690 



REFORMED CHURCHES. 



herring fishery abundant, and the salmon fish- 

 ing less than an average. In Bay des Chaleurs 

 the catch of cod was large, of herring average, 

 and of salmon and lobster above an average. 

 The production in each branch of the fisheries 

 of the province for 1893 was as follows : 



Mercantile Marine. The Quebec division of 

 the marine service is one of the most important 

 in the Dominion. It comprises the Richelieu 

 river and Lake Memphremagog, the river and 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Strait of Belle Isle, the 

 northwest coast of Newfoundland, and the Lab- 

 rador coast. In this division there are 152 lights, 

 8 lightships, 8 steam fog horns, 7 fog guns, 2 ex- 

 plosive bomb stations, 116 buoys, 59 beacons, and 

 10 life-saving canoes for service in the ice. 



The British, Canadian, and foreign tonnage, 

 carrying cargo in and out of the province in 

 1893 was: British, 1,905,930 tons; Canadian, 

 153,158 ; and foreign, 366,905 tons. 



Agriculture. The province is not agricul- 

 tural in the sense in which Ontario and Mani- 

 toba are. Though nearly all the grains and roots 

 thrive well, the production of those is almost en- 

 tirely limited to the needs of the population. As 

 in the other sections of the Dominion, farmers 



have directed their attention in "Quebec to the 

 rearing of cattle, horses, and hogs for export ; 

 and the manufacture of cheese and butter has 

 become so developed, through the establishment 

 of creameries and cheese factories, that this in- 

 dustry is now most important. 



Education. Educational matters in the prov- 

 ince are under the control of a Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, assisted by a council of 35 

 members, divided into committees, for the man- 

 agement of Roman Catholic and Protestant 

 schools respectively. The schools are maintained 

 partly by Government grants, and are controlled 

 by local boards, or by local clergy. Religion is 

 assumed to be the basis of education. 



The number of pupils in the educational in- 

 stitutions of the province in 1893 was 275,969, 

 of whom 240,243 were Roman Catholic, 34,679 

 Protestant, and 1,047 (in art schools) not desig- 

 nated. 



The proportion of Protestant pupils is appar- 

 ently steadily decreasing. In 1887 it was 15-1 

 per cent. ; in 1888, 14-2 per cent. : in 1889, 13'3 

 per cent. ; in 1892, 12'5 per cent. ; and m 1893, 

 12'5 per cent. The average attendance of pupils 

 in elementary and superior schools in 1893 was 

 133,183 and 73,304 respectively. The total num- 

 ber of teachers was 9,297, but exclusive of those 

 in universities, special schools, and connected 

 with religious orders, the number was 5,806, of 

 whom 4,535 were Roman Catholics and 1.271 

 Protestants. The amount paid for salaries 

 was $826,149, the average salary having been 

 $142.21. 



Charitable Institutions. The public char- 

 itable institutions of the province are the deaf 

 arid dumb institution, blind institution (Mont- 

 real), industrial and reformatory schools, and 

 asylums for the insane. The cost of supporting 

 these institutions last year was $562,012. The 

 method adopted in the treatment of the insane 

 in the province is the county-farm system. Last 

 year there were in the various asylums for the 

 insane in the province 1,231 males and 1,315 fe- 

 males. The number of deaths was 196. 



Miscellaneous. The recommendations of 

 Major-Gen. Herbert, commanding the militia of 

 Canada, that the fortifications of the city of Que- 

 bec should be removed, for military and other 

 reasons, were not acted upon by the Dominion 

 authorities, but instead it was decided to put 

 them in a thorough state of repair, a work which 

 was actively prosecuted during 1894. 



In the summer of 1894 a company was formed 

 in Montreal to make arrangements for a world's 

 fair, proposed to be held in that city in 1896, and 

 $500,000 was subscribed. 



During the summer of 1894 it was estimated 

 that over 40,000 French Canadians, who had been 

 residing in the New England States, returned to 

 the province. 



REFORMED CHURCHES. I. Reformed 



Church in America. The following is a sum- 

 mary of the statistics of this Church as they 

 were reported to the General Synod in June : 

 Number of churches, 612 ; of ministers, 614 ; of 



families, 54,792 : of communicants, 100,811 ; re- 

 ceived on confession during the year, 6,230 ; 

 number of baptisms, 6,178 of infants and 1,504 

 of adults ; of catechumens, 35,910 ; of Sabbath 

 schools, 857, with an enrollment of 114,672 



