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        Craufurd Goodwin's CANADIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT, Duke U. P. 1961, has 
a chapter on "Economics in the Universities".  A quick look at the chapter 
leads me to think that Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S. and the 
University of Toronto share the prize for the first Economics-like 
courses.  Both appear in 1853.   
 
        "In 1853, and possibly before, political economy was taught with 
logic and history by J.M. Cramp, one of the founders and president [of 
Acadia University] in 1844"  p. 155. 
 
        "University College [in the University of Toronto] ... in 1853 
began required courses called 'Civil Polity (viz. the elements of 
Political Philosophy, Paley's 'Political Philosophy,' and Mill's 
'Political Economy')" with lectures on political economy by the Reverend 
James Beaven ..." p. 158. 
 
Robin Neill 
 
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