Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario, Volume 2

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Pagina 94 - The old boilers or kettles of the Indians, were either made of clay, or of different kinds of pot stone (Lapis Ollaris).
Pagina 9 - In conclusion, he declares that "up to the present time there has not been shown a single dialect, not an art or an institution, not a myth or religious rite, not a domesticated plant or animal, not a tool, weapon, game, or symbol, in use in America at the time of the discovery, which had been previously imported from Asia, or from any other continent of the old world.
Pagina 130 - Idiots have been improved, educated, and even cured; not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment; not one in a hundred who has not been made more happy and healthy...
Pagina xvii - School, the course to extend over not less than five months. 7. Each candidate must further satisfy the University of his practical aptitude as a teacher, by teaching a class in some special subject or subjects in which he has received instruction, in the University or in any institution recognized by the University as qualifying for degrees.
Pagina xx - Teaching, are as follows: 1. To fit University students for the higher positions in the public school service. 2. To promote the study of educational science. 3. To teach the history of education, and of educational systems and doctrines. 4. To secure to teaching the rights, prerogatives, and advantages of a profession.
Pagina 130 - ... the standard of manhood, till some of them will defy the scrutiny of good judges when compared with ordinary young men and women.
Pagina 18 - In no Indian language could the early missionaries find a word to express the idea of God. Manitou and Oki meant anything endowed with supernatural powers, from a snake-skin, or a greasy Indian conjurer, up to Manabozho and Jouskeha. The priests were forced to use a circumlocution, — "The Great Chief of Men,
Pagina 93 - ... as far as it must be hollowed out. Then they put fire to those dry branches, and as soon as they were burnt they were replaced by others. While these branches were burning the Indians were very busy with wet rags and pouring water upon the tree to prevent the fire from spreading too far.
Pagina 83 - If the Witnesses attend in one cause only, they will be entitled to the full allowance. If they attend in more than one cause, they will be entitled to a proportionate part in each cause only. The travelling expenses of Witnesses over ten miles shall be allowed, according to the sums reasonably and actually paid, but in no case shall exceed one shilling per mile, one way...
Pagina 8 - Burmeister. They found bone and stone implements of rude form and the remains of hearths associated with bones of the extinct horse, the glyptodon, and other animals now unknown. The stratigraphic relations of the finds connected them with the deposits of the receding Austral glacier.* Such facts as these place it beyond doubt that man lived in both North and South America at the close of the Glacial Age. It is not certain that this close was synchronous in both the northern and southern hemispheres,...

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