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1668, he built Le Petit Sdminaire for classical studies. 

 He also founded a School of Arts and Agriculture, etc., 

 and a model school to supply teachers, under the green 

 groves of St. Joachim held by his successors to this 

 day. The Franciscan Friars returned to Canada in 1670, 

 where they did good service to education, especially 

 after the closing of the school of the Brothers Charon. 

 At the time of the treaty of the cession of Canada, in 

 1763, Canada's educational outfit was indeed scanty, 

 nothing scarcely, beyond the Quebec and Three- Kivers 

 convents, the Quebec and Montreal seminaries and a 

 few schools, at both places, under clerical control. The 

 ousting of the Jesuits from their possessions caused the 

 closing of many educational resorts, intended for the 

 poorer classes. In 1787, the attention of the Governor 

 of the colony, Lord Dorchester, was drawn to this subject. 

 A parliamentary committee reported, two years later, 

 m 1789, in favor of a university, under a principal and 

 four professors, with an elementary free school in each 

 parish or village, and a superior free school for each, 

 county, in which bookkeeping, grammar, mensuration, 

 navigation, land surveying and practical mathematics 

 would be taught. Theology was left out of the course ; 

 the king through his viceroy, to be the visitor ex- 

 ofricio. A Board of Governors was to be created, 

 formed of the judges, bishops, Protestant and Eoman 

 Catholic, and twenty other directors of both per- 

 suasions. It was contemplated to use some of the 

 revenues of the Jesuits' estates, in addition to private 

 bequests, in order to maintain this university — which 

 was to be located in the Jesuits' college. It was hoped 

 that the Library Association, which had sprung up in 

 1779, would also cast its lot with the new institution (1). 

 The university according to its charter was to be non- 



(1) Chauveau : L'Instruction Publique au Canada pp.. 

 57-63. 



