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 ADJACENT TOWNSHIPS t 
 
 Showing the Roadt thereto, Distances i( Poit Offices. 
 
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 LONOITUOE WEST Or CRCINWICH 
 
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 LANDS IN CANADA WEST (LATE UPPER CANADA). 
 
 THE ATTENTION OF 
 IS INVITED BY THE CANADA COMPANY TO THEIR 
 
 HURON LANDS, 
 
 Aaoimting to about 240,000 Acres, being the undisposed of part of the original BIiOOK, 
 
 CONSISTING OF 
 
 Bounded by the Shores of Lake Huron for sixty miles. 
 
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 Tlie Land in tho Catinda Cotnpnny'a Huron Settlement is of the findst character, and of the description best adapted to the 
 cuhivation of Wheat. This Settlfment possesses advantages which render it peculiarly eligible to every class of Settler : scarcely 
 a bad Farm is to be found in it : it is well watered by living Streams, and tho climate is most healthy. The principal Port is Goderich, 
 the District Town, which has a population of about 1329 — good Stores or Shops, Mechanics, a large Grist Mill, a Fulling and Carding 
 Mill, an Iron Foundry, places of Religious Worship, resident Clergymen, and good Schools, where the higher branches of the Classics 
 are taught, &c. &c. &c. 
 
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 miK where it i, met b^the P LrLad botwrnT^^^^^^ Son an^'p*^ T^' S.u.i,erly: toward. L^ondon. abourfo ty 
 undisposed of. ^°" Hamilton, London and Port Stanley ; and there are about 240.000 acr 
 
 This Settlement is admirably situated for 
 
 * ■ IS oememeni is admirably situated for socurinif the future prosoeritv of ihn SblI^, «• .u j 
 inland siiuuiions, through its water co.nmu.iicntion with thnnpLnn «. p? i ^ thoSeltler, from the advantages itposs 
 fir nearly .he same cha-^o a. from plaZ wSn "iS iy or f^v mlL.^, "„H n« "°" ^ rT'l'.'^ ^r^" G"do"cl' «o M""t 
 . . To ,he British and Scrman filni^rant th Ca 1^1 "1^''^" 'l"' "^^ ''' Shipping Fort, at ,he foot of 
 
 Emigrant the Canada Company's Huron Stiilement 
 
 ossesses over more 
 ntreal and Quebec 
 Lake Ontario. 
 
 IS r.lmo8. exclusively Bri.i.h and German ; and an Emi^nt' from EurZ c^hardlv'^^nn nf ^.-'"^ """"L''"""' "'"«=« '"o population 
 .n some part of the Se-.lement ; and the result of a natural feeZ on the nart of nl™ " ."'' °'^ ""'^^bours already e'stabll.hed 
 manner have here assumed a National character, one old Sh£,u?or nnnlvTn " . """8™""?' '«• '^at certain localities in this 
 found 10 'he Company's Settlement localities in which Highlander K^^^ another to follow him; and thus are 
 
 are also German Settlements in the Townships of Ellice FuSn n^^^^^^^ '?''c""1 ^''""'"'' """^h P'<''">"- There 
 
 _ ^ One great inducement which the Huron Ltlmeri^ Jd ouMo Ol7C ," "? ^"""'"'' "'y* "'' Stephen. 
 
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 PopuiAiioN OF Townships. 
 
 Bosanquet 1093 
 
 Blanshard 2786 
 
 Biddulph ' ' .' 2081 
 
 Colborne 921 
 
 Downie and Goro ! " 2727 
 
 North and South Easthope .... 4138 
 
 fMuton 1750 . 
 
 """ett 956 
 
 Hibb»rt 1191 
 
 Hay 
 
 Acres. 
 
 21,977 
 1,761 
 600 
 3,898 
 3,661 
 7,399 
 3,879 
 
 12,390 
 4,473 
 
 Acres, 
 
 Population of Townships. 
 
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 986 22,794 
 
 Logan 
 McGIII 
 
 McKillop 848 33455 
 
 Stanley 2064 '^'^"® 
 
 Stephen 742 
 
 Tuckersmith 1727 
 
 (Jsborne i;,84 
 
 Williams ;.■; 2300 
 
 Cioderich 4040 
 
 Ellice 1328 
 
 2,763 
 
 32,734 
 
 2,421 
 
 2,773 
 
 6,365 
 
 864 
 
 29,141 
 
 roTeL'nr''i':Ji~^^^^^^ '-•_'••?» "."^- 'hem the Company's Settler has secured to him the entire benefit of his 
 
 named in the 
 ' paying the 
 
 ^mayfind it to !"» advantage-Ms (^/on fewi^ enft>eV';«^"L^W^^ \ 
 
 • ciiiii year 01 ais incase, aiiU by so doing, he will of course save all future payment of Rent. 
 
