10 Oct., 1918.] Agricultural Education in Canada. 



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America, the elementary 

 and high schools are all 

 maintained by the local 

 school district. There is 

 no centralized system of 

 school control such as we 

 have in Australia. 



The majority of the 

 funds required for equi|p- 

 ment and maintenance of 

 the elementary and high 

 schools is raised by local 

 effort. The provincial 

 Governments, however, 

 make small contributions 

 by grants in aid. 



The Agricultural Col- 

 leges of the Dominion 

 have been founded, how- 

 ever, almost entirely by 

 State aid. For many 

 years the only agricul- 

 tural college in Canada 

 was the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College, founded at 

 Guelph in 1874. Now 

 there is an agricultural 

 college in every province, 

 and in nearly every cas.e 

 it is part of the Statd 

 University. 



The newer prairie pro- 

 vinces — Manitoba, Al- 

 berta, Saskatchewan — ■ 

 have built magnificent 

 agricultural colleges as 

 part of the State Uni- 

 versity. 



In Quebec there are 

 three agricultural col- 

 leges. They are the Oka 

 Agricultural Institute, 

 the College at St. Anne 

 de la Pocatiere, and the 

 Macdonald College at St. 

 Anne de Bellevue. The 

 two former are Roman 

 Catholic Colleges, and 

 are affiliated with Laval 

 University, Montreal. 

 The latter, Macdonald 

 College, is controlled by 

 the Board of Governor? 



