Introduction / Harold Pearse -- Learning to draw at the Barrie Mechanics' Institute / F. Graeme Chalmers -- Postsecondary art education in Quebec from the 1870s to the 1920s / J. Craig Sterling -- Postsecondary art education in Ontario, 1876-1912 / J. Craig Sterling -- The dawn of the twentieth century: art education in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia / Harold Pearse -- Modern art and child art in Quebec: the symbiotic relationship between the art field and child art / Suzanne Lemerise and Leah Sherman -- Social reconstruction, visuality, and the exhibition of democratic ideals in Canadian schools, 1930-1950 / E. Lisa Panayotidis -- More than an improvement in drawing: art learning in one Vancouver secondary school, 1920-1950 / Wendy Stephenson -- Art education in Ontario, 1950-2000: unlimited potential and unfulfilled promise / Roger Clark -- The electronic era: radio and television school art broadcasts in Canada / Bill Zuk and Robert Dalton -- Afterword / Harold Pearse