Journals of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, Volume 42

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Halaman 197 - Fund meets for a period of three years the additional expense of the consolidated school over the cost of the small rural schools which formerly served the locality. The school sections contributed exactly the amount of the former expenditure, and the extra cost is met by the Macdonald fund for three years to enable the people of four provinces to have these object-lessons and experiments in education. The educational results from these schools have been entirely satisfactory to the authorities,...
Halaman 190 - Macdonald fund, there were forty-five manual-training teachers on the salary roll at a cost of some $3,600 per month, and more than 7,000 boys were taking the courses. Summer courses were provided for teachers of urban and rural schools. In the cities on Saturday forenoons, or at some other convenient time every week, classes were arranged for the teachers from whose rooms the boys went to the manual-training centers.
Halaman 194 - The garden is not an innovation, or an excrescence, or an addendum, or a diversion. It is a happy field of expression, an organic part of the school in which boys and girls work among growing things and grow themselves in body and mind and spiritual outlook.
Halaman 197 - Eund — one in each of the four provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. They were located at places chosen or approved by the Provincial Departments of Education . In each case a new building was erected to take the place of the small schools which at that time were serving the single sections proposed to be consolidated. They were each equipped with ordinary class-rooms and an assembly hall, and also for manual training, household science and nature study with...
Halaman 190 - He provided the money with all good-will — my little $100 come back a hundred fold — to offer as prizes to boys and girls to encourage them to carry out in practice the plan of selecting the largest heads of the most vigorous plants and growing seed from those heads on a plot by itself. The yields from the crops of 1900 compared with those of 1903, on an average for all Canada for spring wheat, showed an increase of 18 per cent. in the number of grains per hundred heads, and 28 per cent. of increase...
Halaman 190 - Canada for spring wheat, showed an increase of 18 per cent. in the number of grains per hundred heads, and 28 per cent. of increase in the weight of grains per hundred heads. In oats the figures were 19 per cent. of increase in the number of grains per hundred heads, and 27 per cent. of increase in the weight of grains per hundred heads. These are results from several hundred seed grain plots operated by boys and girls. Altogether over 1,500 entries were received. Out of that number 800 completed...
Halaman 190 - Macdonald furnished funds to establish manual-training centers in connection with the public schools in twenty-one places, from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia, and to maintain them without cost to the pupils or the public for a period, in most cases, of three years. At first special teachers of ability and experience were brought in from outside, mostly from England. Some twenty-seven manual-training teachers were thus brought into Canada. As time went on Canadian teachers were trained...
Halaman 190 - In the summer of 1899 I put aside $100 — my own money, not the public funds — to offer in prizes to Canadian boys and girls who would send me the largest heads from the most vigorous plants of wheat and oats...
Halaman 195 - ... received neither more nor less attention, other than the spraying, than did the crop in a neighboring field. Rows of potatoes sprayed with Bordeaux mixture were grown beside rows receiving ordinary attention. When the resulting crops were piled side by side in the toolhouse, showing an increase equivalent to more than fifty bushels per acre for the sprayed over the unsprayed crops, and also a decided improvement in size and quality, the farmers sat up and did more thinking than would have been...
Halaman 205 - For the advancement of education; for the carrying on of research work and investigation and the dissemination of knowledge; all with particular regard to the interests and needs of the population in rural districts.

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