Smith's Canadian Gazetteer: Comprising Statistical and General Information Respecting All Parts of the Upper Province, Or Canada West ... With a Map of the Upper Provinceauthor, 1849 - 285 páginas |
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acres are taken acres of Crown ashery banks Bathurst District blacksmiths bounded branch Brantford Brock District Bytown c'y per acre cabinet makers Canada Canadian carding machine centre Chatham Chippewas Churches and chapels Colborne District contains County Creek Crown lands cultivation currency per acre distillery District Court district town east Episcopal farms four Goderich Grand River grist and saw grist mill Gwillimbury Hamilton hardwood Home District Indians inhabitants Island John Johnstown District Kingston Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Ontario Lake Simcoe lands are open London Methodist miles north-east north-west open for sale Ottawa Penetanguishine physicians and surgeons pine Population in 1842 portion post every day Post Office Professions and Trades.-One quantity Ratable property Rideau road runs saddler saw mills settlement ship shoemakers Simcoe District situated small streams south by Lake south-east corner south-west steamboat tailors tannery timber Toronto township village waggon makers Welland Canal Welland River
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Página 232 - It will be a great loss if after it had so easily taken root you should stop its growth, and prevent its covering your country and ours with its branches. I assure you, in the name of the Five Nations, that our warriors shall dance to the calumet of peace under its leaves, and...
Página 232 - I, and the warriors here present, are come to assure you, that the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas and Mohawks are yet alive. I thank you, in their name, for bringing back into their country the calumet, which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you, that you left under ground that murdering hatchet that has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Página 240 - That where any charge or complaint shall be made before any one or more of Her Majesty's justices of the peace...
Página 157 - Their sufferings and misery were strongly marked in their personal appearance, and the condition of their wigwams ; the latter imperfectly made, and very insufficiently supplied with fuel, could scarcely be said to afford shelter to the ragged and emaciated frames of the elder Indians, whilst the wretchedly diseased appearance of the children spoke still more forcibly of the intoxication and want of food of the parents. Miserable as was their state, it required considerable persuasion to prevail...
Página 232 - Hear, Yonnondio ; take care for the future, that so great a number of soldiers as appear there do not choke the tree of peace planted in so small a fort. It will be a great loss, if, after it had so easily taken root, you should stop its growth, and prevent its covering your country and ours with its branches.
Página 232 - Hear, Yonnondio; what I say is the voice of all the Five Nations. Hear what they answer. Open your ears to what they speak. The Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas and Mohawks say, that when they buried the hatchet at...
Página 231 - Yonnondio, you must have believed when you left Quebec that the sun had burnt up all the forests which render our country inaccessible to the French, or that the lakes had so far overflown...
Página 231 - Garangula, seated at some distance before his men, with his pipe in his mouth, and the great calumet of peace before him, did nothing but look at the end of his pipe, during this harangue. When it was finished...
Página 158 - The log dwelling-houses for the Indians, were erected by government. Frame houses for the superintendent and the two chiefs, Aisance and Yellowhead, with school-houses at Coldwater and the Narrows, were also built at the commencement of the establishment. Since that time a grist mill and a saw mill have been added at Coldwater; and a saw mill is in progress at the Narrows. About 500 acres of the whole have been cleared and are under cultivation.
Página 247 - Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government of this Province, to...