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CHAPTER XI.
Government and Laws of Canada. Quebec Act. Partition
of the Province. Counties and Representation. Coutume
de Paris. New Division of the Province.
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Constitution of
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the Government. Administration of the Laws. Districts.
CHAPTER XII.
Courts of Justice. Districts. Judges. Lawyers. Notaries.
Canadian Laws. Estates. Tenures.
CHAPTER XIII.
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Revenue and Expenditure. Public Offices, &c.
CHAPTER XIV.
Configuration and general Aspect of Canada. Geological
Structure. Organic Remains. Steps. Mineralogy. West-
ern Region. Rocky Mountains, Climate, &c.
CHAPTER XV.
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Coast of the River St. Lawrence from Gaspé to Quebec. Bay
of Seven Islands. Trinity. Manicougan Shoals. Port
Neuf. South Shore. Cape Gaspé. Anse de L'Etang.
Matane. Mitis. Rimouski. Bique. Trois Pistoles. " Ap-
pearance of the South Coast. Roads, Travelling. Cana-
dian Parishes. Auberges. Churches. Habitans' Houses.
Rivière de Loup. Kamouraska. St. Anne's. St. Thomas's.
Habitans on Sunday. Moral Character. Point Levi.
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CHAPTER XVI.
Country of the King's Posts. The River Saguenay. Tadousac.
Islands in the St. Lawrence, &c.
CHAPTER XVII.
City of Quebec. Appearance from the River. Lower Town,
Wharfs, Hangards, Streets, Houses, Upper Town, Public
Buildings, English and Catholic Cathedrals, Churches, Nun-
neries, Jesuits' College, Market, Populace, Society, Cana-
dian Gentry, Amusements, Summer, Winter, Classification
of Ranks, Hotels, Table d'Hôte, Public Institutions, Liter-
ary and Historical Society, &c., Trades-people, Auctions,
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Walls, Fortifications, Citadel of Cape Diamond. Wolfe and
Montcalm's Monument. View from Cape Diamond, &c.
CHAPTER XVIII.
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Environs of Quebec. St. Roche. Road to Montmorenci.
Falls. Patterson's Mills. Road to St. Foix. Sillery. Jeune
Lorette. Hurons. Cascades. Lake St. Charles. Falls of
the Chaudière. River St. Lawrence from Quebec to Mont-
real. Post Roads. Winter travelling, Steam-Boats. New
Liverpool. Rapids of Richelieu. Trois Rivières. Ursuline
Convent. Abbé de Calonne. Forges of St. Maurice. Lake
St. Peter. Delta. Fort William Henry. River Richelieu.
Summer Residence of the Governor. Fort Chambly. St.
Jean. Isle aux Noix. Rouse's Point. Lake Champlain.
St. Lawrence from Fort William Henry to Montreal.
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CHAPTER XIX.
Montreal. General Appearance. St. Paul's and Notre Dame
Streets. Nelson's Monument. Champ de Mars. Suburbs.
Public Buildings. Catholic Cathedral and Churches. En-
glish Church. Scotch Kirk. Court-House. Gaol. Go-
vernment House. Nunneries. French College. M'Gill
College. Natural History Society. Mechanics' Institution.
Hospital. Public Schools. News Room. Libraries. Pe-
riodicals. Position of Montreal. Trade. Bateaux. Scows.
North-west Company. Bank. Committee of Trade. Po-
pulation. Society. Hotels. Amusements. Theatre and
Circus. Environs of Montreal. The Mountain Scenery.
Outlets of Montreal. Lachine, &c.
CHAPTER XX.
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The River Ottawa, or Grand River. Lakes. Seigniories.
Canals. Hull. Philemon Wright. Macnab. Bytown.
Union Bridge. Chaudière. Rapids. General Character-
istics, &c.
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CHAPTER XXI.
Jesuits' Estates.
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CHAPTER XXII.
Population. Religion. Schools. Education, &c.
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Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Inhabitants of Lower
Partition of Canada. Policy of the Measure. Civil Divi-
sions. Districts. Counties. Townships. Clergy and Crown
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360
Constitution, Administration of Justice. Revenues. Militia. 364
CHAPTER IV.
Configuration. Soil and Climate. Wild Animals. Birds,
Fishes, &c. of Upper Canada.
CHAPTER V.
Descriptive Sketches of Upper Canada. Routes from Mont-
real by the Ottawa. Hawkesbury. Grenville Canal. By-
town. Lake Chaudier. Chief MacNab. Rideau Canal.
Splendour of the Ottawa at the Union Bridge. Timber
Rafts. Country between the Ottawa and Kingston. La-
nark, Perth, Richmond, &c.
CHAPTER VI.
Route by the St. Lawrence from Montreal to Kingston. La-
chine. Lake St. Louis. Cagnawagha. Scenery, Cascades, &c.
Côteau du Lac. Glengarry. Lake St. Francis. St. Regis,
Cornwall, American Banks of the St. Lawrence. Prescot.
Brockville. Ogdensburg. The Thousand Islands, &c.
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CHAPTER VII.
KINGSTON Naval Establishment. Dock-yard. Ships of War.
* Sackett's Harbour. Lake Ontario. Steam ships. New Settlements. Marmora Iron Works. Bay of Quinté.
CHAPTER VIII.
YORK. Lake Simcoe. Burlington Bay. Ancaster. Dundas.
Roads. Coote's Paradise. Niagara Frontier.
Brock's
Monument. St. Catherine's Salt Springs. Welland Canal,
&c.
CHAPTER IX.
Cataract of Niagara.
CHAPTER X.
Lake Erie. Chippawa. Fort Erie. Buffalo. Sugar Loaves.
River Ouse. Port Talbot. Long Woods. River Detroit.
Lake St. Clair. Lake Huron. Canada Company. Guelph.
Goderich.
"The Far West."
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Lake Huron. Georgian Bay. Makillimakinak. Michigan
Lake and Territory. Straits of St. Mary and Falls. Lake
Superior. Depths of the Great Lakes, &c.
412
NORTH-WEST AND HUDSON BAY TERRITORIES.
Lakes,
Rivers, and Rocky Mountains. COAST OF THE PACIFIC.
HUDSON BAY AND ARCTIC REGIONS. Lord Selkirk's Lands
and Settlement, &c.
INTERNAL NAVIGATION OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA.
Gulf and River of St. Lawrence. Canals. Navigation of
the St. Lawrence from Lachine to Kingston, by the St.
Lawrence and by the Ottawa. Grenville Canal. Rideau
Canal. Lake Ontario. Welland Canal. Ohio Canal. Erie
Canal, Detroit, Lake Huron. St. Mary's Strait, &c. &c. 422
Agriculture. Occupations of the Inhabitants. Domestic
Manufactures and Trade of Upper Canada.
Customs, Manners, and general Characteristics of the In-
habitants of British America.
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442
Sketches of the North American Indians.
TRADE OF THE CANADAS. Commerce while under the
French Government. Annual Expenses. Fur Trade.
Coureurs de Bois. North-west and Hudson Bay Com-
panies. South-west and New York Companies. Pot-ash.
Agricultural Produce, &c.
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SHIP-BUILDING AND THE TIMBER TRADE.
Various Modes
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of preparing the Produce of the Forest for Exportation.
Lumberers. Raftsmen. Mills, &c.
General Account of the Imports and Exports of the Canadas. 502
BOOK IX.
MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTERS.
CHAPTER I.
Practical Remarks on Emigration.
CHAPTER II.
Clearing Forest Lands. Building Log Houses, &c. Culti-
vating the Soil.
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