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Report of Dr. Ryerson on industrial schools

1847
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In this report, Dr. Egerton Ryerson, the Chief Superintendent of Education in Upper Canada, responding to a request by George Vardon, Assistant Superintendent of Indian Affairs, outlined a method to establish and run religious-based, government-funded industrial schools. A Methodist minister, Ryerson suggested that the schools combine religion and learning, and represented "industry" or hard work, as central to both. He thus proposed the term "Industrial school" instead.

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