CANADA AND THE BRITISH
IMMIGRANT
FRUIT RANCH AT NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA
CANADA
AND
THE BRITISH IMMIGRANT
BY
EMILY P. WEAVER
Author of
“A Canadian History for Boys and Girls” “Old Quebec: The
City of Champlain” “The Story of the Counties
of Ontario” “The Trouble Man”
Etc., Etc.
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 Bouverie Street and 65 St Paul’s Churchyard EC
MCMXIV
The climate has honest heat in summer and honest
cold in winter. The sun is seldom hidden, and
men see many seasons, and are healthy, strong,
and active.—The Marquis of Lorne, K.T.
PREFATORY NOTE
By the very writing of this book, I am in ameasure offering myself as a guide to any prospectiveimmigrant choosing to avail himself of myservices. It is well, therefore, to explain that Imyself came out from England, a good manyyears ago, as one of a large family, to settle inCanada, and so know something at first hand,of the difficulties, the trials and the pleasures thatawait the newcomer in the attempt to “makegood” under unfamiliar circumstances.
My father had had no previous experience offarming, but fortunately one of my brothers hadhad a little training on a Cheshire farm. Wesettled ourselves on a good-sized farm in a fertiledistrict of Ontario, and there we had an experienceprobably broadly resembling that of many newarrivals—sometimes amusing, sometimes vexatious,or worse. Of course we made some mistakesand had to pay for them; and we took, I aminclined to think, several years really to settledown. But in the end we all “believe inCanada,” though I dare not say we believe ineverything we read about Canada.
After a number of years on the farm, there...