21 CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING EMIGRATION. as to their meeting with such a reception in the country as to do away with all disappoint- ment on their part, the company will be most ready to receive and act on such propositions as you may be led to make for the public advantage, which they conceive to be their own true interest. I have, & c. To. A. C. Buchanan, Esq., & c. & c. & c. ( signed) Pott. Gill. No. 1. LOWER CANADA. Report on Emigration. i< 2 Dep. 1835. Office of His Majesty's Chief Agent for Emigration to Sir, Upper and Lower Canada, Quebec, 19 June 1835. I HAVE the honour to transmit you herewith documents relative to paying some parish emigrants from Berkshire that came out per ship Severn, from Bristol, such sums of money as are annexed to their names respectively. John Cling and William Cling have been paid here. As I have reason to think the rest of l^ he party proceeded to Upper Canada, his Excel- lency the Lieutenant- governor will be pleased to give directions for finding them out, that they may receive the money intended for them. I send you a draft on the bank of Montreal for 35/. 18s. 4 d., which with 11. 10 s. sterling, expended in advertising in various public papers, is the full amount coming to them ; the cost of advertising you will of course deduct from each emigrant in proportion. You will also have the goodness to cause receipts in duplicate to be taken and forwarded to me, that I may transmit them to the parish authori- ties in Berkshire. Emigrants arrive but slowly; the total this year via St. Lawrence will be far short of last season. A reference to my yearly reports of 1832 and 1834 will show that my fears and anticipation as to the embarrassment likely to result to emigration to the Canadas has been but too soon verified. I think, however, Upper Canada will get its usual quantum from increased numbers by the New York route. The consul at New York wrote me lately very satisfactory information on this point. Next month I intend making a tour round the south side Lake Ontario to Osebego, and as far as Buffalo, to see what further arrangements could be adopted beneficial to emigrants destined for Upper Canada by that route. If there is any suggestion in relation to this subject that the Lieutenant- governor might be pleased to think expedient to have me informed of, I shall be glad to be honoured with it. I have, & c. Lieut.- colonel Rowan, & c. See. 8cc. ( signed) A. C. Buchanan, Government- house, Toronto. Chief Agent. Office of His Majesty's Chief Agent for Emigration to Sir - Upper and Lower Canada, Quebec, 29 June 1835. THE emigrants whose names are given in the enclosed list came from the county of Nor- folk, and were aided in their emigration by John Matteaux, esq., Beachamwell Hall, near Swaffham, the proprietor of the parish. Mr. Matteaux seems to have taken every pains to insure them proper care in their emigration, and has transmitted ample funds to defray their expenses to their destination, as well as give to each pecuniary aid on their arrival there. Mr. Matteaux, as well as other magistrates of the county of Norfolk, informs me that the prospect of increasing emigration of the agricultural labouring population from that part of England is likely to increase considerably under the operation of the new Poor Law Act, and that it is a matter of great consideration to insure those persons who may avail themselves of the benefit to be had from emigration every protection, and to have them located in a favourable situation. On these points I need not say anything further, being well satisfied of the benevolence and zealous disposition of his Excellency Sir John Colborne, to do everything that it is possible to do for the good of those emigrants that reach Upper Canada. I have good grounds for thinking that my frequent suggestions as to the best mode of sending out - pecuniary aid for emigrants, to assist them on arrival at Quebec, as also at their final desti- nation in Upper Canada, is likely to be more generally adopted in future. The magistrates of Norfolk and several other counties have wrote me that they highly approve of my recom- mendation, and of their determination in future to adopt any further suggestions that may be considered calculated to benefit and promote the important measure of the emigration of the industrious labouring population of England. I have, & c. To Lieut.- colonel Rowan, &. c. 8cc. & c. ( signed) A. C. Buchanan, Government- house, Toronto. Chief Agent, COPY of EXTRACTS of LETTERS received from the Government Authorities and other Public Persons in Upper Canada and Montreal. Sir, Brockville, 13 June 1835. I HAVE to acquaint you that there is employment on those works for fully 0,000 persons more than the number at present engaged. The description of workmen chiefly wanted are those who have been accustomed to digging, harrowing, and the use of the pick; some 76. o stone- /