Ontario Teachers' Manuals. Ontario. Department of Education

The Coming of the Romans (Chap. II)

       A Day in Roman Britain (Chap. III) The Coming of the English (Chap. IV)

       The Coming of Christianity (Chap. V)

       The Vikings (Chap. VI)

       Alfred the Great (Chap. VII)

       Rivals for a Throne (Chap. VIII)

       The Coming of the Normans (Chap. IX)

       A Norman Castle (Chap. X)

       A Glance at Scotland (Chap. XI)

       Henry the Second and Ireland (Chap. XII)

       Richard the Lion Heart (Chap. XIII)

       King John and the Great Charter (Chap. XIV)

       The First Prince of Wales (Chap. XV)

       Wallace and Bruce (Chaps. XVI, XVII)

       The Black Prince (Chap. XVIII)

       The Father of the British Navy (Chap. XXII)

       The New Worship (Chap. XXIV)

       Francis Drake, Sea-dog (Chap. XXV)

       King Charles the First (Chap. XXX)

       The Rule of Cromwell (Chap. XXXII)

       The King Enjoys his Own again (Chap. XXXIII)

       The Revolution and After (Chap. XXXVI)

       The Greatest Soldier of his Time (Chap. XXXVIII)

       Bonnie Prince Charlie (Chap. XXXIX)

       Robert Clive, the Daring in War (Chap. XL)

       The Terror of Europe (Chap. XLIII)

       Waterloo (Chap. XLV)

       Victoria the Good (Chaps. XLVI, XLVIII, XLIX)

Civics

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      Review of the work in Form II; election of town or township council; taxes—the money people pay to keep up schools and roads, etc.; how local taxes are levied for the support of the school; election of members of County Council, of members of Provincial Legislature; duties of citizenship.

FORM IV

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Junior Grade

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      CANADIAN HISTORY

      Before the British Conquest—an introductory account:

      The French settlements: Extent, life of the seignior, habitant, and coureur de bois; system of trade; government at Quebec—governor, bishop, intendant; territorial claims (Chaps. VII, VIII, IX, XI)

      The English settlements—Hudson's Bay Company, English colonies in New York, New England, Acadia, and Newfoundland; population, life, trade, government, territorial claims (Chaps. VIII, X, XI)

      British Conquest of New France—fall of Quebec (Chap. XI)

      Conspiracy of Pontiac (Chap. XII)

      Quebec Act (Chap. XII)

      Canada and the American Revolution; U.E. Loyalists (Chaps. XIII, XV)

      Constitutional Act—Representative Government (Chap. XIV)

      Social Conditions, 1763–1812 (Chap. XV)

      Hudson's Bay Company (Chaps. VIII, XVI, XXI)

      North-West Company (Chap. XVI)

      Exploration in North-West—Hearne, Mackenzie, Fraser, Thompson (Chap. XVI)

      War of 1812–14 (Chap. XVII)

      Family Compact (Chap. XVII)

      Clergy Reserves (Chap. XVII)

      William Lyon Mackenzie (Chap. XVII)

      Lord Durham, Act of Union, 1840—Responsible Government (Chap. XVIII)

      Social Progress, 1812–1841 (Chap. XIX)

      Settlement of the North-West—Selkirk (Chaps. XVI, XX)

      Confederation of the Provinces, 1867 (Chap. XXII)

      Intercolonial Railway (Chap. XXIV)

      Expansion of the Dominion by addition of new provinces (Chap. XXII)

      Social Progress, 1841–1867 (Chap. XXIII)

      Canadian Pacific Railway (Chap. XXIV)

      Riel Rebellion (Chap. XXIV)

      Disputes between Canada and the United States since 1814 settled by treaty or arbitration. The Hundred Years of Peace

      Canada, at the opening of the twentieth century; transportation, industry, means of defence, education (Chap. XXV)

      Ontario since Confederation: John Sandfield Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat, Arthur Sturgis Hardy, Sir George W. Ross, Sir James P. Whitney (Chap. XXVI)

      An account of how Canada is governed, simple and concrete and as far as possible related to the experience of the pupils; Municipal Government, Provincial Government, Federal Government (Chap. XXVII)

FORM IV

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Senior Grade

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      BRITISH HISTORY

      A

      A Course of about Two Months

      The Early Inhabitants—The Britons

      The Coming of the Romans

      The Coming of the Saxons

      The Coming of Christianity

      Alfred the Great

      The Coming of the Normans—The Feudal System

      Richard I and the Crusaders

      John and Magna Charta

      The Scottish War of Independence

      The Hundred Years' War—Crecy, Agincourt, Joan of Arc.

      The Wars of the Roses (no lists of battles or details of fighting)

      Caxton and Printing

      Separation between the English Church and Rome

      B

      A Course of about Eight Months

      Brief account of the British Isles, territorial, political, and religious, as an introduction to the reign of Elizabeth.

      Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots; the Spanish Armada; Drake, Hawkins, Gilbert, Raleigh, Shakespeare.

      The Stuarts: "Divine Right of Kings" supported by majority of gentry and landowners (cavaliers), opposed by the commercial and trading classes and yeomen (roundheads). The Kings strove for absolute power, the Parliament for constitutional government.

      James I: Union of the English and Scottish Crowns.

      Charles I: Struggle between King and Parliament; Petition of Right, Ship Money,