in his printing-office. But if the reader will overlook this fault for
once, I shall try to avoid it in future."

The first chapter opens with the cause of the present distress: then comes
the remedy, and a reply to the question, _Who are to go to Canada?_--

"In the first place, all who cannot comfortably support themselves by
their labour at home; because let a man be ever so poor in this country,
his wages as a labourer will more than support his family,--and if he be
prudent and sober, he may in a short time save money enough to purchase
for himself a farm,--and if he has a family, so much the better, as
children are the best _stock_ a farmer can possess, the labour of a child
seven years old being considered worth his maintenance and education, and
the wages of a boy of twelve or fourteen years of age being higher than
those of a stout and skilful ploughman in most parts of Great Britain,
generally from three to four dollars a month, with bed, board, and washing
besides. At home they talk of 'a poor man with a large family;' but such a
phrase in Canada would be a contradiction of terms; for a man here who has
a large family must, under ordinary circumstances, soon cease to be a poor
man. Mechanics and artizans of almost all descriptions,--millwrights,
blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, tailors, shoemakers, tanners,
millers, and all the ordinary trades that are required in an agricultural
and partially ship-owning and commercial country, will do well to come to
Canada.

"Of these trades, the blacksmith, tailor, shoemaker, and tanner, are the
best. If there were in nature (which is doubtful) such a being as a sober
blacksmith, he might make a fortune. One exception there is, however, in
the case of mechanics. First-rate London workmen will not receive such
high wages either positively or relatively, as they would at home,--for