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INTRODUCTION

This finding aid is a listing of all school books held in the Archives of Ontario Library. Many of these books were approved by the Ontario Department of Education for use in the schools of Ontario. This collection is not a comprehensive collection of all school books used in Ontario, but only a sample of titles. The collection is arranged by the teaching subjects.

Click here for more information about books used in Ontario schools. Parvin, Viola Elizabeth. Authorization of textbooks for the schools of Ontario, 18461950. Reference code: 379.516 P37.

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto also has an excellent school books collection. Click here to consult the OISE Library website for more information.

HOW TO REQUEST SCHOOL BOOKS

These books can be requested in the Archives of Ontario's Reading Room. Submit a request slip with the following information:

Reference Code Title

Example:

Reference Code: Schools Books Box AG 1 1845 Title: Canadian agricultural reader

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Subject AGRICULTURE

Title

Canadian agricultural reader

First lessons in scientific agriculture, by J.W. Dawson. Printed and published by John Lovell. First lesson on agriculture; for Canadian farmers and their families, by Egerton

Reference Code School Books Box AG 1 1845

School Books Box AG 1 1864

School Books Box AG 1 1870

Subject

ART BIOLOGY BOTANY

Title Ryerson. Copp, Clark & Co. First lesson on agriculture; for Canadian farmers and their families. by Egerton Ryerson. 2nd ed. Copp, Clark & Co. The first principles of agriculture, by James Mills & Thomas Shaw. Toronto: The J.E. Bryant Company Ltd. Agriculture, by Charles C. James. Toronto: George N. Morang. Agriculture, by Charles C. James. 3rd ed. Toronto: George N. Morang & Company, Limited. Ontario teachers manual: Elementary agriculture and horticulture. Toronto: William Briggs. (2 cops) Ontario teachers manual: Elementary agriculture and horticulture. Toronto: William Briggs, 1924 Perspectives and geometrical drawing, by Thomas H. McGuirl. Toronto: William Briggs. Cours elementaire de botanique et flore du Canada, by L'Abbe J. Moyen. Montreal: Geo. E. Desbarats, Imprimeur-Editeur. High school zoology, by R. Ramsay Wright. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, 1889. (Title page: An introduction to zoology). High school botany (cover title), by H.B. Spotton. Title page: The commonly occurring wild plants of Canada; a flora for the use of beginners. Revised edition. Toronto: W.J. Gage & Company, Limited. How plants grow a simple introduction to structural botany. With popular flora, or an arrangement and prescription of common plants, both wild and cultivated. by Asa Gray. Toronto: Adam Miller, c1858 The elements of botany for beginners and for schools, by Asa Gray. (Gray's Lessons in Botany) New York: American Book Company. The elements of structural botany with special reference to the study of Canadian plants to which is added a selection of examination papers. by H.B. Spotton. Rev. ed. Toronto:

