Between Canandaigua, in the State of New York, and Niagara, the mail was carried once per week at a cost of $200 per annum. In the year 1796 there were precisely the same number of offices, and generally the same amount of mail accommodation, as in in 1791. Mr. Finlay was succeeded in the year 1800 by Mr. George Heriot. In 1803 Upper Canada had 8 post offices, but the mails were not more frequent than in 1791. In 1804 there were in Lower Canada 5 post offices; in Upper Canada, 9; in Nova Scotia, 6; in Cape Breton, 1; in Prince Edward's Island, 1; in New Brunswick, 4. The late Mr. Wood, who filled the office of postmaster of Cornwall for many years, thus describes the condition of the department in the Upper Canada Province about the year 1807:-- "When I first took charge of the post office in this place the mail was carried from Quebec to Amherstburg on the back of an old Canadian pedestrian; he performed his trip once in three months, and his arrival was hailed with joy by the then contented and loyal inhabitants throughout the country." The following is a copy of a somewhat curious advertisement which appears in the <i>Upper Canada Gazette</i>, published in the year 1807:-- "The mail for Upper Canada will be despatched from the post office at Montreal, on the following days, to wit: "Monday, 14th January. "Monday, 12th February. "Monday, 10th March. "Monday, 7th April--the last trip. "A courier from Kingston may be looked for here in 14 or 15 days from the above periods, where he will remain 2 or 3 days, and then return to Kingston. "Another courier will proceed from this with the Niagara mail, <i>via</i> Messrs. Hatts, where the Sandwich letters will be left, both from Niagara and this 'till the courier comes from there to return with them. "Letters put into the post office will be forwarded at any time by "W. ALLAN, "Acting Deputy Postmaster." There are in existence several commissions issued by Mr. Heriot to postmasters in Nova Scotia, in which he signs himself Deputy Postmaster General for the Province of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and their dependencies. It would appear therefore, at all events, that during a portion of his term of office he had supervision of all the posts in those colonies. Mr. Heriot was succeeded in the year 1816 by Mr. Daniel Sutherland, who, on his accession to office, found Nova Scotia and Prince Edward's Island wholly withdrawn from the Canada charge. New Brunswick, however, continued to be included in it. The postmasters in that Province being commissioned at Quebec and accounting to the Deputy Postmaster General there.