Colleges: 1827-1906 The Province of Upper Canada was founded under the Constitutional Act of 1791. During the preceding seven or eight years a United Empire Loyalist population had been settling on the banks of the St. Lawrence, on the shores of the Bay of Quinte, in the Niagara Peninsula, and on the coast of Lake Erie. When the government of the Province was organized its population numbered sixty-five thousand. The first governor of the new province was Col. John Graves Simcoe, who had been a conspicuous leader of the Loyalist volunteers during the Revolutionary War. His early life and education were those of an English country gentleman of the eighteenth century, and his ideas and tastes corresponded to the age and the environment of his youth. He looked forward to the development, in the new province, of the same social conditions as existed in the old land; and, accordingly, in taking thought for the well-being of the young colony, proposed to himself that provision should be made out of the public funds for the maintenance of religion and the promotion of higher education. This religion was to be Protestant, as that of the adjoining province of Lower Canada was Roman Catholic; but instead of tithes collected from the people, its support was to be furnished from one-seventh of the lands of the country. From the public lands also was to be derived a fund for the education, especially of "the more respectable class of people by the erection of free grammar schools, and in course of time of a college or university." In these views the Imperial Government readily concurred. As the Province was surveyed, every seventh lot of land in each township was set apart for "the support of the Protestant clergy." The educational part of Simcoe´s programme was not carried into effect until after his departure from the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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