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 WHO ENTERTAIN THE WISH TO BETTER THEMSELVES BY 
 
 EMIGRATING TO CANADA, 
 
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 PARISH OFFICERS, CHURCHWARDENS, 
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 EMIGRATING TO CANADA. 
 
 The unprecedented numbers who are every day 
 shewing a disposition to try to improve their condi- 
 tion by a removal to the fruitful^ 'peaceable and 
 healthy colony of Canada, and which are daily 
 increasing, as proved by the extraordinary prepara- 
 tions now actively going on in almost all our sea 
 ports, have their attention called to the following 
 remarks : — 
 
 First, we shall candidly pronounce who ought not 
 to go there, in order that all such persons may save 
 themselves from certain disappointment j after they shall 
 have undergone all the fatigue and e.vpence of a long 
 voyage: viz. 
 
 Those who are happily situated at home, main- 
 taining their families comfortably, and who are able 
 to lay by sufficient for their support in old age, and 
 for the eligible establishment of their children. 
 
 Those who have nothing but birth or wealth to 
 recommend them, or who have no useful occupat on. 
 In Canada as in England, it is the active ivorldng 
 bee, and not the drone that gathers the honey to the 
 hive. 
 
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Those who are of a restless, factious, and quarrel- 
 some turn of mind, or those who think that in 
 Canada every one, however wrong-headed, can do 
 whatever is right in his own eyes, without regard to 
 either law, justice, or decorum. Canada is a land 
 of liberty, but it also has its laws, to which all 
 persons without distinction must submit. 
 
 Those who expect to make a fortune suddenly, 
 without much exertion — those who are indolent, or 
 of dissolute habits — ardent spirits being excessively 
 cheap, all those, who cannot refrain from a too fret 
 use of them, are certain to bring on rapidly, prema- 
 ture disease, disgrace, and death. 
 
 Those who are not seriously disposed to industry 
 and economy had better stay away. 
 
 Those who will be discouraged by the difficulties 
 which very rarely fail to attend a change of country, 
 or who are of too weakly constitution to endure 
 labour and fatigue.* 
 
 After weighing deliberately all the foregoing dis- 
 qualifications, if you think that your situation in life 
 would be improved materiallyby a removal to Canada, 
 the firstthingyou should do, should be to consult your 
 wives : as they have to bear part of the fatigues of re- 
 moval and the privations which must attend a change 
 of residence, from a thickly settled country, into an 
 unsettled wilderness, or at least into a very thinly 
 inhabited country, it is but fair they should have a 
 voice as to removal : if after well considering the 
 
 * Those who have been brought up wholly in manufactories, 
 or to habits of sedentary Hfe, and are, therefore, unlit for 
 active agricultural labour, have as yet no business in 
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 subject, they agree with you in opinion that such a 
 step would be advantageous, you should then pro- 
 ceed to sell all the property you may happen to own, 
 reserving only enough to answer your purpose until 
 you aufive at the sea port from which you intend to 
 depart, and what may be absolutely necessary for 
 your accommodation on ship-board — but take little or 
 nothing to be used in Canada which you can sell at 
 home — many emigrants have made a great mistake 
 by encumbering themselves with articles which cost 
 them more to get to their final destination, than they 
 could buy them for in the neighbourhood where they 
 have settled. There is now no part of Canada 
 which you can well go to, but where you can obtain 
 within a reasonable distance, every thing which is 
 necessary for your use and comfort, if you have 
 money wherewith to purchase— therefore turn all you 
 have into cash. ^ 
 
 Take your wives and children, your sons and your 
 daughters, who instead of being the smallest incum- 
 brance to you, are there a source of riches and cott- 
 tentmc't, take all belonging to you who are able and 
 willing to v/ork :*— sober, honest, and industrious peo- 
 ple are what is wanted in Canada — such will find a 
 hearty welcome, when they shew by their conduct 
 and conversation that they are of this description. 
 
