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UTTER CANADA INHABITANTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Upper Canada Inhabitants Climate Soil Mode of Selling 

 Land, and Prices Bad Effects of Selling on Credit Situation 

 of Settlers without Capital Price of Land in Upper Canada 

 and the Western United States Price of Land, and Mode of 

 Settlement Injurious to the Province Suggestions for Improving 

 the State of the Country. 



UPPER CANADA became a separate province in 1791. It is 

 bounded on the east by Lower Canada, and on the south by 

 the river St Lawrence, and the chain of rivers and lakes to 

 the west, the waters of which form the St Lawrence. The 

 boundaries in the north, and in the extreme west towards the 

 Pacific Ocean, are perhaps not accurately defined, and the 

 surface of the province cannot be estimated. 



About the time of settling the mouth of the St Lawrence, 

 the French penetrated into Upper Canada, and planted a co 

 lony on the river Detroit, where their descendants still reside. 

 At the close of the war, in 1793, when the colonies of North 

 America became independent of Britain, many inhabitants of 

 the United States, who adhered to the government of the 

 mother-country, moved into Upper Canada, where they ob 

 tained grants of land. At the same time many disbanded sol 

 diers also received land. In this way parts of the shores of 

 lake Ontario, and lake Erie, and the banks of the Niagara, 

 .Detroit, and Thames, were first settled. More recently, 

 many people of Dutch and German extraction have settled 

 in the provinces, as well as subjects of the United States ; and 

 there has been a constant stream of emigration from Britain. 

 The population, chiefly found on the lakes and rivers, may 

 amount to about 400,000, the greater part being of British 

 descent. 



Upper Canada differs from the lower province in climate, 



