| Title: | Extract From a Letter of a Recent Emigrant to Upper Canada |
|---|---|
| ID | 3936 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1831-40/55 |
| Year | 1836 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) |
| Destination | N.Ireland? |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re emigration |
| Source | The Belfast Commercial Chronicle, Monday February 1st, 1836 |
| Archive | The Linen Hall Library, Belfast |
| Doc. No. | 9410327 |
| Date | 01/02/1836 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:10:1994. |
| Word Count | 372 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Excerpt from a letter of a recent emigrant to upper Canada:- "I trust that such of your friends as may find it necessary to emigrate, will give this upper province the preference. It only wants capital and manual labour (the poor man's capital) to be expended in it, to become one of the finest countries in the world. And now that Government have, I believe, seen their error in keeping up the price of land so high, and have resolved to reduce it, it is said, to one dollar per acre, I hope the tide of emigration will again set in with a stronger current hitherward than ever. I am sorry to say that the great proportion of emigrants from both Great Britain and Ireland during the last season have located in the Under States. I hope, however, this will not longer continue, now that the price of wild land is to be so much reduced. I see Government lands, even in the neighbourhood of Toronto, are now advertised to be sold at the upset price of one dollar per acre, and at several other places at the same rate. Formerly they would not be sold under three, four, or five dollars per acre, according to the local advantages. The American Government sell all their lands, wherever situated or of whatever quality at 1 1/4 dollar per acre, and make the purchasers pay down the whole price at once. Our's give the purchasers five or seven years to pay the price by annual instalments, Charging interest on the arrears. With the exception of the difference of the price of land for some years past, (and that exception is now removed) Canada is immeasurably superior to the United States for emigrants of the British empire to settle in. The soil equal, if not superior, the climate better, and much healthier than most, if not all of the United States - the taxes much less than in the States - and the government to all but democratic Radicals infinitely superior - more midly executed, and Stronger and more powerful in protecting the industrious and peaceable citizen from the outrages of the idle and turbulent. I trust it will be widely circulated at home that the price of wild lands is now so much reduced here." |
