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[" DIRECTORY.] INDIANS AND FISHERIES OF CANADA.2383 THE INDIANS OF CANADA.The Indians in Canada are under the superintendence of she Secretary of State who is the Superintendent General of {ndian affairs, and as such has the control and management of the lands and property of Indians (31 Vic.cap.42, sec.5.) ope persons deemed Indians are: 1.All persons of ludian | blood, reputeil to belong to the particular tribe, band or body of Indians interested in such lands or immoveable property, and their descendants.2.All persons residing among such Indians, whose parents were or are, or either of them wits or is, descended on either side from Indians or an Indian reputed to belong to the particular tribe interested in such jands, and the descendants of all such persons.3.All women lawfully married to any of the persons included in the above classes, the children, issue of such marriages, and their descendants.None but persons decmed Indians are ermitted to settle on Indian lands.The late Secretary of State, Hon.H.L.Langevin, in his port for the year ending 30th June, 1869, thus refers to the Indian department :\u2014 , \u201c1 come now to Indian affairs.and I am happy to say that, thanks to the fatherly protection of the Government, the Indian Iribes in general continue to be in a prosperous condizion.This ortion of the population, as a gencral rule, is incres-ing, or at ast not diminishing.Its members are acquiring a taste for agriculture, nin! seeking to take advantage of the means of education iced within their reach in the schools kept up for their benefit.\u201cIn a pecuninry point of view the tribes in Ontario are much better off than those in the other Provinces, owing to the fact that the land reserved for them originally, that is to say, frum the first establishment.of British Goverument in this Country, were situated in localities highly favored in regard to climate and to fertility of soil.Fhe tribes in Lower Canada, although much less lighly favored in these respects, have, thanks to the turesight of Government, incomes which sev to suilice for their witnts.As for the tribes in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 1 asked for au increased grant for them last year, and {ain of opinion that such a grat willbe absolutely necessary for them, fur several years at east, in order to the maintenance of the schools which are beginning to Le opened among them, aud to the establishment of otfiers for the us.of tribes which have children to send to them.\u201d From the statement of population contained in the official part, it appears that the Indian tribes of Ontario number over 13,000; of Quebee, over 8,500; of Nova Scotia, over 1350; and of New Brunswick, about 2,100.In Prince Edward Island, there are about 350 Indians; in Newfoundland, very few.The most populous tribes in Ontario are the Six Nation Indians on the Grand River, who, in 1869, were estimated at 1810 ; the Chippewas of Lake Huron, estimated at 1,846; the Chippewas of Lake Superior, estimated at 1,263; and the Yanitoulin [stand Indians, estimated at 1,300.The Iroquois, or Six Nution Indians, of Ontario ave chiefly descendants of the Iroquois who adhered to the royal cause during the American Rovolution, and who settled in Upper Canada When the American colonies established their independence.hey obtained a large grant of land on the Grand River.An the Province of Quebee, the largest bodies are the Yiskapces of the Lower St.Lawrence, numbering 2,860, aud te Iroquois of Sault St.Louis, numbering 1,601.In New Brouswick, al Indian Village, fudian Point, posite Fredericton, is located a body numbering about (900.There are also about 400 in Northumberland.The total mount from all sources placed to the credit of Indian Funds during the year ending 30th Jane, wad, wa.R802 lich wy bo placed under the following heads: \u2014 Receipts from Land and Timber.$ 49,028 Interest où Investments.Ju4,427 Annuities and Grants.,.42,020 The ranstor by Government.LL.53,460 The] dyments and Expeuditure amounted to.Lacs 166,333 Wvestment on the Ist July, 1868, bearing interest, MIOUN(Od 10 Loo a ee ea cee 1,804,160 ® mount at the credit of ludian Funds on the 1st y, 188), utter deducting the payments and expen- (tre for the year then concluded, was.0.1,883,962 de wo Act 31 Viet.Cap.42, provides that lands reserved for ™ oe of Tudians may be surrendered by them to the Crown, ve Certain formalities specitied, and the procceds of sale wd for their ben fit.On the 30th June, 1869, the Sores ity of surveyed surrendered lands unsold, was 622,564 and ; The quantity sold during the year was 14,183 acres, the price realized $43,620.li a are about fifty schools for Indian children estab- : lu the Dominion, prince pally in the Provinces of On- © And Quebec.Some of the tenchers are paid out of the Indian Funds ; others are supported by various societies.The number of pupils is about two thousand.Among the functions of the Indian Department are the distribution of seed and agricultüral implements ; the erection of school houses; the relief of the aged and infirm ; and other like acts of charity and assistance.TIE FISHERIES OF CANADA.The Fisheries are now under the control of a Minister of the Dominion\u2014the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.The value of the Fisheries of British America has long been known to maritime powers, and the right of fishing bas on several occasions been regulated by Treaty.The rights of the United States are defined by the first Article of the Convention between Britain and the United States, signed at London on the 20th of October, 1818.This Article gives American fishermen liberty to take fish on the southern Coust of Newfoundland from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, and on the western and northern Coast from Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands; also on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, and on certain of the unsettled coasts; bays, harbours and crecks of Labrador.But the United States expressly renounced all claim \u201cto take, dry or cure fish on or * within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks \u2018or harbors of his Brittanic Majesty's dominions in America, \u201c not included within the above mentioned limits : provided, \u201c however, that the American fishermen shall be admitted to \u2018\u201c enter such bays or harbors for the purpose of shelter, and \u201c of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of \u201c obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever.But \u201c they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying, or curing fish therein, or \u201cin any other manner whatever abusing tbe privileges \u2018 hereby reserved to them.\u201d While the Reciprocity Treaty was in force, the three mile restriction was abandoned ; but it revived on the termination of that Treaty.The Imperial and Colonial Governments, however, in 1865, authorized American vessels to fis within the limits on payment of a license fee of fifty cents per ton.See 31 Vict.cap.61.) This fee (subsequently raised to $2) did not represent by any means the real value of the privilege conceded, vet payment was constantly evaded.The Minister of Marine, in his report for the year ending 30th June, 1869, made the following remarks on this subject : tu \u201cThe continued admission of forcign fishing vessels and fisher- wen to participate in our valnable const fisheries, on paring a nominal license fee, as authorized by the Act of last session of Parlininent, has not operated satisfactorily: the payment of the tee being, in most cases, altogetherevaded.American vessels have Loldly entered into our bays, creeks and harbors, and have nctually crowded out the native fishermen, and fished without any regard to Treaty obligations.The crews of these vessels have, in several instances, created serious disturbances, and committed outrages against the persons and property of fishermen and settlers.Measures are now in course of adoption to preveut the continuance of these vexaiious and illegal intrusions; the system of licensing foreign fishing vessels has been discontinued, and a force of Marine Police is now formed to protect our inshore tisheries, and to guard British fishermen against motestation.\u201c\u201c The materia! wortli and national importance to Canada of the const and inshore tisheries in British A meri: an waters can scarcely be over-estimated.Their produce and eantrol are of especial value to No a Scotia, and that Province might reasonably expect from the union of Colonial interests some accession to the vigor and authority with which our exclusive fishery rights within treaty limits have been already maintained by the authorities of that Province.These rights are based oun public law, und are limited only by troaty stipulations.\u2018Lhe extent to which they are so limited by the Convention of London, dated 20th October, 1818, between Great Britain and the United States, is still in controversy, Great Britain contends that the prescribed limits of three marine miles, as the line of exclusion, should be measured from headland to headland.The United States Government contends that it should te measured from the interior of the bays and sinuosities of the coast.In support of the British view, reference is made as well to the exact ters of the Convention as to the law and practice of nations regarding their sovereign rights and territorial jurisdiction.The legal autho ities on these points are xo clearly and decidedly in tavor ol our interpretation.that Canada may appeal to them with thie utmost contidence, The American Government, on the other hand, claim that an exceptional definition of the limit of a marine leagre running everywhere parallel to the coast line, describing the course of indentation, &e., instead of detining the mouths of bays and other ivdentations by lines drawn across from one headland to another, is forded in the peculiar circumstances of the ense.That as United States citizens had formerly used these inshore fisheries under a favorable construction of certain \u2018liberties\u2019 of fishing accorded to them ty the Tieaty of Penco with Great Britain in 1783, and as the subsequent Conven- 2384 FISIBRIES OF CANADA.[Dominion \u2018 tion of 1818 was an amicable adjustment of differences rowing out of such user, the renunciation of their claim to concurrent privileges in the inshore fisheries, made in the latter Convention, should not be rigidly construed to their entire exclusion, « Sueh is substantially the Fishery Question as it stood at tho time of entering into the Reciprocity Troaty of 1854, and-us it wus revived on the abrogation of that treaty by the United States.«This brief refcrence to the fishery disputo between Great Britain and the United States, and a passing allusion to the considerate measures subsequently adopted, will serve to expluin the attitude which it is at present necessary that Canada should assume.«The Departmental Reports and Minutes of Council, laid before l\u2019arliamout at its last Session, relating to the system of jssuing season licenses to \u2018American fishing vessels on merely nominal terms, prove that Her Mnjesty's Government and the Canadian Lxecutive distinctly provided at the outset that such system should be of temporary duration, and contingent on the mutual adoption, af an early date, of a Treuty of commerce between Great Britain and the United States, This provisional system, adopted in 1865, continued throughout the years 1866 and 1867 with very unsatisfactory results, It proved quite inefficiout, and was equally in flective with regard to the influence it was presumed to exercise towards inducing the United States Government to assist in merging it in some general measure of a permanent and satisfactory nature.The expe.tation of such temperate and moderate measures\u2014if Americans really desired to renew the commercial intercourse which had subsisted in former times between themselves and these Colonies \u2014would lead to, at least, a tolerably satisfactory arrangement of some kind sufficient to obviate any immediate revival of those irritating differences amicably compromised by the reciprocal concessions acceded to in 1864, has not been realized, Mennwhile, great numbers of United States vessels were continually invading our limits even after repeated warnings, and still unfurnished with licen-es.They committed other infrac ions of the treaty of1818\u2014such as frequent- our harbors to transfer cargoes and take supplies.The mas\u2018ers in 1 0 & aly refused to accopt of the proffered licenses, continuing still Weir deliberate infringements.Under all these circumstances, and seeing no deeply impresse lou» condition of things signed has urged that a prospect of any change in American policy, but with the actual injustice which such an anoma- inflicts on our.own fistermen, the under- different course should be pursued,\u2014that the system of licensing these vess 1s, avowedly a provisicual one, aad implying no principle, should be absolutely discontinued.This recommendation has been adopted.The teinporary snd indulgent policy hitherto pursued, will henceforth give place io a definite policy of exclusion, agrecable-to colonial interests and consistent with national dignity and rights.«The undersigned need not enlarge upon the vital and vast importance to the Dominion of Canada of a strict maintenauce of these principles of maritimo jurisdiction and rights of fishery derivable from the parent state.Immense as is the intrinsic value of the exhaustless fisheries which form go large a ortion of our material resources, their rightful control and exc usive use possesses a peculiar value and significance intimately connected with the new condition and prospects of this country.The actual situation and future development of these inshore tisheries acquire if possible additional importance from the selection of a sea-board line of ra lway connecting the Litherto separated Provinces of the British North American Confederation.\u201c 1f these l\u2019ruviuces must in future depend more fully on their own resources, and open new markets for their native products, our attention cannot now be tuo soon turned to the dovelopment of our va-t and valuable fisheries.V'hey should form ihe staple of an extensive and lucrative trade with foreign countries, an with the othr British Colonies.They provide aun im portaut nursery for our seamen, and they afford an inexLaustible eld for the skill and cuergy of your seu-buard populations.They po-sess great specular value to Canada.Tocir exclusive use, theretore, affords these united Provinces such advantages as à young country can1.0 too highly estimate, and should on no account neglect or abandon.\u2019 The correspondence with the Imperial Government on the subject has been printed by order of Parliament, and informs us of what took place after the privilege wus withdrawn.The protection of the fisheries had been assigned to Vice Admiral Mundy, but the British Government represen led that it was highly important that the Dominion should co-operate by sending armed vessels to the fisheries.Accordingly, on the 8th of January, 1870, when the system of granting licenses to foreign vessels was discontinued, it was resolved by the Dominion Government thut six suitable vessels, similur to La Canadienne, in addition to the two vessels then employed, should be equipped for the protection of the inshore fisheries against illegul encroachments by foreigners, these vessels to be connected with the police force of Canada, and to form a marine branch of it.The fishery officers received minnte and detailed instructions as to their duties and jurisdiction.As to mode of measuring the three miles, they were instructed for the present not to interfere with any American fishermen, unless found within three miles of the shore, or within three miles of a line drawn across the mouth of a bay or creek less than (en miles in width.Vessels transgressing were to be warned to depart, and, if they persisted [u remaining, were to be seized.The following are official Statistics of the value of the fish caught by the fishermen of the Provinces: QUEBEC.Ytmup of the Fisheries on the North and South Shores of the River and Gulf of St.Lawrence, from Quebec to Blanc Sablon, and from Point Levi Lo Bay des Chaleurs during the year 1869.\u2019 Summor codilshing, 108,206 cwt., at 5 Autumn codtishing, 33,069 cwt., at.3 Si00.elo Ling, 8,022 burrels, af.RU 5 16110 Mackerel, 8,706 barrels, at.\u2026 10 37,080 Herring, 110,076 barrels, at.3 330,208 Merring (smoked), 600 Loxes, 25 cts \"150 Sardines, 10,7864 barrels, at.#5 53,682 Halibut, 461 barrels, at.5 \u2019 2,305 Salmon, 3,9484 barrels, at.18 63.18) Trout, 108} barrels, nt.10 1,085 Sturgoon, 859 barrels, at Cees 5 1,845 Lels, 109,985 fish, at $10 perewt.eine 19,898 Cod, tongues and sounds, 287 barrels, at.&7 2,009 Seal oil, 88,811 gallons, nt.0e.80 cts 43.048 Whale oil, 373 gallons, at .80 cts.\u2018208 Porpoise oil, 2,029 gallons, at 60 cts.1217 Cod oil, 103,018 gallons at.BD cts 51,509 Haddock, 1,372 barrels, at.#56 6 360 Bar and whitefish, 3,932, at #2 per doz.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\"655 Mixed fish, 3903 barrels.at.$4 1,562 Shad; 26,987 fish, at 10 cents à piece.s.\u2026\u2026020.2,698 T'uuny, 2 barrels, at.10 Fis », ured as manure, 41,642 barrels, 10,410 Too irnannenenee enon.