Ontario. 



Ontario. 



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little pamphlet pubHshed by the American Colonisation Company, 

 and tiike your son with you to the office in i^insbury Pavement 

 and talk the matter over with the people there. My son is with a 

 farmer in Ontario, a Scotchman and thorough gentleman. He 

 and my son get on capitally. My son likes the life, and is already 

 laying by money ; not much, tis 'true, but enough to show that the 

 life pays, besides being very enjoyable. Now this farmer's name 



was given to me by Mr. , the first that came to hand on his 



list, with the information that another pupil had declined to go 

 there, because the boy thought the place was too far from a town. 

 My son went there, and, as he says in his letters, ' has fallen on 

 his legs and no mistake.' Another pupil went to the same part 

 with his father, and when the time came for the father to return, 

 the young gentleman prevailed on his father to bring him back to 

 England. 1 give you these two instances to show that my son 

 seems to have succeeded where two others failed, and my own 

 experience of more than thirty years out of England, in India 

 and the colonies, goes to prove the same, that it depends entirely 

 on the young men themselves whether they get on or not in the 

 colonies. We hear every fortnight from my son, who ploughs, 

 drives home cattle, milks cows, and looks after horses and pigs, 

 and works with the farmer Hke our farm labourers in England, 

 and probably much harder, and yet finds time to write long 

 and amusing letters to us, and he and the farmer turn out 

 like gentlemen on Sunday, and go to their respective churches. 

 If young men are steady and not afraid of work, they will succeed, 

 but if they loaf about and take a lot of money out with them, 

 they get into a bad way very soon. 



'' Toui's faithfully, 

 " G. H. G., Esq." (Signed) '' W. H. S., Major-General." 



"P.S. — We send our son the county paper every week, and 

 he is only four miles from a town, so I think his two predecessors} 

 were rather easily daunted." 



Mys. B., mother of F. K. B., quoted above, Janiiary 

 12tli, 1883 : 



" I am glad to tell you that my son writes quite cheerfully and 

 contentedly, appearing fully satisfied with all the arrangements 



you and your agents made for him. Mr. and Mrs. W seem 



nice, kind people, with whom he anticipates getting on famously." 



J. H., January 16th, 1883 : 



" I thank you very much for your satisfactory letter relating 

 to my son William H . I have been for some time in corres- 

 pondence with Mr. N about his remaining at his farm another 



year, and we have made arrangements for him t« do so." 



