BY HENRY YOULE HIND, M. A., F. R. G. S., &c MINERAL RESOURCES OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA Geological Structure of Canada Parliamentary Inquiry and its Results, 1836-1843 Improvement, Change, and Progress, from 1844 to 1853 399 Higher and Intermediate Education, &c., 1853-1861 Summary of each Class of Educational Institutions Public Elementary Schools receiving Legislative Aid. Elementary Schools not receiving Legislative Aid Superior Schools receiving Legislative Aid Other Supplementary Educational Agencies Additional Supplementary Aids to Education Educational Endowments for Upper Canada Early Educational Efforts in Lower Canada, 1632-1759 485 State of Education from the Conquest, 1759, until 1800 488 Final Educational Measures of the Lower Canada Legis- BY J. GEORGE HODGINS LL. B., F. R. G. S., Author of the THE PROGRESS OF NEW BRUNSWICK, WITH A BRIEF VIEW OF ITS RESOURCES, Natural and INDUSTRIAL Tenure of Land and Law of Inheritance Religious Worship and Means of Education Civil List, Revenue, and Expenditures. Banks for Savings; Value of Coins; Rate of Interest By M. H. PERLEY, ESQ., British Commissioner for the THE PROGRESS OF NOVA SCOTIA, WITH A BRIEF VIEW OF ITS RESOURCES, NATURAL and IndustRIAL BY REV. WILLIAM MURRAY. THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF CANADA. CHAPTER I. BOUNDARIES. MONTREAL, the commercial capital of Canada, is situated at an equal distance from the extreme western and eastern boundaries of the province. The source of Pigeon River, (long. 90° 50′,) one of the foaming tributaries of Lake Superior, forty-six miles in a straight line from its mouth, and 1,653 feet above the sea, is the point where its western limits touch the boundary between the United States and British America. Blanc Sablon harbor, (long. 57° 50′,) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and close to the western extremity of the Straits of Belle Isle, marks the eastern limits of Canada, touching Labrador, a dreary waste under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland. Draw a line through the dividing ridge which separates the waters flowing into Hudson's Bay from those tributary to the St. Lawrence, and the ill-defined and almost wholly unknown northern limits of the Province are roughly represented. The boundary line between Canada and the United States follows the course of Pigeon River, runs north of Isle Royale, strikes through the center of Lake Superior, the St. Mary's River, Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence as far down as the intersection of the 45th parallel of latitude. It follows this parallel to near the head waters of the Connecticut River, when, striking north-east, it |