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RUFFY, PRINTER, 29, BUDGE ROW, WALWROOk'. 1833. ..' l^citifiib American Hanm CTompanji* OFFICE, No. 4, BARGE YARD, BUCKLERSBURY. DIRECTORS. GEORGE RICHARD ROBINSON, Es mas Vawkejdurj r! y<> i ^ ¥ Road tojygscol on ice, 4 f I mm jiti sr-Jfci—-"- ^ ""• C'Uft /ij/ 7dw.\ J 7'aNe o / J)i.,tUwccxi /l. nhcul \oO ircr Fro nt Cueitc ic ^i en.-i ,tt- MoiUrtai (ha/ ft am On mi I It I'iUU S'jUon Ain^.6 Roultjrom i'luft,,- !■ Ki>ile £f Distances fo llte.^ Jia>slern 7r\VH-^hip^ TheJirstatlufruttThewj Ike' diSlanci'J'rorrt oufplnn lo cuiother, the, second ihe whcU dustcuicejrom the pJ'CLCC of departure From.Qitcbe:c. Ztceis IrelanJ DiuinvcU £cU*>n Jierq/'ord Routt to KuJurwnd' JreZaneLaj aiove. SO £ju:hmcnd Ao Ico ,Routt to Sh-rirook DudfweU as aiove SS • LermujcvoLU Skirlrook. J'ro/ft Three fdvcnf 10 Nicolft d ' AnJotiit ShcrornoATi Ze^inoxviHt Com^fon 10\J0S I/a/iej 7 113 ^oulc iifi the S^Fra/ici s JOudtSwell . Weedotv 9S From MoiiliTff/ S^Ce^aire Abhcisford Orunhv tShf/'fi^i'd St an J lead Roule /.<> Ric/!)nond Jtvchrwnd .■V d:! /ioiUcio /U, ShefYord an aJxnt OZ J^ennoxitMc m ^%ix\ Front New York. Albany WhiUTiaU Thrv lake Cha^nplaui to S'JfihnsJ C . Farnhccm. Gcorafvillt €j) /,? Route iy fiurhjufbon, &c 140 2oA 'WhileJuiU (t-, "C^i/TUiury J- OF F Ti.K is^gjii^ismM T(m li'i vf( d by Dea/j & Mu^/iny, Ihrecuimtdle S^ Zandon. fSOi£l ir#WMiJi£sii2Pi or iL«)"^wii]a ^SAmj^MA ■r-" I I THE I ] i! » ^ IIISiMnjcst tisli AuK'lic.'ui b Crown Lands I SHEFFORD^ TOIVNSHZPS progress of ma settlcmi'nt of tl Zit. cnOMVti About 251,000 STa These lands or farms of 20( parts of the coi; schools, and chi T'l many of Tin ii.at Settlers an 400 to upwards lid. 1 Containing ( This large tr Garthby, Strati Bury, Hampder Hereford, and I If THE BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. S ■if r t' Ills Majesty's Govcriniicnt liaviii^ agreed to sell to The Bri- tisli Amencan Laud Company the Crown Reserves and other Crown Lands in tlie Southern Cr>uuties of STAN8TEAD, SHEFFORD, and SHERBROOKE, ill THE EASTERN TO^VNSHXPS OF LOTVER CANADA^ the Company is in progress of making arranboat constantly plying, a magnificent bridge is now rearing its stately arches across the St. Maurice, thus completing the communication by land from Quebec upwards." Extract from the Notice issued by His Majesti/'s Chief Agent for the superintendance of Emigrants in Upper and Lower Canadr, ited Quebec 1 6th July 183.3. " Emigrants who wiiih to settle in Lower Canada or to obtain employment, ars informed that many desirable situations are to be met with. Wild lands of superior quality may be obtained by purchase on easy terms, and good farm labourers and mechanics are much in request, particularly in The Eastern Townships, where also many excellent situations and improved farms may be purchased from private proprietors." I 10 Information received from Samuel Brooks, F.sq. of LennoxviUe, in the Eastern Townships, late Member for the County of Sherhrooke, to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada :■— June, 1833. Q. What route should Emigrants from this country, by the way of Quebec, Tiiree Rivers, and Montreal, take for the Town- ships, and what are the means of conveyance by sttige or other- wise, and at what fares ? The same query supposmg them to go by the way of New York. A. Emigrants should ship for, or land at, Quebec. From thence by steam-boat to Tln'ee Rivers. From thence by land up the St. Francis, if in that direction, to Sherbrooke. No difficulty could occur on account of transportation. Stages run three times a week from Three Rivers to Sherbrooke and LennoxviUe, 90 miles ; Stanstead, 120 miles ; — fares 20s. and 25s. currency; freights, .3s. 9d. per cwt. From New York the route is up the Hudson, and through Lake Champlain, by steam-boat, to St. John's, Lower Canada, and thence across the country to the Townships ; or Emi- grants may goon to Montreal, between which and Stanstead a stage coach runs twice a week. Or, the shorter way wouldbe to leave Lake Champlain at Burlington, Vermont, thence by land to Stanstead, 100 miles ; there are good roads and stages and teams at all times. Q. What is the mode of cropping on new lands, and have the old farmers adopted any system of rotation of crops, and what, in your opinion, would be the most adviseable course, in this respect, for a new settler to adopt ? A. The mode of cropping new