A No. 1. LOWBR CANADA. Report on Emigration. 12 Dec. 1835. 6 • CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING EMIGRATION. I trust your Excellency will be pleased also to give favourable consideration to my humble suggestions in relation to rendering the navigation of the River St. Lawrence, the Gulf, and the seas adjacent, less dangerous to the many ships with emigrants that annually frequent these parts. I had the honour to address a communication to Lord Aylmer on the preceding subject, to which his Lordship was pleased to reply that it would be referred to your Excellency ; and I understand from Mr. Secretary Walcott that it has been received by your Lordship. The chart referred to in my letter I shall have the honour to forward to your Excellency as soon as I have a copy from the lithographic artist. I have been induced to go more into details in this my first General Report on Emigration since your Lordship's arrival to administer the chief government of the Canadas. I trust I am not too sanguine in anticipating many benefits to the cause of voluntary emigration from your Lordship's administration, connected as that cause is with the best interests of the Canadas and the mother countiy. And I confidently anticipate at the hands of your Excellency that confidence and support in the discharge of my important duties, which can alone ensure success to my humble exertions in the cause in which I have been so long and so ardently engaged, and enable me to continue faithfully to do my duty to my King and country. I request the honour of your Lordship's being pleased to transmit, at your Excellency's convenience, this Report to the Right honourable Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. I have, &, c. ( signed) A. C. Buchanan, jun. Assist. Agent. For A. C. Buchanan, Chief Agent. Appendix, No. 1. THE following STATEMENT shows the WEEKLY ARRIVALS of EMIGRANTS at Quebec and Montreal, during the Year 1835; specifying the Number of Males, Females, and Children under 14 Years; also the Number of Voluntary Emigrants, and those that receive Parochial Aid. WEEK ENDING Males. Females. Children under 14 Years. Parochial Aid. Voluntary. TOTAL each Week. 9 May 8 8 8 16 _ - 158 87* 51 - 296 296 23 401 310 188 125 774 899 30 400 318 185 12 891 9° 3 6 June 350 279 195 122 702 824 13 485 325 245 254 801 1,055 20 — - 136 72 74 34 248 282 27 — - 428 311 232 173 798 971 4 July 525 395 360 65 1,215 1,280 11 — - 374 338 292 41 963 1,004 18 _ - 362 261 224 100 747 847 25 256 147 126 16 513 529 1 August 500 414 356 60 1,210 1,270 8 265 136 107 11 497 508 15 _ - - - 138 95 73 - 306 306 22 — - 46 30 41 - 117 117 29 — - 195 105 111 25 386 411 5 September 74 42 43 - 159 159 12 — - 11 6 6 - 23 23 19 — 43 3 » 22 5 9l 96 26 — - - 92 44 39 - 175 175 3 October - 48 it 13 - 72 72 10 — - 109 39 30 - 178 178 17 — - 62 36 24 122 122 24 — 5 2 1 - 8 8 31 — 101 21 19 - 141 141 14 November « 25 11 7 - 43 43 TOTAL - - - 6,597 3,866 3,064 1,043 11,484 12,527 7