The following is a transcription of an article in the 1 Mar 1882 British Canadian. [Most paragraph breaks inserted by the transcriber]

THE LATE REV. DR. RYERSON

The funeral of the late Dr. Ryerson took place on Wednesday afternoon of last week. Representative men from all parts of the Province were present. The services in the Metropolitan were very impressive. The Rev. Dr. Potts delivered an eloquent address, and the remains were placed in the family vault in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

Adolphus Egerton Ryerson, D.D., L.L.D., was born in Charlotteville, Norfolk County, Ontario, 24 Mar 1803. He was the son of an  U. E. Loyalist, who served in the British army in America during the Revolutionary war, and after its close emigrated first to New Brunswick, and afterwards to Upper Canada.

He received a good education, and after teaching for some years entered the ministry in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1825, and remained in the itinerancy until 1829, when he aided in founding, and for 10 or 12 years edited, the Guardian, the organ of the Wesleyan Methodists of Canada. In 1833 and 1836 he was sent as a delegate to the British Wesleyan Conference, and in 1841 was appointed Principal of Victoria College, Cobourg.

In 1844 he was appointed Superintendent of Public Schools for Upper Canada, and the next year made an extensive tour of obseration in the United States and Europe on the subject of Public School education. In 1847 he published a full report of his tour, and a plan for the organization of a Public School system, which was adopted, and which he has since that time zealously striven to perfect.

He wrote largely, mostly on educational topics, and conducted many impor-tant controversies with those who assailed his system. He was placed on the superannuated list on full pay when Hon. Adam Crooks became Minister of Education, and he had consequently his whole time at his disposal, which he employed profitably in getting out his book, The History of the U. E. Loyalists.

In the early years of his ministry he was employed like most Methodist ministers of his day, as a missionary, and did good service among the Indians of the northwestern portion of Upper Canada. In politics he was always an enthusiastic supporter of Sir John Macdoanld's Government, and his was admitted on all hands to be the most caustic writer that ever entered upon a newspaper controversy, being able to say more in a fewer words than any of his contemporaries. 

Rev. Dr. Ryerson

 
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