LVI THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
In 1899 the Legislature of Quebec enacted that “Agriculture shall 
be taught in all schools in rural municipalities.” The enactment was 
until recently rather inoperative from want of properly trained 
teachers. Now, however, every teacher who receives a diploma 
from the Roman Catholic Central Board of Examiners passes an 
examination in agriculture and in methods of teaching it. In the 
Normal Schools similar qualifications are called for. Those taking 
their certificates from the Protestant School for Teachers, being 
a part of the Macdonald College, are competent instructors in rural 
science. It may be expected therefore that in the future agriculture 
in the schools of Quebec will be a live subject. Nature study is pre- 
scribed in the various grades of the schools. 
In more advanced instruction in agriculture the needs of the 
Province are well ministered to. Four institutions devote themselves 
entirely to the teaching of the subject,—the Agricultural Institute 
of Oka (affiliated with Laval University), the Agricultural School 
of Ste. Anne de la Pocatiére, the School of Agriculture of Macdonald 
College, and the Provincial Dairy School of St. Hyacinthe. 
In Quebec there are three experimental farms, and experimental 
fruit stations in eighteen or twenty counties; though these belong 
to the region of research rather than to that of instruction. 
To turn to technical education in Quebec: Manual training is 
not found in the rural elementary schools; in a few of the secondary 
schools there are excellent equipments and’ well taught manual in- 
struction classes. In its institutions devoted entirely to technical 
education Quebec may well take a pride. The Montreal Technical 
School was erected at a cost of $636,187, and ‘‘can bear comparison 
in all respects with any similar institution in the world,” while the 
Polytechnic School in affiliation with Laval at Quebec, erected at a 
cost of $405,359, is not far behind its sister institution. There are 
also technical schools at Shawinigan, Sherbrooke, and Beauceville. 
The total attendance at these schools at last report was 1,274. There 
is also the Montreal Technical Institute with an enrolment in evening 
classes of 1,425, amongst them being many employees of the Do- 
minion Bridge Co., Northern Electric Co., Canada Car Co., Grand 
Trunk Railway, Light Heat and Power Co., National Bridge Co., 
etc., ‘‘Ninety per cent of the electrical class are concerned with 
electricity in their daily work’’; ‘‘ninety-five per cent of the classes 
in mechanical drawing are machinists, pattern makers, draughtsmen, 
etc.” In the night schools conducted by the Provincial Council 
of Arts and Manufactures in eleven different places there was in 
1914-15 an enrolment of 2,515. In the Montreal Polytechnical School 