Reference Code

School Books Box AG 1 1871

School Books Box AG 1 1890 School Books Box AG 1 1898 School Books Box AG 1 1900

School Books Box AG 1 1918

School Books Box AG 1 1924 School Books Box AG 1 1887 School Books Box AG 1 1871

School Books Box AG 1 1889

School Books Box AG 1 1897

School Books Box BOT 1 1858

School Books Box BOT 1 1887

School Books Box BOT 1 1888

Subject BUSINESS

Title W.J. Gage and company. The elements of structural botany with special reference to the study of Canadian plants to which is added a selection of examination papers. by H.B. Spotton. Rev. ed. Toronto: W.J. Gage and company, Limited. Elements of book-keeping in a series of short examples for the use of schools. Montreal: Hew Ramsay. Elements of book-keeping in a series of short examples for the use of schools. Toronto: Brewer, McPhail & Co. The Dominion accountant or new method of teaching the Irish national book-keeping, by William R. Orr. Toronto: M. Shewan. A practical system of book-keeping by single and double entry, by Levi S. Fulton and George W. Eastman. c1868. Toronto: James Campbell and Son. The Dominion accountant or new method of teaching the Irish national book-keeping, by William R. Orr. 4th Ed. Toronto: Barber & Ellis. Bookkeeping by single and double entry, by S.G. Beatty and S. Clare. 4th ed. Toronto: Adam Miller & Co., c1877. The high school book-keeping. H.S. Maclean. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited The high school book-keeping. H.S. Maclean. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited. c1887 Public school writing course, vertical system: business forms. Toronto: G. M. Rose & Sons. Business letter writing & follow up systems. E. Warner. (4th Ed.) Toronto: Commercial Text Book Company. Ontario school bookkeeping. First course. (revised) Toronto: W.J. Gage & Company, Limited. Ontario school bookkeeping. Second course. William Ward and R.H. Eldon. Toronto: The Educational Book Company, Limited.

Reference Code

School Books Box BOT 1 1897

School Books Box BOT 1 n.d. 1850's School Books Box BOT 1 1854

School Books Box BOT 1 1868

School Books Box BOT 1 1872

School Books Box BOT 1 1876

School Books Box BOT 1 1879

School Books Box BUS 1 1887

School Books Box BUS 1 1890

School Books Box BUS 1 1896

School Books Box BUS 1 1906

School Books Box BUS 1 1909

School Books Box BUS 1 1911

Subject DOMESTIC SCIENCE

EDUCATION

Title Penmanship-Ontario writing courses: Book II. Pub: Toronto: The MacMillan Co. of Canada Ltd. Ontario school bookkeeping. Second course, by William Ward and R. H. Eldon, Toronto: Educational Book Co. Revised. Course in Isaac Pitman shorthand. Toronto: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd. Penmanship-Ontario Teachers' ManualsWriting. Toronto: The MacMillan Co. of Canada Ltd., c1917 (1933 printing) Essentials of business practice, by L.S. Beattie and W.G. Bennett. Toronto: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Canada Ltd. Public school domestic science, by Mrs. J. Hoodless, Toronto: The Copp Clark Co., Ltd. Household management. Ontario Teachers' Manuals. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited. Household science in rural schools. Ontario Teachers' Manuals. Toronto: William Briggs Handbook of practical cookery for the use of household science classes in the public schools of Toronto. Toronto: The United Press. Domestic education. H. Humphrey. Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams.

The school house, its architecture, external and internal arrangements. J. George Hodgins. Toronto: Copp, Clark & Company.

Lectures on teaching delivered in the University of Cambridge during the lent term, 1880. J.G. Fitch. New York: MacMillan & Co. Applied psychology; an introduction to the principles and practice of education, by J.A. McLellan. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company. The school system of Ontario, by George W. Ross, New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Reference Code School Books Box BUS 1 1916?

School Books Box BUS 1 1918

School Books Box BUS 1 1924

School Books Box BUS 1 1933

School Books Box BUS 1 1935

School Books Box BUS 1 1898

School Books Box BUS 1 1916

School Books Box BUS 1 1918

School Books Box BUS 1 1924

School Books Box ED 1 1840 School Books Box ED 1 1876 (Use SelfService Microfilm B109, available in the Main Reading Room)

