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Provincial Certificates Granted to Teachers in 1867

From Ontario Sessional Papers 32 Victoria 1868 (2)

The Normal School for Ontario.
Provincial Certificates Granted by the Chief Superintendent of Education.

The Chief Superintendent of Education, on the recommendation of the Masters of the Normal School, and under the authority of the following section of the Upper Canada Consolidated Common School Act, 22 Vic., chap.64, sec. 107, has granted to the undermentioned students of the Normal School, Provincial Certificates of Qualification as Common School Teachers in any part of Ontario:--

"107. The Chief Superintendent of Education, on the recommendation of the teachers in the Normal School, may give to any teacher of Common Schools a Certificate of Qualification, which shall be valid in any part of Upper Canada until revoked; but no such Certificate shall be given to any person who has not been a student in the Normal School."

The Certificates are divided into classes, in harmony with the general programme, according to which all teachers in Ontario are required to be examined and classified, and are valid until revoked, or until the expiration of the time mentioned in the Certificate, according to the following form:

Grade A, (B or C,) of the First (or Second) Class.

Certificate of Qualification-Normal School, for Ontario

Prior to the Ninth Session, no Provincial Certificates were issued. The Head Master certified to the attendance and conduct of the pupils, but such Certificates do not qualify the holders to become teachers in the Common Schools.

During the Ninth and Tenth Sessions, three classes of Certificates were granted, the First, Second and Third; but the Third-Class Certificates of the Ninth Session expired on 1^st July, 1854, and those of the Tenth Session on 1^st November, 1854.

From the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Session, inclusive, only First and Second-Class Certificates were granted, and were not divided into Grades.

From the Fifteenth Session to the present time the Certificates granted have been of the First and Second Class, but each Class has been further divided into three Grades, A, B and C. These Certificates are all valid until revoked, but since the Nineteenth Session, inclusive, all Certificates of the Second-Class, Grade C, have been granted for one year only, so that the only valid Certificates of that grade are those granted from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Sessions, and those dated June and December, 1867, which expire in June and December, 1868.

In the following list all Certificates appear which have not been revoked by expiration, by the granting of a subsequent Certificate to the same person, or for cause. Those which have become invalid by death are retained in the list, as the Department does not receive full information on that point.

The Session and date of any Certificate in the following list can be ascertained by reference to the number and the subjoined table:--

Numbers.	Sessions.	Dates.
1 to 72	Ninth	18th June, 1853
73 to 150	Tenth	18th October, 1853
151 to 221	Eleventh	20th April, 1854
222 to 261	Twelfth	16th October, 1854
262 to 306	Thirteenth	18th April, 1855
307 to 351	Fourteenth	15th October, 1855
352 to 425	Fifteenth	15th April, 1856
426 to 498	Sixteenth	15th October, 1856
499 to 586	Seventeenth	15th April, 1857
587 to 685	Eighteenth	15th October, 1857
686 to 770	Nineteenth	15th April, 1858
771 to 877	Twentieth	15th October, 1858
878 to 964	Twenty-First	22nd June, 1859
965 to 1058	Twenty-Second	22nd December, 1859
1059 to 11 54	Twenty-Third	15th June, 1860
1155 to 1244	Twenty-Fourth	22nd December, 1860
1245 to 1333	Twenty-Fifth	15th June, 1861
1334 to 1435	Twenty-Sixth	22nd December, 1861
1436 to 1531	Twenty-Seventh	15th June, 1862
1532 to 1626	Twenty-Eighth	23rd December, 1862
1627 to1722	Twenty-Ninth	15th June, 1863
1723 to 1836	Thirtieth	22nd December, 1863
1837 to 1918	Thirty-First	15th June, 1864
1919 to 2019	Thirty-Second	22nd December, 1864
2020 to 2110	Thirty-Third	22nd June, 1865
2111 to 2207	Thirty-Fourth	22nd December, 1865
2208 to 2306	Thirty-Fifth	15th June, 1866
2307 to 2393	Thirty-Sixth	22nd December, 1866
2394 to 2465	Thirty-Seventh	15th June, 1867
2466 to 2544	Thirty-Eighth	22nd December, 1867

Provincial Certificates Granted To Male Students, and Valid 31^st Dec., 1867.

