EDUCATION AT RED RIVER. 



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4. The Eev. Mr. Taylor's Parochial School on the As- 

 sinniboine. 



5. The Eev. Mr. Chapman's Parochial School, near the 

 middle settlement. 



6. The Presbyterian School, under the superintendence 

 of the Eev. Mr. Black. 



7. Three minor schools, under the supervision of the 

 Episcopal ministers in different parishes. 



8. The Eoman Catholic schools are three in number, 

 one of them occupying a very spacious and imposing 

 building, near the church of St. Boniface, and providing 

 ample accommodation for female boarders. 



9. At the Indian missionary village, an excellent school 

 is under the control of the Eev. Mr. Cowley. All of the 

 foregoing establishments are independent of the Sunday 

 schools, properly so called, in connection with the dif- 

 ferent churches. 



10. A private ladies' school is now established in the 

 parish of St. Andrew, near the rapids. The house is 

 commodious, and the boarders are under excellent super- 

 vision. 



PROTESTANT SCHOOLS IN THE SETTLEMENT. 



The present condition of Protestant education has been 

 so ably described by the Bishop of Eupert's Land, in a 

 letter with which he favoured me, in reply to inquiries on 

 the subject, that I avail myself of some extracts, which 

 embody as full and exact information as could be desired.* 



" We may perhaps take the limits of the settlement as 

 extending from Portage La Prairie to the Indian settle- 



* This letter was published at length in the Canadian Blue Book, " On 

 the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River 

 Settlements/' 1858. Also in the Imperial Blue Book on the same subject, 

 June 1859. 



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