$1,046,240 Tota, Owing to the want of reliable statistics, the yield and value of the River and Inland Fisheries in those departments of the Province of Quebec, west of thie city of Quebec, cannot be determined with any degree of accuracy; but the value per annum may be safely estimated at about $100,000 for commerce and local consumption.NOVA SCOTIA, RuwTUrN of the Number of Vessels engaged in the Fisheries in the Province of Nova Scotia, during the year 1869, together with the yield and value of Fish caught.17 (1 DP 17,667 (Eels ooo Whale Boats 3668 Trout.SKiffs, Be.3,798 Hullibut Sail Boats.819 Codiish.je Vessels.635 Scalefish .cwt.27,189 Tonnage.21,656 Shad.bris, 6,188 Salmon \u2026.\u2026brls.x 8,714 Smelts.\u2026.tons, 62 Mackerel .bris.46,676 Salmon.cans.52,400 Herrings .bris.133,983 Lobster .cans, 83,000 Smoked Herrings.brls.12.185 Oil .2200000000 gals, 32895 Alewives.bris.9,182 Value.$2,601,607 Fish Roe.brls 443 NEW BRUNSWICK.Return of the number of Vessels engaged in the Fisheries in the Provinceqof New Brunswick, during the year 1869, together with the yield and value of Fish caught.Men, oon iiiieaen ne 1,901 Flouuders.bris Vessels.ere 38 Bass.'.3.Boatd .ooinin 750 Haddock .J Canoes .139 Hake.ts Lew Tonnaga.coven veers 765 Pollock.J salmon, fiegh,,.No, 19841 Shad.,No Salmon, in tins.lbs.782,890 Herrings, in boxes.166,094 Salmon, smoked.\u2026 .No.852 Lohsters.\u2026 Ibs 23,100 Gaspereaux.\u2026.brls.7,600 Oysters.Ids.oo Alewives.bris.2,610 Oil.000000- ls 65 Herrings bris.62,813 l\u2019omace .- HORS, 458 Coufish\u201d\u2026 owt, 17,924 Value, ees $ 633.570 Mackerel.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.Lrls.2,78 York, Queens, Nork.\u2014In tho counties of Victoria, Carleton, local Sunbury, and Kings, the only fishcries pursued are-those for consumption, None are exported, and no returns of catch coul be made, In St.Jo nn county, although u large quantity of ich 0 various kinds are taken and exporled, 1t was found impractical \u20ac to get returns, ns large quantitics of fish come from {he north share by ruil, and sre shipped to the United States, per steamer, ONTARIO.The official returns for Ontario are imperfect, and no totals are given; but the returns of value {or the various stations amount, for 1869, only to about $200,000, which is evidently far below the real value of the fish canght.The largest Jie is assigned to the Lake lluron and Georgian Buy divisions from Vhessalon river to Penctanguishene, in whieh 360 he are employed, and the velue is estimated at $32,031.fish were principally white fish, trout, and pickerel.\u201cThe total expenses of the Fishery service for ending 30th June, 1869, were $31,640; collections $13,583.The total amount of license fees, 1 American vessels in 1869 wus only $2,104 for 1866, (including P.B.Island,) it was $13,016, fo This shows the evasion of payment of license foes prac before the privilege was withdrawn.the year for licenses issued 95 vessels.for 454 vessels: tis and the actual to - In | DIRECTORY.PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.FINANCES.The latest accounts printed give the receipts and expenditure of the Province for the nine months ending 30th September, 1869.The Receipts for the nine months were $3,061,611.12; the balance on hand at the beginning of the yenr was $344,049.37, making a total of $2,405,660.49.Phe Payments for the nine months were $1,088,806.74.The Investments in Dominion Stock, and Debentures, and Special Deposits amounted to the large sum of $1,205,675.73, leaving a balance of cash on hand of $111,178.02.These figures indicate a prosperous financial condition.The largest item of revenue was that received from the Dominion Government on account of subsidy and gerderal account, &c., $1,225,912.80.* Crown Lauds yielded $407,- 526.76, and other territorial revenue, from Clergy Lands, Common School Lands, and Grammar School Lands $191, 827.62.These are the principal sources of Provincial revenue.The expenditure is distributed under the following among other heads ;\u2014Civil Government about $100,000; Administration of Justice about $200,000 ; Education about $300,000; Public Works and Buildings about $180,000; Agriculture about $60,000, &c.AGRICULTURE, IMMIGRATION, &c.The departments of Agriculture and Immigration are under the direction of .a Commissioner, who is a member of the Local Government and has also charge of Public Works.The Commissioner reports that the Agricultural and Arts Act, 23 amended, is working in as satisfactory a manner as could be expected.Considering the large number of Agri- altural Societies in the Province, each Electoral Division having one, and also most of the older settled townships comprising no inconsiderable variety of soils, climate an other conditions, it must require both time and experience to frame a law equally adapted to the wants of every section.The Commissioner observes that the theory on which their Provinciæi agricultural legislation is based stems to be this :\u2014a mutual relation between what may be termed the three different grades of societies recognized by the statute, as a means of mutual help for the accomplishment of a common object, the advancement of the agricul- tral and other industrial interests of the Province.With nference to exhibition purposes, according to this view, township societies should select the best of their stock and other articles for the show of the county society with which they are connected, and from the latter the choicest pro- fictions should be sent to the great Annual Provincial Exhibition.One or two points, adds the Commissioner, brought out in the reports from the Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, May be instanced as indicative of progress.There is evi- ently an increasing desire for the union of two or more Societies, for the purpose of getting up a respectable and Useful exhibition.We cannot probably have too many fodieties ; one even in every township may do a good work, a Certainly there has been a tendency to have too many Mows, Valuable and even essential in some circumstances these may be, they are not, as some would seem to think, Werything.Agricultural organizations should aim at : Coming mutual improvement societies, by diffusing popular useful knowledge on the subjects they embrace, by ding meetings for discussing them, by making experi- as and carefully recording their results, and by cir- Woks 5 among their members agricultural papers and ho s, of which, happily, there is, in the present day, no tint Another noticeable feature, in some of the reports, is ler OWs are dispensed with for one or more years, in iraq, &ccumulate funds for improving live stock, and vari ee) for purposes of trial, new and improved Ces of seeds.It may be further observed, as a mark ee sTess, that an increasing desire appears to exist to a i Permanent grounds and buildings, and convenient Pinces for holding shows, charging the public a small ISsion fee, .+ The umount of gubsidy to which Ontario is entitled is not yet foot Psy Ascertained.The calculation is ns follows :\u2014 Stang ou in 1861 1,896,091 at 80 cts.$1,116,872.80 or legislative expenses .80,000.00 $1,196.872.80 F ; oo this will have to be deducted annually a sum of about thy Union\" terest on debt for which the Province is liable under 7 Act.[See FINANOEB, Province of Quebec.] GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO.2385 MECHANICS\u2019 INSTITUTES.The number of Mechanics\u2019 Institutes that are qualifying to receive legislative aid, to the extent of one dollar for every dollar subscribed by the institutes, is rapidly increasing.In 1868 the number was thirteen, receiving $1,610 ; in 1869 the number wag 26 receiving $3,307, Evening \u2018class instruction at these Institutes is obtaining wider interest.Classes in English grammar and composition, arithmetic and mathematics, bookkeeping and penmanship, ornamental and mechanical drawing, chemistry, and French, are now in successful operation in some of these institutions: while classes in modelling, etc, are being organized.FRUIT GROWING.The Fruit Growers\u2019 Association meets every year at various places, receives reports and holds discussions on fruit culture.These meetings are well adapted to impart sound practical information on this interesting department of horticulture, and to cultivate a taste for improvement in a pursuit highly conducive to health and enjoyment.Few things tend more to impart beauty and pleasure to country life than surrounding dwellings with fruit trees, and the necessary amount of ornamental planting to afford them protection.If this principle were more generally carried out, country scenery would become far more picturesque and attractive than it often is, and rural homes, thus pleasantly situated, would gather round them associations emivently conducive to the culture of refined tastes, and the quiet enjoyment of domestic life.It can now, says the Commissioner, be no longer a question that the southwestern portion of the Province, at least, is well adapted to the growth of many of the finer kinds of fruit, not only such as apples, pears and plums, but also grapes, peaches and cherries, which, when properly cultivated on suitable soils, can, in ordinary seasons, be brought to perfect maturity.THE PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION.The Provincial Agricultural Association was organized in 1846, and from a very small beginning it has, for some years past, assumed a magnitude of great import ance.Its main object is the encouragement of agriculture» horticul - ture, manufactures, the mechanical and fine arts, by holding an annual exhibition.The number of articles entered in the various departments has of late been five to upwards of seven thousand, and from ten to more than twelve thousand dollars have been annually awarded in prizes.This Association is governed by a Council, chosen by the County Societies throughout the Province.~The Legislature gives an annual grant of ten thousand dollars to this body for assisting them in the prosecution of their important objects The subjoined table indicates the progress of the Provincial Exhibition from its commencement to the present time :\u2014 Total amn\u2019t| Tot offered in Noa Total amp\u2019t PLAOE AND YEAR.prizes.|Entries.| &Warded.Toronto, 1846.RER $1600 1150 11 Hamilton, 1847.cee 1600 1 0 Cobourg, 1848.8100 1500 2300 Kingston, 1849.5600 1429 2800 Niagara, 1850.5106 1638 3490 Brockville, 1851 5017 1466 3223 Toronto, 1852.5916 8048 4913 Hamilton, 185 6410 2820 5298 London, 1854.7178 2933 5427 Cobourg, 1856 9216 TT 6941 Kingston, 185 9238 8791 6799 Brantford, 1857 10071 4327 S186 Toronto, 1858 10700 562 9215 Kingston, 1859 10618 4830 8067 Hamilton, 1860 15015 7532 12 London, 1861.2031 6242 10188 Toronto, 1862.12086 6319 10722 Kingston, 1868 11866 4726 9166 Hamilton, 1864 12559 6392 1 London, 1865 .13433 7221 11086 Toronto, 1866.12712 6279 10288 Kingston, 1867.18781 4825 9311 Hamilton, 1868.13804 6620 11120 The Commissioner of Agriculture refers with great satisfaction to the last great annual exhibition of the results of provincial industry which took place in the city of London Ont.The live stock gave undoubted evidence that Ontario 43, both in its pastures and climate, admirably calculated to 15¢ 2386 GENERAL IN FORMATION-\u2014ONTARIO.[Donvion advance this department of husbandry, while the superior quality of the different grains as clearly indicated its adaptability to arable culture.The horticultural productions afforded ocular disproof of the erroneous notion that the climate is unsuited to the production of the choicer kinds of fruits and vegetables.In the mechanical department, the show was particularly interesting nnd suggestive, and unmistakably indicated the great progress made of late by mechanics in improving their implements and mu- chines, and adapting them to the special wants of agrieul- turists and manufacturers.In the arts and manufacturing departments, similar proofs of progress were apparent, happily combining the ôrnamental with the useful, the latter predominating as is befitting a young country, but not to the injury or exclusion of the former.DRAINAGE, The Commissioner concludes his report by some useful remarks respecting drainage.Farms in exposed or swampy situations suffer from the excessive moisture and early frosts.The true remedy must be found in drainage, which raises the temperature of the air and soil, several degrees, by diminishing evaporation, the great source of cold.By rendering the land both drier amd warmer, its cultivation hocomes easier and cheaper, an earlier and better seed hed is proenred in the spring, followed by an earlier and better harvest in autumn, In Kent and some adjacent counties, advantage has already been taken of the provisions of the recent Drainage Act, and considerable tracts of land, formerly not only worthless but positively injurious, have been relieved of stagnant water, and are rapidly becoming highly productive.The greatly increased wmount of immigration has considerably relieved the wants of farmers and others in various parts of the Province, Nevertheless, says the Commissioner, there have been whole sections where the supply of labor has come far short of the demand.This state \u2018of things will probably continue, to a greater or less extent, for a long time to come, As new clearances are made in the country, villages will be formed, and a demand for more labor of various kinds will arise.The progress made of late in agricultural mechanics has been of a most hopeful and gratifying character.Tools and machines of improved construction and of superior workmanship are being extensively manufactured in the Province ; thus abridging and lightening both human and animal labor, and increasing and cheapening production at the same time.The total appropriations for the encouragement of Agriculture and Arts in 1869, were as follow :\u2014 Electorul Division Societies, T8 at $700 51,100 Do 1 at $550.550 Do 7 at $350 2,450 Fruit Growers\u2019 Associntion.350 Agricultural and Arts Association.10,000 Mechanics\u2019 Institutes.vue ovine een eens 4,000 $8,450 of which the sum of $898.59 was not expended.In addition to the above information from the Commissioner\u2019s Report, we extract portions of a pamphlet issued by the Government of Ontario, containing full information respecting the soil, agriculture, &c., of the Province.AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION.There are in Ontario upwards of three hundred socicties organized according to law, for the promotion of agriculture, horticulture, and the mechanical arts, principally by holding annual exhibitions for public competition in their several localities.In addition to the large sums raised by members\u2019 subscriptions, the Government encourage their efforts by an annual grant amounting, on the whole, to nearly seventy thousand dollars.different societies in proportion to the amount which cach raise, respectively.The stimulus thus given to agricultural improvement generally has induced, of late years, several enterprising farmers to import from Britain pure bred animals of the Short-horn, Hereford, Devon, and other breeds, at an immense expense ; and this may be said also of horses, sheep and swine, so that the Province now contains a large amount of breeding stock of the highest character and value.The high position which the Province of Ontario occupies both in the Dominion of Canada, and the North American This large sum is given to the \u2014_\u2014 Continent in relation to agricultural and industrial progress ; generally, is largely to be ngeribed to the very liberal man- ver in which public aid has been brought Lo second indivi.dunl and voluntar ey(Tort.In a new country it is exceedingly difficult to estimate the average yield of crops in the absence of relinble data and ns the condition oF the land in regard to cullivation and the means of the settler are much diversified, so also as w consequence, is the acreable amount of produce.Wheat both winter and spring, after proper preparation, may in ordinury years be estimated at 20 to 30 bushels an acre, hut from imperfect culture and other causes, the yicld is frequently less, while in other instances of w more favorable character it is more.Barley is now extensively cultivated und is a very remunerative crop, and the same remark wil uly to peas, which are generally, like tlre two former, of excellent quality.Outs, in moist seasons, yield abundantly and Indian corn sucecedg in all the warmer districts, The south-western portion of the Province contains soils of a similar character to those of the celebrated German Valley in the opposite State of New York, and are remarkable for producing the finest varicties of winter wheat, The midge, which in some sections has of late years been very wischievous, seems now to be generally subsiding.Potatoes, turnips, mangels, carrots, &c., are extensively cultivated \u2018as field crops in the older settled sections, and in ordinary seasons, after good cultivation they yield abundantly.Of late years, more attention hasbeen given to the dairy, whereby both cheese and butter have been greatly increased in quantity, and improved.in quality.Cheese making, on what is termed the \u201cFactory System,\u201d\u2014that is, a number of farmers co-operating in one neighbourhood in supporting\u2019 a common dairy\u2014has been extensively emried out in several parts of the Province with very sutisfactory results, , Flax culture has recently heen added to the other numerous branches of Canadian industry, and is found to bea remunerative crop.At present there are some sixty scutch | mills in the country, many of them at work and doing & profitable business.Prices of fibre prepared and ready for market will command from $290 to $325 per ton of 2,000 bs.net, and seed from $2 to $2.50 per bushel of 56 Ibs, The produce of the latter will average from 8 to 12 bushels per acre.White, clean scutched flax of good quality will produce from 200 to 800 lbs.weight per acre.The demand for fibre in the American market far exceeds the supply at the above prices, and this scason the quantity sown will be largely increased.: Hemp, tobacco, and sugar heel can also be profitably | raised in Canada.i THE PUBLIC LANDS.Vast traets of uncleared land aro still in the hands of | the Government of Ontario awaiting the advent of the settler.The best locations in a new country are_ usually taken up first; but there are large quantities of wild and inviting the Inbor of the backwoodsmun, which, when cleared and improved, will be equal to not a few of the older and improved settlements.There ave in the Province of Ontario the following numbers of acres :\u2014 In total area, Total surveyed.Total granted and sold.77,606,400 | 25,297,480 | 21,879,048 Thus there arc some three millions and a half acres of surveyed Goverment lands not yet taken up, and mort { than fifty millions of acres not yet surveyed.The greater | part of theso lands lic in the region bounded af the cast by ! the Ottawa River, at the west by the Georgian Bay and at | the south by the more northerly of whut are called the front townships, and which are more or less improved ant settled np, New surveys and more extended observations, prove that there is yet a large quantity of desiruble land 10 be had in the Province.st The Laurentian range of mountains running gouth-wesh and skirting the north shore of the St.Luyrenct between Quebec and Montreal, but gendually receding fron that river on approaching the laiter city, tends estar from Montreal along the north shore of the Ottawa.Some distance above Ottawn city it crosses the river, and, som\u201d what modified in character, runs southward to near Brock Ç ville, whence, again turning westward, it forms à ridge, ab rather a collection of hillocks, which shed the rai i falls upon them southward to Lake Onturio and the ake Lawrence, and north and eastward to the Ottawa, OF Simcoe and the Georgian Bay. DIRECTORY.| GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO.2387 The mountains of this range ure nowhere peaked, hut rounded by the weather during countless ages, and the bills along the spur just spoken of washed till they are bare, so that only near the thousands of lakes and lakelets which nestle among them, and along the beds of turbulent little streams which connect these lakes, can any fertile lands be found.When it was asserted, years ago, that the good lands of Canada were mostly subd, settlement had about reached this rocky ridge.Roads made in this region showed its uninviting character.Worst of all, the free grants located upon some of these roads gave sO poor a prospect that they were abandoned.But settlement was meantime turning the flanks of the Laurentian line.First, from the West, from near Lake Simcoe, people found the Muskoka district and Parry's Sound not uninviting.Then, from the East, the men of Lanark and Renfrew moved up the Madawaska and the Petewawa.Then the Crown Lands surveyors, and, better still, the employees of the lumberers, went further back.The further they penetrated into the interior, the better the land became, and the result may be stated thus, that inside the Laurentian barrier, best approached by the Northern Railroad and Lake Simcoe on the one hand, and from the Upper Ottawa river on the other, there is, tn the basin of Lake Nipissing and the watershed of the Ottawa, both in Ontario and Quebec, a most, extensive tract of excellent land, nearly as large as the peninsula of Ontario, mach of it deep-soiled as the basin of the St.Lawrence, timbered with a heavy growth of mixed white pine and hardwood, much of it ug level as the St Lawrence valley, and some as even as a prairie.It lies, moreover, near waters which dither are or can be easily made navigable.A market for its farm products exists already in the lumberers\u2019 camps, which are even now breaking its solitudes, and but few ears will elapse before its forests ring with the settler's\u2019 axe\u2014before the shores of Lake Nipissing, which is three limes as large as Lake Simcoe, echo to the whistle of the steamboat\u2014or even before a railway runs across it by the shortest route from Montreal towards Chicago.The price of gach Government lands as are for sale varies with the situation.In the Algoma district it is twenty cents per acre, but that is at present a somewhat remote region.The \u2018usual price for the more accessible lracts is seventy-five cents per acre, cash, or one dollar per are by instalments.Oceasionally townships, parts of townships, or a few lots at a time, are sold at auction, when the prices realized vary according to the location and (ality of the land! In 1867, the Government of Ontario sold 132,393 acres for the sum of $209,707, an average of a little more than a dollar and a half per acre.The regunla- tions, under which the lands are sold, vary considerably according as they are of ordinary character, or specially valuable for their timber or minerals.The usual settlement duties required before a patent is issued for the lands oceu- pied are, the building of a \u201chabitable house.\u201d and 20 acres ona 200 acre lot to be cleared and under crop.FREE GRANT LANDS, The Free Grant Lands in the Province of Ontario are Specially worthy the attention alike of the immigfant and of parties already resident in the country who are desirous of possessing freehold farms, but whose means are limited.Jxieus to promote the improvement of the yet uncleared Istricts, the Provincial Government have thrown open, Upon fhe most liberal terms, a number of townships, into Any of which parties may go and select for themselves the site of a future home.Every head of à family can obtain, gratis, two hundred wcres of land, and any person arrived i the age of eighteen, may obtain one hundred acres, in i Pree Grant districts.This offer is made by the Govern- went to all persons without distinction of sex, so that a \u201cge family, having several children in it at or past eighteen fours of age, may take up a large tract, and become, in a CW years, when the land is cleared and improved, joint Possessois of n valuable and beautiful estate.\u2019 These Freo Grant lands are comprised in the townships of Mode UE Cardwell, Watt, Stephenson, Brunell, Macaulay, le can, Muskoka, Draper, McDougall, Foley, Cardiff, Chan- 9, Monmouth, Austruther, Anson, Hindon, Minden, Stan- °P%, Dungannon, Carlow, Monteagle, Herschel, Wicklow, RO Gratton, Wilberforce, South Algoma, Hagarty, Bland, Sherwood, Alice, Fraser, Petewawa, McKay, ichanan, Wylie, Rolph, Head, Clarendon, Palmerston, Miller, Korah, Prince, Parke, and Aweres, in all forty-one townships, comprising from G0 to 80 thousand acres each.Parties wishing to settle on the Free Grants in the Mus- koka and Purry Sound territory, may proceed by either of the following routes :\u2014 1st.From Toronto to Barrie or Bell Ewart by the Northern Railway; from thence to the river Severn by steamer; from the river Severn to Gravenhurst, on Luke Muskoka, by stage; from Gravenhurst to Bracebridge by steamer or by the Muskoka road, and from Bracebridge to the respective townships by the Muskoka, Paterson, and Parry Sound roads.- In winter, the communication with Brace- bridge and Parry Sound is by stage from Barrie.A com- puny is now formed to construct a railway to connect with the Northern, from Barrie to the Muskoka district.The office of C.W.Lount, Crown Lands agent for the townships of Watt, Stephenson, Brunell, Macaulay, McLean.Muskoka, and Draper, is at Bracebridge, in the township ot Macaulay.2nd.To Collingwood from Toronto by the Northern railway ; from Collingwood to Parry Sound by steamer.once a week, every Saturday morning, and from Parry Sound to the respective townships by the Great Northern, Parry Sound, and Nipissing Colonization roads.A stage runs from Parry Sound to Luke Rousseau, connecting with the steamer.The office of John D.Beatty, crown Lands agent for the townships of McDougall, Foley, Humphrey and Cardwell, is at Parry Sound.The other four townships of Cardiff, Chandos, Monmouth and Anstruther are reached by way of Peterborough, to which place there is railway communication from the town of Port Hope.From thence, there is a good colonization road to the northern portion of the Free Grant townships.The office of W.Armstrong, Crown Lands agent for the townships of Cardiff, Chandos, Monmouth, and Anstruther, is at Cardiff, in the township of Cardiff, It is the intention of the Government to luy off other townships for Free Grant purposes as fast as they may be required in the course of settlement and improvement.The probability is that most of the wild lands, as yet unsur- veyed between the Ottawa river and the Georgian bay, will be thus disposed of.The Free Grant lands are open for settlement under the authority of the Free Grant and Homestead Act, which became law February 28th, 1863.The following additional lands have recently been opened for settlement under the Free Grant and Homestead Act.The agent's name is given in each case :\u2014 The townships of Alice, Fraser, Petewawa, McKay, Buchanan, Wylie, Rolph, and Head, in the county of Ren- frew.Applications for location are to be made to James P.Moffat, Crown Lands agent, at the totvn of Pembroke, in said county.The townships of Grattan, Wilberforce and South Algo- ma, in the county of Renfrew, and Hagarty, Richards and Slierwood, in the district of Nipissing.Applications for location are to be made to Samuel G.Lynn, Crown Lands agent, at the village of Eganville, in the said county.The townships of Dungannon, Carlow, Monteagle, Her- schell, Wicklow and Mayo, in the county of Hastings.Applications for locations are to be made to John Robinson Tait, of York river.The townships of Anson and Hindon, in the \u2018county of Victoria, and certain lands in the townships of Minden and Stanhope, in the county of Peterborough.Applications for locations are to be made to Joseph Graham, Crown Lands agent at Bobcaygeon.FREE GRANTS AND HOMESTEADS.The following is a brief summary of the Act respecting Free Grants and Homesteads, as recently amended : Cap.8\u2014Provides for Free Grants and Homesteads.It authorizes the Licutenant-Governor in Council to appropriate lands, not being mineral lands or pine timber lands, as free grants to actual settlers, under regulations to be made for that purpose; but such grants are confined to the lands in the Algoma and Nipissing districts, and the lands between the Ottawa river and Georgian Bay, to the west of a line drawn from a point opposite the south-east angle of the township of Palmerston, north-westerly along the western boundary line of other townships to the Ottawa, river, and north of the northern boundaries of Oso Olden, Kennebec Kalador, Elzevir, Madoc, Marmora, elmont, Dummer, Smith, Énuismore, Somerville, Laxton, Carden, Rome, and 2388 GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO.the river Severn.No such grant is to be made to a person under cighteen, or for more than 200 acres.The patent shall not issue for five years after location, nor until the locatee has cleared and cultivated 15 acres and built a house thereon fit for habitation, has resided continuously ou the lot, clearing at least two acres per annum; absence of six months during each year is, however, allowed.[Failure to perform settlement duties forfeits the location, The mines and minerals on such lots are reserved to the Crown.The settler may not cut any pine timber on it, except for fencing, building or other farm purposes, and in clearing, until the issue of the patent; or if it be cut the settler must pay timber dues to the Crown.The object of this reservation of timber is to protect the bona fide settler, and to ensure the actual settlement of the land.» It is to prevent persons going upon it, under pretence of settlement, but in reality for the purpose of stripping it of the timber, which is very valuable.It does notin any way interfere with the man who settles upon the land in good faith, as he is authorised to clear it as rapidly as his industry or means may permit; and after the patent issues, all pine trees remaining on the land become his property absolutely.On the death of the locatee, the land vests in his widow during her widowhood, unless she prefers to accept her dower in it.The land cannot be alienated or mortgaged until the patent issues, nor within twenty years of the location, without consent of the wife, if living.Nor will it at any time be liable to be sold under execution for any debt contratted before or during the twenty years after the patent issues, except for a mortgage or pledge given during that time.It may be sold for taxes.In order to make a successful settlement upon a free grant, the settler should have at the least from £40 to £50 after reaching his location.But it would be an act of wisdom in all such persons, on their arrival in the country, to deposit their money in a Savings Bank, where it will draw from 4 to 5 per cent.interest, and go out for a year as agricultural laborers.The experience thus acquired will far more than compensate for the time lost.The settlers are always willing to help new comers.A house, such ag is required under the Act, could be erected by contract for about £5 stg.; but with the assistance the settler would certainly receive from his neighbors, it might be erected for even less than that.Should it be desired to clear the land by hired labor or by contract, in order to bring it more rapidly into cultivation, the cost would be about £3 stg.per acre.The best season of the year to go on to a free grant is the month of September, after harvest work in the old settlements is over.There is time to put up a house and get comfortably settled before the winter sets in; an during the winter, the work of chopping and clearing can go on.In this way, & crop can be got in the first spring, and some return be received from the land.The operation of putting in the first crop isa very simple one.Ploughing is at once impracticable and unnecessary.The land is light and rich.All it needs is a little scratching on the surface to cover the seed.THE CANADA COMPANY, This company originally acquired from the Government; about the year 1828, about 2,000,000 acres\u2014one million being \u201cen bloc,\u201d and forming what was known as the Huron tract; the other called \u201cCrown Reserves,\u201d in scattered lots and blocks in various parts of the Province, extending from the Ottawa to the St.Clair.The company had the great support which £289,737 sterling ($1,410,000) of pai up capital gives.Settlement first began, rapidly, in the township of Blanchard, the greater part of which was settled within two years.Blanchard is now.one of the richest townships in the county of Perth, with 3,774 people, according to the last census, with 45,723 acres assessed, 644 rate-payers, $735,750 of renl estate assessed clear of debts, and spending two thousand dollars a year on its roads and bridges.In other places, it progressed more slowly.The company did not lay out tier after tier of farms, but allowed settlers to purchase where they chose.The greater portion of ihe sales varied from $1.25 to $2.25 per acre, They also originally laid out the town of Goderich, Guelph, and Stratford, and the village of Mitchell.progress of these places will be seen by the following table, copied from the returns of 1867, and giving the number of rate-payers, and the value of the real estate ssessed, The $ -the end ot the term, at [Donimox: Goderich.$795,580 Guelph.1,216,752 Stratford.604,180 Mitchell.oovvvirnninnins 240,642 The records of the company show that many of the early settlers were men who came out from Europe without, any capital, who had; however, paid for their land in fai] and acquired a considerable amount of property in farm stock, as long as twenty-five years ago.hether emigrants or not, some 25,000 families have actually settled op the company\u2019s lands.The last annual dividend was £1.108.stg.per share\u2014the share being £6 13s.8d.The average rate of dividend cap.not well be ascertained in this country.The capital stock is now reduced by repayment of capital to shareholders to £274,136 stg.+ Only about 400,000 acres remain in the company\u2019s hands.