ng 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
this reason, that there are few on this continent who either require or
can afford work of the very first order, and those that do, send to London
for it."

The services of a family in managing a business are thus illustrated:

"If a man has not sons capable of looking after the different branches, he
must entrust the care of them to clerks and servants. But these are not to
be had ready-made:--he must, therefore, take a set of unlicked cubs and
teach them their business; and when that is fairly done, it is ten to one
but, having become acquainted with his business and his customers, they
find means to set up an opposition, and take effectually the wind out of
their former patrons sails. Where, however, a man has a large family of
sons, he can wield a large capital in business, and to very good purpose
too."

A man of fortune ought not to come to Canada. It is emphatically "the poor
man's country;" but it would be difficult to make it the country of the
rich. It is a good country for the poor man to acquire a living in, or for
a man of small fortune to economize and provide for his family.

Infant emigration, or the sending out of parish children, of from 6 to 12
years of age with a qualified superintendant, is a favourite idea of the
writer. He objects to bringing out adult parish paupers from the chance of
getting only the drunken, the vicious, and the idle as emigrants, though
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