1860 Canada pamphlet educational topics University of Toronto

Early pre-Confederation pamphlet discussing future of education in the Province of Canada.

UNIVERSITY QUESTION

The statements of John Langton Esq. M.A. Vice Chancellor of the University of Toronto

Professor Daniel Wilson LLD of University College, Toronto

With Notes and Extracts from the evidence taken before the

Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the University

Toronto Rowsell & Ellis, Printers King Street

 Topics:

• legality of management of university
• equal rights of affiliated universities
• buildings
• library and museum
• professors in University College
• salaries
• examiners
• scholarships
• comparative expenditures of U of T and others
• standard of education in the U of T
• general policy of a provincial university
• Dr Cook's university scheme examined
• Our new model for a Canadian University
• Shall we review State-Church Colleges?
• Is Canda to return to the worn-outsystem of Medieval Europe?
• Is our Provincial Scholl System to be abolished?
• ....

Owner "J.A. Reed".

Front cover detached, missing back cover

90 pages

Sir Daniel Wilson FRSC FSA (Scot) FRSE LLD (1816 –1892) was a Scottish-born Canadian archaeologist, ethnologist and author.

In 1853 Wilson left Scotland to take up the post of Professor of History and English Literature in Toronto. In addition to his teaching duties, he kept up his interests in natural history, geology, and was very interested in the ethnography of the indigenous groups that he encountered on his vacation treks. Many of his watercolour sketches of landscapes and encampments of hunter-gatherer groups are now in the Canadian national archives in Ottawa.  His brother George Wilson had become the first director of a new national museum in Edinburgh ... and Daniel Wilson actively collected ethnographic material for the museum by means of an extensive network of contacts. 

John Langton (1808 –1894) was Canada's first Auditor General.

… In 1855, he was appointed the Auditor of the Province of Canada and was also appointed as a member of the newly formed Board of Audit; he resigned his seat in the assembly the following year. He served as Auditor for the remaining tenure of the Province of Canada and the first decade of the Dominion of Canada; it was Langton who led in the production of the first financial statements of the Dominion of Canada in spite of many challenges. He also served on the senate for the University of Toronto. Langton moved with the government to Quebec City in 1859 ... After Canadian Confederation in 1867, Langton was appointed the head of the federal Board of Audit. In 1870, he was named Deputy Minister of Finance and Secretary to the Treasury Board, while maintaining his role as Auditor General

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