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I can say, without hesitation, that part of the grant devoted to 

 colonisation roads might be advantageously employed for tlie above 

 purpose. 



I have in some degree, but not as much as I could wish, put this 

 plan into practise, and the results are wonderful. The settlers are in 

 great spirits — many of them having left their homes poor — at being 

 able to earn hard cash at once, and that paid monthly, while they, at 

 the same time, are carving out fine estates for themselves from the 

 bush. News of the successful issue of the settlement is soon spread 

 abroad ; the settlers arrive with their cattle ; in the second year the 

 number of cows from fifty mounts up to seventy-five or eighty. At 

 the end of three years the factory no longer needs assistance, and a 

 new parish, young and full of energy, has arisen in the province. 



I will have an account written, for the House or in the Journal of 

 Agriculture, the history of one of these colonisation settlements in the 

 maiden forest, in which the establishment of a factory produced ease 

 and comfort from its very commencement. We helped it, and, in re- 

 turn for that help, the settlers willingly took the care of the roads on 

 themselves. The settlers drive to the factory with their milk and 

 drive back with the cash. Money in the bush ! Tnis is indeed a 

 discovery, since the lumbermen have left ! 



This experiment greatly encourages us to persist. The factories 

 will be of the greatest service to colonisation, but it must depend 

 upon the grouping of the settlers together ; they must be gathered 

 up in a group ; we must not be satisfied with making a great boast 

 about opening long roads, planting here and there feeble colonies, and 

 calling upon the people to come at their pleasure. Many will come, 

 but they will go back before long. The roads cannot be kept up, 

 there is not enough population ; the bush threatens to recover its lost 

 ground. That is what is gained by spreading one's strength and acts 

 over too much territory. The life of these poor settlements will be 

 * weak and ailing. Not that it was unwise to have gone afar and so 

 deep into the bush, to occupy a grand position when everything was 

 promising for a strong settlement ; but the colonists should have 

 gone there in numbers, if they hoped to establish a centre of life and 

 activity. 



And, now, we shall have to devote ourselves to completing all those 

 outlines that we have before us, where too much has been under- 



