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I would recommend those that intend to marry, to bring out 

 wives with them, if they can get good ones. Women are wanted ; 

 and, although there is no very great scarcity, there are more males 

 than females, which is the reverse of England; therefore it 

 would be a pity to increase the number of the latter, already un 

 avoidably doomed to remain single; and besides, generally 

 speaking, a man will find a woman of his own country more 

 congenial to his habits and taste, as a wife, than any other. 

 This is not a bad country for single females to come to as house 

 servants, they will get from 20s. to 30s. a month ; and, if steady, 

 industrious, and deserving, may probably soon (if they choose) 

 become the mistress of a house of their own. Strong, handy 

 boys will get the same wages per month, and board. 



The inducements held out by Canada to men of capital, com 

 bined with skill, are great, and equal to any country. Money can 

 be invested in almost every kind of property to advantage, if done 

 with judgment : in purchasing land, particularly near towns and 

 villages that must increase ; in building houses, mills, &c. ; in 

 establishing breweries on a moderate scale ; in distilleries, fur 

 naces and forges, and all manufactures. 



Emigrants, who seek present conveniences, cash markets, and 

 a moderately good soil, with a country in some measure cleared, 

 and generally healthy, would do best to settle either near Port 

 Hope, York, Niagara, or round the head of Lake Ontario ; but 

 others, who prefer a more moderate climate, a richer soil, cheape-r 

 land, with the prospect of as good a market when the Welland 

 Canal is in operation,* will probably go to. the westward. 



People of most common useful trades will find encouragement 

 both as masters and journeymen ; good blacksmiths and tailors 

 are in request, house-carpenters, plasterers, bricklayers, and brick- 

 makers, shoe-makers, boat-builders, wheelwrights, coopers, c. 

 will find openings almost everywhere, and with wages equal to 

 any part of the States ;t a few good innkeepers, to keep re 

 spectable houses, I think would succeed; and maltsters and 

 brewers also. 



It is unnecessary to add more in proof of the great importance 

 of Upper Canada, and other American Possessions, to England ; 

 and the superiority of the former over the United States, for 

 British emigrants. 



No. 2. TAXES OF UPPER CANADA. 



The taxes are very trifling in Upper Canada, and, I believe, 

 chiefly expended in the county in which they are collected, 

 for building bridges, court-houses and gaols, and defraying the ex 

 penses of the latter. A friend of mine, who owns 200 acres, 

 informs me his taxes never exceeded 7s. Qd. in any one year. 



* The Welland Canal has been opened while this work was at press. 



t An Irishman, a bricklayer, who came out this last spring, has been 

 engaged in building a house this summer, at 6s. 9d. a day, and board, 

 and a pint of whiskey : most of the above trades in proportion. 



