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Our historyCANADA AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE COUNTRY The fourth volume of this excellent work is in no respect less important or less interesting than those which have preceded it. The subjects dealt with are so diverse in their nature as to include the story of the growth of various religious Denominations in Canada ; sketches of our greater educational Institutions ; an outline of our Militia system and a description of the historic defence of the country ; with a series of articles tracing the artistic development of the Canadian people as exemplified by what has been accomplished in the fields of Music, Painting, and Sculpture. And each of these various topics has been treated of by those whose experience is such that they are generally acknowledged to be authorities upon the questions concerning which they have written. The policy of some of the religious Denominations in Canada has been to make religion and education proceed hand in hand ; whilst other educationalists have been instrumental in the establishment of non-sectarian seats of learning. The result is that we have many institutions of either class, forming links in a beneficent chain extending over such a vast geographical area as that bounded by the Atlantic on one side and the Pacific on the other ; and ranging in point of date from the comparatively ancient University of Laval to some of the recent creations of our Western Provinces. next |