Tin: DOMINION OF CAXAI'A. ]Q 



great river. The system of education is excellent, affording to rich and 

 poor alike the means of free schooling. The schools are supported by a 

 tax on property supplemented by aid from the provincial funds. The 

 Roman Catholics have separate schools in the cities and large towns, but 

 in the sparsely settled districts there is only the mixed free school. Ti. 

 is a normal school at Toronto disigned to perfect t in the profession 



of teaching. There are numerous public institutions in the province 

 chiefly under the care of the government ; for example, the lunatie I 

 lums at Kingston, Toronto, London, Amherstburg and Orillia ; the reform- 

 atory prison at Penetanguishene ; the asylum for the blind at I>rantf>rd : 

 the deaf and dumb asylum at Belleville ; the normal school, university 

 college and Osgoode Hall at Toronto. The Courts of Justice are the Queen's 

 Bench, Common Pleas and Chancery, each of which is presided over by a 

 Chief Justice and two assistants; and a Court of Error and Appeal comp' 

 of a president and the j udges of superior courts of law and equity. In each 

 county is a County Court, presided over by a County Court Judge. All 

 the judges are appointed and paid by the Dominion government. The 

 judges of the Superior Court go on circuit to each county of the province 

 twice in the year to hold assizes for the trial of civil and crimi.ial ca 

 Th- -judges of the Court of Chancery hold their courts in various counties 

 as well as in Osgoode Hall. There are five episcopal dioceses in 

 province, Toronto, Niagara, Ontario, Huron and Algoma; and live Roman 

 Catholic Dioceses : Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Hamilton and L 



_'est, and in all respects the most important city in Ontario i> I 

 the capital of the province. The city with the late added suburbs 

 numbers not far short of 100,000 souls. It has a fine situation on Lake 

 Ontario, is handsomely and regularly built, and contains a number of 

 han nd costly buildings. Ottawa, the capital of t 



beautifully situate- 1 on the river of the same name. It contain^ 

 parliament boildings, one of the m<>-t imposing edifices on the e.mtin 

 Kingston is a well built and iortiti--d city with a delightful situation at 

 tli- Lake Ontario. I lamilton is an act i\ < > 1 city at the 



head <>f navigation on Lake Ontario. London i- a DTOSperOOfl inland 

 city in tin.' centre of the Western Peninsula. (Ju-lphan.l I 1 .- are 



. active and full of promise. ( Mitario QQnl ftj *l>ots of Intel 



to the tourist. 1 1 Man. Is of the St 



t!,,. unrivali there are the FalU of N 



thirty milei from 



let at the head of Lake Superior. The sound of the lat 



ir of distant thunder and the rumblin- "f an earth. junke. 



