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 Havino recently had many inquiries from various parts of British North America, 
 and from the United States, upon the Town of Guelph, and the Wellinotoh 
 District, of which it is the District Town, have been induced to prim the following 
 Memorandum — ^which will, it is hoped, prove useful and interesting to those who 
 may contemplate settling in Canada West, as it is furnished by a very intelligent 
 and experienced Gentleman and Magistrate, long resident in Guelph. 
 
 Price of Improved Farms, 
 
 Vary much according to quality, situation and other cireumitancea. The avorajfe price or unimproved Land, is §i 
 per acre ; improved L<and, $14 to 016 per acre. The Buildinfrs on a Farm are invariably sold at a sacrifice, although 
 there may be few respectable Settlers possessed of means disposed to sell on any terms, especiolly at bare value or at 
 a loss to themselves, there would be no great difficulty in purchasing Improved Properties. 
 
 The Kinds of Produce. ,. ' , . 
 
 The kinds of Produce are, Wheat, Batic/. Peas, Potatoes, Rye, alt the Grasses, including Clover, Turnip* (very 
 fine) Carrola, Cattle Beet, mad Linseed. Some seusna^ ibo Mrly UnJ« of Indian Com do very well. 
 
 Wages. 
 
 Crops. 
 
 Average of Agricultural Labourers, £10 per annum ; if able-bodied men, such are bonrded in the house ; Day 
 labourers, (now) Zs. 6d. per diem ; Day or Week Labourers in Hay or Harvest Work, 3s. Od. to is. per day ; 
 Boys and Girls, under fourteen years of age, %t per month, which increases with age up to t4 per month. 
 
 Their character and yield vary with the Seasons, but as the Land is as good as any in the Province, a good Season 
 gives to the judicious Farmer an ample return, and so far as I know, or hear, our Crops are as abundant as in any 
 other part of Canada. The extraordinary deep snow of this lost Winter Lis damaged the Full Wheat for the firat 
 time during my sojourn here. Our Clover, Turnips, and Potatotr, are in great perfection ; Peas of all kinds grow here 
 most luxuriantly ini yield abundantly. Every where rich pastures may be made by ordinary care and means. Our 
 Cattle ore very fine, and rapidly improving under the influence of the Agricultural Society here. Butter and Cheese 
 may be made to any extent. Pigs are greatly improving in breed, and where fed on Barley and Peas, produce as fine 
 meat as I ever saw or tasted in England. Sheep are becoming munerous, and are found to pay well. 
 
 CUmate. 
 
 Society. 
 
 Of course, we would say, that our Winters are too long, but they are very rarely as severe or as long as in Lower 
 Canada, nor have we usually more sleighing than is abiiolutely required to convey produce to Market. As regards 
 the salubrity of the climate, I can at once answer that there is no spot better for health, no agues or fevers, and very 
 little disease of any kind beyond those brought on by excesses. This neighbourhood has restored to good healtli 
 many sickly persons who have removed from the Old Country, os well as from many of the Districts bordering on the 
 Lakes and unhealthy parts of the Union. The soil and substratum are well adapted to insure a healthy elate of the 
 ■ir. We are extremely well supplied with excellent Water, which is readily found a few feet below the surface. 
 Springs are numerous. Our Lands ore neither hilly nor flat, but ever varying n nice undulating order. The Wild 
 Land is mostly timbered by Hard Wood. 
 
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 Decidedly good for Old Countrymen — 1st, because we have many licre who are well bred and well educated— lint), 
 because we are nearly all (with half a dozen exceptions) Old Countrymen— 3rd, we have feelings, views, afiections, 
 and habits, that harmonize with the glorious trio of Guelph, IFellington, and Waterloo, Even ihc streets of our 
 Town are so named as bring doily to our minds the most renowned Counties, Cities, and Towns, of our Father Land 
 —Lastly, so many old friends have met here together aa to banish from onr recollections at times, that we were ever 
 tfanaplanted. A Matter is still a Marier with u.i, and a Servant is even so, a Servant still, and not a « Helfi." 
 
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 Population. 
 
 Qaalph Townthlp eoBUiM aboot VM—tU th* wiroaiidjiic TewBdU|w havt bMa loofw MttUd thu Oiwlph, and 
 •r* omilj all u welt Mttlod. 
 
 Prospects. ** 
 
 The pait of Ouelph bu been one iteedy UDifonn eoune of proiperity to »U who eeek it, ud the praepcet by no 
 metDs forbid a contiDiiaDco of improTement ; large new Hilli' are going up very near ne ; a Plank Road to the 
 I<ake i« on the point of being commenced ; the Owen'i Bay Settlement ii calling doily upon u( Tor ■•ippiiea of good* 
 and produce ; and every year we hare an improved aet of Settleit coming in with ikiU and capital eupnior to thoee 
 who induced them to come and join them. 
 
 Provisions. 
 