 Company will, however, make a liberal deduction 
 
 T>...,u 
 
 SBTTLBR'S SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT. 
 
 In order to afford every assistance to industrious and provident Settlers, the CANADA COMPANY will receive any sum, no 
 matter how small the amount may be, for which their Lessee Settlers may not have immediate want, ON DEPOSIT— and allow interest 
 at the rate of Six per Cent, per annum for tha same ; but it is clearly understood, that the full amount with interest accrued, shall at 
 all times be at the disposal of the Settler, without notice. For th<» purpose the Company have opened an Account, which is termed 
 "Settlers' Provident or Savings Bank Accodnt," — thus affording to the prudent Settler every facility for accumulating sufficient 
 money to purchase the Freehold of the Land which he Leases, whenever he chooses to do so, within the term of Ten Years ; but 
 should bad harvests, or any other unforeseen misfortunes visit him, ho has always the amount deposited, with Interest accrued, at his 
 disposal to meet them. The advantages of this account are confined to the Company's actual Lessee Settlers, during the continuance 
 of their Leases. 
 
 In cate of there being amy Occupants or Improvements on the land, it is necessary that (he full particulars, including the value of 
 the improvements, should accompany the Application for the Lots. 
 
 The Canada Company's Huron Settlement is known to be one of the most healthy and fertile Tracts of Land in Canada, and 
 exhibits very extraordinary progress. This Settlement, in the year 1842, contained 7101 souls: and, according to the Official 
 Returns recently completed for the Board of Statistics, the population of the Company's Huron Settlement exceeds 36,000 souls — 
 showing an increase of about 29,000 in ten years, and that the population has nearly quintupled itself in ten years ; a progress in 
 settlement of a tract of land scarcely exceeded in any part of America. 
 
 The COMPANY'S Lands are in Blocks, therefore affording facility for the undivided settlement of Families and Friends. 
 
 TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM HAMILTON TO GODERICH. 
 
 Via London. Miles. 
 
 Hamilton to Brantford 26 
 
 " to Oxford 30 
 
 " to London 30 
 
 " toGoderich 69 
 
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 Via WiLMoT. Miles. 
 
 Hamilton to Oundas 6 
 
 '< to Preston 17 
 
 » to Wilmot Village ^ 17 
 
 '« to Stratford, in Easthope l7i 
 
 " to Mitchell, in Logan 12 
 
 •' toGoderich 33 
 
 101 i 
 
 Waggon-hire, with pair of Horses, carrying 18 cwt, pr day, £0 16 
 
 Do. Oxen, do. do 7 6 
 
 Stage-hire, for Passengers, about, per mile, each 3 
 
 OCT The centre of the Canada Company's Huron Settlement is ninety miles South from the now Government Settlement in 
 Owen's Sound. 
 
 The Canada Company's Huron Settlement is fifty.five miles from Hamilton, at the head of Lake Ontario, and is twelve miles from 
 London. Steamers ply daily from Lewiston and Niagara to Hamilton and Toronto, forty miles ; and the distance by Railway from 
 Buffalo to Lewiston, IS 20 miles. There are also Steamers constantly passing from Rochester and Oswego to Toronto and Hamilton. 
 A steamboat leaves Buffalo twice a-week for Port Stanley, on Lake Erie, distant 120 miles : London, by the plank road, is thence 
 24 miles. 
 
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commodious oriQ. 
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 bout fiirty.soven 
 iU.OOO acres still 
 
 iteases over more 
 treal and Quebec 
 FLake Ontario, 
 ce the population 
 ready established 
 
 localities in this 
 n; and thus are 
 
 prevail. There 
 1 Stephen, 
 md for which no 
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 ing is a schedule 
 
 Acres. 
 36,78ft 
 
 n,7»a 
 
 33,406 
 
 2,76a 
 
 32,734 
 
 2,431 
 
 2,773 
 
 6,365 
 
 864 
 
 29,141 
 
 i for cash. Under 
 ice at 6 per cent, 
 ased from one to 
 
 re benefit of his 
 ice named in the 
 le, by paying the 
 Y purchase at the 
 he Lessee. The 
 
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 ueivo any sum, no 
 and allow interest 
 t accrued, shall at 
 , which is termed 
 n-ilating sufficient 
 Ten Years ; but 
 at accrued, at his 
 the continuance 
 
 iding the value of 
 
 id in Canada, and 
 ng to the Official 
 ' 36,000 souls — 
 ars ; a progress in 
 
 id Friends. 
 