 Be watchfully on your guard not to be entrapped 
 
 * It is scarcely necessary to say, that in such a country as 
 Canada, there is constant useful employment for children ; 
 and that as they grow up, the youth invariably aspire to 
 become the possessors of land ; consequently as population 
 increases, unoccupied, or as they are termed, wild landi^ 
 must rapidly diminish in extent. 
 
into taking yo,„. passage i„ any ship ,l,at (., ,„,,. 
 CM; .,r .l,at i., l.a.lly provided, e^peeially with 
 '"aler and medical mmtame: grea. and very iu8t 
 complamts were made last year on this subject • 
 whieh arose from the avarice of the owners or mas^ 
 ers of some vessels making up by „u,nl^rs for the 
 reduced fares for passage; and thereby not only 
 c<»nprom,s,ng the comfort but endangering the 
 •safety and health of their passengers : this Z un- 
 d rstood to be of most frequent occurrence with ships 
 that saded from ports in IretamI, or some of the 
 ^«./«;« parts of England and Scotland, and some 
 of wh.ch are said to have actually taken many poor 
 
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 rience will this season, cause the government to put 
 «.me restnction upon ship-owners, and to punUh 
 with the utmost rigour of the law, all who in any 
 way .nfrmge them ; or should they even escape our 
 own laws, ,t is to be fervently desired, that they may 
 fell under the cognizance and lash of those of the 
 
 When you arrive at Quebec, Montreal, or New 
 
 r^lt^A 'T T ''•""''^ "^'^'^ '" ^o •>> ">e latter 
 . oute ) do not place too much dependence upon what 
 
 may be sa.d to you by such persons as, promoted 
 
 generally by self-imerested motives, are apt to visit 
 
 * Those who are not cabin passengers very often lav in 
 
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 the sliij) on her unival in port; even if thev 
 came from the same town or district from wliich you 
 have come, still, unless you were well acquainted 
 with them at home, and know them to be worthy of 
 credit, you are not to place too much reliance on all 
 they say. 
 
 Take your family with you along- the river, or 
 water conveyance as far as the same may be done, 
 or until you arrive at some suitable place in the 
 neighbourhood of the land on which you expect to 
 settle. It will cost no more, if so much, to main- 
 tain them there, than it would if you left them in 
 Quebec, Montreal, or elsewhere ; and then you will 
 have them ready and convenient when you have de- 
 cided where to settle. 
 
 In advancing up the country you must expect to 
 encounter some inconveniences, bat do not let any 
 old prejudices interrupt the objects which induced 
 you to cross the Atlantic. In Lower Canada the in- 
 habitants are inoffensive, obliging, and industrious ; 
 and are also truly loyal subjects of his Majesty; 
 but the French language is in that province most 
 generally spoken, and the old French laws there 
 prevail. The only instance we heard of last year, 
 of the return to England of any emigrants who 
 went out with the intention of settling, was of a few 
 who, although nearly paupers, could only give as a 
 reason for so doing, " that they found the inhabi- 
 tants of the places they stopt at only spoke French." 
 To this we can only say Canada is well rid of such 
 idiots. 
 
 Do not expect every thing that is desirable to be 
 lound in any one spot; if you do, you will never get 
 
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 suited either in Canada, or in any other country. 
 Some places have one advantage, some another — 
 some may conbine several, and yet lack some very 
 important thing : good water and a healthy situation 
 are two points which we cannot too earnestly press 
 upon you to look after. If you are in good health 
 when you arrive in the colony, you may calculate, 
 with the blessing of Providence and proper care, 
 upon enjoying as good a state of health as you ever 
 had in your own country ; but again we say, with a 
 bad or weak constitution, do not think of starting 
 at all. 
 
 It may not be misplaced here to give you the fol- 
 lowing short extract from the last report made to 
 t.ie Shareholders by the Directors of the Canada 
 Company, at their Meeting on the 21st December 
 last : — 
 Extract from the Despatches of their Commissioners 
 
 dated GuELPH, Upper Canada, Nov. 21, 1831. 
 