\u2018 \u2014principally inferior lands, and in scattered locations.The office of the Canada Company is at Toronto.THE CANADIAN LAND AND IMMIGRATION COMPANY.This is the youngest of the land companies, having bought so recently as 1861 the ten townships of Dysart, Dudley, Har- court, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Lyre, and Clyde (in Peterborough county), and Longford (in Yicto- rin county.) These townships\u2014all in one block\u2014were unsurveyed, and after a survey, which cost the company $31,810, it appeared that they covered 403,125 acres, from which, after deducting 41,000 acres for the area covered by swamps, &c., there remained 362,125 acres, to be paid for at the rate of 50 cents per acre.The amount paid by the company to government was $195,043.The ordinary settlement duties upon these lands are to be performed within eighteen years from January, 1865, and ten per cent of the purchase money is to be refunded to the company for the construction of leading lines of road, subject to government inspection.Besides these expenses, the company has paid nearly $10,000 more for additional surveying, road-making, &c., besides considerable sums in preparation of their estate for settlement, the furtherance of emigration, &c.In all, besides payments to government, over $100,000 have been expended to date.Some twenty-five miles of new road have been constructed, and twenty-five miles of the old government Peterson road have been brushed out and repaired.The company has shared the expense of many of these improvements, with municipalities interested.In conjunction with & lumber firm of the district, the company Is now energetically extending other roads into the forest, and damming the principal lake, so as to keep the water up to high water mark, and allow a steamer, which it subsidizes, to run the whole summer through.The company\u2019s officers are now engaged in promoting a plan for a wooden railway to run into the property, to facilitate lumbering and settlement.The village of Haliburton, beautifully situated on Lake Kushog, is rapidly increasing, several stores have been established, and there is.a saw and grist mill on the spot.The company pays half the stipends of a resident clergyman, and las given free.grants of lands for churches and schools.An arrangement has just been made whereby a portion of the valuable pine timber on the property will be gradually taken off by a firm who have undertaken to find work in the shanties, during the winter, for all willing and industrious hands.By this means a ready market for years to come is secured to the farmer at the highest prices, and the settlers will have the opportunity of earning good wages for themselves and their teams throughout the winter.The settlement in Harcourt has hitherto not made rapid rogress owing to the want of communication with the ront ; but now that there is every prospect of an immediate extension of the Burleigh road, the land being reporte to be the best on tbe company s territory, they are about to erect a grist mill, which, with the saw mill \u2018already there, will form the nucleus of \u2018& prosperous village.To Improve the means of communication 3000 acres are now offered a8 free grants along the Peterson rond.The price at whic! ! the company now sells is :\u2014In Dysart, $1.60, and in other townships, $1.00 per acre, cash; or $2.00 in Dysart, eet 1.25 in other townships, in five annual instalments, wie interest at five per cent.Or the company will rent for seventeen years, for 15 cents per acre in Dysart, and tes cents in other townships, and the right of pre-emption if $2.00 and $1.35 respectively.Ho 1 DIRECTORY.| acre lots in the village of Haliburton are for sale at $20 ench.Settlement dugjes have to be pre-paid on farm lots and town property.he saules have chiefly been made to Canadians, but the company has just perfected arrangements for an active emigrant agency in England.; The return of produce in Dysart, made by the company in the spring of 1868 is as follows :\u2014Spring wheat, 1,536 pushels ; fall wheat, 425 bushels; oats, 1,201 bushels ; pota- -toes, 5,430 bushels; turnips, 5,380 bushels; barley, 212 bushels ; hay, 111 tons ; pork.6,880 Ihs, The office of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company is at Peterborough.AGRICULTURAL CAPABILITIES OF THE SOIL.À reference Lo the display of cereals and other agricultural productions made by Canada, at the exhibitions of London and Paris, might be considered sufficient to illustrate the remarkable adaptation of the soil to their growth and cultivation ; but so limited a notice would leave the question of permanent fertility still unanswered.When, however, it is known that the area in which the astonishing crops of wheat are raised, for which the Province of Ontario is so justly distinguished, extends over tliree-fourths of the present inhabited parts of the country, and that the prevailing soil consists of rich clays of great depth, the question of permanent fertility resolves itself into one of husbandry.In the valleys of some of the largest rivers of Ontario, wheat has been grown after wheat for twenty years; the first crops yielded an average of 40 bushels to the acre, but under the thoughtless system of husbandry then pursued, the yield diminished to 12 bushels to the acre, and compelled a change of system, which soon had the effect of restoring the land to its original fertility.This system of exhaustion has effected its own cure, and led to the introduction of & more rational method of cultivating the soil.Years ago, when roads were bad and facilities for communicating with markets few and far between, wheat was the only saleable produce of the farm, so that no effort was spared to cultivate that cereal to the utmost extent.Now, since railroads, macadamized roads, and plank roads have opened up the country, and agricultural societies have sue- ceeded in disseminating much useful instruction and information, husbandry has improved in all directions, and the natural fertility of the soil of the old settlements is in a great part restored.The average yield of wheat in some townships exceeds twenty-two bushels to the acre, and, where an approach to good farming prevails, the yield rises to thirty and often orty bushels to the acre.On new land, fifty bushels is not A very uncominon yield ; and it must not be forgotten that banadian wheat, grown near the city of Toronto, won a fret prize at the Pnris exhibition.It may truly be said that the soil of what may be termed the agricultural portion of Canada, which comprises four-fifths of the inhabited Portion, and a vast area still in the hands of the govern- lent and now open to settlement, is unexceptionable; and When deterioration takes place, it is the fault of the farmer And not of the soil.AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS OF ONTARIO AND QUEREC.Taking as the basis of calculation the official volume Whicly contains the agricultural results of the last census of te United States, and the similar census returns for dvd, referring to nearly the same period, it can be of Joustrated that Canada, and Ontario especially, instead Prom RE behind the United States in every clement of ne can put the tabular statements of her products ICT progress side Ly side with those of the Great ao Dic on our borders, and not.suffer from the compari- then the somtrary, she is shown to be considerably of Skene United fates in many impertant indications aly skilled and productive agriculture, and a rapid general cement, The following is a summary of the results ned by a comparison of the official statistics above Wentioned, Province or Querre\u2014First as regards the Province o hat nn we find that the following facts are established : That à 1e growth of population in Quebec vastly excecded hor mn the States of Vermont and Maine, lying along he on That starting at the census before last, with a P®pulution less than that of those two States combined, she GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO.2389 exceeded them in population at the last census by nearly 200,000.That, as compared with the States, which in 1850 bad a population as great as her own, the decennial rate of increase in Quebec was greater than in any of those States, with one solitary exception\u2014the State of Indiana.That, in nine years to their ten, she lessened by two, the number of States which in 1850 had a population exceeding hers.That the rate of increase of population in Quebec in nine years was greater than the rate of increase in ten years in the whole of the United States, excluding the Western and Pacific States and territories.And that her decennial rate of increase was greater than that of the whole United States, nut including the Western states and territories, but including California and the other States and territories on the Pacific.That in the interval between the last census and the preceding one, Quebec added to the breadth of her cultivated lands at a rate exceeding her growth in population, which equalled within a fraction the rate in the United States; the addition to the acreage under cultivation in Quebec being greater than the increase of population by 8.50 per cent., while in the United States it was 8.72 per cent.That the cash value of lands occupied as farms in Quebec per cultivated acre, exceeded, in 1860, the cash value of lands occupied as farms in the United States per cultivated acre; the value of Quebec being $19.04 per acre, while in the United States it was $16.32 per acre.That the value of farming implements used in Quebec was greater in proportion to the amount of land cultivated than in the adjoining States, or in the United States as a whole; the average value of the farming implements used on a farm having 100 cultivated acres, being $176 in Quebec, as against 3122 in Maine, $130 in Vermont, $134 in the whole of the New England States; and $150 in the whole of the United States.That, as regards the great agricultural staples of wheat, corn, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, peas and beans, and potatoes, Quebec increased her annual productions of these articles in nine years between 1851 and 1860, from 224 millions to 45 millions of bushels, or 100 per cent.; while in the United States the increase in the production of these articles in ten years between 1850 and 1860, was only 45 per cent.That in 1860, her production of these articles was 40.54 bushels for each inhabitant, only falling short by less than three bushels of the production of the United States, where it was 43.42 bushels for each inhabitant.That\u2014excluding Indian corn from the list\u2014Que- bec raised of the remaining articles 40.20 bushels for each inhabitant, against a production in the United States of only 16.74 bushels for each inhabitant, and against a production in the adjoining States of Maine and Vermont of 22.10 bushels for each inhabitant.And that, finally, in proportion to population, Quebec owned more horses than the Tnited States, as many cows and nearly as many sheep ; and that, during the interval between the last census and the preceding one, she increased her production of butter and wool at a rate considerably exceeding the rate of increase maintained in the United States.QUEBEC AND ONTARIO\u2014As regards Canada, that is the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, which composed the Province of Canada when the last census was taken, we find that the following facts are established: That during the interval between the last census and preceding one, the decennial rate of increase of population in Canada exceeded that in the United States by nearly 53 per cent.\u2014Cana- da adding 40.87 per cent.to her population in ten years, while the United States added only 35.58 per cent to theirs.That she brought her wild lands into cultivation at a rate, in nine years exceeding the rate of increase of cultivated lands in the United States in ten years, by nearly 6 per cent,\u2014Canada, in 1860, having added 50 acres of cultivated land to every 100 acres under cultivation in 1851, while the United States, in 1860, had only added 44 acres to every 100 acres under cultivation in 1850.That the value per cultivated acre of the farming lands of Canada in 1860 exceeded the value per cultivated acre of the farming lands of the United States; the average value per cultivated acre in Canada being $20.87, and in the United States $17.32.That in Canada, a larger capital was invested in agricultural implements, in proportion to the amount of land cultivated, than in the United States\u2014the average value of agricultural implements used on a farm having 100 cultivated acres, being in Canada $182, and in the United States $150.That, in proportion to population Canada in 1860 raised twice as much wheat as the Unite States ; Canada in that year raising 11.02 bushels for each 2390 .inhabitant, while the United States raised only 5.50 bushels for each inhabitant.That, bulking together eight leading staples of agriculture\u2014wheat, corn, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, peas and beans, and potatoes\u2014 Canada between 1851 and 1860, increased her production of these articles from 57 millions to 123 millions of bushels\u2014an increase of 113 per cent., while the United States in ten years, from 1850 to 1860, increased their productions of the same articles only 45 per cent.That in 1860, Canada raised of those articles, 49.12 bushels for each inhabitant, against a production in the United States of 43.42 bushels for each inhabitant.Fhat\u2014excluding Indian corn from the list\u2014Canada raised of the remaining articles, 48.07 bushels\u2019 for each inhabitant almost three times the rate of production in the United States, which was 16.74 bushels for each inhabitant.And that, as regards live stock and their products, Canada in 1860, in proportion to her population, owned more horses and more cows, made more builer, kept more sheep, and had a greater yield of wool than the United States.Province or ONTARIO\u2014The comparison as regards the Province of Ontario is, of course, still more favourable.We have seen that in nine years, she added 46.65 per cent to her population, while the United States in ten years added only 35.58 per cent.to theirs.Thut she maintained a decennial rate of increase greater by one-half than that of the whole of the United States and territories\u2014more than double that of all the United States, excluding the Western Slates, and only falling short of\u2019 the increase in the Western States and territories by 7 per cent.,\u2014and that in nine years to their ten, she passed four states of the Union whick in 1850 had a population exceeding hers, [Indianu, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Kentucky, ] leaving at the date of the last census only five States which exceeded her in population.That in nine years she added nearly 64 cultivated acres to every hundred acres in cultivation in 1852, while the United States and territories in ten years added only a little over 44 acres to every hundred acres under cultivation at the date of the previous census.That she subdued her wild lands more rapidly than even the growth of her population at a rate almost double that in the United States (the proportion being as 17.10 t0 8.72.) That the cash value of her farms in 1860, per heud of tlie population, was greater in Ontario than in the United States, being $211.42 in Ontario and $211.33 in the United States.That their value per acre was greater in Ontario than in the United States by nearly $06, being $22.10 per acre in Ontario, and $16.32 per acre in the United States.That the capital invested in agricultural implements was greater in Ontario than in the United States, in proportion to the breadth of land cnltivated, being $186 for every hundred acres of cultivated land in Ontario, and $1650 for every hundred acres of cultivated land in the United States.That the value of agricultural implements manufactured in Ontario did not fall very much behind the value of agricultural implements manufactured in the United States, in proportion to population, being $0.41 per head of the population in Ontario, and $0.55 per head of the population in the United States.That she grew more wheat in 1860 than any State in the Union.That, in proportion to population, she produced in that year more than three times as much wheat as the United States, raising 17.64 bushels for each inhabitant, while the United States raised only 5.50 bushels for each inhabitant.That she was greatly ahead even ot the Western States as a wheat-produ- cing country, the average production of wheat in the whole of the Western States being only 10 bushels for cach inhabi- tint.\u2018That, \u2018of the eight leading staples of agriculture, common to both countrieg\u2014wheat, corn, rye, barley, oats buckwheat, peas and beans, and potatoes\u2014she produced 55.95 bushels for each inhabitant, while of the same articles the United States produced only 43.42 bushels for cach inhabitant.That\u2014excluding Indian corn from the list\u2014she produced of the remaining articles, 54.34 bushels for cach inhabitant, against 16.74 bushels for each inhabitant, produced in the United States.That, in proportion to population, she had more capital invested in live stock than the United States, the value of live stock owned in Ontario being $38.13 per head of the population, while in the United States it was 34.64 per head of the population.That for every hundred of the population, Ontario owned 27 horses, and the United States only 20.That for every hundred inhabitants, Ontario owned 32 milch cows and the United States only 27.That for every hundred inhabitants Ontario owned 84 sheep, and the United States only 71; and that of live stock, in the number of pigs only was she GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO [Dominion.