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uneducated and brutal mob as in the United States. The 

 priests are good subjects to England ; they know well that 

 under no other rule would they enjoy so much toleration ; 

 in Lower Canada they have their flocks well in hand, 

 while next door, under mob rule, they see that their co- 

 religionists have emancipated themselves from priestcraft 

 and would pursue the almighty dollar in the teeth of the 

 Pope himself. 



The attachment of French Canadians to their country 

 is very strong. They are handy tradesmen and skilful 

 mechanics, and often migrate to the United States when 

 wages rule high there, but never to settle; they always go 

 with the intention of returning to their beloved Canada. 

 In 1873, as we have seen before, 9000 Canadians returned 

 from the States to live in their own country. 



The province of Quebec has many attractions for the 

 sportsman. The angling is unquestionably the finest in 

 the world. There is still plenty of big game in the forest, 

 although each year the hunter has to go farther back in 

 quest of sport. At the head of the Ottawa, the Gatineau, 

 and most of the other large tributaries of the St. Lawrence 

 on its northern banks, moose are still to be found. Also 

 on the south shore, in the districts of Bonaventure and 

 Temisquata. The legal season for moose hunting is from 

 September 1st to January, and if the close season were 

 rigorously enforced moose would be extremely plentiful in 

 all parts of Lower Canada ; the browse they feed on grows 

 abundantly everywhere in the forest, and there is a 

 mixture of lake, swamp, and hard-wood land, which they 

 delight in. To hunt the moose successfully in the legal 



