. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. i'(l ''''I \ .^'i'''!- •!;li''i|: r'.«?:? '8 Mm\ 134 ON EMIGRATION TO THE witli ladies who liad accompan
. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. i'(l ''''I \ .^'i'''!- •!;li''i|: r'.«?:? '8 Mm\ 134 ON EMIGRATION TO THE witli ladies who liad accompanied their husbands under the trying circumstances above stated, and who, with a f( eling of duty and sympathy congenial to the sex, souglit to supj)ort them under misfortune; while her acquaintance was with the wives of officers who had come out under the more illusory expectations of gayety and good fortune. There remains still another class, small in number, yet gradually increasing, of men who possess consider- able ca])ital, and who seek to employ it with advantage. From the scarcity of money profits are high, but great activity, caution, and judgment are requisite in order to secure them. Some have carried on agriculture on an extensive scale. Mr Philemon Wright, for in- stance, near Bytown on the Ottawa, has cleared 3000 acres, employs 03 labourers, makes 1100 tons of hay, and has 750 acres in grain and roots. The Messrs M'Donell of Gananoqui, too, cultivate a farm of 1200 acres ; and these examples seem sufficient to refute the assertion of some that in Canada farming cannot be un- dertaken unless on the very smallest scale. At the same time the circumstances already mentioned will render it difficult, and in most cases impracticable, to go beyond tlie extent on which our calculation was foraied. A large capital with a view to procure wealth must be employed chiefly in mercantile transactions. In the cities such busi- ness is conducted nearly as elsewhere ; but in the
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