| exceeded by the United States, in proportion t : lation.That in 1860 she profinekd gre Poly pr butter for every inhabitant, while the United States ro duced only 14.62 pounds, Phat in the same year she ie duced 2.62 pounds of wool for each inhabitant, while the United States produced only-1.92 pounds, That in the nine years from 1851 to 1860, she increased, hier swnnuul produe- tion of butter by 67 per cent, while in the United Sates, in ten years from 1850 to 1860, the increase in the production of butter was only 46} per cent., And that in nine years she increased her production of wool 40 per cent, while in ten years the United States incrensed their produclion of wool only 15 per cent.These acts need no comment.They speak for themselves, Exhibiting ns they do 2 most gratifying progress in Canada both absolutely and relatively, as compared with the United States, they ought to give fresh encouragement to the hardy workers, who, with the help of Providence, have made Canada what it is, to go on availing tliemselves to the utmost of the advantages of their position, for the improvement of their own fortunes, and the advancement and prosperity of the country at large.CLIMATE: Very incorrect ideas prevail abroad as to the climate of this country.Our winters are supposed by many to be arctic in their duration and severity, and our summers, in like manner, arctic in their brevity and coolness.Tle statement is current that we have frost every month in the year, and the \u201crigours of a Canadian climate,\u201d have become a proverb.The truth is that the healthfulness of the country is established beyond controversy, and our climate vicissitudes, though sometimes a source of inconvenience, are by no means unhealthy.In the absence of any registration returns, we have no relinble due from which to arrive at the death rate of the Province.Such figures as we have, however, tend tothe conclusion that it is extremely probable Mat Ontario is one of the liealthiest countries in the world.No where do the seasons of the year move on in lovelier, grander procession.In spring, there is a quick awakening of vegetable life, and nature promptly puts on her best attire.The summer is short, but gorgeous with flowers that can hardly be surpassed.There is oppressive heat al times, and occasionally drought, but summer showers refresh the face of all things.In autumn we have the waving fields of grain and tasselled corn; our orchards display apples of gold in baskets of silvery verdure, and we can reckon even the grape among our fruits; our forests present a richly- tinted and many-coloured folinge; we have mid-October days in which the weather is superb ; our Indian summer is a splendid valedjctory to the season of growth and harvest; a bright and beautiful lectic flush sits upon the face of universal nature as death draws on and we glide imperceptibly into winter.This, though confessedly severe, 18 exhilarating, hardening animal as well as vegetable fibre, while it has its ameliorations and joys in the fire-side warmth that tempers into geniality the clear, frosty air.TIE FARMING INTEREST, The official census taken in January, 1861, furnishes reliable data for arriving at the agricultural condition o the country; and an official report from the Bureau of Agriculture, issued in 1863, provides estimates of two years later date.From these returns it appears that the number of persons in actual occupation of land in the Province 0 Ontario, in 1860, was not less than 131,983 and in the prot- ince of Quebec, 105,671.The quantity of land held was As follows :\u2014 Persons holding in under.Ontario.Quebce.10 acres an ad 8 10 neres to 20.2,676 3,186 20 ncres to 60 .26,630 20,074 50 acres to 100.134.801 44.041 100 80200.oon C2833 2073) Above 200 acres 0020000000 5,027 6,80 Total occupiers.181,988 105,671 It thus appears that there were, nine years ago, NC for than 237,654 persons in Canada who cultivated their ; J a rpen- land ; and if the army of furm servants, choppers, op ters, blacksmiths, Wnggonmalkers, hurnessmakers, on cily employed on farm work, Le added, it will be se DIRECIORY.] GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO.2391 at once how vast a proportion of the half million of male adults in Canada are directly employed in the cultivation of the soil.Then as to the capital employed.The estimated cash value of the farms and farming implements was, in Jauuary, 1861, as follows :\u2014 In Ontario.&36,442,662 In Quebec.178,870,271 Total value '$485,312,993 include the live stock showed the live stock And this enormous sum does not and crops on hand.The last census to have been then as follows :\u2014 Ontario.Quobee.Milch Cows number of head.451,640 328,370 Oxen and Steers, 99,605 200,991 Young oattle.464,083 287,611 Horses of all kinds.377,681 248,515 Sheop.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.1,170,225 682,829 PAS.eer eee ae eee eee ana eee 776,001 286,400 At present prices these cannot be valued at much under $100,000,000 ; and the amazing rapidity with which the live stocks of the country is increasing in number and value can readily be seen by a comparison of the census returns of 1851 and 1861.But perhaps a more satisfactory idea of the agricultural industry of the Province can be gained from a statement of the annual product of our farms.\u201d In the year 1860 the crop was a8 follows :\u2014 Ontario.Quebec.Total.Wheat, bushels.24,620,426 2,664,354 27.274,779 Barley, do .2,821,962 2,281,674 5,103,636 Rye, do 978,181 ,192 1,817,878 Pens, do 9,601,391 2,648,777 12,250,173 Oats, do 21,220,874 17,551,296 38,772,170 Buckwheat, do 248.1,250,025 2,498,662 Indian corn, do 334.861 2,591,151 Potatoes, do 12,770,471 28,096,391 Turnips, do 18,206,949 892,434 19,099,393 Man, Wurz., do 546,971 207,256 754,227 Carrots, do 1,905 593 298,067 2,198,665 Beans, do 49,143 21,384 70,627 Clover and Timothy seed bushels.61,818 38,954 95,772 Hay, tons,.; 861,844 689.977 1.551,821 Hops, do .247,052 53.387 x Maple Sugar, 1bs,.6,971,605 9,325,147 16,295,752 Cider, gallons,.1,667,831 21.011 1,588,842 Wool, Ibs.,.3,659,766 1,967,398 5,627,154 Butter, Ibs.,.oo.26,828,264 15,906,949 42,735,213 Cheese, Ibs., 2,687,172 686,297 3,373,469 Flax and Hemp, lbs.1,225,934 975,827 2,201,761 Tobacco, .707,426 The total value of these products of the farm in 1860 was close upon one hundred millions of dollars.And if we add the increase made since that year in the live stock, the improvements made on old farms, and the new {ands brought into cultivation, n good estimate may be formed of te highly sutisfretory condition of the farming interest in anada.And the work is bnt begun.The total number of acres that had passed from the Government into private hands in 1861 was :\u2014 ln Ontario.13.354907 I Quebec.ooo 10,375,418 Totalneres sold.23,730,325 OF this there are in cultivation, neres :\u2014 In Ontarvio.6,051,419 In Quebee.4,804,233 \u201410,856,854 Leaving yet wild.0000 va ace PI 12,874,471 Not one-half of the land already in private hands, therefore, is yet cultivated, to say nothing of the many millions of acres of wild lands still undisposed of by Government.MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS.The municipal institutions of Ontario are an admirable Ustration of the advantages of loeal self-government.1e Province is divided into forty-two counties ;\u201d these being subdivided into township, town, and village municipalities, the cities being separate and distinct for municipal purposes, Ie cities are governed by a board of aldermen, who ave tected for three years, one-third retiring each year.The Meorporated towns have a mayor and town council, elected H à similar manner, while townships and villages are - ill governed by a council of five, one of whom is the reeve, who are elected annually.The reeves of the different municipalities in a county form the county council, which has control of all boundary roads between townships, and other matters of general interest.Every township and village has one reeve.Where the number of rate-payers is over five hundred, a deputy reeve is appointed; where over a thousand, a second deputy, and so on\u2014one for each five hundred or fraction of five hundred ratepayers.These municipal bodies are authorized to levy by direct taxation such moneys as may be required fur local improvements, such as roads, bridges, drainage, police, &c., and, at the requisition of the boards of school trustees, for the maintenance of the free school system.For purposes of taxation an assessment of the municipality is made each year, the right of appeal being allowed to each rate-payer, to the council sitting as a court of revision, against the assessment; and from them to the county judge.These municipal councilsare generally well and economically managed.The taxation for municipal purposes does not usually exceed about £2 stg.per hundred acres; and by law municipal councils are restrained from incurring any debt which, with all other charges, would raise the taxation to above two per cent.of the assessed value\u2014usually about one-half the real value\u2014of the property of the municipality.This system has infused a fine spirit of self-reliance in the people, excited in them a lively interest in all public questions ; and from the ranks of the municipal councillors, who receive a practical training in the small arena, are recruited the members of parliament.GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND STATISTICS.The Province of Ontario is situate to the morth of the River St.Lawrence, and the great lakes, Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Superior.The River Ottawa, a noble stream, divides it from the Province of Quebec.Its northerly and westerly boundaries are by no means well defined, so that its area can be given only approximately.However, it may be safely assumed at about 121,260 square miles, equal to 77,606,400 acres, or almost exactly the same as that of Great Britain and Ireland.The population of that kingdom is upwards of 30 millions.It would therefore appear that after making due allowance for difference of climate and soil, Ontario could well sustain a population of at least 10 millions.Its actual population at different periods will appear from the following table :\u2014 210,437 by census.465,357 do 952.004 du 1.398091 do 1,962,067 estimated.It will be seen from the above figures that its present population is about ten times what it wus 40 years ago.a rate of increase considerably greater than that of the United States during the same time.The figures also show that its present population of about 2,000,000 is only a fifth of that which it is probably capable of supporting, so that there is still ample room for a large immigration.The soil of the country varies in different localities, a very large proportion being of the very best description for agricultural purposes.The natural advantages of Ontario are very great; its internal water communication by means of the great lakes is unsurpassed ; in mineral wealth, it has been pronounced by competent authorities equal to any part of the world, abounding as it does in iron, copper, lead.gold, silver, marble, petroleum, salt, &c., &e.Its immense forests of pine timber are too well known to need any description.The great lakes abound with fish.and the forests with game.CITIES AND TOWNS.The largest, and in every respect the most important.ci y is Toronto, the capital of Ontario.This city has a population of over 50,000; it is well situated on Lake Ontario, very handsomely built and contains a large number ot fine buildings.Ottawa is the capital of the Dominion, and is benutifully situated on the river of the same name.It contains the Parliament buildings, one of the noblest structures on the American continent.Kingston is a well- built and strongly fortified city.beautifully situated at the outlet of Lake Ontario.Hamilton is a fine commerc'al city, at the head of navigation on Lake Ontario.Louden ® 2392 GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO.[Dominioy 18 a handsome inland city, in the centre of the western peninsula, _ The annexed table contains a list of the cities and towns which, at the last census in 1861, had a popuintion of upwards of 3000, The population by the census of 1851 is also given, so that the rapid increase can be seen ut o glance, 1841.1851, 1861.Toronto.14,249 30,776 44,821 Hamilton .1886 2846 14,111 19,006 Ottawa.7760 14,669 Kingston, .1841 6202 11,685 18,743 London.1841 5124 735 11,666 St.Catharines.4868 6284 Belleville.1841 3500 4569 6277 Brantford.2 3B77 6251 Guelph.1844 700 1860 5076 Cobourg.8871 4076 Chatham.2070 4466 Port Hope.2476 4102 Brockville.8246 4112 Peterborough.2191 3979 Woodstock.2112 3863 Goderich .1829 8227 Galbo o.oo 1846 1000 2248 8069 Total.2 a ess a ae eee 105,488 159,115 MANUFACTURES, The almost unlimited supply of water power throughout Ontario affords unusual facilities for manufactures to which that power is adapted, and in consequence various descriptions of industry are springing up iu all directions, Steam power is also used to a large extent.The principal articles manufactured are cloth, linen, furniture, sawn timber, flax, iron and hardware, paper, soap, cotton and woollen goods, steam engines and ocomotives, wooden ware of all descriptions, agricultural implements, &c.MINES AND MINERALS, The mineral wealth of the country is not surpassed, if indeed it be equalled by any other in variety and richness.It has not yet, however, received anything like the attention it deserves, and may be said to \u2018be almost entirely undeveloped.To mention some of the principal articles, we have iron in large quantities a short distance back from Lake \u2018Ontario, in the country between the Georgian Bay and the Oltawa; also, in the same region, copper, lead, plumbago, antimony, arsenic, manganese, heavy spar, calc spar, gypsum, or plaster of Paris, marble pronounced by good Judges as fully equal to Carrara, or that obtained in ermont, and building stone, all of them in large quantities near the surface.Gold has also been found in the same region, but not as yet in quantities sufficient to pay well, On the north shore of Lake Huron are the celebrated Bruce mines of copper, from which ore and metal to the value of $250,000 are exported annually.Silver is also found on the shores of Lake Superior, particularly round Thunder Bay.Mica is also found, and worked in quantities that pay well.Petroleum is got in the westerly part of the Province in immense and apparently inexhaustible quantities, The first wells were struck at Oil Springs, County of Lambton, in 1862, and by March, 1863, over four millions of gallons had been obtained.Other regions have yielded this valuable mineral in large quantities\u2014Bothwell, in the County of Kent, and Petrolia, in Lambton, being the principal.The last-mentioned place is now the largest producing district.In 1867, 130 wells were sunk with great success, 120,000 Barrels being shipped, and 200,000 tanlked for future nse.In 1868, the produce was about 4000 barrels weekly, equal to 200,000 in the year.Canada requires for home consumption only about 120,000 barrels, so that there is ample surplus for export.The.difficulty in getting the Canadian oil into European markets hus been its odour.American oil has been readily deodorized, and consequently has kept Canadian out of the magket.À process lns quite recently been invented, however, by which (he Canadinn article can be perfectly deodorized, and,as this oil is superior to American in having greater illuminating power, and being less explosive, it is expected that a large export trade will be developed.Large refineries have been constructed at immense expense for preparing the oil according to the new process.When the export trade is fully developed, the trade will become of great value to Ontario.Salt is obtained at (Goderich and the neighbourhood, in the shape of brine, from wells sunk to a great depth below the surface.The article is obtained by evaporating te brine, and is exceedingly good for tahle use, having been foun upon chemical analysis to be of almost perfect purity As evidence of its quality, it may be mentioned that it received a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and the first prize at the New York State Fair for the same year Although the manufacture lng been curried on for only two or three years, there is mow produced fix more galt than is needed by the Province of.Ontario, and large quantities will probably be exported.In November, 1866, the manufacture was 45 barrels n day ; in August 1867, it was 90 ; in August 1868, 190 ; and now it is pro ably upwards of 300 barrels a day.Over $70,000 have been expended ; 13 wells are now sunk, and about 200 kettles ure in operation, Large peat beds exist in many parts of the Province, and the manufacturé of peat for fuel is just now being commenced.POSTAL SYSTEM.The postal system is admirably arranged, so as to secure the great requisites of punctuality, despatch and cheapness, The price of postage on letters curried within the Dominion is 3 cents per half ounce, equal tv 14 pence sterling if prepaid; if not pre-paid, the charge is 5 cents, or 22 pence sterling.The charge of letters to the United Stales is 6 cents or 3 pence.Money orders are given out for a large proportion of post offices within the Dominion, and in exchange with the United States aud Great Britian.There is also a parcel and bovk post in connection with the general post, by which parcels, books, &c., are sent at reasonable rates.Savings banks have been established in connection with the post office, similar to those in operation in Great Britain.The system was inaugurated two or three years ago, and already, on the 31st May, 1870, about a million and a-half dollars remained on deposit in the hunds of the Receiver, General, the monthly increase being about $50,000.The yearly deposit by any one person is limited to $300, and the large sum above mentioned has been almost exclusively deposited by mechanics and laborers out of their weekly saving®.Interest is allowed on deposits at 4 and 5 per cent per annum.TELEGRAPHS, The Electric Telegraph is made use of in Canada to a far greater extent in proportion to population than in Great Britain.The rate throughout the Dominion is 25 cents, equal to a shilling sterling, for the first ten words, and one cent (equal to n half-penuy) for every extra word.In 1807, the number of messages sent by the Montreal Telegraph Company in Ontario and Quebec was 518,811, being an increase vf 75,000 in two years, In 1870 the number ol commercial messages sent by this Company was 1,060,000.RAILWAYS, CANALS, ROADS, The railway system has made rapid strides in Ontario during the last fifleen yenrs.In the year 1852, there was not asingle mile open in the whole Province.At the present moment, there are upwards of 1,400 miles in operation.The building of several others is in contemplation, and in all probability will be, shortly commenced.