38 EARLY GAZETTEER AND MAP LITERATURE 



In 1846, Mr. Wm. Heniy Smith puWislied at Toronto, his "Cana- 

 dian Gazetteer," comprising statistical and general information 

 respecting all parts of the Upper Province or Canada West, &c. 



To collect the materials of his work, Mr. Smith travelled about, 

 personally visiting the parts desciibed, "walking," he says in his 

 preface, " over more than 3,000 miles of ground, through both the, 

 heats of summer and the snows of winter." He gives a brief but 

 careful record of the population of each town, township, and village, 

 the value of the ratable property, the leading features of each locality 

 as regards soil and climate, and the average value of land. 



About four years after the appeai-ance of the Gazetteer, Mr. Smith 

 published his more elaborate work, entitled " Canada, Past, Present, 

 and Future, being a Historical, Geographical, Geological, and Statis- 

 tical Account of Canada "West." Again did our author make a 

 perambulation of the country, and gather in a copious store of useful 

 information. Again, in his preface, Mr. S. alludes to the toils under- 

 gone : " The journey through a new country in search of statistical 

 information is not, by any means, a path of roses," he says. " And 

 to arrive at the necessary amount of facts within a given time, 

 requires a constant exertion of both body and mind, and a resolution: 

 to encounter and to conquer all those various accidents by flood and 

 field that travellers are heirs to — drenching showers, snow storms, 

 mud holes, dust, broiling sun, thunder storms, tough beef steaks, 

 damp beds, loss of luggage, and breakages." 



Mr. Smith's greater work contains ten County Maps, and one 

 General Map of Canada West, clearly drawn in outline on stone. 

 Three introductory chapters-contain a carefully-compiled his-tory of the 

 discovery and early settlement of Canada, and a special notice of the 

 population, resources, trade, and commerce of Upper Canada. And at 

 the end of the work, after a seriatim description of the counties and 

 towns, there is a, general account of the natural productions of tiie 

 country, animate and inanimate, animal, vegetable, and mineral • and 

 of its climate. 



A few years after the publication of Mr. Smith's Canada, Past, 

 Present, and Future, viz., in 1871, Mr. Lo veil's Dominion Directory 

 appeared, which virtually was also a Gazetteer, with admirable 

 sketches of the villages, towns, and cities ; and an abundance of 

 introductory matter, containing a general history of the country, and 

 of its progress. This volume is very bulky — a royal 8vo. of over 



