14 THE EMIGRATION QUESTION. 



though we read and hear many glowing accounts of the 

 wild sports of the colonies, I have come to the con- 

 clusion that these are no more within the reach of the 

 ordinary settler who has to make his own living, than a 

 grouse moor in the Highlands or a salmon river in Nor- 

 way are within the reach of the English farmer. In some 

 localities the settler may get a day's sport now and again 

 near his homestead, as the farmer does at home. And my 

 remarks apply only to the immigrant who has to make 

 his own way in the world. The man who takes up his 

 residence in a colony to make his means go farther than 

 they would at home, will seek for society, sport, &c., 

 according to his taste. 



This leads us to a third class of emigrants neither the 

 small capitalist nor the working man, but the man of 

 small fixed income. To this class some of our colonies 

 offer the greatest advantages. C, in the prime of life, 

 with an income of say 300?. a year, finds himself utterly 

 unable to bring up his family in England as he himself 

 was brought up. Like most English gentlemen, he is 

 fond of outdoor occupations. He hates the loafing life 

 led by many of his countrymen in similar circumstances 

 in cheap European watering places. As a last resource, 

 he tears himself root and branch from the old soil, and 

 transports himself to the colony. I think he does wisely 

 lor himself and for his children too. In a comfortable 

 cottage, situated, let us say, on the shores of one of the 

 great Canadian lakes, he will lead a life more suited to 

 the English temperament than he could do at Boulogne- 

 sur-Mer. The family will have a better opening in the 

 colony than in the overcrowded parent land. C will find 



