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I"'" y ?* P''"^°"» ^^'^^^ Evidence Will be found Tn the !:il^''*'^ Appendix, and from the information pofsefsed by fomeo? h!,Tr^ Members of your Committee, that the openin/ofThe Ro«d ^*'' ^'''• prayed for by the Petition of divers InhabifantsVIhe £a«ern Townships, situated in the County of Buckinghamshire! reS to your Committee, would be of 'great advantage to AgrTcuW nJli:T% *u' ?*?"' °f Settlement to numerous famU es and hereby benefit both the faid families and the public, have thJu^ht [it proper to make it the subject of a first Report ^ Your Committee are of opinion that the prefent state of th«» Settlement already formed, as well on the line of he Road prav^d for. as on both banks of the River Becancour , and the Se labour of the Settlers and the expenfes they have atea^^^^^^^^^ Cen« TT%'^' ?'''^"^ communication with the oW Settll tf Te T.i-5?""' Lawrence, form a good title to the nffistance of the Legiflature, and enfure the future keeping „p and re If r5«^ '^'r ^°'/ P'^^y*^ ^°'- And further, thai coStinuation S'« Rn H ^'" ' K^ y/^'^f? ^^"^ *^« ^''' Becancour a" faJ a" Craig s Road, may be of still greater and more general utility \rJ^* '"^'^' moved by these considerations, your Committee are ofopmion that it is expedient and desirable that STl! gislature fhould grant a fum not exceeding Four hundred and" feventy pounds currency, for opening a Road between the fi"^ ret ir'f Z%' '-'"'' Tt4' of°Btndford Vom th cincour. ^ ^^""^^^ °^ ^'"'"'^ «^ ^" »» '^^ River Be! The whole nevertheless humbly fubmitted. 1 7th December 182S. F. BLANCHET, Chairmtn. REPORTS FROM THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE SECOND REPOIIT. Second Report. ii i s; YOUR Committee thought it right in the first inftance to _ ^ turn their attention to the Roads which it might be ne- 1* Jany. I829<^®^'"y to opien for the purpofe of facilitating new fettlements, and the probable expenfe thereof. On the Petition prefented to your Honorable Houfe on the 23d December laft, and the proceedings had in the Committee which has already sat on the fubject, and which will be found in the Appendix, your Committee are of opinion that it is ex- pedient to grant a fum not exceeding Four hundred Pounds currency, as an aid in opening the Road defcribed in the Pe- tition i and that before the appli ation of the faid Sum, it would be propel that the faid Road should be verbalis6 ac- cording to Law. Your Committee proceeded further to take into considera- tion the opening of a Road for the Inhabitants of the Town- ship of Tring ; and from the information thty have- received on the fubject, are of opinion that it is expedient to grant a fum of money not exceeding one hundred and feventy pounds currency for opening a Road, as a continuation of the Road already opened in the Parish of St. Francois de la Nouvelle Beauce on the weft and near to the Church of St. Fran9ois to the new fettlements in the faid Township j provided that the faid Road be alfo verhalis&i according to Law, previous to its being begun. Proceeding further to the consideration of the utility of opening a Road from the ])refcnt fettlements in the Town- ship of Frampton to the north-weftern line of Cranbourne, a diftance of about eight miles, in which diftance there are al- ready feveral fettlements ; Your Committeei after having con- sidered the information and the plan laid before them by Wil- liam Henderfon, Efquire, are of opinion that it is expedient to grant a (um of money not exceeding Two hundred and forty pounds currency, for opening the laid Road, which is already •Qerbalisi. riEE St inftance to might be ne- ' fettlementSi loufe on the e Committee v » mp;rtaTc:'"'r •'•'•' ^^''°" «Pp'^" '« be of the greateft .^^ importance, and is mtimately connected with the general com- munications of this part of the Province : and further, it will be necefsary that your Committee should have before hTm .nore particular documents than are at prefent in their poffe^ sion concerning this fubject. Your Committee have adapted meafures for obta.nmg fuch documents, and will have the honor of fubmittmg them to your Honorable Houfe with their Reneral Report on the Internal Communications of the count?/ The whole neverthelefs humbly fubmitted. 14th January 1829, F. BLANCHET, Chairman. to consldera- f the Town- lave- received >t to grant a venty pounds of the Road '■ la Nouvelle > Frangois to ded that the revious to its he utility of I the Town- ranbourne, a there are al- having con- lem by Wil- expedient to red and forty :h is already THIRD REPORT. YOUR Committee thought it their duty to turn their at- , »!,» . ' - r *° *^V*"^»"g Road Laws. Thefe laws are, in ^h'rd Report ne^Sr /°"^^°"'"i""^' P'"*j"^''=' ' ^o the formation of^TTV new fe tlements, and not adapted to the pr.fc at state of thecoun-^d Feb. 18211 ouiJl J^a ^^%"*y P°""ds currency to have a bye-road laid Now wH. " °^'^'"l't'S"" ^•■°°^ the feats of jurisdiction. to oaV th.^ r"^? '^1 '''^^^T'r' °^ ' "^^ rettlement are able to pay that fum ? Another defect in the Law is, that the in- Urand Voyer^ whether the Proces Verbal be homologated or ZinV^^^^"p^''"VT'' ^^^^"° interest in the Cmo'o. gat on of their Proces Verbaux. Your Committee believe then t^t^^lT^^'^''^r''^'^l^''''^'''''^'^ be left to the Inhabll Counties shin I k"°' ''"''"" ?^" '"^ ^' d°"« "'"il the very much i hf ^Ta T'-g?"*"^. And this is an object REPORTS FROM THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE Third Report. Your Committee then turned their attention to the Roads and * 'V '"' Communication* which it would be expedient to open and com- SdFel^.lSsg.plete, as well with a view to the formation of new (ettlements as for affording facility to travellers. The neceffity of forming new fettlements becomes more and more preiHng, for there are Pa- rifhes in which fathers of families live on mere building Lots :— This is a mod alarming circumftance, becaufe it tends to the rapid introduction of poverty among the agricultural clafles. Your Committee then regard the formation of new fettlements on good land as the moft effectual and leaft expensive mode of preventing fo ferious an evil j but, in addition to the prefling necefsity of furnishing lands for the fuperabundant population of the Province, (to which nothing can contribute more than the opening of Roads communicating with the tracts of uncultivated and fertile land by which we are i'urrounded) there are consider- ations which at the prefent time render this meafure one of which the necefsity is altogether peculiar. The failure of the harveft in the feason which is juft palsed has produced in fome parts of the Province such extreme mifery, that, unlefs public affistance be given, the moft dreadful confequences are to be apprehended ; and fuch afsiftance can be in no way more effectually given, whether the advantage of the public or that of the fufferers themfelves, in whofe favour pecuniary aid is prayed for, be re- garded, than by providing them with fuch employment as will enable them to be busied in a manner at once beneficial to them- felves and advantageous to the public. Your Committee therefore take the liberty to fubmit to the consideration of your Honorable Houfe the expediency of open- ing the following Roads with a view to the formation of new fettletrents, with the ezpenfe which will probably be incurred in so doing : For opening a Road from Metis to the Miflionary Station of Riftigouche, and for making the neceffary furveys, in addition to the fum already voted, Three thpufand pounds. For repairing the Road from Temifcouata, d the Bridges thereon^ Eight hundred pounds. That, fhan [TTEE the Roads and )pen and com- lettlenients as if forming new there are Pa- ilding Lots :— tends to the 'al clafles. ew fettlements nsive mode of the prefHng population of nore than the f uncultivated are consider- i one of which the harveft in le parts of the aflistance be apprehended ; ctuallj given, the funerers ed for, be re- 'ment as will ficial to them- fubmit to the ;nc7 of open> lation of new 96 incurred in iry Station of in addition to I the Bridges ON HOADS AND OTHnR .STERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. not exceeding Five hundredWnds. ' ^""'^''^ ^ ^""^ Colmy'cf'orn "hire '.tllT "^'''^ ^'" ^t. Nicolas in ,l,e one hundred "« 'of a! tl I T ''"" """''«'' "<" ''^ ">»■> lawful for the Governor it, f "'^""" '"«"'"• "=''»" l» miniftering ht'S^^vTn^'enV fo'rX ?°'"r' " ''"'"''" «"- hundred lo., of ,he faid land ,o acmal fatter, iwhllf .11" °r t Durveys to be made for ♦«/.;«« i • ^* . "'^ ^"^ proper commLication to and from f-K «^ 'J °P'"'"fi ' ^°*^ °f 8 REPORTS FROM THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TJlrd Report. Township of Tring and Lake Saint Francis, to actual Settlers, it gJ^JJ^'J^jhall be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, orPer- Ton adminiilering the Government for the time being, to caule the proper Surveys io be made for tracing, making and opening a Road from the Township of Tring to Craig's Road, and that there be appropriated for this purpofe a Sum not exceeding Three hundred Pounds. I . i f ! I Your Committee then proceeded to the confide ration of feveral other Roads which it would be expedient to caufe to be completed. Your Committee recommend that in addition to the Sum already voted, for completing the Kennebec Road, there be granted a further Sum not exceeding Five hundred Pounds. r A Sum of One thoufand six hundred Pounds for completing the Craig's Road, over and above the Sum of Four hundred Pounds already appropriated for this purpole. ,| A Sum of One thoufand six hundred and sixty Pounds for completing the Road from the Township of Hatley to the Ya- maska Mountain. Another Sum of One thoufand fix hundred and sixty Pounds be exp for completing the Road from Melbourne to the Yamaska Moun« in the ***"• rishes i Your Committee cannot but remark that in a military, commercial or agricultural point of view, it would be of great advantage that a Road should be opened from the Black Ri' ver to the termination of ihe old road to the Forges, which is i now abandoned, or in the rear of the Townships of Caxton, Brandon and Kildare, and thence through the Townships and the wafte lands as far as Granville on the River Ottawa ; and from the faid Township as far as the Township of Hull, at the Falls called La Chaudiire, on the fame river. Your Committee recommend that for thefe purpofes there be appropriated for the prefent year, a Sum not exceeding Four thousand Pounds. I IMITTEE actual Settlers, it Jovernor, or Pcr- e being, to caul'c dng and opening s lload, and that n not exceeding confide ration of nt to caufe to be :ion to the Sum Road, there be ndred Pounds. Is for completing 2d February 1829 )f Four hundred ON ROADS AN'U OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. And a further Sum of Five hundred Pounds for the cxp'ora. Third Report, tion of the Country between the River Saint Maurice and the '■^w^g^^ River Ottawa, as well with a view to giin fufficient informa-2d Fe'>' 1S29. tion for tracing the faid Road in the ^tnanncr moft conducive to the public advantage, as for obtaining a knowledge of the na- tural productions, the quality of the foil, and the extent of the faid tract of country. For opening a Road from the old Settlements in the rear of Berthier to Brandon, Three hundred Pounds. The whole ncverthelefs humbly fubmitled. F. BLANCHET, Chairman sixty Pounds for atley to the Ya- FOURTH REPORT. YOUR Committee hav^r continued their refearches with re- fpect to the other parts of the Province in which it would Fourth be expedient to form Settlements, with a view to furnish Lands Report in the proximity of the fuperabundant popu'ation of certain Pa- ' \ * rishes in the feveral Diftricts. Lake Etchemin, which lies in the 11 Feb. 18S0. more remote part of the country fouth of Quebec, has been ex- plored, and the lands around it (which are the property of the Crown) have been found to b^ of excellent quality—the Parishes which lie near it are burdened with a forplus population. Your Committee, then, take the liberty of recommending a grant of a Sum not exceeding Three hundred Pounds Currency, for open- ing a Road of communication thereto, as foon as one hundred lots of Land shall have been conceded to actual Settlers, by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Peffon adminiftering the Government of the Province for the time being. fe purpofes ther« " Your Comrr.ittee alfo believe that it is defirable that Settle- t exceeding Four rnents should be formed in the Eaftern Townships lying weft of ^ ths River Chaudicre and Lake St. Francis, where a great number md sixty Pounds '■ Yamaska Moun- tt in a military, ould be of great a the Black Ri- Forges, which is thips of Caxton, e Townships and 7er Ottawa ; and ip of Hull, at the 10 REPORTS FROM THE SPECIAL COMMITTEfi R"p"^' tr?.Tf'''' •"'^^' ^' ^'''\^' ^°"' Committne take the li- V^-W f "y to recommend a grant of the Sum of One thoufand ponnds 11 Feb. 1889. ♦o'^ openmg a Road from Dudrwell, in the Dirtrict of Three-Ri vers, to meet a Road already opened in the diftnct of Quebec, as far as the Township of Ireland j and of a Sum of Three hunded Tel trin a ^°'- '•'?'S ^'^ '^°^^"^'^'P °f iBrooghton o Leeds. (This laft mentioned Road has been already verbalized.) fnnZ ^°'^'"'"'^^ believe aifo. that it would be advantageous to open a communication between the R.ver Chateaugay and ON I I bound ( Roads ( of Mr Your H iaid To Your .^Carriage fore rec( f>f the 1 the Ro2 ihe Hig ifld the ^e to Sj The Your Committee cannot too (Irongly recommend the opeuinK of Roads in the neighbourhood of Quebec, with a view toform an eaiy communication with the River Jacques Cartier : thefe Settlements m the vicinity of the Town may afford the means of lubsiftence to a great number of poor peop e : Your Commit- tee recommend a grant of the Sum of Two hundred and Hf.y Pounds, for eftabiishmg a communication from Val-Cartier to ?*thFeb Lake Saint Charles, which would shorten the Road to Quebec five miles ; another Sum of Five hundred Pounds for opening a comnj^unication between Stoneham and Tewksbury ; and a- nother Sum of Two hundred Pounds for opening a Road from the old Settlements to Neuville. The whole neverthelefs humbly fubmitted. Uth February 1829. F. BLANCHET, Chairman. Fifth Reprf. ition to the bad Js bj which the ire approached, j!d demand the vho are by Law ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. bound to do it. For it ann«»T.» <. #-i Roads can only be efte tua^fy "bt le'd^bv^T"*'"'' i'"* ^°°^ of Mr McAdam. Your Commi le v.nf T""^ '^' ^^^''''' ■ Your Honorable Houfe that ^ ^ d h? ^'^ *? recommend to ^ ^-^ iaid Towns for Macada^f^il^rthf R^^^^^^^^^^^^ fore recommend a grant for Lnini^ ' p^T'"",' '"'^ *^^'-«- t.f the River Saint Franc stoX^.- ^^'"^ Z '^' ^''^ "^e Jhe Road acrofs the Long ebl'^Swn^^^^^^^^^^ ' «""» ^°^ *he High-Road of comr^unic tforbe^tween thf ^ ' • '"^ ^^^ fnd the United States, that is to fav th. Rn !, r'°"T ""^ ^e to Saint John. ^* *^® ^°'^ ^'^^'n JLaprai- The whole neverthelefs humbly fubmitted. F. DLANCHET, ?4th February 1829 Chairman, SIXTH REPORT. l« . . f>e»Iers, and the d.ilicuities attending the oo^^nim, ^/^-/ ..Your Comnnittee have alfo procured a figurative Plan of th. The Whole neverthelefs humbly submitted. 1 0th arch 1829. F. BLANCHET, Chairman. I« ORDER OF REFERENCE. Or time I HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Saturday/, 9Qth November 1828, RESOLVED, That that part of the Speech of His Excel, lency the Adminiftrator of the Government at the opening of the prefent Seflion, relating to Roads and other Internal Communications, be referred to a Committee of Five Members, to report thereon with all convenient fpeed, with power to fend for Perfons, Papers and Records. Orderedt That Mr. Blanchet, Mr- De St. Ours, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Bourdages and Mr. Proulx do compofe the faid Com* tnitte?. Attefl;. W, B. LINDSAY, Dy. Clk. Houfe of Als'y; Or I ship Q La P( Monday, 1st December 1828. Ordered^ That the Petition of divers Inhabitants of the Eaft cm Townships, iituated in the County of buckinghamshire, hi :i referred to the faid Committee. | Attefl;. W. B. LINDSAY, Dy. Clk. Houfe of Afs'y. On mittee ^ ing to Friday, 5th December 1828. ^nd ol Addrt Ordered, That Mr. Louis Lagueux be added to the fai bereft Committee. Atteft. W. B. LINDSAY. Dy- Clk. Houfe of A(V|. IS ICE. Saturday, \Sth December 1828. EMBLY, November 1828, ;ech of His Excel, leni at the opening ind other Internal of Five Members, vith power to fend Owrs. Mr. Stuart, ofe the faid Com* AY, . Houfe of Afs'y; cember 1828. bitants of the Eaft uckinghainshire, h SAY, :. Houfe of Afs'y. kcember 1828. added to the fai Ordered, That the faid Committee have leave to report from time to time. ^ Attest. I W. B. LINDSAY, I Dy. Clk.HoufVof Af^'y. Friday, 26th December 1828. Ordered, That the Petition of divers inhabitants of the Town- I ship of Grenvilie and other Townships, and of the Seigniory of J.a Petite Nation, be referred to the faid Coiumittee. I Attest. Wm. B. LINDSAY, Dy. Clk. Houfe[of Afs'y. Monday, \Qth January 1829. Ordered, That Mr. Laterriere be added to the faid Com- mittee. Attest. Wm. B. LINDSAY, Dy. tlk.Houfe of Afs'y. DSAY, Ik. Houfe of Aft';. I Wednesday, Mh Fehy, 1829. Ordered, That Inftructions to the Honble. W. B. Felton, relat- ing to the faie and granting of all the Waste Lands of the Crown, and of wh.ch. Copy was communicated to this Koufe (upon an Addrefs) by His Excellency the Admistrator of the Government, be referred to the faid Committee. Attest. Wm. B; LINDSAY. Dy. Clk. Ho. of Afs'y. u MINUTES OF EVIDENCE. Thursday, lUh Deer., 1823. Francois Blanchet, Esquire, in the Chair. I i Joseph Boiicheitc, ^^^mv^. Surveyor General, called '" and examined: in. Jos.Bnuchctte Esq. X^RE you acquainted with the Townshlns nf -Yes ^cmfe 9d ra Ipccial actordi l^ut tlu pents t fie roi iformi \ Is It ind CO fhem, ': At T 'Saint ] Coiir ; ; fny otl Boad m |)umero |ettlem *ix leag luld b( Id rang Do y Road be •Jfewhei t)iere th ^ repair »nd 2dlj Itlpectiv Jhcre wi ip'tiy ; 1 from thii 23. the Chair. General, called ^ips of Stanfold, iip3 favorable for hip» still contain ent to supply the ho wish to fettle ftill some Lots to f how many. Jettlers appear to ts already begun the Lots on the and can you in- milies or perfons y Settlenie:)ts in nnot exactly say jy the want of a ling of the Road iittee, I'ihe pg^ 15 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE. ....0 afford r'eadier n>-V;^f«;,::, ira;*':;.';'!,.'.''^? '^""- com riiinlcation with the old Sm'eme,,,, I, ,„„ .t 1 " ^"- .rtab ished in ,hefe Township f^^YeT I "l.n'^f™""" "°" " ""'■ ''"^ fon considerably retards .he fettlemen, 'm'^. "'"™""'"- m the Towns^hl i/lS^f TZ ^5^"^^',^^^° /"•"^^yed and laid w«.u a,„ ..., s„„....„ .;. .i„S,l'S.~,'-,;?,i:; iny other line than ha on \Xir th^ P^^^ tload may be opened ?-lhe So mL . I.^t't'oners pray that a numerous on the Rive^ Becancour h ,V '", '^''^' ^'''' ''' "^^^ Settlements to thofHf Jem^°v ,1 ^'^" a '"'^'''t' '"'^ ^^°"^ '^'^'^ t 'f gu-- I knt. of^n" o ^te t whirtL'^;:"" ''' ^-"^ |ou d be more easilv t-f^^r^.A.u u^ r- *"® communication f ranger^*i3!:;:alL^"'' ^'^" '^ P^^'"g ''"-- »he ist and Bc^blm^n'^;}^ ifS' '^' P^^"i?""» 1^-^ fi>r desiring a i^fewhere plnl.! f ' ^^/^"S" ^^ Blandford, rather than tTere than 7fewl " ""^"'^ '*''^^"^'y ^' °f "'^re advantage & utnorV<°'^ ^'^^i'y^ade and more certainly kept ■;Ed 2d ;; Be Lfe 'hlV?'rr'^ ^'•^^ ^'••-^y commenced {hert, fc-fpective fronts onthU if ' 'V ''' ^"^ "'^ Range, having thci; kL wiU l^h^,^ ^^^ ^°^^| ''^^y -^ '^--^r to each othe?, and .*rtiy ; Becault i! r '"■"'1"^^ °" ^^'^^ ^'^"s of the Road, and ^ v-u, wnicii IS a pomt of the greatest importance. 16 f MINUTES OK EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEI , ON ^Pecanc H) mor themfe ,x •'"•E?;:'^'^v,^": rtnT'' l' ^"\^°"n- -^ complete this Roa.! , ^I^wnat ,s ,ts length ; from what point on the Saint Laurt n- *> '"O'" U^Z^S-:fy''' '°""'-"'^.^' «"'^ '^"^ ^- -0"'^i it be ne cS^^ry ; earn iJec. I8,8.,t ~I cannot exactly tell the clirtancc. I think it is abo .t T2 6 eagues ; u would require from ^30 to ^36 c ,rrcn y ' °° ' mile, provided the money was economically employed ^ ^ nM-nbe, - Cannot sav"''^'^"'" already expended on the said Road P?° «.annot say. Hit the __ tin the Would any other public advantages than those already men^^ ^^^ t.oned .n your anfwers, attend the opening of this Road ?!?« besides thofe of which I have just spoken, it is sufficient' to re/e p the map of the Province to be convincod ot the utility of co rortirRt/r b'^' " '^r "^^'^'^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ dittanc"^^" Jrom the R.ver Becancour does not exceed six leagues within th ife :::nThe eIT T '• 'r ^'i^ P°'"'' *^« -mmuStl uetween tne Laltern Townships and Quebec, mav h*. i>n-;«,.. at 30 leagues by Craig. Road.'and aSur^rfeagues by Road pafTmg through Gentiily, of which there are 1 1 Teajrues c land carnage, and the remainder by the River Saint LawrencM ^ which considerably facHitates the conveyance of goods by mea*^^^^ ^ of the River and the Steam Boats ; and further, the opL^r I" ""^°^ ntP^I /''''• ^°''' 7''^ °P«» a communication with a^ndf"fii^^°«^ Wha •efer ; le moi ifore ips api let, it ii What Urn the [ready f lecancoi \y how^ Kceed fi Mr. Cfior/es 'furgcon, called in, and examined Is the lOad; ar lention^ m of d ■^ Coum ladier m ith the c m Chs, furgeon,,,tll ^m '!f'^"?'"'?V7'*^ '^^ Townships of Stanfold. Bu *''' ^-^-^-^ strode. Blandford and Madd neton ?— I am hn» i;mu *• m irS::nS.-th the Townships of Eulftr^o^ and W^ d ' bu^ well with those of JJiandford and Maddington. E-es of ^ agtt^tl!;:. t.^t^t^^ ^:, ^--^'P^ ^-rable f fS the middle of theTxowr^W t r.' ^""'^"'k'""^ ''^^^^^^^^ ^^ '^ fold and Buiarodeon one side and RhnHf ^^ ^"Tf" 5^#^"^ "^^^ ton on the other. This R^ver waters a r-° T^ Maddiniofe who I. 17 ECIAL COMMITTEE - ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. complete this Road f«cancour ; the soil is rich and mleht aftnrri ,«-,„ r / . the Saint Lnwrena ^ "^^'^ than 5000 Settlers equaTlv advTml r ^^^^"'^'nsnt Mr. be neccfTary ,o carr! «»^emfelves and the Province. ^ advantageous for the Settlers Chs. l^rgeon hink it is about H or _ n^v^^^^ ) £36 currency m. ^o the Seigniories adjoininj? thefo Tn„,ncT • •,. * employed. ^ oPmber of unconceded Lots of T.nJ r ^^"'^''P' '^'" «°"»a'n a ^ ^ f^"'^ therefor of the voun'^^^ on the said Road g,'-s on land of thdrCn^/lj^ToTliTd^^ £\tc7B:^rou5y.^^^^ is sufficient to refe ^J^^^ part of these Townships do the new Setflpro , ot the utility of cor "^'^''i «"d where, in fact, are the Settlemrnf, , ,?PPu'' *** he dittance if whic |j '^°^?"'"e'-o"s ?-The River BecancoTwV^^^^^^ ^^"» ix leagues within thr°'-« °bferved, ferves as a centS p" b Jo tt ■!? ^^'"" the communicatio |•P^^PP"« to be preferred among he^new Sett leLm ^T?" ^ of goods by mearl'^^'^y ^^"'^^ in thefe places"lThe sLhI '''" °\ P*^'"^°"» her^the oplni^rcllT'^"'- ^^^ ^" ^ ^"^-e^^^^^ ^o^dfLZ^t^'n;^^^^^^^^^^^^^ of a • mentioned in the PeTi fon S d t°o hi C ^^'"'"^ °^ ^^^ R°^d 0^ of divers inhabUants off/Tp , Committee [2%e Pe/i- 'e Co««^y oflh^MlrnQt r '7 ^''^'"^hips, situated in [adier mean/ of fettlemtT • anH 2 '/''''" '^ '^'" "'^'^''^^0 afford [th the old SettlementTh ve the ?^V"^^^"^ °f communication knships ?-The necefsitv nnil Tu' u °^ ^ft^blished in the -i'es of Carrying on the! "b^ai"'^" ! ''^ '^' ^'"^^" ^^^ '^^^' . . ^ „ «J«y have occasion during thtr ""!?^^otis articles for which sh.ps favourable f tte St. Lawren.e to thofe on ^7^* ^'T '^' i>«tlements on icour run. thronf^t by them, and exnoTpcM,^^ ^'''' Becancour, is severely ay: between St..fl|eans many ofthoVaCH V^T 5° g"-"' P"vations. by whfch Ford and MaddinAofe who lish to r^ e are'dl? '^^^ .ous plam, m whicfening of the Road 1 j^r^'*''"'' ^^°™ doing so. Now' the ve mentioned: t#ilitaLhe meat^^^^ ^°"'d. I think, procu^r'and »s running intu tbf '"' °^ icttlemenft to more than SOOO families. examined : s of Stanfbid, Bu^ 3ut little acquaintei Fold, but tolerab^ n. I !i ' M ! i 18 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE 'pN : ^1 if'' ^^^® *^® peifons holding lands in these Townships themfelves ^« " Ch3.Turffeon, M,otked at the opening of the Road prayed, or of any other ? •« sef iTT^TZT""^^® landholders in Blandford have already made a very con- u Dec. 1828.venient winter Road of the Road prayed for. Some other per- Ho^ fons settled lower down the River have opened another leading ^^^^ i oOt of it between Blandford and Maddington i and some Lumber. <>«ght i men, a few years ago, opened a third at a diftance of about a ^ -—I league from that laft mentioned. my opi ive am Is it beyond the means of the Settlers in thefe parts to oper povide and complete the said Road ?--Even if they united all their la- "^egrit hour and all their means, they would be unable at prefent to *'table open a Summer Road. Wha At what diftance from the Settlements on the Banks of thi I <^^""o St. Lawrence are the new Settlements on the River Becancour i ' Woul ionfed ii Aver t e cent 'Iain ofi 1 iii and would these last have no means of communication by am other line than that on which the Petitioners pray that a Roal may be opened ?— The Settlements on the River Becancour an about five leagues from those on the Saint Lawrence. In addi tion to what I said in anfwer to the seventh queftion I mav addm that the River Becancour itself affords the means of water com f^'"^"^» munication, but about the middle of the Township of Madding fo'nmen ton it becomes full of rapids, and the Portages are now impafsa ble. Altogether, this means of communication is very dangerous Do you know what reasons the Petitioners have for desiring Road between the 1st and 2d ranges of Blandford rather thai elfewhere ?— Among other reasons for this preference are thefe this Road is in a more advanced state than any other, and th great number of Lots granted and on which Settlements ar made in the 1st and 2d Ranges, affords more certain means c keeping it in repair :-.The land necefsary and fit for the Roa has bedn reserved in this place j and further, there is a Road i ^av the Seigniory of Gentilly leading to the Township already verbt ^^^ ^""^ lisi and on the point of being opened. ™y ■ — "5 which joi If the Legiflature were to grant a pecuniary aid for the openit ^t ^^^ of the said Road, what means are you acquainted with by whit T*"*'^'' the future keeping up and repairing of the Road might be pr ,J vided for j suggest those means to the Committee ? -I consii^ the means pointed out in my anfwer to the preceding queftic^ oad pi bich \^ ight pi 'ould fo d the his Ro: oad, an tion wi nee. Is thei er era CIAL COMMITTEE jwnships themfelves I, or of any other ? f made a very con* . Some other per- ned another leading and some Lumber* diflance of about a thefe parts to open united all their la- mable at prefent to r " ON B0AD9 AND OTHER INTERNA! COMMtJWCATIONd. «iat is to fiv, the speedy fcttlement of the two Ran,... ■,!,• i. •re »ep.r«ed by the Road, as certain. ^""^^ "'"''' c*,. JS^y^,, |i^e-drat'':».x''£"^^^^^^^ the Dank, of th, | e^!;« s'aytS'at'su'r "'""''^ '"^"'''^ -''-'-'' •^''''' '- s River Becancour jj nmunication by am f Would any other public advantawA »»,,», 4U i s pray that a Roai f "^d in you'r anfveers attend the oof mn^nf v''p ''^"^y ""^n- liver Recanrnnr .r, prwer to the fecond queftion I Zm'^^^^'; ^?'^ ^~^° »"7 Tecentre of which Tw he' waTerrTthe' R^''""^ P'^'"' ^^ hain ofl=ers vast tracts of la, H ^Zn/L r ^ ^/""cour. This lemem, equally advLta^e"^^^?^^^^^^^ °^ ^he formation of Seu -mencel an^d ^o^CFrZ:^'^^^^^ -7 be Bs are now impafsa r^'d prayed for, were wanted hSou * therefore, the I is very dangeroul!"'ch would arisi to7hf TnXlduS fhrn k^^'u' ^^'^^'^Ses %'ght pass, and to the o"* '"^'^''^"a's through whose lands it :oad. and wold ,h.^ S 'Thomr3Zt ." '" " ^'^'e'" - With the Settlements ^Z^l^t^^lZl liver Becancour an awrence. In acJdi queftion I may add eans of water com vnship of Madding es are now impafsa ndford rather thai eference are thefe any other, and tb :h Settlements ar re certain means c 3d fit for the Roa M there is a Roadi 1,V there any easy and safe landinr olace fnr <;.«, u iship already verbc ^^' "=>*»» on the South side of thh^ll t *"" ^°^^' ^"^ load might be pr tiittee ? —I consid'^i >r€cedlng queflicr^ !.! 11 MINUTES OP EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COM MITTEt OX Jean Langevin, Efquire, called in and examined : )fford tiicatic ad in I lload JeanLangevin Are you acquainted with the Townships of Stanfold, BuL Woulil ^Esqr. strode, Blandford and Maddington ?— Yes ; and particularly lemair IIdTcV 1^8 ''"^ *^® Townships of Blandford and Maddington. kdx si Are the soil and situation of these Townships lavorable foi agricultural Settlements ?— Yes } and on this point I take the Hberty of referring the Committee to the Petition of the inhabi- tants of thefe Townships which notorioufly, on this point, con- tains the exact truth. Do the Seigniories adjoining these Townships still contain ; number of unconceded lots of Land sufficient to fupply the de- mand therefor of the younger farmers who wish to fettle them- felves on land of their own ?— No ; for there remains but few . lots in these Seigniories worth cultivation which are now un- '■ conceded. " What part of these Townships do the new Settlers appear tc prefer; and where, in fact, are the Settlements already begur the most numerous ? — The new Settlers who are looking ion land generally prefer those lying on the banks of the River Be cancour, and in fact it is there that the fettlements mostrapidljj increase, and are at prefent most numerous. What is the state of these new fettlements j and can you in form the Committee what is the number of families or person already fettled in these places ? — The first Settlement was mad in 1825, and was made in Blandford by two families from fh adjoining Parishes. In July 1827 the population on the bank- of the River Becancour within the Township aforesaid, wa | about 100 perfons, and in November last it amounted to 15 % perfons, all Agriculturists. ' tagutv lese P ^opula thel Pourinj ar ex| iccks." Hav( orked ade a fumr lie line he Riv Tiuch tr Is it I and con At wl >aint L: nd wot iher lir ay be < iver B( t. Law ention Mud( comn- bur and Is the progress of thefe Settlements retarded by the want of .