039. The Bytown Mechanics' Institute: Improving the Mind of the Working Class 

Historical Language Advisory : The Institute focused almost entirely on the education of men. Pg 1, para 3 "Middle-class men who organized Mechanics' Institutes...", pg 1, para 4 "...average male factory worker prefered the fellowship of the local pub.", pg 2, para 3 "...men in mechanical jobs...", pg 3, para 3 "All resident clergymen...", pg 4, para 4 "...founding fathers were almost entirely prominent men...", pg 5, para 1 "Then, refering to you men...a father whose hope it is to see his son grow up a well informed man...", pg 6, para 2 "...a box of Indian stone implements...", pg 6, para 4 "...the interest of men in mechanical trades.", pg 7, para 1 "...local clergyman...", pg 7, para 2 "..."young men". ...young men...Indian remains.", pg 7, para 3 "...mother Institute.", pg 7, para 4 "...spoke on "Woman, her duties and her rights"... woman's rights had been decided long ages ago, and by an authority from which there is no appeal -- decided by authoritative statement of the Bible.", pg 8, para 2 "...in early manhood...", pg 8, para 3 "The titles do not suggest anything scandalous, e.g. Dickens, Wuthering Heights, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Thackeray, Haliburton, Sir Walter Scott, etc...", pg 9, para 3 "...including "female classes"." pg 12, para 3 "...a small but vocal group who projected a brand of atheistic socialism; one of these openly stated that he was an anarchist. To rid themselves of these unwelcome bed-fellows..." pg 12, para 4 "...Lady Foster, Lady Caron, Mrs. Thomas Keefer..." pg 13, para 3 "...working man..."