 "With one single exception, every one in the 
 settlement appears in a prosperous state, and that 
 unfortunate individual is the Doctor, and the only 
 one in the township^ or within many miles ; yet, 
 notwithstanding that, he cannot get a living by his 
 profession, some evidence in favour of the salubrity 
 of the place." 
 
 For general useful and practical information as to 
 Canada, and particularly the Upper Province, your 
 earnest attention is directed to the printed papers, 
 to be had (gratis) at the Canada Company's Cfffice, 
 St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate Street, and which 
 papers are fully descriptive of its Geographical Si- 
 limtion, Climate, Soil, Productions, Slc, Sic. 
 
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The Canada Company will also supply you with 
 copies of letters from Settlers, which are especially 
 worthy your notice ; but it may save you much use- 
 less trouble to impress fully upon you, that the 
 Company necessarily limits itself to giving informa- 
 tion, and possesses no funds that are applicable to aid 
 or assist Emigrants. 
 
 For any money deposited with the Company in 
 London, they would, we believe, give you an order 
 to be paid to you on demand, at the office of the 
 Company's Commissioner in York, Upper Canada, 
 and which would save you from all risque of loss 
 on your sea voyage and land journey up to the place 
 of your ultimate destination. 
 
 There are also other publications of letters from 
 Emigrants in Canada to their friends at home, in 
 various shapes ; but we think we cannot serve your 
 interest more than by directing your notice to those 
 contained in the third article of the Quarterly Review 
 for January, 1832, in fact, the ifjAo/e of that article 
 will richly repay your trouble of perusal ; for its 
 very able and talented writer proves, to the least in- 
 quiring capacity, that Great Britain must either 
 relieve itself from the embarrassments occasioned 
 by a constantly increasing population, (estimated at 
 the rate of above 800 per day) by encouraging Emi- 
 gration to such a fertile and near colony as the 
 Canadas, or that " the general wealth and prosperity 
 of the country must give way^ if not by a convulsive 
 explosion, yet by a rapid, and when once it has 
 fairly set in, incurable decline" — to a colony too, as 
 the author so truly and eloquently says, that is an 
 integral part of the Empire; whose interests are 
 
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 identified with our own, extent almost boundless, 
 fertility extraordinary, and as yet comparatively a 
 very small proportion of the best quality of its 
 richest soils has been ploughed or cleared at all ; 
 enjoying also nearly the same climate, acknow- 
 ledging the same laws, and peopled from the same 
 families, and consequently of prodigious value as a 
 field for the application of British labour B.nd capital, 
 and as a Alarlcet for British Manufactures; sup' 
 plying her in return with cheap Corn, and at the 
 same time drawing closer the bonds of union between 
 the parent state and colony, and, by placing its in- 
 habitants on the footing of fellow subjects, prevent- 
 ing all desire for a separation; indeed, as the writer 
 justly observes, under such circumstances we cannot 
 contemplate its possibility; and all this accomplished 
 also by the agency of our own ships and seamen. 
 
 In addition to the before-mentioned recent publi- 
 cations, we call your notice to the following-, viz :— 
 
 1. Topographical and Statistical Description of 
 Lower and Upper Canada, by Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Bouchette, 2 vols., price 21. 17 s. ; Maps 41. 10s. 
 
 2. Macgregor's British America, 2 vols., price 
 II. 8s. 
 
 3. The Advantages of Emigration to Canada, by 
 William Cattermole. Published by Simpkin and 
 Marshall, Stationer's-court, Ludgate hill, price 3s. 
 
 4. Hints to Emigrants to Upper Canada, by Mar- 
 tin Doyle. Published by Hurst and Chance, St. 
 Paul's Church-yard, price 1*. 
 