lands depends upon the period at which they are got ready for crop. The timber should be felled in June, or as soon after as may be, and trimmed and cut up suit- able for putting in heaps, and lie until the next Spring, say April or May, and then burnt as opportunity may offer ; the land is then, with little labour, ready to crop. Wheat is first sown, if the land is cleared, by the 1 5th May ; otherwise Indian corn, potatoes, or oats. The usual practice is to take two or three crops of wheat, and put down in grass, but this depends upon the circumstances 11 Hiid wants of the fiirmer. It is possible to got a crop of potatoes or oats tlie first season of cutting down the timber, but it requiros much more labour, and is not generally adviseable. I cannot say that there has been much system \n the farming department- When an old field is broken up, a crop of potatoes is first, then •wheat, oats, and laid down. A settler commencing upon hrw lands, and who does not get upon them before the Spring, cannot, or ought not, to depend upon his lands for a support until the following season, but if he gets upon his lands in the fall (Autumn) he might be tolerably certain of a crop tlie following season. The course I should recommend, and, indeed, the only adviseable one> is for the Settler to get upon his lands as early in the Summer as possible, put up a liouse which two men will do in a week, cut down what timber he can, and work it up into salts, (pot-ash in a rough state of preparation) which, if industrious, enables him to board his family, and his land will be fit for crop early in the Spring. Q. About what time generally do the Spring operations of the Farmer commence, and in what order and about what time does he sow the various portions of his crop ? Supposing Emigrants to arrive in the Townships not later than the 31st of May, would they be able to plant potatoes or other crop lor which land does not require much previous preparation, and garden stuffs for their supply during the summer and ensuing winter .'' A. Farming operations commence from 1st to 15th April. Wheat is first sown, which may be done until the 1 5th of May. Oats are next, which will do until the middle of June. Planting Potcitoes from the 15th May, to 20th June. Indian Corn, 20th May, to 10th June. Upon new lands Emigrants could not get a crop first year, arriving 31st May. On old lands they might get Indian Corn, Potatoes, and Oats, as also garden stufl^s. Q, What is the general aspect of the Winter, and what are the Winter avocations of husbandry ? A. We generally have snow sufficient for good sleighing by 20th November, which continues until 15th March. This although a cold season, is a pleasant one. Our roads are *hen railroads. The farmer during this se^jon looks to his stock, threshes his grain. 12 dresses flax, does his marketing, gets out his fencing timber, fircwootl, &c. About the 1 st of March the sugar season commences and continues from three to four weeks, and when this is over his land is ready to be worked. There is no material difference between Lower Canada, New Hampshire, and Vermont, in these respects ; but our Winter roads are much better than in New York or Upper Canada. Q. What grain productions are raised, and what are the best crops^ and what tlie quantity raised per acre in the Townships ? A. Wheat, Indian corn, rye, oats, barley, pease, beans, and potatoes, are easily raised. Of wheat I suppose 20 bushels the acre a fair crop. Indian corn 30 ; oats 50 ; potatoes 200. The price of wheat is from 5s. to 7s. 6d. Indian corn Ss. 4d. to 58. rye 3s. to 4s. oats Is. 3d. to 2s. potatoes lOd. to Is. 8d. currency, per bushel. Q. What are the prices at present of farm stocking, such as liorses, cows, &c. and of implements of husbandry, such as ploughs, waggons, &c. A. Good farm horses are worth from £7 10s. to £l5. Oxen the pair, same price. Cows from £2 lOs. to £6 5s. Ploughs £2 10s. to £3 10s. Ox carts £7 10s. to £lO. Waggons £7 10s to JC15. Q. What is the quantity of pot or pearl ashes made in the Townships ? A. There are about 3000 casks of pot and pearl ashes manufac- tured annually in the Townshi{)s. Q. Is any lard made } A. A very little for market, mostly consumed in the country. Q. Are there much butter and cheese made, and of what quali- ties ? Do they keep, at what prices are they sold on the spot, and at what prices in Quebec and Montreal, and United States