Census of Canada: 1870-71, Volume 4I.B.Taylor [&] Maclean, Roger & Company, 1876 - Canada |
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Page xlii - Quinté, the neighbourhood of the town of Niagara, then called Newark, and part of the shores of the Detroit River, were colonized by about 10,000 United Empire Loyalists who, assisted by Government aid, took possession of land which had been laid out for their reception.
Page xxiv - ... from every part of the world enter the Great Lakes through the seaway — a waterway extending 2,342 miles into the North American Continent from the Atlantic Ocean. This St. Lawrence River-Great Lakes Waterway touches all four of the maritime Provinces, as well as Quebec and Ontario in Canada, and in the United States, the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The Gulf of St. Lawrence extends from the Atlantic upstream 700 miles to Father Point....
Page xl - The Council concurring with His Lordship it is accordingly ordered that the several land boards take course for preserving a registry of the names of all persons falling under the description aforementioned, to the end that their posterity may be discriminated from future settlers, in the parish registers and rolls of the militia of their respective districts and other public...
Page lii - Lawrence, with which river, and the great gulf into which it expands, are connected the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, together containing by far the greater portion of the population of the Dominion.
Page xl - The Council concurring with his Lordship, it is accordingly Ordered. "That the several Land Boards take Course for preserving a Registry of the Names of all Persons falling under the Description aforementioned to the End that their Posterity may be discriminated from future settlers, in the Parish Registers and Rolls of the Militia of their respective Districts, and other Public Remembrances of the Province, as proper Objects, by their persevering in the Fidelity and Conduct so honourable to their...
Page lv - La plupart des évaluations de 1л population aborigène, faites par les auteurs, tant anciens que modernes, sur les données fournies par les sauvages eux-mêmes, les voyageurs et les traiteurs, sont entachées d'exagération, que la critique a rarement découverte, tant on a de peine à admettre comme exact le chiffre de l'énorme superficie de territoire nécessaire à l'alimentation de l'homme par la chasse.
Page 14 - ... and French settlers, softened by French manners, guided by French priests, ruled by French The Marquis de Seignelay, in the census of 1685 noted that, ... it is desirable that the colony should increase every year, not only by the addition of French but also of Indians, who should be attracted as much as possible to live among the French, as after their children shall have been accustomed to our manners, and shall have been brought up with the French, [they] will form with them only one people.1...
Page x - The tables of this volume contain the information afforded by official documents, manuscript or printed, preserved in libraries and amongst the Public Archives, but classified and arranged uniformly so as to be easily consulted.
Page xl - And it is also ordered that the said Land Boards may in every such case provide not only for the sons of those Loyalists, as they arrive at full age, but for their daughters also, of that age, or on their marriage.
Page lvi - The mildness of the climate has a great bearing on ibis question, if not in actually adding to the natural resources, at least in lessening the wants ; 3. That Indian populations, keeping to the habits of hunting tribes, diminish in number in the ratio of the extent and frequency of their relations with civilized nations, by the destruction of their primitive means of existence, and the introduction oí rices and diseases, or by absorption, in the creation of a half breed race.