The Backwoods of Canada Part 21

Row 6 Column 1: 1828 Column 2: 7,300 Column 3: - Column 4: 4,504 Column 5: 9,036 Column 6: 20,840

Row 7 Column 1: 1829 Column 2: 3,200 Column 3: - Column 4: - Column 5: 5,282 Column 6: 8,482

Row 8 Column 1: 1830 Column 2: 81,425 Column 3: - Column 4: 2,000 Column 5: 10,670 Column 6: 94,095

Row 9 Column 1: 1831 Column 2: 9,400 Column 3: 8,273 Column 4: 3,408 Column 5: 9,900 Column 6: 30,981

Row 10 Column 1: 1832 Column 2: 10,116 Column 3: 19,000 Column 4: 4,000 Column 5: 4,000 Column 6: 37,116

Row 11 Column 1: 1833 Column 2: 5,200 Column 3: 22,500 Column 4: 1,200 Column 5: - Column 6: 28,900

Row 12 Column 1: Totals Column 2: 212,236 Column 3: 61,573 Column 4: 21,012 Column 5: 176,623 Column 6: 471,444

_Settler's Conditions_.--That he do clear twenty feet of road on his lot within the s.p.a.ce of ninety days.

Military & Militia conditions.--That he do, within the s.p.a.ce of three years, clear and cultivate four acres of his lot, and build a dwelling- house thereon.

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UPPER CANADA

[Transcription note: The data presented below was originally in the conventional tabular row / column format.]

Row 1, Column Headings Column 1: Year.

Column 2: Number of acres granted to militia claimants.

Column 3: Number of acres granted to discharged soldiers and pensioners.

Column 4: Number of acres granted to officers.

Column 5: Number of acres granted, not coming within the previous descriptions.

Column 6: Number of acres granted to U.E. Loyalists.*

Column 7: Total number of acres granted.

Row 2 Column 1: 1824 Column 2: 11,800 Column 3: 5,800 Column 4: 5,500 Column 5: 134,500 Column 6: 30,200 Column 7: 187,800

Row 3 Column 1: 1825 Column 2: 20,300 Column 3: 5,700 Column 4: 8,100 Column 5: 149,060 Column 6: 45,000 Column 7: 228,160

Row 4 Column 1: 1826 Column 2: 16,600 Column 3: 3,100 Column 4: 4,700 Column 5: 19,390 Column 6: 24,800 Column 7: 68,590

Row 5 Column 1: 1827 Column 2: 10,900 Column 3: 4,200 Column 4: 7,200 Column 5: 33,600 Column 6: 20,200 Column 7: 76,100

Row 6 Column 1: 1828 Column 2: 10,800 Column 3: 900 Column 4: 3,000 Column 5: 4,304 Column 6: 30,800 Column 7: 49,804

Row 7 Column 1: 1829 Column 2: 5,300 Column 3: 7,500 Column 4: 8,400 Column 5: 3,230 Column 6: 22,600 Column 7: 47,030

Row 8 Column 1: 1830 Column 2: 6,400 Column 3: 12,500 Column 4: 12,600 Column 5: 9,336 Column 6: 27,400 Column 7: 68,236

Row 9 Column 1: 1831 Column 2: 5,500 Column 3: 58,400 Column 4: 7,200 Column 5: 8,000 Column 6: 34,200 Column 7: 113,300

Row 10 Column 1: 1832 Column 2: 19,300 Column 3: 97,800 Column 4: 7,600 Column 5: 6,100 Column 6: 62,600 Column 7: 193,400

Row 11 Column 1: 1833 Column 2: 35,200 Column 3: 46,000 Column 4: - Column 5: 9,100 Column 6: 135,600 Column 7: 225,900

Row 12 Column 1: Totals Column 2: 142,100 Column 3: 241,900 Column 4: 64,300 Column 5: 376,620 Column 6: 433,400 Column 7: 1,258,320

_Condition_. - Actual settlement.

* U.E. Loyalists means United English Loyalists--individuals who fled from the United States on the breaking out of the American war of independence. The grants in the above column are mostly to the children of these individuals.

The conditions in force in 1824, the time from which the Returns take their commencement, were enacted by Orders in Council of 20th October, 1818, and 21st February, 1820, applied equally to all cla.s.ses of grantees, and were as follows:--

"That locatees shall clear thoroughly and fence five acres for every 100 acres granted; and build a house 16 feet by 20 in the clear; and to clear one-half of the road, and chop down, without charring, one chain in depth across the lot next to road. These road duties to be considered as part of the five acres per 100. The whole to be completed within two years from date of the location, and upon proof of their fulfilment patents to issue.

"On the 14th of May, 1830, an additional stipulation was made in locations to discharged soldiers, which required an actual residence on their lots, in person, for five years before the issue of their patents.

"On the 14th of November, 1830, the then existing Orders in Council, respecting settlement duties, were cancelled, and it was ordered that in lieu thereof each locatee should clear half the road in front of his lot, and from 10 feet in the centre of the road cut the stumps so low that waggon wheels might pa.s.s over them. Upon proof of this, and that a settler had been resident on the lot two years, a patent might issue.

Locatees, however, were at liberty, instead of placing settlers on their lands, to clear, in addition to half the road on each lot, a chain in depth across the front, and to sow it and the road with gra.s.s seed.

"Upon discharged soldiers and seamen alone, under this order, it became imperative to reside on and improve their lands three years before the issue of the patent.

"On the 24th of May, 1832, an Order in Council was made, abolis.h.i.+ng, in all cases except that of discharged soldiers and seamen, the regulations previously existing; and which directed that, upon proof of an actual settler being established on a lot, a patent should issue without the condition of settlement duty."

The following extract is taken from "official information" circulated by Mr. Buchanan, and other Government emigration agents in Canada:--

"Emigrants, wis.h.i.+ng to obtain fertile lands in the Canadas in a wild state by purchase from the Crown, may rely on every facility being afforded them by the public authorities. Extensive tracts are surveyed and offered for sale in Upper Canada monthly, and frequently every 10 or 14 days, by the Commissioner of Crown lands, at upset prices, varying according to situation from 10 s.h.i.+llings to 15 s.h.i.+llings per acre, excepting in the towns.h.i.+ps of Sunnidale and Nottawasaga, where the upset price of Crown lands is 5 s.h.i.+llings only. In Lower Canada, the Commissioner of Crown lands at Quebec puts up land for sale, at fixed periods, in various towns.h.i.+ps, at from 2 s.h.i.+llings 6 pence to 12 s.h.i.+llings 6 pence Halifax currency, per acre, payable by instalments.

Wild lands may also be purchased from the Upper Canada Company on very easy terms, and those persons wanting improved farms will find little difficulty in obtaining such from private proprietors. On no account enter into any final engagement for your lands or farms _without personal examination_, and be certain of the following qualifications:-- "1. A healthy situation.

"2. Good land.

"3. A pure spring, or running stream of water.

"4. In the neighbourhood of a good, moral, and religious state of society, and schools for the education of your children.

"5. As near good roads and water transport as possible, saw and grist mills.

"6. A good t.i.tle."

Clergy Reserves sold in each year since the sales commenced under the Act 7 and 8, Geo. IV. c. 62

LOWER CANADA

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[Transcription note: The data presented below was originally in the conventional tabular row / column format.]

Row 1, Column Headings Column 1: Year.

Column 2: Number of acres sold.

Column 3: Average price per acre.

Column 4: Amount of purchase-money received within the first year.

Column 5: Whole amount of the purchase-money.