EMIGRATION TO CANADA.
Canada as a field for emigration is just now exciting an unwonted degree of attention. The Province of Ontario, the leading province of the Dominion, is putting forth very great efforts to secure its fair share of the surplus population of the old world. We are in receipt of a pamphlet, issued by the authority of the Grovernnient, which contains a very great amount of information of interest to intending emigrants, and of value to all who feel an interest in this important dependency of the British Crown. Eroin it we learn that the progress of the province in the past has been very marked, the population having increased from 1852 to 1861 no less than 46.65 per cent., while that of the United States increased between 1851 and 1861 but 35.58 per cent., and a number of other figures are given from the census of IS6I in the two countries, all tending to show that inj substantial progress, in every department of industry, Ontario has more than held its own on the great American continent. Particulars are given of the school system, the municipal system, the agricultural progress, the laws, the political institutions, the climate, the public works, &c, of the province, and the special inducements which are offered to emigrants are stated. The principal inducement is the new free grant policy of the country. By this policy, two hundred acres of land are given to every settler in the free grant district, the terms upon which the grant is made being very easy. They require that the settler shall, within one month after taking up his lot, settle upon it, and put up a house, these houses being generally built of logs, which make a very comfortable residence in Canada. He is then required within five years to clear and put under cultivation fifteen acres, residing continuously upon the property during that period, after which he is entitled to his patent. The Grovernment have also adopted means, by concerted action with the several municipal authorities, to ascertain the number and class of persons who can find profitable employment, and as emigrants arrive in the country they are sent to these districts. They have, too, appointed a special commissioner io visit Great Britain and make known the advantages which the province possesses for emigrants. Mr. "White is the gentleman named for this important mission, from whom- we learn that during last season no less than six hundred Canadians took up free grants, a fact of great interest to emigrants who purpose going on these lands, as they would have the advice and assistance of people acquainted with the country. We also learn from Mr. "White that the emigrants who have landed in oho country cms springhave all found employment at once. — Home paper,
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 84, 18 September 1869, Page 5
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467EMIGRATION TO CANADA. Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 84, 18 September 1869, Page 5
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