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CANADIAN GAZETTEER:

COMPRISING

STATISTICAL AND GENERAL INFORMATION RESPECTING
ALL PARTS OF THE UPPER PROVINCE, OR

CANADA WEST:

DISTANCE TABLES;

GOVERNMENT AND DISTRICT OFFICERS AND MAGISTRATES IN EACH DISTRICT;
LIST OF POST OFFICES, WITH THEIR DISTANCES FROM SOME OF THE
PRINCIPAL TOWNS;

STAGE AND STEAMBOAT FARES; PRINCIPAL HOTELS AND TAVERNS;
RATES OF TOLL ON THE WELLAND CANAL AND SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL HARBOURS;
LISTS OF EXPORTS; QUANTITY OF CROWN LANDS FOR SALE IN EACH TOWNSHIP;
NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF LAND AGENTS AND FORWARDERS;

THE LEADING FEATURES OF EACH LOCALITY AS REGARDS SOIL, CLIMATE, &C.,
WITH THE AVERAGE VALUE OF LAND,

WITH A MASS OF OTHER DESIRABLE AND USEFUL INFORMATION FOR
THE MAN OF BUSINESS, TRAVELLER, OR EMIGRANT.

THE WHOLE COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, VERIFIED BY PERSONAL OBSERVATION AND
INQUIRIES, DURING NEARLY THREE YEARS DEVOTED TO THE SUBJECT, IN WHICH TIME THE
AUTHOR VISITED EVERY DISTRICT, TOWN, AND VILLAGE, IN SEARCH OF INFORMATION.

WITH A

MAP OF THE UPPER PROVINCE,

COMPILED EXPRESSLY FOR THE WORK, IN WHICH ARE LAID DOWN ALL THE
TOWNS AND PRINCIPAL VILLAGES.

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Dedicated by Permission to Lord Metcalfe, tate Governor General
of British North America.

TORONTO:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY H. & W. ROWSELL.

1846.

Price 10s.

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