\"Phe priucipal of these are the Intercolonial, to conneet the Province of Quebec with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; the Toronto, Grey and Bruce ; the Toronto and Nipissing ; the Toronto and Muskoka; the Wellington, Grey and Bruce, the Whithy and Port Perry, and the Canada Central from Montreal (o Ottawa.Some of these have uirendy been commenced, and others will, un- doubiedly, be built at no distant day.Their construction will involve an expenditure of many millions sterling, and will give employment to à very large number of operalives, clerks, &e,, for the next five or'ten years.; There are several canals in Ontario.\u2018The Welland, between Lakes Erie and Outario, to avoid the Ningara Falls; the Ridean, between Kingston and Ottawa, and the St Lawrence canals, rendered necessary by the rapids of that river.There are two other canals which have heen contemplated for several years, und may possibly be built at some future time; one connecting the Georgian Bay with Lake Onturio ; the other connecting that bay with the River Ottawa, passing through Lake Nipissing.As to ordinazy ronds; in the settled parts of the Province these wre excellent, being generally gravelled or mendan- izod, and kept in good order.In the unsettled parts, with a view of opening them up, the Government construets out of the public money what are called colonization roads.1 DIRECTORY.] GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014ONTARIO.2393 LAWS OF ONTARIO.The laws and the mode of administering them are mainly {he sume as in England, the practice, however, is simpler, and far less expensive, Though the laws are mainly the same as those of England, there are many very important differences.Among the most striking of these may be mentioned the following :\u2014The law of primogeniture has een abolished, lands descending to all children, mule and female, in equal shares, Married women hold their own property free from the debts and control of the husband.Triul by jury in civil cnses is optional, being dispensed with unless either party desire it.The Courts are the Queen\u2019s Bench, Common Pleas and Chancery, which are called the Superior courts, each presided over by three judges, whose acknowledged ability and impartiality gives weight to their decisions, which are consequently received with the greatest respect.The County Courts, one in each county or union of counties, are presided over by the County Judge.These are courts of inferior jurisdiction, only {aking cognizance, as a general thing, of claims of less than $400, or more than $100.Below these in cach county are the Division Courts, presided over by the County Judge, who goes circuit within his county.These are for the disposal of claims of $100 or lesz, which they do with remarkable cheapness and efficiency.The Judges of the Superior Courts (Queens Bench, Common Pleas, and Chancery), go circuit to euch county throughout the Province twice a year, in the spring and autumn, to hold assizes for the trial of civil and criminal cases.The county judges hold courts twice a year, in the summer and winter, alternately with the Superior Court judges.The judges are all appointed by the Dominion government.PUBLIC WORKS.There are numerous institutions throughout the Province which have been built at the expense of the people, and which are consequently public works under the control of the Government.Of these, are the lunatic asylums at Toronto, Kingston, Amherstburg and Orillia; the provincial penitentiary at Kingston; Osgoode Hall, Toronto; the Normal School, Toronto; The boys\u2019 reformatory at Pene- tmguishene.The local Government of Ontario, having a considerable surplus on hand, are spending a part of it, about $450,000, In the construction of other works which are needed.Among these are a new lunatic asylum, now building at London; a deaf and dumb asylum at Belleville; three locks to obviate difficulties in navigation and rapids in the waters at the back of Peterborough; and the licutenant- governor's residence at Toronto, now nearly completed.These and other works which are in contemplation will give employment to a large number of hands, and are therefore, together with the contemplated new railways and canals, BANKS AND CURRENCY.The financial affairs of the Province are carried on through the medium of the various banks, which are private institutions incorporated either by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter.The currency consists of a silver and, copper coinage, the usual coins met with being Canadian 25, 20, 10 and 5 cent pieces, of silver, and one cent picces, of copper, English shillings and six-pences, which pass for 24 and 12 cents respectively.United States half and quarter dollar, and 10, 5 and 3 cent pieces, of silver, areno lunger current.There are also copper coins issued by the bunks, which go by the name of \u201ccoppers,\u201d the value of which is a little less than the British balf-penny.Gold coins are very rarely used, bank notes having almost altogether superseded \u2018them.These nutes are of various denominations, from one dollar to five hundred and upwards.The Dominion Government has, within the last few years, issued \u201c Provincial notes,\u201d similar to hunk notes.The Government is responsible for the redemption-of these at certain cities named in the notes, and they are now circulated very largely.The following is a list ofthe principal banks doing business in Ontario, one or other of which has agencies ut all the important towns :\u2014 ; Bank of Montreal, bunk of British North America, Merchants\u2019 Bank of Canada, bank of Commerce, Ontario bank, Royal Canadian bank, bank of Toronto, Niagara District bank, Quebec bank, City bunk.RELIGION.The following are the numbers of the religious denominations, according to the census of 1861, given in the order of number :\u2014 Church of England.00.02200 00e ace annee 811,565 Presbyterians.303,3% Roman Catholi 255,141 Wesleyan Mcthodists 218,427 Uther Methodists.123,125 Baptists.61,559 Lutherans\u2026.24,299 Congregationalists.9,357 Mixcellaneous creeds 60,718 Of no religion 17,373 No creed staled .o.oo a ,l Total.ooo.1,396,091 After a long-continued agitation on the suhject, the union between Church and State was severed many years ago, so that there is now no Established Church under the special protection and patronage of the Government.The result is that there is perfect religious equality in the eye of the law.TAXATION.: In Ontario, there is no taxation answering to the State taxation in the United States, the Provincial expenditure being far more than covered by the share of the Dominion eleulated to attract a large immigration of laborers, taxes which the Dominion hands over to each Province.Value of Exports and Tmports, at each Port in Ontario, during Year ending 30th June, 1869.PORTES, EXPORTS.INPORTS.DUTY.i PORTS.EXT'ORTR.IMPORTS.DUTY.jber-tburg | 8144,510 £45,631 $1,448 42 Napance.o.403,249 67.705 6,584 55 Beadle.| 576.004 192,593 24,506 38 Newenstie.\u2026.48,934 32,357 4,531 83 Briord 127.751 242,671 34,632 05 Ningara .108 20,901 4,320 65 * Brea.60.125 5,340 513 07 Oakville.95,101 5,408 230 60 Paie.684,404 10,757 24 Oshawa.106,560 67.853 5,863 68 el.136.250 944 46 Owen Sound.8,75: 12,626 S86 08 Chath 173.253 80.807 40 Paris.112,942 46,997 4.190 83 pra, 543,452 5,829 18 Penetanguishene.\u2026.75,086 10,265 379 45 Nps.59.167 631 66 l'icton.Lo.LL.282,400 27,769 1,208 59 Coboure UT 3,207.061 57,607 08 Prescott.706,174 309.208 10,635 39 Colors: \u2026 251,660 6,980 T5 Quernston.\u2026.+000 135 15 02 Comma\u201d 165,235 1240 73 Rowan.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.133,845 6.162 4,465 07 aL 44,548 1,549 21 Sarnia.343.835 387,455 5,750 56 alban.78,475 716 87 Naugeen.LL 23,181 928 Arline 78,821 28,031 ¢1 Sault Ste.Marie.160,480 37,551 3.546 97 over SCOR.118,777 20,429 90 Stanley.313,543 33,707 222 27 Dungy 339.573 19,077 2,331 67 Stratford .103.954 87.231 6,548 39 angi 63.366 161,668 6,000 70 Toronto.1,847,623 6,704.957 916,987 £8 gia, Cte 178,493 21,307 $23 40 Trenton.477.177 25.745 634 72 Tort Tia\" 2,958 1,304 7953 Wallacoburgh.254,072 9.481 790 V5 Gamme + - 1,001,305 64.371 6,124 91 Whitby.530,004 94.180 15,054 15 sodomie 70,831 32,492 1,325 66 Windsor.237,009 859,615 14,426 C2 Guest 120,877 90,732 2994 68 Woodstock 90,254 T2,T68 5,027 55 amie ee 292,066 262,109 20,417 48 \u2014|=+ \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 Hope ton.894,471 8.487658 444,120 34 18,625,818 24242928 | 2,000,982 13 Kingston\" 1,176,670 288,025 20,944 24 Estimated Am.short Kingevqie 1,234,475 8,381,001 98,893 52 ret\u2019d at Tnt'd I'orts.| 2,828,165 .ong te.46,019 10,005 159 66 Copyrights.| .2,898 Morrie trees 450,001 9u3.866 167.183 11 | \u2014 burgh 177,038 52.006 470 80 Totals.20.053483 | 24.246.826 | 2.000.982 13 2394 EDUCATION STATISTICS\u2014ONTARIO.[Doninion A General Statistical Abstract, exhibiting the comparative State and Progress of FKducation in Upper Canada, now the i Province of Ontario, as connected with Universities, Colleges, Academies, Private, Grammar, Common, Norma] ' and Model Schools, from the year 1842 to 1869 inclusive, compiled from Returns in the Educational Department, ! = £ _\u2026 \u2014_ COX ICT We | 1842 Free Schools reported in operation (included in No.7 above) Grand Total Educational establishments in operation in No Reports No Reports SUBJECTS COMPARED.1843 1844 1845 Population of Upper Canada, now Ontario.486065 [rrccrcrrcres caen 622570 Population between the ages of five and sixteen years.141143 183539 202913 Colleges in Operation \u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026srscrreseeniessennersea rennes 5 5 5 County Grammar Schools.25 25 31 Academies and Private Schools reported 44 50 65 Normal and Model Schools for OntariO.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026ecrirerrrcaresessanna |osrrerere raracnrse [on foe cnn Loic nn, Total Common Schools in operation as reported.1721 2610 2736 Total Roman Catholic Separate School8.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026ecorrcorees [ores errno [erin [enn [en No Reports No Reports * Balances due, but not collected, were included until 1858, but from that date Nos.18, 19, 20, 21, 22 nnd 24 repr ments only.If we add to the Grand Total (24) the unexpeudod balances, we should have an available sum of #2,273,908 purposes uring 1869, and for 1808 $2,289,639, the increase in 1869 being $84,264.ONTALIO.ceiver rei eee eres eres eran 1795 2700 2837 Total Students attending Colleges and Universities No Reports for No Reports No Reports 12 |Total Pupils attending County Grammar Schools.ce 6 \u201c « 13 |Total Pupils attending Academies and Private Schools.8 this year i « 14 |Total Students and Pupils attending Normal and Model Schools for Ontario\u2019 .cev vce ens 6 were 6 « 15 [Total Pupils attending the Common Schools of Ontario.15978 96756 110002 16 |Total Pupils attending the Roman Catholic Separate Schoolst.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.received Je .17 [Grand Total, Students and Pupils attending Universities, Colleges, Academics, Grammar, Private, Normal, in Model and Common Schools.c.c.vmmmveiine einen 65978 96756 110002 18 |Total Amount paid for the Salaries of Common and Separate consequence _ School Teachers in Ontario* $166000 $206856 S286056 19 |Total amount paid for the erection or repairs of Common of a and Separate School Houses, and for Libraries and Apparatus, Books, I'uel, Stationery, &c.,*.coooenvens No Reports change No Reports No Reports 20 Grand Total paid for Common and Separate School Teachers\u2019 Salaries, the erection and repairs of School Houses, and in the for Libraries and Apparatus*.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026errereesnes « ét \u201c 21 |Total amount paid for Grammar School Masters\u2019 Salaries*.i School Law.\u201c \u20ac 22 {Total amount paid for the erection or repairs of Grammar School FOUSES*.\u2026.\u2026ssssscacccs su cnencseonere ronencera sens 23 |Amount received by other Educational Institutions, &c.24 |Grand Total paid for Bducational purposes in Ontario*.25 |Total Common School Teachers in Onturio.26 |Total Male do do do .\u2026 .27 [Total l'emale do do do Lencsranssenecccen sense 28 |Average number of months each Common School has been kept open by a qualified Teacher, including legal HOÏIAAYS \u2026\u2026\u2026vu0vscocers rarserare socsvanse sossssara vensra verra rarannerr [ecansonrr ca nas ares [eerese ne ete 7% 8 No.1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 D Jrercccsr csrsaserenre [ere coane nee sera neu rs T358T9 | 803493 950551 953239 Joie 3 204580 230975 241102 253364 259258 258607 262755 268957 3 5 G 6 7 7 8 8 4 82 32 33 39 n4 60 Gd 5 80 96 117 157 175 181 186 Bf 2 3 2 3 3 ; 7 2589 2727 2800 2871 2985 2992 3008 = 8 |i cert teense serene fee eres 16 18 32 9 No Reports No Reports No Reports No Reports 855 001 1052 10 2706 2863 2958 8076 3239 320652 A386 11 No Reports 700 740 773 133 751 6 12 \u201c 1000 1115 1120 2191 2643 3221 13 6 1831 2345 3348 4557 5684 4440 14 Cee 256 400 356 645 733 15 101912 124829 130739 188405 168159 179587 194736 1U {srensesecrorresruren [rorsen serrer rnenru res [rocanesonces vr fe [cn [rane SEE\u201d 17 101912 128300 35195 5805 189310 203888 18 $271624 $310396 $344276 $353912 $391308 $428948 545070, 19 No Reports No Reports No Reports No Reports $77336 $1003u6 5128072 20 « a i « $468644 $529314 $617830 21 6 « i 9 No Reports pre in other Bdujentional 23 6 i 4 i « Tnstituftions, .23 \u201c \u201c \u201c \u201c ce 131336 $147956 $150104 24 « \u201c \u201c \u201c \u201c $5999R0 GoT7270 HTETA 25 2925 3028 3171 3209 3476 3277 3388 3638 26 \u2026 2365 2007 2505 2007 2551 2541 200 27 663 670 704 779 726 847 wa 28 8} 9 970 9 9: 9% s esent aetuel pays for Educations DIRECTORY.| EDUCATION STATISTICS\u2014ONTARIO.2395 A General Statistical Abstract, exhibiting the comparative \u2018State and Progress of Education in Upper Canada, now the Province of Ontario, as connected with Universities, Colleges, Academies, Private, Grammar Common, Normal and Model Schools, from the year 1842 to 1869 inclusive, compiled from Returns in the Educational Dejartment\u2014 Continued.No 1854 1855 1856 1n61 ! J [Lurcrcorcrenere ranser[raneer rances cocerrene [sa nerss ! 1346091 2 277912 297623 311316 384980 3 9 10 12 13 4 G4 65 61 &6 4 206 307 207 276 321 305 237 6 3 3 3 3 4 4 + 7 3200 3284 3391 3631 3848 3854 3619 8 44 41 81 100 , 105 115 109 9 1117 1211 1263 1707 1936 2315 2602 2003 10 3526 3710 3815 4094 4258 4372 4379 4459 Il 806 1100 1335 1335 1335 | 1373 1373 1373 12 4287 3726 3386 4073 4459 4381 4546 4765 13 5473 7584 6220 6523 6372 6182 C408 7361 14 622 643 772 746 7 718 700 700 157 204168 222979 243935 262673 283692 288598 301104 316287 16 June vorscrsseccerees 4885 7210 9964 9991 12994 14708 13631 174 215356 240917 262858 | 285314 306626 314246 328839 344117 18, $578868 9680108 STT79680 || $860232 ST7T7616 S859325 895591 $918113 19° $175472 $219164 $298428 || $351926 $265519 $250721 $264183 S273305 20 $754340 $899272 $1078108 | $1212158 81043135 $1110046 $1159774 £1191418 21 $46255 847659 | 857552 $52940 $61564 S64005 S71034 997 $5711 | $8311 | $10708 $2868 $7930 $6037 $4234 233 $174016 $204754 $192014 $214849 $219979 8210042 $218632 $209421 24 $928356 81155992 S1326092 $1495267 81318922 S1389582 $1448448 1476107 25\u201d 3539 3565 3689 4083 4202 4235 4281 4336 26 2508 2568 2622 2787 2965 3115 3100 4031 27 1031 997 1067 1296 1237 | 1120 1181 1305 28 3 9; 10 10 104 | 101 104 10} No.1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1808 1869 leer reserves Leer Lo eerie 2 403302 424565 431812 464315 170400 } 13 16 16 16 16 16 16 4 91 95 104 104 102 101 101 5 342 257 260 298 312 282 279 6 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 7 3995 4013 4077 | 4151 4223 | 4261 4318 4353 8 109 120 147 152 157 161 162 160 9 3111 3228 3459 3595 3741 3838 2986 4125 i 4554 4587 4595 4686 4800 4855 4882 4921 ll 1873 1820 1820 1820 1930 1930 1980 193 12 4982 5352 5589 5754 5179 5696 5649 6600 13 6784 6653 5718 5905 G4U2 6743 6655 6398 14 700 700 700 800 800 800 800 802 15 329033 344940 354330 365552 372320 382019 399305 411700 16 14700 15859 17365 18101 18575 18924 20594 20684 17 357572 375333 385522 397992 405267 416812 434933 448160 18 $959776 9987555 8996956 81041052 S106u880 $1093516 S1140543 S11T5106 19 P2T2317 3266892 $288362 $314827 23203563 8379672 8441891 F449732 20 $1231993 $1254447 81285318 81355879 $1387233 $1473188 $1588434 $1624896 21 $3211 $76121 $5854 $81562 $87055 994820 S95848 S97069 22 $7502 $3470 $6139 $5251 $17653 $19190 £10267 $7378 k 8222534 $287768 R269068 8274514 2328065 8332825 2332650 9330500 24 $1535240 $1621806 $1636979 $1717206 S18200066 S1920023 92027199 S2059783 2 4406 4504 4625 4721 4789 4890 4996 5054 26 8115 3094 3011 2930 2925 2849 2771 2775 27 1201 1410 1614 1791 1864 2041 2919 2279 78 10ÿ 10ÿ 1 11} ny, 11,4 1} 11} \u201cuff ,Norz.