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190 ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION. 



" The village, which has been erected entirely by the 

 Indians themselves, contains a spacious church, substan- 

 tially built of stone, plainly finished, and decorated inside 

 in Indian style. The missionaries' house, which has been 

 built for them by their congregation, is also of stone." 



In 1848 a manual labour school was built at Alderville 

 in the county of Northumberland, Upper Canada, at a cost 

 of $6,328, and a further sum of $515 has since been laid 

 out in repairs. Another school at Muncey Town was 

 finished in 1851, the amount expended on it being 

 $5,500. In 1856 it was found necessary to enlarge this 

 school, involving an additional outlay of $3,660, and in 

 1857 repairs to the amount of $640 raised the total sum 

 expended to $9,800. These schools are appropriated to 

 Ojibways and Missassaguas. The management was en- 

 trusted to the Wesleyan Methodist Society. The Indian 

 Department pays the Society for the board, clothing, and 

 education of each child from a fund derived from the 

 annuities of the tribes benefited by the schools. The 

 average annual cost of each child has been $64 per head. 

 The Wesleyan Methodist Society engaged to supply fur- 

 niture, books, stationery, stock and farming implements, as 

 well as to pay the superintendent and teachers, and to 

 provide such assistance as would be necessary to efficiently 

 conduct the institution. The average attendance at these 

 schools has been, at Alnwick, twenty-three boys and six- 

 teen girls ; at Muncey Town (Mount Elgin), twenty boys 

 and twenty-one girls. The management has been good, 

 but the results have not answered the expectations of the 

 projectors and sustainers. 



In 1857 each farm attached to the different schools 

 had about seventy acres under crop, but the amount ex- 

 pended by the Society in addition to the sum paid by the 

 Indian Department was $2,200. The impression pro- 



