RELIGION — INSTRUCTION
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Religion. The number of members of each religious creed was as follows in 1911: —
Roman Catholics .
. 2,833,041
Congregational ists .
34,054
Presbyterians
. 1,115,324
Greek Church .
88,507
Anglicans
. 1,043,017
Jews
74,564
Methodists .
. 1,079,892
Miscellaneous creeds l
293.224
Baptists
. 382,666
No creed stated
32,490
Lutherans
. 229,864
Total
7,206,643
1 Including Pagans. The numbers of the leading denominations in the provinces, 1911 : —
Province
Roman
Church of
Pr *? b J r - Methodiat
Baptist 1
Catholic
England
t«nan 524,603 671,727
Ontario
484,997
489,704
132,809
Quebec
1,724,683
102,684
64,125 42,444
9,255
Nova Scotia
144,991
75,315
109,560 57,606
83,854
New Brunswick .
144,889
42,864
39,207 34,558
82,106
Manitoba .
73,994
86,578
103,621 65,897
13,992
British Columbia
58,397
100,952
82,125 52,132
17.228
Prince Edward Island .
41,994
4,939
27,509 12,209
5,372
Alberta
62,193
55,628
66,351 61,844
19,491
Saskatchewan
90,092
75,342
96,564 ! 78,325
18,371
The Territories .
6,811
9,011
1,659 3,150
188
1 Not including 44,611 Mennonitea.
Instruction.
The Provincial Governments have control of education in elementary schools, secondary schools, normal schools and universities ; the systems arc all based on the principle of free education, the funds being supplied in nearly all the provinces by Government grants and local taxation. Edu- cation is more or less compulsory, but the law is not very strictly enforced. In Ontario. Quebec, Alberta, and Saskatchewan there are separate schools for Roman Catholics ; in the other provinces the schools are unsectarian.
Each province has one or more universities 22 in all, with 2,616 professors and teachers, and 20,535 students, in 1918-19), and several colleges. The provincial universities are supported by the Government, and include those of New Brunswick, Toronto, Saskatchewan, Albrrta, and British Columbia. Those on private foundation comprise Dalhousie, McGill, Queen's (formerly denominational and now State-aided), and Western, of London, Ontario. The denominational universities include King's, Arcadia, and St. Francois Xavier, all of Nova Scotia : Sackville, New Bruns- wick : Laval, Bishop's College, and Lennoxville, of Quebec ; and McMaster and Ottawa, in Ontario. There are in all about 43 colleges ; attendance, 12,671 during the academic year 1918-19.
Information respecting the State-controlled elementary and secondary schools : —