\u2014The Returns in the foregoing Table, up to the year 1847, are not very complete, but since that period they have been Js icioutly so to establish data by which to compare our yearly progress in Educational matters.The Returns are now pretty exten- ve ©, ind embrace all Institutions of Learning from the Common School up to the University; but hitherto the sources of information ; arding this latter class of Institutions have been rather private than official, which shouid not be the care.The Annual Report ot Ed epartment of Public Instruction should present, in one comprehensive tabular view, the actual state and progress of all our \u201cducational Institutions, Primary, Intermediate and Superior.\\ .MUNICIPAL RETURNS FOR ONTARIO, 1368.2396 ASSETS LIABILITIES.REVENUE.EXPENDITURE.srofud- \u20184,40 \u2018dx ser .NAME OF COUNTY.8 wd 5 ou] Jo junour y *possesss uo 617 puo [suon 03 onp jinoury Tedrourag *possasst OIUNT 9UF UCT] ung avo 93 pL eons Jo \u2018py Jo JUN0958 uo \u201cAOF Wd} POY \u2018UBOT £q \u2018ONpI@AO 3501 'SOW00UY o1qu \u2018Ayrodo.g [BUOSIDJ JO Bon)! \u2018sosodand SOXB] JO JUNOUY pur spuo ! Fea \u2018soqout1q 931 [[B Ur '3snp Jo \u2018UIpy Jo Jou uo \u2018dx \u2018ong Jo JD1}0 [IB 3 uss 103 \u20184x3 10} popuadx \u2018sornqjueaqa uo pred 3sa.toJu] \u2018SONUDAVY 1830 18a£ oy) UIs pasrss Junowy UHDIM POJOd[[0D \"sorpiiqur] RCITET) *80IMIWAQ A UOIJB1Od.10/) soxBI, JO S1BO.LIB JO -X8], J0 JUNOUY on[uA possassy \"oJ81577 [VO] JO NBA possossy 9383 JO JoquIn N S0-10V JO JOQUINN (a JUNOUE [6JOT, | \u2018sjunod TO vIN]Ipue -08 J@1f30 | Is xa COUNTIES OF ONTARIO.s 8 $ s s $ $ s 8 $ $ $ $ 8 $ $ $ s Lenuox and Addington.Lincolo.Alddlesex.Norfolk.376415 5880 4597663| 217165 8800] 10405] 13861|| 14400] 408000 772912) 11970 204610011 768645] 67975] 5438) 64984|| 48984] 126800 509064 6504 7579898 594340| 98020 4201| 15498|| 37600|.\u2026._ 476972) 9102| 9968564| 636500 55655| 6972 140217|| 123501] iTi2Tel: 2015341 5053| 5984511] 44745t| 32886) 1667 22338|l 46250 Nn 510281 7468 5297588 264108] 41200] 7399 50160|| 172775 288000|° Peterborongh.ve 4423) 21173921 205000) 13710] 11557) 4645 27000].Prescott and Russell 1899806) 253900 16780] 4200 225% 2200].Prince Edward 4144985| 313898| 23100 508) 279111.NOT *Renfrew.1209994 243516) 2685) 8374| 14@|l \u2019S4750|.UT: 8057194| 498723) 31610| 175514 98722] 21825] \u201812000|.Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.772873| 10132 8987208 T06845| 51500) 66925] 13331 3400(.Victoria.LL.1159180| 10497, 7241578) 361810] 1000! 37529] 101461|| 97000| \u201c80000 Waterloo.CES 320860| 7405) 8100717| 905750] 111791| 156/| 72754 187138).|., 3983! 69379 Welland.236254) 5371 5344638) 396325| 138807 8516] 106021] 7339 4678 Wellington 710715 11155 19953164! 1000900) 216250 15082] 51187|| 384767] .272725! 6418) 6024274 350834| 95546| 28072] 64996! 103632] \u201852000 .ë 429881 7590| 15214| 12109} 15631| 9197 York.«| 527926) 10574] 13007657 824999 70225 7262 91278] 63750(.|.T724|| 95690 22071|| 4378| 15305 15791| 12102} 23087 30592 11266 15985{ 17999| 4738} 35168 MUNICIPAL RETURNS\u2014ONTARIO.Total Counties.Cee 19605395,268051: 230575455(16214982| 2278858| 1375517] 3611444|| 3939301] 3913578 787625 406467|| 2674712(204765| 87400| 733547 ||377508|474105|430059 2747141668592 App\u2014C(ities and Sep.Towns .21507) 42053) 44892674| 8103786] 4300065| 984542] 8375163|| 6308215] 932400] 311227 T19171]| 476373| 34900] 6S20| 754263|(321669|115241| 99399|106474| 184368 Totals, 1868.|19626902/310114| 275468129 24318768| 6578023| 1760059] 6986607||1024T516| 4845978| 1048852| 1125638|| 8151085/239665| 94220 1478810(1609171|589346/529458 381188 182955 Do 1867 .|18972917,299636| 212888435!93963077| T708547| 1353992 8350281!110502313| 10260151 2281055| 1550156] 3206010|249537|121816| 1343465(|617795|590950 197823387301 {803995 Do 1866 i.1001772229699 238201657 26205087 Cee «| 1261811) 8974512( 10103335| 5120392| 1051816| 1479442|| 2828790/272792(115703] 1254594] 665061 [676470(550830(875483 697496 > Figures of 1867._ Dom COUNTY OFFICIALS\u2014ONTARIO.COUNTY AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS\u2014ONTARIO.CO.TOWNS.JUDGE OF COUNTY & BURRUGATE COURTS.COUNTY ATTORNEYS, OF THE PEACE.CLERKS SHERIFFS, |.Belleville.Prescott & HussellL\u2019 prince Edward.Walkerton .Sandwich .Kingston ! Owen Sound\u2026 Cayuga | Mi ton \u201cGoderich.Napanee London.Simcoe.| Whitby Woodstock ., Picton.Pembroke.Berlin Welland.Hamilton Sault Ste.Marie .|Brantford .|d.J.Kingsmill.St.Thomas.|Thomas Miller.|Hon, G.Sherwood.|Wm.B.Wells.e|Brockville.\u2026 St.Catharines.Cobourg.|Brampton.Stratford.Peterborough.Orignal.Ja Cornwall.Lindsay.|Guelph.Le .{Toromto.- Hon.John Prince.\u2026 S.J.Jones.,.C.Armstrong.D.J.Hughes.G.W.Leggatt.J.d.Burrowes.Henry Macpherson.J.G.Stevenson Charles Robinson.George S.Jarvis.} J.F.Pringle, J.J.| Geer e Duggan.} John Bovd, J.J.J.M.Hamilton.G.Van Norman, Brantford .| Donald W.Ross, Walkerton .|R.Lees, Ottawa.|Jas.Stanton, St.Thomas.S8.S.MacdorMell, Windsor A.S.Kirkpatrick,Kingston .|J.Creasor, jr.,Owen Sound John R.Martin, Cayuga.John Dewar, jr., Milton.|C.L.Coleman, Belleville.Ira Lewis, .{Wm.Douglas, Chatham.[Julius P.Bucke, Sarnia.James Bethune, Cornwall.John McNab, Toronto.JF J C Goderich.P James Smith.A.Lacourse, Lindsay.|A.Lacourse.|Wm.Miller, Galt.|W.H.Bowlby, Berlin.|W.H, Bowlby.|H, W.Price, Thorold |L.D.Raymond, Welland.|L.D.Raymond.A.Macdonald.H.W.Peterson, Guelph.[l'homas Saunders a Ae DT.} S.B.Freeman, Hamilton {S.B.Freeman.M, Hamilton, .John Cameron.Donald W.Ross.R.Lees.James Farley.Charles Baby.A.S.Kirkpatrick W.Armstrong.R.Martin.John Dewar, jr.Daniel Lizars.Wm.Douglas.James Bethune.John McNab.L.Coleman.T.Poussett.J.G.Malloch, .|D.Fraser, Perth.W.R.F.Berford R.S.Steele.E.J.Senkler, jr., Brockville|James Jessup.W.H.Wilkinson.|W.A.Reeve, Napanee.|W.A.Reeve.J.M.Lawder.|R.Mcdonald,St.Catbarines|R.Macdonald.|Wm.Elliott.|Chas.Hutchinson, London{John B.Askin.Wm.Glass, Wm.M.Wils .|Heury A.Hardy, Simcoe.|Henry A.Hardy.Geo.M.Boswe John D.Armour, Cobourg|J.D.Armour {CH Clark, J : \u2019 Li dci ne Z.Burnham.|S.H.Cochrane, Whitby.|H.J.Macdonnell D.S.MeQuee F.R.Ball, Woodstock.|F.R.Ball.A, F.Scott.George Green, Brampton.|George Green D.H.Lizars.|Michael Hayes, Stratford.Michael Haye: Robert Dennist .|C.A.Weller, Peterborough{C, A.Weller mes Daniell.| T.Dartnell, L\u2019Orignal.E.| T.Dartnell D.L.Fairfield.{Philip Low, Picton.{Philip Low.|John Deacon .Wm.Duck, Pembroke.{Wm.Duck.James R.Gowan,.|James R.Cotter, Barrie.|W.B.Mc¢Vity.Richard Carney.John Smith, Brantford.Wm.Sutton, Walkerton, W.F.Powell, Ottawa, Colin Monro, St.Thomas.John McEwan, Sandwich.Wm.Ferguson, Kingston.Jos.Maughan, Owen Sound Richard Martin, Cayuga.G.C.McKindsey, Milton.George Taylor, John McDonald, Goderich John Mercer, Chatham.James Flintoft, Sarnia.James Thompson, Perth.C.Dickenson, Brockville, 0.T.Pruyn, Napanee.J.Woodruff, St, Catherines.elleville.London.Edmund Deedes, Simcoe.R.N.Waddell, Cobourg.N.G.Reynolds, Whitby.Andrew Ross, Woodstock.Robert Broddy, Brampton.R.Moderwell, Stratford.James Hall, Peterborough.| P- Treadwell, L'Original.H.J.Thorp, Picton.James Morris, Pembroke.B.W.Smith, Barrie.D.E.McIntyre, Cornwall.N.McDougall, Lindsay.Geerge Davidson, Berlin.Robert Hobson, Welland.G.J.Grange, Guelph.E.C.Thomas, Hamilton.F.W.Jarvie, Toronto.co.TOWNS, REGISTRARS.CLERK CO.COURT & DEP.CLERK OF CROWN.MASTER AND DEPUTY REGISTRAR IN COURT OF CHANCERY.TREASURERS.Algoma District.Brant.|Chatham.! Napanee .|St.Catharines.|Brantford.| Walkerton.|Sandwich.Kingston .{Owen Sound.|Cayuga.|Thomas Racey, Milton.ees .|Milton.|Belleville.|James Dixon, Goderich.|Peter D.McKellar, Chatham.[Thomas W.Johnstone, Sarnia.-|Goderich.|Sarnia.Brockville.|London.| Welland Hamilton.Sault Ste.Marie .|John McLay, Saugeen.E.Sherwood, Ottawa | .[Ottawa.{ Alex.Burritt, Ottawa.} St.Thomas.|John McKay, St.Thomas.Simcoe.Cobourg.Whitby.| Woodstock .|Brampton.|Stratford.| Peterborough.L'Orignal.|Pieton.Pembroke .|Barrie .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Cornwall .Lindsay.Berlin.¢{|Guelph.Toronto.Colonel A.J.Savage.T.S.Shenston, Brantfor John À.Askin, Sandwich.J.Durand, Kingston.} G.A.Cumming, Kingston.Thomas Lunn, Owen Sound.Agnew P.Farrell, Cayuga.W.H.Ponton, Belleville.James Bell, Perth, John Menzies, Almonte.{¥e Jones, Brockville .N Wm.J.Scott, Prescott.P.Roblin, Napanee.Ce John Powell, Niagara.James Ferguson, London.} iw C.L.Gill, London.L.Walsh, Simcoe.\u2018Wm.H.Eyre, Cobourg.J.M.Grover, Colborne.R.Armour, Bowmanville.G.S.Ward, Port Hope.John Ham Perry, Whitby.Jamas Ingersoll, Woodstock.D.F.Campbell, Brampton Wm.Smith, Stratford.C.Rubidge, Peterborough J.Higginson, L\u2019Orignal.James Keays, Rugsel Andrew Irving, Pembroke George Lount, Barrie.,.George C.Wood, Cornwall.J.P, Crysler, Morrisburg.A.M.McKenzie, Alexandria H, Dunsford, Lindsay.D.McoDougall, Berlin.D.D\u2019Everardo, Fonthill .|James Webster, Guelph.|J.H.Greer, Hamilton.{ J.Ridout,C.Lindsay, Toronto } J.J.Pearson, Newmarket.| Walter Rubidge.|Thos.D.Warren .|D.À.MeMullin.} Charles Rice.|3.B.McGuin.| } JW.Marstgn.ohn P.Roblin, Picton.Henry Pilgrim.Wm.Gunn.James Fraser.Peter O'Reilly\u2026.Peter Inglis.Robt.V.Griffith.W.L.P.Eager.A.G.Northrup.Hugh Johsnton.Thos.A.Ireland.J.R.Gemmill.Sam.Reynolds, jr.F.À.B.Clench.John Macbeth.C.C.Rapelje.R.D.Chatterton J.V.Ham.James Canfield.J.A.Austin.Jas.McFadden.Thomas Fortye.John Twigg Arch.Thompson.James C.Morrow R.McDonald.Isano P, Wilson.James Hough.S.H.Ghent.W.Mackenzie.Clerk Co.Court.Hon.John Prince, Q.C.John Cameron, Brantford.J.Wilson, Ottawa.James Stanton, St.Thomas S.S.Macdonell, Windsor.J.A.Henderson, Kingston D.À.Creasor, Owen Soun Wm.W.Dean, Belleville.H.MacDernott, Goderich.George Williams, Chatham P.T.Poussett, Sarnia.Wm.O.Buell, Perth.J.D.Buell, Brockville.F.W.McDonald, St.Cath.James Shanly, London.D.Tisdale, Simcoe.W.H.Weller, Cobourg.George H.Dartnell, Whitby H.B.Beard, Woodstock.J.P.Cummins, Brampton.G.W.Lawrence, Stratford \u2018W.H.Weller, Peterboro\u2019.J.Bergin, Cornwall, W.H.Weller, Lindsay.J.W.Hall, Guelph.Wm.Leggo, Hamilton.A.N.Buell, Toronto .R.Carney.C.R.Biggar.A.Bproatt.Z.Wilson.Geo.T.Claris.Thos.Wright.John Irvine.Fred.Le Pan.À.P.Farrell.F.McCallum, F.McAnnany.A.M.Ross.C.G.Charteris.Hon.A.Vidal.Wm.Fraser.J.L.Schofield.Edm.Hooper.G.S.M.Ball.Adam Murray.Henry Groff, A.A.Burnham.W.Paxton, jr.H.P.Brown.Geo.Graham.A.Monteith.W.Sheridan, T.W.Marston.|R.J.Chapman, And.Irving.H.R.A.Boys.R.McDonald.S.C.Wood.Chas.Stanton.J.McGlashan.|Wm.Reynolds.J.Kirkpatrick.J.Macdonald. 2398 GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014QUEBEC.[Dominion PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.FINANCES.The province of Quebce, as well as the other provinces of Canada, receives an annual subsidy from the Dominion government.This subsidy constitutes the bulk of the pro- Vincial revenue.The precise amount of subsidy to be allowed to each province under the Constitutional Act Las not yet been definitely settled.The amount for Ontario and Quebec is arrived at by allowing 80 cents per lead for fhe population in 1861, and adding no for legislative \u20acx- ponses\u2014H80,000 for Ontario, an 70,000 for Quebec\u2014with deduction of five per cent.interest on the amount by which the debt of the province of Canada exceeded at the union £62,500,000, as stipulated by sec.112 of the B.N.A.Act.Thus, for the province of Quebec, the subsidy is = Population in 1861\u20141,111,566 @ 80 cends.H889,252.80 Add grant for legislative CxXpenses.c.o.70,000.00 959,252.80 sab per cent.on the excess of debt as above.Pere division und adjustment of the debt, &c., was by the Union Act to be referred to the arbitrament of arbitrators, one for Ontario, one for Quebec, and one for the Dominion, The arbitration was commenced, but difficulties arose as to the basis of division of the debt, &e., which have led to the resignation of the Hou.C.D.Day, the arbitrator for the province of Quebec, and at the time this is written the question is not finally settled.The exact amount of subsidy received by the province of Quebec for the first year of confederation, ending 30th June, 1868, was $915,309.23, and for the year ending 30th June, 1869, $979,801.71.The next principal item of revenue is that derived from crown lands, which, in 1868, yielded $379,771.33, and in 1869, $200,614.22.2 LS The expenditure consists of expenses of administration of justice, civil list, education, colonization, hospitals, asylums, charities, &c.The following is the statement of receipts and payments, from all sources, during the second fiscal year, ended 30th June, 1809 :\u2014 RECEIPTS PAYMENTS, ance in Bank of Legislation.coe $134,118 Ba onirent, 30th June, Civil Government.124,338 1868.2000000000 S218.069 Administration of Jus- 287,813 inion of Canada.979, 16 RAP ,818 Don Dans tes.300,614 Police.16,690 Law Stamps.104,582 Reformatory St.Vin- Registration Stamps.10,401 cent de Paul.24,168 Inland Revenue Col- Prison Inspection.2.692 lectors; Licences, ko 88,920 Pducation Cd Seton 266,215 [© clusive of iterary a ienti- tarps.exclusive se «fs Institutions unes 2200 cducs Receipts.7,5 rts and Manufactures 8, Yducation Be Roads : Agricultural Societies 47,378 Balance of appro- Board of Agrieulturé.,000 riation received Agricultural Schools.800 rom Dominion.2,565 Colonization.66,398 Casual Revenue.1,954 Publie Works, &e.56,688 Reformatory St, Vin- Charities; Asylums,& 164245 cent de Paul.1,359 Removal .reas 597 St.John\u2019s Lunatic Registration Service.8,026 Asyjum ._\u2026.104 Que.Official Gazette.2,653 Building and Jury Miscellaneous., 5,632 Fund; exclusive of , Crown Lands.86,182 Stamps.\u2026\u2026.- 26,674 Stamps.771 Montreal Court House; Licences.,.pe 1,143 exclusive of Stamps.2,802 Expenses of collection Municipal Loan Fund 5,703 , of Licencos .\u2026.\u2026 10,780 Quebec Fire Loan.2,906 Tavern Licences paid Fines and forfeitures.13 to Municipalities.5,432 Off\u2019! Gazetto, Quoen's Building and Jury Printer.cv.os , 4,438 Fund disbursoments 7,821 Printing of the Laws, Amount paid for War- Queen\u2019s Printer.130 rants outstanding Interest.11,882 80th June, 1868.15,860 Legislation.on Amounts received by Private Bills.Legis- Dominion but inelu- lative Assembly.3,600 ded in contra re- fofunds.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.24,780 ceipts under \u2018their * respective heads.2,638 Amount twice credited 665 1,140,599 Less\u2014 Warrants outstanding 30th June, 69.cena 8,687 Total Payments .1,331,911 Balance .563,200 Total receipts .$1,805,111 $1,895,111 The following are the principal receipts and payments for the first fiscal year under Confederation, ending 30th June 1808.\u2019 Ropers, PAYMENTS, Dominion subsidy.$915,300 Administration of jus-.Crown lands.879,771 ties, coon, $274,601 Law Fee fund.83,603 Civil government, .104,095 \u2014 Education.raser » 272:205 Total receipts from all ~ Asylums, charities, &c.125,25 SoUurces.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.#1,635,886 Legislation., .109,144 Total payments.$1,183,238 CROWN LANDS OF QUEBEC.In compiling the information given under this head, and that relating fo colonization, &c., great use has been made of the statistics contained in a valuable pamphlet, recent} issued by order of the government of Quebec, entitled, \u201cThe Province of Quebec and European emigration.\u201d The crown lands are under the control of a member of the local government, named the Commissioner of Crown Lands.The commissioner is represented, wherever wild lands exist, by agents, of whom there are eighteen in the province.The following is a list of the agents, residences, number of acres surveyed which they are empowered to dispose of, &c.: © = e Oo @ a 8; 8 2 8; 8187 85 = e 3 23 ok oF ad CS Sen 25 246» 85 8 Pol BF huildi , , .ing it towards the centre, along its whole length.