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year with six months' notice expiring at the end of April. The 

 1st May and the 1st October are the usual dates for changing house. 

 For a nine or ten-roomed house, which in the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh would rent at about £40 per annum, the rent in a city 

 like Ottawa would be about £5 per month, including rates, taxes, 

 and water. But as the owner pays all taxes, and as in this case 

 they would amount to about £1 per month, the net rent would be 

 £4 per month or £48 per year, thus showing a difference of about 

 £8 in favour of the Scotch house. The wages of domestic servants 

 are a serious item, being considerably higher than they are in 

 Scotland. In cities and towns they range from £2 per month 

 upwards. 



Locomotion, Light, and Fuel 



In Canada all services which depend upon electricity are ex- 

 cellent in kind, and in localities where water power is abundant, 



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cheap in price. In most Canadian towns, electric cars (or trams) 

 and telephones are everywhere in use. The former provide practi- 

 cally the only popular means of conveyance from point to point 

 within urban and suburban areas, and usually there is a uniform 

 charge of 5 cents for all distances with reductions for tickets supplied 

 in quantities and for workmen travelling during specified hours, 

 morning and evening. Telephones — a Canadian invention — are 

 more largely used in domestic life than they are in Great Britain. 

 The charge at Ottawa for telephones installed in private houses, is 

 $25 per annum. The electric light is also practically universal, and 

 at Ottawa the charge is 8 cents per 1000 watt hours less a cash 



