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• Canadian immigration literature (English)
• To 1867

• A historical and statistical account of New-Brunswick, B.N.A. : with advice to emigrants (Printed by Anderson & Bryce, 1844), by Christopher W. Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwoods of Canada being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America. (C. Knight, 1846), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwoods of Canada being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America. (C. Knight, 1836), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration to Canada the eastern townships of Lower Canada ; an account of the peculiar advantages they offer to settlers, with information as to the means of access to the country and other particulars for emigrants. (British American Land Co., 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emigrant and traveller's guide to and through Canada by way of the river St. Lawrence, as well as by way of the United States of America : with some friendly advice on embarkation; the detailed cost of travelling on each route, and much other useful information to the settler (Smith, Elder, 1835), by John Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide for emigrants from the British shores to the woods of Canada (R. Moore, 1834), by George Arundel Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, a description of its principal cities, rivers, lakes, &c. containing most useful information for all classes of emigrants, being personal observations (s.n.], 1858), by Commercial man (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwoods of Canada being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America : to which is appended an account of the country of the Oregon. (M.A. Nattali, 1849), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information for immigrants, settlers and purchasers of public lands with maps showing the newly surveyed townships, colonization roads, &c., of Canada (s.n.], 1862), by William MacDougall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian emigrant housekeeper's guide (Lovell & Gibson, 1862), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Emigrant's manual America. (W. and R. Chambers, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lands in Upper Canada to be disposed of by the Canada Company incorporated 1826, office at No. 13, St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate Street, London. (s.n., 1828), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwoods of Canada being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America (Nattali and Bond, 1836), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emigrant's handbook of facts concerning Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, &c. with the relative advantages each of the colonies offers for emigration and practical advice to intending emigrants (W.R. M'Phun, 1843), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Brunswick as a home for emigrants : with the best means of promoting immigration and developing the resources of the province ([Saint John Mechanics' Institute?], 1860), by James Brown and Saint John Mechanics' Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