markets ? A. The quantities of butter and cheese manufactured for market are .small, each family generally making its own. The price of butter in the Townships is from 6d, to pd., cheese from 4d. to 6d., and about the same in market. The articles are generally of a gootl quality ; there can be no reason why they should not, event- ually, be made for exportation to a great extent. Q. What grass or other agricultural seeds could he ripened, so as to hecome ai tides of export ? A. Red clover and timothy, to any extent. Q. Are there, in your opinion, any productions of the Lower Province which are likely to become exportable articles, or which might be made so by protective duties ? A- I know of no good reason why most agricultural produc- tions should not, eventually, be exported from Lower Canada to a very great extent. The article of hemp may certainly be grown there to an unlimited extent, and, with proper protection, it would, no doubt, soon become an article of export. Q. Is the manufacture of maple sugar followed up to any, and to what extent ? A. Maple sugar is manufactured by every farmer in the country, to the extent of from 200 to 2000 pounds aimually. Q. Game and fish — what kinds are found, and are they plen- tiful ? A. Salmon are plenty in the season, say July, August, and September. Plenty of black bass, trout, pike, pickerel, and maski- nonge. Many families are well supplied in the neighbourhood of the rivers and lakes, and new settlers especially find a great help from this source. Abundance of moose deer, bears, rabbits, par- tridges, water fowl, &c. Q. What may be about the present expense of having produce &c. conveyed from and to Quebec and Montreal, and Stanstead, or its vicinity, and how much do you think such expense would be lessened if improvements were effected ? A. From Stanstead to and from Montreal the usual price of freight is £5. per ton each way ; from Lennoxville or Sherbrooke to Three Rivers or Sorel, it will average about £3 15s. per ton each way. Were improvements made in the water communi- cation, from £l 5s. to £2. would pay all expenses to Montreal or Quebec. Q. Whether the communications with the United States are easy, and whether any markets for cattle or produce of The Town- ships are found in the United States, and where ; as also if the present advant-./res of markets for proluco, iVc. arc t'oiind in Canada or the United States. A. The communications witli New Hampshire and Vermont are tolerably ^ootl and easy, and would be much improved by tlic completion of the leading roads. There are a few ^ood horses taken from the Townships to l^)ston and other towns in the United States, but our principal markets for cattle and produce arc Quebec and Montreal ; these are our best and only markets to any extent A good deal of skins, such as marten, mink, fox, bear, &c. are annually sold to persons from the States, who enter the Townships to purchase, say to the amount often thousand skins annually. Q. Can you give any information on the present state of the River St. Francis, and its creeks, and the other waters of the Townships, particularly in Sherbrooke > A. The River St. Francis is now navigable for a certain de- scription of flat bottomed boats, carrying from four to ten tons, and for canoes to its head. Lake St. Francis. There is an abundance of •water in this river were it improved to enable steam boats to run its whole distance. There are no navigable streams emptying into the St. Francis below Windsor : here there is a small river running about 20 miles, navigable nearly its whole length for small boats. At Sherbrooke the River Magog empties itself, and is navigable 20 miles into Lake Memphramagog. This lake is about 35 miles long extending into Vermont, and is navigable for ships of 500 tons The Massawippi, emptying at Lennoxville, is navigable for boats 30 miles to Stanstead, through Lake Tomefobi. Neither of the latter streams are closed by frost. Above Lennoxville there are some considerable rivers empty into the St. Francis, but they are not at present navigable to any extent. Q. About how many schools or establishments for education are there in the County of Sherbrooke, and how are they supported > A. There are in the County of Sherbrooke about seventy pri- mary or elementary schools, and two high schools, one at Sher- brooke, the other at Shipton. The elementary schools are princi- pally supported by legislative grants, — JE20 per annum to each school, and the high schools partly in the same manner. 