Search Results: Titles starting with M from Schooner Books Ltd

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Photos

115 black and white photo illus.

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With illustrations from 32 photographs

Coloured foldout map back on linen with great detail and vibrant colours Shows rail roads, common roads, roads with lines of telegraph, telegraph stations, boundaries of counties & townships, gold districts, coal mining areas, post offices, ports of entry, rail roads under construction and proposed.

Illustrated

Numerous b.&w. illus.

B&w sketches throughout

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B&w frontis, 7 b&w illus.

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Illustrated

Color & b&w illus. throughout

Charts Madras or National School, which had been established there in 1820. Similar schools were being founded throughout the province, chiefly through the efforts of Lieutenant Governor George Stracey Smyth, to provide facilities for children whose parents could not afford to pay for their education. These schools were supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the National Society in England, the Church of England, and the New Brunswick government. In order to keep costs to a minimum, a system of monitors was used by which a large number of students could be taught by a few teachers. The instructors worked directly with the older children who then passed on the lessons they had learned to the younger ones. Although there was some concern over the control exerted by the Church of England in these schools, it was the most effective educational system in the province prior to the passage of the Common Schools Act of 1871. Madras schools were to remain in operation in New Brunswick until 1900

Illustrated by F.D. Bedford. Illustrated title page. 5 full page ilusrations with b& w sketches throughout

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