 All the necesMrios and real comforti of llfo are here to be found in abnndance, at a very moderate rate-<heaper, 
 of soune, than in tLe large towna of the Province^ but itill in ordinary timee temuneiatiog tl|e producer. 
 
 Places of Worship. 
 
 The Church of England, tlio Romiih Church, the Seotob Church, the Independent* or Congregatlonaliata, the 
 Britiih and Canadian Mothodiit% and Ooptiiti, have all their reapective Placea of Wonbip in this Town. We have 
 no religknia feud* here, no Mormoni^ no M llcrites ! We have a good Qeneral Circulating Library well aupported. 
 Temperanoo gain* ground hero diily. A Bible Society existi, and Mioiateraof the aeverai.deaomiiiationa reaide in 
 Ouelph. Schools abound in the Townihip, and the District Grammar School is in our Town, 
 
 Stores or Shops. 
 
 Wo have several Stores selling the usual variety of a Country Merchant, and at pnces very little in advance open 
 those of the nearest Port. All sorts of British and Foreign fabrics and produce may be met with in Gnelph. New 
 Stores opening every few months. Many of these Stores take in produce for good% and tome pay CMi fbr all wuta 
 of produce. Luzurica of nearly all kinds are to be found in the Stores. 
 
 Mechanics. 
 
 This class is nuroeroua in all ordinary Trades, and are always coming in, but all who are worthy, do well and aeqaii« 
 property. The ehargea of Mechanics are almost twice aa much aa are paid in England, to a similar class of artinna, 
 I know of none out of employment, nor a person near me in want of the necesaaiiea of life. Our Mtfhiniwt 
 generally speaking, are a sober, industrious^ and well behaved set of men. 
 
 Distance from Ports and other Markets. 
 
 Our Home Market is very considerable, an extensive Trade is carried on in the back Townshipa now aettling, and 
 Bakers and Millers buy largely for Cash ; the Distilleries and Breweries take off a large quantity of produce. ' Three 
 large new Caik Uills are erecting within seventeen miles of oan, and the contemplated new Koad will take ua waity 
 to the Porta within twenty-five to thirty-fivu miles from us. 
 
 House Rent. 
 
 House and Store rents are too low with us, I think, aa only from six to ten or twelve per centum, per annuni|.«ipeB 
 cost of erection, (tc., is either asked or offered. We are not a vory greedy or speculating people in Guelph. 
 
 Our Taxes. 
 
 In the United Statea they would be well understood by saying the amount is not more than one-third, or at most 
 one half what the Taxes are in the Union, l|d. in the pound on Assessed Property, and Id. per acre on Wild Land pet 
 annum, is the amount of all that is paid hero. It will be gratifying to those long resident in the Union, to be informed 
 (what nearly all men like very much,) that the Taxes are imposed by those having to pay them, through their own 
 representatives in the new District Councils, and were any inducements necessary to Old Countrymen settled in the 
 States, to come to Canada, my main meaut would consist in informing them of the very altered state of Canada, at 
 regards Responsible Government and Municipal Councils. 
 
 Ckist of Transportation by the Navigable Waters, and afterwards by Land, to Hoe Company's 
 Settlements. 
 
 The Cost of Conveyance by Steamboats varies slightly each year,— but the following rates of Passage will he 
 found to be suflSciently correct ;^ 
 
 From Montreal to Toronto Cabin, £9 10 
 
 From Montreal to Hamilton < 
 From Toronto to Hamilton < 
 From Kingston to Toronto •< 
 From Rochester to Toronto • 
 From Lewiston to Toronto • 
 
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 Land Carriage, that is the biro of a Tes": or two Horses^ Waggon and Driver, which will take 18 ewt. of load, may 
 generally bo reckoned at 8d. per mile to the journey's end,— supposing the Team to come back empty ; cluaper land 
 travelling than thia can, however, often be obtained by making a bargain. 
 
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 Communications with the United States. 
 
 StauMi* ply daUy (hun Lcwiaton, QoMiittOB, tad Niigm, to ToraMe ud HiBiltoa, dMaat 40 
 Thwa tM two 8t«tmen plying three timet »-week flrom Roebeetw to TonntO) KioploD, end Hiailtaa. The 
 diittneek by Railway, fVom BuflUo to Lewiaton, ia to milea. The Kmt Steamer leeree Bnlblo every Moaday aad 
 Thuraday for Port Btanleyr opening an etay, cheap, and quick commnniciation with the London, Hnroo, WeattiB, 
 Talbot, Brock, and Gore Diatricta. The Waterloo Steamer pliea between BoAlo and Chippewa, fhm whenee there ia 
 a Railway to Queenaton. The Steamer Brollurit Captain Ebert% ia connection with daily line of Stagea IWm 
 London, learee Chatham, in the Weatem Diitrict, 'or Detroit and Amheretbnryh, Monday, Wedaeeday, and Friday 
 mominga,— letuming the alternate daya, at aeven o'clock *. m. 
 
 Diatance from Hamilton to Goelpb, thirty oiilee ; Stagea aad Poet paaa to aad ftom daily. 
 
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