Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-12-28
Correspondence
For the Newsletter
New Dominion LetterS---NO. 1.

mOuunS III IcT maJCsuy Do
myself quite at home in the old city o.
Montreal. -
may be here some time longer and
the thought occurs to me that random
word now and then from the Provinces
may not be without interest to your
readers.
NV preconceived notions of Canada and
tie Canadians find on acquaintance with
the subjects Of them to be entirely wrong
The desolate Kenucks who crowd the
green valleys beyond the border are nc
juster samples of the denizens of the New
Dominion than the meagre emigrants who
throng the city wharves are of the popu-
lation of the old world.
A journey through one of the principal
thoroughfares of Toronto, Quebec or Mon
treal is full of revelations to the untravel-
ed and uninitiated Estates man." Here
one may see solemn-visaged monks and
friars, there bare-legged killed Highland
ers Orangemen on the one hand, on the
other his legitimate foe in some wearer O.
the green. Now flock Of nuns with
broad ruffled caps and rich black robes !;
again some well-fed priest with treasured
pate and elongated coat, or a sleek and
insinuating Jesuit and his pupils. Here
the bland and contemptuous Englishmen,
there corsetted and frisky Frenchmen,
and everywhere nondescript foreigners of
all natonalties, alike in one respect, their
unspoken but plainly visible contempt for
everything Yankee. How little after all
do we "over the Line" know of our neigh
bors of the Provinces, and how little do
they know of us! We shall know each
other better, possibly, hereafter, when
that golden day Of annexation, dreamed
of by the Canadians, arrives.
Annexation is scheme rejected by the
States people generally, but few figures
and contrasts cleaned from reliable sources
WI show that that part of British America
known as the Dominion is not of so little
worth.
The population based on calculations
for 1870 is as follows: The provinces
comprising the Dominion of Canada-On-
tario, 2,047, 1884; Quebec, 1887, 1884 !;
New Brunswick, 319, 1893; Nova Scotia,
$50, 343; Newfoundland, 10000; tho
Northwest, Qate Hudsons Bay Terrific
ry,) 100000. Total Of the Dominion,
4,375,959,
A century ago the civilized population
did not number 100000 souls, though
double that number of savages roamed
through its vast forests. Now those In
dian tribes, lessened it is true, are as
highly civilized as many of the Chinese
nations.
Says the London Journal: "Thc popu-
lation Of British North America in 1870
is equal to that Of England and Wales in
1870, Ireland century ago-grcater
than Scotland at any period of its history.
1t is nearly equal to that of the kingdoms
of Belgium, Bavaria, Saxony, Norway,
Portugal, Hanover, Wurtemburg, Den
mark, Greece, the Republic of Switzer-
land, or the Ponti6cal States in 1861.
And the tonnage trading with its ports
exceeds that of Great Britain in 1915,
France in 1S40, double that of Turkey,
Austria, Prussia, or Norway and Sweden,
and treble that of Sardinia in 1852.
These provinces built half as much tonnage
and had half as much engaged in their
trade as the whole American Union had
in 1880. The united revenues of these
colonies exceed those of either Portugal,
Denmark, Sweden, Bavria, or Saxony.
In railroad extent, B. N. A. exceeds the
aggregate of Russia, Rome, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, Holland, Portugal, Tur-
key, Switzerland and Egypt; and in the
extent of telegraph wires it exceeds the
aggregate of many of the nations of Eu.
rope"
Canada East and Canada West were
united in lS4l and the New Dominion
consisting now of the Provinces of Onta-
rio and Quebec is bounded on the north
by what was formerly Hudson's Bay Ter.
ritory, on the east by the Gulf of St.
Lawrence and Labrador, on the South by
Lakes Erie and Ontario, the st. Lawrence
the States Of New York, Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine, the province of
New Brunswick and the Bay Chalcms
and westerly by Lakes Superior, Huron
and st. Clair and the rivers connecting
them.
Ottawa-the Ontavais of the French.
on a noble river of the same name, has
been fixed upon as the capital 1t is sit
uated at the easterly terminus Of the RI
deau Canal, ninety-seyen miles by the