Category: Travel Writing
I. MONTREAL AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. II. QUEBEC AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. III. EASTERN TOWNSHIPS. IV. SUGGESTIONS ON EMIGRATION. V. SPORTING IN CANADA. VI. IMPRESSIONS OF CANADA, NIAGARA, THE ST. LAWRENCE, ETC. UPON EMIGRANT SETTLERS. VII. NEW BRUNSWICK.
Oxen have been known to traverse a tract of wild country to a distance of thirty or forty miles, going in a direct line for their former haunts by unknown paths, where memory co...
10. Part 10After running full half a mile a-head, he returned with a dejected countenance, saying we must be wrong, for he saw no appearance of water; and the road we were on appeared to e...
9. Part 9The shanty is a sort of primitive hut in Canadian architecture, and is nothing more than a shed built of logs, the chinks between the round edges of the timbers being filled wit...
6. Part 6“The country in which Lake Erie lies is elevated nearly 300 feet above that which surrounds Ontario. The extensive slope, or mountain, as it is called, which divides the lower c...
8. Part 8On the 26th of October, my brother and I, with six men carrying provisions and felling-axes, took our departure from Westminster; and, having hired a guide, proceeded into Londo...
5. Part 5“On the afternoon of the sixth day, the sun appeared for a few moments, and convinced them that they were not on the banks of the Thames. The knowledge of this gave them much un...
12. Part 12My husband, with an Irish lad, began collecting the sap the last week in March. A pole was fixed across two forked stakes, strong enough to bear the weight of the big kettle. Th...
7. Part 7The only villages at this time (1820) between Montreal and Prescott are La Chine and Point Clear; the latter of which is eighteen miles from Montreal. It has a church and parson...
4. Part 4“The parts of the Eastern and Johnstown districts along the bank of the St. Lawrence enjoy perhaps the best situation as regards proximity to market of any in Upper Canada; and...
3. Part 3The tracts on this side of the river belonging to the district of Quebec, embrace a great extent of coast; but the settlements do not extend far into the interior. The possessio...
2. Part 2The township of Grenville, which next follows, may be considered as commencing the densely-peopled portion of Lower Canada. This is not owing to its fertility, which is much imp...
14. Part 14The grand features of American scenery cannot be viewed to greater advantage than when sailing down one of those vast rivers which roll the accumulated tributes of a thousand st...
13. Part 13Throughout all New Brunswick, the wood fellers, or “lumberers,” as they are there termed, bear a very indifferent reputation, being generally, and I fear with too much justice,...
1. Part 1I. MONTREAL AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. II. QUEBEC AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. III. EASTERN TOWNSHIPS. IV. SUGGESTIONS ON EMIGRATION. V. SPORTING IN CANADA. VI. IMPRESSIONS OF CANADA, NIA...
15. Part 15The approach to the town of Windsor, from the western road, is by a handsome wooden bridge, recently constructed over the river Avon, which was formerly crossed by means of an i...