School Books Box ED 1 1885

School Books Box ED 1 1889

School Books Box ED 1 1896

Subject

ELOCUTION GERMAN

ENGLISH SPELLERS

Title (International Education Series) (2 cops.) The school system of the state of New York (as viewed by a Canadian). John Millar. Toronto: Warwick Bros, and Rutter. History of education (Ontario Teachers' Manuals). Toronto: The Hunter-Rose Co. School management. (Ontario Normal School Manuals). Toronto: William Briggs. History of education. (Ontario Teachers' Manuals). Toronto: United Press, Limited. c1915. The training of teachers-in-service. by Ontario Public and Separate School Inspectors. Toronto: Clarke-Irwin Co. Ltd. The principles of eloquence. Abbe Maury, Trans. by John Neal Lake, New York: Mason & Lane,. c1833 How to read, by Richard Lewis, Toronto: Adam Miller & Co., 1879, c1877. (a drill book for the cultivation of the speaking voice) The orthoepist (Canadian Edition). Alfred Ayres and T.C.L. Armstrong, Toronto: Canada Publishing Co., 1884. The orthoepist: a pronouncing manual. (17th ed.), revised and enlarged by Alfred Ayres. Toronto: W.J. Gage & Company The high school German grammar, by W.H. Van Der Smissen and W.H. Fraser. Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1890. Ontario high school German reader. A.E. Lang (editor), Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1920. The scholar's spelling assistant. Thomas Carpenter (England), Toronto: Eastwood & Co., circa 1842. (Final pages missing) The English spelling-book. William Mavor. Revised by Cecil Hartley. London: George Routledge and Sons. (circa 1870) The universal spelling book. Daniel Fenning, London: Allan Bell & Co., 1837, (final pages missing). (Includes a summary of English history and a chronology of events by E. Bellchambers). The scholar's spelling assistant. Thomas

Reference Code

School Books Box ED 1 1898 School Books Box ED 1 1915 School Books Box ED 1 1915 School Books Box ED 1 1926

School Books Box ED 1 1936

School Books Box ELO 1 1837

School Books Box ELO 1 1879

School Books Box ELO 1 1884

School Books Box ELO 1 1884

School Books Box ELO 1 1890

School Books Box ELO 1 1920

School Books Box ES 1 n.d.

School Books Box ES 1 n.d.

1 School Books Box ES 1 837

School Books

Subject

Title Carpenter. Toronto: Lesslie Brothers, 1842. The scholar's spelling assistant. Thomas Carpenter, Toronto: R. Brewer, 1843. (pages 5-12 missing) The spelling book superseded. Robert Sullivan. (23rd ed.). New York: McFeeters and Brother. A pronouncing spelling-book of the English language. J.E. Worcester. Boston: Brewer & Tileston The scholar's spelling assistant. Thomas Carpenter, Toronto: Robert McPhail, 1861. The classical English spelling book, by George C. Vasey, Montreal: John Lovell, 1862, p. 208. (contains numerous appendices; punctuation, capitalization, proper forms of address) c1860 The Canada spelling book, by Alexander Davidson, Toronto: R. McPhail, 1864. (appendix includes outlines of geography, rules of syntax, daily prayers). The English spelling book, by William Mavor, Toronto: R. McPhail, 1865. (2 cops). (Contains graded lessons and appendices including tables, abbreviations, catechism, etc.). The spelling book: A companion to the readers (Canadian Series), Toronto: William Warwick pub., 1867-68. (The) spelling book: A companion to the readers (Canadian Series), Toronto: William Warwick Pub., 1867. (The) spelling book: A companion to the readers (Canadian Series), Toronto: William Warwick Pub., 1868. The spelling book: A companion to the readers (Gage's Series), Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., 1868. (Includes history of the language, suffixes and prefixes; Latin and Greek roots; abbreviations). Campbell's new language lessons: an elementary grammar and composition. William Swinton. Toronto: Canada Publishing

