CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. Canada and the Canadians, by Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Canada and the Canadians Volume I Author: Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle Release Date: December 4, 2006 [EBook #20014] Canada and the Canadians, by 1 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CANADA AND THE CANADIANS *** 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. Canada and the Canadians, by 2 CHAPTER I. Emigrants And Immigration Page 1 CHAPTER I. 3 CHAPTER II. The Emigrant and his Prospects 46 CHAPTER II. 4 CHAPTER III. A Journey to the Westward 90 CHAPTER III. 5 CHAPTER IV. The French Canadian 127 CHAPTER IV. 6 CHAPTER V. Penetanguishene The Nipissang Cannibals, and a Friendly Brother in the Wilderness 146 CHAPTER V. 7 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 VI. 8 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 VIII. 9 CHAPTER IX. The Great Fresh-water Seas of Canada 266 CANADA AND THE CANADIANS. CHAPTER IX. 10 [...]... dwelt amidst their shades, living as Nature's woodland children, until a more subtile being than the serpent of Eden crept amongst them, and, with his glittering novelties and dangerous beauty, caused their total annihilation! I see, in spirit, the red hunter, lofty, fearless, and stern, stalking in his painted nudity, and displaying a form which Apollo might have envied, amidst the everlasting and silent... way, it will spoil the rum! I was the tip-top of the sirjeants of the regiment long life to it! Yes, I was quarter-master-sirjeant, and hadn't I the sarving out of the rations; and didn't I know what good ration rum was; and didn't I help meself to the prime of it! Well, then, gintlemin and ladies I mane, Lord save yees, ladies and gintlemin if a quarter-master-sirjeant in the army had good rum, what the. .. I see, in spirit, the bearded stranger from the rising sun, with his deadly arms and his more deadly fire-water, conversing with his savage fellow, and displaying the envied wealth of gorgeous beads and of gaudy clothing The scene changes, the proud Indian is at the feet of his ensnarer; disease has relaxed his iron sinews; drunkenness has debased his mind; and the myriad crimes and vices of civilized... exhibited his learning in language which no one, however, can imitate, and which he makes the lady seriously incline and listen to, simply because she did not understand a word that was said So it is with the overdone and continual changing of terms that now constantly occurs; insomuch that the terms of plain science, instead of being simplified and brought within the reach of ordinary capacities, is... £32,000 in round numbers Then again, the greater portion of the Indian tribes in the north-west and west, excepting near the Rocky Mountains or beyond them, are Roman Catholics; and their numbers are very great, and all in deep hatred, dislike, and enmity, to the Big Knives More than half a million of the Lower Canadians are also of the same persuasion, and their church in Upper Canada is large and increasing... drink from their waking hour until they sink at night into sottish sleep This is peculiarly the case where there is no village nor town within a day's journey; and thus many otherwise estimable young men become habitual drunkards, and sink from the caste of gentlemen gradually into the dregs of society, whilst their wives and families suffer proportionably In Lower Canada, this vice does not prevail... done this? The emigrant! and it was protection they needed, not charity He should have added, that the great mass of the emigrants who have made New York the mighty city it now is, were Irish, and that the native Americans have banded themselves in another form of protection against their increasing influence The republican notions which the greater portion of the lower classes emigrating from the old... CHAPTER I 18 these circumstances; but, if the President, Vice-President, and the Secretaries of State, are to live upon an acre or two of land for the rest of their lives, Spartan broth will be indeed a rich diet to theirs When the sympathizers invaded Canada, in 1838-1839, the lands of the Canadians were thus parcelled out amongst them, as the reward of their extremely patriotic services, but in slices... ten years in a country professing universal freedom and toleration The Americans of the better classes with whom I have conversed admit this, but their dislike of the Irish is rooted and general among all the native race; and they fear as well as mistrust them, because, in many of the CHAPTER I 15 largest cities, New York for one, the Irish predominate The Americans say, and so do the Canadians, that,... worthier or a better man never existed The highest and the lowest alike loved him I saw him bending under the weight of years, passed in his ministry and in the defence of his adopted country, just before he left Canada, to lay his bones in his natal soil, preside over the ceremony of placing the first stone of the Catholic seminary, for which he had given the ground and funds to the utmost of his ability . Brevis et admiranda descriptio REGNI GVIANÆ, AVRI abundantissimi, in AMERICA, sev novo orbe, sub linea Æquinoctilia siti: quod nuper admodum, Annis nimirum. Faith, hope, and charity, are alike misinterpreted and misunderstood. Faith with these consists in blind or hypocritical devotion to their peculiar opinions