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The Illumination of Joseph Keeler, Esq. 



yet the rate for the decade, 1841-1851, 

 further learned with surprise that this r; 

 that in the most rapidly developing wes 

 had in 1850 some 1,980,427 of populat: 

 in ten years had been only 33 per cent, vi. 

 marvellous was that the wheat acreage oi 

 but seven-twelfths that of Ohio, had rai 

 bushels per acre, as compared with a 

 Ohio." 



The professor was, however, too keen! 

 that this remarkable development of I 

 solely to the repeal of the Corn Laws, w. 

 States equally with Canada, although t 

 did in 1843 put a protective duty on wht 

 from the United States. Very properly 

 lous increase in population due to the choc 

 population of the Mother country of em 

 lesser of two evils, a forlorn hope, ind 

 ocean voyage often as long as two mont 

 shipboard, which today dare hardly be re 

 writing of the situation in England, say? 



"Commerce was languishing. Distre 

 Law rates were mounting and grants- 

 slowly from the factory districts to the rui 

 Peel, 'whether we can with safety retrogr* 



"Then came the failure of the potato e 

 famine and distress attendant upon it, fo 

 United States, Canada and Australia, to t 

 from 1840 to 1850 and in 1847 alone th 

 came to Canada. But along with the po\ 

 poor emigrant on leaving Britain came dis 

 terrible year; the quarantine at Grosse Is 

 saw 5,424 victims of ship fever buried, 

 clergy laid beside them, while hundreds m 

 hospitals at Quebec, and Montreal and en 

 inland. In 1849 cholera served to fill i 

 picture of misery, this being the year sue 

 Revolutions,' when all Europe was an arn 

 agitation due to sudden alarms from eve: 



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