 MiLM. 
 
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 0:^ The Canada Company have also for disposal Land in Blocks containing from Three Thousand to Nine Thousand acres each, in 
 the Western District ; and in One and Two Hundred acre Lots, scattered throughout almost every township in Canada West. 
 
 (ttr Every requisite information upon the Huron and Canada Company's other Lands in the Province, will bo furnished. Fret oj 
 Charge, by application (if by letter, Post-paid) to the CAN AU.\ COMPANY'S DlFlCE, at TORONTO, and GODERICH, and 
 at Stratford, C. W. 
 
 A poper, containiug full and complete information upon Cunuda for intending Emigrants of all classes, printed in the English 
 and German languages, for trnn»imi»sion to Euiope, may be hod gratis at eiilicr of the Cnimda Company'n Offices in England or in the 
 Province, oral 11. M. Emigrant Office at Quebec, at which port the Canadian Government have recently appointed Mr. J. Sikh, a 
 German, as their Agent, to assist and protect the Gorman Emigranu. 
 
 Canada Company's Office, 1 
 
 Frederick-Street, Toronto, and Goderich, > , 
 
 80th April, 1852. } 
 
 RBPORT, 
 
 By tite Clerk of the Peace of the United Counties of Huron, Perth and Bruce, upon the state of Crime within the said United 
 
 Counties, during the year 1850. 
 
 To THB HoNOUkABtE BOABD OT REGISTRATION AND STATISTICS, TORONTO : 
 
 Amount of fines, penalties or damages, itnpose<l by Justices in 1848,.. jC112 19 
 
 Amount imposed in 1850 £86 19 1 
 
 Deduct amount remitted 27 18 2 
 
 68 11 
 
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 Thers are few circumstances in the history of an infantile settlement, more 
 delightful to the statist or philanthropist, than the contemplation of the diminu- 
 tiuii of crime, and advancement of the prosperity of a people, or that tell more 
 forcibly in favour of the good government ol mankind, than when they are accom- 
 panie<i by active industry, lull employment, and the real prosperity of a large, 
 miscellaneous and contented community. 
 
 Moreover, the facts which I am about to adduce in support of the above sen- 
 timents are bis with enquiry and contemplation , both to the philosopher and the 
 politician. Indeed it cannot be disputed in the present day, that the melioration 
 of the condition of the people in all civilized countries under free and liberal 
 governments, can only prosper and go hand in hand with just, equitable and 
 humane legislation. , 
 
 To the individual intellisonce of the Magistracy— now ramified over the length 
 and breadth of the two seiiiur counties — and by their benevolent and upright dis- 
 charge of the administration of justice in accordance with the law of the land — 
 to the absence also of political and sectarian animosity, but principally to the 
 industry and morality of the people, are we mainly indebted for the remarkable 
 diminution of crime which adorns the period in these united counties since the 
 census in 1848. 
 
 But as facts are better than arguments, I shall at once go to the proof, in as 
 far as the documents in ray possession, and the returns of convictions by the 
 Magistracy, and the records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions are concerned; 
 Imvinv th* trifling mattsri connected with the Courts of Assize — over whose 
 statistics I have no control — to speak for themselves in another place. 
 The population of the Huron District in 1841 , was. . . . 5,600 
 
 In 1847^ six years thereafter 16,641 . . Increase, 1 1 ,043 
 
 In ]M6, one year thereafter :J0,450. . Increase, 3,807 
 
 In 1850, two years thereafter '26,933.. Increase, 6,483 
 
 The last quotation is nearly independent o! the new and fast settling county of 
 Bruce, which, owing to the infancy of its municipal institutions, only returned 
 360 persons for the townships of Huron and Kincardine, but which may now 
 confidently be assumed to contain from 3000 to 4000 inhabitants — say 3,()67— or 
 a total population of the three united counties of 30,000 
 
 Being an increase for 1849 and 1850 of 9,550 
 
 Or n total increase, since 1841, of 24,400 
 
 An increase almost incredible, as upon reference to Smith's work on Canada, it 
 will be found that the Huron District has made more rapid progress since its first 
 settlement in 1827, than Lower Canada did in one hundred and four years, its 
 population then being (in 1721) 24,511. 
 
