. Canada and its provinces; a history of the Canadian people and their institutions . settlers on the RedRiver caused them to seek another location nearer civiliza-tion than their new home. A number of families left theRed River Settlement for Upper Canada by the old North-West route. The greater number settled in the town-ships of E^t and West Gwillimbury near the shores of LakeSimcoe. A few joined their relatives in the townships ofMarkham and Aldborough. Immigration after the Close of the Napoleonic Wars Several causes contributed to the great influx of settlersto Upper Canada from about 18
. Canada and its provinces; a history of the Canadian people and their institutions . settlers on the RedRiver caused them to seek another location nearer civiliza-tion than their new home. A number of families left theRed River Settlement for Upper Canada by the old North-West route. The greater number settled in the town-ships of E^t and West Gwillimbury near the shores of LakeSimcoe. A few joined their relatives in the townships ofMarkham and Aldborough. Immigration after the Close of the Napoleonic Wars Several causes contributed to the great influx of settlersto Upper Canada from about 1816 or 1817 to 1840. TheWar of 1812 with the United States brought Upper Canadato the attention of the British people. The officers and menof the various regiments, when they reached their homes inthe British Isles, spoke favourably of the climate and re-sources of the province. The debates on the proposedunion of the Canadas in the British parliament in 1822 and1823 brought the upper province still further into publicnotice. The close of the long war with France was the cause of a. TORONTO (1) VIEW OF KING STREET IN 1836 (2) RESIDENCE AND WAGON-MAKERS SHOP NEAR THE CORNER OF KING STREET AND YONGE STREET, 1815 From the JoJin Koss Robertson Collection in the l^oronto Public Library IMMIGRATION AFTER THE NAPOLEONIC WARS 73 large number of persons being thrown out of was a surplus population without any disbanded soldiers, the weavers, the tailors, the shoe-makers, the shipwrights, and others who had been thrown outof work soon became a heavy tax on the country, and theironly hope lay in emigrating. The story of Richard Talbot of the south of Ireland, arelative of the Hon. Thomas Talbot, and of his immigrationto the township of London in Upper Canada is similar tothat of many others in a like situation. When the door ofmilitary preferment was closed against his sons he resolvedto emigrate. He made application to Lord Bathurst for agrant of land in Up
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