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 MARCHANT, PRINTER, INGRAM-^OURT, FENCHURCH-STREET. 
 
 1833. 
 
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LETTERS, 
 
 (^C. ^C. 
 
 No. 44, First Concession of North Easthope, 
 Avon, Huron Tract, Upper Canada, North 
 America, July 17th, 1833. 
 
 My Dearest Father, — In your second letter you seem 
 desirous to know about the climate, towns, travelling, «&c. of 
 this country : with regard to the climate, I have experienced 
 the four seasons ; as it was this day twelve-months I reached 
 my farm, the spring, summer, and fall are as near the tempe- 
 rature of the climati: of Ireland as I can describe, but of the 
 two, more pleasant, the winter is longer, it borrows a little 
 from the spring and fall, but in it there is very little rain, a 
 deep snow generally falls about Dec^>mber and remains on the 
 ground until March, during which time the weather is frosty, 
 dry, bracing, and wholesome, the Canadian ladies i:.-e like the 
 seven sleepers until this season (winter) comes on, then you 
 will see them driving in all directions in their sleighs, wrapped 
 up in buffalo skins, &c. they seem entirely a colder sort of 
 people than Europeans, there was not a day last winter that I 
 could feel the loss of my coat going through the woods in two 
 or three feet of snow. 
 
 As to towns the Upper Province being yet a new ccuntry, 
 the towns are only in their infancy, but it is really surprising 
 with what rapidity they increase. I was astonished to see some 
 of them through which I came, when the people told me that 
 only four years ago the same place was a howling wilderness ; 
 there has been this season a town laid out within one mile of 
 my house, it is called Avon, there is already a saw-mill, and 
 
flotir-inill, iiiid a jiust and land ngency office, u cliutcli uiid 
 cli<i|>(>l, bcsidch soKlorii dwelling houses coinineiioiiig, Iniainess 
 h not carried on here in the same old ding donji; way of the 
 mason's trowel and hammer that ye have, in one week a man 
 can get a t'rame house raised iit for any person ; you mention 
 having got a Trei'.tise on Canada by Martin Doyle, 1 think you 
 may place every confidence in his account of Huron, by a 
 reference to tlie map iittacliL>d to that book, you may trace my 
 route from Quebec lo Easlhope, by Montreal, Prei^cot, York, 
 &c. also in the map of the Huron Tract, which is at the foot of 
 the other, yon can see how beautifully interiectcd that part of 
 the block wlier" I live is, with rivers and streams, all of which 
 abound with fish. The mode of travelling in the winter is in 
 sleighs drawn by horses, with a light sleigh or cutter and one 
 horse you can travel fifty or sixty miles a day ; in the other 
 seasons horses and waggons are the mode of conveyance; since 
 1 wrote the above 1 looked over Martin Doyle, and fully agree 
 with his account of tlie climate, in the 14tli and following 
 pages, and in the 2Ulli page at the 12tli line you will find an 
 account of the road on which 1 live, it is a very public one, 
 the stage coach will soon be running on from York to Gode- 
 rich, every day. My dear Father, I am still continuing, thank 
 God, to get on well in my health and business, I have now 
 twenty acres of my land cleared, and my stock and crops 
 doing well, I have six acres of wheat and oats as high as myself 
 almost fit to reap, two acres of very fine potatiies, with turnips, 
 pumpkins, Indian corn, and all sorts of vegetables ; land is 
 getting into such demand here that the government and Canada 
 Company are about raising their prices, therefore, if you deter- 
 mine to come lose no time, I hope your health will rather im- 
 prove by the change, along with leaving all the broils and dis- 
 turbances of unfortunate Ireland; in my second letter which 
 1 hope you have now, there were some articles mentioned 
 which I thought would be necessary for you to bring out, in 
 addition to which you should bring your bed and window hang- 
 ings, carpets, fire irons, all sorts of vegetable and flower seeds, 
 and a fishing line, and small hooks tied on gut. New York is 
 the safest and most expeditious way of coming here, but then 
 it is by far the most expensive, there is scarcely any thing but 
 Umv charge duty on there, by having a sober and gentlemanly 
 
cnptaiii, and u j^ood vessel such as we had, llieic is but linl<; 
 dancer in coming l>y Qnchcc. I hope Mr. R. still talks of 
 foniing to the New World, do not let him put it off, for every 
 hour is so much taken frc/m his new life, you did not mention 
 anything about Uncle Edward's coming, if I was in Ireland 
 again, and just to know what 1 do now, I would come here. 
 I am sorry to hear such an account of poor Ireland. I know 
 nothing of Mr. L. since 1 left Quebec, himself and sou got 
 there safe and well, he got employment the moment he arrived 
 in a provision store. 
 