^nother Road ; and how many families would the opening of the Roa M^^^ i^^^ mentioned in the Petition referred to the Committee {The Pcli ^ven imj Hon of divers inhahilants of the Eastern Townships f situated i^ ,thc Count?/ of Bucliin^fiamshiref Ikjus here shewn to the wilncsm ^o yc ^ 21 SCIALCOMMITTEL j oN ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMlINirATIONS. id examined : . fford readier means of fcttlement ; and what merns of commu- J.cat.on w.th the old Settlements have the families now eftablish- Jd m hcfe lownsh,ps?-.The opening and coaiplcting of a good s of Stanfold, Bui. Would ha^e the effect of rapidly fettling the few Lots which 1} and particularly {emain unconccdcd along the said Road as well as thofe on hngton. |»ch side the K.vcr Cccancour and its tributary ftrc.uns, for many u, r .rS";V=»^°^'-* ^"f , b«low the said Road. The land watered by nships lavorable foi pse Rivers would bo capable, when fully fettled, of maintainimr a ,is point I take the Jopulat.on of more than L'0,000 fouls. The flimilies now fettled itition of the inhabi. |i thele parts communicate with great difficulty with the neich- on this point, con- .fouring Parishes, particularly in llmmer, when, to ufe the vuU jar^xprefsion, the whole of tlie carriage is effected "on men', JcnnLangrviii I'sqr. 1 1 Doer. 1 82;^. ships still contain ; nt to fupply the de- wish to fettle them- re remains but few which are now un- Havethe persons holding lands in these Townships themfclves rorked at the opening of the Road praved for ?_Yes : thev lade a good winter Road which is alread'y much travelled both . fummer and winter : other landholders have alfo begun on he hne between Blandford and iy[addington another Road from Ihe River Becancour, and a place in Gemilly, which Road is alfo h:iuch travelled. Is it beyond the means of the Settlers irt^ thefe parts to open |ind complete the said Road ?— Yes j very much. At what diftance from the Settlements on the banks of the amt Lawrence are the new Settlements on the River Becancour- ;nd would thefe last have no means of communication by anv 'ther line than that on which the Petitioners pray that a Road lay be opened ?-The diftance from the new Settlements on the .iver Becancour and those in its neighbourhocJ to the River t. Lawrence is from 5 to 5^ or 6 leagues. Besides the Roads entioned in my anfwcr to the feventh queftion there is another M;.ddington made by Lumbermen, which affords the means fn.^rTi "I'"?"- " \''\\^'' ^'^' Settlements on the River Tecan- ^ K .1, f £o her ^^' '" '^' ^f"^ °* '^'^ ''^"^^ ''^"^^- There is alfo d by the want of ,|"other communication by water, by means of the River Becan- st^t ^:: •?:"» '^;^^, '^ -^ "-^ --^ ^-.-. a„^ ,::,";/;; mshipsi situated i twn to the witness - ^o you know what realbn the Petitioners have fbr desiring a Settlers appear tc lents already begur iho are looking fo: ks of the River Be sments most rapidi; ; and can you in families or person ttlement was mad > families from th ition on the bank ship aforesaid, wa amounted to 15 22 MiNUTEiS or EVrnENCE BEFOUE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE •'''"r;T''"^?"^.''^»?'" »^^« , , and 2d Ranges of BlandM rather than ,^ »^ elfewhere P—The reafons, in my opinion, arp as fellows • Sixty- 11 n.cr.iy88.T^/"''n''' ''"'^.'5, ^'"f."^'? ^" "^"'^^ ^of this Road in the Letters Patent .f Blandford : it would there be the most central. All the Lots in i -ntilly on the continuation of this Road (which has been irr6rt//>0 arc taken, as are alfo a great number of thofe in DIandford : many lots are actus^lly fettled upon in Blandford at goth ends of this Road. An the lots in Blandford lying on the River Becancour, except the Clergy Referves, are taken alfo. Which afford certain means of keeping the Road in repair after it js opened ; there is no referved lot on this Road. Laftir, there IS conjiderable more work done on it than on any of th'* ,r mts The other two Roads are not so central. That in Maddington is not at all so j it winds much and pafles in great part through un- furveyed lands. The other Road on the line between Maddinfr- ton and Blandford occupies ground which was not referved for that purpose v the principal part of the land in Maddington which hes near it is unsurveyed j that which lies in Blandford is entirely compofed of referved lots, which renders the period when they will be fettled very diftant and uncertain. The Settlements on this Road nearest the River Becancour are those of the 8d concefsion ofGentilly. If the X^egiflature were to grant a pecuniary aid for the open- ing of the said Road, what means are you acquainted with by which the future keeping up and repairing of the Road might be provided for ; fuggest these means to the Committee .'—These means are certain and are stated in my anfwer to the precedinir ^ueftion, for there can be no doubt that a Road settled on each side will be well kept in repair. How much would it cost to open and complete this Road • what IS Its length } from what poir': on the Saint Lawrence ought It to commence, and how far . ;l.. it be n ce'^ary to carry it?— The opening and cn..:m-u , of this Koad. commencing at the River Becancour and carrying it as far as the entrance of the wood at Gentilly, on the lots of the 2d concefsion,which would make a diftance of about 5 leagues, might cost about ^600 currency, provided the work was conducted by perfonsof integrity and experience, and the money laid out with tb>^ greatest economy. + t ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Ab^t*i'l50^"' ' ^""^ "'"""^^ expended on the said Road ?-^ JeanLangevm Would any other public advantages than those alreadv mention-" ^*"'*^^^ cd in your anfwers attend the opening oi this Koad ?— Yes ; be- cau(e this Road will not only be usehil to tlie Proprietors of the land over which it will run, but will open a direct communica- tion between the old Settlements and a great extent of country fit for fettlement, of which the River Becancour forms the cen- tre, and by means of which River the feveral Settlements may have communication with each other by canoes in Summer, and by a fine Road on the ice in winter, and this from the Falls in the Township of Maddington in amending the River towards the North Eaft, because this Road may hereafter b.- continued as far as Craig's Road, and will then become of sti I more general utility. * Is there any easy and safe landing place for St im Boats and other craft, on the south side of the Saint Lawn ice near Gen- t)lly?-.Yes, at a plac€ called Livrard in the P.rish of Saint Fierre les Becquets adjoining that of Gentilly there is a very safe and convenient landing place for Steam Boats anu other ves- sels. Charles Lmngtvin and Louis Abraham La^ueux Efquires, CA,. Zanom* having been called in, and the preceding evidenc i of Jean ««<» ^angevin, Efquire, having been read to them, they confirmed "^'^ Militia, being calbd in, informedYour Committee : — That he ser- J7 De('r:l8:J8^cd in the 60th Regiment from the beginning to the end of the Peninfular War, and that he served alfo in JEgypt, and ob- tained half-pay as Ensign and Adjutant in tiie 60th Regiment, in November 1824, and immediately went to the new Settlement of Valcartier, where he has since resided with his family upon Lands purchased by him there. That he has had occasion here to turn his attention somewhat to the making of new Roads ; more particularly afterwards, in 1826, wlien he was employed to superintend the making of the Road from the Portage at Temis- couata to the extremity of the Lake of that name, a diftance of 86 miles, through the woods, of a foot-path. That he had upon an average 50 men under his command, all Canadians ; their wages were 2s. a-day in cash, payable every Saturday, or earlier if they required, in hard money, which he considered that they preferred to paper money. They asked him 2s. 6d per day, but in confequence of his promising them hard money, they confented to come at 2s. per day. That he was sensible of this before cotp- mencingthe enterprize, and got his money, amounting in all to £500 currency, in Dollars, which he changed in Dollars, half Dollars, quarter Dollars, and small change. That he allowed them I lb. of Pork, U lb. Bifcuit j and 3 Gills of Pcafe in lieu of Hi OMMITTEE '20 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. liquor, per day; he could h;^ve got liouor. btif h^ .^« ,f • i i. -.^ • would ^,t drunk with it. but he prefS Z^ll ^'^'^ 'H^' ^- ^'(^* which they could make wholefo^e f - u .^ S ^fi^ T f ' ^'f ^.^ to come under 2s. 6d n-r dav h,,- h • t^''^/ »» ^^st refused -•^''^^ ^'- , ani lucceeded in gernn.T o men •>* o. ...-.u «*'"*> ""'7 ofFin the expectation that others wot! rf.'io T^^'" ^' *^* fe.t in depth and as ra.ch in width therl? '"^^ °^ ^^°"^ ^ cedarlog^ about one frdbnet whi f ho'f"?^'"'^'"'^^^ P 't the flat side downwards a "d he u pf / & '"''' '7 '•"? mudandgra.el taken froa^he d'cUTntWH '^T'^ ^"^ third of th3 Road consifts of cauf.w.ys Lde n th f ' ' '^°"' ?"" h.d previoufly been made with apin ^^S^^^ ZlT' ' '^J Road appeared original'y opened 6 or 8 SV .vM J °"^ * *^^ up with Cherry 'ffecs L 'a Con'dcra1.f"s ll whi", 7' f :]"" remove ; in fome places the fh^rrV-p ' ^"^^ ^^® ^^'^ *<> join and form an ar?h ove^ enfe'. hTilu'ndth" '^"' " '° ous tracts of country, over wVich th» » ^7"V^'®® n»untain- very rocky • iz, orderTo^io" / r ?''"* P'^'^^* ^^'^^ ^>^ere op/ned a n^ew^^^d' a^d ^:Zt^^:t^ '''''f"^ acres ; another hil! 'was so steep that he w« 1^^ f?" °' ^^-"^ tag at the ba.e for about 100 vard' thpf ^^•^'^ '° "^ =^'5 of the Ro3d covered altogether an ex^nf 7°';;^'^'"°"5 PO>-tion, in length; he had to enfove a "^^0^^^^^ grey stone. That he had pow lef b ."difnot u, ?h '°t ^^ thought it inore advantageous and lefs exoenXl nf /'' ^''""^'^^ ney to build hem? nf «rL 1 1! ^'^P^^'^'^e of time and mo- t^^hen the rock^^ere Terv hJ.'h "?' '" ^'^'^^ ^« ''' ^'^^ '^<^ broke them eafily with ,7ri fl l'^ '^"'^ '''^?'" ^^'^^ '^'^' ^n^T i" fi'lini up hde^s^thi R^^^^ ""^ ?PP"^^ ^^^ ^g"^*"'* PletlngL^oadwhh about 'i In"^ '''"'' "'°"^^' ^°^°^^- tmesless- th*. ^/*n- , V'®"~*°"^^"'nes more, fome- was .£550 currei; ' wf !! ^/•^''P^"^ ^°' ^'^^^S the Ct leaving a bar^t^the ^off ATt'^^^^^ ftiall Bridges but cannofcl ,^ * ^'^ "'*''« a number^of Bridge over' River' dTC^n^'^H ^0"-""; J^"" "- * '''^' -^-r ""Jcn fie wi^!^.told cost ilH20• ^. He employed a man for the pur.Z r'^P" '""^ ^^'^P^i^ ftow dunng the winter, in order to S! f ^£°r^»''ng off the thereby make it last longer /oT» ^^P '^^ ^"^ge light, and the ice in the fpring. fo?'^i j",? 1^''-^/' ^'^'"^ carried off by s'dered a fufficient VemuneT tb„ fn?/"'^ ^* J^^" ^^^^h he con^ ter. and which he did unde "LtnaLn of H- ';;"""^ ^'^^ -'- Governor in Chief i—,his monl^J °? °* "" Excellency th- gaining i„ his hands, as hT h"7aLlT'^ °"' °^ *^« ^alan/e re- allowed, as SuperinteidanN 1 5s\1^Z '"^"^'^"^d. That he was particular bargain about the;f:---:>;K^^^^^^^ RolVlX^flr Cel^:- ^^^^^^^^ -^ iiorfesP^The were followed by Carts and Horrt 7^^^^^^ f ^" ^ '^^' '^ -d we , '^ellmg the Road. I faw inthe^'J '^ '^^"^ '"^^^'^ ^^r gra- ter, that four hundred HorL with flT^'Pr'J" '^' ^«"°^ing win- from New-Brunfwiclc throuXt's AtV'^^^ "''^^ wheatfca^e . never been done before. " """^ '° ^^^a^^^. which had therewah ?-I have no doubt thfthisRlJl '^u^ ''''' '^'''^'^ cial I have in my poffefsion a Co' -? '^ '^'^ ^'""^• Frafer, (the orieinal wa« aIv }-^^ °^ * ^^tter from L C Lake .^J-ifcoi;:.^romt ^dH^ - ^^^^^^^ ^'-) -fident^' fied with the Road. There is VLTrf t " ''^''^ "^"<^^^ ^ati*. prjncipal merchant in Madawaska who k"""^" "' S'P'^*'" "«bert. th.s Road every yenr between 20 ^nl^n"^' '? ^'"^^^^ through w.th merchant from Can^^d! to Mad,wl2f "' '"'^'^ '^^'^ o d nie that he was highly fatisfied wi 2 ^^'^ ^^'' * ^"^^ ^^ old Colonel Frafer thaf ifVhe fornilr f ""'^ P/^^^^^ings j and he ]a.d outin the same manner he Zd'-^J?^^ ^^d been IS however neceffary that fome repairs shon M h''" ""r" «°°''- '^ every year, as there are no fetE unon ^^ » '° '^' '^^^^ >t m good order. There is nm nnV t- ^^^^ ^°^^ »° maintain Road, and ir would be verv Se irab /h ''T ^'' '* "^"^^ «» thi^ l^a n.ade upon it to-afford^I^T"' av'^ W ::;S 'rT'''' ^''°"'^ "^••^euersand to the peop'e car- CIAL COMMITTEE ipon obferving that je employed a Ship 'ne jt, with a view icient to repair it. rger sum to repair shovelling ofl=" the Bridge light, and ■'"g carried off by >s.i which he con- '/lt»ring the win- 's Excellency the >f the balance re- 'd. That he was ^' There was no 'ok his own. i iiorfes ?— The ti I left it, and we ' inyfelf for gra- le following win- i'ith wheat, ca-ne lada, which had ■ has been bene- ywei'e satisfied een very benefi. ter from L C. liot) refident at erymuch satis- ^aptain Heberr, -anada through h return loaded f year j and he edings j and he ney had been )een good. It de to the Road ad to maintain * miles on this 'ement should the peop'e c?r- $7 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Particularly thofe parts which' t^'^::t'lSSlS:r:'^^^ J^:^ not properly overmen TL^ComT^^^^ '° '^'' '^' ^°'"^ '» and are quite satisfied if their Road be rJ^T°"u^ u '^^^ ""» bad. The Road alfo isfrequently mLe fhat" '^ ^°°^ "' ance with bad materials, and eve^where k is n S: hi «?" V^P'''" durable, by reafon of the infuSncvof »1 ^ T^ ''"^^ "°* fit of the principal Contrac^r and oni?!c k '"'^ "^""^^ *^^ P''°- bepaidou?ofth'e f^m X°e7t the Roa^^^^^^^ pal Contractor cares is that the Road be received and P"""" how it is made :-whereas if a fi;°n^ ^^^^^ived, and cares not to superintend the S w th a fi;"^ E--''^^^^^ be appointed his duty and his intere. to\:!Z' :^ITZ':T.^^^^^^ plTymen't" ^^""^^^' ^"' '' ^ recommendation forSe'e^ti! f ^'^!iJ°l "^f"'^' '° '^^ Committee a Cppy of the Letter examin Hoff "r '' ''^^°^ ,^''"* ^^^^^^^ »^ ^ the preced ng examination /—I now produce a Coov therPnf r^/. ? Sir, <• Entrance of Ihe Portagey St. Patrick, J Oil; Aug. 18^6. S9 •ni'l'TfP^ EVIDENCE BEFORE THE OPr.. andcanno, refrain frLra cxn~r '/"''"'"""'''"'ce of other.: ■He", in •h^Perforo.an^^ofXd' ;^w'^,^;,^:,';« f" f-pS / witn Which Jae was entrufted. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your moft obedient Servant, Major Eh'ot.?' ^LEX. FRASER. ' ^■^^^'S/. I9ih December, 1828 -Ten BapUste 7'../.V Bf.ulre, Notary Public of K ^•>l!ed in, and examined ;' ^amcuraska, •'^ t,f ^^^^S^^^^^^^^ ^d^J^^- -- o^ Hoads to reach th. ^^--S^' ly retards the prW^of / • T'='"-"'^^^ «^^^'<^n>ents er^^^^ 19Decr.i8^.th« fetdement^f t1r4 "" ^^^ ^°"'^' ^1-- -d f the quality of the Lands atV5/°""i-'"^ ' '"^ ^o 7°" k"ow '" general ?-I have heani f ^^'"'^ '^'^"' ^^^-e River be ^0^ over the Lands vvhidxareltat^^ •''■?' ^""^^"^^" ^^ho have been S*e. Anne Lapocatiere. Riv^^rfo "J.'^^r^L^'' ^^ ^^^ Seiga lories of raska betweeS thefe S ig^i;; e^^^.^d R"^"^ Kamo^' of land was generally goo^d and fit for ^i'-'' ^^^ •^°^"' ^^^^ ^hi» tract 6 ^9 M COMTOTEK I ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. >fertion« and en- ove cjcpectatlon, e lin>ited means »it have on for- lance of others; ! far furpafsed ■ was ectrufted. USER.'* appear prejudicial to you or infufriclpnt «,!,,* e ing .hereto would vur comn^nd ^ Tl, >"""' of rfmedy.^. B. TachS. ' ogr. . of iho/c which are alreac'y barm,. ] ro-^H- '^ X>ccr.I828. Road Law as very nrti.iriirtal *«.!....*'- __./• r". Kamourac-ka, fo reach the nents, great- h shore and you know ver be good h;ive been ?'gn lories of >nd JCamou- lat this tract Fief St. De. las furveycd ■'fig Seigui* »d as far as ?ry fit for 3ne of the ot only of ers on the judicial to * lil^t^fj?^ ' ^ ^Iv.'^'lr^' "'^"- ""'"•" ^''^ aireac'y bt'L".in. I ro-^fi- dtr the actual Road Law as very prtJMdirial tn flw . r r . country, in as much as the col/of he Ji ' '^r T^'^ ""^ 't opening ot new Roads is enormous con p. dwirth.r '\" means of the country people Thnr itT-^ll r , , ? ^""^^ ihiliinp, rncbdlng Ih. e^p^nV f.h p/'Ll'a^"" oC °nd iho allowance made ro the Surve™ Th,7o 7u , * J^** the shorten Road which U rn" feed out Th .Vf" """"u-T be t'oVivV'ted'n" ""^'"! "f e"'-!''"'-"^^'' dSer,'o'„'d to 'ec?ve,„vLes or' ?/ ' "'™f ^T'- »"'' "^ l«rmithim • CS.CIVC .luy rees ; or to convert the cllir,.nf r* ..-,., i \; ,1 S^'t' "■"""' " »" ="'"'"' '^'=^"°"' i" ">= lime m™„er whTtJdt. "="'." "-=, "™ "'"^' Ke:^er'oft'hrRe™:t Who jould be author,.cd to dehvcr Copies thereof whfn ''°"s ^°bemade b..^ ^""•^' ^^ere 1;?/. "'"^"^ ^'th the "x ^^ "^^'^ Setr/ers . ,h ?°f ^''^^'ent for the 7^ ''*" ^°"»e conces" "--.^'ett,e,.en" L f '^ ^"-^^'^ o^fta t toT"'* ^"^ '^^^Tt c.oic Regmen, called in 1, ? '" "" Majed,', _ &,rf ' ''e modes in ufe fcr ,p '"' ™^'"i' of beiom- •'"'•CatdTa""""' f„ -F rte .ft., yearrthat&'f ''-j' o^.he rr"'-jf"8 «-> 'oft a'^gt" dt '?" - curd^o'r",,;: ,•;" "e repZd or "'" "^i P™«i "uftd"":* "<»* through fuch 'i"^. 'he repairL '""«' ''" "■? Part of '.h"' '"^ Roads rL "'J -'- fro. ^-'^'^^':^i:^i^j^^ y t tvith facili.y ^'^ej that the Land. '"«ded with the ex VJnH '"""^ '^^nces- r„ ' '"'^ '^' "'ant ^efornew/ettlers ;hey are obliged to '^datthediftance ^^^"'t'vation i, to ^«,abfe to collect, ^' Sa nt John is '•enceatL'/ilet. 'O'-e tiian fifteen' ™ His iVfajefty's xaniined ; •quafnted with, ^o'-eft Lands ' emp/oyed in =^ut down, the making heaps °"gJ»">gfach ^n the fc ,sh- should not be more than 16 feet wide tht> vc\» i , u .^ lefs damage. The clearance wS^ reouired ? "^ '^? ^° 1* '^•^- ^^-^'-^ more than it is worth. The cau cwavsfn tlTf ^""^f ^^^'X "^ Esqr. be made with large logs Several K/n^^ never ;^.-W covered with the ground taken from fhpfv .'"'*'' alternately 1» Dec. 1828 the purpofe becter.' The Saim Grego '^ R fd^^o^M " '"'"^^ grant of money to defray the expenfe of tl • "* '""'"""^ ^ Laft Autumn and the whole of K f^P'"^ « m repair. The Townships through whfch^a^^^^^^^ '^ T ^ ^-y- be tedious .o detail) are but thin /'Sid if-"'" ''c''^ '' ^^"''^ pcced that the public will affist.' A Road o 40^0^^"'^ ^^- from the cxirem ty of the St iifm:, P„,j • ™ ". '^O ■•'/"■"•'. let to the St. cLoire Ro'aH ri '" "" '^"'■'* "fNico- ford, would communicate whh iCund" "''"P "' """• Nicolet and I^Bar Th"par i,. ! '"'"> Roads, that of (ime» go to trade ^ the Town ? r^ """' "''• ""I'' « M Ported prefen . , ' eat Ta^^P^- J*!' "-"J-nication with .0 the good Road/om^tre^ht,:", "?^l°jtro?p'"=f "J Brunfwicfc; A'erftaL'"from"por''tW S SV"" ^^ not exceed 225 miles Th*. r«: .^ Ihree-Rivers does chants and Trave e s wLld ?eachT'"' ^^^P^^Jj"' »he Mer- vantage of new br nchTof S [^^^^^^^^^ Shores of the St. Lawrence Townships and both that at the end of tlirpS of M I °/l' "^^ *^^" ^"^ fecend anfwer. ' '^ °^ ^'*^°'"' ^ ^eg to refer to my /y?ngpiS,rm^^^^^^^ mode of <*t>ne by contract, or wo. M I^k ^ ^^°"'** ^^^ ^ork be OTi ^ MlifUTES OP EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL CO^ttMlTTteE ^'G.Z>or/r/as employed and pal, I for ihe purpofe •, ftate fuMy and pirticiiliirly ^ '^'' J what yon conliclffr to bi- the ;idv;\iit.iges nnd difjdvartiagei of the loTJi'^ iS9fl ^^^ modes refpectivc'y ?— The Commiflioner? according to law 'advertize for the lowcfi tenders ; but this low tender is fometiines Very htgh, for every Cotitractor ought to ("ecureto himfeif a profit of forty per cent, lince he runs the rilk of bsing ruined by a fuit, previous to the Road being acce; ted of. If the Contractor un- dertake a great deal he will necciPiri'.y give out fome par: of his undertaking to fub-cotitractoij, who will ufc the fame reafoning. This explains the reafin wiiy the f 53,000 voted for internal com- munications have hard'y produced a short Road in the whole Province. The fecond method is therefore preferab'e, but there is danger in that alio. It would be proper to have a fuitabie per- fon p'aced at the head of this ; w Department, with orders to employ Militia Oilicers in the Parishes, with fir country peopie to allist them, and thcv wou'd bo paid ; but they would fupp'y them fit workmen by the diy or by tlie month, and fimling themfelves with provifions. In fome cafes they n)ight be allowed the trans- port of their provifions. The Head of this Ocpnrtment ought not to have any money at his difpofal. He might draw upon the Re- ceiver General or upon (uch other perfon as inight be appointed, as often as the cafe niij^hr require, but in ail cafes upon affidavits being produced of the perfuriuancc of the work, or the attefted accounts of the aids which he might have employed. ti The Honorable Lnm's Re 'c Cftnitsiro;r'os De Len/i a Member of the Legiflative Council, called in, and examined : Is the Road from Longiieuil to Chamb'y mtich frequented, jT^ ■^^"'^f ' and by whom ? — This Road Trves as a communic.ition for more Jti-y. ^1^*" **■'" P'""''lies and for the Townships which have their outlet *j- nw_^ acrofs the Mountains of Ron^^t'minl de i\ius/,a, and conftquently 19 Dec. 1828. »» one of the moil frequented, What parts of it are a front Road, and what parta of it a by-road ?— -This Road is about 4^ leagues in length, and the who'e of it i< a front Road, with the exception of three by-roads which form together about three quarters of a league. Could the by-road be paved with ikone by the perfons^ obliged :0T»iMrrTteE pirticii'iirly uages of the rding to law is fometimes Tiff If a profii ed bv a fuit, jntractor uri- iR par: of his e reafoning. nteriii*! coni- 1 the whole I'e, but there fiiitable per- th ofjers to fry peop e to fiipp'y them ig themfelves ed the trans- ?nt ought not jpon the Re- 3e appointed, )on affidavits the atteOed ■ed. a Member df ined : I frequented, ion for more i their outlet confcquently )arts of it a g(h, and the iree by-roads rfons^ obliged 83 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. to maintain it, or would a ouWic aM K« «kr i . i «, public aid b7,Lfcir,yTec°&'^^^^^^^^^^ "«■»• " ""-"I a the whole yew )-There Sff/,L ?" ""' '"^ «<»'' ''"™g bog, of ,bout" acre, ?„ len^i t-l"" <"" '""' """"J '»o every fpring, a„d"™^"fJS^bnhef:l;:oT'^'' ^^1""" roads of SO acre fach „„| 'J ! """""l""" »f 'our or fl.e L. «r«, formed bTa"a« of .h 'T'T,.'''' " fq""' of aboue io terefted are obS o L»im • u" "''" "'""''"' «' P^^on, in- ft.all, and I Met ha° w ^ 'JThr "m '"'""''"»' *'"' « ""' paving them with ftone ^ ' °"' °"' "'s"" '""««<' " -^'orZrj^'™!''''/ ■■'t''.H"'«»"« ''■"« place.? of St. Lawr^en e vHlaee Ikh if °"'';?.^ ^T"" "" "" "««« •'« charge of the inhlU^'of the SS Vil^ge" * '""" "^ " r-^arbZ'tha: ehatX"-at."''Th^"tr "■' ^""■" » ing the bv-roads in a^^ll i ^ V T / . ^^^ "^^^ns of render- - the fi/ft intaice' o" wfdeTfhr S 3o7 ^"'"^'-P'-"* "e werermlyoriginallvSO^l. ?k T u- ^? ^««' • t^efe by.road« feet therefrorn^ To 7hat ,r h ' '^'''^'"^ ^" '^^^^ ^way 7 or 8 12 or 15 feet Th.Xl' a ™T'?' '^^ ""'»ge road is only P3,„„. . , t' -^^at beinc done, theLawfhould rpn-?- -«-.. . ,• gatory to the nartifx: m»i>..<>r. a i.- ■ "*-'"'« render luatobh* to % the keenhl of /»f k''' ''^''^ ^"^ ""'^ oP"onal ; that it 7, keepmg of the by-roads in repair, and by an amend- meat 34 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE The Honbl "^^"* °^ ^^^ ^°*^ ^"^ which allows ihe parties interested to give Z. R. a JDe°"' *^^'"^ refpective by-roads to Contractors. The Sous-Voyer Lery, t^f" only has the Contractor to overfee. I ought to remark that *s,^*v-^ this amendment |to the Road Act will expire on the first AJay 17 Dec. 1828. next* What extent of by-road and of front road is there on the pub- lie road in the Ifland of Montreal, between the City and the crofsways in the Parifh of Sault au Recollets P-The extent of the Road between the City of Montreal and the CrofT-ways in the Sault au Recollets, is about the fame as that between the fame City and L*Abord a Plouf ; that is to fay, about 2 leagues and a quar- ter, of which about thirty acres, cuIier up or down the Riviere des Prairies to reach the different crois-roads, are front roads. "What number of perfbns interested are obliged to maintain thofe by-roads ? — I cannot precifely fay the number of perfons who are interefted in keeping thefe by-roads in repair, not having a flatement of it ; but with the exception of those portions of the by-road in the Parish of Montreal, called, I believe, Routt de la Visitation, whicS the inhabitants of the Sault *\x Recol- lets are bound to ketp in repair, the portions in the others are not very confiderable. What parts of them could be paved with ftone at the expenfe of the perfons interefted, and what would probably be the amount of their cost ; could fome parts be only paved with a public aid, and what extent ?~I have no experience in the making of Roads after McAdam's manner, therefore I cannot fay what would be the expenfe of coating thefe koads with stone, which I must fay is already too stony. It would certainly be neceiTary to have an aid for that purpofe, ^ What parts of the by-road between St. Martin's Church and the Ferry could be paved with stone at the expenfe of the perfons interested, and what would probably be the amount of their cofts j could fome parts be only paved With a public aid, and what extent ?— I do not know any part of this Road which could be coated with ftone at the expenfe of the parties inter- efted, and much lefs what the expenfe Would be. The whole of this extent should be at the public expenfe, or that of the whole Parish, which the inhabitants would certainly not like. L COMMITTEE iterested to give he SouS-Voyer to remark that 1 the first May S5 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATION... ere on the pub- City and the -The extent of 'ofT-ways in the n the fame City les and a qnar- wn the Riviere front roads. ;d to maintain ber of perfons lir, not having •se portions of believe, Routt ult loll Recol- in the others at the expenfe be the aniounc with a public he making of »not fay what I stone, which f be neceflary Mondai/i 22d December 1828. Alexander Joseph iVolff, Efquire, again called examined : in, and Have you in your pofleffion any Reports or Conine nf n Copies of them at my houfe at Val-Carflpr ti,» ... I now produce is the Reoort hi Ha u ® P'P^'' "^^'^^ the ComJ.vf r T ""''*'' "'J' '"Perintendance. I by before fomn ""''""' ^'^'"""'''^ '" "'' '""''* «'^'^^ '^''^ ''^^* "s fol^ » Report of the Works done on the Portage to T .t. T mifcouata. from the 15th June to the 19th AuTuft ft9« T the fuperintendance of A J Wni ff r • . u .r^ ^®^^* ""'^^'" i Church and penfe of the the amount o{ a public aid, i Road which parties inter- . The whole r that of the inly not like. Quebec, 25tk August 19261. fcomlhelt^lJ^'^ J""^'""^«'» ^ party of laborers to move Sn^ ov ;fh^^^^^^ '?l\^'''T ^^"^» ""^^^ '^' "re Tf an apd on mv arriv'all f" ?'L°'''^ "'^' ^'^ ^'^^ *"°»h«' Party. Bridge in 4nnl ^°""^.*^« P^^* °* ^^e Road leading to the ^7orks there ThIr^P'''?? ^"^ °'^^' '^P'*'"' ' befun the 1^ a V. y d'tlZ^' .fV'^S",' ^¥^ ^^'^P'^'^^'y repaired, at it wa, totheBridT/rverVh. P ^i^'" I proceeded with a fecond fquad "ridge over the Ruifleau Morneau, which was reported to E 2 I I 36 MINUTES or EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ^- J- ^olff,^rJlTf'^ Jtnpanable, as a woman (Mrs. McDon.ld) norrowly E«,r. -^'efcaped from breaking a leg. I found it necefTary to have an 2Str^^^ ';"r "'"^ ^"''«* ^"''^ ' after which done. I employed the whole WDecr.18,8 Of the party on ihe Road between thef; Bridges in renwin: and repainnga I the caufeways, which are numcrou, remov n^of the Hoad opened where it was requiHte. On my way frim Cote'a SnfH '°/fi' r^''? ^'^"^ ^"'^°"fi'^ '^'^ P^'-t of the Road is conndered fit for wheel carriage, but from the decayed ftate in Wh ch I perceived the pavings to be, and confequently dangoroi" to the public, I therefore, when the two bridges and thf road between were in a ftate fo as to prevent accidems, employed ?he men ,n repairing the caufcways on that part of the road, a, it w s found almos impracticable to bring up the provifions and ftorcs for the working party. 1 alfo conceived that from the Bridge o of b^nlT . °i^ u^'''''' ^^"^ '^' '^'^ » '""^h in need of being opened,which however I have declined doing for the foU owing : confidering the works required on the whole of the Por- tage, cfpecally from La Petite Fourche to the Lake, and the limi- ng LT.^Tu'*' ^ proceeded whh the idea of going through Hval ?.l' ' • ' ''i ^l ''"'."S '^' "^^'ft "q"'^^J» ^n'l on arl I on ' ''"'' of what iUm had already been expended, fo a on my return equally to beftow where needed the remainder^ otherwife I might have been led into the error, more partially to^apply the money on a proportion pf the road than^n an- I then returned to the road above RuifTeau Morneau, which for about a mile diftance is fufficiently open, but covered wirde- tached pieces of rocks, which were either removed and the holes F om Xr\^";"'^ '°'^'' ^'''"' °^ g--^""^' ^r broken °p From whence to La Savane des Roches, a diftance of about two S lbnn^Vi° 7','n'" -'^ '^'^'"^ "P» ^"'^ ^'' °P'^'^ '<> ^ breadth of about 2* and 30 icet ; the whole of the pavings, which are here very numerous and in fome places of extraordinary leng h' zVe7:^.^i^''"'' ' ''"'^^ ^''' ""^'^''^ '-' ^-- -^^ I endeavoured to make Les Roches practicable for wheel car- Hnft^J *''■"'''"? "P the largeft detached pieces of rocks, leveU ih^oll %!S''^ "^"^ '^'"^ fragments, and covering nearly the whole of the centre with gravel and ground ; and I may^dd! or thi;:'H"'''V^* '' ^?'' ^''^'' ^"^^^^ St. Francis RivJr two loa? « T T' ""'^ ' "••' '°^^*^^ ^"h '^bout 4 cwt, I had th. »oaa opened lO about 25 feet. « '- L COMMITTEE ijld) narrowly i»r)' to have an ayed the whole 3, in renewing n, removing or aclcs, and had ay from Cote'a f the Road is ecayed ftate in titly dangerous and the road employed the road, as it was ons and ftorcs the Bridge of much in need ng for the fol- ile of the Por- , and the limi- ;oing through li and on ar- expended, fo he remainder, nore partially than on an- ■neau, which ered with de- md the holes broken up. of about two 1 to a breadth s, which are inary length, i drains made r wheel car- rocks, level* f nearly the I may add, s River two vt, I had th(» 37 ox ROADS AN,, OTIIEll INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Fr^s ^ut Ym": dm Ji::^i:;°.:!;^ ''''- -r ^'- ^'-^ '^- -• -^ ^^?