A Review of `The Emigrants Guide To Canada'
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.Close