Annual Report of the Bureau of Industries for the Province of OntarioThe bureau, 1894 Includes statistics of agriculture, values, rents, farm wages, loan and investment companies, labor organizations, municipal statistics, etc. |
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acreage Algoma amount assets Board Brant Bruce Building Bush Carleton cent CHEESE FACTORIES classes Council county groups County Municipalities course crop debentures deposits Dufferin Dundas Durham Elgin Engineering Essex fall wheat farm farmers Frontenac Georgian Bay Glengarry Grey groups of Counties Haldimand Haliburton Halton Hastings industrial Institute instruction interest James Kent Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Ontario Lambton Lanark Lawrence and Ottawa Leeds and Grenville Lennox and Addington Liabilities Lincoln live stock LOAN AND INVESTMENT Loan and Savings Mean highest mechanical Middlesex Miscellaneous Morrisburg Mortgages Municipalities and groups Muskoka Nipissing Norfolk Northern Districts Northumberland Owen Sound Oxford Parry Sound Peel Perth Peterborough poultry Pres Prescott Prince Edward Prop Province pupils Renfrew Russell Savings Company Science Showing by County Simcoe Stormont TABLE technical education Technical School Toronto Toronto Dec Totals townships trade Victoria Waterloo Welland Wellington Wentworth West Midland yearly average yield per acre
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Page 77 - to inquire into the best means of extending a knowledge of the arts, and of the principles of design, among the people '(especially the manufacturing population) of the country ; also to inquire into the constitution, management, and effects of institutions connected with the arts.
Page 72 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 11 - All our industries •would cease, were it not for that information which men begin to acquire as they best may after their education is said to be finished.
Page 16 - ... they have been made by pupils of the industrial schools and technical colleges of these countries, and I know many of their distinguished men who take pride in saying that they owe their positions entirely to their technical schools. I find everywhere throughout their...
Page 15 - I will now come to the practical matters which show directly the results of a technical education in the production of one of its chief objects — the creation of wealth. It is notorious that those foreign railways which have been made by themselves in the educated countries of Germany and Switzerland have been made far cheaper than those constructed by us in England ; it is known that they have been made by pupils of the industrial schools and technical...
Page 16 - ... and a high feeling of professional responsibility. In the accurate cutting of their slopes and embankments, in the careful design and thoughtful execution of their beautiful but economical stonemasonry, in the self-denying economy of their large span bridges, the experienced traveller can read as he travels the work of a superiorly educated class of men ; and when we come down to details, to the construction of permanent way, arrangements of signals, points, and sidings, and the endless details...
Page 71 - The object of this Institution is to give to London a College for the higher technical education, in which advanced instruction shall be provided in those kinds of knowledge which bear upon the different branches of industry, whether Manufactures or Arts. The main purpose of the instruction given is to point out the application of different branches of science to various manufacturing industries.
Page 3 - FELKIN, HM— Technical Education in a Saxon Town. Published for the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education.
Page 87 - Humphreys, whose will provided for the establishment of a school "having for its object the benevolent design of instructing the descendants of the African race in school learning, in the various branches of the mechanic arts and trades, and in agriculture, in order to prepare, fit, and qualify them to act as teachers.
Page 16 - ... the construction of permanent way, arrangements of signals, points, and sidings, and the endless details of stations, we everywhere feel that we are in the hands of men who have spared no pains, and who have applied high professional skill to minute details. It is well known that many years before we would follow their example, the engineers of the German railways had introduced a system of constructing and of uniting to each other the iron rails of the permanent way, which made them cheaper,...