In 1834 Tassie and his wife moved with the rest of his family to Nelson Township in Upper Canada.
He argued that with private schools available, parents could choose to withdraw their children if they did not have the opportunity to learn Latin early.
[3] In a radio broadcast, Henry John Cody commended Tassie as an effective teacher of the classics but questioned his reluctance to adopt newer teaching methodologies.
His personality created in a famous school an atmosphere of loyalty to the institution, which fostered all the higher loyalties of life, and he sent forth into the broad fields of the Dominion hundreds of youth imbued with fine ideals of sincerity, thoroughness, perseverance, and public service.
[4]In spring 1881 Tassie resigned as headmaster of Galt after facing criticism for refusing to change his educational methods.