HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

DEPOSITED BY

MASSACHUSETTS STATE LIBRARY

1940

To His Honour EDGAR Dewdney,

Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:

I beg herewith respectfully to present the Twenty-fifth Annual Report on the Public Schools of the Province.

December, 1896.

JAMES BAKER,

Minister of Education.

PART I.

GENERAL REPORT.