^ detached piece, of rocks fomn If '' '""''' '°'''''^ ^^'''^ ^''W- broken up, and t! e vaclnc e\ r?il ''. ''\ ''''' '"^''"°^^^ «'" ^ ^'i^'-'^ W-^ road was'opened to^^nH ^Ib t;:; h ^''"'n ' T'.^^"""'' ''''' '"^^'"^ nver, I found dangerous fro" w' inH r '*">'""'«" °'"' ^'^''^ owing to the beam on t/m , 1 h ^"^' ^'"■'""" '" "^'^ <'^^"!'. bridge to be undone, a" dind u^ "''^ ''''^ ' ^ ""'^^' »'^ the bridge covered with n'l c'ci^ """ ^'"^"^ '" ''"' ^^ '^' ^'^ of tr:^;.^^';^^;'^^;;-'; I^-che the road at the ..t were repaired or renewed ?^'- ""'' ''''' ^''«'« °f ''^'■' !>-'",, ^nj drains were madeTo t ^^"■^^'^^»"=' required j ditcl^^s i"i^ at the beg nnint of T '^' '"r'^'''' ^"^^' ' ^I'i^-^^'- rocks were mer. S:h Ll l""'^" '^''''^''^ '-^'^ ^^f conliderable fize nd L hi '^T' ""'^°"«'^ ^"'"'" -^' v-y the road being much c Ink d " '1 . 'V''^ ^'"'"■^^' ="'' ^'^""-'^ opened to a breadth of tm ^S tTio tt ' ""' ^ ""'^■^' '^ ^ ^^ iogs wte";:;ir:d°^he" P:ff ^^"^^ ^'^^^ ^^^' ^^^ ^'- new made asvvell as.noi kT ^""^ '"*5^ ^^^'^"'Py, «bey were to La Grande Four he atuf u'V'"/'"^""'- ^--''-"c breadth as above, and : -• ^""''' '''" ""^^^^ ^^^ °P'"^^-d ro a almoft renewed * The brid'"/ ' ^^yj^n'-erable Icr.rh was From La Gr nde Four f .^T '^'Z ^T. '''' '^P^^^^^' paving, were made and dih. ,' ^""' °^ ^'^^' mountain, new water from the ro.d anjn T'^\°"^''^'^ '^''^''^ »° '•''^^^ fJ^e to be conftantly Tder wfter l'".: T'"1°^ '"' P"^ ''Ppoared of to higher the centre of ' !nd "f . ^."""^ "^^ '"^'^■-' ^''■^• way into the ditches The^l^ . /u"^"^ "^'' ^^'''^'- '« 'md its which labour w r^ Ji^eV^'^ '^^^^^^ road from thence to raTetftepr?^''^^ P"' °f the « was much choked up .^ntfXf V \'^'''''^' °P^"'"g '^ =^« outlets made, at internals ofThn?/ '^^^^'^ ^^^^" ^'^^^'^ •"'"^ removed, renewed, and other, r" "^ f '-f-l''^' '^'' ^""^-^=^y^ ^'Fl^rhtrrT??-^""^-^^ a very fwTmpVp ; ?;^^f ro:/--/--'-. ^^P^-^^ to 1. and outlets were^nee^arvanSM' ""i^^'P'^"''y different di.chcs a^ before; the road lYJ' a ^'^ P"''"^'' renewed and repaired even at this fea w" t^J a^ aTJ' ''f • ' ^^"^ ^-^ Pavmgs floating ; the /W * ' • "^"^"'^ed in July wl^oie A,„.„^_. . fev'i^e lame operat.ons_ were made, as circum! ftances req Was made over the M the foot of IJuard Moi arais Sangfue. J had 'untam. A new brid ^e an opporiunitv of II ,1 1 ;n ! I " 38 MINUTES „. EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE -^^trp:bo££ 7f "f ^^^^^^^^^^^^ breadf , Ar \°""^''= '° '!« foo' of the Mountain, to a sreat «ft t„ 1,"^' ro;,";'.™-;S "• "'-^ •'• T h-ng a fr« ac. «fier ,0 be broken nVrr, "P"" "'^T' "''i>^» became much »>«l,od shorter tnnt-,n J'^ ""> grounds I found this hand, and no detv o tr^'f ■>' "'^°'' '■.''"S ""^ *'>"= " iefl-e/ d,,ne„"Lt':L" Itvfd TlrZT::' Vh'^f '°^'^ "^ a. before 7v .r„ W ?'^ '"' "1"'"' '"^ ">= "=d opened by tun^Tng off ,, eCd ''/.'If.rt'.f ^'«"' ' have partly a/oided pa.ing, e„e„ed a^d o^hets^p*:^""' """"''^''' ="" '"- them. ^'aters, even at about ^ a mile beyond S9 :iAL COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMLNICATIONS. ■e, as the day after (as far as under very great fall of ?ctiy dry in about le Road all along mtain, to a great in addition to the [laving a free ac- 3out 2 miles, the )me of fuch fize, ourfe in inftances when thoroughly d in opening the h became much id ; I found this every where at I : the rocks of The fragments lents were either the road opened 'e partly avoided >ich part was ra- ground lodged pavings unneces- »ad by means of ently taken up.) id removing de- lued, and ibnie part of the Por- bcing covered "all dimenfions I the road rai- many were re- and permitted } This part of onftantly been) fe fucceeded in r courfe. The ;e pavings were a mile beyond the prrfcnc. a, ,he end of i prove mVft/ f"^';"*-'"" ""'V i"' that at a future oeriod i, „;T. ? ^ ' '"" '"™ "" 'l""!". made by t7up" or",o Th! "' "■"", ■"'''"^'"We expenfe, bj , Mountain to, fble over, hel;tiol'r''R- "''°? ">' '*°^''!' i fe» exceptions is very Vamnv ,„H j ^""Ji^ '"' '""^ "■'"' f pavings, which were reT.Tred' d?, h'l "* "'/"I"")' "■"> ■"""y ; addi,ional paving, rennirednn 1 ,»," '^f""-'^"'-^ ""'^OH n,ade, ten,. The^rid^ovr'hS, River' c T""* ""«'-« ■='^- fet.&^:!; ::!;rr iTr^oI^^o^'i^^^^^^^ that River covered an^i^ .V u. . " ,"^ ^°» and tue bridge over , ^•"''cicu anew, it havme been hurnprl Tu^ r immediate y on croflinxr thcf K.-^ onrned. Ihe afcent, not long,) Jnd re^n^d^ ^dan f^ J^n riZer""//^'^"^^ proved as much as practicable for^ the p ef^nt ti 'Lnin ''•' '" «^Srt:!:it;.^^:^:--^;;V^^^e the Road was opened addition to the [Z^clVeTZ'^" ^"'"''f ^^^''' "^«^ Pavings ,a outlets, and dtht " ^ S a .rf^l'J"^ "^^-^ ^'^ ^'td-^s^and cerned to have to "' done, as the hay feibn I aH In f IT'V''"' Partially and haltily their homes, and I h d .^ approached, the labourers withdrew to to the public in ef Id hT 7""""! ^^^ ""'^°"^ F^J^dice yioufl/ employed a';rt;?ftbT^^^^^^^ P- in order to accelerate ih^ «,oT , ^ ^^^^ ^° '^^et me: road, a diaance o77bo,f o^^l ■' °' °'''*^'^^"^" '^''' part of the lefs improved * °"^ '"^'S"^* ^'^"'^ l^^^e been much done"tothVSnt7e:rr'* ^'"^ f ^°"-^^^ --^ h- been requires great rrovementlr' 'f ''■'' ^"^ ^* ^^^ '^^^^ ^^^ «n-iage.SheSgrorheRTvt'd^^ '°^ ^^'-^'^ to me byfeveral livin^on Vhl pf ""^^ ^'' ^''''" reported and should it not b ' dnn! ^- f ^ ''f ? '''^"'' ""^ ''^ ^«^1 of repair, be deftroyed n^xt fprine ^ *'' ^"'^^ '^ '""^'^ ^^P°^^^ t« FrQrn *-U^ C 1 • . *- Portage, it murbe expected th'f?h ^'"'. '" t. '''°'' «" »'^' vcniencod by wind.f! ^ n. '"' /'^« ';°^^ ^ill be much incon oy wmd.t^ils, as the hiet have eot do.n i.u,. .u. ;ot dcL'p into the 40 mmiTES ov EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ftiPec. 1828' I I (Signed) A J. WOLFF. ADDENDA to the Report of Aujuft ,826, of „o.k done on the Pdrtage Road to Lake Temifcouata : b theereV^" h "C;, "ctlTtL"'' 77 "■'^" '•"'""^ fansoccafionod by the fame and mt' '°»^°f .»"'"'"<»■= "ind- hcA i«f* .-I ^ '"e lame, and making other improvements I had left nnt.l my return from the Lake, when I prbceedeTon in the Summer, wh.ch I was prevented to accomplish in confe nfVhJ va * W ?r ^^^^ troad and 1 deep) for the whole of that d.ftance and alfo widened the road by removing rocks h .'; ?."T,^ zi'irZiZ'"'"'' ' expec.er:;'n.:;z; ou.le,r;l"L^o"t'iS"J!'l'lT <^^'^''i, di.ches and •pened, and the other imDediments by Bri im] gal wh anc 1 tha wh( gon peo des ( whi beic Wii Roj the thai Pre! as circumstances would admit removed as far CIAL COMMITTEE roots, as alfo fome ^ J. WOLFF. , of work done oh fcouata : le works at Green ere much injured of numerous wind- er improvements I I proceeded on in omplish in confe- i of the harveft. •f the Road, I par- nployed the party fjnd and gravel i but at a con(i- s were wanted to ep) for the whole y removing rocks e for wheel car- 1 outlets made. Tks, removing or injured by fires, ghout the ROad ; s fome rainy days itches and outlets )ened. m whence to the immer, owing to ed, confequently nore fo from the »nd the roads in- id up the ditches •ed, ditches and s removed as far *1 : ON Roads and other internal communications. On my approaching, and wheii at th6 Lake, I was informed^. J. Wolff- by every traveller, without exception, that the Road from the Esqr: Bridge over La Rivitire du Loup to La Riviere Verte was almoft *^ — y— ' impracticable from windfalls occasioned by fires and a fubfequent^^ I^^"' l^*^*- gale of wind, and from the very bad state of the caufeways ; which induced me, although without authority, to have it cleaned and the caufeways renewed and repaired. It gives me fatisfaction to be permitted from obfervation, to state that wheel carriages are now preferred to the menoir by travellers^ who have paffed through the portage fince the road has under- gone repair, and that but few menoirs are ufed, and thofe bv people wishing to return difencumbered, having reached their destmation. Great windfalls are to be expected from the extenfive fires which have ravaged the woods and confumed the ground deep below the furface, confequently the roots are much damaged. With refpect to the Bridge over Riviere du Loup on the Portagri Road noticed in my Report of August last, I beg to refer to the accompanying statement of Mr. Jean Michel Duchene, me- thanist. (Signed) A. J. WOLFF. Prefent state of the Portage of Temifcouata, and method pro- pofed for its improvemerii : !^ueh€c, 10th August 1823. After an attentive examination of the coutitry on the right and left of the Portage Road for eight days, and having during that period traverfed a fpace of from 59 to 60 miles through the woods, I am of opinion from the greit extent of fwampy ground and high mountains i^afled over du- ring that period, that it would be much better to continue the prelent line of the Road than to give it i hew directlori. I must however at the fame time beg to add, that when the leaves are SrV ri*'"^*- »t may be poffible to avoid many of the bad parts, -hiehl W3S m all probability prevented from doing from tii« 4« MmDTE8 OP EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECUt COMMITTfifi se Otcr.lSSS. Afluming it therefore as a point decided on. that It .« u u better to continue the prefent Road. I shaU proceed To m^' forae remarks on its pre/ent state, with fnrhV - ""'''* should think might le^d to its Tmpr" emenf^ iT^nT 'i ' place I confider it not unimportant toZl?. \u^ «. *^*. ^"' Portage is at prefent in fo wre ched a staL t^ r^^ '^^ ha, not been there can fcarcely form any dl' oft ' ^"'u\7^'' chants (or Storekeepers) of l^ladawaska do no^ lJt"herr^'"" pl.es oyer it. in preference to going down the St John'l R ^"P" Fredercton to which place^the^annot go and re"ur^n^^^^^^ than nme days, where, as in the fame time oJa HrrL i r J^' can travel to Quebec, and back aga^n with th J i '^'' ^^'^ getting their goods at a much lower^me ' ''^"'"^'S^ *^^ The Madawaska Settlement at prefent consists »rr^.A- Mr. Ringuet the Cure, of 140 Lilies, whh\ke„t^^^ common average of from 5 to 6 per/ons each wHl «• *^® tion of nearly 800 fouls; this Sate I dA nn.^ %? P^P"^'" over-rated, iving taken \re oppSt/of Xlt^^^ on a Sunday, hto go to the Church x.Wrh ?ir ^ "« *^*''® Hiv^^VeSHn^;^^^^^^^^^ about 4 cwt i but from thence to Lon^g»t27 milerthronl"'"^'!;^ of conveyance is on z memor or f|Lc el orfledi f '^ 'J°u^ fren'thrioat^'^.i"^^^ "°^' beCsr^fth^t^'St o' ttTi;rAroTo^^:^^^^^^^^^^^ ground : on this machine which is genL° y ta£n thtlV^' way acrofs the Portage, a load of frorrtV^i cwt ^ cr^rrJ^" in two^days, and one to return for the fum of 4 or 5 Zl There « no difficulty in getting «/«./rundmake the foT but they try their utmost to impofe on strangers .anHMu i'' ' „ -^ ^„„ ^o „p^„ g„jj jjggp jjjj repair the I '"^s«:sni ClAL COMMITT^B than a few yards », that it would be proceed to make h iuggestions as I ; but in the first that although the that a perfon who )fit} yettheMer- ow get their fup- Jt John's River to ind return in lefs • a little lefs, they the advantage of ists, according to ich taken at the 'ill give a popula- lot confider to be my being there und, though of a old. Lawrence to the ■or carts carrying IS, the only mode fdge, formed by four uprights to is fufpended to trails along the ken the whole cwt. is carried *or 5 dollars- ertake the job, and asked me detained them Verte, 91 miles ^ues in a direct oup, and every led, the Cenfi. in repair the '*iS 44 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Road along the front of their refoective I om oi ,» «. .i • r is already Vacticable for carts «rrying f^^^^^ ^. '^ofif. we.ght, it appears lefs neceflary to /xpfnd mley l'it'"ha„ o„" JX^ the remaunng 27 m.les of the Portage. ^ °" 2^c,lSSi. Ecofle to the commencement of the Settlement at the rTJ^ Verte (5 m.les) the Road has never been opened more tha^ few feet w.de, and that at the prefent moment the branch« overlap one another on the greatest part of this fpace, wh ch in^ . deed IS the cafe on almoft the xvhole of the Postage, ^xiept at miie (j^ miles} the Road is very much covered with detached p.eces of rock, fome of large dimenfion, requirinreither to be removed or broken up, neither of whkh would-be difficult very little timber upon It, and even what there is, is eenerallv imall pmes or cedars, which on this part of the Road mrhi b^ a"rit7ixVeU! °^^" " " ' ^"^^^^^ ^'^'^'^ ^fay So"^fet; tt ^hir^Jt ^r''"' the caufeways are made with fapins or cedar, rmxed, and I remarked that almoft without exception, when the former were completely rotten and broken in pTeces" the cedarl were almoft as perfect as the day they were pu? down It 18 necelTary to ftate that there are a great many portions o* the logged parts of the whole of the Porf age wh'ch are fo com ittlT ""^u^i"' '^'' " '' ^""^ aftonif^in^ hor^can drT; Lo. ontee '^^^^^^^ f- although many of tlfem have had new . J^ogs only three or four years ago. yet having been made of fa- 5 lirn ""t' standing clofe by) Ld frequ^ently oTver. fmaU dimenfaons. they could not be expected to laft W the confe Jr wUhVtLr 'r''T? "^°^P'^-» of from^5;ol0 ?et rumhJc'ff "^'.^'"fi'^ '°S °" t^^""* and in others great rive f mm ;^"/^g^^"y.and care the unfortunate animals con! ever a cir^umK^ ^Tr /k ?""^^'^ ""''^ '^'^' '« " how- paffes over rh^S ; ''^"^- I ^'"'""^ "'"^''^ °«""' t^^t any load Seen into »h« 7*'^*^ .'^"^°"' *^* ^""'^^ fi"k»ng repeatedly fo iictciiary to unharnefs him for the pnpoof- "*" -n-«*'J-- »^;- • fcr.„bl. ou. of U. which U g.„er,lly'd„„T;ith .h. SaSiT rf I i A. J. A4f MINUTES OP EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEe' «2lVcr. 1 8:18 With refpect to the Savane des Roches wli.VK • i j r is to take up the log, and ileepers and renlrf .k ^- u ^?''' laid flat onVgroLd, putting" f^iX" t^rj^^ and covering the(e up with mud taken from the dutches tS '^ are fre. from obft^cions, and 2UT,"hty have b e„ 'nS there are large .rees growing out of the mSe of ther^ R^ jhis method, and a little lookini; after r l,,.. . j ^" i ^ whTV" '"^'7' ''r" of "" 'warnW pt7 cnheto'riat r«erarTr„afe^%^:'''/°""'' ""-l S^odT i? wonld howI.T^: neceiiarjr in a tew years to nut more pravpl nn I'l- tk: .1 J h muftbe admittedVould be att^n^eT: h a 'onW abfex ! bC;Sih:'i:'*rsTx:'r„rt'Td°'r"'"';"'"''^ I'rom near the 1 4th to near th*. i«»k -,-i *^ /- ttd"' %■"■'"• A^'-""'* one^o'tLtit'd Ai^rLkref methid of improving the RoaH Z ^°" T '■^^" ""^ '"'"' wheel carriaA-boTth'aYo?";!!" LpJeYen^ ,^r"«t^^it UD the interst ces or neaualities nf t\l r r^ -, ." ^^ ?'""? .h/jSou„",'aT„'i';i:tvrrar 1*: t:l""' ^^"™ *- '=■'« -"i gc.. m„ch Of Which sholrm::7d '^^l^X ^t liL 45 FECIAL COMMITTEE j VS ROADS ANO OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. and puts all together which is logged from Ivifable only to put it e of conveyance, the litches and replacing thus conftructed are of making it good, ice them with cedars rer where ncceflary, m the ditches, then \ e is an abundance of \ ge ; taking care at s with drains and nn 'flible} t' iedr. ns ] id to fe that they j ley have been until 1 ddle of them. By I lave no doubt that I irts of the Portage would however be n it. This method a confiderable eX' f of communication | leration, I cannot! ;eous than to make : adopted, lile, or a fpace of ffolid rocks, ex- to preclude a pos- t appear any other f it practicable for ?nt tract by filling nth pieces of rock every direction, | about the fize of er it can conve- Vancis the fide of tid covered with road or be bro- I From the River Saint Francis to the Lake there are 8 or 10 I ledges of rock running acrofs the road which require blafting ; thefe ledges are m general from 15 to 20 feet in length with an elevation of from about 30 to 45 degrees, which would make it difficult to get carts with loads over them ; one of the pen- sionv^rs at the River Verte being a minor and defirous of em- ployment, It would only be neceffary to provide him with tools, &c. \ It might alfo be necelTary to blast fome of the largest of the I detached rocks at prefent on the Road, From the River Saint [ trancis to the Lake Temifcouata the fwampy parts are fo nu- merous that It would be endlefs to attempt to particularize ihem ; I must therefore beg to refer to my plan for their pofition and extent, merely obierving that the fame method is recommended with refpect to them as is pointed out for the Savane des Koches. T^ bridges over the different streams croffing the road beinr of fuffic:ent breadth and in very good repair, with the exception ot a few rails and crofs planks or logs, a very trifling fum would be required on that account. The principal mountains are the one at the commencement of the Portage, the new Caledonian Hill, that on the eastern bank of the River Verte, both fides of the Saint Francis, the Grand Fourche and Mountains Buard, the whole of which require to have the.r steepest parts fcarpedfo as to make it eafy for loaded carts to afcend them. ^ Having meafured the distance in a number of places between trees standing directly opposite one another, of apparently from JO to 30 years growth, it appears evidently that this Road has not during that period been opened wider than from 12 to 15 teet, and as its general direction is nearly E.S.E. the rays of the fun can never affist in drying it, except for a short time in the morning, when they have the least power; the confequence of which IS, that places which would be dried by a few hours ex- polure to the fun and wind are never free from moisture 1 should therefore beg to recommend as a preliminary step to p/rr u'T?^""'"'/' that the bush along the whole of the feet £l ff '"- ''T" '°. '" "'""g^ ^•''^^ <>*" «t least aO teet, and every effort made to drain the water off. And as a very confiderable portion of the Road lien over a tract of gravel and rock which would not require to be mnr^ th.f Zhb\u f ^'" '^'^'* '" additional breadth ma/be'giv'en "^J inch of the fwampy parts as cannot be drained, fo as to allow th* J''sqr. 22 IX-r.IWirS. li (I . ;"'— ~BBPOHB THE SP.eU. COMMrXTHH ZrZK"»'-antee the Road from .hi -l''^l^^.^^!^.P••<>Pof«d wou'd ON 22 Dec. 1828 i ' li l?"arantee the Road rom.heeC'^-' .' P^^P°^^^ -°-^ no guarded against, excepT br J^n °l^'"lf'»"». which cannot be of « least 60 feet. ^ ^ «"'"« «he whole Road a breadth 7 fSv^retLrjtL^^^^^^ *° ]i 'r ^-^^^ ^"o-« three of them to a n i e wouU "' ^^ dollars an acre, and gfiieo. ** ""'*> ^°"'J not amount to more than I have put the extent to be opened at sn ™-i i. • , ted from the whole distance 5 Sfor -i? • "' ^J*""«^ ^«'^"'^- ^ng3 miles for parts where th^R^ate^efr' *'' ""*^'"- 1 ne work prooofeH rn K- « r . °^*" burnt. «^ture totall/dXrent "om CTh' °" ''^ ^^^'^ '^^-S °^ » "•^ ^ lam unwilling to hazTrd fn on' "^^ '"" *'*^" ^"P'^X^d stTJount requisite to Mrrv rinrn.fr '^'"T " ''^ '^« P'-obaW would re,Jire neari;r/a„'i;ed poll' I ^'f ' *^°"'^ ™^«'"« « about ^*000. which fum it U ?o be h "'J' °" "" ""^^^S^' <>' "Penfe. and make the Ro d a verv ! T"^ ^°"'** ^°''" ^^ery From Lonc's to th/n?^ - 1 - ,T^ goo^* one. "^ of any conffqUne o Md "J?i'^" " ^^'^ <>"^ «»-- distant one league ; this sLami, fro L" '""''* ^'^^ ^abonot. firm banks, and at this feason^s „o. ^^ *° ^^ ^''** ^''^^^ with fp"-ngandfalIisfaid;o£'',^^;^ir r/J^^^^^^ ^P»^» but in the mountains. At prefent this stream TJ^^ '^' ^'*"* ^^^ -he tree which lies a?rofs i abou? .hrel f^^^? "''^f ^7 means of a stream Long has a ciearii/of "a ft w atreT ' '^ * "^^'^ "^ ^»^« Lakes paffing in the rear and "n ,T°""'?'"' ^^'^^^ Surround the this portion Uedfthe whole Te ^ouf^h' ''""'? «°"''*' ^-^ pafsengers to the Little FalU of heS "^ be practicable for foot »ng been made from 12 to 14 feet ^h''^'* ' "^'^ ^°»d hav. gele, and paffing along the ricrhVb.^t '/^u^^'^^^^'^g ^t the D^. nates at the junction of .hat E S »K q ' .'^^^^''aska, termi- about 30 miles. " '^"^ the St. John, a distance of Chu^ tt rnrrS: wi?h tt ^x''^'^^^^^ ^r'-- - the portions as are left between nei.hLT'°". °^ ^"^^ ''"ached n.ence, although the lardirS^"''!'?'*^*'''^ «"«tual conve- Kiver, with exfeptio^ JSrX'v"' ^^"^^'^^^t. John^ I My feotk ainsl lein ^ppro Jirect borfes |ince •'e, « ture fi Thi liTier This ii ?dNo rourn 'j A. V (My De ELIOT, 68th Regt. [the Brid fent mo! Mr. C 9 contract " .p.li ECIAL COafMlTTEE ' keep them dry. It I propofed wou;d not ills, which cannot be >Ie Road a breadth feet wide, allowing dollars an acre, and unt to more than li'es, having deduc- es, and the renaain- n burnt. e Road being of a er been employed 8 to the probable [ should im.«gine it on an average, or would cover every is only one stream illed the Cabonot, 50 feet wide, with lepth, but in the te waters from !he er by means of a }f a mile up this ly opened ; prin- ich furround the ll's Houfe; Were cticable for foot t new Road hav. »cing at the D^- idawaska, termi- ^n» a distance of ttlement to the fuch detached mutual cnnve. Fthe St. John's 47 ON ROADS /- . OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. My Dear Sir, Lake Temhrnrtf/Tf 19th February 1817. A. J. Wolff, Esquire. 22 Dec. 1828. ' .1. ... ^ ' ^^^^ postponed to write to you fo Ion?- I dt> lot know which way to offer you my apology/ The Cu4 Vat ^msHebert and Bellefleur promifed. .« ;,«4.,. thev would fen^d" fcie.n writing, to be f.rwardeJ by me to yo.,, h;.v S^^h "hey So bproye the improvement on the Portage Ro.d done .mder Jour ^.rection. Little can be added when I can alTure yo„ 330 !oS borfes, chiefly wheat from Madawaska. have travelled thilf fence the 8th January, with at least t;ice th 'number o Pe^ bfl^es,"' '"' °"''P'""" '" P"''^"^ -^ wishing you^^f^ rirurLt'thi! s ';.::^'.^irr!z:^:- ^- -^ «- of With sincere regard, I duly am. My Dear Sir, Tour most obedt. fervant, ALEXr. FRASER, [J A. Wolff, Efq. |My Dear Sir, Lake Temisrorraffr, 8th November 1828. »th Regt. ItheRrld.,.. „i5rP'''"'' **" the Portage Road are multiplying, & ttf il^^'ac^^^^^^^^^^ ""^ "°' '^"^'^^^ 'y ^-' - - p- cn„^;;.Po7"h^M^^^^^^^ River des Cap,, who has the Id. p. M. G.t fhi; beha^'^'""''"' ^" ^^^^'^^ ^° ^'- ^'^y^^' 49- MIXUTES ,, EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEB. ''■;'.,S' ..eLr"?/"' "" °'" ^'"- '" '"»' y°" -'7 petition for ,ho tUe i'ortage is this time wretchedl" bad. The bodv of , ^ man was found by Air. Dair, fons, about a m^e Llow tC' houfeon last Monday, lying stretched on the l^Z ItZedt h people whom c^Ied as an inquest,to have peristdl' weund cold, as he had clothmg barely to fcreen him from the ravsol IZX ^""' / '*P'" P'^P''^ ^'•°'" Madawaska. probTbly w.llearn lome,h.ngrefpecting this unfortunate creature.^ oSr coS ure? are he was an Irishman, aged near 30 vears • haH n i;.f i i! i needles, a thimble and tailor's r^eafureT hUn^^^^^^ pound bread, a rag indicated he had been" tailo^ ' '''°"' ""* With due efteem, I remain. My Dear Si^, Your most obedient Servant, A. J. Wolff, Efq. ALEXr. FRASER, milium Henderson, Efquire, called in. and examined : ^''^'- ^Ls TK 'T'^""'"^°" '" '^'' diftrict ?-Since thryear ^-<^,-X^ 1822, I have been act vely encaeed in lnrm\nTll ^"®. Tf H »^JJecr.l828.mentin the north-eafterlv cart of thlToTl ^ iV ^"*''- and in that part of Sta^doVad oin^ t ^L^ir!^^^^^^ ont^ wfftXnd rnTh?c'"'°" ".' '^e confequent'Senq 4 locaT exnSnce I, . ^T'-^'f^ Dorchefter and Hertford J iwyiocai experience is too hmited to enable me to fnrA^r„,r correct view of this fubject in anv n.urp"^^ of - 4" ^ ' ECIAL COMMITTBJB. may petition for the I this two days ago on >nl7 to the'River St. t River and report j 1*0 defined, Govern- lunication — however The body of a poor a mile below their beach, fupposed by! ' perished by wet and I ^i from the rays of • probably w.ll learn e. Our conjectures ^ad a little thread, 4 s pocket, about one ilor. EXHiniTING the annual and tot Servant, . FRASER, nd examined : ion to the matter —Since the year •ng a. new fettle- hip of Fram'pton, 1 this circumfiance »rds the fubject of I fequent fettlementl Iter and Hertford. , me to forrii any [ >tSfM«' -.r *i- _ *%• . YEARS. 1st year fuppofe it to be 1829 es V Farm, Mill M peer. 18*8. and gener purpofes.] 448 19 2d, period of the great est cash advances VI 830 1^863 19s. 9d. Sd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 1831 1832 1833 1834 241 10 I 75 5 . 88 17 78 c 78 7th period of the total J repayment of the ad- C 1835 vances, with interest J 78 - 118 » Establishmt of public farm clof, ^___2Q6 11 y^arslTcalculated" Total EXIII RUING tlio annual and total amount of CASH expended and YEARS. PAYMENTS. For Public Farm, Mills, and general purpofcs. For Settlers, Totals. I From pr duceofPi 'lie Farm a ; Mills. 1st year fuppofe it to be 1820 2d, period of the great- "J est Cish advances V1830 £'6(i'.i lys. 9d. ) 448 19 292 IG 3 241 10 32 \6 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 18'31 1832 1833 1834 7th period of the total 1 repayment of the ad- ( 183. vances, with interest j 8th, 9th, 10th, llth, 12th, 13th, 14th, 1.5th, 183ti 183; 183 1839 1840 184] 1842 1843 75 5 88 17 6 78 78 78 118 Establishmt. of public farm dofed Total Gain,r91o l4s. lOd.^ 1206 11 6 29 5 12 3 3 3 Locations of paupers dis continued. 741 15 3 274 6 104 10 100.17 6 81 81 81 118 33 119 1 108 10 143 10 192 7 201 7 386 12 486 12 Public far &millstra) ferred to pcrintendi 375 17 3! 1582 8 9 1671 10 If luterebt for the i47?S?nr^lculated upon the Lofi^SJTJain refpeOn^^ Total gain if Interest is calculated, ^€965 It of CASH expended and rc-imburscd In settling 150 families of paupers. NTS • RECEIPTS. General Refults. ttlers. From pro- T^»,i Juce of Pub- lotals. ,. ,:, J he rarm and , Mills. From the Settlers. Totals. Lois. Gain. 3 ( 741 15 3 33 Nothing. 33 708 15 3 C 274 G 119 1 6 ditto 119 1 6 155 4 6 5 104 10 100.17 6 108 10 6 143 10 ditto ditto 108 10 143 10 6 Advances for the fettlenit. ceafe here- 4 6 42 12 6 81 192 7 25 6 218 3 137 3 81 201 7 72 13 9 274 9 193 9 81 386 12 9^ / 485 11 404 11 ns of dis- ed. 118 486 12 6 Public farms I6a 4 10^ 651 17 H 633 17 4^ &mills trans- ferred to fu- 130 4 8J 130 4 ei 130 4 8i pcrintendant 89 1 7i 89 1 H 89 1 7J 89 1 7i 89 1 n 89 1 7i 46 10 ^ 46 10 H 46 10 4i 46 10 ^ 46 10 H 46 10 ^ 46 10 ^ 46 10 H 46 10 4i 46 10 4^ 46 10 4 1 46 10 4^ 7 3 1582 8 9 1671 10 6 856 13 1 2528 3 7 863 19 9 1809 14 7 (OfH and Gain refpectivcly, the ditierence is jfi-JO 3s. lUd. 730 8 6 750 12 4 iteres t is calculate d, £965 18 s. 8d. 1594 8 3 2560 6 11 '! I ! ! i! i! i ! ! m:i: ( W? Dr;.;. 1S3M. ni tl) n1 hi til cc a-. rd ail ne A, ^r. Hrndenon, qC Esqr. 2^ Deer. 1828. ni» fac pfi Mj cor trie ink- 49 OK ROADS AKD OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS jjxSi '^*',j'Su VS'^ ts r^'s^j'"" " -H'^ «» -oft iRoads, I bea to be rermi»fp5 opened?--Before mentioning »fa, CdZ* fl; h'T '"''"""'g 'he outlet .hereof ,o SherWke &^c.rl,';i"""«""',; '? P™">'»i"g'hef«,lemer«Ja prge tian of what is generally believed to be good land • VJ ton d moreover open a direct communieaticn &e„ 0,',.f^ nd the capita of the new dlstricr I ...... u-u «"*">«: ™ li.tle'hefita.ion a, the tTof ii ^r of tt Tumrt* Je Sain, Lawrf^. i ^ ",?*3"''' "' ">« «"."» fcl""g in.o SsinlT n t,, .h^. .' o "S'e'urc state my opinion more de- ■avely „ to what new Road, ought to be opened in that qiiarMc^ I ■ l\ \ I ( I I ll ii .moi 50 MINUTES OF BVID5NCE BEFORE THK SPECIAL COHMITTEIJ. I ^ r. gnd««on,The first in importance is that which has already been traced by \^!^i^j Mr. Ware (in 1825) by order of Government, commencing at SSHm; 18M.^^' ^* ^" ^^^ ^^^ Range of Frampton and ending at the River - St. John, where that important stream first becomes navigable. To understand this the better I have annexed a small sketch of this propofed Road with the adjacent countries ; Although roughly executed it will be found fufficiently accurate to enable the Committee to form an opinion of the importance of the pro- pofed Road. When Mr. Ware run this Roid, he was anxious to tak^ the most direct tourfe, although in its progrefs through the •^ownship of Standon it pafle? through lands that cannot be cul- tivated. For this reafon I traced a line from the easterly angle of Frampton clofe to the Cranbourne side of the boundary be- tween that Township and Standon, through exceUent land as far as Lake Etchemin, wnich oifers a situation for fettlement not per- haps equalled by any unfettled part of the district. I would therefore recommend deviating from Mr. Ware's line at the nor- therly angle of Criinbourne, and follow that which I have > z-'. as far as the aforeAid Lake, where the Road may end for tb;. : rf- ient. The total distance I propoie opening on this Road would be 14J miles. The next Road I should recommend is from the Seigniory of St. Jcfeph through Cranbourne, between the 7th and 8th ranges until it interfects the one from Frampton, J^ mile north-west of the faid Lake i this Red would be about 12 miles in length. And two other Roads of 9 or 10 miles each, one from? the advanced Settlements in the River du Sud towards the fburce^ of the main branch of that River, and one between the River Quelle and Kamouraska towards the fources of the River Quelle, provided that thele last mentioned Roads can (from the infbrma-? tiop of perlbns better informed than I am) be undertaken wit h^ the fame abfolute certainty of thereby causing immediate fettle- ment to take place, as I can vouch for being the cafe with Cran- bpurne and Frampton. Be plcafed to state your grounds and reafons for recommend- ing the opening of thefe Roads, their relative importance, the effects whi<;h they would be likely to produce upon new Set- tlements, and their probable expenfe .?