24 TEE EMIGRATION QUESTION. 



for their money on equally good security, and after they 

 had acquired a little experience of the ways of the country 

 they could as easily get eight or ten per cent., and this in 

 a land in which the necessaries and comforts of life are 

 cheaper than in an old country where money is a drug in 

 the market. 



One great advantage that Canada possesses over every 

 other land to which emigration is directed is, that it is 

 near home. The intending emigrant may think that this 

 is no advantage, that when he once emigrates he emi- 

 grates never to return. If he goes to the antipodes pro- 

 bably this will be the case. He must make up his mind 

 never to see his Old- World friends again. Quite the con- 

 trary in Canada, which is in point of time and personal 

 fatigue no farther from London to-day than Ireland and 

 Scotland were fifty years ago. The wish to see old friends 

 and old faces will surely come back to the immigrant 

 some day or other, and if Canada is his new home he can 

 gratify this wish at a trifling expense and at a loss of but 

 little time. By the Allan Line return tickets from Liver- 

 pool to Quebec, available for a whole year, cost only 251. 

 Canada is nearer to England than the United States. 

 The distance from England to New York is 3095 miles ; 

 from Liverpool to Quebec 2649 miles. The latter voyage 

 is 446 miles shorter, and for fully one-third of the way 

 between Derry and Quebec the ships of the Allan Line 

 (from the Straits of Belleisle to Quebec) are in compara- 

 tively smooth water: whereas from Liverpool to New 

 York the traveller is all the time on the stormy Atlantic. 

 The route from Derry to Quebec admits of a great im- 

 provement, which will no doubt come in a short time. 



