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- Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 – 19 February 1882) was a Canadian educator, author, editor, and Methodist minister who was a prominent contributor to the design of the Canadian public school system. Ryerson is considered to be the founder of the Ontario public school system.
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Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 – 19 February 1882) [1] was a Canadian educator, author, editor, and Methodist minister who was a prominent contributor to the design of the Canadian public school system. [2][3] Ryerson is considered to be the founder of the Ontario public school system.
- Early Life and Family
- Marriages and Personal Life
- Methodism
- Politics
- Education Reform: Common Schools
- Teacher Training and Postsecondary Education
- Ryerson and Residential Schools
- Legacy
Egerton Ryerson was born into a prominent Loyalist family in 1803. His father, Joseph Ryerson, was an officer in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). He left for Canada and settled as a half-pay officer near Vittoria, Upper Canada, in the 1790s. During the War of 1812, Joseph fought against the Americans, as did his three oldest sons. Egerton ...
In 1828, Ryerson married Hannah Aikman in Hamilton. She died in 1832, soon after the birth of their second child. For a time, family members helped to care for the children, John and Lucilla Hannah. John died of dysentery in 1835 at age six. Lucilla died of consumption in 1849 at age 17. In 1833, Ryerson married Mary Armstrong in York (Toronto). To...
Egerton Ryerson’s father, Joseph, belonged to the Anglican Church, but his mother, Mehetable Stickney Ryerson, had Methodist inclinations. (Methodism began as a movement within the Anglican Church. It became a separate church in 1795.) Egerton absorbed his mother’s Methodist sympathies, which were reinforced by the teachings of travelling Methodist...
Ryerson based his long and active public career on a consistent yet often misunderstood political outlook. His views were a mix of loyalty to British-Canadian institutions; a conservative mistrust of radical philosophy; a liberaloptimism in humankind; and a deep and abiding religious commitment. In Ryerson’s early career, politics in Upper Canada w...
In 1844, Ryerson was appointed superintendent of education for Canada West. He held this post until retiring in 1876. In 1844 and 1845, he toured Europe to study different school systems. Based on his findings, he wrote his Report on a system of public elementary instruction for Upper Canada (1846). In this report, Ryerson recommended improvements ...
Ryerson was one of the founders of the Provincial Normal School (1847), the first teacher’s college in Toronto. It later became the Toronto Teachers’ College and then the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Ryerson also promoted denominational universities as the pinnacle of the educational process. He believed that both the individu...
Since about 2010, Ryerson’s connection to residential schools has been the subject of controversy. At the heart of this debate is a report he wrote in 1847 at the request of the Indian Affairs department. A few years prior, the Bagot Commission (1842–44) recommended manual labour boarding schools as the most effective way to achieve self-reliance a...
Ryerson left his mark on many cultural institutions. In 1829, he founded the Methodist Book Room, which later became Ryerson Press and was sold to American publisher McGraw-Hill in 1970. The Normal School buildings at St. James Square in Toronto housed not only the training program for teachers but also the Department of Education and cultural disp...
Oct 4, 2024 · Egerton Ryerson (born March 24, 1803, near Vittoria, Norfolk county, Upper Canada [Ontario]—died December 19, 1882, Toronto) was a Canadian provincial educator and Methodist church leader who founded the public education system of what is now Ontario province.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 22, 2021 · Ryerson designed a model for residential schools that was influential in shaping a system that amounted to cultural genocide. He is also credited for founding public schooling in Ontario.
- Hunter Knight
RYERSON, EGERTON (his complete given name was Adolphus Egerton but he never used the first), Methodist minister, author, editor, and educational administrator; b. 24 March 1803 in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada, fifth son of Joseph Ryerson and Mehetable Stickney; m. first 10 Sept. 1828 Hannah Aikman (d. 1832) at Hamilton ...
Mar 1, 2018 · A student-led social justice campaign at Toronto’s Ryerson University last summer was oddly reminiscent of the front-page volleys by a young Egerton Ryerson. The Methodist leader railed against Upper Canadian political elites as editor of the Christian Guardian almost 190 years ago.
This timeline encapsulates the life and work of Egerton Ryerson and documents the ways in which Ryerson’s work was interpreted for commemorative and political purposes after his death.