— My reafons for recom- mending Roads to be opened at the public expenfe at the Ri- vjcre Quelle, Riviere c^u Sud, and through Cranbourne and| Frairpton to Lake Etchemin, are :— In the first place, the fpcedj and general im.provement of the mobt valuable portion of the disJ, trwt of Qufibec, which can ooly be effected by, the opening ofl CIAL COMJVflTTEIJ. eady been traced by sntj commencing at snding at the River becomes navigable. [ a small sketch of mntries ; Although f accurate to enable portance of the pro- d, he was anxious to irogrefs through the that cannot be cul- m the easterly angle F the boundary be- exceUent land as far r fettlement not per- i district. I would ire's litie at the nor- ivhich I have ' - '' nay end for tb;. pr? - •n this Road would nimend is from the ', between the 7th Frampfon, J^ mile be about 12 miles in lies each, one from d towards the fource between the River F the River Quelle, (from the informa'] be undertaken with ig immediate fettle- the cafe with Cran« jns for recommend- ve importance} the. uce upon new Set-^ reafons for recom>i expenfe at the Ri* ti Cranbourne and| rst place, the fpeedf| portion of the dis^ by^the opening of| 91 C..m to^ be yan'red. _ "^^.^^TZl 1°L?^ Jfj^ t|«m to be granted. ^ An in^^iidiriX'^Fna^:: Zlf ^^^ 7:''TLt:T^''^ '' '^^« place r^hrw^t^is;:^ rear ot the feigniones. the mompnr *i,*.* i— j. tion nhay Jands, iJ rear of "ih'e Jdg'nlS'the'' T' ^'"'1 ^" '^^ ''^''^ offered for fettlement a^dE/'^n^K moment these lands afe .H safety be comput d? tharac) ^sf'sTf^ETr'^- '* "'^^ '^'^^ be induced to fetSe oi ea^h of ?hlRS?r"i.P'' '"""'» '^"^ #i » double advantage U^e^^iS'^'^r ^'T^ * m WW Settlers aref vi^ -f • 'TS®"' P^^om (as almost In fettling the Kennebec and Sk IJ f^- ':°!,,t- '"'r "" ind efiectine settiemen,. ~, .u j •- .'''' 7«"'ng theft Roads \dZTJ • • "* ''^ '^°"P' ^^"^ ^t the fame time they wi^l foJm xS' LTSbr^'^ *V"^ '"^^'^^ SettlemenlsirX nhH 1 ya "able tract of country watered by the Rive X' or T'' ^ !;'"* r^'"'^ ""y'"g thde RoTds to,' ar JthhStf l7^u ^^'■'^"^•'^5 of^the boundary claimed by the United S. f that boundary should happen to be conceded t^ our laSS «;^bour, ,1 .s quite obvious that the immediate occuofton of he country laymg between it and the Saint tawrycebrBrrrislf jeis ot a loyal and hardy population alone, atn the flb of rlT tory remammg to us, be retained fi-om funhtJr «icroTcWnf' ^ben;^^^I^*^^'^ !^ ^^^ other hnndshJd^'iS t^ Jbhn^hfi^ '"retaidingtheimmenfelyvaru^ble valley of the' kits uuLJti"""'.^ '"^ ^''"^' P'^^"°" ^^^e* "« we hope KlTiiiT "^*^^'°"^**^*"^^^ and to effect this we mTst ^e previoufly prepared b» opejUnc* direr* ..«^«»~:— '--— - Jiver Saint J^hn ar fevei^^partsrwUh il ;^^n?^rfred" 1^ bthercafe, tMetefore, wHedSrtfie r if the Roads are J will be liable to eeds. In 1829 I ould be opened as enable fettlers to ition to this about I have propofed j priated. In 1830 31 the remainder, md I fully believe occupied to main. I particular in re- ! Lands furround. cxce'leiit quality} Then occupied, to ents on all sides nnot be fo readily s eftablished on iC direct Road to d pofiefs advan. liftrtct. 69 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNlCATIONa es i m.ght .t be so done as to furnish a fund out of whTch thefj "^ ' I poorer clafles would be enabled at once to fupply thet^^ w^ 22 Deo. Ff8. feed wheat m the fprmg without any public loan f"r ha Z. pofe ?-.The outlay of the fmall fums I have propofed would « far as they go, be of the moft vital importance tXpmha 4 bitants of the adjoining Parishes In Src ria:^J / u- u ? • iFrampton) Kpeikfro?, perfb,^ oift^^^'^ ,^::2;S^^-; tJ^ fact, the utmoft diftrefs actually exifts from theS faluire of the wheat crop laft year, and an entire failure thfs rfcarcek one m twenty have reaped the amount of feed they fowed Lj J feel quite certam that not lefs than 70 or 80 fa Jle^Tn this Pa- rish alone will be utterly deftitute before the spri J a„d of co^^fe entirely "nable to fow any crop whatever witho^u K alt^^ I am most deaded y of opinion, that the very best way of reUeT ing this distrefs, will be that of affording fuch as r^m^L ;* \T on the fpot Want of markets in distfnt parts of X^^^^^^^^^ bulky articles of produce operates as difcouraging e7tenfi?l7xerr tons m farmmg Opening new Roads will indiciracceSons o^ new fettlers, who must neceffarily, at least for the fim year de pend upon the.r next neighbour, for provisions : ch, will fti muate exertion while an unqualified donation might W a quite contrary effect. There can be no doubt but"ha the S J I have propofed to be expended in 1829, on le Ro d |om Frampton to Lake Etchemin, viz : ^217 10, "co^fd mort eX ^aHshtf St^^^^^^ 'Z '^"^^!?.« *^t poorer inhabltams of he «1 r \? "^f * ''"'* pro vidmg them with feed wheat and other feed corn. I will not however venture to rfferriw ?k- fum will be fufficient for all who may ne"ed afsfst e t th Parish ,^but If to it is added the fum petitioned for by the Sef lersm Frampton, to build a free bridge over the Etchemin V„' the immediate vicinity of St. Claire, thfre wi li enojlh ?t ^ in7^ 7ll ^T'f' T '^i^t'^ '^'' ^^«e^^r monejrgranted in aid of that bridge should be voted on the single condition "hat no toll should be exacted, and that it should be built nextforinB and summer, m order that the indigent inhabi ants n Ste^ CUire might be employed in the months of Febrn^ a^d March in getting out the timber : this indeed ought t7be a "*? «hat the bridge be homologated in order to nrn«w. io_ g»i.y forvu future maintenance in repair, (an object''t'he~"peti^ .1 I ! I Road ^evH^os ra the sowing f*a,.n ; therefore whateverpS rfthM f„m mtght be ai»owed in order to procine fe^d^Cr h* »I«K«t all m,dvanc.; «,d i. urill not be ,a7e trcaVXe at teed grain, for the )ab««.rer> m.ist hate pmvi^ion* furii»i«a far .h*mfelve, and families ,»l>ile ^erfcrn/*, pr^^pofei ^*^ Be pieafed ta «at(r pr:KtIc*fVf awd iw deraiJ Atf n»Mefs br iTpr^l j'^'^i* '*" »h^ money proposed ,o be expended wiier migrbt sep fit to appoint to carry rbefe oVieets into oo^ r^dmg near the : «a«t who.e the Road., i<,c. are tobVoSewd and .fpoterWe interested i„ their progref^ to XLrin3T^i work , .„xt d.o the Cure of St«. ClX to dltrSTe f^ P^ and. recommend. f«ch. a. h« might think .he rn^tt m^b^ ^nt employment as fhe means of?payinr in Ste. Claire w t be purchased m> i poor to have it Tiuch more accep* ghtleft than evei> be perfontie* at Bridges or other rrintendam would the Cur^f fbr (i» wMie Tuesday, 23d Decdnber, 1828. ^!tl-^r Cy.'-^V of the Township of Tring. on the weft oi Fran. Da^on, tf^e River Chaud.ere, m the rear of die Parish of St. Fran- ^ y ■! ndeS'i^^.hU T '"'/^^^^.'"^ J Your Co^iimittee; That he has33D.^.l888. I^sided m this Township since the month of March last : that ffX7J ^.^^^'i^P^^^J commencing at the fecond Concef.ion if the fre.gn.ory of Samt Francis or Vaudieuil to the west branch ^fthe River nearly oppofite his residence; that this Road can be tonsidert J more as a winter road than as a road for wheel car- ■lages ; the trees have been felled to the breadth of about ^enty feet through tlie whole length of the Road, but in the famy reasons, the 6pring and Fall, it becomes impaflab'e, and iven m Summer ; that there are feveral inhabitantVresiding ia the 1 ownsh.p of 1 nng ; that they have but lately fettled there ; fchl^l ^^^ T '^1 "'^T ""^ completing the Road on accour J i.f the labour ; that they should have to cut through the ftand- ^g wood to arrive there ; that this Road in part croffes the ^ i, n'f uv^TJ' r'"'* ^^'^Se-g^'O'- will do nothing becaufe e.s not obliged by Law; that the inhabitant on whose lanj ^ In f T '"^^\^»='' stopped it up, so that they have no r„^\ K^'*^""^'.*^.'' ?y '^^ ^'"^"^^ ^^ « obliged to Z oundhehas rmned his horfes; he therefore prays in his name ind m the name of the perfcns fettled in the said Township that fome remedy be applied to thi, evil, either legalizing 7e Td md or granting a pecuniary aid to have it made^ that%hewant ot a fufficient Road very much delay* the sett'ement of this rownsh,p: feverat inhabitants wish to settle themfelves there* but are prevented on account of the bad roads 4f>smtin Ihlduc, of the sain(» plaise., being c^Hed in^ and the ^ » ,. ^Tk^ Qf F^an^cKs Ooyon hav^g been .ld\ hi^^\T.^^'' IhTniA Q ^ ""'^ ''^'' '^S**** *"^ ^'«« . you would fieKft ?-In the l,nri°^'"^ "■■" "' Ue Gram^ are cbliged^fkeep ,t AotJ in' "ajf "M""/ from Frampton and from St. Jofeph to Lak. F,??.L- ""'' b.lB«l.,nd of course mean proriJe3 Therrtv fcr^h".-"! '"" ma ntenance. On the &r.»„ r-.j ""f'roy for their future 10 provide for tKngToTd" '"l"'" "^^ '^"^^^ mologation into operation Vo f J « . !i "l""*^ **** "" «*^ ^°' The load fiSm KoueUe and .h^^r' *^^"."g""ted lands. , Ithib i Iticiila [know (coma jto mc jtende the fii jnoftic lout til jferenc p'>vlici( [dilhnf jdetach led. I fthese fare ( Jtenpte jappliei; J jge \ ■•i*>> 57 PECIAL COMMITTEB | OJf ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. the intereft augments i legal interelt. The apilal, and they con- faid lands. is, Nouvelle-Beauc©, " Triug, being called laving been read to r Public, residing at I'ed in ; and the tes- him, he concurred uire from jBSOO to ie people are willing ;ed by their deeds to Road for five years. 128. ; and examined : ns do you know of >w of any what are which are granted repair. The Roads Etchemin are ver- y for their future should be taken ng the act of ho- ungrantcd lands. River du Sud, as i individuals, and be conditional—- Mdingto Law in ir afte? they a re Are there any parts of the country through which you recom- »r. Henrterm,, lend Roads to be made, that U would be advantageous to explore Esqr. ith th.s view before coming to any final determination upon ^^^iT'"^ ^heir expediency, and alfo to afcertain the expenfe of openin?*®^'"' '®*®' luch Roads. That part of the Counties of Dorcherter and Hert- ^rd through which the Roads I have more particularly recom- mended, would pafs, v.z : from Frampton on the Etchemin, and rron, St. Jofeph on the Chaudiere to Lake Etchemin. has been 'ery accurately and even minutely furveyed within a year or two Mck, as "»7 be Perceived by the plan annexed to my evidence aken on the 22d .nftant. and the countries through which the loads from R.ver du Sud and River Quelle wou'd pafs is also efficiently known, to render any previous furvey unneceflart for ruertr ThTV^" ^°'^' "! '"^'"^^^ '° ^"^"'i i"t« the n?' r .K n ^r''"'* "''■'' '^^ Etchemin, Du Sud, Quelle nJ a 10 the Du Loup, communicate with the waters of the l.v-r St John by short portages, which have been known and requented from the earliest periods of the colonization of Ca- .ada. The maps publ.shed by Beliin, Engineer in the French m.rme, and a fo Mitchell's map, prove th!t thefe Portages were convnonly ufed nearly a century ago. and even to this day the Ne^v.Brunfwlck Indian* vif.t Quebec by the fame routes. But hi. .s the d*ly portion of the dillrict, where new Roads a;e par ticularlyrequred. that, as far as lam informed, is fufiicieStly ^koown by any actual (cientific inveftigation, to enable me to re- commend any mm.diate expenditure of public money upon new foads, mthout the advantage of a previous furvey. It appear^ me that ,n projectmg new Settlements, or opening any ex- ended Roads of communication between thofe that actually exifl. noftfcal lfnri.H P?7'' '' ' competent geographical and geog! noft cal knowledge of the country intended to be improved: tith- out this preliminary mformation, little worthy of legiflative inter- ference, can be effected in a general way. Money may be very Id I W L'frP"''''^- '°T'^' °P^"'"S "^^ R^'ds fir a short d.rtance, at diflTcrent points from the more diftant fettlements, in detached parts of the country, fuch a, thofe I have recommend- th;,. J^IT ,^r", '^'S^^^y^ °f ge"eral communication between these foated letilements. no Wc bones of internal thorough. K .1 1 T^ ^' Permittfd to ufe the expreffion) can be at- tenpted with any certainty that the money expended will be applied to the best advantage. For the little geoLphicai know* Mge we actually pofleft of the country, it is |reftlyTdebu^a H MINUTES OF EVrOENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE r. 2^r-'Gojone, Bouchejt^^ a gentleman, for whofe profefllonal ulent, yj^^ and public zeal I entertain the very highest refpect. His va .n. WDec.l828.r!^™;P^* ^^^^^ rejects great Ixononr upon his native 1 country, and I w, l venture to alTert than his ftati«ical work no^v 1 H^ progrefs m\ do h.m equal credit. In common with m.ny ' o hers, I deeply regret that his patriotic exertions have be^, "n nie beneficial to himfcir: I sincerely hope th.t the Leg'r:,." w,n embrace the opportunity now offered to reward him hand. fomely for h.s very fpiendid map, and at the fame time fecure he publ.c.ty of his valuable ftatistical work, with a new Ld c^r! rect addition of hw Atlas, as an important defuleratum to the fub- jec m queftion. But the most fcientific geographer-, can eff.ct Ut e more than compile and arrange general Snap's frolu the o a enals and mformat.on of the practical performer in the fields! ^the labours of the latter are defective, or if large fpaces after. ZZ S'th/'"' ??.'""^^' ""''' '^'^ been'atte'mpteS h worbs of the man of fc.ence must unavoidably fuffer from cir- Tmrofr*^^^^^^^^^^ iutle 'control. 'ZZf red evL V • * '"^ ^'''' '"^ .nformation is given, most cor- rect, even to mmute particulars j b..t it is to be regretted that great fpaces m the townships, and even the greater p.rt of the luZl '"^^r^T i~»"d moreover, a great many ,7 the ear^ie S^nTe rhU t v ^'u P'' ""^ ""^'"'y """'^"^y ^^ confidence - ^^hLh, u ^I been given to the public, the indefatigable author has co lected a vast mass of information a, well from h own obfervations as from thofe of hi. talented family and other ZTlL^t'^T''^'^ '■'"^''•' ^ "'^^ ^d"'- inccmp'arably mo valuable than that compiled nearly 15 years ago. Bui still a Seat t^lLTn '" ^/ '^T"^''' °f °"'' ""-erous Hvers have beef, ac^ curatelyfurveyed,andmany not even explored.even astotheirKene- ijl courfe i of none do we pofTef. any correct information refpe«.-n J their magnitude in volume of water, or obftructions to navigat-i^^ iu/tVob in their? ^'"''^'""^ ^PP'^^^ 'y P-'--- i^^il ?, I ^^ "°^ information for the leafl exper.fe. would munediateiy within the fcope of the q-,eries propofed to me, I should recommend that a fmall annual grant niight be n aced J Ae difposal of the Society of Arts, forfhe expr!^ and fo'e pu p}leo£ encottrafftne w!nt»- /;.-«-«- — j r-_/^ -uu ,o.e pur. „ , -s-j... -^rrv;-a, s.im xuiKSiffr eApior^i«M q£ xc ai erp land her miir iiy IV.Cll mt-n ptib fp( niuci The The The; The I The, The J The J The, The 5 The I The « The : The 1 The < I ti I The I^ The E The B And li IT MM) FECIAL eOMMITTEE ftf profeflional lalents refpect. His va iia, loiir upon his native I ftaristical work now common with m«ny certions have be-id so tlut the Legiftuure reward hiin hand, he fanie time fecure with a new and cor- lideratum to the fub- 5graphers, can eflvct maps from the ma- jrmer in the fields— f large fpaces of ter. been atitnipted, the biy fuffer from cir- e control. Col nel 1 is given, most cor- to be regretted that greater part of the cy of matter to give many ,7 the earlier ng, faid o be per- hy of confidence — c, the indefatigable m as well from his d f»miJy, and other incomparably more ;o. But stilt a great rivers have been ac- ;ven astotheirgene- 'ormation refpecting :tions to navigation |r!hf """''' '^ ^"^""l' « » f"»'l cod to the much wilited i """'"""'"«'' "■•<"" 'n particular, are very '''" .°^' R"e,'"of :h"h °'' ,'°""' '"^" '"«= ^"'''" "f ">« Ot. rh'l;:^d,^h:'y::;:?;"i;:r/-:^-'''«'«'>- rt l:1,^Z"' °' "" '-•^""o^^p.ion and tMa,q„inongS. The Baiiscan. TheSte. Anne. The Jacques Cartier. The Montmorenci, ^'' sfJe.tT "^ Northumberland and the Gouffre on the north The upper part of Yamafka. rive St Francis, particular y from Sherbrooke to take St Fran- The Nicoiet. wh.ch is imperfectly unknown. Ihe Becancour, hardly known at all. 1 he Great Branches of the Chaudiere. particularly the River t^ t oStiie co'^'r '^ '";;• "''■^'^ '^^ River't^verfes : Indians ^^ ^^ '''°*'^ '^'^''^ ""''"^^^ to any but the The Riviere du Sud. The Riviere Ouelle. Tlie Ri viere du Loup ''°'iT.;;s',arh^Tnd'Lr/«''''""'^''"^'-'°'^"' and its ' till J ;,il if 60 MINUTES .PEVroENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEI 'E^':r'"-„4;™;'^;"""-»(!i"'n, n,;gh, tc gi,.,„ ,,„„,,, „l.„i„,„g G^ tioneil. ^ " '""• ■'"'' " '•'« "bovc-me.i. Are the Landt through which ihcfe Road* will ™r. f,— .- 1 comnton foccage Land, V (oignorial irndfjJ? L"^ I oad thaM Lake Frrl,o,v.:« • >:' '^''7""' i ne Koad from {jt. Jofcph to Ln^^'^^'So;■;:'';he '° p"!' "■r." ""'"°' "■■«"•'' i ihrn' i,.n 1. k 1 ™ ' ''" '■™aiiider cf in propoftd extmi i, irv of"s S;r«The°"R PT'y--. "-'f c/k ,„ the'ti; ungra^nted l^and7 iL Road "LIT^r'''-"" '.""r"" '^ "I throuRh the Fief. JlL- J , "'""' ''" *"•'. P»"'y anfwerasfarasfnvft.if, • « °'*'* ~^° 'l^" * can en y are making ol'flerCd'^^' ' i '^? f '^^"'"^ ''"^'""' would absorb a°Uhel.nsll„' H^"'^'"^' ^'^ propofed, which >»hen it is conlidered rhl I can devote to that object, efp.ciary vance, in 'pSof s ^ an7rt:if ^ t^ "'^'r '^r ^ ^'^l year. Upon this head I rn!;! TT * ^"*'»'''" '^'"^ '^e firj since the comrncttt T/o^u ^^^^Ce^^^^ 1^--' h'H and that we\ave not h j « «" ''^ ""'" ''^ *"""*^ u.'kno^n, either from that roted for Jnr'"^ ', P'""^ ^^ ^^^ P^''"^ "^''"'M from any other fo°!': '°''J"!*^rnal comn> .nication, in J8i6 irl * i«a;r aad, neither countenance nor en,! W ICrow ~H Land migh luts fj e, i flO li| for ill an of WOlil'J lands hithci so far tem^t fyitm S/i/i tj that i nnJ tv lix|er perloii Se t ei caniioi succee or labc sold (. be in I huwov i gratis/ li 'I 01 'ECIAL COMMITTEE I ON ROADS AN!) OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. 3waril« obi lining Ge« ill this Dcpar.nunt, 'p'rridid pri)ots ih„t lalihcd fo aiJurd the head — if faciliiies arc as that above-men. !« will pafs, free and ?— The Koad that I Etchcmin, has been, >vernment, with ihe^ 1 from (Quebec dirtu of the land it paiTes to confiderab'e iand- e—the rem.iinder is rtion of it jjoci thro' from St. Jofcph to mi'es of ungiaiiitd propofcd exttnt is if of It m the htig. :re Quelle will p.,(i he remaindtr tho' re du Sud, party ire, and remainder :our;»gemenr, in our arduous anfexponMve underrak'ng \n anyr rT..„u,.,.m y hsT w.y If I miglu prelume to vinlwer for .he otner inuivi- Ewjmr'e."' Jill V thro.igU pjrtio IS of wh >\e L^ind.-. ih.« .o.uK J hcve p.OjioleJ iiLiy pals I .ho i d say ih, t ,iil of th m are iisin^' ihe>r mm » i *• ii- '^^ ^•-''=- •«*'<• ilcavo irs toward, opening Roids and fett mg iht ir landi, and th.t ^ny fiirther outlay on their part would be i.npoffib e. efpvcia ly *vluMiit IS confiJered, ihitthe'b Roads will be iiiiiie taken lor (ubiic benerit a one, and without any considciation for private iiueren » but all r^alonable ficilit ei tolerticrion the'e Ko-di 'o Far a. they pa« over private pto,)ertv may be relie.l o., byih as ,to the tem. oi ietnaj the lands, and afli tance artoided to the ~ ;tdy. 1 proprietors would? To this 1 can en yi I polTible exertions' vepropofed, which! it object, elptciaiyi 'rs, that will be oc- I require he:ny ad- •ort th«m fJe fir-tj id to remrrk that in JS2y, we ha\e| te coll, upwardb oil tntiieiy unknown,! the public montv,! ations in J8i6 or untenance nor en^; What woV/! be ue operation of the lare order for the Cile of ICrown Lan^.v jp, n t ;e projected fctl. mei- iipomhele RoadW —it the late arrangements rdpetting ihe difpos.il of the Crown Lands are liberaiy conftnifd. I am of opinion that ihe nfult jmight operate favourably towards effecting iher Se-t.ement If lots of not leUth.in I2(>ti acres are from time to time offt year at least. If and. are to be sold (a I which ihe propriety of may be doubtid) it ought to be m lar^e b ocks wcr.h the atteiuion of mon ed persons I think howovet- the better and wifisrplan would be to grant a I the lands gratis^on condition of effecting certain ameliorations in a given time,' Ml! !l I'm l! MmmPE«^ EVIDENCE BEFORE Tlffi Sl^fiCiAl ^JdMMrmZE. ro.,ro^a° i sa eTUe/ T""*^ <^«i'^ "PP- d-ih^c, but, L.nd n^hrr' Pe;1arfym.mof off.rfng hundred JeL^^^l fn h 'o-der W^^ "^'* ^-""'b- «^'--^. i--m>xej thev are worth K*^ dvant.geous,-the n^easure m..y the^fr ^'/""^^^^"'-btit ,n any other view it does not req .,fe lands J^ rhl I • iu ""! '""^'^ P"' "P ""'^ '^"^^i fo*- 2s, while other b,H not an " o? the ,as "it: Jr'V°"^''.'*" ['^ ''^' ^"'*'' equal V ab^nrd =.* Vi,l . • P *^^' ***°''^" ^O"" »*^« '^'es were tine up the Lnnd'^!,'o"'",l'^ ^^^ "^ **^ '*"^» I"^»^^£ciAl other internal communications; y«tem tan be adopred, ion in all part^ of the pof■ses^ilIg fiich varie^ »y j^rhaps '.inlwcr the uppt-r diftrJcis, but, ion of the Frovinc^ hundred acre Lot, of ie hiihitunst -O /.jr as Rtferves, intemixcJ It a qii;r er ot wivat s, — the measure may I' it does not req -ii^ e failure So tar as known cafes where J for 2s, while other q«iarti r of what Was urieail thelirM sold, ien for I he ta'es were ids Inliead of put* even '1 hree-Rivers, the bidders, out-of* " which not one sin- > the lands were ad- diftrict not en acre means were taken to So fat as this part e ultimate and only ti'nt, as it is called, and poorer class of ■t of our extensive le insignificant iums nd then take place, an enough of young perfons to fettle on the,-n. Th ^>rt of the lands and the 4t!i rangu' in ng to perfons fettled near theS.iint I ;ihe re at e greater ./i B. FopHh, particular, gt-nera! I V be- ^-W' wicnce, who cannot fet- "*'*" ""^^ p.e!eat becaule they draw their f\.el 'and the neceflaVy'^^'^^''- »^ lod furthtir lands, from there In prefe uce,)tib'e of ciiltivatio'i it is al rving hereafter to (ett e their childre .. b Mnds, they are feparatel by a chain of ary preferving thofe which are wiys with the intention of thcT t as to the adjoining mountains which uU I .ft fro„»oneend of , he county ,o the other ; the Land ijj-in .g hef. moumams m the rear a., in fome pace^ of a ve"v lood fo:!, and produce fine ti.nb r. but there a e great p ,rts Zl .cuiarlv the adjonung Land., that are very m ,u, ,Ji o.'s 7 i.ve not a perfect knowledge of the Lands d.h ;: ^ hofe lountams. Fron fuch inf ,rm .tion as I have, the g e te ,he U.cefc.o.nth. rear of the lan.is. the better adapted etl 7 or Se.ticnK-Mts, particularly near St John's kiver As to the Uers • the R.ver called Bras St. Nicolas runs through a'l he ;andsof the cotmty. the south-weft part of the Parish of Sr homas excepted. This Kiver is of confiderable ex ent but l' oDotbeie.e that it could ever be improved fo afto l^*ar vef C s, atjd the reafon is that its outlet into the Saint Lawrence is a tdTaI thither. I have always nenri old oeople say, that the difla-Ke from the River fo Iflt.w.sfro:n 20 to 25 ieHg.,es. but at p^efe-tt it is faid th.t ^ewiriT"''-"^T.'-'V'^ •^^«"'^' bu, thefe old peo. pe w.M not be .eve It. 1 he n,oft prop r place that I know r{ js m the valley between the .nountains oppo.ite the ChurciT of L.i'n, , f ,? ''^'^ '''•' '"^ r" '■''''' '"o..nt..ins, for in the mter- sec.ons of the n.onn.a.ns thc-e is a (pace fuffici. nt for a cotrm >- dious road, by .ralc.ng a circuit ,.f about .ix arpenc, and t^at con:r;r T.^ "° ^'f:' i">Pe8 Jra» Bfl/i/«/c Bourmval, of the Parilh of Riviere du Loup called in \ and examined : * Mmivat Have you hnd any and what means of becoming acquainted o, ^^' 7'^'.''^ ":^ Sett e.mnts in the Township of Caxton in the rear 27 Dec. 1828of Po.nt du Lac and M..chiche. in the Uiftrict of rhree.R.vers > J have hid opportunities of becoming acquaint- d with the lownl sh.o of Laxto.i, by having done work at dirterent places in the sa.d lownsh.p. I have allb been al! over the said Township. When was this Township first furveyed i when xvere the Set. ., -■"* Y "'"'"-Z."' ^''"•*' '» '"e numoer ot actual bn* •Itw at prefeat ^^TU Township wa. furveyed 3 or 4 y.ar, ago. ECIAL COMMITTEB ould always be fomej let. •he Crown in your fit for SettiementsI 3e neceflary to give ruch a Road colt ?— ition is that near ^'t. th'? Settk-ments be i:iently exteniivc to| ler. I have alWiiys From the River to efeit it is faid jh.it » but thtJe old peo. ace that I know cf I iihe the Church of I ins, for in the inter- ci- nt for a comm >- ic arpen«, and that ?r wards occi rs in a limerrs in the inir- ere Wis no iniiipr. I think that such 128 Riviere du Loup, coming acquainted laxton in the rear of Three-Rivers ? d with the I'own- rent p'aces in the said Townthip. ^en were the Set- ter of actual Set* 3 or 4 yearf ago. 65 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. kis now 3 years since the first Settlement was commenced. JB.Boumivat IThere are feven or eight persons residing in the faid Town- ^»,^\^^ jship. 27 Deer. 1828 What was the ftate of the communications to that Township jwhenthis Settlement was firft commenced ? Had the new Set- tlers any obftacles to encounter in this refpect? Have they been m whole or in part, fumounted, and by what means and and to what extent F—It was neceflary to pafs through the woods, with great difficulty, for the diftance of one league in St. Jofeph, and as much as one league in the said Townihip. There was no other way of carrying provisions and other articles for the whole of this diftance than on men's.backs. There were high hills to afcend and difficult fwamps to crofs : thefe obfta- clfcs have in some meafure difappeared : First— Because the Lota |in St. Jofeph have been conceded since that time as far as the line of the faid Township, and, Secondly -Caufe ways have been made acrofs the hollows as far as the faid Township. Part of the Road has baen made and other parts cut through by the [inhabitants of St. Jofeph and thofe of the Township, and thence continued about a league and a quarter by the Landholders in the said lownship:— a bridge of fome length having been built acrols the River Machiche by Sueton Grant, Eiquire. Are there any and what water communications between this lownship and the River Saint Lawrence or the Saint Maurice ; and what IS the diftance of this Township from thefe Rivers ref- pectively •>— Ihere is no communication with the River Saint Lawrence or the River Saint Maurice. The length of the Road which would be required to reach the Riviere du Loup is about a league and a half, and from that place the water communication with the River Saint Lawrence is yery esfy rhe diftance to the River Saint Maurice is about the fame ; but It IS in the diftant parts of the Township towards the 19th or 20th Range, where it is to be prefumed that fettlements will not qe very foon made. Could the inhabitants of this Township communicate more shortly with rhree-Rivers by a Road ftriking the Forges' Road, and if so,defcnbe the fame.particularly the nature of the country ihrough which such Road wmiH nafc ,n^ *!,- u.ui / inereot {~-Yei i the communication would be shorter for th« 66 MINUTES OP EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ^ftBwnija/inhabitants in the 7th and 8th Ranges, and the length of new 27DirTw« ~*** **i. ^* "'^'l'' *° ""^^ *^^ ^°^^ >° '^« Forges would not be 'WO. 1888. more than one league, and the whole diftance to Three-Rivers not more than feven leagues and one half. The land is fwampy as far as the Road to the Forges ; this would coft about One hundred pounds : but to carry the Road as far a> the Set- tlemcnts actually commenced would coft more, without giving the Jihabitants the means of communication with the neighbouring Parishes, or with the navigation of the Riviere du Lbup. mat is the amount of clearings in the said Township, the number of Houfes, &c. ? Be pleafed to give the Committee any Itatistical information you may have concerning the said Township ?— Thirteen Lots opened are partly cleared ; Six or feven houfes, and feveral barns. By what defcription of Settlers was the said Township first fettled ? What is its prefent population ? What is the state of then- pecuniary means ? and by what circumftances have thefe 4 means been advantageoufly or difadvantageoufly affected ?— Frincipally by Canadians ; there are but few perfons now resi- dent there; the year being bad, even the inhabitants of the up- per (ettlemenis of St. Jofeph adjoining the faid Township, as well the greater part of ^hose of the Township itself, have been forced to leave the place for the prefent. In what quantities are the lands of this Township diftributed ' — Tae Lots are 6 arpents or thereabouts by 20 arpents. Mondaj/, 29th December 1828, Mr. Dmid Grant, of Three-Rivers, called in; and examined : ' ^ Have you had any and what means of becoming acquainted David Grant, ^^^^^ «"« "^w Settlem.jts iu the Township pf Caxton in the rear V^"V-^^ of Point du Lac and Machiche, in the District of Three-Rivers ? 0Dw. 1896.— I have been in the Township of Canton feveral times, but] tapnot say that I have any particular acquaintance with the Settiemeots or the Townships. 67 3IAL COMMITTEE I ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. the length of new rges would not be I i to Three-Rivers 'he land is fwampy d coil about One ' far a» the Set« without giving the the neighbouring ^ du Loup. id Township, the e the Committee cerning the said cleared ; Six or 1 Township first hat is the state of mces have thefe ufly affected ? — >erfons now resi- itants of the up- aid Township, as itself, have been ship diftributed ? 'pents. ed in; and ning acquainted ixton in the rear f Three-Rivers ? veral times, but ntance with the! j_Itwas lurveyed in 1824, and .ne Settlement first com-g'jJ^'^JJj^ 1 in 1825, but I have no knowledge of the number of When was this Townfliip first furveyed ? when were the Settle-* I Mir. lents first commenced ? what is the nun er of actual Settlers at-P"^ ^o»tf, [)refent lenced »ctual Settlers at prelent. "What was the state of the communications to that Township ^hen this fettlement was first commenced ? Had the new fettlers ny obstacles to encounter in this refpect ? Have they been in /hole or in part furmounted, and by what means and to what ex- ■lent ?