1/5 Q. Ill wlint particular aiitl cssoiitial points do the law^^ of pro- perty and society in tlie Townships dilJ'cr from the Upper Province ? A. I know of no essential dillerence in these respects, I con- ceive the laws of property to be well defined and ^ood with us ut ])resent. Our Re/jfistry Offices, for all mutations of real property, have put us upon a safe footin^j; with respect to titles. Q. The Itegistry Offices for the recording of conveyances— what are the record fees ? A. Conveyances are registered within the county in wliich the lands are situated, the fee for which is, not exceeding (JOO words, lis.; and for every 100 words over, ()d. From this office you obtain at any time for Is. a certificate of the fact whether A. 13. or C. own certain lands ; and in case this certificate prove false, and any damages occur thereby, a remedy lies against the Registrar, who gives bond, with sureties, in the sum of £4000 for the faithful dis- charge of the duties of his office. Q. Are there any imposts, taxes, charges, rates, statute labour or duties, road tolls, school cess, church rates or collections of any kind or description whatever, upon property, land, or persons, in The Townships ? A. There is a law in Lower Canada, applicable to The Town- ships, which requires the occupier of lands, lying upon any public road, to do twelve days labour annually upon the road for each lot of 200 acres, and in proportion for a greater or lesser quantity. With this exception, we have, within the Townships, no tax, rate, or charge of any description whatever, either upon real or personal property. What we do of a public nature is wholly voluntary and of free will. Q. What do you consider the advantages which may be held out to Emigrants, with fairness and candour, to induce them to stay and settle in The Townships ? A. The extreme healthiness of the country, the easy access to the lands, and, consequently, from thence to market, and their great superiority as a grazing country. c I t C » 1] t a V e a ti fr KvlKicU'i! from Ihc Daily iVcxvspnpcrs. •fl<-®>0t THE BRITISH AMSIIICAN LAlfD COmiFANY. At a General Court of Proprietors of THE BRITISH AME- UICAN LAND COMPANY, held in the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 3rd December, 18:13, to receive a Report from the Court of Directors, with a Memorandum of Agreement, containing the terms arranged with His Majesty's Gov?rnment for the sale of certain lands in THE XIASTERN TOVrXHSHZPS of LO^ITER CANADA to the Company, and to decide on the same ; and also to fill up one vacancy in the Direction ; NATHANIEL GOULD, Esq., Deputy Governor, in the Chair. The Chairman in opening the business of the day, said, that in consequence of the absence of the Governor, G. R. Robinson, Esq. M.P., the Chair was very inadequately filled. He proceeded to say, that at tlie last Meeting of the Proprietors, the affairs of the Company were not so brilliant with anticipation as from the honest intentions of its promoters had been expected, and that the Direc- tors were ready to stop the negociation and sacrifice the outlay already incurred, or still to endeavour to accomplish a purpose full of important results in every view, national, colonial, or individual. With confidence in the Directors, you empowered them still to endeavour to bring this lengthy and procrastinated negociation to a favourable issue, trusting that the merits of the plan would in time be appreciated at the Colonial Office, and when cither such a favourable change had taken place, or that it was thought advise- B able to put an end to the negociation, the Proprietors were to be called together. I have now, said the Chairman, the satisfaction of informing you, that the proceedings, after two years of negociation and delays, arc at length brought into such shape as to justify your Directors in accepting the Memorandum of Agreement on the part of the Shareholders, and in recommendii ^'t for their adoption. It is to receive a Report embodying this Agreement that you are called together. The Clerk to the Company then read the Report, from which it appeared that Mr. Secretary Stanley, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, had agreed to sell to the Company, the Crown Reserves and other Crown Lands in the southern counties of Stanstead, Sheflford, and