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MacDonald College 1910
Excerpted from the Report of the Commissioners: Royal Commission on Industrial Training and Technical Education: 1913.
"In some measure, Macdonald College grew out of the school garden movement and the consolidated schools to serve for the training of leaders. In some measure it grew out of the manual training movement, which is a first step in the general education of pupils if they are to profit by technical and industrial education afterwards. In some measure it grew out of the often expressed desire on the part of the educational leaders over the whole Dominion for such advancement and improvement of education for rural communities, as would not only prepare the children for life at its best in rural occupations, but would satisfy the people as being right training for their children.
Purposes:
For the advancement of education: for the carrying out of research work, investigation, and the dissemination of knowledge, all with particular regard to interest and needs of the population in rural districts;
To provide suitable and effective training for teachers, and especially for those whose work will directly affect the education of the population in rural districts.
Site: The college occupies a beautiful site, over-looking the Ottawa river at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, twenty miles from Montreal. The college property comprises 561 acres.
Macdonald College is incorporated with McGill University. Under the statues, the Governors of the University constitute the Principal of Macdonald College, together with other members of the staff.
The School for Teachers:
By an agreement with the government of the province of Quebec, it was provided that a school for the training of teachers for the schools under the control of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction would be established and carried on at Ste. Anne de Bellevue in lieu of McGill Normal school in Montreal. In this department, the college will give a thorough training to teachers by instruction and training in the school itself and my training in the model schools. Besides the training of teachers for all the schools under the Protestant Committee in the Province of Quebec, the college will receive other teachers for training and offer courses in a)nature study b) household science and c) manual training These teachers may come from any part of Canada.
School of Household Science:
One year homemaker course;
A two year course leading to a diploma
Includes the study of:
Foods
Plain cooking
Sewing
Laundry
Home nursing, sanitation and hygiene
Home art
Care of the House
Home economics (2 year course)
Fuels, ventilations and house sanitation
Materials for clothing
School of Agriculture
Short courses of two weeks to three months;
A two-year course leading to a diploma
A four year course leading to a B.S. in agriculture
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