CANADA'S PRESENT EQUIPMENT.
I. Under University Control.— Com mencing with the Atlantic coast, the Halifax Technical College is affiliated with several of the universities of Nova Scotia and New Bruns wick. It has a competent staff of professors and assistants. Engineering students who take two years in the universities in a suitable course enter in their third year and finish in their fourth in the technical college. This arrange ment has proved very successful. An excellent engineering department is found in McGill Uni versity, Montreal. This department receives efficient support from the Canadian Pacific Rail way. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, especially in its mining school, has excellent courses in practical science. Toronto Univer sity — the provincial university —has a strong faculty of applied science. The several depart ments of the faculty distributed in various buildings are: Civil engineering, mining en gineering, mechanical engineering, architecture, analytical and applied chemistry, chemical en gineering and electrical engineering.
II. Government and Municipal Technical The several provinces of the Do minion have their different methods of dealing with technical education, and the newer prov inces are much alive to the necessity of such schools. Nova Scotia, though not a large prov ince, has been forward in providing various kinds of science schools. Much attention has been paid to continuation and night schools. The coal mining schools have been efficiently used in this province. Other mining schools also are maintained. Technical schools are maintained in Truro, Amherst, Yarmouth, New Glascow and Sidney. The province of Quebec has two notable technical schools maintained by the provincial government, besides a number of smaller local schools of this type. (1) Mon treal.— This technical school, opened in 1911, is declared to rival any technical school of its class in America or Europe. It was erected and is maintained by the Quebec provincial government. The city of Montreal also assists it. Day and ni ht classes of every variety are maintained. (2 Quebec City.—A replica of the Montreal sc ool, erected and supported by the government of the province, is three-fifths of the size of the Montreal school. (3) The
Shawinigan Technical Institute, on the Saint Maurice •River, is a remarkably complete school, maintained in part by the Quebec government in a thriving manufacturing town. In the province of Ontario, in 1915, a magnificent technical school was erected in Toronto, at a cost of $1,400,000 exclusive of site and equip ment, to take the place of one limited in size and efficiency. The new school (with seven acres of floor space) can accommodate 2,500 day pupils and a vast number of night pupils, giving instruction in a great variety of subjects. It represents the aspiration of Toronto to be a great manufacturing centre. (4) Hamilton City, also aiming at being a leading trade city, in 1909 erected a building, costing $100,000, exclusively for technical education. Here, ad jacent to a regular collegiate school efficient teaching is given in wood-working, machinery, forging, electrical work, household science, drafting, printing and in fine arts. Brantford, called the °Sheffield)) of Canada, has lately fin ished a commodious technical school. Wood stock, Kitchener (late Berlin), Peterborough and Saint Thomas are industrial centres with excellent educational facilities. In most of these schools wood-working, building construc tion, mathematics, mechanical drawing, applied sciences, dressmaking, millinery, commercial work and practical English are largely taught. Many other Ontario towns have technical evening schools. In the mineral region of On tario on Lake Huron are two towns — Sault Sainte Marie and Sudbury, in which apprentices and workmen receive training in their craft.
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, now the third city in size of the Dominion,' two great technical high schools — called respectively the Kelvin and the Saint John's — erected by the city itself at a cost of $450,000 each without site, are in full operation, and of the night schools of the city numbering 5,000 in attendance half are in these technical schools. Calgary, a considerable city of Alberta, has shown great enterprise in this direction and has large and very successful schools in many technical subjects.