— The communication for about 8 or 9 miles to t!.e Ffownship was by the upper part of Machiche through the woods, the obftacles were a great number of deep gullies which crofled the path, these obftacles have in part been furmounted by making t^ridges at the bottom of the ravines, and clearing a Road a con- [siderable way into the Township. Are there any and what water communications between this JTownship and the River Saint Lawrence or the Saint Maurice j and what is the distance of this Township from thefe Rivers refpectively ?— This queftion I cannot anfwer from my own knowledge. The diftance to the Saint Lawrence may be aSout 18 [miles. Could the inhabitants of this Township communicate more I shortly with Three-Rivers by a Road striking the Forges' Road, ! and if fo, defcribe the fame, particularly the nature of the country through which fuch Road would pafs, and the probable expenle ' thereof ?— I am equally incapable of anfwering this queftion, but it is fupposed the communication would be shorter (not with the actual Settlement) but with fome of the back ranges. What is the amount of clearings in the feid Township, the Buraber of Houfes, &c. ? Be pleafed to give the Committee any statistical information you may have concerning the faid Township ?— I cannot fay, 1 am not sufiiciently acquainted with the Townships to afford the Comrajttee any particular account of it. By what defcription of Settlers was the said Township at first fettled ? What is its prefent population ? What is the state of their pecuniary means ? and by what circumstances have thefe 68 ^ MmnTES 0, EVmENCE BEFOHE THE SPECUt COMMITTE. «9 Dec. 1S28. _ "Aimia. more ,h.„ iZoo ,o OiEcm:' ^^. i„^ l™ '° «""7!. -^ "o, and Ensigns 50Q each. F'-'^s nave SOO ; Lieutenants | ill i¥ lllf I ;il;'iM ^^rfreoj Pa/erio;;, Ef^uire, called .in and examined m ^ ' ^ * "'""^" '" i and examined : Aw. Pateraon Waveyou had anv n*J «.),.* ^ I Esqr. with th/ne^ Se^L;"^. ^ h« t'"' ^ ^"^'"^"g acquainted to visit my land and imp,i,e^"t^ '^"'°° '" ^'P'"'"'^ '«'• I When was this Town«^h; ^ fir** f.,,-^ j s -rxr. ment first commenced " What il .h^''' ' ,^^^'" ^^"-^ ^'^^ ^^"le- prefent ?_I believe it is *. ur or fit! ""'^^^'' °^ '""«' ^^"'e" at Wyed. soon after Ih CeJ was iS.T'j'i^ ' r^'^^'P -- menced : of resident Settle J^thTre are I kI,- ^' ^l"'^'"^"^ '^°^' lies, consifting of upwards of 30 perfons. '^"' ^^ ^''"^'• wre^riL^rSo^era^ny?^^^^ hIX^:::;'- extent .^-When the sSmenJc werl T '' '"''"'' '"^ '^ ^^^^ way of reaching the TownTn J fu^*"'' conimenced the only greatly retarded^he SetZernVth^T °"^ T'^'' ^^'^^ Efquire, the Agent, and foml .k ^^^"^^'P- Sueton Grant. th2 woods, but'as^he ftuTp are'^^.r T ' ?°^' ^"' *'^-' route, and it is with difficulTv^that . f l "'^'"^' '^ '' ^ ^^^^ bad ' jWs Road, I think, gtsrrfirtan"d'^^1t^^"'^'"^"'' fecond Concefsion. ' ^"'^ probab y up to the Totmh!pTnd7e R^^^^^^ -ater c,,^„„j^^^.^^^ ^^^^^^^ and what is the distance o^ p Tn^'^ T '^' ^^'"^ ^^"^''^^ i pectiveiy ?-A Road "'" V ]l'cuJZT '^ ^T i,^'^*^ ^''^^^ '•^s- ^r the Saint Maurice, t , Zm tt^t ^^^f '" ^"^ " -"=*^»e t^riv uetfitrs to reach the •ECIAL COiMiMITTEE ageoufljr affected?—] • Militia. • Township distribu. MO Settlers, ancj not I - «00 ; Lieutenants 69 »nd examined : ecoming acquainted! of Caxton in the District of Three- n in September Jast, ''lien were the fettle- i" of actual fettlers at ? this Township was he Settlement com- eve about i2 fami- to that Township ad the new fettlers lave they been in leans and to what :nmenced the only he woods, which t>. Sueton Grant, a Road cut thro' ?. it is a very bad h the Settlement; Jbab y up to the ions between this ? Saint Maurice j thefe Rivers res- Riviere du Loup tiers to reach the ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Saint Lawrence with rafts or boats from either of the^e Rivers • the Jt.. r , Hiver Machiche ru..s through the Townvhio bnt i^ U Z *^.^ ^'"p '^«'«'-««'» iableeven for fm a II boats. From t ,e S^^f I .^'''; Ji!'^""''- iMnt »Kio 'IV.., 1 • • i! ' '"■" °' '"y know edee I -'^ '•*»-/ hmk th.s lownsh.p is about equal dilhnces from the Riviere du ^9 I^ec. 1628. Loup and Saint Maur.ee River, fay about six or feven milis but |he Settlements are neareft the former of thefe Rivers. ' Could the inhabitants of this Townsbm mrr^^y.,.^- . Ihortly with ThreeRivers by a l^::^;^^^ Z7 Ind ,f fo, defcnbe the fame, particuiarlv the nature of the coun ry tep 1'^"'''^.°'^"°"''^/^^^*^"^ the probable expenfe hereof ?-l he mo. t direct road from Three-RiCers to the Town! h.p .s by way of .he Forges of Saint Maurice, and I h 've been Iflured by a per/on who p.ffl-d that way that the dij nee does r V''i "k"''" °'". ^'''"^^^" '"""•I *h°"tJ think Vara Road might be run a.l along the front of the Township, b^k to he fourth or fift^h range and down to the Forge RoTd, which ^ good to fhree-Rtvers, for about eight hundred pounds Some ^ears ago a fum of money was voted for the internal improve- ments in the County of Sair^t Maurice, only a fmati po^on of .h,ch has been expended, the remainder. ,f applied. wo,°d be fhf T^wn^hir "'"'" °f-akmgthepVedRoadi: nnSr of^I\'"'?"^ of clearings in the said Township, the number of Houfes &c *> Ee plealed to give the Committee any t tis ica information you may have concerning the faid Town! K^ I 'P ^^°7.^00 acres are already cleared, or under clear- Ke, m the Town.h.p. and about 14- houses built, the failure of ' be crops this year and the want of Roads has p;evented many bve not the means of getting their crops out from the clearances^. he lands are very good in many places, and would soon be ftH pd If roads were opened, the Seigniory Lands in Machiche Mrhich joins the Township being all conceded. retufd ?^ wt^'^'-l^" °^,S«"^^" r^ *l^^ ^«''d Township first pett £d ? What IS Its prefent population ? What is the state fhi P^7"'^«'y means ? and by what circumstances have fhefe means been advantageoufly or difadvantageoufly affected ? [;-lh.s Township IS granted, I believe, p.incipallv to nprln„ Militia during the Jate war. 1 cannot state ! II 70 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE. jlw.Paterson exactly the population of this Township ^s many of those who! Esqr. hold Location Tickets remain on their Lands but for a short time Jon ""icoo '" ^r^^* "^°'* °^ ^^^ wSettlers are very poor and have not the »»Dea 1828. means of paying for their Patents j while I was up in the Town- slup feveral of the Settlers applied to me to know if I thought Government would grant them delay, for if this was not done it would be better for them at once to abandon their lands than im- prove tbem, and lofe their labour i indeed, some of them were in hopes that as they had served in the Militia, Government would j give them a title to their lands without payment of fees. In what quantities are the lands of this Township distributed ? —The Lands located, I believe, are as follows •. to the Ho- norable Matthew Bell, 1200 acres; Sueton Grant, as Agent tor the Township, 1200 acres; Lieutenants Dame and Pater fon, 500 acres each ; Ensign Grant, 500 acres, and about 60 Lots of JOO acres each granted to different individuals. ' Tuesday, SOth December 1828. The Honorable Matlhm Bell, called in j and examined : The Honble. Have you Lad any and wJ^a?: means of becoming acquainted Mattw. Boll, with the new Settlements in the Township of Caxton in the irtr^^ ^^^^ of Point du Lac and Machiche, in the District of Three- w x»ccr.i828. Rivers ?— I have never been in the Township myfelf, but having taken the Lands due to me for fervices as a Militia Officer, I have enquired into the state of the Settlements. I have per- formed my Settlement duty, but at great expenfe for want ofl roads, and intend to have the .fame settled so soon as roads arej made to enable me to place people on the same. When was this Township first furveyed ? When were the fettle- ments first commenced ? What is the number of actual Settlers at prefent ?-This Township was furveyed in 1824', and I have under- stood for the purpoCe of granting lands to Militiamen who had ferved during the late war. Mr. Sueton Gfant was appointed^ Agents and to him I would beg leave to rwer the Committee for® further information in this place. I 71 CIAL COMMITTEE. P ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Are there any and what water communications between this Tho HonWe. Township and the River Saint Lawrence or the Saint Maurice •^MatthcwBeU, and what is the diftance of this Township from thefe Rivers res- ^>^^^/^^ pectively?— There is no communication between this Township g^^ 30 Deer. 1828. the River St. Maurice, and if there were, luch would fall in a eood way above high Falls and difficult Rapids — a communica- lion with the ftream of the Riviere du Loup, I have underftood, could be eafily obtained. Could the inhabitants of this Township communicate more shortly with Three-Rivers by a Road ftriking the Forges' Road, land if so, defcribe the fame, particularly the nature of the country jthrough which fuch Road would pafs, and the probable expenfe Ithereof ? — I am of opinion that the first Settlements must necefla- Irily communicate with Three-Rivers by the MachicheRoad which lis made up to the Township or neariy so. It is probable that Ithe east end will be nearer Three-Rivers by a Road through the llands ref^rved for the Iron-works of St. Maurice, but as the roads (from thofe works in that direction have been abandoned for many years, they would have to be made anew — the grou.id, at leaft la part of it, I know to be very hilly, with great ravines j and two very extensive fwamps which were once bridged over wi»!. \'^g% (pontons) and now are in a very bad (late. ind examined : By what defcription of Settlers was the Township at first [fettled ? What is its prefent population ? What is the state of their pecuniary means ? and by what circumflances have thefe means been advantageoufly or difadvantageoufly affected .'•— I believe that the Township was referved exclusively for the benefit of Militiamen, and to be fettled on by them ; and it was expected they would have been aided in the fetttement by their relations and friends in the neighbourhood ; ?n i.'i 72 ^„, ,''""'^" " ^""''"''' "'"''""' "'"• *''-^''''- committee! ' "'"iiivcri? — Havinn' been aunamtcA a««„* r r . I more, I beii.;;:';L;°'.;rwu::""'""'"'"'^"'"«"'f°>^". -I why„'hi,":;''i:'„r,;/,tr"'"""'"'f!:' •» "- township in whole or in nnrt rurmn„n,Ij it ' ' "'"" ^^^y b^n ex,e„, ?-Wher,he srC ; ' ''V^" ■""»' ""'' "> »ha, ceffionof S. Jofcph i^ Ihfp ? „" "Ma:Lche'^t's^^r"• ' hau then to encounter fh« ,i;ffi i "' " • "' "^ Settlers the wooci., of more thin n I. ^'"''^ °^ °P^"'"g ^ R°^d. thro' ' rough country TurL 1 '^'"^ •'" '^''' concefsio , , over a very had taken concefs^ns oHl .^ T'^' ^7 ^^' "'^ ^ '"^ (who Township) aided b, the cL ^'"1 ' '" ' *^" ^""'^ ^" »° ^^e tion will'Lver orVer^fem^^^^^ l>ut thi. co., .nica- -carriagec, on account fH?.-^' ""^ i""'^ "'"' f' '' ''^'^d^' ' hills on the s'd.s of rh> ""T"l' '"^ ''''"°^' '"^'^^-«sr there are I ^ 1 f' t 1 st ^.IZ'l' "^^^°^'^ ^^^^ ^-'^^ ^^ -'-u route, ca: .ot be avoided '^'' ^'ft^nce, and wh.ch by this Tot:r4^::u^';L^Rlv:tin7Lv^ ^— this andwhatisJ.edilianrrfthir'r^'^'r^^^ ^' ''^^ S^int Maurice ; ively ?-There a re no m' Townsh.pfrom .he/e River, respecti between thi:'^,:;:hi;VdTh;sr'L""'"""'"?"^ ^^y ^-^ Thehorizont.l dii>ancVto he Sr T "' "' '^^' ^'^ ^^^^""^«- league Th- wt mI • • ^ Lawrence may be abont siv is.ekrves, but I have no idea of the diftance. Could the inh;ibJtant<5 nf :. t /i.- ihortywi.h'ihrce-Riversbv^R ^T?-'' ^°"^«^"»ic^te more and ifVo, defcrrbe the ame oVrtfcn? l"?.^'"^ '^' ^^°^-""' ^^^J' through wh.Vh r„ch P V ^""'."'^••Jy the nature c the countrv . --n .uch R,.,d wouia pais, and the prob jle txpei^Cc 7.3 ECUL committee! on HOADS AND OTFfnR INTP.nNAL rOMMUMrATTONS • Tup. r Intending the acLOming acijuainted] When were the Set-, ber of actual Settlers j and completed in entisveryfmall, not i to that Township! Had the new Sct-j f Have they been means and to what nmenced in 1825, o be) by the con- :he. The Settlers ■ning a Road, thro' efsioM , over a very li Tiiefe difficul- new i lers (who le Road uo to the : this com mica- ::h use for Juadc ' 'most inaccess; le Road, of whici. and which by this ons between this i Saint Maurice ; ^e River • rcspect- itions by water the St. Maurice, lay be abont six le remote ranges lie diftance. nmunicate more e Forges' Road, e c the country >rob jle expenie <^„» ..,«ii , • '^'■";*''-uK^» "I'l I nave been infornu- J bv nor- Ks«r. Ions well acquainted with the country that fhn .]\aJ. ri ^ _ J Rivers by the Forpo Road t rli<=>^„^ cr *"*^ "o^'J to Ahrcc- without any hou for establis t m nf T ^' ''^^' ^''8'"''' market. "''^'""''^ ""'^ ^«^^ provisions to fpare for the ftatistical information von ,^^ / "'^^ ^^ g"c the Committee any fliip?~Thc arouTof lZ7/'''' concerning the (aid Town- tl^rough the first feVen^r "i"' '"'^ ''^"'^ ^'^ Hsfributed thefe^l2 ac e the Sn' ' ^JV"?""^ °f ^' '^nng on all To.;shipabou in and a h^fl''^'' °^7"i '''^'^^'^ '^^ houies ten. but fnLnt .? ''^^".''' ^"'' '^^ ""^ber of failure of last ye r Woo th '".T-^ '"'^'ff^'-ent. Owing to the jofeph, adSSn,?,^;"^r'^:r^°?o;"tr^r ^i'*- have removed to ilw nl,l6 r.e .i • '^ '^^^» o"^' "'S^dred and sixty- - arTgtn ^fo^^^^^^^^^^^ "f^^^^^^ applicationTo forward for their Loc.?lnnT-u ^T"'^P' but -yery few came (who are entitled to ?" ^ "^ '^^' ^^"'' ^^''" tiement dut f than p vftVrhad'ri''' T- °^''S^'^ *« '"°''^ ^<^'- of the Townsh p. v^Sneceff 1 .h " .k' "r •'" '''' ^''°"' backinthewood fo that fh!; ^ ^hrew the 1^1, htiamen further munication to ttV Lot ' w^^^^^^^^ three to five len.M./f°^!:7,„f ' V \ 'if ^^^^« ^i^ant from "ve or six ranires totho'n.. n r ' *^°^'' crofsing the first X rani,es to the Clergy Referves would have obviated this k 71< MINUTES 0. EVIDENCE nnroHK THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE been erected a th. ^- 1 ""^"^'^"^^ R'^^-- a faw-mill has lately of tLx^wlh^nhn?" ?^ "">.''" ^^'■*^' ^'•"•" *he front line fettlement ?h. ^ K • ^'^^*'"' " '' ""'^ "^^^"^ »« '^^ adjacent marS •!' ,""« "° possibility of bringing its produce "f market lo explain more fully the situation nf thi. ^4,°°"^^° other ,rNo«V"w_r'±°'B"''f"'''- "«' P^^'W <» c«l. raf. t r ■ [r^crVh-" «-,V-'^r«^ ^r boa":" wnuMh ■ '".^'""'>" ""J Pot-ashes, &c. But what litkuZ oni:"?"^''' r ''"''- '° "- "re of thrsctttr, apartforavHa^e 'rh^ fct five or !,x ratiROS, to the tract set .1- 7. ■ pnfcnt population ? What is the tlate nf meT„sTerL,:!™=A.,^"^ ^' T';-, c-u^ftanJcs W Xfe -The 5e.tier7arel: 4^,,rc:Sr'"«Th?VS^^ -'*«JiiiiL», S3IBEHI -.H"-..l JCTS^^Cfr 75 lAL COMMITTEE i ®^ ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. s, except the up- ation. The coun- f 40 acres, and that of Pique- II 15 or 16 acres low the Chute le for boats and 1 excellent com- ique-dure, thro' lening the dis- at is of greater irce-Rivers and kc. Biit what of the Settlers, ning of a Road to the tract set jrk Were given d be fully ade- mpletion of all le diftrefles of by the failure Pownfliip first is the ilate of cs have thefe affected ? — probability is, that It would be almost exclusively fettled by the furplus 5«, /.n r?ra«/. population of the Parishes of Machiche, Riviere du Loup and Hsqr. ' Maskinongc, where the Seigniories are nearly all conceded. In what quantities are the Lands of this Townfliip diftribu- \r^ -u ,"r ".'*'*^ °"' I'" ^°^' *^f ^^^ acres each, and they arc diftributed for the most part from 1 00 acres to 500 acres. 30D«c. 1828. Mr. Bernard, ff^cdncsdaj/, 3ist December 1828. Mr. Louis Ihrmrd, of the Parish of Pointe aux Trembles, having been called in, informed Your Committee j That the ^*- —"> powers given by the Law to the Grand-Voyers were far too great. ^^T^V inasmuch as it was impofsible to adduce evidence against tSm?' ^'' '^''' that in confequence of this, a Grand-Voyer might lay out a Road while sitting ,n his own room, without its being poflible for the parties to prove the contrary. That the power of laying out or ? ntro^f .h'p ^-^^ ''"«^A.*.° ''^fi'^^"*^ a majority of Uinhabt ShI^. Panfhes or Diftricts, a meeting of whom should be nFnW r-P'"'P°/^* o"^ »^»at the parties should have the right in. and n? ^''^P'^'f^^P^'^ons as jurors, for the purpofe of vifu- ing and. nfpecting the places in qucftion, and giving a decision : that the cods to which the inhabitants of the country are fub^ and to the mhabitants of new Settlements infupportable. Tha m cafes wherem there is fome want of formality, the expend n^fu^h *'° '^'' Grand Voyers are not interefted in avoid- n^fuch errors, from which they rather derive advantage.— mis IS the opinion of the inhabitants with whom I am ac- Frida^, 2d January 1829. The Revereri Mcflire Michel Dufrhne, called in j arid examined i Have you had occasion to direct your attention to tho m,f « tcrs of Internal Communications in any part of thh DiU kt iTdM^- n'T^'' particularly to.and in the Seigniory ol L Giles and ih^TAi^'^i^tlT ^n.ps oeyona if f~i have fcarcely applied my attention to^ihefe''^'j«"y- 18^3. h ! 7(5 MINUTES or EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEI Rev. Mcssirer w M. Dufr^sne^^^^l"-^^, "'• '^^'^ '' ^ ^"^^' «^J^'«:'^ r^ns through Saint Gil.c i ^-^^v^>, '" 3 direction near y North-Nnrfh Wocf .,k . ^ oaint t.iles, tied abou sixty yea^^^^ Saint Giles has beenfet.'' of the River Sriv'^onH^^^^^ *° '^" ^^""^^ account of the fwZS^ I- u""^ '"''"'^^ extending, either on cppor..e .heir Se.t,e„e„«, /.c.^':L"^7Jtf:'':-,r'' .'^^'S^''?'^'y^yo<^h2do{ becoming acquainted with thr ve" /ThaTfnr" ""' °"'" " S^intfeile^and ««"« Sy What are the Roads and Bridges, and their state, m the conn. LVdsTriai^ Jitf "7 ?"r'.'=''^= ^■"' '"= Townshr" u- u tT . "' ^"^^ ^"'^ Leeds there is only one Road th•,^ vvhich I have just mentioned, and in Saint Sylve^st^e. (fneir Pa mh lately erected as well as SaintGilcs, by aLnTnTca authorifv^ here .s moreover Sainte Marie Road which joi^.T( at oad a L^t^T/f ''"' "^^^'^^^ ^'P'''''' «^'"^ GilL or Dea ?i aie from ^ farV? r^' '" ''^"^^ ^"^'^ "^"^ ^'^^^ Ro^d. Craig's RoJS or five L^^' •; " ^^"7'"^ S^"^' ^'^^ '^'' ^^^eP"°n of ?he four or five ast miles which are bad ; this country beinjr extremelv mountamous and strewed with large stones/and In telo J Ss ; W "^ r '^'71 >''^"' From\he"ccoun of r ! vellers, I have reafon to believe that Road is worfe : Siiute Mane Road is alfo bad, but the inhabitants fetded aW oDitrvethatbaintSylvestre is quite anew fcttlemcnt, not having 77 iCiAL COMMITTEL I ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS, irough Saint Giles, )ut twenty-one miles inhabitants of Saint lint Sylvcftre or the of Leeds, Invernef? Giles has been fet- fined to the Banks itending, either on or of the frequent ch are occaflionally ants. There are a o the North-East) Voycr having very one ; hitherto the out eight in num- the River nearly ters are high. [uaintid with the and at Saint Syl. ng perfonally ac- thc Townships of arishes in which I cting thofe places tate. In the coun- the Township of y one Road, that istrc, (a new Pa- onical authority) i Craig's Road at Beaurivage from I. Craig's Road )tion of the four being extremely ind in the low e account of tra- worfe ; Sainte fettled along it it. It is well to lent, not having jbeen in existence more than nine years, and mnr«» tK,« Ann i i n ,. Lajr^dy conceded and ^^ou.Jooli^^^^^^^^^^^ TJ^ and Irifh families, for the moft part Catholic. There are fix* V~^ bnges, of which five are in Beaurivage and one in LeedTon^i^^^ on the Rmcre au Pins, another on the Riviere h la FourcheUe a third on a fmall stream, the name of which I do noricnow a fourth on ih^Rmeredu Four, a fifth on the fame WveTlI Sainte Mane Road, and the fixth in Leed. on the River B6ca^ cour Thefe Bridges are in good repair with the exception of the third and fourth, which Ifometimes found impaffablthav n^ been carried away by the rife of the waters, audit wasieceZf |to c;^s t^iefe^Streams at the risk of being upfet ^^ S What in your opinion would be the beft courfe of the Roads the fittest places for locat.ng the Bridges-the inconverJences to which the inhabitants of thofe countries are now fubject ? what would be the probable expenfe of the Bridges, and mak n J and rf pairing the neceffary Roads .^-It is very difficult to direawher; the Roads ought to be opened and the Bridges built, on ac^oun? of the fwamps and unfavourable ground which mi^h" be me with in the given direction. There are already in s!int Sylm tre three or four roads cut through, which will foon be rendered practicable by the activity and labour of the inhabitants who have no idea of requefting aid from the Legiflature. TwoTridg^ on the River Beaurivage, one towards the old Mill, and the other fome leagues above, would be ufeful. I have certified to Mon- feigneur Panet, a very accurate plan of the Seigniory of Beauri- vage, and I do not doubt that His Lordfhip would lend it with great plealure for the information of the Committee. It is X veryd.fhcuttoaate the probable expenfe of the fevera object 0^^5000 well employed, much work might be done. Mv Pa nlhioners at prefent find no other inconveniences than thofe | luwe already mentioned, fuch as the rife of the waters, the frosts ml the fwamps on their lands, and thefe arc too much. ' the^c>Rl?u^i° •''''7'^"'' ?'*°""'^' '"'^ reafonsfor recommendmg o .1 ^ h -u ;''' '''''''T ""P°"^""' «" J tlie eftects which they would be likely to produce upon new eftabliihments .?- Saint UI.bc.ng luhubiied by poor perluns. and the Lands being ge- "erally undervalued, I do not ice that for the nr^frnt it " oiSd b- 'I t 78 MINUTES „, EVIDENCE .lEFOBE THE SPECULCOMMITTEeI and I caa (>» with truth tlT-,, « i """"^ ".» years for them, mafc. ! and rMic,rtha. ^^.i ,1^" m t Tf *■"!; Pl°l>'' a fiiperabimdanre T>,o s«;i2)Li . rT. • P"' '"'°"' *ey have ing £ith astonXng rap^.y , S«1lr::"d*. r'' ff ' " '^""'• than nine wars have elaS '<;„,. .1! . ""^ ?"• ""' "<« ""»■■« .0 be fettleJ, andlLtf ral " % hTas'^^uth ^Z^'-'^^''" foi-oted there a. at Saint uilcs. A S ™ , Ir °" " PJ'- bairn Sylvestre minbt redouhrr I,. J f" ^ ? . "^ """"^ '"' Care in (he (clecS of el,r„!rf .f'""' "'^ '" '"''•''innB. of the pwfbns interested oaght to b^ taken « l '^ T""T better »PpHc«ion of the monies for Aeir t„efi, fw ' *? .'^ inTt eToTitti;: 'y r -" ifr -^ cit..ett btt co?fited°btne I IrT^Sr -jLt'-V^''^" ""-" '' [i.-o e.ery year, or aimosreve " year' tl« £,l",''oH""7"i'''"' family almost entire'v nerifh^r? ?! 7' r^ ? " numerous will aUy^ preven S a^rcno, frn T'?^^ fuch evils, which the more .the iS are c e^r'd t hT P''°^P""?^» ^f ^ obfervethat would it not be poZt^^Lltg^Zan^ ofX R^'" ''^ ThJ Csf :r""'T"'J"^ ' ''""•^' but'^Slufel^^'n^feS ? oblige eveT Undho S:j'.^^^^^^^^^^ '^/ ^f"-- mi/hi the front of his land, at VhM. 1 .: ^ of weeks each year in help thefe poor people ""' «""''"« ^ "^^^'" ^""^ to Tuesday, I3t/i Jamany 1829. Mr. Josiah Kh,g, of Saint Giles, Farmer, called in j and Mr. examined : ''^^onni^nTc^^ °'"^'^"" '''.'^'"''' y^""- ^"«"ti°" to the matter nJany. i8^».^* '"ternal Communications in any part of this Diarict, and par- I '^ORMIHiPC-'ci^ ECIAL COMMITTEE I oor people, far from niarketjwould much fix years for them, Jived from them 50 could fuch people ss before they have jylvestre is advanc- faid that not more F Beaurivage began luch labour is per- 'ant of money for of its inhabitants, ted with fuch mo- ', and the opinions s a guide for the it. Before finifh- mittee for better- : Giles, which is ifortunate perfons of their hard la- id and every kind thing in fact dif- overflows by the ^d into it to drain I in thofe fudden and a numerous uch evils, which ;and obfervethat danger will be) of this River, a itely neceflary ? egiflature might 2ks each year in a certain fum to 79 led in } and to the matter ftrict, and par- ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. S'ifeldit'? V ''"^""^^ "^ ^^'"' C''« '-^ '^' Town- Mr. rCc »/?il T' °'^" P'°^^'^y '" t'^^ Seigniory of Saint -^"^'-A Kinff, Giles, and I have frequently travelled ir. I (hould recommend '^^-^ the prefent Road to be (traightened in fome parts! '""^ 13 Jany. 1829. |.r7^omoHfjnI;'rh^'J'^- '"^ ^"^l^'' ^"^ *'^^''' ^'''* i" '^e coun. XedsT cl ' r''^?'°'^,^ ^''" ^"'J tl^« Townfhip Saint GiIe7.?H V i'' '^'r ""'?' "^ '^'^''^ '^' ^^'^"iory of Saint Giles and fownship of Lee iRo.id I f^r in I was L monc per b I propc ( OVfrfv; monc -^^-'9. Indian Village at the head ^.1''^'°"''^ ''^ opened from the gouche to Metis on the Saint 1 '''^^^'' '" ^^^ ^'^er R«ft'- tants of that County would wT?'*'* ^^^hich the inhabi- land with this Capital. That this wiu^' ^°'";""»'"t'on over of communication between this Prr»„:» ^ ° '^"'^ ^^ » Road The whole diftance throu^. my bea W '.0 ^^^-B-'nfwick. of ^1000 or ^1200 would fuffice to mtn P 'V'"'' ^he fum (with the necelTary bridge^ o L ke M.r f^ "V« ^''' ^'^^ to thefaid village travelers miot 1^ f •'"'' ^'"'''^ whence water, and on the ice in hrwTn?.. r '^"''. /" ^'^^ ^""^"'^^ ^7 if the LejWflature detelt upon an ' "'"''^- ^^°"^^^•• '^^ ^'^"- pofe to make an openinrof from 9 ^^P'-JP;'^''^" for the p.,r. diftance. adopting a Ifn! xlllZJ r u ^^ ^"''^^ ^'^^ «^f^o'« He has nevet be!n o "' his tScTnr '^" ^'"'^' °^ '^'' ^^^^e. ftomwhatheconfider Jodauer > °r"''^' ^"' underftands, , -oft part good and'fitTr^^t;;;?;;'^".,; -'-'^ »! f- ^l>e Ins fum of iBlOOOfl „„n. -— ..w»,ia guuu autnoritv. 1 moft part good and fit for n^ricul ure TI . was voted and anni-^n,-;.* j ''ttncuiture. ihe fum (oT.h G.om%°'lt^l'l ''" f •'- l-egifl.,.„.e in 18,7 , !.!,, ^..jj. ^jgj JjQj cogniz pectful for th( Mr. called ii in the r St. Pier was exci That th heads oi 49 who stance o if the for ope (which 1 new Seti iiished f( I 83 ECIAL COMMITTEeI ^^ ^^'^^S AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. ouge, at the rifle of ' p;»ying a high price lently at certain Tea- letained from a week ecommending thefe effects which they ements ?~There>| the Townships and i been already made;! a final! fum woiid | ive the inhabitants! their way,— wouidl iO to 15 per cent 19. ity of Gafpe, hav- e : 7'hat it is the opened from the n the River Rifti- vhich the inhabi- nmunication over ferve as a Road ■ New-Briinfwick. "/■les. The fum ad of 18 feet wide lac, from whence 1 the fummer bj however be better tion for the piir- !t wide the whole ^ad of the Lake, but underftands, J land is for the fum of ^JOOa giflature in 1SJ7 ing a Road from >'s vote has not diac, and on the Metis Portatre if a R^^T ^ ^.^'"P^" J.''^'' lected in the County be formed imn.V r ^^'''""' '^°'- The Committee h3ve\eporteTl "^°, iff °- *'''r P"''P°^^' |po.dFund..„ditisprSre^K^^^^^^^^ to report upon the expedience of the faid Rn^ri ; . J • "V^^^^f i proper ,ha. ,hU me^fL being „„eT„h r orgeU a?'",ir°.o ihe Provmce than of a local nature, should be d'fciaedh. ,hU for .he^r^re, a„d^^a^:' i^^^ JZT^':;,;:;^ " Wedntsday, Qlst January 1829. Mr. CWA,, Kirouac. of the Riviere du Sud, having been rhat there were m the Parish of St. Pierre duSudabouTlcci h ad, of fam.hes j that out of this number there were at leas^ Ic^nA'l^ only.bu.lding lots ; that this arofe fromTe c icum TT J Z' ^''"^ "° '■°"^^^ '^^'^'"g ^° «he good lands ^t which mi, h. ^n l^''""^? ^^^' ''^' °^ ^^»^ fettlements, ir,. ci "/^^'* ^^ ^'^^''y ^°"e) ^^^e confequence would be. that a Sed'^T"f "°"'k' 'f '°^""'' ^"'^ '^^* ^-^^ would'be fur! hflnlTh ^? Superabundant population of the faid Parish. That *• ■-' "* --pvneu wuuiu De rour leagues. ^4 MINUTES OF EVIDFVrp upr/mT, m., _ VIUENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE I O.N itHi >% Frldaij, 2^(1 Jamtarij 1823. Mr. Fnwch Armslrons: fWans, having been called AoV a Your Commiittee th. folfowing pipet' '''^ '° 23Jany. js^j, r»bmits to the Commlaee for Internal r ^"^""^^'P^' ^»"'»^'y lowing Information relative to tIcciefr'r'T'r' '^'' '°'- lieved, req.ire public nonroDria'inn. f "^^ '^^"'''' '^ '^ ^"'• undersigned y.^^ been Tf?^ of money, and which the Honfe Sf AfTe-nblv "'^"'^ '^ ^"^'"'^ ^° '^^^ Hononble to i::i ^tf c^:^.ltr oH^^ ^^^'^^ Ea.e.n Townships Montreal and Th.ee-R t^ \^^,^ l^j^^'^^' '^--'y^ Q-b.^. a route or outlet to brin^ t\L \'^ mhabitants might have their fupplies fro n t ^^fe e /'"r'^''' '' T^"''' ''''' '' ^"-^ are nearly impniTable a cre.t nor v nf i ' P'-^'^^'"t 'O.ds places from the fmal! numb o th! i. I K ' ^''''. '"^' '" '^'"^^ refideon fhid Roads thcT.t n . n "'^^^^'^'"t^ that at prcftnt them in repair n 'ticu'fr ^ . .^ '°."'"^'^ '^^^ ^''"''^°^ ^^'^P that it is imVolkTe o X-ln n Tf 'r r ''^ ^^^^-- to make or keep Hid Rn.^^ non-reMdent land owt.ers to help the fatlement oT the'cot ^ Tt'^W^t^ t T' ''">^ T ''^' accommodation of theTown h n. t. ^ . '''l'^" '■°'^'^-'* ^"'' '^'^ Stanftend through Hat ev P f '%"^^5^,^^ ^"-^ ^hele : a road from -naska Mountain' abo'^'om"' ^ ') '"' ^'""^>'' '« ^'- a road from Sh;rbro;k; t."h i.ulc ^^f' ' ^ f . ^° ^^^""'-■^' = the above road to Montreal ^o m i V • ,^ i;'^'e.A agog to meet Shipton to Saint Gi!e 5, t;ilcs t rn ! p^'S\^°^d. from of Ireland to Katon 4^ mill, V ro.d from the Towmhip Connecticut rTZ' 30 nTit' ^""'^ °"/?H^^^^f-J at the head of maskaMoumaintonL iVoa/toA/"'" f'^''°""^ ^° ^a- fome improvement of the mnH f ^^!,^"feal, 30 miles. Alib, Simp/bn and Wendover "T •, "' "/-'P'"" through Kingfev 300 Lies of road, abo,;CO^^ '" ^^e 5hole about allowing therefore an averaLTV.V ''^ 7."'^ '^^ "^^^ ^^^'^ ' new road to be made it vvm,IH / ^'',""i' ^"" ''^^ ^^ mile, of ^40 per mile for the%40 m ll' ofToad to 'h'"" °' ^.''"^^^ ^"^ make L.9,600. in th« -" 1"! ^' fJ ?A^ ^°>. '•^P^'red, it would ' =^— '-'^ ^^^,.:uu. This fum would open CIAL COMMITTEE 85 2D. callc-d, delivered to 1^1 per ; lie of the princi'p'e rownships, hu.nb'y Juicatioris, the fol. ds which, it is he- 'i and which the to the Honorable Eallern Townships nair.ely, Qiieb;c, 'itants might have ;et, and to receive exiting circi;m. the present ro ids 'ear, and in feme fs that at prtftnt the fame or keep are Co defective d owtsers to help ny thing to help '\q roads for tiie U'le: a road from Granby, to Ya- 3d to Montreal : Magog to int-et g's Kodd, from 1 the Townihip J at the head of Ibourne to Ya- U miles. A lib, trough Kingfey, he whole aboi'u I be new road ; the 60 miles of f ^3,600, and lired, it would m would open ON ROADS . VD OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. effectual leading roads through the Township,, and all fettlemenr, which would not join on said ro^ds mi.rhrn.fi ,7 . '*^"'^'"^"" Mr. lead on to thefe ma'in roads ; hJt£enun^^'/ '°''^' ^°^-^- ^'"""• ticular or fectional views to thJ rZ\ r , ^^^'"S "o par- -^--^ "X^ raife this fun\ or refund iV if ^^ V _'-""'P'^"on. lo • 1 T- r "" *^\, ^^'"'^^^ tt, It advanced from the Prnvin cial ireafurv, I r^e ieve in f^n,,-,} l ^^a t ,. i rovm- r^eed. l alio believe were the roads above-mentioned nn^n!