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

SENIOR GRADE

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, rebellion, execution of Charles.