 To those who cannot obtain access to the two first 
 named works, we can with confidence recommend 
 that of Mr. Cattermole, as beina: replete with infor- 
 
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 mation and good sense ; and he moreover speaks 
 from actual experience, having resided for several 
 years in Upper Canada, and to which he is now on 
 the eve of returning with a large body of most re- 
 spectable settlers ; after doing the Colony much ser- 
 vice at home, by being at all times accessible to 
 applicants for information, and readily giving them 
 the full benefit of his experience. 
 
 To all those in any way concerned in providing 
 for the poor of these realms, we have in addition to 
 our foregoing remarks to say, that the mere sending 
 them to Canada, without supplying them with the 
 further means of proceeding up the country, and of 
 subsistence until they find employment, or a location, 
 would be the height of cruelty and injustice, as well 
 to the pauper himself, as to the inhabitants of the 
 place of his debarkation, on whom he would most 
 probably become a burthen. Neither can it be pru- 
 dent or politic in them, in order to obtain a temporary 
 relief, to send there either the drunkard, the depraved, 
 or the idler; for the great probability would be, that 
 such would very shortly return upon their hands after 
 all their outlay to get rid of them. We cannot pre- 
 cisely say the exact sum it may take to send each 
 individual to Quebec from a British sea port ; but a 
 calculation of from 3/. to 3/. 10*. for adults, and half- 
 price for children under fourteen years of age, cannot 
 be wide of the mark — exclusive of provisions. 
 
 And from 3/. to 5/. per head, according to age, 
 sex, and circumstances, we consider to be absolutely 
 necessary to remit to the place of their landing in 
 Canada, to enable them to proceed into the interior. 
 
 1 he best positive and uncontradictory proof we 
 
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 can offier of, and one which will convey more im- 
 pressively to your conviction, the rapidly increasing- 
 prosperity of the Province of Upper Canada, will be 
 by giving a verbatim copy of the straight-forward and 
 business-like speech of His Excellency Sir John Col- 
 borne, K.C.B., their Lieutenant-Governor, on closing 
 the Session of the Provincial Parliament, of the late 
 date of 
 
 York, Upper Canada, 
 January 28, 1832. 
 SPEECH. 
 " Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and 
 Gentlemen of the House of Assembly ; — 
 *' In relieving you from your Legislative duties, it is 
 satisfactory to me to observe, that you have directed 
 your attention to several objects of great interest to 
 the Colony. 
 
 " Gentlemen of the House of Assembly; — 
 
 " I thank you in His Majesty's name, for the sums 
 voted for public institutions, and works carrying on 
 in the Province. 
 " Honourable Gentlemen and Gentlemen ; — 
 
 " The extent and fertility of the unoccupied lands, 
 will continue to attract to this country large portions 
 of the redundant population of the Parent State. I 
 am, therefore, persuaded, that on your return to your 
 respective counties, your influence may be usefully 
 exerted in organizing societies for the purpose of 
 aifording the information to emigrants which they so 
 much require, at the ports where they first disembark, 
 and in facilitating- their dispersion in the districts in 
 which they may readily obtain employment. 
 
 " The increasina- value of land ; the harbours canals 
 
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 and steam-boats now constnicting ; the number of 
 acres brought into cultivation in most districts ; the 
 projected internal commerce by steam-vessels on Lake 
 Simcoe, and the Rice Lake, are the favourable results 
 of recent eiaigration. 
 
 " The exports of staple products of the Province, 
 last season, amounted to a third more than those of 
 the preceding year ; and the sales of imported arti- 
 cles have been doubled in three years. 
 
 " Such are the proofs of the prosperity and inde- 
 pendence, which, in a few years, have been created 
 wholly in the Province, by the industry and labour 
 of the great body of settlers ; and also of the general 
 prosperity and progressive advancement of the inte- 
 rests of'the Colony." 
 
