LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1849.
F. Shoberl, Jnr. Printer to H.R.H Prince Albert, Rupert Street.
Emigrants And Immigration
The Emigrant and his Prospects
A Journey to the Westward
The French Canadian
Penetanguishene—The Nipissang Cannibals, and aFriendly Brother in the Wilderness
Barrie and Big Trees—A new Capital of a new District—Nature'sCanal—The Devil's Elbow—Macadamization and
Mud—Richmond Hill without the Lass—The Rebellionand the Radicals—Blue Hill and Bricks
Toronto and the Transit—The Ice and its innovations—Siegeand Storm of a Fortalice by the Ice-king—Newark,
or Niagara—Flags, big and little—Views of American andof English Institutions—Blacklegs and Races—Colonial
high life—Youth very young
The old Canadian Coach—Jonathan and John Bull passengers—"ThatGentleman"—Beautiful River, beautiful
drive—Brock's Monument—Queenston—Bar and Pulpit—Trottinghorse Railroad—Awful accident—The Falls once
more—Speculation—Water Privilege—Barbarism—Museum—Loafers—Tulip-trees—Rattlesnakes—The Burning Spring—Setting fireto Niagara—A charitable Woman—The Nigger's Parrot—John Bullis a Yankee—Political Courtship—Lundy's Lane Heroine—Welland Canal
The Great Fresh-water Seas of Canada
Emigrants and Immigration.
Very surprising it seems to assert that the Mother Country knows verylittle about the finest colony which she possesses—and that anenlightened people emigrate from sober, speculative England, sedate andcalculating Scotland, and trusting, unreflective Ireland, absolutely andwholly ignorant of the total change of life to which they mustnecessarily submit in their adopted home.
I recollect an old story, that an old gunner, in an old-fashioned,three-cornered cocked hat, who was my favourite playfellow as a child,used to tell about the way in which recruits were obtained for the RoyalArtillery.
The recruiting sergeant was in those days dressed much finer than anyfield-marshal of this degenerate, railway era; in fact, the Horse Guardsalways turned out to the sergeant-major of the Royal Military Academy ofWoolwich, when that functionary went periodically to the Golden Cross,Charing Cross, to receive and escort the young gentlemen cadets fromMarlow College, who were abandoning the red coat and drill of thefoot-soldier to become neophytes in the art and mystery of great gunneryand sapping.
"The way they recruited was thus," said the bombadier. "The gallantsergeant, bedizened in copper lace from the