^ Jlut real property would advance 200 per ce" 7 rthreeT r^* are petioned for : marker, which Saim gI^?' ™7i?'' ^"'^ I™'" ,"-» K"- Sain, Francis ,„ i^r lo miles wou d amount tn ^ir:}* t? i r^""* wnicn a aony bJook 0^::;^.'^::; ^di clpi^r •: ".;!;^^r"^ °' carriage, and exceedingly dlngero.s to foo lir w/l r ""^ th.sdiltance within the ddtricfof Three m -or ' u ^f'^S^'' * -fO per mile, which I be^-eve t 'lo veTlirct^bl m . "T' with power to the Commillior.ers to mo e d e Ro ' f'''''''^^'* side where necclT.ry to avoid hills ic Th. ^°'^,^'^'^'" ^"'^ '« qua.ty. From the Three-Rivers diftr^t in 1n ^h^^ "^ oU^SO. .aeie iums 1 th»,k wi.hin bounds of reaibn, and whaj 86 MINUres <, EVIUEXCB BEPOHr. THE WECIAlCOMMITTEl >oMonl,o.l. The bZ InfJt ^ iownslup of Stanslead .he ho., of Lake M,mti;;f i T rZ^t'o/ Ha.^T "' from ;e80 .o I°TO ocr m L P T '° ""^ ''"' """"'ion, and dancerou. road, about 7 mL. , , '^.f '"^^'^ " » ''•i'' Sirs*; t'/s'o ^.^^r '"""■' - ^"-^-'y^eJi;' abt? ti .hro„gh sS'elf aS indT"' k'° ^'.'"'- ^h' Road on |l.e_^Hoaa pa..,'a„«d wlIl-V\f\":tnrK:lt and extremely well adai««.a f^-r^i^ 'carce.y any fwamp, tier, are now ftu ng oTatuto T""'* Tu "'r? ■"""' ^'^ rnii^fKitriis^on: sir f ¥- — -- ^2000. ; *^°"" atiMlt, but u has been estimated at uMMersignea was agent, and thwefore humbly gad CIALCOMMITTEa Craig's Road, being > the consideration ship of Stanstead le road begins at > of Hat ley, from even miles, being J best estimation, t of Lake Magog Stukeiy is a bad 'quire about /; 100 he whole distance y being about 18 >. The Road on ance of 30 miles, would amount to from the Town-r :s through which e value to the iportance to the continuation of River St. Fran- ton and Milton, Montreal: this :€ly any fwamp, vheremany fet- e built /aw and Je, would fhor- River and cen- what is at pre- oad to be made Vancis at Rich- mile to make, I waters of ihe I estimated at ^ petition for B humbly >nd d!f ROADS AND OTHEH INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. trCo^LitterThl' '^"""^ '" '"^^ /'^'°""^'« consideration of m. the Lomin.ttee. Ihe Sums required would itand as follow. : F. A:kvann, For the Craig's Road within the Diftrict of Thre^ «« Jany- ie» Kivers through Shipton and 2 miles into TinKwick. ^160 F«r the fame through Tingwick, o.,„,ter, WolfstoTvn of Irehnd ^ " °"^"" '" *^^ ^^^''"^^'P ' 660 V l^'^'i ^°', S'''^'' ^""'"^ *° »^^ ^^'^""^ Francis For the Road from the head of MaOiwippi Lake to the Township of Stukeiy, For repairing the continuation of faid Road through Stukeiy, Shefford and Granby, ^ For the Road from the St. Francis to Yama«ka Mountam through Melbourne, &c Included and petitioned for— Total =£6930 The above Roads would open effectual roads to the Cities of Montreal and Quebec, and pafs through the centre of the Town ■ tn tI^ ^°T- 'PP''°P'''»'5°n " ftill wanted to complete the Road to Three.R.versdown the Saint Francis through Kingfey. Simo fon and Wendover. and to extend a branch of the sfcre^^re Road from the part it pafles over the fouth-weft branch of the N-colet through the ninth and tenth ranges of Kingfcy to imerf.c^ the Craig's Road at Danville School-Houfe in Shipton. a diftanc" ,of thirteen mUes, which has been eftimated at the fum of "4/0 rius fum has beet; petitioned for, but was too late to be preflnted ^' he road .« greatly wanted, the inhabitants having now to let* traler Kh° the' \9'^^'^rjo.a S5 miles of 'a bad road'to U^avel which the making of this Road would cut short to 19 ?;lgw[r "'"'" °ft^e Settlements in Shipton, King^e^anl Tlie rcpairiiig of the road down the Saint Francis through Kingiey, S.mpfon andWendover, would, as atove-men oned rV ?a?rRL'Pr„T?r.°" ''°"1 ^i^^^'".^" --^-°' inhabitant^" \^i^°^'^\ ""^ '\^''PS nearly impafTable a great part of the vear =n ma„y places, the diitance is US miles, and" would require abo J IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 1^1 2.8 u 1.1 11-25 iu 12.5 2.0 [ 1.8 1.6 ISOmm « *> y /^PPLIED_^ IIVMGE . Inc .^^ 1653 East Main street ^^F L Rochester, NY 14609 USA ^=r^ Phone: 716/482-0300 .='.£= Fax: 716/288-5989 C 1993, Applied Image, Inc.. All Rights Reserved ' '"^^^'^n.end/d Cornmunicntions. and the unrs^rnetwinT'L"'' ^°'' ^"'«'-«^' fmher information that may b ?equi Id ^"^^^3^ ^'^ fi've any Quebec, 23d Jany. ij^29. F. A. EVANS, Agent for the Townshin? nf ci,- . Windf^r, Durhaa^/Tlngwic" &^' ?°"f °"' called the Eartern towll ipt* '* ^'' "^"^"^ yVw%, 27th J«;»/„ry 1829. ^-^.I.;^a-;?:^t aJ^X^^^ «-^on. and the W^ commg acquainted with .his par^of X ''''" ^?" ^^^ of bc- 2713^29^°"^ tl^e Township of i3rnndon from 1 '"""^'^uH ''° "°^ ^ "''have never been there. I hnve resH ?^ "T ^^^^'"'^tions : I years and the Township of ]3ra„don; U ''^^''' ^^-^ "^=^"7 the Village of Berthier.'^ f am couaint.1°"' f" ''*''«"" '"-"^ who have lands there. acquamted with many perfbns don i-TlK Road cenerXT. • "'^. '""nship of Bi,n. -- .irij^j narc xjiia PECrAt COMMITTEE I ON ROADS AND OTHER INTEKNAL COMMUNICATIONS. This Road is almoil o arrive at the Saint 'ch IS chiefly travelitd rs, and is much w^n- »ermi/erab!eRoaclon >ondvii|e, butibrcely "■al roads are greatly to market to Three- umbly recommended nm.ttee for Internal ^e happy to give any hipton, Melbourne, ' Hatley, Brompton, •ck, &c. &c. ufually ips. ^ E«qr. their lar^ds ?-There is novv th. R i k *? S° '^'^^^ ="<* clear F'^ which i. very difficuU If 30!" ^ '^' ^^'' ''^ «'«>'' ^'*- it. the clearing of tlfe^bnd ^^o dTl':^!"/ ? •"^!l^ ''» have known Several pcrfons whn kV. T T^^ advanced, f better ?— There are fomJ T T "^ '^^'^^ ""oads thither were the old sourmrnts':rB:^.i ri td '^ '°'' ''^'^ '- "^" Brandon J and I know others who 1 Vr ^.° '"^ ^«"'« i" roads were better. ° '^°"'^ ^"^'e there if the Brand Has the land in Brandon the characf^r ^f u - According to my informantsrhe ToaZav ''"«^ ^ood land?- ot their goodnefs s, that thofe who u.Jr ^ ^ °°^ ' '^« proof an abundant harveft every year '' """^ °" '^'"^ ^«^« i»ad 'hip ought .ho L so "tamed Krt"" """".P;" "' ""'Town- M on, and the ve you had of bc- itry ?-_r do not 1 obfL-rvations : I Jrthier for many SIX leagues from h many peribns en the old Set- nship of {5,.;,n. Brandon from who have bnd 90 yu MINUTES OP EVroENCE BEFORE THP «JP»r,t.. 'TMcim^,^ «,, , ,,, ^^^ ^«E SPECIAL COMMITTEE W^iU.,.ZW9to Montreal would be shortened byabo'u'.T^? ""' ^'"^ ^^^'^'^^ / ouuuc SIX leagues. Do the inhabitants fettled at Rnon i • , , my hand,. P«i,io„„hich I vat ?„mt» '■'"."' """ "■"« ™ LepiflatnrA «« *K-:_ l , ■- . commiffioned to nron,„* .. .1 Fr3.Belanaer n ^f^ 5'°" acquainted with th«» l^^,„ 1 • a,. ^"•Hoad, leading ^„ i,, ,„j wto cpp„T:rit''h°' ''""''°" »""' "- -.rrrjsri^:;-^^^^^^^^ ...e o,d Sen.. Village of Uerthier. """"""'*' «««< %,„<, behmd ,hs land. ?_Tho prelen, coLlS„°i "^ ^°"'"' ""''''"' 'h" > cntlygood ,„ be pafled b;rL':er''ca™ V." " ''' "°' '"'=■ wa, .be accoun. I ^ceived h^SZI^t^t^^^ = ""« «ve a road , bu, Ly co ' l~^ f^l J^/' "^y "rneniy „i„™ mthout the affistance „f the £ "gSre ' "' ""''"' '" "'"ke it PECIAL COMMITTEE f this Road, fupp^sin^ *ouId be that the road SIX leagues. 5h for the adoption of h»s's, that I have in led to prefent to the ■? ^'•om doing fo, be- 't to the Koufe, ac- and examined : of Brandon and ^he '^ve you had of be- '"'ry ?_I know the ear. <^een the old Settle- ns'iipof Lrandon? o the 'J'ownship of f'SprU, behind the b!e the proprietor - ere and clear their -^' ir road, by which "t it is 110^ fuffi. ed m the Town- ^age.'^I merely 'mber of families 'ing good land ? very good: this labitants. »e means of ma- ^arneftly wish to »ble to make it 91 ON ROADS AND OTHER L^Er.XAL OOMMUNICATIOM. Township ought the fum so g.fnTed o^^" ^^^^^^^ ^'* ^^T hazard an aniwer to this queftion. ^'"'^"^ ^""^ '''"'^°' aVJI^y^j rv;ss-n;:th^,-S^^^ ;-^hip,andtbis,co.para;;:e;;i^kS^^ don complain bittcrlv of rhp 1 . f ^^"^ '"^^^bitants of Bran- me that they were pre oa/i^rr"' °^P'"°P^"''/°^ds , and they told fubject. Preparing to apply to the Legiflature on the fVedntsdaj/, 28i/i January 1829. Ba:^tttt:.^'^*rSchl;'r^"'"'\^'™' No-en. A c formed your Co„,„,ir;:f£',t ^,2. T ?=!»'' '". i- rJX^«». jnd v«y well opened and clelred of wtd"„ Th^ " 1?'" """' ^5^. horfeback ivay pafs throiiirh ir „ ^'""-ii's. Ihat perfons on ^-^^^^^ f»a.mer carria'ge's : S ,t a Zfi^'br"?^ " " '"'^'^^^'^ ^- '''"'' '''' the considerable rivers andX. I^ . ^'^'.''^'^' "" itcroffingall road between ^ ".fand ;45o tt ^' ^k'" l'^^"^^^ «"^^« That there are Settlements on i^T'! '""i ^" .^'"" verbalized : the Lots are granted ^nclnXn ^'"'7'''' '"^ ^ ^''^^ P^rt of road in front of them ?n rep" r Th .'' '^r ^''""T' *^^^" ^''P ^^e •clearances have been made ihL h Z ^T °^ '^'''' ^'' ^^'S^ road of it, it wouki TnWe rbou J.on .V° T^^ ' ""'^^ '«3guP°;.^i^''«y convey materials to it :^neariy oSf Ltdra;eTared " «m.;TE,o,EV,DENCEB,,FoHE THE SPEC. "" SPECIAL COMMITTEB Joseph Douchtlle, E<-g„i„ ,„ • „ , qu"'.aga,n oiled in, a„d examined: / JBouchettr J/^^at relation would a R,. i .opened from the old S«7i„' "'""■■'«! »nd would n 111,7 r„ munication migh, be * '^^J 'J^-gh 'vl.ich a new li^ TfTom road and it. advantage'^ '" '"2*' ™°'"'=ly describing thatTn" of .extract thereof. ^ '^ ^°'^'=' ^"-^ ^ am ready to give any PECIAL COMMITTEB I ^ ■ ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAI. COMMUNICATION.. '"» and examined : Thursday, 29th Jaiumr^ J 829. the fa,d bridge would coft. but he h.l J^! .\ ".! 10 ij tliat the i/i lu^^ wouia oe neceffarv • iK- ~k "•" ""'■ fay hov^ much the faid bridge would coV I ."i, l'?""°* '""'y aid of -.2000 or ^1500 currfncrwouiS be' r"ffi^' ^eheve, that an bitants contributed part of their 'rh. *'«'/'iffic»ent, if the inha- The length of the Kgt i^ e'ted "t the n'rJf ''''' '^^ '''^''''' would be about five ament TU.fu '>' P'^f^^''^ crofling place. icis expedient to gran^rVum 1T^400 o'ri^OO °^^P--^»^« inhabitants of /'/,?,. Tr,/,^ to oi . Ik • ^"° currency to the Ncrofsthe RivireyZl' T^^^ conftructing a bridge of the inhabitant on h^ fl\^' this grant would meel the view, the object of thTp^etitt ^nt^ded /"Ji: ^ tt^h" r""^'"" ment of the ore/enf «;«.m«., u '■" "/ I'lem at the commence- Houorable h1 r xf he h 'Z'oU''- '^ ^^^-^^"^^^ ^ Your ceflary to grant an aid of ^,ooo c trencvTr' re'nJ- •'^'"'^'*^ "^• horating the road and thpV».:Ii 7 repairing and ame- Temifcouta. '^' ^"^^^e on the road leadiSg to Lake Saturdaj/t Slst January/ 1829. he had been in the habit of hunS n tli Jf n ' '?'"^y<^»" ,, Mr. lyng between Lake Megantic S St Fr.n " ^'^ i^t i'^nds^&xr.Pou/iy,, ^/« Uuest, and has run ofer r Jn 7. • ^- '"' =*""* '^^ ^ra*,^-^-%^ That this part of the Countrv c ,?"'. ^"-"^'O"' and places. »»J«"y- 1829, being colored /or tLgLrfaTt?^^ *'^ '°" «°°^' the whole is well adaoted fT. ^? i *" ^^''''''' ^''"''O That be formed tLTrmuchmofr ?8"C"Jture 5 and fettlements might the River Chaudi" re ^Tlr^'u "^T^"^'^ '^^" °" *^^ ^^"1^' of rnow falls on the X'eo h^^^^^^^^^ ^"' ''"^^ and is generally compofed of a mixture of Maoll^V"''? " '°^^^' and other timber, 'hat he LTievesff / ^o^'J ' ^"","r""'' the Bras du Oue^t tn th^ f T-; n , . mcnoucHer...^ the preceding inf;ruK>tio.. of M ' ^^/,^T V.^/ ""hi •" ' been read to hi.., he cor,f„med the fame '" ^""'"^ l^tdtiefuhnyt ^th fthritarj/ 1829. /■• X Z«r«..renHn?fhpr'^''*f ''/J'^''''' F'^"''^' one of the Knights repre- Esq. ''^f'^S the County of Hampshire, having been calle.1 in Jf luory of Bou,,r Louh, the property of Mr Fern rd pU^ t7^" there lots are already partly occupied by ftran, s fo who^^^' have been conceded i bur/ in November h<> ''Z' n '"'^^"X^^'^y Voyer having, ,t the requeft of V. V \ P^pmy Grand froi the nevffree brid.e^o er the R ;er j" • ''"^^'''''^ = ^^^'^ red crosses the said lands and rLnss far 'th" ^^^T'.^^'"^^ in. 9.5 CIAL COMMITTEE. I ^^ ROADS AND OTHER INTEHNAL COMMUNICATIONS. ult to clear, and the do otherwife. That he Parish who have len remain at home procure good lands, the wert side of the s which borders it. o open merely as a v as far as Ciaig'j is, wou'd be from 'cs thai a fum of would in this cafe 'e to pafi by the wo leagues shorter ut the land is not ing, was called in ; *■ t'ottlin havtn? 9. e Knights repre- called in, inform. : lots conceded in ■I running North rth by the Seig- iird Panct. That Si to whom they ? Deputy Grand erbdlized a road s Cartier, which ? said Seigniory bns being poor, *'ork impo/cd on o abandon thefe er formed there- Conceflion he g the road now id of the Com . tBe Conceffioni of Sainte Marie and Saint Jcin mentioned in the defcriptive olan F fTiniam IJnV, Efquire, of the Township of Brourrhfon in the County of Duckinghanuhirc. having been called Tnjnformed '''"^- ^''''• Tour Ccmmutce ; That there is a road under a Price -Ver^f '^• from the R.vcr Chnudicre through I roughton to Cr;^g's Road n th UdV f '^^'"? '^ ^' '"'•^^' ""^ ^^°"'J confide? tlyshonn e n?p nrd LT f^' '"^^°',!^" 'T''^ '^ ^^-^-^ that'road ha" Lee" ^ Th. hn "'""'"' '" ^'"'^"gf'^"". I'^t was not contlnuec; in Leec The lands upon that road are of an evcellent onalitr There arc no fctt!ers in Leeds to open this rond : The fan rT' fireenBroTrlunnnfi^- """'f '° °P'" ^ communication be- tTe"ior'o'r;o s Ja"h?' "?"; i^r "'• """^ 7\ '^"^ °^ r^ • • ° J^ quality. it\c Lommissioners for Inrp-n-ii moT'l'^rV' '^% ^"""'^ "f """"'ft" oP'^d a road t If Thl R- ' *"'" ^^'"'8' ^°"^ '•" '"'••'"'' ""he diftr™ line mere are ^80 fettlers i this road was not continued bv rh» f «„ r^nTd frj "„f if"" °' Three-Rivers. Should'.h' RoTj oe opened it would be, m my opinion, the erand route nf rn\« mumcat.on between the TowLhfps easl of the^L ke M ' tamT Sc ?o t;^Stl"°"f'MP^" lf°"^'""^^ communicaTn f "m TnM ? u ^*^*^' °^ ^'^ Hampshire and Vermont and joald pafs through the Townships of Hereford CV^tZ K^l Z'±i7' ."^r"'"^^ ^"' Duds'well,ail of whik t fetdeT that o r ?• i •''■' °" '^^^ ^'^^ °f »^^ '•°^d. The dift nee of that road wh.ch is not opened is about 36 miles, and he tr Jt eve?al"H ^ " '"^ ^T"^^^'^ ^°^ '-'^-g ^ road?and tiere are wonW • f "";'',°" '^" '"^^ » ^'"'i '-^'°^^<^ the road be opened 7r wo W mduce fettlers to come thereon. The fum of moncTrcqui ! fd to open the road would be about £1000. ^ ^ andMr^?^f//T"'7K^^'''"^'^ Township of Shipton to the DKRtth/vinf b"^^^ the fame. *^ ' "*^ ^ ^^^'^> ^W confirmed DicA«-««. . t! 'M 96 'ii ■J '" ]M; B!'. '. J 'I Si '( MINUTES o^ EVIDRNCE BEI'OItE THE SPECUl. COMMITTEE Thursdnji/, 5th Fibruan/ 1829. ment „ ent.re'y owing to th. want of roads, that m^nt f^"' tim have Deen desuous of taking lots in it. but did notTn conf extreme y bad that in fummcr it is impossible for a horfc either a load, otherwife than at the risk of his limbs That in vvT w! th.r a man can fcarcely walk in it. but at the risk of hslif" Thathel.ved with the Revd. P. Toofey, who about 33 vet, endeavoured to eftabliih the faid To^nTllrp ITi L , h""sTf f«"l5 I- ?'^ f^' "'''""efiful cultivation, but the want of road, uhimately ruined his project, neverthe!efs he beliem h ' a good can road can be made from Quebec to it for about i^on Town'S' ''"^^ K °^''^J. ^''' ^'•^'"^^^ °'^ e« bli^[ne° , fo the Th^To'r ::u'rret^e'irout l''^t 7^'"' ''' V^^'"'" and North Weft, and alfo with the sixth and last ranges of th Se.gn.ory of Beau port, known by the name of the wSoo S tlemeni j and that such a road would facilitate the fettlement o Iw aL?;."' "'^•^'^ alfo shorten the communicatio^rVa Cart.er about five m.les, and afi^ord a means of living to a num an"l'a;;tirrr^^^''^'?^^"°- ^.^""^- -1:^0^"; !? .i iT 7 "*•''/«»? gi^eat advantages from this in confeauence of the Fuel and Lumber which will come therefrom. ""^^'^"'"" Mondaj/t I6lh fxbruany, 1829. ^rn '^'StL^r^^ '-'f T"' ^5"'^^' "'■' ^T^'Jeftv's Resident l«FebM89B. In what part of this Province would it be moft advantageous to KCIA I. COMMITTEE 1 07 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATfONS. o;eL"rRotd"\?ir.'' T^ theLegmature to grant money for ^C nuc^ana>.. opening Koads to it ?-There are many parts of this Province '^'^'l- wel adapted to the introduction of induftrious Sett crs el h^r *— ^"^ Emigrants from the United Kingdom or Canad an, a"d 1 ha) '"''^''^^ cla(s hem under four different heads or fettlements ..Ipirst I consider that extensive and convenient Diftrict laying betUen the Chaudiere R.vcr and beginning at the Townshio of THncT and embracing the Townships of Oulneyl Adftoct Win bw' iW '^ro^\?''''r',^^^''°"' Wotten, Hampden. & TomX' ing altogether, of cultivable land well timbered aid waterTbv ZTsTomV!\!''''''T''^ '"''^'^'^ about ha^rSono? acres, should first occupy the attention of the public for imme diate fettlement. My principal motive in favour^of hefe 1 ndsl heir proximity to the never failing market of Quebec a, a ven for the redundant products of the farmer, and ner^ accefs alreadv h certltv of ff T'''' rV'^''^^^ inducement, namely, ne certainty of affording the Settlers a good title, from the ands being principally in the poffefsion of fhe Crowi • and hera will generally state to the Committee that I woul7,"o\ fed wruXVhTdT.r"''"^-^'? ^'^"^^ fettled": iiTeft hi rew pounds of hard gatherings in locating in the majority of the conceded Townships, as from every information I cin obtain a good *o„.>/. title is fcarcely to be procured, and this eie- n^ nds some early remedy. As a farther and powc ful Tnducel ment to immediately locate the before-mention^d tract of coun. graip ot the Americans who have already overrun die Eaftern iTf T'p"*^ ''^'* ' ^'''^ ^^^ introducing an influence into tha" Em^am,TTK"^"'^°PP°^^'^ »° the^^ettlement of BriS nn^fh. * f ""^''^ T^ ""^'"g^^ '^'' ^^*=""ty of our front ers and the confequent lofs to the Mother Country, at L diftant period, of the most fertile portion of Lower-clnada To th" foregoing fettlement I would 'add, under the fame dt'ction the lm!mV K r P°?* Secondly; I would advife a fmall fet- hinrf A ^" ^^T^'* "" '^' unconceded portion of thTTown- ships of Acton and Roxton with the Crown Referves in fbnie^H Th? d?ed"^''P'* rP"^'"S' ^'^°gether, equal "rg"yo; Township is of excdienTquaHt^TCdf^S^ a'nd at ^n^t direct route from SherbrW'to St. HyacSc and ?am^'fe: mn.; (,.»« i !_• and . .aid be product ve of le,;?!"" "''°."'' '-"portance. -f.r./,.,.^,. general. I cou d enumerate mTnl 1"^^ •'" "*" ^''°^'"« 'n ^-1- n the Seigniories nion , -'e SaT.^ "^^" 'T'^''' ^°' ^«"'«« .^^fT^^ tnary streams. particulaHv d.e N.v'ri'"'^' ?"•'' ^'^'"^ ^^ "» tn- ^ ^' "''" [Yamaska and Rid, let '^h'^^^^^^^^ '^'''<^'-. ^ a, thefe Lands are all Xte ' on??"'.'^'"" "^""^^ ^'> ':ourfe adopt xvhat may best'^n t hl/.7 ^ r '' ^"^"''' ^'" °f shall feel it my duty Wr ,d r , tlfJTi'f ' '" "''^'°" ^° '^'^"^ .proprietors either of Sei.noies or Tnl, '"1 '"J'. P°«'^'" ^o ^ich -iuire it, in procuring thSn 7Jtt or TnJwr 1 m"'^' '^''' '"^'^ '•^- '.ced by advertisement in th'r^^lSaT'^ret^e^V^^ owhich they intend dtoStThe)^^^^^^ "° P-determined place treat portion of thele from Ire .n r^' P''?"^"' '° ""^a'- A k Tnd their f-lrn^ ng y"' "adf th^m ^^ '^T"^^ °^ ^'• polony, wliere they could still en Iov/Lm^''' ^''/'' "" ^"^"^ kulion. The idea if Upper .ndTrr>'^"«? °^ °"' ^'°""i- . !- name, many th.^l^L; that ^'lerrt " "'?'''^^^ ''^ Nmpy, low, unhealthy situation TZ ^°'^" ""P''" » Nadais high, mountLr nd^levat^sS^ that Upper- [he fact is ust the contrary ; so m.rl / I ^'°" » however, Irishman's notion of Upper and iTr /^' P"^'' "^^"l°"» cotch Emigrants are beT:drpfed ^^^^^^^^^^ '-^ -d * «o fee the Emigrants iiencrallv f rn ! ^®' ''"'^ my wish Kingdom amalgamated as much iLn?'"K. "'"'^ P^' °^ **^« United }ns: I am not aware h^ th^y S ^"'^^'^".'''^'^^ C^"»'»'- fary. The numerous inSe's of7 ct^^ ^^^^econ- ^avegoneto the States being genSlvfriS /• '"'.S'"'"'' *^^t Kingdom, has naturally a tendfncrtoil^^^^^^^ ^"''^'^ hat country, and the fame eason{ \J /f ^'^''"g'' ^°^=»'-'ls Canada fro'n. the conlsi'e ?ac s of^rL? V'^T'^^PP^^" hper Emigrants have experienced thl/^ "'"^'. '^'' ^^^^ K which is%ot to befound than tr' '"^ ^^^^ing proof >bout three thoufand poor Irish rL. "'"^' '^'' ^^' ^^^^nded Wp of Cavan in J 8 , 6 and 1 8 7 b? H-''^ '"'* *° ^^^ ''^°^"- pew-York. and who received ,0 aH^h f^'""?'' ^°"^"' «' t'-^»t of Land. Em^^ration to ?/ n '^?^'* ''^^^"'^ their bd 3 f,,v -I, " *^m ration to Lower-Canada hno pg-er v-^ f..r .a.„cc, or ..,„t i„pp„, a„J pro.ec.ioa Tha. ..IJl^ 100 MINUTES OP EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ■^.C. Buchanan, i j ^ r . . E8'' their way into the interior of he Pprltf'%nT?W%'i:' do are generally men that have loitered year or two abot' Quebec as servants or labourers and np^r^nc j "' racing .taber or .hn„,y., aTwho ar/-™„": n^aTIt^Iih' class to form new fettlements In nninf Je fl . In. "f^'^^X tiers on arrival at Quebec wire perfea v adrif •^'' "^' ^"'' guide their fteps or^ender aTy'uS I i nlTeftld^Id;-?' " 1 ;L-rotr.t-^The^:^^ tant on the fouth side of he river lut t^l^\^'T'^ ^^'^■ Cul.de-Sac)andtheanchor sh XleJeo when"" " ^''T '^l steam-boat agents and sailor crimps ^flock on board ^"'''1' °^ it is unnecelTary to il!urtrate-*/!,",?w° ,^ ' •^^"" object every word, and while the di log'.e is Sn^on .h"f ^''"''' opened baggage hoifted out. anl in a^? ^^^ u'rs the not" '" grant finds himself crammed on the deck of ^ ^n l^? T' route to Montreal, expecting th/t o^hi'a: iv^l^re :,'«T.?;;/f wi'll ; when arrived a similar seme lake. nl„r -A. ^ ' ' "" from Ogden.burgh, waggoners fro" s'.' Jo^hSf To So"'"'"; without time to reflect, and bewildered l„h.u \ ' ''"' the poor fellow i, hurrld on ft ' by ft p as tiH 1,^ '""""'• iaft,, when no, u„fre,,uen,ly ,i^fc„L'':rarhu"?o ble's' ZTIl not after reaching perhaps Ogdenb.irah or Tr;« ^""^r^^> ^nd it ble battea. or Du?ham bLt, and fi, dfn, hif^^^^ '" ' "J'^"''^- haufted in trying to find verified//. on the route, fl >^Lo-ole.ilZu'iZ '^ •^'"/^''"Z^^' advice received has occurred every year, and so long a i is permitted^ n'' " :i;:^::;2^;-a^ hou. Irs, ex, en dingr^: .:, Jr,; nut on a fcrnier ocnswwi ul./m „.: . "'^'.',""^'*'."^ ' yn the honour (<> siiIj- Emiirrant IIoP|;!ta!. nuicnre)!! lelat.ou to tljo propoKod 'ECIAL COMMITTEE on, the hatches are 101 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Ir^e ^C^!r%'^' r^'' ""'^ we chiefly attribute to a great de-^.r. ;.«..„,.„, gree the tnfl.ng fetelement of Emigrants from the United King- Esqr. dom hitherto m th.s Province, ami not from any objectron or Z - >^^^^ determination to the contrary on their part, t The volun^arv ''^''•^- ''"'• em,grat.on to Quebec is b, Z n^eans tj of ;l.; . "tT^Z gmal destination of a portion of them are general y for the back part of Pennsylvania, Ohio, &c., being the^heap^ route, he /greater number are mduftrious, loyal farming families, posses ed of moans which would if properly directed, eftablish^hem !n the country, but from the causes already alluded to, their hard earned gatherings are flitted away without their being permS to render any laftmg advantage to the Province or they them- selves becoming good fubjects ; thus by a want of arran lents and I fear, occasionally, over zrolou^ prejudices, are thousands and I „f „ , I,'/. , , y, v.v. , -•.'^,',^ /,,rjnu,cts, are tnousands f valuab e fettlers forced over the Lines to enrich and augment the rapidly encreasmg power of our ambitious neighbours It is worthy of note that 29.000 fettlers arrived at Quebec in the rea s of 1827 and 1828. and I do not believe out of the whole num! ber, ove hundred fnmiHes have Men un lands in the. Province riiis I should consider is of itself a fufficient proof that some: thing IS wrong, that some measure is wanted. As to encou ragement to voluntary fettlers with means, I know of none better than the opening of Roads, and to have the lands as may be allotted for fettlement correctly furveyed in lots abutting each o.her, and to be_ recorded for the free inspection of Settlers and Emigrants on arrival at the office of His Majefty's Resident Agent tor the Superintendan.-e of Settlers in the Canadas, with the terms and conditions at which the Commif,ioner of the Crown Lands may fix for difposal, where alfo should be recorded all and every necefTary information for the guidance of the ftranger ; alio, an alphabetical list to be kept of the names of the Settlers where from, and probable deftination, which would be a most desirable clue to their friends and followers, for the purpose of ascertaining where they may be found, and the Resident Agent at Quebec to be authorize,d to put the Settlers in pofsession of heir lots of land bv the most immediate, simple, cheap and easy method possible. It would be qecessary to have a few trufty men who knew the country to act as guides, and under the con- troul of the Resident Agent's Department, to conduct the Set- : 102 MINUTES 0. EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE Residents Offi^^^^^ -^-^ thereo^f toTh fettling a.em's farm^a, . 7 ^7'^^ ^° ^^ ^"^'^^^'^ ^<> ^^^I hut. The fati kction and benlfi^? '°"'^ ^^ "P ^ ^^"^7 O"" 'og pathv, is so obvious thltlnr^T / °" ^° ^^'^ ^^^^'^^ and sym. the fabject on^T ;;te„ 10^??;';^!' ^ b? --'^-^-n ^f every fense of public duty A.fhJf^'''^^^ Committee by be attended with expense^it jlv h '^°'"^ arrangements will of my anfwer by a fift e es^^"7 VJT '' '""^"^^ ^^'' P"^ mturallyrecuirJ more ai^ Sthe R rdentT'"^"^ T""'' Office at prefent could nossiblr l^nA -T ^"Penntendant's public, he would fubmit w^ h ill ?f ""'^ advantage to the His Majefty's Governmen .nd ^ p'"'? 'P '^"^ ''"''erality of such considJration ZtZt thet tisd'^''" • f P^''''"^"^^nt; for onlthis head, wi.hou^ preOiminr' ,T • •'" "H^^'' """'^ ""^A'ary to form some conciusIoTa to exS'"""' '"^ -erely as aguide' Sny^-For Resident Agent's Department annually. Settling Agent's Salary, Allowance for Guides conducting Settler. Incidents for Stationery, Poft.ge,^&c. ^^' j€500 150 ]00 .50 ■«soa 103 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS Outfit at the Settlement : SOO Acres to be appropriated as a Farni- chopping and clearing 25 acres, House for Settlers' Agent, Barn, &c. &c &c Farming Implements, Stock, &c, orTo Fin^"^°"-'i '^'"P^'^"' '° shelter 20 ^^n^^rfs^i^o^^^^^^^^^^^^ Grist Mill, and power to drive one faw,* .€100 400 150 200 S50 Interest on that Sum at 5 per cent Annual Expenfes a, per Statement, marked A. ^1200 £60 800 £860 milies of voluntary S^Jir J l^ ?"^ thoufand or more fa- cach perfon/computinf. f^f '"'^ °^.°''^^"^' °^^°"'- «l^'"'ng« and three chiEnn^ ""'^^ ^° *^°"''^* °f » "»'»" and his wife Nents be se^oXt neTrir^^^^^^ ^'^^^'^ ^ P'""'"3^ ^^ S^*^ - to each. The Public Fal ^'"''^r.^'^P^"^^ ^ou'd be neceflary which ought to take Dl^cf : ""m ^^^ ^^"^^^"^"t improvements fit, and tlfslTus pfo^ce C! IH ^' ""^i' "'""^^^ ^°^ »'^*^ °"'- tear of implements ^Z u Z^^ T'^ *^^" P^^ ^^^ '^^ar and two, Wthinrvery ctniideS^ ^^^" '^^ «"* ^^^^ or I propose thafeacrvl'n'"'J'^:et?er^ ^"^ the first year, five dav.' iLhL, i ^ "^ S"'® gratuitoufly dZ of ?„.•" P"'"""« '«' '■<'■• «'« Settlers. V. &c! A quired m tl,e details of expenfe in locating pauper fettlers, -IC. Buchanan, Esq. ' ICFeby. J 829. 104 MINUTES OK EVIDENCE BEFORE the SPFr... Am u . "^ ^'^^^^AL COMMITTEE ^•-- J«c...„e;ther E„.igrants or of .he Province • but the f . • ^-^.^ P?^'-'"^ Suggestion for voluntary fester. If ,"""'^'^'°" °f the lCF«by.^cdllateraI aid, and acting under del f ^'^''^ ^ P^^^^^f"! fav,ng of expenfe would^aturally be the' ^iTT^^""" "^"^^^ important advantages. ^ "'^ '^^'^'f' besides other Have the Emigrants any aversion to fettle in T . o . The an Aver to this question ma vbe inferred % ^^^'"^""^^^ ''- queft.on,and .a additionjamsatlfied ^virh n "" ' "' '° ^^^^ ^«<^0"J Immigrants for the past Hftec^ye rfld Lh 7'"'^'"^°""« ^'th saying has been greater than ant nrV "'' ' ^"^ Warranted in I know of no av'ersion, Vt" o^ g n^" tL^ ''°"' ^^."^^"" Emigrants to fettle in Lower-Canada entertained by Pau^rs! b^th Emfgrants^ando7i^rP '''' ^"^ "^^^"'^ »° assist I h-we already hacl the Lnour of ofF °''"'' " ~^» ^^» ^"bjec perial Parliament, as ^i^m^m^l''^ "^ °P'"'°« to the L! clear nuimacy with what might bi h. de^.^l'' f"!'"'' """^ * ™°^^ «cqu,ri„g a knowledge of mtnv fir °^'^'^ "^^^^u^es and th. Province to undent irt/e^n'T' "'.^ ""'''"^^ '^"^^'^ in M.jcfly's Government i ve b en Jrl '"'n'^"'? ^° ^^'<^h H." me to conduct. I may vary in nrf r ""^ P'"''^^'^ 'o felect principle from my fon^Igyftio^ "17'- ^"^^^^muchin such as I have the honour tfrZ; ^ ^'''"S »hat if facilities 'l>e encouragement of voluntary S J" "Y '^\^ «"^-^- for por^ant foundation would be hid in " ^''T''^' ^ very in,. Paupers, and confbquentlv a con iderab'e ,"^- '^^ 1^"^*^"^^"^ of woull ndvife tholb pauper JzhM^n^JJ^^^^^ ' ate vicnity of the Jthers. o pe " T^ i ' '" '^^ '"''^'^' among.t them : the one would nXialV^'"? '^ ^""^^^^ yearly, ^800. And ,he !dSii 1" LS , ^'T^ ^"^'"o" bct.c„,.„t 100 pauper fc,n,liSXufdT ,h„°,T"''''* « ""■ c ''"" '" ''"'■''" '^''"'>"'"-"' - re... »„„,„ , <,„ ,.„„,,^ 2 Barrack log-Houfes, with 2 Stoves, &c. £250 SPECIAL COMMITTEE the foundation of the ^ould prove a powerful " an m North America, :wat IS entertained by best means to assist •P .'— Oa this fubject ly opinion to the Im- ernment, but a more ' of the meafures and 'y arrival latterly in iuties to which His y pleafed to felect > but not much in ™g thatiffaciHties ly third anfwer for dopted, a very im. the fettlement of "ig of expenfe. J be m the immedi- , better if fcattered sist the other, and all proceed to the in Lower-Canada ni'ies and upwards, le fecond queftion, 3 •-stablish at each Js: 50 ally 100 families: 105 Oir ROADS AND OTHER IVTrnxr.T "iHbK INTEIINAL COMMUNlCATIQxVS. A public Farm of 500 acres i'°"^^'' ^°'''"^* ^"^O ^ for the ufe or^hfsetS' '""'' "^^^^''^' F3y':t,7hrpfod" "r " "^^ p-p- %por' them,?n afin to t."'