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Britain, by General Sir Guy Carleton, afterwards Governor-General 

 of Canada. The first^ to sign the memorial was the Rev. Charles 

 Inglis, Rector of Trinity, N.Y., who afterwards became Bishop of 

 Nova Scotia. Four years later Bishop Inglis had the pleasure of 

 establishing first a school, then an academy, and in 1789 a college at 

 Windsor, Nova Scotia. 



In 1785 a similar memorial^ was presented by Dr. Paine and 

 others to Governor Thomas Carleton (brother of Sir Guy), of New 

 Brunswick, asking for a college. This led to the establishment of the 

 College of New Brunswick in 1800. 



In 1789 Richard Cartwright, a Loyalist from New York, addressed 

 a memorial to the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Dorchester, 

 formerly Sir Guy Carleton, suggesting an appropriation for a "decent 

 seminary of education" ^ at Kingston. The division of the Province 

 of Quebec in 1791 prevented action. Governor Simcoe of Upper 

 Canada, in 1795, suggested to the Bishop of Quebec that he promote 

 the establishment of a university in Upper Canada. The following 

 year he urged the Home Government to set aside lands for this purpose. 



His departure indefinitely postponed the project. Hon. R. 

 Cartwright and his friends, Hamilton and Stuart, sought in Scotland 

 a tutor for their children. It is said^" that Thomas Chalmers could 

 not accept the invitation but recommended John Strachan of Aber- 

 deen. The arrival of John Strachan led ultimately to the establish- 

 ment of McGill College, through the gift of James McGill, also to 

 the grant of a Royal Charter to King's College, Toronto, in 1827, 

 its opening in 1842 and to the founding of Trinity in 1851. 



Bishop Mountain of Quebec, stimulated by the action of the 

 Loyalists, approached the Legislature of Lower Canada and secured 

 the passing of the Act, establishing the Royal Institution for the 

 Advancement of Learning in 1801.^^ 



The natural anxiety of parents to give their children a good 

 education was re-enforced in the case of the Loyalists by religious and 

 political motives. They appealed to the British Government for aid, 

 for they themselves had lost everything; they appealed for immediate 

 aid, since their children's education had been rudely interrupted by 

 their departure from the States. They abhorred the idea of exposing 

 their children to the republican ideas of the schools which they had left. 



^Hind: King's College, p. 8. 



«Trans. Roy. Soc, 1918, vol. XII, p. 96. 



^Universities of Canada, p. 7. 



^"Bethune: Memoir of Bishop Strachan, p. 7. 



"Macmillan: McGill and its Story, p. 19. 



