A richly textured study of educational developments in English-speaking Canada from the close of the Victorian Age to the eve of World War II.

The received view is that secondary education in Ontario is a result of Egerton Ryerson's Education Act of 1871. But R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar show that Ryerson and the Provincial Education Office responded to rather than directed policy in higher education. In fact, the system in place today is evidence of Ryerson's failure to implement the programs he wanted.

It is also an inquiry into the nature of a social and occupational ideal, its influence in nineteenth-century society, and the transmutations in the ideal which laid the groundwork for twentieth-century conceptions of professional work.

"Publication documenting two exhibitions dedicated to the forty year career of the Canadian painter. Bates' expressionistic renderings of iconic geographical locations associated with Tom Thomson and Cornelius Krieghoff reveal her attachment not only to the land but to Canadian art history. Two essays situate the artist's work within the tradition of Canadian landscape painting." --Book Jacket.