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the land, in Canada there is not yet a country-house 

 society, people are collected more into the neighbourhood 

 of the cities and towns, and the consequence is that a 

 much larger and pleasanter society is to be met with in a 

 Canadian town than in an English town of similar size. 

 There are also more amusements. In every Canadian 

 town there is a musical society, a club or news room, a 

 rink, an assembly room, a snow-shoe club, &c., &c., where 

 people enjoy themselves 8,11 the more as they have no 

 " county people " to look down upon them. Canadians 

 are deeply attached to the old country, and in no way do 

 they show their attachment more than the cordial way 

 they welcome presentable British newcomers to their little 

 circles. Everything that the settler requires can be 

 bought in Canada, and most of the necessaries of life are 

 as cheap or cheaper than in the old country. I should 

 recommend an emigrant to take nothing with him but 

 cash, bearing constantly in mind the fact that money is 

 worth twice as much in Canada as in the old country, and 

 that for everything he pays ready money for, he may 

 expect a considerable discount. Thus, if the credit price 

 of a commodity be 10?. let him in the first place offer 51. 

 cash, and certainly not give more than 11. 10s. Imported 

 clothes, linen, and finery are of course rather higher than 

 in England, but even these articles de luxe are reasonable, 

 so much so that carpet baggers come over from the States 

 with empty trunks, and take them back full of clothing 

 and finery, the cost being so much less than in their own 

 country, as to enable them to save enough out of the 

 price to pay all the expenses of the trip. Clothes are 

 made up very fairly. A Bond Street tailor has nn 



