Canada Yearbook - 1897

482 ST A TISTICA L YEA R-BOOK.
THE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF
CA^ADA-Coucluded.
NAME.
Date of Foundation.
Endowment.
Value
of
Property
Owned.
Income.
Number
of
Students.
(About.)
Ladies' Colleges.
§ $
Wesleyan Ladies' College, Hamilton, Ont. 1860
80,000
1869
80,000
Brantford " Brantford "
1874
60,000
Ontario " Whitby
1874
100,000
Demill " Oshaw'a "
1876
55,000
Alma " St. Thomas"
1881
90,000
Agricultural Colleges, etc.
Ontario Agricultural Col., Guelph, Ont..
1874
340,900
Provincial School of Agric, Truro, N.S..
1885
1877 ""•8J866'
School of Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Que. 1859
* Government grant. f Government expenditure.
LIBRARIES IN CANADA, 1896.
$
17,000
30,000
20,000
22,000
14,000-
25,000
144
100
70 to 140
150
138
170
t18,564 135
t 1,967 25
71
4,500 24
4,000 12
Law
Public
Othersf
SpecialJ
Kind.
Number
21
9
325
62
29
2
32
Number
of
Pamphlets.
Number
of
Books.
1,929 105,788
48,834 309,895
17,535 663,125
24,894 627,246
15,224 96.918
14,330 18,500
23,660
Total 480 122,746 1,874,632
BY PROVINCES.
Provinces.
Number
Ontario 374
39
26
15
8
British Columbia
10
Prince Edward Island
3
1
476
4
Number
of
Pamphlets.
32,922
31,841
17,756
2,689
5,014
1,554
500
140
93,416
29,330
Number
of
Books.
942,187
531,356
97,521
54,787
34,730
11,303
8,528
2,150
•
1,682,572
192,060
Total 480 122,746 1,874,635,
* Libraries in Colleges, Universities, Educational Departments, &c.
t Libraries, such as Medical, Historical and others, belonging to special societies.
X " Geological Survey " and " Archives " at Ottawa.
By an Act of the Ontario Legislature, 1895, Mechanics' Institutes in
that province have been called Public Libraries.