 I would wish to enumerate all my frien<ls in Cushel to whom 
 I would be remembered, but want of sp-.u-c obliges me to con- 
 clude, however, give my love to them all, and 
 I remain, my dearest Father, 
 
 Your affectionate son, 
 ■■; -' (Signed) "vf-^-y '><-^ ''"-"^ ^'■■';; J. Stinson. 
 
 P.S. My dear Father, you cannot conceive how fast the 
 people of almost all countries are pouring in here, the number 
 of emigrants landed in York, Upper Canada, between May and 
 October 1032 is 17,388. You do not mention anything to me 
 about my brother and sisters, I wish I had them here. 
 
 Sleighs are vehicles without wheels, and go so smooth on the 
 snow you would scarcely feel yourself in them. 
 
 A person cannot bring too many feather beds and clothes 
 here, bed screws would be useful also. 
 
 To Mr. Alexander Stinson, ^ ^j s < 
 
 Cashel, County of Tipperary, 
 
 Ireland. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 
 '•AW 
 
 Paisley Block, Guelph, Upper Canada, » 
 
 2LstJuly, 1833. 
 
 My dear Cousin,— It is with pleasure I sit myself down 
 
 on the bare floor, as I have nothing else to sit upon, to write 
 
 a few lines to you. I shall not trouble you with a lengthened 
 
 prologue or preface; I shall, therefore, as my paper is so 
 
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 smull, procrcd to inform you of what I think you arc most 
 Hiixious to know, in »s conciste » manner as possihic. I <lo 
 not think it wouhl be at all inlcrestini; were I to enumerate all 
 our privations and hardships fioni tlie time wc left England to 
 our arrival here ; I will thcr«'fore pass over that part of our 
 history, and confine myself to what wc at present arc, and 
 what we at present enjoy. When we got to Guelph we opened 
 our eyes and gained information before we located ; and the 
 properly that we have purchased we considered to be of all 
 that we had seen the most likely to suit us ; we have lOB acres 
 of good land, fifteen acres of which arc cleared; wc have five 
 acres of wheat, which is looking as well as can be wished, and 
 which I believe will be ripe for the sickle about the middle of 
 Augnst : wo have five acres of oats and nearly two acres of 
 potatoes, the greater part of which we have planted ourselves; 
 for this we have given £175 currency ; £100 we paid to the 
 man whom it belonged, which paid him reasonably for the 
 clearance and crop, and an instalment that he had paid to the 
 Canada Company on purchasing ; we paid an instalment of 
 £15, so that we have £60 to pay in five years, viz. £15 in 
 two years, £15 in three years, £15 in four years, and £15 in 
 five years. We have about eight acres of swamp. We have a 
 fine spring of water, which rises in and runs through our lot. 
 We have bought two good cows with their calves ; the calves 
 we are rearing, the cows yield us a most plentiful supply of 
 milk, they give on an average eighteen quarts a day ; we gave 
 for them fifly-three dollgrs ; a dollar here is 5s. Od. currency, 
 (or 4s. 6d. sterling) ; they live entirely in the woods, and cost 
 us nothing keeping ; they come up to be milked morning and 
 evening regularly, for which we reward them with a trifle of 
 bran. We have a lot of fowls which my wife has had ^iven 
 her; we have also four dogs; we are busy getting in some 
 turnips for winter fodder; we are about buying a yoke of 
 oxen, they are about seventy dollars a yoke ; we intend having 
 a couple of horses in the spring ; horses are on an average 
 eighty dollars each, good ones. We are erecting a beautiful 
 frame house, which will be the finest in this part of the 
 country ; we contracted with a carpenter to do the wood work 
 for £85. The house will be built entirely of wood after the 
 fashion of the country, but I do assure you they look much 
 
iiiurv iii'ut Hiui rvspoclnhli' llniii liriek lioiisps liu. The lcn{|;lli 
 olit JH lliirlylwo fcol, \\n'. br<<:i(hli Iwoniy (vc\, Hvc susli wiii- 
 <luws lo Hie front hiuI fuiir to the buck; a passage runs 
 through thv coiitrc, with a dour front and back, and the stairs 
 go up in the passage ; the roof will project over twelve inches, 
 and the outside will be painted white ; there will also be u 
 chimney ul each end. We lads have dug a cellar twenty by 
 fourteen and six feet deep. 1 expect the house will be 
 Hnished in a short time, or an brother Jonathan says, " right 
 oflf." We have got all the stone ourselves, and done a variety 
 of jobs that has saved us a great deal of money. 1 should 
 have mentioned that we have sown our five acres of wheat with 
 grass seeds. We live at the present in places called shanties, 
 which are mere temporary cobblcroents put up in a rough 
 nianner, viz. boards piled up and a hole in the side to creep 
 in at. Now in such a duck hull as this, myself and wife con- 
 trive to live ; we have our bed on the floor, and whenever we 
 have a fire we are nearly poisoned with smoke; when it rains, 
 also, it conies into bed to us delightfully ; but never mind that, 
 I do not care a fig. My father and brothers live in a much 
 better place ; it consists of four poles driven into the earth 
 and boarded at (he sides, and fs in every respcv-t genteel com- 
 pared to mine. 
 