Sherbrooke in The Eastern Townships of Lower Canada, upon terms which were contained in a Memorandum of Agreement, which the Colonial Secretary was ready to agree to. The Memorandum of Agreement, which was read, agreed to the sale to the Company of the whole of the unsurveyed lands in the County of Sherbrooke (exclusive of the Territory claimed by the United States) amounting to 596,325 acres ; also the Crown Re- serves and surveyed Crown Lands in the counties of Sherbrooke, Sheflford, and Stanstead, amounting to 251,336 acres, making, in all, 847,661 acres, for one entire sum of £120,000, to be payable by instalments in ten years, with interest at four per cent, one half of the purchase-money to be laid out in improvements and public works in the districts purchased by the Company. His Majesty's Government excepted from the arrangement, any town lots that might now be laid out. The one half of the purchase-money to be laid out on improvements under the sole controul of His Majesty's Government. The Agreement contained other clauses for carrying the bargain into eflfect. The Report spoke very favourably of the lands in the surveyed districts, which, from their locality, and vicinity to mills, &c., were exceedingly eligible for settlement. A letter from the Colonial Office to the Company, states " that the Governor of Lower Canada reports, that there is reason to believe that the land is very valu- 3 able and particularly favorable for settlement," and the Report from the Commissioner of Crown Lands in Lower Canada, to His Excellency Lord Aylmer, the Governor, states that, " following the course of the St. Francis, there were more than thirty miles of water navigable for large boats, and passing through a most magnificent country, and that the country is of great promise." The Directors, therefore, recommended the Meeting to sanction the arrangement which they had made with Government. The Report also stated that the whole of the shares had been taken, and the deposits paid up. The Chairman then proceeded : — The Report and Memorandum have been read to you, the Agreement being, in a few words, for 847 "6 1 acres, at a lump sum of £120,000; of which £44-4008 is to be considered the price of the Crown Reserves and surveyed Lands, and £75,99^ of the unsurveyed block. Perhaps, said he, it may have been thought that for projects so national and so valuable. His Majesty's Government would have been disposed to more liberal terms ; but the Directors consider that there is in the Agreement enough to accomplish all the good contemplated to the Shareholders and the Settler, as well as the Province of Lower Canada, and the Mother Country. The district of country selected, is in what is called The Eastern Townships of the Provint e of Lower Canada, reported to comprise some of the finest scenery and most healthy climate of America: where bilious and intermittent fevers and agues are unknown, and which even the cholera did not enter, with which the Canadas were so severely afflicted. The soil, too, is sa' J to be inferior to none in Canada. And although the greater length of its winter may seem to operate against agriculture, i*s proximity to the grand markets and shipping ports of Montreal and Quebec, gives it a preponderating advantage over nore distant localities. In some of its nearest points it is only {luout 80 or 90 miles from Quebec, 50 c : 60 from Montreal, and 90 or 1 00 from Burlington, on Lake Champlain. This count'*y has been, hitherto, unknown to the settling Emi- grants, (though 900 miles short of some parts to which they resort) by the intervention of a population between it and the River St. 4 Lawrence, differing in language, laws, manners, and customs from our emigrating population, and who, from certain local and political causes, have been hostile to the introduction of British Settlers. It is proper to state, that should this agreement be adopted, the Company will go into operation under the fullest sanction of His Majesty's Government ; and that the Governor of Canada will be called upon to accord fhe full patronage of himself and the Govern- ment Authorities in the Province. Already has the Court received the first fruits of Lord Aylmer's gootl will in the Report of a survey of a part of these lands, in the hope of finding water communica- tions capable of navigation, and the short Report gives reason to hope that such will be found. At the first