?^ °"«^' '° provision as ^rSti^^^^^^^ "°"'''' lttfs:"°"^^'^^^-^- Steward, &c. Annual Expenfe of Pauper Efhblifemem : Interest on ^900 at 5 per cent Conductors, ^ '» Transport from Quebec to Location Four days provisions, ' On^Wion Steward and IfTuer of Provision,, 100 Axes, 100 Spades, and J 00 T.n P Doctor and Medicines, ^"^ ^'"'' ochoolmaster Contingencies, ^900 ^45 50 leo 6 100 70 100 80 600 150 "• "eryp„t of the Proving »»J^^^/i°"P'"«' " " "-e picarcd °f :£! M allowed for comi^Lendes ^h. "'"^ ^^ '" "•» fun. "■on stora might b« born" ' ' "'""'^ "^ » <■«» «ni. ■^'C. Buchanan, Esqr. lOFeby. 18«9. 106 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE. .C.^.^c^A«na«, frequently fpoke to me refpecting their able-bodied labouring i^'l^ nr M-'°"??^°"u '"* '^' ^'"'^''' '"'^ '^^•'" disposition to plac! 16Feby. 1829.atthe dispofal of the proper authorities a reafonable fum to eftab. lijh them .£ they were satisfied of prope- ^angements for their ZaT!" u t'Tl fV^""'^''- ''"^^^ -vas comemplated to IZtn ^^''•'^^f^. ^^°"''"g P^"Pers unlefs with the concur- rence of the a.jthor.t.cs h ^e, and satisfied that reasonable funds were provided for the.r ocation, and I am ftronglyof opinion if JZ. A a' ^r "'"''' ^""''^ ^°"^'^^'- the principles which I have advanced ,n .he suggeftions I have now the honour to lay before yon, as founded nj.on a rational profpect of succcfs sufii- c.ent ,o warrant the expediency of at least going into a triTl. but ,hat every cooperation may be expected from His Majefty' Government nnd the Imperial Parliament, and it wil prol h.gh,y sat..f,ctory ,o the mhabitants of the United Kingdonf wh look towards these fine Provinces with feelings of aff^tion and common .merert. to find by a declaration o^f Your Honor. be Commit tee that no objeci.on or opposition is for a momen en- tert.med on your part to the introduction of induflrious fettle s from the Un.ted Ku.gdom. and their amalgamation with he loy Cana.han population of this Province. The fum that it oft the Enghfh Pans!, now m sending a pauper family to the Uni ed .>tates. (and which has been a good deal acted on for t^e last f.^ ^^v, Z?:^"' .^°""'^^' '''^' family consisting of man, wifi and three ch.ldren, mlar^d tranfport in England n?t included Transport from a IJritifh Port to New- York or Philadelphia, Hofpitai money and other local charges on perfons arriving at New-York or Philadelphia • Each family generally receive on arrival in the United States about £20 3 18 9 10 Sterling, -e33 18 9 * In the United States one dollar is payable by every person hosnitalmo- ney,amvingr m that country from foreV„ pa4, in aLition to Sh T many ports, narticnlaily New-York and Philadelphia, other considerations Z%:!^Ti^K 'i' ^T- A"thorities at Ne^v-York : Bonds m«S be tlen to free the State from bein^ burthened by such persons as may arrive^orTt mav be commuted at - dolU each. Ir/philadelplua in Sion to one dollar hospital money, aj is chai^fed ior the poor-hLe fuud-ia au" sj dol- 107 ECIAL COMMITTEE. I ^^ Rt>AD3 AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. I am of opinion that the English Parishes would pay a higher A c. Buchanan, rate to get their paupers settled in a British Province, as they ^^1- would befure of the protection of Government. English paupers ""^ '^^ in general make it out v.^ry poorly ia the United States, they are^^ ^^' ^^^^' badly received, and the little ready money they obtain on landing is very soon exhaufted, and I am warranted in stating that the majority of t/iese vert/ paupers in the end find timr way into Upper'Canada pennijless ; hence the policy and advantage that would accrue by their coming direct to Quebec, as I shall shew that a similar fumjudicioufly expended, would insure their sue- cess in the Canadas, independent of the actual capital brought into the country. It may be here remarked, that the shipping inter- est is materially benefited by the passenger trade of this port. In J827,iruppose the freight on Emigrants to Quebec, amounted at least to Thirty thousand Pounds, a fum much beyond that paid for freight of merchandize imported from the United Kingdoms, consequently every Emigrant that is sent to the United States is an actual lo(s to the British ship-owner of Two Pounds, besides materially affecting the Provinces, as I have already stated, from the Americans receiving the whole of such capital as he may bring or obtain on landing in the United States. It may not be unneceflaryto explain what is generally implied by the term Eng- lish pauper, (which bye-the-bye i shall ere long try and find bome" other name lefs humiliating, whereby we can designate that class of fettler in future) from cuftom, and perhaps a laudable sympa- thy on the part of the authorities who direct the distribution of the poor rates. In England, nearly all the labouring population of the country are occasionally brought under the denomination of Parish Pauper : it is a general rule there, that an able-bodied la- bouring man requires a certain fum for the fupport of himself and family, and when his labour cannot yield him that support, he receives the difference from the Parish, confequently thefe Parifh Paupers are the ftrong agricultural labourers of England, and the introduction of a portion of whom, from their fuperior method of agncultiiral labour, could not fail of proving of great benefit to the PiovinLCs. I am of opinion that the funds for the fettlement of able-bodied labouring paupers should be provided in genera) by the Parifhej or other incorporated communities that would be be- nefited by their removal. For inflance, if it was found expedient to remove, voluntarily, from Quebec twenty poor families, for whose labour there is no demand, auv have them settled as al- ready fuggefted, it would be found much more advantageous for the citizens to do so thaii support them, as is npw the case by cat terHng,^33 l8 9 108 MINUTES 0. EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE A.C. PucHananSo^\ ^nd voluntary contribution, independent of the manv coll, ^^«^^ tera benefits to be expected. In Holland, the State havJ takl.' ie^ir^29.Zl' ^'^P'^'T °^ "^"'^'^•^^' =»"'» f^^'"^ country a W ye' " ago overrun u.th pauperism, the moft beneficial changers * ken place ; and the system acJopted, is that of locating the labon " ing poor on land,, and therefore, if in an old country whl' . land ,s di ncult to be got and dear, how much easier can a fvste m for a simdar purpose be adopted in Canada, and if once belnn ^.nd got mto organization, how many important advantages mifh largely .o ,h= ^JZ' rl'^^njt^ fSe'';i:;;:%r,1:';/ capuu a,,o„, it „ill appear .h„ by an annual exponditu," of ^860 cansa usfeciory arrangements be made to facilitate the fe.lm™ li;iSo:tVy':r;"t^r''i:rbt'ccrTr?^P'"^^^ < anada, and wltich murt be lef? to ,he "iSon 'otttr'' mont »-hen the details are about beinl arraCd Wh, mous emigrant and fettler, connected as it iswiVh ^I , profperity of the mother country a^dlese^^; ^^It '"""' Ia^;xtrd\re^&t;:::^,Tr^o'''^'' ^™'' •" manage the Crown Lands '^ ' ^ / ? ^ ^°'""*"'°"e'" '° spec^-atauthorit; f^om the Govcrnm^^^^ ""'^'^ t^ auction at a periodical sale, the pri^fi^ed bv the r' "" -°'^ ^^ and approved of by the Governor P.? ' Commissioner in the country may purcha^Il^Wo/ fh^nT "°' °''' "* '"°"^^'' CANT, provided fL'h land ha:Cntpp^:?d bv Tc "^ ''- Moner, and the price per acre applovK'by^he G^vS^ lAL COxMMITTEC loa ON R0AD8 AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. TVednesdaiy, \Bth February 1829. IVUUam Sax, Efquire, called in ; and examined ; Are you acquainted with the Eaftern Township., and have you made furveys of them ?-I am acquainted with them, and I have '^'''''"« ^az, made furveys m the said Townships. ' Esq. A^soa „ nch and fertile aad ,h= dilate ?„fficie„1i; W-' Could you give a Plan of the said Surveys ?_Yes • I orol,,., one whtch contain, all the Eaftern To„nVip/o„' 'a 'rdeta" (l,i!!rt„"i' '^' """' °' "** ^"ft"" Townships ?-The Town. .t '"t'ste'^f °' 'r''7»-4rati':is?t'; i? -i:;: opened frl .v ^^^^'P/^"' '« Tingvvick. are already well openeJ ,~from this pomt there are about 2S miles of fh*. oM t" lla'/aCL'eeTtrd 'l^"^^ «' ?' '"= »Fo.emen.s st^ll re^Zrte'Lt i^^oTef;:"^^ u. wnictt It would appear to me neccffary to open in the direc- ts Febjr. 1829 ITI" II > 110 MmiTTES OP EVIDENCE BEFOUl- THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE m//^.^.,tb^^^ f^^ -"''I be fro. the River St. Franci, in th. ^"-^^ iownsl po^Mdbonrneto ,he Yama:.ka Mountain, a (iiftance of I8Fcb,.1820^" „u,cs. Another ro..cl beginning at the northern n of L keA.emphraman.op at the outlet of ,he saidL.ke,and mm h rhl ire if '^^""' *^ '"'''^^ ^^"°fber commencing in the lownsh.p of Hatley near the outlet of Lake Tomafoh. and term.n^t.ng at the outlet of Lake AJemphranlorat th point where the road lall mentioned shou!d comme nee :^ he d tance about 1 1 or J2 mil.s. Another road commend^, in t^ rownsh>ps of Eaton and Clifton, running to the norrhwa d and crols.ng the Townships of Weftbu,y, Dudswell. We In and Wolfestown. as far as the point of interfection of the old CWs Road and the hue of division between the dillricts of Quebec Jnd Ihree-R.vers i a d.lhpce of about 50or 60 miles : this road is commonly ca ed the Dudsweil Road. Another commencing 1 h> Tf r , °^ ^'.^ ^^''Santic and running acrofs the Tolr! sh.ps of Gayhur.t, Shenley and part of Trin|, and there term! nat.ng. a d.ft.nce of about 40 miles. This last^Road wou d aT J appear, to n.e afford great facilities for opening new sTttI merts d L°nH ""^''; ^' '"""T'^ ''''^' the Townships of BroSn jnd Leeds, until it met the old Craig's Road, a diftance of tbout '.?v to on.n ""' ^7m°'' "^"'^^ " ^PP^"^ '° -« -^"''^ be nece f! s,ry toopen, would be one commencing at the mouth of the the Maine ''^t-fT ' ' ^?T' '^'' ^^°^^"" ^^^"^ ^^e Stace of the iNJame ; a diftance of about 26 to 27 miles • This k mm mon.y called the Kennebec Hoad. And (in ord ; to Lm ne"' rett,ementstothe north-ea.t of the Kiver Chaudiere) a road com! mencmg at the said Rivtr in the Seigniory of Saint Jofeph and term.nating at Lake Etchemin. a diftance of about i7 or ?8 Joutrd./l""? ', "T'"'r« ^* '^'' ^'^^^ Etchemin. runnin. nin a in' ^^^''j'f^' and terminating at the said LakeLtcii nim a d.flance of about 15 miles. It would be advijable to onen another Road (in order to form new Settlements) commencing^ the I own.hip of Tnng at the Roads already mentioned, and rui lung towards the fouth-west until it met the DudsweM Road before' mcnuoned, about Lake Nicolet, a distance of about 30m es mo raitf;fd r ':m' °^ ')' 'l-vnfl-Pof Tring, and thoie of Coi ! raine and Garth by, and a small part of Weedon. JCIALCOMMITTKE r St. Francis in the •uiitaiii.a (iiftance of t the northern end said Lake, and mcet- ihc Yamaska Moun- lother commencing of Lake Tomafobi, iphramagog, at the omme nee : the dis- commencing in the the northward and A'ell, Weedon, and n of I he old Craig's ricts of Qi;ebec and lilcs : this road is er commencing at g acrofs the Town- ',, and there termi- Road would, as it new Settlements : ships of Broughton I diftance of about ne would be necel^ the mouth of the C/iuNdicrff to the from the Stace of les : This is com- der to form new liere) a road com- Saint Jofeph and ■ about 17 or J8 Itchemin, running said LakeJttche- idvii'able to open ) commencing in nioncd, and run- swell Road before ut 30 miles more id tliole of Cole- Hi ox HUADS ANH OTHER INTEUNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Sfif.mf,y,2lst FiOrmiry 1829, The Honorable ff^i'/inr /\i>m»«.. it n l . stare of the rownfhips there are no o h7r , u P''''*'"' compared to the direa Road to the TLIZ "?'^"" ^' ance. It may be useful ai ,ome Jure time^^^^^^^^^ m nnport- the country, but at prefent the public car^not fn ^ ""''^' '•'"°''* to make the direct communicatron. pr^aicab'e' *•' "^"'' '"^"^'^ ' 1 he direct koad from Hatlev to Monfrp-,! n^ outlet from Lake Mcmphram.gogjs uf"/ ," ! Sf'H^ f "S^' '^' Barnfton, and in fome meafur^^ \ol Wo her t'^'^-' "f ''^' to the fouth and eaft of Hatley ; and hZ part of m'' P^'^.' '>''"« commences at the outlet -ay L^onsidered'u efuf.o^^^.?^.^ ft.ps above Shipton and the River Saint Fnci buV^f \>^'"; from Montreal ought to lead to Sherbrooke „?h*, T '^'l ^^°'^ no means of communication from the Sa oslfp '^^^^^ " Montreal, without making a circuit to tL r /u u ^""*'" *° stead, or following the Ri*;.er down to Sorel "'' ^'^°"fi^^ ^'^^^ Ihe Province fliould not he called imon f Roads than thofe which are ne^:efS I to ooen H """^^ '"^ ""'^'^ etween the great body of ihlrZnn^';:^^^^^^^^ Lawrence; and only so much of thn/n T •. • r ^'^^'' ^^'"' to make and keep up by tL nhaL tt 'Vh'"r^°""^.''"P°^'"^ be rigidly attended to, and it w^^^ be found ThJ^ "''''°'i ^°"'^ qualUication, the exp;nre of making Z'p a'c^ierje" Road"/'" the Saint Lawrence to anv Doint in fh^ F^acticaDle Koad from greater than any of the ?Vt^:V;pl^^^^^^^^^ fefs. A confiderable part of the countrt Ik- u r ' '°°^^ ^° <=°"- the Seigniories, and which must be Sd m^' ' '" ""' ''"" °^ Townfhips, is of a character to precludelheho^' '? «" '° '^' ' ance in making Roads b.in/ !ZeVf^omT^VJ ecaufe the fbil is fo wet Ld inf rior T nJa'itv '^''"^'' to afford the means of exiftence to Settlers ^^T ^* u' "°' vious expenditure of a laree caoital or nf ^°"^ ^^^ P'"^- in drainingand op.ningt':h"L Jnd :4?"^^ '"^ °' ^^^^^ 'r It is considered desirable to oi-)£>n th» p n • iTEtS or EVIDENCE l5£FORE THE SPECIAL COMMlTTEe The iTonblo. throvgl, th^ fwampy land that intervene Setwe-nihi. ««• • The moft important communication with rhp Tn«« K- • , which runs along the Pank, of the RireSaintFr^n *"""''"' .natter of perfect indifferenci. tn ^hf • u r • Francis-it is a , of St. Fran?i,on"jff,roV:h 'Ri::r':he%"^^^^^^^ vided there i, one .ood road, that is to say ro^l lT*''!l T wheel.carriages it is the im,u»r.li ^^ ='^°jw practicable for ' peop'e that the veft bank oT To S?'r" °^ 'I ^J""terefted ground and the fhortest route Vom the c^nTrroffh: T *'V'^' to the Saint Lawrence, and it is the rourr«M • ^^"^'P' - "lent for the Canadian population who /efJeintr^^^^ pled Seigniories of La Baie, St Fran.oi/^? Vu . P^°' I weft bank ought to be completed from iff 2\' '^'r^n"" '^' I ton through Melbourne ^3 Durham 1, ^^^th Jine of Bromp. I fro,n this fatter place a R^oad^Lu'S bt^rct^d'tTs" 'f"^' I another to Three-Rivers An. m««- P«"ected to Sore! and I Will produce immedi.;e benefit! ^th^^rT 1°^-^^^'^ ^°"^" I Province at large ; and whatever is la^ Townft.ps and the I means of bringing into mil ty th"l' t? f" '^IT ^'" ^ '^' I have been prctioufly app e7 on L^fe Rol ^"r '• '^°"*^.^^'"' I promilb that'thefe communkatbn will t ctnl I 'a ^ "t '' I fum of money^it will require a 7eaft Th?r. ^ "* '^^ I ^"^'" I mile for ^ he whole diftanceTom LrR?/^"5.'^ P°""''' P*^' I and from DeGuir to IkommonT t\ '^ *°. D'-ummondville. I road ; but it will nei^'^^e^erTry^^^ ^°°^ ^^^ "^^^"' ^''^ i the whole of this money in one S rwill'l''^''"' *^ ^^^^ ^ co^!^^7^rt tr^ ^^f *^ -«Ht to he made u,on h . the publfc expen'^e if^Lf K^'l^^^'^^/''""^^ Grcgci.e to Si. ./ This Ro'ISVqu l;^': "J::,^^^^^^^^^^ ') money to make .c , . ../cat! : for carriages ^ ""^ ""^ The details j>i ciJ! aij. ' < on hn'^h tuLrJ - . from witnefses v.hc a;e' Sfore ^e nLn^r" "» ^^ obtained may fuffice for data to calcd te the exnenf ^°'"'"'"^^,' ^^' " from DeGuir through DrummondvHI. rf.? r"TV '° ^^'^ ^^''^ ton the diftance maf be fif^n ine mlfe t ^° f 'rZ-^^^'^P' ECtAL COMMITTRE 11;; OS UOADS AM. OTIIEH INTlWrnAL (^OMMriNrCATfOXS. nine miles, of road «rhicl,'rc^?,?r„ GrcRoire to Shipion, thir.^TI,c ll„„w„. The Estimate will stand thus s «Ts5^er nlL'" "'°"''"'"' '"''-'' «—=»"'"«. East Branch „f ,!« above K„ad leading ,„ Three "^""^ ^^T:ZilT ''», »"- •- n™n,.n'o.;3.Se: 3 miesj at,^J3 per mile, ' ..^ Road from St. Grcgoire to Shipton leading to Three-Rjvers, 39 miles at j^q? ri ... "S ^° » -./ lujies, at jt35 pet mj/e, 1355 *3955 safe"rL" belTe'nlTa^d 'j'ZTf """ """' "-'^p'^b;: with the res, 'of the P^tr T 'a ^aTeTtlr ^'^''T'^'P' to expend any thino on r.m„,J / I . . ° P^^lic refources indi.fd„als ol ptfall»r™Tntr'ln"t"?a'lfo "" T'^ "T"' "ii. be innror,:tr:i;re''nT:rd';l-~2n? ' '"™" °'"''^' Monday, 23i Fehrimrjj, 1829. open from the Parifli nf <;r rv- • ^'^^T^ ' ™ ^^" Road is *— v^J Township of KinX buf is b Jv'L' '' ^'' '' }°"S ^^'^^ '" '^^ ''^*''^' ^««« fell laft Cn^jym Thtin4q^t ^th March 182^. Mr. John Murray, of Cap Rouge, called in ; and examined : JohJMurraj,, Are you a native of Scotland ?-I am: I was born in Aber- v,,^^^,^ deenshire, but I fpent the greater part of my life in Ayrshire S March 1829. "^ When did you arrive in this country ?^I arrived in this coun- try; on Ovft 84 October 1 820. W^t areth^inconveniemje^s to wl^igli, Agricultural Emierapts VQ fvbject here ? what are the advantages and dif^^dvai^t Jbs of tt»? si«atJo^ oi the Emigrant, wh^n, coaxpared with his. nSvious «tuatioi>, IP, Europe? wtwt from your exjperiencc is the beii mode Qf surmoMntmg the disadvantages ta wjjjcK he is expofed ''—I CQweiv« frommyowa exp^ri^nqe the, greatest incoavehien Ovv^ards the new mode of furmoanting .hole oSstades ta .he Em'lm U>%^k «"" of culture aTmost fur^ly fail Sj .^ ^ \''' '"'' ^r*"^^' »P' '^^"Id co«n.ry proceeds from .heTnZ^h Ift in E'„'",h'''''' "!, '" '"i except between the Is Ind ,5 h of Ju v T '"/ 'l'"J^ ''""'* rtllvaSfir a«m«ov^- • •i'tn ot July. Jam fpeakinb gene- i. St^ he'K? r^rnCa, n'^ •^*""! |.pp]ifab,e^o^Ha; .Ssi I g»«erally find" be t"r ,o rt^r.to Sit ''■" ""'"r.' *^.,j a. b/fpreading i* tor^DltV tt' '^^"^^ lO uit^acn ana get burnt. ' "~" •'' " "*'' IK) MINUTES OK EVI:)EN(K BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE -^ohn Murray,, J^t^'l'"'^''" has the Emigrant to ,raife the requifite capital to ^-^.-W^ T ? *°.T'^ ''" ^'' °^" '^"^'» 'f '^e I^as one ?-The eene. 5Marchl829."l P'^" t'^^t I have known purfued by thofe, within 30 or 40 miles of Quebec, ni order to raife the requifite capital, has been in the fummer tune .o engage in u-hatever work they could find m Quebec and us v.c.n.ty, and with the fuvings of the fumr^er go on their lands towards the fall of the year Aect a lemponr; habuanon, end there remain for the winteV, cutting ZZthl wood durmg wmter to the extent of a few acres, burn it off in fpring, plant a quantity of Potatoes, a few Oats and Pe?s . return agam to Quebec, and work until the harveft time; wh^n thev return as before and work there for the winter; and live on the produce they have raifed from their farm during the fuZer • obhged to do. And m th.s way I know of many families who now are m eafe and comfort, and who began with perhaps less 30 or 40 m. es of Quebec ; I cannot fpeak with certaimy of thofe at a regular d.rtance, thefe are things which have fallen within my ownperfonalobfervation The Settlement to which 1 212 Foflambaut. m which place I refided two years and a half a^ the beginning of that Settlement. There was no road at that tfie I'uJ'tLrmllef ^"" ''-' '-' ^° '-'^ *^^^^ provifion? wS Might not the effecting of Settlements by Emigrants with fmall means, be greatly facilitated by their underbrushing and girdS or by underbrushmg, felling and cutting up, and burnineTiJh t'hnr T^'^:,' lands ?-As to the firs^ f/ might be done t thofe who had no other means, and where the trees are lar^J and thmly fcattered ; but ftill I think to clear it off s he bfft How do you manage with ftumps i~l have never feen anv other method of extracting the ftump«, than at firft cutting off the fmaH roots and leaving the ftumps' to decay. It ha feen Rou.t1h.'rr' ^^/"' ^^"^Se Tomlinfon, I miner, at Cp f f- un^ ^"^ '^°"''^ guarantee to (how an apparatus, by means of .vhich ftumps might be eradicated with great^?acilhy the wS apparatus consift.ng chiefly of a chain and levers ; but tha7hrhad Z:^!^-::;'^:::^;-^^'^ ^^^ chain, otherwire he wouM CIALCOMMITTEn 117 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. uZm'^:^ TLZ '^■"'S""?;" "ho" 'and, would begran. „, his farm. "* '^ *"" endeavours to improve to ^.t'coumrVpTltoufd e'fti^^^^^^ '°^ a^^'^rants coming out «cotl.na to hiscourrv at IhZV^' '°^. °^ *^^ paiTage from ing t.o perrons uXr^e^/ea^^Ta^et^^^^^^^^^^ pre'Jltd r^alt ^uSn'^'^^ ^'^. ^^^^^^ '^-^ ^ -' croffing the At Ltic mv?df Tv i-^? '° ^'i' ^"'"^'^^^ '* ' ^a» pounds of iuttrraZ. of rT''' *^^b"?^«'' of Potatoes, fif acre Thic .tl,'^- ' ^ 1 rccxivea ror this ten dollars per acre lh,s clearmg was made for Gentlemen in town havfng MWUTEU or EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COllWims J«««ilfm«vi!Ili*^Wk. lu'"^T ^^"^ ^^^" concerned in deafing twentr XT'^IZT X* ^^. «='«»>:'"& '^^ partial I received fix dfllarsT« fiMardi IS28 J"«: Thefe »on,es w.th the prodoce of the Und fubfi.ted mr tuaes, my hotife wa? bamt. I was rtidro acttoftomed to foci«v Mr W?i:e :ir" ^-m -feeing an ad^ertiZlm l^re^S S 1 W. P ^ ™' °^ ' '^''^^'^ ^ ^^^'«^ '^ith him at the rat Whi?r«.^ ."''•' ^l *"""•"»»»« makitainrng my family. Mr tr. c7 \ *^® *'""^«es, receiving a better falarvvtmoum- hy^'r'nrkt* T • "^'r''y P^^^'^"y maintaiJ^r-lh tftirdyiarltookthe farm with rh* ftocfc upon it, at a leafe of One hundred and twenty poonds per a„m,m^€^' Mr! White- farm ihere are about eighty acre, perfecthr cleared, attd abot fan^rBerJorr^^''""^^'^"^^^ ^»'^^ taken' the JefS dred aLf »l"^nT 'Z^' ^^^«'r"e years, at the rate of One hun. h^^Ti r ^"''^j"g^ « "ly o^n expenfe. I have had this latter farm fince the firft of May last. an3^! '"'° commenced yo.*r opmtiom in the fbreft, had you any affi«ance m nbour, and if so, what did yoa pay pe^ d»r ex plsfive of board .?— I had no affi«tanti. ^' iT,l fu'''*" ""^ ^"* '"* ^'^'^^"^ ^-^ «""« % how many days ,t takes to prepare an acre of land for the har?ow. ^ Are you acquainted with any poor fettler neat you who ^M cL'iLl/''"" P^fl-efsmJ-r capital, aS^ftate Ws^^ ' .nlll"^/""' ^t"'*^^^^ to obtain land within two mifes of betweentLT'^ T ^^'^*\*° ^^^P'^^ ^'"^ «" ^^e fpaTe day hie board ?T hi. what wages coold you afford him besides ^\mT[ -I u .^ employed men, and generally pay them two otit them per day, m the harvefl time : thl^ were fteady ami aWe m^. ' P»7 for a gQ«=>="»ce Butabotrt *^orTffeetfar,iT''K* "^ *\* ^'"''^ ' built a Log «, with a hole fii^the fi ;n;i^\'"^ * """ *" ^'^"^ and left a place wiVho^tnvfl r \floorof fpHt logs fmoothed, op my back, fometitnes oylr hJ^A- r ° "''7 ^7 provifions «fted prinoipally in b^V^uT n^*L "" ^"T' ^^^ P*^'"'°"» ~»- had tefand fuffar I^ Zr^ •^°*' *."** P«'^^» ^"^ fometimes I «d, I planted aboJt 22 b».h.r"/' " ^'^^ '' *^^ ^'"^ *" ^J"'-- ftW, twenty-three bufhel, f °^P°t^'0"» which gave me in the luckieft croM htd hIIiI ''*7 T ^^'^^ ' '* ^«» <>"« of the was in the rroundtanfha'L" fe^*5^- ^^'.^^PP**'' "^•^" "^^ crop Pf^-^ted, I lent ti Sfffe^'el^panr^ T^' ^'"""^ "^^^^ ' ^ a? friends for abour »wo ^J. "' ^ '^* ^^O""*^ a««>°Kft my thMn. in the fam"re*i,r«I'^T"" u* '^^^ **^ no expeofe amonjr 1 retarned t» gather «y «rop, and iii that wi^. Ii 120 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMIT TEE Ftr.Murphy}^^ ' took a job of jfilOO at St, Giles, which I accomplished with ^-„^^ 'three men. I did not make much by that : I h id not over ,£8 7 March 1929 J.^'**°'"y"'^- ^^^^^ fp"ng I came to Quebec and obtained fror. I e Nuns of the HoteUDieu, a lot of 262 acres of land in the Fiet til. Ignace on the River Jacques Cartier : I went upon it at the end of next winter, chopped down about five acres upon it, which I cleared in the fpring, and planted 80 bushels of potatoes, which gave me upwards of 600 bushels. I had alfo fown about one bushel of oats, which being eaten up by the fquirrels, left me very little. 1 took another bnd from the Jefuit's Eftates two years ago, confisfing of about 90 acres. 1 have now about 56 acres of land cleared by myself and labourers which I employed when I had money to pay them. My crop this year is the worft I ever had, owing to the wetnefs of the fpring which spoiled my barn. , I planted 52 bushels of Potatoes, and had only 552 : I fowed 11 .i!^! bushels of oats, and expect to have 100 bushels. I alio expect to have about 1000 bundles hay. My crop in 1827 was 946 bushels of Potatoes, the produce of 47 bushels : 100 bundles Oats, the produce of about 10 bushels; and 600 or 700 bundles Hay. Since I have begun, I had the following hired men : Two men for one month at fix dollars, and fed during laft year. In the pre- ceding year I had a man and his wife for one mouth, the man at four dollars, and his wife at two dollars. Previoufly, I had not the means of paying labour. I am quite satisfied of 'this country. I love Ireland, but I will never go and live there, becaufe the people are not unanimous. Out of the earnings from my farm I have bought furniture, and ftock consifting of 7 head of cattle, and 1 horfe, and expect to be able to buy two head of cattle in the fpring, and to add to the little comforts of my houfe. 1 l.e great difficulty for a new settler is the provisons for the first win- ter, lultable clothing, a good axe, and a grindftone among a few, to keep the axe in order, and Roads when they have any thing to bring to market : as to provisions for one's felf, a man can carry them on his back, but when they have any thing to export, the the want of a Road is a great grievance. What would be the effect of a loan made by Government to new poor fettlers to enable them to get over the difficulties of the firft year ? — If there was a fettlement of not less than 8 or 10 families fettled upon good lards, and they were determined to pay the loan, and of an induftrious difpofition, and maintain their healthj a loan might be ufeful to tl jcm n it was not great, and they lAL COMMIT TBE accomplished with I h id not over ^8 bee and obtained teres of land in the I went upon it at five acres upon it, ushels of puiatoes, d alfo Town about e fquirrels, left me 's Eftates two years about 56 acres of jmployed when I 5 the worft I ever spoiled my barn. 552: I fowedll I alfo expect to 7 was 946 bushels bundles Oats, the DO bundles Hay. men : Two men ^ear. In the pre- onth, the man at ioufly, I had not d of this country. >ere, becaufe the from my farm I 7 head of cattle, tiead of cattle in ■ my houfe. 1 he for the first win- le among a few, iave any thing to a man can carry ng to export, the Government to lifficulties of the £S than 8 or 10 stcr mined to pay 1 maii.tain their t great, and they 7 March 1889 191 ON ROADS ^NI. OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. r;t';t«u!ny t^r^r'rSut ? n ^'^^^ ^-- — ^ - ^' they cannot repaVrt.^^ ' "' ^"^ '"^^^ '^' "«"« «=^™« that ^^^^^Sf. people fpeafc of Potatoes and fe^fpLK* ^ J ' "'TK""". Many rworking man I «n favinfii-l "f' '^ '°°^' of feeding and Peas Sopp : the Pork is .,T^ „ •* " S "<" Po'«oe«, Pofk rr-^rar;-anC£«^^^^ would not now turn mv bark in !^!,«« • **° "°^» *"<* ' with an Axe in huLnd. '^°P*""« '° '"^^ A"^""» bo™ r/A'''\?''P^*L^^ ^r^«''» °^ VaUCartier, having been called in . f..d :--I have been fettled at Val-Cartier five yefrHhis AurumV''' ^' ^''''^ I am fettled m the fifth conceflion. I have forty aroem cleared, a houfe and barn, two horfes. a cow and^I frty fol land iZ"'^ T-^' ?^°'^ ^"^"'*"'« ^^«" I first fenled on my and bv i^h ""^'"V ^ ^'"J"S ^°°^ '■^r ^t»««I^> «nd shingleTI ,hp 2 ^^'V /'"^ ^°'^" '°^ *'^^^'" kinds of barter. If I had or 2T' °- ?^'"f "^y .]''"'* "^^* %'"g. I should be well of fo the remamder of my life. I have always put in feed frim the P JaTfn W J/ 'Z'' ^ f.?." ""^^ can'earn .wo shim ^g^ per day m f ummer, and one shilling and three-penc- in wintef I have had labourers working for me^for their foSd? Q nrf m 122 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THESPECIAL COMMITTEE. Chas^Savard Charles Savard, of VaUCartier. having been called in ; iaid ,- 7Marchl829 ^^^''f ''^^" i\'" ^^^^ ^^ Val-Cartier. I am fettled on a lot on • the river. I have fcven or eight arpents of cleared land, a fmall houfe and a barn. I had no money nor houfehold furniture when I fettled with my wife on the lot. I gained my livelihood as I could, very m.ferably I worked for any one that would employ me : and fowed my land, 'i he wages for a labourer at Vail Cartier, are from two Ihillings to two fliillings and fix pence per day. ^ IVilJhwi Ihowi', of Val-Cartier, Farmer, called in, and examined : , Willm.Broicn What are the inconveniences to which Agicultural Emi- grants are fubject here ? what are the advantages and difadvan- tages of the fituation of the Emigrant when compared with his previous fituation in Europe ? what from your experience is the heft mode of furmounting the difadvantages to which he is ex- pofed ? -The greateft inconveniency to which the Emigrant is fubject to, is the general want of Roads : With good Roads the Emigrant would be better off. For my own part I think I am as well ofFas I would be at home. Perfeverauce is the main object, and by that alone can the Emigrant thrive. What courfe of agriculture have you found from your own ex- perience, beft adapted to this country ?— As far as my experience goes, I find that green cropping is the moft advantageous. When you firft arrived in this country did you obtain any land, and with what means did you begin upon it ? — I got a farm on halves, from Mr- Wilfon : it was partly cleared ; I remained a year upon it. I then took a lot of ground from Mr. Neilfon, at a rent of £5 per annum :— there were about 20 acres of land cleared upon it. I brought with me about £300 from Scotland, which I laid out in purchafing land. I have about 500 acres of land of my own at this time, of which about laO are cleared. The expenfe of clearing the land fit to put in a crop, was from 10 to 12 dollars. . How many days labour do you find that it requires to cut down and clear off one acre of land .?