to the latest date, from the voluminous official returns annually
presented to the different Legislatures of the Provinces of Canada, will
be quite sufficient for the purposes of this paper:

Total number of public educational institutions in the Dominion 13,800

Number of pupils in attendance throughout the year 925,000
Amount now annually contributed by the State and People $6,700,000

Number of Colleges and Universities 21
Number of Undergraduates in Arts, Law, Medicine, Theology, about 2,200

Number of Superior and High Schools, including Academies and
Collegiate Institutes 443
Aggregate attendance in same 141,000

Number of Normal Schools 8
Number of students in same 1,400

Amount expended in Ontario alone during 30 years (from 1850
to 1880,) for erection and repairs of School-houses,
fuel and contingencies, about $15,000,000

[Footnote: The educational statistics preceding 1850 are not easily
ascertained, and in any case are small. I have not been able to
obtain similar figures for other provinces; in fact, in some cases,
they are not to be ascertained with any degree of accuracy.]

Total amount expended in same province, for all educational
purposes during same period, upwards of $50,000,000