school question, 215-245;
the high school system, 247-268; his concluding years, 269; his
writings--_Story of My Life_, _Canadian Methodism_, _Loyalists of
America_, 270-279; later church work and closing days, 281-297; his
death, Feb. 19, 1882, 296. =BL= Referred to in Brown's speech, 224; in
political controversy, 1844, 238; appointed superintendent of education,
240-241; his defence of Metcalfe, 240; Sullivan's reply, 243-244; his
rejoinder, 245-246. =E= Defends Metcalfe, 36; his services to the cause
of popular education, 89-90; opposes Sydenham's measures on Clergy
Reserves, 157. =B= Denounces Baldwin and defends Metcalfe, 22-23;
accepts Separate School Bill, 144, 145; his environment, 260. =T= Member
of King's College Commission, 48. =Mc= His mission to England, 237;
introduced to colonial office, 238; quarrels with Mackenzie, 238.
=Bib.=: Works: _Report on Popular Education_; _Affairs of the Canadas_;
_Story of My Life_; _Canadian Methodism_; _Loyalists of America_. For
biog., _see_ Morgan, _Cel. Can._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Dent, _Can. Por._
and _Last Forty Years_; Rose, _Cyc. Can. Biog._

=Ryerson, George=. =R= Joins Methodists, and sent as missionary to the
Indians, 18; appears before British parliamentary committee, 75, 136.
=Bk= Carries news of victory at Detroit to Talbot Settlement, 259.

=Ryerson, John= (1800-1878). Born in Norfolk, Ontario. Educated at the
public schools. In 1818 became a Wesleyan preacher, and active for many
years in the establishment of missionary and other institutions of the
Methodist-Episcopal Church. In 1854 sent by the Canadian Conference of
that church on a visit to the missions of the London Wesleyan Committee
in the North-West Territories. The result of his investigation was the
transfer of the missions to Canadian control. =Index=: =R= President of
Canada Conference Missionary Society, his views on proposed entry of
British Methodists into Upper Canada, 89-90; his essays on the
Methodists, 273; closely associated with Egerton Ryerson in Methodist
Conference, etc., 281. =Bib.=: _Hudson's Bay, or, A Missionary Tour_.

=Ryerson, Colonel Joseph.= =R= Father of Egerton Ryerson, a United
Empire Loyalist, serves as an officer in Prince of Wales Regiment of New
Jersey, in American Revolution, native of New Jersey, emigrates to New
Brunswick and marries there a Miss Stickney, follows elder brother to
Canada, 1; quarrels with his son Egerton, who has joined Methodists,
11-12; reconcil