 It should be borne in mind that the population of the United Counties, by the 
 census returns, is composed of na(l"es of England, Scotland and Ireland, French- 
 Canadians, British Canadians, Germans, D'ltch, United States, and other coun- 
 tries, living in peaceful neighbourhood, all reioitir^ under twenty different sub- 
 divisions 01 the Christian faith, but by hypotnesis not ii!:e|y to remain in good 
 fellowship. Daily experience, however, proves the contrary. 
 
 As regards the statistics of crime — and really the piccadilloes committed in 
 1850 do not deserve so high a title — I shall first state those returned in 1849. 
 
 Convictions made by Justices in 1848 J74 
 
 Tried at Quarter Sessions 13 
 
 Deduct acquitted 7 
 
 — 6 
 
 Total convicted in 1848 I80 
 
 '■ Convictions by Justices in 1860 120 
 
 ^ Tried at Quarter Sessions 1 
 
 Deduct acquitted 1 
 
 — 120 
 
 Decrease of convictions for 1850 60 
 
 Decrease of fines for 1850 £ 64 18 9 
 
 It is with no invidious feeling that I would here contrast the above with the 
 statistics of crime for the city of Toronto for 1850, the number of parties appre- 
 hended there being 1,6U8, tne city having a similar amount of population with 
 the Huron. Such, however, is the melancholy difference between a city and aa 
 agricultural population. ^ 
 
 In this favoured portion of the ])rovince of Upper Canada — blest with a salu- ? 
 brious climate and a fertile soil, watered with crystal springs and brooks in every c 
 direction, reposing upon a taMe land whose natural drainage flows uninterru|)- S 
 tedly onwards to the streams and great rivers which intersect it in every quarter 3 
 towards the noble Huron or lake St. Clair — the energies of the people have been 
 steadily devoted to practical progress and improvement, having in the short 
 period above alluded to brought upwards of eighty thousand acres of the wilder- 
 ness under cultivation, erected five thousand dwelUng houses, fifty-six schools, 
 fourteen churches, twelve grist mills with nineteeii run of stones, five oat and 
 barley mills, five distilleries, two breweries, eight tanneries, and twenty-four 
 pot and pearl ash factories. 
 
 Among other matters which crowned their industry in 1830, I may shortly 
 slate the following productions:— 
 
 Wheat 232,949 bushels. 
 
 Barley 13,012 " 
 
 Rye a,i81 " 
 
 Oats , 215,415 " 
 
 Peas D4,6,)7 " 
 
 Indian corn 5,352 " 
 
 Potatoes 210,913 " 
 
 Buckwheat 673 " 
 
 Mangel wurtzel 297 " 
 
 Turnips 143,725 " 
 
 Hay 12,.>«23 tons. 
 
 Flax or hemp 7,359 pounds. 
 
 Maple sugar 351 ,721 " 
 
 Wool 54,347 " 
 
 Fulled cloth 10,303 yards. 
 
 Linen or cotton cloth 1,197 " 
 
 Flannel or other unfulled cloth 41,397 " 
 
 Cheese for market 7,701 pounds. 
 
 Butter for market 58.873 " 
 
 Beef or pork for market 1 ,308 barrel?. 
 
 And they further rejoice in the possession of the following stock : — 
 
 Neat cattle 26,260 
 
 Horses 2,646 
 
 Sheep 20,022 
 
 Hogs 14,6.55 
 
 Ih' above gratifying examples speak loudly for the industry of the settlers ; 
 and wh(s.°° hired labour can with difficulty be obtr'xed at a high remuneration, 
 notwithstanjing the yearly increasing ratio of new comers, and moreover where 
 all are dilig^ly employed in the onward march to happiness and independence, 
 we may truly be Ihanktbl to a superintending Providence that prosperity is in 
 the ascendant, and that crime is on the decline. 
 All which is respectfully submitted by 
 
 DANIEL LIZARS, 
 , ■ „.*. Clerk of the Peace. 
 
 Office of the Clerk of the Peace, ) 
 Goderich, May 1851. S 
 
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 lent Settlement in 
 
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 by Railway from 
 
 into and Hamilton. 
 
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