Report of the Superintendent of Education for Lower Canada for the year 1858

CHAUVEAU, Pierre J. O.

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184 p. 25 cm. Brown cloth hardcover with gold and blank impressing. Some discolouration and soiling of covers. Bookplate on front pastedown states it is the gift of Chauveau to the State Normal School at Salem. Endpapers damp stained and rear pastedown slightly torn. Consists mainly of appendices containing statistical tables. Data concerns commercial colleges, academies for boys & girls, model schools, table of books sent to school inspectors to be distributed as prizes, extracts from the reports of school inspectors. Many reports make interesting reading: "Hebertsville.-If there exists a poor and isolated locality utterly unprovided for this is assuredly it. They have nevertheless succeeded in establishing a school attended by 15 children, some of whom come there four miles on foot over the bad roads." Table of Contents at rear.