Îlalf of which on pe Cho CO of colonial vailway, this road is now open, At distances of ten or twelve miles already astracted a great aber of onaventure, have apart, a transverse road, starting from the last settlements long, real estate will have doubled in a sons end before in the valley of the St.Lawrence, crosses the mountain, and ment offers for sale 491,100 acres of 1 La The Govern- joins the Taché road, which is the name given to the great | rates of twenty and thirty cent 9 and mn Gaspé, at the central colonization road alluded to above.There are, J cents per aere.4 besides, two.great military roads, the Matapediac and the Temiscouata ; the Motapediqe, ue miles in Length, joins the IMMIGRATION, St.Lawrence and the Baie des Ghaleurs i\u2014the Temiscouats, By virtue of the C so 4i .70 miles in length, extends frum River du Loup to New ace ei de Nr Federal qu Local Pre ei ; 4 a relating to immigration.The provinces being nv matters e terminal sections of the Taché road arc considered | the absolute ownership of the wild land & invested with better than the central portion of it; but the prevailing their respective limits, it is necessar ry Somprised within timber everywhere in this region is hurd-wood, and this in uniformity of action between them and Wn there should Le general indicates a good soil.This road is one of those |rities.In the autumn of 1868, a conve 5 ederal autho- upon which the government offers free grants.1t is only | delegates from cach province, and 11 vention composed of necessary to seitle inhabitants along the whole extent on ral government, met at Ottn ithe ard of the Fede- either side of it, and colonization will then go on of itself government its share in a ak signed to each in the valley.a | J ct ai Sere Common.C n which their interests his part of the province is, perhaps, the most favored mj T ale { meuns of communication.Upon landing on the shores of establishire oies pt the Federal government of \u2018 the St.Lawrence, the settler lias his choice of ailes or | expenses connected with the ob e, and of defraying the steambout.The eastern terminus of the Grand Trunk is Local governments, it was ne &c.As to the situate nt River du Loup, forty leagues below Quebec.the Federal Europcän agencies, but 1 {hey should utilize And now the Intercolonial railway is heing built from proper, send special agents to Euro migh i if they thought River du Loup to Halifax, and will afford still greater| Since the conquest there has been no ition on acllities.Pr ; ; \u2018 ¢ ) Five extensive townships have just been surveyed in the ! Ee eo ae dy importance, , .Matapediac valley, along the line of the Intercolonial rail-|immigration is thus overmmont ur Quebec in relation to road.The report of the surveyors who fixed the limits of premier, in à letter addressed 7 Goor Ta or.Chauveau, these mew townships, shows that the greater part of the chairman of a committee of tl xeorge « AC son, sq, MP, territory offers a soil well adapted for cultivation ; and [immigration and col roti or the Federal legislature on everything tends to confirm the belief that within a short| The undersigned Tas much pleasure sn comvlvine vid time the township will be occupied by settlers.the request made to him for a statement of nw ying vith The number of acres divided into farm lots, and now for adopted by the Quebce overnment.in behalf ne measures sale on the south shore of the Lower St.Lawrence, is ment of the public Lande and oF ie in half of the settle- 1,423,200, the price per or being thir y cents.tern extr These two subjects have reccived the constant attentio Gaspé The en n on Un n hid ne Ry of the Government and Legislature of the province and the mity of the pr RA.F me hs er he to an ar greater part of the revenue derived from the jublie domain eta) the ho On à ats Of 8615 ® les ra Je has been appropriated, under diverse forms.to these two fei 5 The Gulf f St Lawrence and the Baie des Chaleurs objects, which it is impossible to separate since whatever os to 4 a its 400 miles of const, make it one f tends to fucilitate the settlement of the inhabitants of the whose waters wash its niles \u2018oust, i e of, province on the public lands is cqually favorable to immigration.the most advantageous fishing grounds in the Dominion of Canale rocky, the Gaspé region comprises à great quan The Legislature of the province of Quebec las passed 5 a 303 a greal(ilan- carpal 1.Sh on view qe tity of very fertile land.Those who have settled there and several Juve : with a YON to facilitate the scitlement of the given proper attention to agriculture, have succeeded |)oon ad oy m fl 1 this legislation, immigrants have Beyond their expectation.The sen-weed, washed upon the country.won the same footing as the natives of the shore by the action of the tide, at every point, furnishes the One of these luws passed in the first session of Parlin- farmer with a very valuable manure, aud, besides this, fish ment, has for it ébiset the constr T5, SESSION DE to for similar purposes may casily be obtained by him.ronds, which ns i Mae he construction of colonization A prominent resident of Percé, Mr.George LeBouthillier, fret ks re Ar sided 2e three classes: those of the upon being interrogated by a committee of the Legislative utility, and ore stmctod Je of public and Troy he Assembly of Quebec, in 1868, spoke in the following terms | Government; those of the irely.at the expense © at of the future which lies open to all who seck a home in this the ox sf ose of the second class are made in part at region : pense of government and in part af the expense of T4 à ; pont « .the municipalities, the latter furnishing less than the \u201cIbis unquestionable, said he, (hat a man, on this const, government ; those of the third class are constructed upon with a well-cultivated farm, of only twenty acres, can live the same system, but the municipalities must furnish a sum better than anywhere else on the continent.To make at tenst equal to the government grant, \u2019 money as à fisheriman, it is above all essential to have a| There was expended during the first cighteen months on farm capable of supplying all one\u2019s necessary food and a colonization roads, a sum of nearly sixty-seven thousand part of ones clothing.Under these circumstances the dollars, and there were voted for the ensuing cighteen fisheries aid the farm, They contribute to it also a large [months $187,000 for first-class roads, $45,000 for those of portion of the manure required.On the days or hours the second class, and $30,000 for hose of the third class.when the employees of the trader are not required at sea or In the same session was passed another Act 16 encourage on the beach, they can always find occupation upon the colonization, which exempts all public lands, conceded to à farm, and by means of the fisheries greatly improve it.| bond fide settler, from seizure for debts contracted previons The conclusion to be drawn is, that the fisheries and the to the grant or concession; and which during the ten yeu farm assist one another, but that previous to engaging in following the issue of patents, and during the whole period.the former, a man should be settled on a well cultivated not to exceed five years from the time of the occupation of farm, with suitable buildings, and that to promote the the lot to the issue of patents, exempts from seizure certain fisheries, agriculture must first be promoted.Agriculture is of his chattels.! the foundation of the fishing trade, as elsewlere it is the Last session the Legislature pagsed an Act respeeting the foundation of manufactures and commerce.\u201d gale of public lands, providing for the establishment © The county of Bopaventure, which forms the southern agencies and their concentration for the sale of lands, the portion of the peninsula of Gaspé, although engaged active- cutting of timber, colonization and immi gration, and afford: ly in the fishing carried on, bas made greater progress in ing better remuneralion to persons charged therewith, and agriculture than Gaspé proper.The land bordering the bringing about simultaneous action for these jmportan Baie des Chaleurs is all under cultivation, and at certain objects, necessarily connected together points clearings have been made which extend for miles into Any organization for the assistance to bo afforded to the interior.\u2018There is room here for thousands of settlers, immigrants, at their place of destination, can only be.com and as a general rule the land is very fertile.The works pleted on the appointment of the new agents under this Act: DIRECTORY .] GENERAL INFORMATION\u2014QUEBEC.The agencies of the Federal government at Quebec and montrent having been continued, the Provincial government does not intend, for the present ut least, to appoint agents of its own at these points.; Lo As a large number of immigrants are taking the direction of the Ottawa, and a certain proportion of them settle on the lands of the rovinee of Quebec, the Local Government jms opened a credit in favor of the Federal agent at Ottawa, to assist in forwarding to the lands of the province of Quebec such immigrants as desire to locate thereon, The price of land in the province of Quebec varies from 30 to 60 cents per acre ;\u2014in the castern portion of the province it is generally 30 cents.Free grants are given on the Tuché and Matapédiac and other great colonization roads.Last session the Legislature passed an Act for the encou- mgement of colonization railways, granting, on certain conditions, an annual subsidy to seven different companies, incorporated for that purpose; and also an Act for the encouragement and formation of colonization societies.These societies may also act as immigration societies.Their objects are defined as follows : L To aid in promoting the establishment of settlers on town lands; to attract emigrants from other countries, ad to restore to this province such of its inhabitants as lave emigrated ; 2.To open, with the permission of the government, and , toaid the government and municipalities in opening roads through wild lands of the crown, or leading thereto ; 3.To direct settlers or emigrants towards the localities which the commissioner of crown lands shall, as herein- sfter provided, have assigned to and reserved for them; 4.To provide settlers with seed grain, provisions, and implements suitable for the clearing and cultivation of land ; 5.To aid the department of agriculture and the department of Crown lands in the diffusion of knowledge and information calculated to extend colonization ; 6.To promote colonization and assist settlers, by all means and proceedings which they shall deem desirable to adopt, in conformity with regulations to be provided by the lientenant-governor in council.The government gives assistance lo the societies, bv according to them a grant equal to their subscriptions up to $300, and equal to one half the subscriptions over that amount, up to a further sum of $300.As many ag three societies may be formed in each electoral division, but the total amount to be expended by the government fur these societies in each county shall not exceed $600.These societies have, moreover, the right to acquire property, by bequest or otherwise, and to receive contributions from municipalities and corporations; they are themselves incorporated for this purpose, The department of \u2018agriculture and colonization watches over the organization and working of these societies ; and there ig every reason to hope that a certain number of them will take an active part in promoting immigration.Over and above the grants to these socicties, townships, or parts of townships, will be reserved for the establishment of settlers, whom they may send thither; and such settlers will have the preference over all others, whether immigrants or matives of the country, upon the ordinary conditions of the sale and concession of crown lands, and to each society a free grant will be made of one lot for every ten lots upon which its settlers shall lave established themselves.Other societies for colonization and immigration, besides the three allowed for each electoral division, may be formed.and they shall be invested with all the powers of the other societies; but shall receive no grant from the Government.The department of crown lands is now engaged on a topographical and geological survey of the vast territory which extends beyond the Laurentian chain, to the north of the St.Lawrence, and which is drained by the Ottawa, the St.Maurice and the Saguenay.Last year this department caused several townships on the proposed line of the Intercolonial railway to be surveyed, in order to promote colonization in those parts.Such are, in brief, the measures relating to colonization and to immigration which have been adopted by the government of the Province of Quebec, to which will be added those which may be suggested and considered at the sittings of the Interprovincial commission, which represents the Federal and Local governments.\u2014_\u2014 SOCIETIES.PLACE OF BUSINESS.LIST OF COLONIZATION SOCIETIES, P.Q._\u2014 - =\".PRESIDENTS.SECRETARY-TREASURERS, St.Liboire.St, George d\u2019 Aubert Gallion.St.Georges, do .pe Cee Shenley eee as 1 echnsse, - oo [Notre-Dame de Buckland.12 outventure en, Carleton.a LE 2 5 the ports situated on the Saguenay and at the mouth of the CUTIES, 2.1%8 5 | Bo S a 8 .principal rivers on the north east shore, such as ut Tadousac,.C2 in| £ T 5% \u20ac E 52 | Chicoutimi, the Islets de Jérémie, the river Godbout, the * £5 84] \u20ac = 2° Ë É £- Seven Islands, Mingan, Masçouaro.The other tribes, Ë ALA lL) MLR _|2__| or relics of tribes, are the Petits Esquimaux, the Naskapis, .Queb A 181/ 602 (Montagnais,) the Têtes de Boule, the Warmontashings.! uebee, city.| 51,109) 2177| 792| 737 ¢ The Indians congregated in village ltivate fi : Montreal, oity.| 90,323) 4208) 3196 14175 22228 48509 1679 127% Indian corn, oats, whoa, green crops, AA fieds of Three-Rivers,city 6.058 T 5 : .os ot ; Sherbrooke, town| 5,889 394 140 4971 2906| 1419] 443] 120 of cattle; but, as a general rule, they occupy their time with L'Assomption .| 17335 69] 14 '97| 433) 16721 16] 5 fishing and hunting.[hey have churches, and midsionaries.| 12087| 817| 806| 1820| 7615] 2781| 97| 61 who live among them or visit them regularly.13.473 30 13| 394 1325 11620 8o| 11 18,841 75| 56| 124| 296) 18185) 127) 28 20,416] 38 1| 167; 608] 19564) 27| 11 IMPORTS.| 16,742/ 77| 882| 112] 1084| 14168| 14 20 ; , ; .Bellechasse.| 16,062 9 2] 14| _25| 16007 2j 3|, Ttmustbe remembered, in connection with the subject of Berthier 19,608 2 a oi on 1931 i 150 imports, that a large part of the goods imported into the Pro- onaventure.i 72 7{187 inc bec .î pi Bonaventure.| Ios 295) 149) 337] 8971| 164| 1975) 28| \"7% of Quebec, 15 consumed in Ontario.Chambly 18,182/ 8o/* 43 225 588) 12317 58| 15 Synopsis of the value of articles entered for consumption in Champlain.920008) 25 17| 48| _62| 19665) 20] 171 ! CCS enlere ] 0 Charlevoix .| 15.223 7.10] 104| 15089 a 20 the Province of Quebec, distinguishing between dutiable Chateauguay | 17,887 129 7 727 3783 12200 165 2 and free goods, and indicating the countries whence they \u2018hicoutimi -.10.478 7 they are imported, and the amount collected on dutiable Compton.| 10.210] 580| 1095 313| 5218 1885) 1066) 111 ., ar ; ; : Dorchester .| 16.195 36| _18| 791} 2215| 18107| 18) 16 goods for the fiscal year, ending 30th June, 1869.Drummond .| 12,356 199] 123| 644| 8624| \"692 1491 26 Gaspé and Mag- deleine 'slauds| 14,077 76| 42] 237] 4123| 8769| _10| 820 DUTIES Hochelaga.16,474] 243| 250| 846| 1839) 13010] 148| 137 COUNTRIES.DUTIABLE.| FREE.TOTAL.COL Huntingdon 17.491] 230] 1062| 2111| 9469 4060] 546 893 LECTED.Iberville.16,891 56| 49| 643| 1004| 14968 161} 42 _ Jacques-Cartier.| 11,218 T5 3 02 44| 10808 5 Great Britain.| $14,503,286 5,123.350/ 19,026,636 2,374 ,446 Joliette.| 21,198| 11 4| 321 762 20078 15) 22 United States.J 2,910,004, 3,258,800( 6,168,804 676,683 Kamouraska.| 21,058 1 2 8 66] 20977).29! France.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.988,843) 107,080h 1,095,882/ 226.09 Laprairie .14,475) 58] 26] 74| 4 8] 13765 37 1869 Germany .a 390 404 35,001 5,405 117,159 Laval.10,607 7| 16) 13 19] 10445 5 8| China.\u201c 83,218!.83,218) 20,582 Lévis.| 22,091] 124 62| 479] 1254| 20119) 28 25 Other Countries.1,248,398 ,270| 1,406,668] 570,648 Lotbinière.- 20,018] GH 89| 1124| 2968] 16798] 19| 16 British North American Maskinongé.| 14,790].1.5| _218| 14508] Bl} 23| Provinces.255.835 214,355 470,190 119,202 Mégantic.17,889 267| 546| 1391 3418| 11161] 62) \"44 British West Indies.266,958 147| 267,100| 112,788 Missisquoi.18698] 271| 174| 695) 10266| 5800] 1788| 64 -_ Ce Montcalm .| 14,758| 62) 30] 605| 1744| 12808| 22| 3 20,646,041| 8,896,969] 29,543,003 4,231,496 Montmagny.| 13,386 9 2 20 681 18275 1| 16 Duty on re-impression \u2019 Montmoreney .| 11,186 3 9| 125| 288| 10708 : 5 English Books.1,274|.1,274 Se\u201d | 45 9 9% Das 0 A EH icolet.568 i : 6 11 Totals.- $20,648,216 8,896,962| 29,545,177) 4,231,496 Ottawa 97,157) 9751 417) 8580| 86650) 14857| 294| 487 ols $20,048,216) 8,896,962) 20,545,177 Pontiac.14,125| 265| 519! 2800| TB9a| 2422| 116| 161 bei a HE Quebec.71,86 284 7 657) 64 346 Lichelieu, A 19.070 a 21 oh vd 18502 22 B EXPORTS, ; Richmond., 446] 604 3 57| 1312) 474 4 \" ibiti \u2018ticle xe! i rowth Rimouski.aa (0e (881 2) \"0if| avoss| 7] 16) Tamu exhibiting the value of auticles of Cunadind Beto Rouville.18297] 96 2n| oe| 493 I7ew| 61} 11| and manulaciurg, exported from the Lrovince of = =r Saguenuy.| 6101 61] 19) 25 6271 5083) 6/1084 different countries, for the fiscal year, ending 80th June, Shefford.17,779] 180| 95| 777| 4029] 12084] 650| 44 1869.Soulanges.12,221 5 64 70| 1070] 10971] 29 12 : $ 0 St.Hyacinthe.18.877| 12] 12] 97] 224] 18438] 281] 14 Great Britain.$16,344,825 Brought forward.$28,000,909 St.Jean.14,853| 898) 63| 404] 2112) 11706) 244) 16| United States.\"5,627,276 Valparaiso.£16,032 St.Maurice.1100] 6] 5 11| 114] 10919] 17 28| Newfoundland.592,718 South Amorien.150,807 Stanstead.12,258) 283 120] 350| 8282] _985| 2263| 26 Prince BdwardIsl\u2019d.93,886 Pontifien] Statos.2,711 Teémiscounta.,.| 18.561 18} 15) 26| 801) 18156 9] 206 France.122,758 Naplos 28922 Tenrebonne.| 19.460] 25 126| 346) 11) 18909| 20| 24 English WostIndies 73,206 Italy.58.938 Two Mountains.| 18.408] 81| 101| 816| 1075) 1686(| J6| 18| French «