EDUCATION. 
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cation are within the jurisdiction of the several provinces, 
and though the systems adopted differ in details, all are 
based on the principle of free education, the funds being 
supplied by the province or by local taxation. In all pro- 
vinces except Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba the schools 
are unsectarian; in the three provinces mentioned there 
are separate schools for Roman Catholics. Ontario has 
placed its educational system under a minister; in the 
other provinces the education is in charge of a superintendent 
of education. 
In the North-West Territories the educational system is 
under the control of a board of Education, composed of five 
members, viz. the Lieutenant-Governor and two Protestant 
and two Catholic members appointed by the Lieutenant- 
Governor in Council. 
The department of Education in Ontario has very ex- Ontario. 
tensive powers in regard to the Normal, High, Public, and 
Separate Schools in the province. Power is given fo if 
to make regulations for the organization, discipline, and 
sOvernment of schools, the equipment of school houses, 
the choice of text books, and the qualifications of inspectors, 
®Xaminers, teachers and assistants in High Schools: to 
appoint inspectors and central examiners: to constitute 
model schools: to set apart schools or colleges for the 
raining of model teachers: to prescribe the conditions 
ander which pupils will be admitted into High Schools: 
nd to make regulations respecting fees and certificates. 
Power is also given to the department to establish meteoro- 
logical stations in connection with High Schools ™. 
R. 8. 0. 1887, c. 224,