Reference Code Box ES 1 1842 School Books Box ES 1 1843

School Books Box ES 1 1851

School Books Box ES 1 1857 School Books Box ES 1 1861

School Books Box ES 1 1862

School Books Box ES 1 1864

School Books Box ES 1 1865

School Books Box ES 1 1867

School Books Box ES 1 1867

School Books Box ES 1 1868

School Books Box ES 1 1868

School Books Box ES 1 1878

Subject

Title Company, Limited. New language lessons: an elementary grammar and composition. William Swinton. Toronto: James Campbell & Son. The practical speller. Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., 1881. (also the same, 1882, 1883 printings) The practical speller. Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., 1881. (also the same, 1882, 1883 printings) The practical speller. Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., 1881. (also the same, 1882, 1883 printings) The high school English word book a manual of orthoepy, synonymy, and derivation. James W. Connor and G. Mercer Adam. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited. The practical speller. (20th century ed.) Toronto: W.J. Gage & Company, Ltd. (Educational Series) The Ontario public school speller (grades 3 to 9). Toronto: Copp Clark Co. Ltd., 1914, this copy 1918. (Includes abbreviations and Latin and Greek roots). Rev. c1914 Ontario public school spelling book. Toronto: The Ryerson Press Ontario public school spelling book. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1928. Ontario public school spelling book. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1933. The Canadian speller: Book l, by Frank M. Quance, Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., 1936 (2nd cop. 1940) The Canadian speller: Book ll, by Frank M. Quance, Toronto: W.J. Gage & co., 1937. The Canadian speller: Book l, by Frank M. Quance, 1936 The Canadian speller, Grade 5: a new and enriched spelling program. Frank M. Quance. Illustrated by Clarence Chong. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1930. Spelling and vocabulary studies. Toronto: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons (Canada) Ltd.

Reference Code

School Books Box ES 1 1878

School Books Box ES 1 1881

School Books Box ES 1 1882

School Books Box ES 1 1883

School Books Box ES 1 1887

School Books Box ES 1 1901

School Books Box ES 2 1918

School Books Box ES 2 1925 School Books Box ES 2 1928 School Books Box ES 2 1933 School Books Box ES 2 1936 School Books Box ES 2 1937 School Books Box ES 2 1940

School Books Box ES 2 1950

School Books Box ES 2 1950

Subject

ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION

Title English exercises, by Lindley Murray. New York: W.E. Dean, 1839. (adapted to the writer's English Grammar). Progressive exercises in English composition / by R.G. Parker. Boston: Robert S. Davis Pub. (56th ed.), 1846. Elements of rhetoric and literary criticism. Rev. James Robert Boyd. New York: Harper & Brothers. 8th ed The English language in its elements and forms, by William C. Fowler. New York: Harper & Bros., 1864. Introduction to the analytical and practical grammar of the English language, by Peter Bullions. 2nd Can. ed. Toronto: Adam Miller Millers' Analytical and practical grammar of the English Language, by T.G. Chestnut. (3rd Canadian Edition) Toronto: Adam Miller. c1866 An eclectic grammar. Bullion & Morell adapt. by Archibald Macallum, Hamilton: J. Eastwood & Co., 1867. Elements of the art of rhetoric, by Henry N. Day (Cleveland), New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1867. An analytical and practical grammar English language. Toronto: Adam Miller, 1868. An analytical and practical grammar English language. Toronto: Adam Miller, 1869 (a different printing) An English grammar for the use of Junior classes, by H. W. Davies (Toronto Normal School), Toronto: Adam Miller 1869. Elementary lessons in historical English grammar, by Rev. Richard Morris (London), London: MacMillan & Co., 1874. (Contains catalogue of school text books). English grammar, by Rev. Richard Morris, Toronto: Adam Miller & Co., 1876. An English grammar for the use of Junior classes (National Series). H.W. Davies, Toronto: William Warwick, 1877. 2 cops English grammar including the principles of grammatical analysis. C.P. Mason. 23rd ed.

Reference Code School Books Box EGS 1 1839

School Books Box EGS 1 1848

School Books Box EGS 1 1854

School Books Box EGS 1 1864

School Books Box EGS 1 1866

School Books Box EGS 1 1867

School Books Box EGS 1 1867

School Books Box EGS 1 1867 School Books Box EGS 1 1868 School Books Box EGS 1 1869

School Books Box EGS 1 1869

School Books Box EGS 1 1874

School Books Box EGS 1 1876 School Books Box EGS 2 1877 School Books Box EGS 2 1877

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