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they require bedding, and knife, fork, tin mugs, &c. Ten 

 cubic feet (equal to a box 2^ feet long, 2 feet wide, and 

 2 feet deep) is allowed for luggage for each adult ; for all 

 over that quantity a charge of one shilling for each cubic 

 foot will be made for ocean freight. 



In the ships of the Allan line, when they are not much 

 crowded, steerage passengers are made fairly comfortable. 

 The food is of good quality, fairly cooked, and ample in 

 quantity. I have seen provisions enough to feed one 

 hundred hungry men thrown overboard in one day. I 

 have frequently, when at sea, been through the steerage of 

 the Allan vessels, and, with the one exception of over- 

 crowding, which I suppose is an evil not to be avoided in 

 emigrant ships, I have never seen anything to complain 

 of in the treatment of the emigrants. And after all they 

 are not more crowded than are H.M. soldiers in a transport 

 ship. 



In this little work I only desire to touch upon the 

 emigration of working men and their families, in con- 

 nection with that of the farmer and small capitalist. The 

 paid emigration agents of the Dominion appeal chiefly to 

 the working classes, and no doubt explain very fully all 

 the advantages that Canada has to offer them. But it 

 seems to me that among the advantages Canada offers to 

 the emigrant farmer with small capital, the favourable 

 terms on which he can import labour from the Old World 

 are especially to be remembered. Newly arrived emi- 

 grants in Canada, of the working classes, are now hired 

 through the medium of the local emigration agents. 

 They are hired by the year, alter a probationary term of 

 a month. Able-bodied men get from $10 to $12 per 



