| Title: | Emigration to Canada |
|---|---|
| ID | 3966 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1851-60/12 |
| Year | 1858 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re emigration to Canada |
| Source | The Belfast Newsletter, July 5, 1858 |
| Archive | The Central Library, Belfast |
| Doc. No. | 9807243 |
| Date | 05/07/1858 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 07:07:98. |
| Word Count | 234 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | EMIGRATION TO CANADA - The following observation[s?] are taken from a letter I have just received in Toronto. -A gentleman called upon us the other day with a letter of introduction from the clerk in the - Bank, asking my husband to do what he could for him, I quite felt for the young man. He had been to all the principal firms in Montreal, Quebec, Ottowa [Ottawa?], and Toronto, and could get nothing-positively nothing to do, although he had been in business at home, and was willing to do anything. The North American steamer arrived about the same time as he did, and he told me that 80 of her passengers were so disappointed that they intended to return to England in her. I think it really would be a charity if any one write to dissuade people from coming to Canada. I was told by aman [a man?] of business the other day that in Toronto there are 4,000 or 5,000 unemployed, and respectable young men are obliged to saw wood to get means of subsistence. Farming is not so good as people at home imagine. There are places where you may buy land for the taxes, but in such places no one could do any good. The average price of land about Toronto is œ10 a foot front. About seven or eight years ago a farm might have been bought for a barrel of whiskey. |
