440 CLIMATE, ETC. 



world, police are not needed in Canada. Canadians are 

 orderly, peaceable, and honest to a degree. I don't know 

 that I ever saw an enclosed farmyard in Canada, and in 

 the rural districts locks and bolts are quite unnecessary. 

 Valuable lumber lies, as I have before said, for months 

 unclaimed and untouched on the banks of the rivers, but 

 as safe as if it was in its owner's lumber-yard. Farming 

 implements are left lying in the fields, and valuable crops 

 in the back settlements are sometimes never seen by the 

 farmer between seed-time and harvest. In many districts 

 the sheep and cattle of a whole settlement wander through 

 the woods and pastures in droves, and are never seen by 

 the owners from spring till " fall," when they are driven in 

 and claimed by their respective proprietors. In religious 

 matters, a fruitful subject of quarrels, Canadians either 

 agree or agree to differ. Education is free and com- 

 pulsory, a school-tax being levied on every citizen. The 

 settler's farming utensils and home necessaries are pro- 

 tected by a homestead law from seizure for debts con- 

 tracted within a given period of the commencement of 

 his occupancy. The British immigrant in Canada is at 

 once on arrival entitled to every privilege, civil and 

 political, enjoyed by his Canadian-born fellow-subject, 

 privileges which he cannot obtain in the United States 

 short of a three years' residence, and which he can never 

 obtain there without surrendering the dearer privilege of 

 calling himself an Englishman. 



LOXDON: PRIHTEU BY EDWAEU STANFOBD, 55, CHARING CROSS, s.vr. 