Second Class-Not Graded-(Continued.)		First Class--Grade A-(Continued.)
Name.	Register No.	Name.	Register No.
*Honor First Class.		Kilpatrick, George	501
Moran, John	2307	Kinney, Robert	690
First Class.-Grade A.		Knight, James Henry	1061
		Langdon, Richard Vickery	1723
Anderson, William Walker	686	Mallock, Donald McGregor	1338
Barkie, John	687	May, Charles Henry	2310
Barrick, Eli James	1059	Meldrum, Norman William	2209
Bell, Robert	1334	Millar, John	1533
Bigg, William Reader	426	Moore, Charles Boyd	1159
Black, Alexander	352	Moore, Richard	691
Blaicher, Peter Campbell	878	Morris, James	697
Bond, William	688	Munson, Charles Francis	1437
Brebner, John	499	Macwilliam, William	502
Brown, Alick Howard	1335	McColl, Hugh, (2)	1920
Brown, James Coyle	1627	McDiarmid, Donald	1532
Campbell, Alexander	879	McKay, Hugh Munro	1157
Carlyle, James	353	McKay, John Wood	696
Cavanagh, William Herbert	1919	McKee, Thomas	1158
Chesnut, Thomas George	500	McLean, Peter	2210
Chisholm, Allan	427	Mclellan, James Alexander	588
Clarkson, Charles	2308	Nichol, Peter	693
Clinton, John	587	Nichol, William	692
Cosby, Alfred Morgan	689	O'Connor, Thaddens J.	589
Currie, Peter	695	Peters, Goerge	966
Davey, Peter Nicholas	2466	Platt, John Milton	1062
Dewar, Archibald	1336	Plunkett, Thomas	503
Disher, John Clarke	771	Price, Robert	1160
Donelly, Joseph Henry	2309	Purslow, Adam	590
Douglass, William Alexander	2394	Rae, Francis	591
Dow, John	965	Rathwell, William	698
Ede, Joseph	1337	Ridgway, Robert	1063
Edmison, Alexander Bickerton	880	Samson, Robert	430
Farewell, George McGill	1155	Scott, Richard William	504
Ford, John	428	Sinclair, Lauchlin	592
Fotheringham, David	354	Smith, Joseph Henry	1340
Fullerton, James	2467	Soper, Jasper	505
Ganton, Stephen	772	Steel, Thomas Orton	593
Gick, Henry	429	Strachan, Alexander	506
Glashan, John	1436	Sullivan, Dion Cornelius	881
Groat, Stillman Preston	1628	Tasker, James	1341
Hacking, William Francis	1156	Thompson, James	694
Hay, Angus Cameron	1060	Tisdell, John Cassie	594
Hughes, James	2208	Tye, George Archer	774
Hunter, John	355	Vanslyke, George Washington	1534
Kellough, Thomas	773	Wood, Benjamin Wills	1438

*Additional Qualifications For Honor First Class Provincial Certificates.

I. Each Candidate to have held an Ordinary First Class Provincial Certificate, Grade A, for one year.

II. To give evidence of having been a successful Teacher.

III. To stand an examination in the following subjects in addition to those necessary for an Ordinary First Class Certificate, viz.:--

• English History and Literature (Collier).
• Canadian History and Geography (Hodgins).
• Outlines of Ancient and Modern History and Geography.
• Latin Grammar, (Harkness), and Books IV., V. and VI. of Cæsar's Commentaries.
• Outlines of Geology, (Lyell & Chapman's), and Astronomy (Mosely's).
• Science of Teaching, School Organization, Management, &c.
• Easy lessons on Reasoning.
• Algebra-General Theory of Equations, Imaginary Quantities (Sangster's and Todhunter's).
• Euclid-Books XI. And XII.
• Trigonometry as far as Solution of Plane Triangles (Colenso).
• Inorganic Chemistry, (Sangster's Inorganic, Brand and Taylor's for Organic.)
• The Principles of Book-keeping, Music and Drawing.

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