— I think that it takes, for one maq AL COMMITTEE. ailed in ;iaid :— tied on a lot on ired land, a fmall d furniture when livelihood as I lat would employ labourer at Vail [3 and fjx pence ailed in, and kgicultural Erni- es and difadvan- impared with his jxperience is the which he is ex- the £migrant is good Roads the I think I am as he main object, n your own ex- s my experience antageous. you obtain any ?— I got a farm !d ; I remained m Mr. Neilfon, !0 acres of land from Scotland, out 500 acres of ^0 are cleared. crop, was from 12y ON ROADS AND OTHER INTEHNAl COMMUNICATIONS. Are you acquainted with an v nn^r r»wi 7 March 1889. on wild land w\hout prf^f. i"/ Tny^ct "• "a'^Z" K^ "^"' ceedings as far as you are acquainted ^'h them ? I W ' ^'"l many mduftrioys men who belan «,:»», * know of working upon hire, durTng therfplr 'da^ T^^^^^ ^^ during winter, felling down and in /n!-^ *^® fummer, and poflible, and then rfturnfn; ^o tol^ni I "°T"S " « faft a. thefe means procure a corindfoT /n'"^ time , and by well off. . *^°'^* ^"'^ '° °° gradually, are now tolerably yo^rZlC^omZ^^^^^^^ two miles of between the time of getting hi feedtt^o ?.''"" °"i^* ^^"^ ^'7^* veft feafon j and wha wLe Sh '^' S''^"'^ ^nd the har- board ?-.During iummrr ^I cout T" '^"'^ ^'"^ ^^^^''^ ^^^^ hands, and efpfcially during h'Ur .? f^'"'"' »° ^^^f twenty hands/ During the harvJft«n/ '°"'^,«™P>oy perhaps give thefe men one shi hng and thre^ ^'""'"^ in fummer, I their victuals, and for women nn^^.P^"'* P'' ^'^^ ''"'de* one ferrant man to whomlDav h^vi .^ "'^u P"' ^^^ ' ^"P a year. I have a laZ f mil^'confit' ^'%^°''i' ^^ne pounds children, the olde« a ^LrofV Ji ? °^ "^^f^lf and feven 9 years ild : of thefe 4 are Lit ^Ta°^-T* '"^ '^^ y^^ngeft my family, and thi fervant the wh V t'^r ' .^'^'^ *^« ^'^ of carried on till the approach of tLh"'" a"^'"J^^ °^ '^^ f^^*" » hands. approach of the harveft, when I require extra What is the fmalleft fum with which =,n P • i ture upon a farm ?— Manv »« ^1 c '"* Emigrant can ven their own induftry. ^ ^° "P°" ^*'^'"» '^"^o"' >ny mean, but' •i" ?^Xn^<:: ^Z';^'"" ^ -'fc'"S for o,he. p^ i or a fe„ bushel, of Pa.oeT W A "'h "" "'''"•"" ' '"f "^ """^ I do not know of any „hoV~ "'"«f?«on of twftmilie. "W Settlement. ^ " "" ""' '"''"Wy coarfortable in- ires to cut down », for one mai^ l-t m-C ?i.r i:^?; If4 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECUl COMMITTftB r^MuHan T/ioma. McMullnn. of Val-Cartier, having been called in- nChlSi-S'^ •-' "?«"";" Ir "^"'^ °''^5'^"'» ^"' "- "Canada in 1821. I came to th.s country induced by reports tha^ rhi. iZ7T*^%T ^°'' ^ '^'^°"""& nian, wLe hecou,^^^^^^^^^^ earn h.s bread. I heard that Emigrants would do weU but I have not. however, found it fo favourable as I expected \L\ a w.fe and four children when I came to this coun^tr^ h was n the fall ; the oldest of my children is now 14 years of aJlnJ theyoungeft three years Lthey are now fivi in' n mber «'l ^^ not a sh.llmg when I came here. I fold a few CarpenterV Tools Ln .H K ^°°r ^i'""^ '"J^ ^"^ ^«^'^''' ft»y here. I then oc cupied mylelf in fawing wood, in Town, at ihe rate of two shn wM-'°'"^*/°'' about three weeks: I could ol ea rabou; LnH . V f ' ^^^r "' *'^'' ^"'"•'^- ^ »hen engaged n.yfelf "o dea' and at Valcarr.er for Mr. Stuart : I was allowed ^X-^^tZ l?lv T- 1^'""'- '" ^^'""'^'- •" °^ "^^^^^ November iC? always ftaid there since. I cut down about four acres durinV hat wmter, and was paid for it at the above rate : I had noS.ll tofupport my family with during that win, k except 10 nr 9 days work which I procured from individua at Va easier at the rate of one sh Uine and fix nence nP- H,V f ^*'""'!'^» »' In ,h. .h- " "«■'• ""^''^ ' """'» "''h 'hinglM, w Uh a hole n the shing es at one end to let the finoke om : I floored it .?.h logs, excepting at the end where we made the fire it,. Z two mile, and . half from the nearest fet.l.r = fh:;e l»t^^. my oacK tor this distance, fometimes up to the middJP in /r«.., . '^u::::7:r^z 'r^'' ^"^ '°"^- ' p^^ t^ot iiirn ra^d JSlCn^H • °'' ^°' P°^^*°^'' ^"'^ «bout from ten to twelve shilling, and six pence per quintal of flour. I bought potatoeTfor durinJtha tLe I haf f '^°"' ""^ bushel and a half a week about S lb „rir: i i -""^ P^'J' ^"' "° ^^h = We confumed whom] had^contracTed Lnd Tr ^'"T ^ '^ ^^^ ^^"''«"^^" ^^"^ ' about two q«S of Ann f T^ " """"^"^ '' ^^ '^^"^"'"^d into cakes a^TSL t^"' .^''"^ 'r'!,'"^' ^^"'^ °^'' ^^ "^=>de fait, andfomet m^^J „orl ' ""' "^'? '^* ^°''*°^^ ''^''^^ ^'^^ except even byTharcli^? ' '"""'''" '""^ ''"'^ "'''^ °f g^og. tea and fugar, fometime. „n'.^ T T' '" T^'J ^^ ^^^^ ^ '«' « ^ * »ometimei once a week, on the Sabbath. In the tu committke l2j M ROADS AJ.D OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS only. Isuppon/d my family entire yb/. hi. me „, TmZ ^^^^V;^ :'ii 'il 3P rme'w^"' tlhf f.[ i-'T "."'', '■™' - -"/aid r.U o«(Sai^y.t%!fiV'„f:i;;rii„i^s^^^^^^^^^^^ ie to confume them and no road to carry them to market f tier .'.Tall'??"' "'"I'"" "f '""' ^^ °»= McCartney aft" tier at Val Cartier, at three dollars an acre; and worWH fi,. others. I found layftlf a little better off this third wler hn 3e ta'lcfn'" ^e'" r ' '!?'' "^ ">'V'™ ""''"'^ 'he job "Lad un aertaicen. ihe lecond w nter I aoDlied to Mr n-i """""'' Agent of the Nuns, who ha,, a I? g„io y " V^lcX' and •bout three, alone. I planted about 10 or 12 buSels of Po7. .i,,» r /■ °'° ™»y' I removed on mv oiim farm t^^f"^? 'P""8' -"' hailt a log hut larger thaoT. «,? My family and I were better found bu- I h,H n^ "'; n'~l,*7'"W"''" «- *« ftmme^. ""ndTexrwin ^. daytS T^f '""'"8 ^™ .'"<■ "P. and occ sion^Sj •cres a year, i got a Cow in the fifth vear, if i^as "Jyen • P". payment of work. Mycrop 1«. yi^ consifted" of .touTw i2r> MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TJfciftjWbnbufljeUof Potatoes 30 buOiels of Oats and 900 bundles of Hay 1 JUnTmo [ ^"^ """^ «!:"'"8 ^ «°°^ ^"' ^^"«'" s family. Ho brought fome goods from New- foundiand, and kept a dry good ftore in Quebec. The year after h.s arrival he took a leale of Mr. Desbarats' farm at the Little River bt. Charles, which he kept for 10 years: the rent wa! fj ? VI" '' "'"%y;^" o"' °f 'en on halves. At the end of th,s leafe he went to Valcartier on the River Jacques Cartier, in the Seigmory of Fossambault, and there purchaVed about 500 acres of l.nd^ 1 went upon this farm with,' upon an average. 4 or 5 men. and fometimes 25 or 16 men. The fecond year we had about 50 acre, under culture, and obtained sixteen pounds ten shiUmgs from the Agricultural Society, as a reward for our exer- anrher"fa m 7n Vr"" I'^'^'^^y /^'^^^ afterwards purchafed another farm in Valcartier where I now reside. My father has JTw ' i? '"'' ''rf "P°" ^"^ ^''^* «"d I have abou the fame. I keep two horfes, a yoke of oxen, and three cows I formerly kept six cows. My father has two horfe,, eight cows and fome other young ftock. ^ * What are the inconveniences to which Agricultural Emicranls are iubjecthere ? wh,r are the advantages Ld disadvantaS, if the situation of the Emigrant when compared with his prtv ous situation in Europe ? what from your experience is the be?t mode of furmounting the difadvantages to which he is expoL °-! The greateft inconveniency to which the Emigrant is subject w the want of good roads. The want of thefe ^ iin^nng the produce of his farm to market VL COMMITTRC I bundles of Hay. I never would I am better than leaft forry that I re laft I bought ich amounted to )w in the bulh, •ofe that in the n in November : i on the market been called in j in the Seigniory id in 1802, and 1 came out to lods from New- 'Ihe year after m at the Little : the rent was At the end of lues Cartier, in fed about 500 m average, 4- or d year we had en pounds ten d for our exer- irds purchafed My father has I have about nd three cows, e?, eight cows, iiral Emigrants sadvantages of h his previouj the best mode s ex poled ?— mt is subject tA n tn ISO. 127 OK ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAl COMMUNICATION. 3l.ernaeciy w,th >ll the S«tl«, ''"''«'°™". ">i >' don. «ngs as tar as you are acqua nted with them ?— T irno» \.fr men n our Settlemenf wL k« "^"^ ^™^"» •— i know of feme arenowtolerably weU off ^f^^" !:"hout any means, and who for others for Ze mLth; • aS7in flfff ^^ T'''"« '^^ ^'''' ' they had earnnd .k!,, *. • ^ *^'.? ^^P^^g by means of what besidVs his board ^Th! ^^^^'^^^^'^^ man for the year round, durinl f„i! V^^'r*^^" P°""^5 'en shillings a year ; and acrfof landri'i'i^l^*^" i''^°'''^^' <=^^ °f <^«"ring an price. ^'"^ '^" *^°"' ^ °^ 1^ d°"»« « » fair Would loans from the public to actual Settlers, at intereft !:!-!**.P*'t,'"i''°d"<=e delivered to the Comoan"; tZ"± F' -cu oy tne company and fold on commission, b^ advaoTageius ^fi 128 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE O. Sullivan, to them ?— I think that it would anfwer well : my reafon is, that 'nuT^C^J^^ shortnefs of the feason and the badnefs of the Roads', the jmrcii 1829 uncertainty of the Quebec market, and the distance which fettlers have to come from the new Settlements to this market, by means of fuch a loan, it would enable them to keep their produce and wait for a favorable opportunity to bring it to market and gel a good price for the fame : for example, I have known, last fall, that perfons bringing their produce to market, owing to the bad state of the roads and weather, expofed their cattle and carriages to considerable difficulty and danger ; besides their produce has sold then at a much lower rate than what they could get for it at this prefent time. And it may be well underftood that the winter feason in this country is not fit for any other purpofe than bnnging the produce to market, and it is the best time for that purpofe. And as I think that from the middle of March to the end of April is the best time for cutting down timber, fuch a loan would give the fettler leifure to remain on his farm, and enable hjm to chop down part of his land. I know feveral per- fons who have raised more hay or ftraw than what was necefTary for the confiimption of their cattle, whereas if they had means to purchafe iiock to confume the fame, it would both improve their farms, and be of greater advantage to them, and alfb to their morals, for it is generally feen that thofe who frequently refort to market, contract habits of drunkennefs, by causing them to flop at taverns on the way. And alfo carrying hay or flraw for any diflance above five leagues is only time lost by the farmer, whereas bringing a cow or a fat ox, pigs, or other cattle to market, is more beneficial to him, as he fpends lefs time in feU hng It, and confequently expofed to lefs expense ; besides there are other kinds of produce on a farm, fuch as turnips and fmall potatoes, &c, and which are of no ufe to the farmer un- lefshehasaflock. And fuch a loan would enable him to fur- mount all thofe difficulties, efpeclally fo as flrangers are generally short of credit. In the month of October a perfon having plenty of fodder, and having a little money, can come to the Quebec Market, and can purchafe a good cow for from 10 to J2 dol- lars, and in the fpring fell the fame cow for from ^8 to f 10, which leaves the farmer the dung to improve his land, and a clear profit for his pains ; whereas without thefe means the great- er part of this produce would rot or be lost to him. The fame applies to oxen : a yoke of oxen may be bought in the fall, at from £6 to £8, and if well fattened, may fell in the fpriBe for from ^20 to £25, *^ * . COMMITTEE I reafon is, that he Roads, the ;e which fettlers irket, by means '\t produce and rket and get a nown> last fall, ing to the bad \ and Carriages ir produce has ould get for it -flood that the !r purpofe than time for that ' March to the imber, fuch a his farm, and w feveral per* : was neceflary ey had means both improve id aifb to their jently relbrt to \ them to (lop ilraw for any y the farmer, ther cattle to fs time in feU besides there s turnips and tie farmer un'<' »»- l"=e .<.". ,W,cs he n.u;. c>c-ar-eve;;;;|r;nd hf ,^^i '^ '^er ^cVeareX ' «!■ \) fl I l) ' 130 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE TJIE SPECIAL COMMITTEE Elijah Henri/.from the trees always falling. Half an acre well cleared off is bet^ ^"t^^"^^ ^^^ '^3n two acres run over- VMHr«hl820. . Do you ojake any Potash at Valcartier ?— They could not make Potash except near the River, becaufe the land is too light. So it's tnie, as it is fometimes said, that the first crop clears thp clearing P—It is generally thought so, and I myfelf have been more than paid by the first crop. Last year I cleared off 1.5| acres of land : from this I bad 1 28 bushels of potatoes, 200 bush- els of turnips, and I had green oats on the reft of it, I have ] 1 head of cattle, and I have wintered them upon thofe oats, and they are in as good conditipn as ^ny in the fettlement. How can a poor man manage to open a new farm ? — He must work one half of the time for his meat, and the rest of the time for himself When I began at Wethersfield I worked at framing and hewing, and got one dollar a day, when I got a little money together, I worked for myfelf. Since I have been at Valcartier the work f got was principally job wor|?, , Are you acquainted with any poor fettler near you who went on wild land yrithout poffessing any capital ; and ftate his proceed- ings as Icir as you are acquainted with them.? —I know people there who had nothing to blefs themfelves about four years ago, and now have cows, potatoes and butter which they bring to mar- ket at Quebec. They have alfo paid for their lands, but they boiigbt them low, on? paid ^15, the other aei 2. If any poor fettler were to obtain land within two miles of your houfe, would you be able to employ him on the fpare days, be- tween the time of getting his feed into the ground, and the har- vefl: feaspn, and what wages could you afford him besides his board?— I would rather employ thtjn the year round at flZ a year, for a good hand. What is the fmalleft fum you think neccffary for an emi- grant to fettle himself upon a wafte lot?— An able bodied man ought to be able to clothe and meat himself with one half year's la- bour, for the whole year •,— if a man could no( do this anew country could never be fettled. Would it be of advantage, do you think, if the public advanced L COMMITTER Icared off is bct- 'hey could not and is too light. crop cl lim besides his round at ^13 a y for an emi- died man ought half year's la- do tbi9 a new }ublic advanced kuhard Ward, oi Valcartier, Farmer, having been called In- laid ;-! come from the County of Wexford, fnlrelnda„d {'"'''''• '^'''* arrived here in ]816. I bi-ought with me my w7fe and tto children : my paffag. coft tne ^1.5 ; I brought out a ittle m« ' with me, and worked at Quebec io\ a y.arTfore I weil.o Va7 cartier on a farm belonging to Mr. Fletcher. Mr. F^.diS Pro' mifed me one half of the farm on condition of going on S the fettlement duties and clearing. I have cl Jred qn J I took a farm at Valcartier from fir. Campbe Cvfng ?even^^^^^ five acres cleared, at Twelve pounds a vear IV^^aI^" work when I first went to Va'lcartt l^r'e Lr^Lnl 7 tie jobs then in the fettlement. When I waVinThe wTt I a an opportunity of working out for my neilhbiurfat^^ r "^ nme : I got three shillinfs and nine^pen^rda^f: ^^^^ I could employ a poor fettler on his fpare days, payinrhim nn"; shilling and three pence a day, besides his bo rd ^ ?could em ploy him during the first winter at his arrival, ^t about Tn shillings a month. I know feveral who went upon wiW hnH without poffessing any capital, who worked fo other p n Je " well as for thcmfelves, and in this way fuftained ThlSs in in m i V' I 132 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE. Pi O^Sculfy. Patrick 8euUi/t of Lake Beauport, Farmer, having been called .^--Qf^ in ; said :— I am from King's County, in Ireland, and have re- ''"sided in this country for the last ten years. I have a wife and ifeven children ; three of them living with me i my paffage cost jeS lOs. ahead. Our allowance of provisions on our paiTage, for each perfon, wa» as follows : 1 cwt. of oatmeal, i cwt. of flour, about 10 ftone of potatoes and 25 lbs. of bacon. I arrived at Quebec upon the 17th May, and turned to work on the Cape at ttro fthilUngs and sixpence per day. I worked there for nearly three years, I had with me about £25 or .€26 i one of my boys forked wich me at the Cape, the others went to fervice. Du- ring this tk»e I faved about £25 or £26 more, making in all 3k wa. £50. Before leaving the Cape I took » lot of wild land belonging to Mr. Duchesnay, at Beauport, and began to improve ttpon it about 7th May, between which time and the i7th hvae, I cleared and cropped four acres. How, by whom, and at what expenfe was your clearing ef- fected ? — My own and my son's labour effected the clearing of h : I cannot fay what the work was worth. I have now thirty iive acres cleared. I have since cleared twenty-five acres on another farm. How can a poor man effect a Settlement upon new lands i~— By induftry, flicking to it late and early, and working late and early. He cannot work without provisions, and thefe he mud get before he goes upon a farm. How is he to get them ? — If he cannot borrow money from a friend, he must earn it ; and he cannot earn it and work upon his iarm at the fame time. How long a time will he be in earning this money j where and how cm he earn it ? — He must either go to fervice of elfe go to labour every day until he gets sufl5cient. The (mallest iam that a Settler can go upon a new farm with is £18 or £20 If you were going i^on a farm having thefe jgl8 or jfc20 in your pocket, in what arricles Would you invell it .'—In po- tatoes, flour, pork, and focue peas. I» not pork an expensii^e anicle 6f food, and why is it you have left out fait fish .'—I think peas foup better than sal ll committee. tving been called 1> and have re- have a wife and my pafiage cost our paHage, for , i cwt. of flour, n> I arrived at on the Cape at here for nearly one of my boys to fervice. Du- making in all >t of wild land gan to improve and the iTih mr clearing ef- the clearing of lave now thirty jr-five acres on new lands i—- irking late and thefe he muft money from a ind work upon 1.33 ON «OAD8 AND OTHBR iNTEaiNAL COMMUJJieATIO*r«. ftt't D?und r ^""^'°°r^'^ '^^er. In a family of P«/A. ^//,. youngeft ,s 14 i I have three daughters, all married and fettled. bel^o^Jl^l'J'^ T S°. "P°" y^"*- f^^™- ^"d ^hat time ,-, laft H». I f' ^''^"^ ^ y*"" ^S° ' ^'•°'" t»»e 1st March to the laft day of June « «he beft time to go upon a b»rfx fa^.'''" Do you know many and what number of perfom i^ho r,,T,» *« thjs country with nothing at all, and are nrdll^ruoo^ How did they maaa^e it ?-They managed to rh a few bushels of potatoes and a bag of flour from one of their neiSi bours, and are now, by their own hard industry, well off. , Do any of your Settlers fell their farms after they have made ^rovements and fettled upon new ones ? Do they gain b^his and how ?-.yes. there are. I think they gain by this, for'thcy Are any in the habit of workirig ih town and passim? their winter at Lake Beauport ?-Ifthe7e i. nothing doing, tS^(S^ in and work. b«t not until their crop, are i?; th^^Js &w houfe rent and feed for a great part of the year. money } where to fervice of The fmallest 5 ^18 or £20 iflS or ife20 1 it ?— In po- why is it you ;tter than sal 13i Al'PENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITtfiE APPENDIX. COPY^of iNSTnucTWNs to the Commismncr for the sale and mana.emot of Crown Lands in the Province of -Lotcn -Canada,. i^^tnce 0/ fcopyof Instriic. tionstothccora. miss/oner of Crown Lands. w« I J^^wU^^^xt"^^* His Majesty, by a Commission bearing date the London, m said fe^ ^« ''"''''' 'f '' '^'^ "^'^'^^^^ ^^ appoinf you h ^o»emberi826'7.'^"'/''^"^ liotowan Fellon, to the office and trust of Com m.ss,oner for the fale and management of Crown Lands ih the s^Th'o^ders^'^Tdw '^* ^"'^ ''' ^""'^ -J-" you to font' ceive fron ,h^ rn "• •"' '' y°" ."^^g^t from time'to time re- ceive trom the Commissioners of H s MaiestvN Trpofn^, ^- 1 ^nyone of His Majefty's Principal SeSeVoIfc Commissioners o/h^^. ? r:.::^^^',.^^^ ^ require you to govern yourself in the eUcution of the dudes of your said office, by the following Infti-uctions : ^ *nlTorV°J^ ° forthwith repair to Canada, and report your arri- val to the Governor, or Officer adminifteHng the Governmen the said Office, and me/e Our Insructions for the guidance of your conduct m the execution of the duties thereof/ to the ru!"f?- '"^T'u"' o^ "P°" y^""" ^'•"^'^'' ^"^^r i"to Security Govern^Tn^ °^J^' Governor, or Officer adminift.ring the ^-overnn.ent yourself ,n ^5000, and two fureties in £2500 fach said office, and duly account for and pay over all monies Xh may ccme to your h.nds in the execution thereof ascertl'Ihri'' ^^°"'?''' '^^'V°"'' ^^^'^•^'' y°^ do proceed to ascertain the nature and particulars of all the Crown Proneriv within the (aid Province, under the following heX ^ ^ helt-f'r V n '" '^''^'^'^^'/^^'^ ^f '^'^ Colony whid.; have not neretutuie oe^n lurveyed or laid out. L COMMITTEE 'I" for /he sale e Province of earing date ihe jpoint you, the trust of Com. I Lands in the you to follow le to time re- afury, or from 'tate, or from nment of the ^cw, We, the by enjoin and F the duties of ort your arrl- Governmeiit, •inting you I'o ■ guidance of f, into fecurity iniftering the ^£2500 each, ities of your nonies which o proceed to vn Property Is : ch have not 135 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Waste Lands in those Districts of the Colony which have been r, furveyed and laid out, but no part of whicn has been granted. SSH^T^^l Ungranted Lands and Crown Referve in thofe Diftricts where ""'"ionerof grants have been made. Crown Landi. l^nds which may have been granted in perpetuity upon payment w ^' ^ of Quit or other rents. ^ ^ P-^yment Lo„d ,„^ T J 1 n r .... November 1820, Lands and Referve which have been granted upon leases for series of years upon refcrved rents or otherwise. That you do make an Annual Report of the progrefs you may have made in asrertaini-g thefe particulars, to Us, or to the Conimissioners of e Trt :ury for the time being, and alfo to the Governor or officer adminiftering the Government of the Frovmce of Lower-Canada. That no Lands or other Crown Referve arising from Lands within the Province of Lower-Canada, be hereafter dispofed of or granted; except upon the following conditions :— By actual fale, or, in cafe of poor Settlers, by grants fubject to Quit rents m the manner hereinafter directed. That you do, from time to time, and at least once in every year, fubmit to the Governor, or Officer administering the Go- vernment, a Report of the total quantity of each descrip- tion of Crown Property, within each Diftrictofthe Referve, so far as you may then have afcertained the fame, toge- ther with your opinion of the quality of each description of 1 roperty which it may be expedient to offer for fale within the then ensmng year, and the upfet price per acre at which you would recommend the feverai descriptions of property to be of- fered, obtaining previoufly a certificate from the Surveyor Gene- ral of Woods and Forests within the Province, that the Land proposed to be offered by you does not contain any considerable quantity of valuable Timber fit for His Majefiy's Navy or for any other purpofe, it being the intention that no grant of the lands upon which such timber may be growing should be made until the timber is cleared. That if the Governor, or Officer adminiftering the Govern- ment, should be pleafed to function the fale of the whole, or anv part of the land recommended by you, to he fold at the upfe't price recommended by you, or at any other price which he may name, you will proceed to the fale in the following man- ner : — ** You will give Public Notice in the Quebec Gazette, and in " luch other Newspaper as may be circulating in the Province, as hi 136 APPENDIX TO THE REPOIIT OF THE SPECIAL CO»«IITTEE a^rl::r,7"«i«"y«^'««nncr tli« circmaftanccs will admit of of mMMcr of «he time aad plac« tppeuMed for f^l^ nfT^l r o«^ • . '^ ***» °^ That oo Io| &boukl auMain more than i an/) .• . w will , 1(0 s,a.e in, he ^^i^o^Z ^d^ "f'S^'f^.I'^f \™ purchafe money is to be mid bv fouri^T^ '''•.''^ ""' '■»« stabagiKs « inwrvjl, of a ;«» ^ '■"* "«' '«"«'» »- beTSl:"a^dlrr;„x^^^ ^« ^90,^.;^ In cafe Purch*fer« of UndTai»lfkf« n "^ ^*^**" ,- being unable to ^dy^^J^w. PurlLc A^ **?^*''« ^®" •^'^^'^ propofcd, you mr,^mit7he p"!S"r ^^^^ ^^ m»talment» as a Quit ReL. e^Jt t^five ^r Lm tSl'lT'^'P^ '^* ^"^ ^^ chafe money, one year'. ^ii2X ^. "'^^'^^^'^^ ^« P' tJte failpre of regular pV^^^Tu e ^^/rh •^'^.^•'«*; » "P°» ma«««. to fc« ftib^ct to SSCn^avtlt^ '** '^^ iHui>b«. of i.>ftaim«^s not e«Sit fe.^ "^^ '\' ^''»* ^^ ""^ the fa.'iic proiK)rtion of th« Qait Renm ceT !„ ^ r^T ^^' t i*.^ parties ,hould fail regu%|y tTpi th^ rl.' i '^*! ^f*^*^'' HeHi, the«««« to be ded««L from ' h ' ' V^^ °' *^"^^ the k,Bd to be refold iVat^dlir, *^* '""^J'^^nt Paid, a«d Qak ROMS ^ *''"'"^ P'^"**^ ^ ^^« '«'>^««e mm., of ,!^ ^rfo J irl-h n"*' •" "'""^ - .be .. .ujftir;fr'tnr^-ft^s^ cl.a^tr, of tac .an J who made default in payment. " ^ L COMMITTEE till adnnit of, of in each diftrkt, a^ jfn* offer will he ref«rved Med acres. You le r«le» that the the first ii>ftaU ap4 fourth ia. Ite depostfwil^ ding 200 Kres^ instalinentK as the fiMoe upon int of the wir- e ttme ol ftle, i wards } upon kin referred to ;chased in this twenty yo«uff B faqie by any »e payment of •f Quit Rem, :aft| however, ?rof theQijkk nt paid} and bimem rajy aiader of tb« rict in every District who ?ir purchiiet »*d «p before ' the foNow, ?ats or Qwt >red to a«?- the produce J the Crown a-igias! pyr- nriissiiji/i. i> 1 ditu. ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. fa£n eachdiitk't ^T"f '' '"^ ^t-'^'''. ^''"'^ ^'"" ^» »he current Copvon., h ™; 1° "«'<'"'S '"» hundred «re/each, at the or c° at which ■"""""" Der «„?S^'^i '?' fame or bjr Qui, Re,„,, computed at five KdeTed'?;;™' it,?d"::' :sT;^^:i^ br- "■''' "u'thSTt^r "■ ''"" *"" •>- -^e" ?f J , r^^^^^^^^^ «m fiSLl. S ?°'""°;> « »T "">e wiAin a period oHiven ?ursS,?eSfo T^7f' 8""' Pe™i"ion of occupancy ,o any equal ,0 fi,. per cent upo/the eSaXa.ue of^he td T the., me such occupancy ihaU be granted , and t^e perfo,,' to whom cJaim of occupation may be made shall have libem m rl fcv^v^'"^"'"^;"' " "")"'■"= '''f"' .he «pia,"J^?„''; fevenycar^, upon the payment of twentv years ourchT^f .mount and at any time'after the ,«mZLol fhet tyea'^ "hen due ST' "' '"'' "•"'" "^ 2™' ^'"^ which Z be Aendue, and twemy years purchase of the annual amouLof m«.e except in case of Lth. un.5 Jhe'Io^ of the aS?f -I h"!" K T' "L 9"'' '''"•' '■»» ■»« been pa°d " °^ Rem. A S\ "y° '"""'^ *"• '» ^»»<'» " "ell a. the Quit SXtrteKarrfnCrd^n-^ ^:f'-r^r^rs::-brdurfrtc and you will at any time within feven years from the d fe Sf J:L-^dX=s-[KroX-L'^r;3 '.Iriie. .llifil. 1 i^'jff . London, 15ih No»e 138 PPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEB SrroVS™:?";' Rem which may be payaWe by them refpcctively, provided mMorerof t^^at all arrears up to the end of the year preceding the time of Crown Liindfc pufchafe be previoufly paid. ^-•^ .1,5 '^'5 ^fl- ^'"" "^ T P"'-'^'"^^'" h the Proprietor within •nb«ri886^'^eP*'''od °* '^^611 years from the date hereof, further Inftruc tions will be given in regard to the fale by public auction or otherwife, as may then be deemed expedient. With refptct to the Lands upon leafe for terms of years you are desired on no account to sell the fame by public auction, if the rent jsnoc more than two years in arrear, until the termination of the lease ; but it the rent is more than two years in arrear, and if according to the terms of the Lafe the same is void, in confe- quence of the non-payment of the rent, you are at liberty to fub- mit to the Governor, or officer adminidering the Government that any fuch lots should be fold If, however, previoufly to the sale the rent is paid up, you will withdraw the same from the iaie, and you will at any time sell to the Lefsee of such lands as niay be held under leafe, at fuch price as the Governor or Officer admmiftering the Government may upon your recommendation approve of the land fo held, all arrears of rent being in every cafe paid up to the end of the year preceding the fiile, but in no cafe at lels than twenty years purchafe of the rent You will on the 1st January and 1st July in every year, ren- der a complete account of all your fales, within the preceding half year, to the auditor of Provincial Accounts, fpecifying the ?ondi- tions upon which each lot is sold, and you will at the fame period render a complete Cash Accouut of the money received and ex- pended by you within the fame period, carrying forward to each account any balance which may remain in your hands at the date of the precedm.g Account, and you will on the 1st January. 1st April, 1st July and 1st October, in each year, pay over to the Re- ceiver General of the Province, any fum which may on thofedayi relpectively, be in your-hands over and above the fum of £500, which you are permitted to retain for future contingent expenfes You will not charge the falary and remuneration to which you are entitled under your ' ommission in your accounts, but you will receive the fama annually, by warrant of the Governor, out ot the rreafure which you may have paid into the hands of the Receiver of the Province, in the preceding year. You are authorized to incur and defray fuch contingent ex- penfes for Authorities, Clerks, Treafurer and Receiver of R^nts, Office Rent. &c. as vou mayfinH aK"^oi<' "'ro^^r*- — ^j -- *»-- t*overnor, or Officer adminiflering theGovernment, may sanction L COMMITTEE law. 139 ON ROADS AND OTHER INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. and appr'>ve, provided however, that the whn?- «f - u . ^ Bent Exoenfes shall nnr Pv.nJi • . '^ °' '"'^'^ contln- Cop^oflnsim.. gem cxpenies sftall not exceed on».sixth part of the monev .„ «*'>n»t«n>«eor.. be received by you under His Maiefts'« r«r««,: • "^o^^y to miaio„„ „, our Inftructions- Majelty s Commission, and thefe Crown L.„d.. Tre?n,r7?n" f? *