A Review of `The Emigrants Guide To Canada'

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Document ID 9411197
Date 01-04-1833
Document Type Periodical Extracts
Archive Queen's University, Belfast
Citation A Review of `The Emigrants Guide To Canada';The Dublin University Review, & Quarterly Magazine, p 394, April 1833; CMSIED 9411197
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Practical Notes made during a Tour in Canada and a portion of the
United States, in 1831.  By Adam Ferguson, of Woodhill, Advocate.
Dedicated, by permission, to the Highland Society of Scotland.
William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and J. Goodall, Strand, London. 1833.

The Emigrant's Guide to Canada. By Francis Evans, late Agent
for the Eastern Townships to the Legislature of Lower Canada.
William Curry, Jun., & Co. Dublin, Simpkin & Marshall, London;
and Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. 1833.

Of the many works with which the press teems on the important
subject of British America, these little volumes appear to us,
not only as their title-pages set forth, "Practical," but the
most so of any we have seen on the subject. Their paramount
object seems to be diffuse useful and accurate information to their
countrymen; and they are led from their subject neither by an
attempt to display their own powers of description, nor, what is
worse, to a partial or discoloured statement of facts, in order for
support a preconceived or favourite opinion. They state things
as they found them, and present to the reader much authentic
data, which, though not so volumnious in the details as some other
recent works on this subject, yet are sufficient to enable any
prudent and thinking man to come to a pretty accurate conclusion
as to the circumstances of the countries on which they treat, and
how far they are adapted to his wants and habits.