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many different methods are employed to assist the settler, either by special 

 grants, or by colonization societies, which pay the expense of clearing, or 

 finally by means of lotteries like that founded some years ago by Monsei- 

 gneur Labelle, the apostle of colonization. 



It is not the rich man who becomes the settler, but the man who has 

 only his axe and who, with that implement alone, succeeds in opening up 

 wide stretches of forest, in Iminding new dwellings, new w^ealth for i:s, in 

 rendering new countries fertile in which our race may more and more 

 easily increase by conquering more and more soil. The settler is the one 

 who deserves the greatest share of attention, solicitude and assi.^tance 

 from every Grovernment,as well as colonization shoiild be the lirst and most 

 important point in every ministerial programme. 



II 



The parish of Ste. Angele, whose comparative isolidion prevented it 

 from developing itself to any extent at the begiuniug. is barely thirty six 

 years old and it now has a population of from one thousand to eleven 

 hundred. Its farms are splendid. Amongst others we may niiiition those 

 of Mr Francois Corriveau,oneof those intelliu'ent agriculturists who farm on 

 a scientific system, who learn every day and whose examjile lends others 

 to imitate them. He has hay meadows and fields of oats and wheat 

 which are unsurpassed by the best in the country. 



And yet. Mr. Corriveau does not find that agriculture yields in pro- 

 portion to the trouble and labour it entails. 



He says that the market is too far, speaking of !Ste. Flavie Station ; 

 that he has to go seven miles to dispose of his hay and grain ; chat they 

 do better by selling th(Ur cattle which do not cost mut'h and yi''ld y-reatly, 

 besides the fact that they are sold on the spot to cattle-drovers who come 

 to buy them. This is another example which proves that agriculture 

 properly speaking is not at all lucrative in this coiintry and that judi- 

 cious stock-raising can alone make our farmers wealthy. 



The River Metis, which is nowhere more than ten or twelve feet deep 

 and which can b.> forded in many places, runs through the w^hole village 

 of Ste. Angele and gives it that smiling and picturesque aspect which at 

 once strikes the traveller and reminds him of some of the sites which 

 charmed him most on the banks of the lied River in the norLhern town- 

 ships, behind St. Jerome. 



The River Metis flows from the large lake of the same name which is, 

 properly speaking, divided into three successive lakes of equal dimen- 

 sions connected by passes or narrows. The first is calh'd Inc Sup^ritur, 

 the second, lac d la Croix and the third, lac d VAnguille. 



