1830. 1881. Toronto 2,860 86,445 Kingston 3,587 14,093 Hamilton, including township 2,013 35,965 London, including township 2,415 ---- Brantford, laid out in 1830 ---- 9,626 Guelph, including township 778 9,890 St. Catharines (Population in 1845, 3,000) ---- ---- Ottawa contained 150 houses ---- ---- Belleville, incorporated 1835 ---- 9,516 Brockville 1,130 7,608 Napanee (Population in 1845, 500) ---- 3,681 Cobourg ---- 4,957 Port Hope ---- 5,888 Peterboro', laid out in 1826 ---- 6,815 Lindsay, " 1833 ---- 5,081 Barrie, " 1832 ---- ---- Ingersoll, " 1831 ---- 4,322 Woodstock (Population in 1845, 1,085) ---- 5,373 Chatham, settled in 1830 ---- 7,881 Stratford, laid out in 1833 ---- 8,240 Sarnia, laid out in 1833 ---- 3,874 I hope the humble effort I have made to show what we Upper Canadians have done during the fifty years that are gone will induce some one better qualified to go over the same ground, and put it in a more attractive and effective shape. It is a period in our history which must ever demand attention, and although our Province had been settled for nearly half a century prior to 1830, it was not until after that date that men of intelligence began to look around them, and take an active interest in shaping the future of their country. There were many failures, but the practical sense of the people surmounted them, and pushed on. All were awake to the value of their heritage, and contributed their share to extend its influence; and so we have gone on breasting manfully political, commercial and other difficulties, but always advancing; and whatever may be said about the growth of other parts of America, figures will show that Canada is to the front. At the Provincial Exhibition in Ottawa, in 1879, the Governor of Vermont, in his address, stated (what we already knew), that Canada had outstripped the United States in rapidity of growth and development during recent years, and the Governors of Ohio and Maine endorsed the statement. We have a grand country, and I believe a grand future.