. L'émigrant et sportif au Canada [microforme] : quelques expériences d'un vieux pays colon : avec des croquis de la vie canadienne, Sporting Adventures, et observations sur les forêts et la faune. La chasse, la pêche, chasse, pêche sportive. IM FERMES ET FAIiME'RS. 18un peuple en tlio Dominion. D'excellentes maisons avec de jolis jardins et vergers et ample woll-rtlled barns rencontrez l'œil sur chaque côté. Chaque agriculteur possède beaucoup d'amélioration de la machinerie agricole, ho garde une liorse du faisceau et un chariot à conduire au marché, &c., et dispose d'un piano pour ses filles de jouer. 1 mentionner ces choses à montrer tha

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. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. IM FARMS AND FAIiME'RS. 18a people in tlio Dominion. Excellent houses with pretty gardens and orchards and capacious woll-rtlled barns meet the eye on every side. Each considerable farmer owns improved farm machinery; ho keeps a harness liorse and waggon to drive to market, &c., and has a piano for his daughters to play on. 1 mention these things to show that he possesses the comforts of life, but like every farmer in America, he has to work hard. The old-country man would be surpris i to see with how little assistance he puts in his crops. The Canadian farmer, with his brace of sons in their teens, manages a hundred-acre farm with little or no hired help. The only direct tax the farmer has to pay is a land tax of about 48. per hundred acres; in addition to this he has also to perform statute labour on tiie roads. Every male who has resided for twelve months in the island lias a vote, subject only to the performance of the said statute labour, or payment of an equivalent—a mere trifle. Hitherto the one absorbing subject of public interest has been the land tenure. In the outside world empires might rise and fall and continents be convulsed, but the islander thought of nothing and cared for nothing but his land-bill of the dav. There are no stones on the island. Stones are trouble- some things on a farm, but the total want of them is not an unqualified advantage to the farmer to whom good roads are a necessity. In summer and in mid-winter the roads are admirable. In the former season they are smooth and level, with a strip of elastic turf on either side, on which the equestrian may canter to his heart's content; in the latter season they are excellent for sleighing, but. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p

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