The Story of My Life

The Story of My Life, Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada is an autobiography written by Adolphus Egerton Ryerson, who was a Canadian Methodist minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario.

Author's Preface: Twelve months ago, I began to collect the necessary material for the completion of "The Story of My Life," which my venerated and beloved friend, Dr. Ryerson, had only left in partial outline. These materials, in the shape of letters, papers, and documents, were fortunately most abundant. The difficulty that I experienced was to select from such a miscellaneous collection a sufficient quantity of suitable matter, which I could afterwards arrange and group into appropriate chapters. This was not easily done, so as to form a connected record of the life and labours of a singularly gifted man, whose name was intimately connected with every public question which was discussed, and every prominent event which took place in Upper Canada from 1825 to 1875-78.