official notice received of the negociation, his Lordship had suspended all sales in the district till the bargain should be concluded, seeming thereby to have anticipated a greater liberality in the views of His Majesty's Government. Lord Aylmer had, also, himself made a tour of in- spection through a part of the district. In anticipation of the Company going into effect, instructions have already been given to prepare a small stock of provisions in case of any arrival of Emigrants or Settlers. The Chairman then alluded to the severe illness of Mr. Gait, and his consequent resignation, in feeling terms, and proceeded :— Gentlemen, this may not, perhaps, be the place to speak of emi- gration, but, knowing as we do that it is a voluntary movement, and is now flowing in a current that cannot be stopped, but may be directed, it may not be amiss to inform and to endeavour to convince the laborious, patient, and sober sons of Britain intending to emigrate, (for to such only does emigration promise its best rewards) that it is in our own Colonies, under the protection of his own Government, and the religion, laws, and language, to which he has b^^en accustomed from his birth, that he is to look for the greatest hope of success a'^d happiness. Yes, under that protection held out to the encouragement of his industry and the supply of his wants, whether it be shown in the protective and discriminating duties so justly due and so kindly afforded to his labour in the forest and the produce of his agriculture, or in the minimum of duty laid on the manufactures of his native country, which are still so necessary to his comforts. To such men, the healthy and fertile Eadern Townships of Lower Canada, are now about to be opened ; and they should know also, that, in respect of freedom from taxation, and liberality of institutions, the British Provinces of America offer advantages far superior to those of the United States. They should receive with caution, also, some of the tales of high wages in the United States; where, occasionally, wo hear of mechanics earning 7s. or Ss. a day, and labourers 4s. or 5s. ; whilst at this time, letters from Canada will give for the same 4s. and 5s., and 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. The fact is, that the doWnx is divided into eight shillings in the State of New York, and into five only in Canada, and^ consequently, the real state of wages is the same in both. Lord Brougham, in his work on Colonial Policy, has said In statesman-like style — " In respect to capital taken from the Mother Country to the Colonies, it is not withdrawn from the empire — it continues to support the productive industry of the community, and, besides improving an integral though remote part of the state, it directly employs and maintains part of the home planta> tion transplanted thither." " May we presume to hope, that the Colonial story of Great Britain will exhibit to future statesmen a useful picture of the advantages which may fairly be expected from just views of provincial Government, which shall consider tJie parts of an empire, however situated, as members of the same political body." It is, indeed, in this point of view that Colonies ought to be considered, viz. as integral parts of the state — merely as the most distant provinces of its proper territory ; and when it is considered that the expense of reaching our North American Colonies is not more than visiting the remote parts of Scotland and Ireland, the truth of the position must be conceded. It is, therefore, fit and proper that full protection should be afforded to our Colonial pos- sessions, as distinguished from foreign countries. This is the policy that not only enabled Great Britain to baffle the united i 6 efforts of Europe to erase her name from the list of nations, but to raise herself superior to them all. And if this policy is firmly con- tinued, we may still exclaim in the words of our national anthem,— Still more miyestic shalt thou rise. More dreadful from each foreign stroke ; As the rude blast that rends the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. Mr. Gould's address was received with repeated cheers, and after various questions had been answered from the Chair, the following Resolutions were unanimously carried. I. That the Report now read be approved and adopted. II. That the Memorandum of Agreement containing the terms of the sale