Excerpt from Canada; Past, Present and Future, Vol. 1: Being a Historical, Geographical, Geological and Statistical Account of Canada West The Canadian Gazetteer has so far answered its purpose in giving a concise and correct synopsis of the state of the Province at the time it was published, and has had to a certain extent a good effect in turning the tide of emigration. Many persons, during the last season, having been led by its perusal to choose Canada as a new home, in preference to any other of the British Colonies or the United States. Still, however, there was a large amount of information respecting the Province not yet laid before the public the want of which has considerably retarded its settlement; and also, strange as it may seem, many persons, who have even visited a portion of Canada in the first instance, have actually left it, and crossed to the United States in search of those very advantages, which a trifling knowledge of the country would have enabled them to find, with little trouble and less expense, in Canada itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.