Presented to the Sixth Canadian Conference on Educational Research, this paper seeks to determine and analyze the methods of selection and the conditions of employment of provincially-employed superintendents and inspectors of schools in the nine English-speaking provinces of Canada. Most of the data was gathered by questionnaires (which had a 96.5 per cent response), and superintendents, deputy ministers of education, and presidents of provincial school inspectors' associations were interviewed. The whole process of analysis is described with the aid of tables, and the report ends with a five-paragraph verbal profile of the provincially-employed Canadian superintendent. (GO)