proposed to be made by His Majesty's Government to the Company, be accepted, and that the Chairman of this Court be authorized to sign the Memorandum on behalf of the Company. III. That the Court of Directors do proceed in procuring the Charter ; and, if necessary, the Act of Parliament. IV. That John Peter Boileau, jun. Esq. be elected a Director in the place of Mr. Sinclair. V. That thanks be presented to the Court of Directors for their long continued and assiduous exertions, by which the negociation with His Majesty's Government has been brought to a favorable conclusion. Primed by W. J. Rurrv, 29, Budge Row, Walbrook. B*t ! H-' 1 I 1 •t a- 2 1 4 2 01- 1 \ai \ 4:fV|- \ 1 I \ 1-' •■■•W»-.M.«. iWtl STATISTICAL RETVBJrS of the COUIfTISS OF SHVrrOllD, STAN8TEAB, AND SBSl«EtOOK] N. li. About One Fourth more may he added under the vrious headi COINTIES AND TOWNSIIII'S. I. COUNTY OF SHEFFOIID. Ill IMI. SliefTord .. Stiikely .. Milton .. Kiy liranby .. Brome .. Farriham Total. 5087 \.B. The Township of Roxlon was unset' lied at the time the Returns were made. II. COUNTY OF STANSTEAD. Hatley ... Barnston Barfortl .., Stanstead Bolton ... Potton .. 1600 2221 84 4226 1170 1005 Total 10,306 III. COUNTY OF SHERBROC K Eaton Comp^on . Ascot Dudswell . Clifton .... Hereford . Orford .... Brompton . Shipton — Melbourne . Windsor.... Westbury . Newport . Total. ilJ5 242 70 171 230 248 1313 864 129 67 120 7104 POPULATION. Fiiinilliii .il'lUiil " .1''"''.'" .iiRwinii Milhisleiuv ITopirly. ,V' "^ ' , Trad.-. hy Not Kiirm ' ScrviiiiU. )()2 2J)4 10 177 109 3 331 140 65 101 264 12 351 50 1!2 3 12 2 1 825 879 23 106 149 6 21 15 31 88 89 19 4 19 59 97 62 20 8 14 23 5 72 54 4 8 21 22 34 1 o 20 1 19 12 3 788 I 39 2 18 30 2 2 10 24 65 10 17 54 126 Ml 208 125 43 11 •i 1 8 35 131 121 20 12 22 43 14 11 29 4 4 684 411 135 90s 175 1176 135 51 5 165 1 1 11 388 48 14 — 57 11 148 16 12 — 28 — 25 ,'} — — 5 797 88 4() 1 122 I I2.J9 150 167 ._) 197 9 1314 !'20 104 '> 214 8 PROPERTY. Acre" of Lniiil 0(Vll)lli'(l, Acre* of I.niv' IniprovutU 20.824 8,658 4,450 920 13,870 22,905 '>2,338 7610 2062 357 192 2493 6005 4673 95,764 23,3J)2 S.H 12 20 .32,238 37,228 3,325 6.5,918 31,485 22,785 10,702 10,451 179 24,695 6,919 4,489 192,979 18,680 22,557 18,.392 5,299 1,601 3,273 1,429 4,061 18,086 12,817 3,225 1,127 3,265 11.3,816 57,433 12,026 7,359 5,746 1,105 459 1,012 569 1,.351 .5,215 4,153 830 330 960 274 374 16 689 1.98 177 1726 165 129 176 46 14 35 aG 160 143 23 12 24 5 9 1 10 5 9 4 5 8 5 39 23 6 4 2 3 2 o 4 1 3 2 3 3 8 5 3 7 Jl 1 13 6 4 10 22 ! 42 2 1 41,113 999 19 13 10 14 7 4 4 2 o 5 6 2 31 -V.5. The other TovmsUps of this County mere unsettled at the time the Returns were made. tloiimi liihttbiU'tl. lllMIHOtl HuilttinK. llnUMM Vacant. Tttvcrni. Oriit Milla .Saw Mill*. riiag Canting Milln. 1 186 5 4 2 2 4 1 1 ; 62 *"" 1 — 1 1 « I 28 — — — 1 — — — 5 — 1 — 1 — .. — . , 134 1 — 2 1 3 1 __ 217 — — 4 5 i 222 — — 2 2 6 1 ' m •OOKSf Extracted from the General Statistical Returns of LOWBR CANADA, laid before the Legislature. under the virions heads, for increase, since the Returns were made. IWII T. 1 PRODUCE, (liushela.) STOCK. EDUCATION] t Mlllii Saw Mills. 1 iif Carding MilU. (ilhcr ni«tlllcri«i Aaherlci. Maiuifiio tiirici. Wheat. Uau. Uarlcy. Pcaw. Rye. InUiar I'om. Uuck Wheat POUtOM, CMtle. Honm. Shtcv- llogi. SchouU. Scholan. 2 1 1 1 1 4 4 1 3 5 6 1 1 S 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 1 2140 957 286 120 1756 2868 2507 1247 1203 78 94 576 3083 1470 112 135 15 35 45 313 34 SO 11 129 451 612 1000 242 90 1354 3398 1253 3,'J95 7*7 .ISS B8 44D3 7052 7716 163 7 8 84 233 S95 24,003 j 184 13,990 610 1,721 1 103 540 , 47 14,705 ;! 597 33,5m I 1432 22,875 1327 1 178 60 13 2 50 200 222 1 1 1836 1095 76 55 679 1974 1654 1 430 140 43 10 261 721 752 ' 8 2 2 5 ,1 294 1 48 , 58 192 160 196 12 20 5 4 4 1 10 2 10,637 7751 411 1580 11,192 22,934 971 111,400 51.'}2 715 7373 2347 27 862 3 3 8 5 3 ,1 1 IS 6 4 2 1 4 2 1 1 2 2 1 (> 10 2 2 11 1 4 1 4 7 5,756 8,824 220 12,763 3,113 2,189 7,797 10,700 40 30,792 2,415 2,034 91 40 674 20 106 1090 1610 3301 560 282 1493 2923 9G 2912 2445 1716 io,';68 !?,-i63 Si65 20,!l*0 3,709 5,781 207 25 23 571 53,060 100,895 1,700 : 196,556 1 32,691 27,194 i 2425 2601 m 6281 1538 1006 423 366 1 1209 248 160 3654 4176 26 8794 2564 1370 1538 2094 37 4016 860 778 14 17 33 8 6 559 668 1179 324 199 22 ! 