translate English to French: The School Returns show 20 children as receiving instruction, but the greatest number of days during the last quarter, on which any one child attended the school was 14, and ten of the children do not appear to have been present for a single day.
Environ quinze ans plus tôt, le gouvernement du Canada s'était heurté à des difficultés quand il avait accordé des permis à des compagnies minières voulant exploiter les ressources minérales de la rive nord du lac Huron et du lac Supérieur.