Excerpt from Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, 1790 1830 No less noted and important, as an educational centre, was the Grantham Academy, founded in St. Catharines, in 1827, on a lot given for that purpose by one, to whom Canada owes so much, - the Honour able william hamilton merritt, -the last President of the Academy Board a gentleman who, in 1850, introduced into our House of Assembly and had passed into a law, an Act endowing forever the Public Schools of the then Province of Canada with the rich dowry of One Million Acres of the Crown Lands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.