 Finally, to the humane and affluent, we quote 
 another highly interesting passage from the excellent 
 article (before alluded to) in the Quarterly Review, 
 after showing the striking and delightful change in 
 the condition of those emigrants in Canada, whose 
 letters to their friends at home they copy, and most 
 of whom had emerged from a state of pauperism : 
 
 " What a resource is here opened," he says, " to 
 us in our difficulties, what a well-spring of joy and 
 hope is found to bubble up in the wilderness, for the 
 relief of our parched and thirsty population. How 
 cheaply, then, may we now purchase the pleasure of 
 making the happiness of a fellow-creature ! Here 
 is a new and poignant luxury for our epicurean 
 felicity-hunters. For JO/, a whole family may be 
 removed from the depths of misery to a s*ate of 
 certain and permanent prosperity; as far as any 
 
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 thing human is certain and permancnt-themselves 
 and their descendants ! "* 
 
 To which we shall add, that here indeed is a 
 wide field open for the display of the real benevo- 
 ence of our nobles and our men of wealth. Here 
 likewise may the emancipationist find room for the 
 mcful employment of his time, his talents, and his 
 money; let him turn his serious attention and exer- 
 tions to freeing \»,u,kite fellow-countrymen, so many 
 ot whom are writhing at home under the severe lash 
 of wretched and degrading pauperism ; and until he 
 has carried this into t\.^ fullest effect, let him cease 
 by .1.S Ill-judged meddlings and misrepresentations 
 i<-om conjuring up imaginary wants and complaints 
 of grievances in those, who were previously, quietly 
 and inoifensively doing their duties in that state of 
 -fe m which it had pleased Providence to place 
 them; but who are now by their murders, burnings, 
 and open rebellion, giving practical proofs in our 
 best West India islands, of the poisonous fruits that 
 may be brought to maturity by mischievous inter- 
 ference, want of experience, visionary enthusiasm, 
 and as we conscientiously believe, gross ignorance 
 on the part of nine hundred and ninety-nine out of 
 every thousand of our comfortable fire-side politicians 
 who, however pure their intentions may be, legislate 
 
 * We (ear that the Quarterly Meview has underrated the 
 sum necessary to remove a whole family to CaJT^Z 
 
 h d f "Tu "'^'^ •'^ ''»''"'*'' "t less than «o;t 
 head for adults, and £5 for children under fourteen ve^r 
 
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 in the dark, and without foreseeing inevitable conse- 
 quences. 
 
 While we offer these remarks, we entirely disclaim 
 all intention of hurting* the feelings of any particular 
 class, but cannot consider them as here misplaced, 
 or inapplicable to the subject we have been treating 
 upon, in as far as Facts are always far more illustrative 
 than Theories, and we know of no instance that is 
 calculated to bring home to our senses the truth of 
 that safe and sensible old proverb, " Charity should 
 begin at home" than the deplorable state of anarchy, 
 to which that fine Island of Jamaica was reduced, 
 when the last accounts came away. 
 
 We here renounce the most remote pretence to 
 authorship, or to the credit of having set forth any 
 thing that is quite new — our object has merely been 
 to condense, and bring into a small compass, those 
 observations which we thought, while they could not 
 do harm, might tend to some good, and that too at 
 a time when emigration to Canada occupies the 
 thoughts and attention of such multitudes of our 
 fellow-countrymen. We do not hesitate to say we are 
 convinced that a careful study of those publications 
 which we have pointed out, and more especially of 
 the Quarterly Review, will bring conviction to almost 
 every man's mind, as it has to ours, that Canada is 
 every day becoming more and more worthy of being 
 estimated as one of the brightest jewels of the British 
 Crown, as well from its superiority in point of geo- 
 graphical situation and facility of access from these 
 Islands, from the salubrity of its climate, (against 
 which the ignorant and uninformed alone are preju- 
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 intercourse is hourly wearing' away,) from the 
 extraordinary fecundity of its soil, which offers to 
 every one who cultivates it with common industry, 
 not only the necessaries, but many of the luxuries of 
 life, but last, though not least, from acting as a safety/ 
 valve, and giving us a vent to our daily increasing 
 redundant population, and how providential is it, 
 that we possess a hive so well prepared, and so ad- 
 mirably adapted, to receive the swarms we must throw 
 off, in order to afford relief and space to ourselves! 
 
