CHAPTER XX.

Educational Department at Toronto—Canadian Arguments against Common Schools—A Canadian’s Opinion on Secular Schools in England—How the Canadians’ Objections are met in the United States—Upper Canadians not yet a People—Advantages possessed by Upper Canada—Service at the Romanist and Anglican Cathedrals—Unmannerly Behaviour permitted on Canadian Railways—Badness of their Carriages—Why Canada is not ‘the Land of Freedom’—Yankee Smartness in Train-driving—Picturesqueness of Vermont—Travelling on American Railways not fatiguing 269