General Introduction to Statistical Account of Upper Canada - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822. Excerpt: ... promoting the settlement of Canada having failed, no more encouragement was to be given to emigration. Now, I ask if any means could have been contrived more effectual, for throwing cold water on the spirit of emigration, than this clumsy and expensive plan, especially when followed up with a provincial act, to restrain public liberty. Truly those narrow-minded oligarchs, who would rather see the poor reduced to beggary at home, than permit them to have a safe conduct to America, find in such plans and acts most charming assistants. Let me make this concluding remark, that at the end of the war, there were some people at home who had good wishes to the Settlement of Canada, and that the Prince was quite propitious to the scheme, however ill digested; but that there are other people altogether adverse, and who turn a deaf ear to every correction of error, and every rational proposal of encouraging emigration on great and liberal principles. Those whom I propose as settlers, are farmers with capital, and the real labouring poor of England; but I know not if a single individual, of these classes, has yet seen the province. The farmers will not come to be gagged or imprisoned; and much will their landlords rejoice in their being held back. The real labourers again cannot move for want of means. Those who were brought over in 1815 had to deposit £16. per man at home, for their passage, 8tc. to be repaid at the end of two years; and all who have yet arrived, are people of the same description--people who have been little accustomed to hard work, but who have carried themselves from home with the poor remains of a reduced capital in trade. I trust that by this time some of you have bestowed a little reflection on the proposal of substituting an equalized la...

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