 Let us only hope that our ruleis and legislators 
 will prize it according to its real merits, and lose no 
 time in turning it to all the uses and advantages it is 
 so capable of; and let us also hope, that the present 
 miserable situation of our West India islands may 
 serve as a beacon to give them timely warning against 
 incautious, heedless, or impolitic legislation for a 
 colony of such inestimable importance to us, and 
 which only asks for the fostering care of the parent 
 state to enable it every day to become more and 
 more capable of contributing to our own strength 
 instead of that of a rival. But of the latter event 
 we can augur not the most remote chance, so long as 
 our laws are administered through the mild and con- 
 ciliatory medium of such men as Lord Aylmer and 
 Sir John Colborne. 
 
 As many of our readers may not be aware of 
 the fact, we shall end this address by shewing the 
 number of Emigrants that have arrived at the port 
 of Quebec for the last four years, the vast annual 
 increase of which is most remarkable ; and we speak 
 from good authority when we add, that the greatest 
 part of them were fleeing with honest, manly, and 
 
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 commendable pride, to seek refuge from overseers 
 and the poor-house, and that many of them, from in- 
 dustry and frugal habits, are now in a situation, not 
 alone of comfort and moderate independence, but 
 capable of rendering assistance to those friends and 
 relatives they left behind them in Great Britain. 
 
 Emigrants landed at Quebec. 
 
 1828 - - 12,000 
 
 1829 - - 16,000 
 
 1830 - - 28,000 
 
 1831 - - 50,000 
 
 And the preparations now going on, have induced 
 many to estimate the probable emigration to Canada 
 for 1832, at 100,000 at least, and that the Capital 
 carried with them will be six times greater than it 
 ever has been before. Some specific plan is, how- 
 ever, still much wanted for rendering emigration 
 practicable on a large scale to the poor ; this 
 must now come home to the breast of every benevo- 
 lent member of society, and the subject has treasured 
 within it a rich reward for that man, whose love of 
 doing good shall be equalled by a sufficiency of talent 
 and influence to carry it into execution. 
 
 Sin'^e the foregoing was put to press, we have had 
 
 our attention called to a small pamphlet entitled, 
 
 " Information published by His Majesty's Commissio)iers 
 
 for Emigration, respecting the British Colonies in 
 
 North America'' 
 
 We need scarcely recommend it also to the uotice 
 of all those to whom we have made this address. 
 
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 has thus officially announced its intention to pursue 
 hereafter, which rule is, neither to give free grants of 
 land, tools, nor provisions to those Emigrants who 
 land in Canada, and for reasons which we think are 
 good ; but we cannot understand why some of our 
 men-of-war should not be employed during the 
 spring and summer months in conveying across the 
 Atlantic some of those who cannot get a passage by 
 any other means. Surely such a plan would com- 
 bine also that other useful and necessary object of 
 exercising our own navy in a time of peace, when 
 they have little else to do. 
 
 We are aware that the prejudices of some of our 
 Naval officers may induce them not to relish this 
 scheme, but when the welfare of a whole nation is 
 concerned, patriotism must induce them to banish 
 those prejudices. 
 
 By employing only two-deckers, and taking the 
 guns off of one of the decks, more space for numbers 
 may not only be given, but the emigrants may be 
 kept almost wholly separate from the crews. 
 
 We do not say that our men-of-war should take 
 emigrants indiscriminately, but that 2i judicious selec- 
 tion should be made of those, who offer to pay for 
 their provisions at a fixed rate per diem — thus giving 
 them merely z. free passage. 
 
 
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