 It now remains for me to say something of the country, and 
 how we like it, <!i'c. Now this 1 apprehend is what you want 
 to know most about ; then, to tell yon in one word, we are all 
 perfectly satisfied ; we have not hopped out of a frying-pan 
 into a fire, but out of a fire into a frying-pan. I have found 
 things as I expected I should do ; and what I read at home 
 concerning Canada has proved to be correct ; in this I am not 
 mistaken, it is solid fact. My father's property at home, 
 which was doing us no good, has here purchased for us a 
 maintenance for life, as well as put us in possession of inde- 
 pendence and comfort. We have exchanged a life fraught 
 with care and anxiety, a life of bubble bubble, toil, and never- 
 ceasing trouble, for one in connexion with which there is no 
 care, no anxiety, and no dismal forebodings as to the future, 
 for to-morrow here taketh care for itself. My father says, he 
 would never mind encountering the same privations over again 
 to put us ill possession of the same independence ; he feels 
 
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 mort iliiii) snliiitiod ; lie mxys, niorcovrr, llinl lie never foil su 
 rich ill lii.s life, hihI iievor knew wliiit riclicH were iiniil now. 
 Wo fi'ol rich ; wo iire lidlc kings, iiiid do enjoy nncli lieHllh ih 
 wc perhaps never did before. We can here work » day beneath 
 the rays of a burning sun ; wc can in turn be wet to the skin 
 three times a day, and still enjoy it all. We live here as the 
 patriarchs of old, on plain and homely fare; wliiUt the lowiiiff 
 of the cattle, and other rural sounds, impress my mind with 
 a conviction that these arc such times as they experienced, and 
 which ' we impatiently and ardently longed and lio|)cd for. 
 We arc here farmers to all intents and purposes ; the land 
 appears to me to bring forth its increase abundantly, and will 
 continue to do so to the end of time. Wc do not go about 
 here soliciting orders, and bowing and endeavouring to please 
 and serve this man or the other ; no, no ; the scene ha« 
 changed altogether ; wc arc all rich people here, and all inde- 
 peiidciit ; we feel here our importance as men, as rational 
 beings endowed with the power of thinking and acting'; we do 
 as we like, for there is none to control us. We have here the 
 wild woods in which to rove at will, together with the advan- 
 tages of shooting what we like, as here is game of all sorts, 
 bears, wolves, foxes, pheasants, deer, partridges, and nobody 
 knows what besides, and nobody cares ; I would not exchange 
 the life that I lead with the best meclianic that ever breathed, 
 or ever will do. Canada, as I have said before, is a land of 
 peace and plenty, blest with everything that can render it de- 
 lightful to an independent spirit ; here is no poverty here, a 
 beggar was never known. " Plenty to cat and nought to pay, 
 this is the land we live in." 
 
 In a short time, if Providence continue to bless us with 
 health, we shall have herds of cattle of all kinds ; in another 
 year, all being well, I hope to have my expectations fulfilled 
 or realized, as by that time we shall have some outbuildings 
 finished, together with barns, stables, &c. It is, as 1 said 
 before, the best place for the industrious of all classes to 
 come unto, for according to the extent of their labour will be 
 the extent of their riches, and these riches will not merely 
 consist of cleared farms, and flocks, and herds, but of money 
 too, for here is a market for every commodity that the farmer 
 can raise, and a good market too : potatoes are selling now at 
 