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• What farmers say of their personal experience in the Canadian North-West (Published by the Department of Agriculture of the Government of Canada, 1883), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emigrant's assistant, or, Remarks on the agricultural interest of the Canadas Part I. : containing an account of the most effectual means of assisting settlers on their arrival in the country--observations on the different tenures by which lands are held in both provinces, directions for procuring grants of waste lands, and some account of the different methods of clearing them--collected from documents and various papers furnished for the information of the Montreal Emigrant Society, in the year 1820 (Printed by Nahum Mower, 1821), by A. J. Christie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada for gentlemen being letters from James Seton Cockburn. (s.n., 1884), by James Seton Cockburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern Manitoba and Turtle Mountain country (s.n., 1880), by L. O. Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba and the Canadian North-West as a field for settelemtn a plain statement of facts for intending emigrants (s.n.], 1884), by C. Cliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba described being a series of general observations upon the farming, climate, sport, natural history and future prospects of the country (Wyman, 1885), by Miller Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free homes in Manitoba and the Canadian North-West (s.n., 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba and the North-West the great wheat fields, and stock-raising districts of Canada : facts and information for settlers, with a map of the country. ([s.n.], 1879), by Charles John Brydges and Hudson's Bay Company. Land Commissioner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Important information for intending settlers in Manitoba respecting a quarter of a million acres of select farming and stock-raising lands in the county of Minnedosa, Little Saskatchewan (s.n.], 1882), by Nicholas Devereux Ennis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Western Canada and its great resources the testimony of settlers, farmer delegates and high authorities, with preface and an appendix on the causes of failure and success in N.-W. farming. (Govt. Print. Bureau, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• North West Emigration Aid Society (s.n., 1871), by North-West Emigration Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration made easy, or, How to settle on the prairie (s.n.], 1883), by W. F. Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian colonization (s.n., 1853), by Canada. Bureau of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a tour through the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and the North-West Territory of the Dominion of Canada (Allan Steamship Co.?, 1882), by Thomas Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• What farmers say of their personal experience in the Canadian North-West (Dept. of Agriculture, 1882), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field for settlement (Maclean, Roger, 1880), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authentic letters from Upper Canada with an account of Canadian field sports (W. Curry;, 1833), by T. W. Magrath and T. Radcliff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canada Company, having had many inquiries from various parts of British North America, upon the thriving town of Guelph, and the Wellington District, of which it is the district town, have been induced to print the following mememorandum--which will, it is hoped, prove useful and interesting to those who may contemplate settling in Canada West, as it is furnished by a very intelligent and experienced gentleman and magistrate, long resident in Guelph (The Company, 1845), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canada Company having had numerous inquiries from various parts of British North America, and from the United States, upon the Western district ... (s.n., 1843), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canada Company, having recently had many inquiries from various parts of British North America, and from the United States, upon the town of Guelph and the Wellington District, of which it is the district town, have been induced to print the following memorandum--which will, it is hoped, prove useful and interesting to those who may contemplate settling in Canada West, as it is furnished by a very intelligent and experienced gentleman and magistrate, long resident in Guelph (s.n., 1843), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, a handy guide for the farmer and labourer (J. Menzies ;, 1870), by John E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• What farmers say of their personal experience in the Canadian North-West (Department of Agriculture, 1881), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• What farmers say of their personal experience in the Canadian North-West (Department of Agriculture, 1883), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• What farmers say of their personal experience in the Canadian North-West (Department of Agriculture, 1884), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lands in the Huron district (s.n., 1843), by William Dunlop and Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• For actual settlers winter in the country of clear days and bright suns, sleeping through a blizzard on the prairie! three weeks travelling in winter through southern Manitoba, the Turtle Mountain country. (s.n., in the 1880s), by L. O. Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Emigrant's friend and guide to Upper Canada (W.E. Painter;, 1847), by G. E. Warr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nova Scotia, its climate, resources, and advantages : being a general description of the province, for the information of intending emigrants (Published under the authority of His Honour the Lieut.-Governor and the Executive Council, 1874), by Herbert Crosskill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Saskatchewan northern Alberta on the line of the new Calgary and Edmonton Ry., well watered, well wooded, great grain producing soil, free homesteads; also East Assiniboia on the line of the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Saskatchewan Ry. : magnificent farming land recently opened to settlement by the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. (s.n., 1891), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few plain facts about the Edmonton district of northern Alberta, North-West Territories of Canada, as a field for settlement (s.n.], 1892), by Edmonton (Alta.). Town Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration to Canada and the United States (s.n.], 1871), by Louis Misaël Archambault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Every-day questions answered in regard to the Canadian west and its opportunities and rewards for farmers (Issued by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1888), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A l'ouest! A l'ouest! Emparons-nous du sol! Aux Canadiens-français (s.n., 1899), by Bureau de repatriation et de colonisation canadienne-française (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Regina district and the lands of the Provident and Commercial Land Co., Limited a glance at the greatest wheat producing lands within the fertile belt of the North-West. ([s.n.], 1883), by Provident and Commercial Land Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, the great province of Ontario its climate and products. (s.n., 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information for intending settlers the farming lands of Algoma and North Nipissing : a short description of those parts of the districts best adapted to agricultural purposes (Warwick & Sons, 1885), by Canada. Crown Lands Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba and the North-West Territories being a report by Mr. P.R. Ritchie of Essex, England, of a tour extending from April to September 1892. (S.E. Dawson, 1892), by P. R. Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whitewood, Assiniboia, North West Territories, Canada important information for tenant farmers : a description of the settlement, its capabilities and vacant lands (s.n., 1884), by Charles Marshallsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pioneer farm and the Wabigoon Country Rainy River District a new section opened for settlement, information as to the country and its capabilities, an account of the farm established there by the Ontario government. (Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, 1896), by Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba and the Northwest information for settlers. (Dept. of Agriculture, 1887), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)

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