Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) CANADA AND THE CANADIANS. BY SIR RICHARD HENRY BONNYCASTLE, KT., LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROYAL ENGINEERS AND MILITIA OF CANADA WEST. NEW EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1849. F. Shoberl, Jnr. Printer to H.R.H Prince Albert, Rupert Street. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. Emigrants And Immigration Page 1 CHAPTER II. The Emigrant and his Prospects 46 CHAPTER III. A Journey to the Westward 90 CHAPTER IV. The French Canadian 127 CHAPTER V. Penetanguishene--The Nipissang Cannibals, and a Friendly Brother in the Wilderness 146 CHAPTER VI. Barrie and Big Trees--A new Capital of a new District--Nature's Canal--The Devil's Elbow--Macadamization and Mud--Richmond Hill without the Lass--The Rebellion and the Radicals--Blue Hill and Bricks 172 CHAPTER. VII. Toronto and the Transit--The Ice and its innovations--Siege and Storm of a Fortalice by the Ice-king--Newark, or Niagara--Flags, big and little--Views of American and of English Institutions--Blacklegs and Races--Colonial high life--Youth very young 195 CHAPTER VIII. The old Canadian Coach--Jonathan and John Bull passengers--"That Gentleman"--Beautiful River, beautiful drive--Brock's Monument--Queenston--Bar and Pulpit--Trotting horse Railroad--Awful accident--The Falls once more--Speculation--Water Privilege--Barbarism--Museum--Loafers--Tulip-trees--Rattlesnakes--The Burning Spring--Setting fire to Niagara--A charitable Woman--The Nigger's Parrot--John Bull is a Yankee--Political Courtship--Lundy's Lane Heroine--Welland Canal 217 CHAPTER IX. The Great Fresh-water Seas of Canada 266 CANADA AND THE CANADIANS. CHAPTER I. Emigrants and Immigration. Very surprising it seems to assert that the Mother Country knows very little about the finest colony which she possesses--and that an enlightened people emigrate from sober, speculative England, sedate and calculating Scotland, and trusting, unreflective Ireland, absolutely and wholly ignorant of the total change of life to which they must necessarily submit in their adopted home. I recollect an old story, that an old gunner, in an old-fashioned, three-cornered cocked hat, who was my favourite playfellow as a child, used to tell about the way in which recruits were obtained for the Royal Artillery.