Canada and the British immigrant

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Emily Poynton Weaver. Canada and the British immigrant

PREFATORY NOTE

I. WHY CANADA IS BRITISH

II. THE DOMINION OF CANADA

III. CONFEDERATION

IV. LANDS AND THE PEOPLE

V. INDUSTRIES AND TRANSPORT

VI. THE OLD PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA

VII. NEW BRUNSWICK, THE LAND OF THE ST. JOHN

VIII. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

IX. QUEBEC AND ITS EASTERN TOWNSHIPS

X. ONTARIO, ONCE “CANADA WEST”

XI. MANITOBA, OLD AND NEW

XII. SASKATCHEWAN, THE WHEAT PROVINCE

XIII. ALBERTA: WHERE PRAIRIES AND MOUNTAINS MEET

XIV. BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE PACIFIC PROVINCE

XV. THE YUKON AND NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES

XVI. THE MAN WHOM CANADA NEEDS

XVII. THE WOMAN CANADA NEEDS

XVIII. HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS

APPENDIX

NOTE A. List of Dominion and Provincial Officials who will give Information about Canada

NOTE B. Synopsis of Dominion Land Regulations

NOTE C. Requirements as to Money Immigrants must have in Possession on Landing

NOTE D

Cost of Passage and Baggage Allowance

Salvation Army Tickets Covering Cost of Bed and Food on Rail at Inclusive Rates

NOTE E “Settlers’ Effects Duty Free.”

NOTE F. Young Women’s Christian Associations Directory, etc

NOTE G. British Equivalent of Canadian Money

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By the very writing of this book, I am in a measure offering myself as a guide to any prospective immigrant choosing to avail himself of my services. It is well, therefore, to explain that I myself came out from England, a good many years ago, as one of a large family, to settle in Canada, and so know something at first hand, of the difficulties, the trials and the pleasures that await the newcomer in the attempt to “make good” under unfamiliar circumstances.

My father had had no previous experience of farming, but fortunately one of my brothers had had a little training on a Cheshire farm. We settled ourselves on a good-sized farm in a fertile district of Ontario, and there we had an experience probably broadly resembling that of many new arrivals—sometimes amusing, sometimes vexatious, or worse. Of course we made some mistakes and had to pay for them; and we took, I am inclined to think, several years really to settle down. But in the end we all “believe in Canada,” though I dare not say we believe in everything we read about Canada.

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Amongst these pioneers laboured missionaries of different denominations, whose experience of toilsome journeys and perils by land and water resembled those of the Apostles. In canoes, on foot or on horseback they tried courageously to serve the needs of parishes that are now counties; and great was the rejoicing when at last some little log-church was built, though it might have no seats but rough boards set on short pieces of tree trunks.

In these years of hardship the courageous spirit and the useful experience of the Loyalists triumphed, and well and truly did they lay the foundation of a new British nation in the north. Some Americans of adventurous turn of mind, but not of their political creed, early found their way into the land; but when in June, 1812, there broke out between the young American Republic and England a war, which had grown out of the struggle of the last-named nation with Napoleon, it was the old spirit of the Loyalists which dominated Canada; and in a long three years’ conflict they again and again beat back the invaders across their frontiers. They were indeed well aided by the French of Lower Canada, and by newcomers from the British Isles; but, whoever might falter, the Loyalists were determined that their new country should remain British.

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