Area in Acr«. 1 '^y;;;^,-^ 



Uu8urveyi?d. 

 118.983,000 

 3,l»f).O00 



Availablp IV/r 

 .Settlfiiient. 



5to«,000,000 

 3,754,000 



Lower Canada 132,000,000 2.734,735 

 Upper Canada 6i,000.000!l,32G,313 



The country is, in lenijth, tVom East to West, about 1000 



miles; in breadth, from North to Sou(h. about 300 miles. 



la 180G the population of Upper and Lower ) ^^^ ^.g 



Caoada, was 3 ' 



181G ditio 33:1,250 



1824 ditto 580,450 



1831 Lower Canada ♦ 52r>.n20 7 j,.,, o-.. 



Upper ditto 2J)G,544 f ••*'®'*» 



1836 Lower Canada, supposed G00,000 } , ^^^ ««^ 



Upper Canada 400.000 5 *»"""'""" 



Mc Culloch makes the population to be in 



1842 Lower Canada 700,000 7 , o^^ nn^ 



„ Upper ditto (iOO.OOO J I'^O^'OOO 



The Parliamentary returns state the population of 

 Upper Canada in 1842 to be only 480,055. 



IMMIfillATION. 



The immi;;ration into the Colony from the United King- 

 dom is considerable. In 1842 the number of Emigrants 

 arrived at Quebec and Montreal from the United Kingdom, 

 was as follows : — 



From En-land and Wales 12.216 ) 



Scotland (>.070 J. 43,818 



Ireland 25.532) 



The total number arrived at Quebec from the United 

 Kingdom in 14 vears— IS'JO to 1842, was 



From Kng-lan d and Wales , D(),34f) n 



.Scotland 42,3<)i) / 



Ireland 222.415 V 3G6.181 



Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, &c. 4,518 1 



Continental Ports 500/ 



It was catcuiated by Mr. Buchanan the British Govern- 

 ment Agent at Quebec, that the 30,933 Emigrants landed 

 at Quebec and Montreal in 1834, look into the country 

 a capital of at least £1,000,000. xMany of these Emigrants 

 proceed to the United States, but a large number of 

 those who land at New York, afterwards proceed to 

 Canada It is therefore very difficult even to approximate 

 to the relative numbers that finally settle iu each country. 



CLIMATE- 



Canada may be said to have but two seasons — summer 

 and winter. Winter has no looner disappeared, which 



• Census taken in 1831. 



