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What Were the Schoolbooks Like?
A System of Geography, for the Use of Schools by Sidney Edwards Morse. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849 [i.e. 1850]
Nouvel abrégé de géographie moderne : suivi d’un appendice, et d’un abrégé de géographie sacrée, à l’usage de la jeunesse by Jean Holmes. Québec: W. Neilson, 1846
This book was the most popular geography school text in French Canada at the time. It was used with a number of additions for more than 50 years. The statistical tables for Canada it contained were an innovation at the time.
Teachers’ Manual: Hints on How to Teach the New Canadian Geography by William Scott. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1906
A New Universal Atlas of the World, on an Improved Plan: Consisting of Thirty Maps, Carefully Prepared from the Latest Authorities with Complete Alphabetical Indexes. Morse, Sidney Edwards. New Haven Conn.: Engraved and published by N. & S.S. Jocelyn, 1825