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 Muppusi' there ii no money-market, for if the farmer should 
 not feel disposed to »cll in Ciuelpli, he can take his produce to 
 Hamilton or DunduH, and get money for it there too, so that, 
 whenever you hear any one speak contrary to this, contradict 
 them, and do not suffer them to be led away with such folly. 
 There is another thing I will just set you right in, and that is 
 the tree-atMmp$ ; it is said that these require twenty or thirty 
 years to destroy them; now know from me that five years will 
 •leslroy some of the largest stumps, and some will rot out in 
 three years. Our clearance is not a year old, and a number 
 of our slumps are already so fur decayed that I have pulleil 
 them up myself. Out of the number of instances that 1 could 
 bring forwanl of persons gelling rich in this country I will 
 only mention one, and that is our neighbour, a Yorkshireman ; 
 he came here three years ago ; he then hud but 2s. Od. and uii 
 axe: well, he set to work mightily, and now lie has lUU acn.-s 
 of land, a herd of cattle, fine crops, t&c. and what lie has 
 done at lii» land is worth £37^*, and he has cleared this last 
 year £100; now this has been done in this short lime — where 
 HOW is (here u man in England that can do or get one-fourth 
 of this? We, in like manner, must gel rich, for we save ail 
 our wages, our callle will continually increase, and thus every 
 (liiiig will go on progressively ami prosperously ; but as fine a 
 country as this is, I would never advise any individual to come 
 here, on aecounl of so many couiiiig and find themselves dis- 
 appointed, and who never would be satisfied with any thing in 
 huliire. Now here is a man in Guolph employed by a genlle- 
 iiiun who related lo me the story, who, when in England, 
 could only get I'is. per week, and this gentleman was giving 
 him lOs. a day, yet the man grumbled; the fact is, the country 
 cannot suit all, and for the reason already given 1 should never 
 advise any |)erson to come for fear they should feel disappointed. 
 There is another little nmttcr I wish to set you right in, and 
 that is society here; now I would not have you think that there 
 are none here but pauper lunatics, for when we first reached 
 Cuelpli we were agreeably surprised to see a number of gen- 
 lieinan dressed in white trousers, flannel jackets, and straw 
 hals playing at cricket on lite green, and they were quite 
 adepts at the game ; they meet to play every Saturday. And 
 
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 liirii again the people are ail civil and well behaved, more so 
 ikyM ever I foiiml Ihem at home; even in the most remote 
 townships you will find them quite polite and agreeable. A 
 Scotch church is already built atGuelph, as well as a Catholic 
 church, an English church is building: and when things get 
 |)'!t to rights we intend having a light waggon to take us to 
 town, the Scotch, the Church of England, and the Methodists, 
 all at present preach and worship in one place by turns. 
 
 1 can now tell you how hot it has been since we have been 
 iiere. Once my thermometer stood at 88, but the average 
 hcHt is 82 to 84, and sometimes it will drop to 50 in the night, 
 and sometimes to 40, yet it is all right and all comfortable, 
 we feel nothing of these great changes. Wc intend making a 
 dam on our stream for water-fowl, &c. ; we go here without 
 stockings, handkerchief, coat, and waistcoat, and this alto- 
 gether through choice, and we arc just as comfortable with 
 only trousers, shoes, and straw hats, as you with all your 
 clothing on. I see now that 1 must be bringing matters to a 
 conclusion; you must tell Mr. D. that if ever he thinks of 
 coming here, he had better do so as soon as possible, or else 
 for ever be nothing more and his children after him than 
 humble obedient slaves ; my reason for saying so is, land is 
 getting dearer every succeeding year, and in a few years there 
 will be no purchasing land but at an enormous price; if, there- 
 fore, he should ever think of coming, it would be well for 
 him not to do so without first receiving from me a letter of 
 instructions. 
 
 Your aft'fctiunate cousin, 
 (Signed) John Newton. 
 
 P.S. — When a person comes to Canada it requires great 
 resolution in order to prevent himself from being heartbroken 
 at the sight of such a number of big trees which are all to be 
 tumbled to the earth by his arm alone. I have seen a tree 
 three yards in d'umeter. 
 
 To Mr. Joseph Mappin, 
 
 Far-Gate, Sheffield, Yorkshire. 
 
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 Extracts from Letters of Mr. James Kemp, fornmly of East 
 Lothian, hut now of Goderich, Upper Canada, 
 
 " 14th July, 1832. 
 
 " I LIKE this place better than any I have seen in Canada, 
 and I believe the climate is also better. It was generally said 
 that the summer here was very warm, but 1 have rarely felt it 
 disagreeably so, and never so warm but I could work well 
 enough in the shade ; indeed I have felt it as warm in Scotland 
 as I have done here. I should think this as healthy a place as 
 any in America. 
 
 " Before we got this length, people tried to dissuade us 
 from coming forward, saying that almost every person had 
 fever and ague ; but I have only heard of two or three who 
 have get ague. We have a fine stream of water running 
 through our lot ; most of the water is bad, especially in the 
 Lower Province. The Canada Company have sold a great deal 
 of land this season ; it is probable they will rise their price 
 next year, as their land is by far the cheapest in Canada. 
 
 « 8th January, 1833. 
 
 " I AM well pleased with this part of the country, and have 
 enjoyed good health. So far as [ saw of Lower Canada, it is 
 not to be '^ ompared to the land here, and I would advise no 
 person to stop there, as they will be far better in the Upper 
 Province. Land can be cleared and fenced just now for less 
 than £5 per acre, but wages are always higher in summer ; a 
 person coming here with a little money, and employing men 
 to clear land for him, will be nearly paid his outlay the first 
 year. 
 
 " 4lh June, 1833. 
 
 ** It will be a number of years before we can raise more 
 than will be consumed in the neighbourhood ; but we can get 
 it shipped in any direction. The Upper Canada wheat brings 
 always a higher price at Montreal than that of Lower Canada." 
 
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