881 



REFORMED CHURCHES. 



. 



the law 



flu mbdlTUoB if 



.. 



To amend the tariff of tolls on timber and lumber 

 MuJttatf ut of improvement* on ireanw. 

 To amend the act ropeeting Uxea on Pubaidle* to 



Coaming the cultivation of the augar beet 



Agriculture, The annual report of the De- 

 partment <>f Agriculture shows that i> 

 l | M .und> r, valued at $:. 



uaiiufartiirvd: in 1894, 255,868 pounds. 

 x.lucd at $60.004; in 1896, 562,061 pounds 

 valued at $118.013. It also shows that, while 

 the maniif.. heesc in the ; 



WWwmtonlv 4.924.504 pounds, it had increased 

 fal 1894 to 81.554.746 pounds a di 

 value and revenue to the farmers of $4.000,000, 

 In 189! there were 845,789 hones, 970,887 cat- 

 M.025 sheep, and 848,897 swine in the 

 ice. 



Education. During the year ending .lune 

 80. 1894, the Roman Catholic imputation of the 

 province maintain- -.1 -1.72? s< ho,,N. or one school 

 for every 278 persons, and the Protestant popu- 

 lation 955 schools, or one to every 206 persons. 



There were also 9 schools of arts and manu- 

 factures and 6 of agriculture and dairy pur- 

 suits. The total number of pupils enrolled in 

 the province was 284,o 17: the average attend- 

 ance 211,960. The Roman Catholic schools 

 were attended by 1,291 Protestant pupils, and 

 the Protestant schools by 2,699 Roman Catholics. 



The pupils of French origin learning Eiurli-h 

 numbered 48,253. and those of Knglish origin 

 learning French were 18,542. Agriculture was 

 M tidied in the public schools by 49,245 pupils. 

 The male lay teachers numbered :!!">. of whom 

 284 were Catholics and 1 1 1 Protestants. The 

 female by teachers numbered 5,853, of whom 

 4,224 were Catholics and 1.12!) Protestants. 



The total expenditure for education in the 

 province was $lvjj.4si. 



Forest* and Timber. The forest and wood- 

 land area of Quebec is 116,521 square miles. 

 The Umber cut under license in 1893 was 428.- 



598,000 feet of pine saw 1. 

 (chiefly) spruce saw logs, i.i:ti.o;!i . -ui.ic : 

 square w tub nd smaller (piaii 



pine, boom timber, railway ties, ct 



ceipU from timber dues was $645.ti.V>. and tlu* 

 ground rents $ 



I Isherlel and shipping.-In 1894 i 

 were 409 men in vev.rU and 11.61 

 boats engaged in the fish. 

 dcr an act passed by the Dominion 1'ar, 

 in 1882 a bounty is paid fort I.. 

 of sea fMiiiig and the building of (Mir 

 sels. It is paid on the basis of $3 a 

 >i a man to boat fishermen. at 

 to the owners. The total value of tin- 

 boats, nets, traps, smoke and fish houses , ,, !X 

 ami wharves, etc., used in these <> 



luring the year was $904,811, or n 

 crease of nearly $200,000 in ten vears 

 value of the yield was $2,803,886. 

 bution and value of the catch in ISJM was 

 lows: Salmon. $!<;:> rring. if 1 -" 



haddock. $-1.207: halibut, $1. 



': mackerel, $125,762; cod. 

 lobsters. $163,734 ; smelts, $10.1<.- ; mi- 

 ous, $450,989. The tonnage of ( t >n. 

 during 181)4 in and out wa- 2,587,04 

 this 2.n2'..777 tons was British. I2i 

 dian. and t::<.!75 foreign. The tonnage 

 Off trade was 5,681,961, compared 

 >7 tons in 1893. 



During 1894 the imports of Quebec wtij 

 valued at $34,175,559, paying a Domini- 

 of $7,723,380, and $2-l,v-V.l" free of dut 

 must be remembered that (,|u.-b.-c c.mta 

 principal port of entrance to ('amid 

 Lawrence and receives the bulk of British 

 just as Ontario does of American good 

 cording to the trade and navigation r- 

 81,086 head of cattle were exported from ' 

 in 1894, but 90 per cent, of these were a<- - 

 from Ontario. On June 30, 1894, 

 3,024 miles of railway in Quebec. ' lines cengft 

 ing in Quebec city and 7 in M--ntrea. 

 population of the prov in r. j- l.r>uo.(i 

 1,290,000 are Roman Catholics. 



R 



l III K< -IlliS. I. Ki-fornifd 

 rhnrrh In America. The Committee on the 

 f Ileligion reported to the General Synod 

 Uturtid of this Church, of which the following 

 is a Mimmary: Number of churches, 618; of 

 ministers. 652; of candidates, 9; of families, 55,- 

 W4: of communicants. 103.310; ..f baptized 

 MoeommuntcanU. 41.549 ; of catechumens, 87,- 

 l| f embri received during the year on 

 MlMoi,ftjm; of teotisros during the year, 

 Tof infanu and l^fofadults; of Sunday 

 ^y^JUS^ 1l *^^ enrolled members; 

 itribntions for denominational pur- 

 87.234; for congregational purposes, 



Sft ** ot *2J?^PS 1 & f 124 *^ ^* 



^communion is 2,508 larger than in 



th amnnnUof rontnbtitionsare less. 



to** fund was reporterl in a satisfac- 



ttuStoji5u nnuiUllU h * d been ***** dur " 



The Committee on Puhlif-ation reported thai 

 the board was free from liabilities and t 

 : ts from 144 churches all that ha 

 tributed amounted to $l,73i. 

 were requested by the General Synod t 

 tribute to the board. 



A continued shrinkage in the balance of tl 

 Disabled Ministers' fund was r< i ' rt. .1. 



The treasurer of the Bonn! of I Ion,. 

 reported to the General Synod that th 

 amount of gifts, legacies, and i; 

 956. The total of offerings from the 1; 

 the Missionary fund had been *.>J.M. ! 

 the year 202 churches and l::i mi 

 tors had been aided. Th<-<- church- 

 sions included 8,309 families. r.'.l.VJ m< 

 and 16,012 members of Sunday sch- 

 turned 1,212 members added during the 

 confession. A mission among the North 

 can Indians in the Indian Territory had been 