42 9 6 19 21 12 32,865 53,778 1827 6343 15,585 50, ire 816 412,096 1 1.3,917 2407 20,584 9323 78 3017 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 7 4 4 2 2 1 5 6 2 1 1 2 1 1 4 2 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 4211 5425 2768 1144 369 950 135 749 3122 2822 413 320 718 5722 5913 3786 1273 274 470 335 1525 3961 1945 876 120 723 473 286 G3 13 iO 14 64 150 20 21 10 425 ()39 282 137 58 75 28 10 293 873 1 20 69 2218 2071 1130 234 97 269 73 828 2297 459 294 130 444 V\3 5! 66 2}-05 456 51 S65 118 14)0 2:M5 1757 ii79 79 1S2 37 35 38 8 223 20 20 36,720 '■ 49,180 i 34,593 8,800 ,3,100 7,080 3,890 9,190 38,236 23,470 6,730 1,360 5,400 1.534 1938 1000 292 103 280 m 286 1140 946 235 m 220 250 340 2.56 49 13 29 50 60 219 154 22 8 28 2349 2584 1288 497 147 364 5 421 1634 1319 265 119 330 673 1298 662 197 47 132 1 52 181 821 677 142 47 95 6 10 5 2 3 6 6 1 220 312 265 40 96 248 188 25 14 31 1 4 7 8 1 23,146 26,223 1179 2410 10,644 17,244 331 227,749 8100 1478 10,982 5031 39 1 1394 p ;.? fi !! {. I I lI ^ I I I.BTTBAS \ 1 I FUOM THE EASTERir TOWNSHIPS OP X.OWER CANADA, Containing Information, respecting the Country, which will be useful to Emigrants. Eoctracts of a Letter from Dr, Wilson^ late ofRipon, in York- shire i to Mrs. Georfrc Coatcs^ of Rijmn, Shcrhroolce, Lower Canada, 21th January, 1 83 1. We are now in the depth of a Cunatlian winter. During the last week there has been severer cold than is recollected by the oldest inhabitant. The river Magog, which is in tliis village a foaming cataract, is frozen across just below the falls — an event which very rarely occurs. The scale of my thermometer is not marked sufficiently low to show, with accuracy, such an extreme of temperature ; but I consider that it has been nearly at 50 de- grees below the freezing point. Notwithstanding this rigour of climate, we are all comfortable, even in a house built of wood and plastering. This is to be attributed to the use of stoves, heated by wood, the only article of fuel supplied by this province. Out of doors, a very moderate degree of exercise overcomes the sensa- tion of cold. So bright and dry is the atmosphere, that unless there is a violent wind, a slight exertion produces a healthy glow upon the skin, from which perspiration readily ensues. My boys are in a state of great enjoyment, the polished face of the earth supplies them with constant diversion; and the chopping of wood, for our fires, is for them a wholesome exercise, and a useful employment. The snow is now so well tracked, that tra- velling is very easy and pleasant, when the cold is not too great. Provisions are, at this season, very abundant; the animals fatted during vegetation, are all killed at the setting in of winter : their carcases immediately freeze and become as hard as marble. In this state they are carried, in large quantities, on sleighs, through the country, and sold at a moderate price. Whole bullocks and sheep, at 2d. and 3d. per lb. hogs, 4d. to 6d. At this time, also, farmers bring their wheat for sde. The late season was wet and unfavourable ; and, from the failure of the crop of Indian corn I I \yhent is in pfreut dcmntid. In general, the price docs not exceed ()9. per Imshcl, but it is now 7s. (id. Geese and turkies, also, come to us by dozens, all stiff vi'jl*. Tost, at Is. to Is. (id. each, an I foM l8 at Is. per couple. Tea sells at 28. lUl to 49 (id. per lb. Sugar, inade in this country from the maple, from lid. to ()d. per lb. Articles of clothing, of British manufacture, can be had in Quebec or Montreal, sometimes lower than at the retail shops in England. I have taken my present house, for a year, from July. Since I arrived here, I have travelled about in the District, and have penetrated a few miles into the United States, the frontier being about 30 miles from hence. I have seen many fanns, and heard of many more to be sold on moderate terms. The country be- tween this and the lines is, in general, better settled ; and, conse- (|uently, more fit for European inhabitants than that towards the north. Innumerable farms are here offered at prices within the reach of small capitalists. The mere wreck or scattered fragments of many an English farmer would supply him with a farm, stock, and im- plements all his own ; and enable him to look upon his family, not with anxious and painful doubt, but as a certain source of help and comfort. The farms usually contain from 100 to .'{50 acres, having house, barns, &c. of woo:^'tr '"^