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• The Last Laird of MacNab: An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada (Toronto: Imrie, Graham and Co., 1899), by Alexander Fraser (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West, in Its Moral, Social, and Political Aspect, With Suggestions Respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, For the Information of Colored Emigrants (1852), by Mary Ann Shadd Cary (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ontario as a home for the British tenant farmer who desires to become his own landlord. (Printed by Warwick & sons, 1892), by Ontario. Immigration office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical sketches of Upper Canada for the use of emigrants (J. Murray, 1833), by William Dunlop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration. The British farmer's and farm labourers' guide to Ontario, the premier province of the Dominion of Canada. (Printed by C.B. Robinson, 1880), by Ontario. Immigration Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• A statement of the satisfactory results which have attended emigration to Upper Canada, from the establishment of the Canada Company, until the present period : comprising statistical tables, and other important information, communicated by respectable residents in the various township of Upper Canada (London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1841), by Frederick Widder and England) Canada Company (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from settlers in Upper Canada. (Marchant, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration : a letter to a Member of Parliament, containing a statement of the method pursued by the Petworth Committee, in sending out emigrants to Upper Canada, in the years 1832 and 1833. And a plan upon which the sums required for defraying the expence of emigration may be raised. (Sold by J. Phillips ..., 1834), by Thomas Sockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration : letters from Sussex emigrants who sailed from Portsmouth in April 1832 on board the ships Lord Melville and Eveline for Upper Canada : extracts from various writers on emigration to Canada, and from Canadian newspapers, with references to the letters : Capt. Hale's instructions to emigrants : and a gazetteer of the places named in the letters. (Sold by John Phillips ;, 1833), by Thomas Sockett and Petworth Emigration Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe über West-Canada : das Runner-Unwesen und die Deutsche Gesellschaft in New-York, nebst einem Anhange [übe]r die östlichen Townships in Unter Canada und die Passage-Bureausin Europa und Amerika : ein Wegweiser für Auswanderer (A.A. Erb ;, 1854), by Jakob Teuscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Proclamation to such as are desirous to settle in the lands of the crown in the province of Upper Canada (s.n., 1792), by John Graves Simcoe and Upper Canada. Lieutenant-Governor (1791-1796 : Simcoe) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, its climate and advantages as a place of settlement for Anglo-Indians (s.n.], 1894), by F. R. S. Barlee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ontario as a home for the British tenant farmer who desires to become his own landlord (s.n.], 1886), by Ontario. Dept. of Immigration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tours in America by Latrobe, Abdy, &c. (s.n., 1835), by Andrew Reed, Charles Joseph Latrobe, Washington Irving, and E. S. Abdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few plain directions for persons intending to proceed as settlers to His Majesty's province of Upper Canada, in North America pointing out the best port to embark at for Quebec.--Provisions and other things necessary to be provided for the voyage.--The best and cheapest method of travelling from Quebec to Montreal, and thence to Kingston and York, a distance of 600 miles, whereby emigrants way avoid heavy expenses.--The method of obtaining land in the most eligible districts.--What property various descriptions of emigrants should possess on their arrival in America.--Advice to farmers, tradesmen, mechanics, &c.--A description of that fine and interesting province : its productions, &c. &c.--Some cursory remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants : containing also a short sketch or journal of the author's voyage across the Atlantic, in June, 1819 (Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1820), by English farmer settled in Upper Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emigrant's guide to Upper Canada; or, Sketches of the present state of that province collected from a residence therein during the years 1817, 1818, 1819 : interspersed with reflections (Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ..., 1820), by Charles Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evidence on the subject of emigration taken before the Select Committee on the Employment of the Poor in Ireland, the session of 1823. (s.n., 1823), by Great Britain. Parliament. House ofCommons. Select Committee on the Employment of the Poor in Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
• First report of the Central Committee of the Inhabitants of Upper Canada whose rights were liable to be affected by provisions of the naturalization bills, reserved last session of Parliament for the royal assent : Jesse Ketchum, chairman, York, Dec. 14th 1827. (s.n., 1827), by Central Committee of the Inhabitants of Upper Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• On emigration to Upper Canada (J. Cross, 1831), by John William Bannister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical sketches of Upper Canada for the use of emigrants (J. Murray, 1833), by William Dunlop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration a letter to a member of Parliament, containing a statement of the method pursued by the Petworth Committee, in sending out emigrants to Upper Canada, in the years 1832 and 1833 and a plan upon which the sums required for defraying the expence of emigration may be raised. (s.n.], 1833), by T. Sockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from settlers in Upper Canada (s.n.], 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a voyage, with a party of emigrants, sent out from Sussex, in 1834, by the Petworth Emigration Committee, to Montreal, thence up the river Ottawa and through the Rideau Canal, to Toronto, Upper Canada, and afterwards to Hamilton also of the journey from Hamilton to the township of Blandford, where the families were settled : and of a journey through a large portion of the London and Gore districts, with a map, shewing the route; a description of the state of the country generally, and the nature of the soil : to which is added a comparison of the route to Upper Canada by Quebec, with that by New York; and observations on the proper mode of fitting out emigrants ships (s.n.], 1834), by James Marr Brydone, T. Sockett, and Petworth Emigration Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and extracts of letters from settlers in Upper Canada (s.n.], 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Statement of the satisfactory results which have attended emigration to Upper Canada from the establishment of the Canada Company to the present period : comprising statistical tables, and other important information communicated by respectable residents in the various townships of Upper Canada. (Smith, Elder, 1841), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Statement of the satisfactory results which have attended emigration to Upper Canada from the establishment of the Canada Company until the present period : comprising statistical tables and other important information, communicated by respectable residents in the various townships of Upper Canada. (Smith, Elder, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of a backwoodsman, or, Particulars of the emigrant's situation in settling on the wild land of Canada (s.n.], 1843), by John William Bannister (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Statement of the satisfactory results which have attended emigration to Upper Canada from the establishment of the Canada Company until the present period : comprising statistical tables and other important information, communicated by respectable residents in the various townships of Upper Canada. (Smith, Elder, 1846), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks for emigrants (s.n.], 1847), by John J. E. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information for intending emigrants of all classes to Upper Canada designed principally for the small farmer, agricultural labourer, &c., but which will be found interesting to other classes possessed of capital or independent incomes, who may contemplate leaving the United Kingdom with their families (s.n.], 1850), by Frederick Widder and Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks for emigrants (s.n.], 1850), by John J. E. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, the province of Ontario as a field for emigration a lecture : delivered in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute, Plymouth, May 6th, 1870, presided over by Colonel Palmer, R. A. (s.n., 1870), by Thomas White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline of a plan of emigration to Upper Canada (s.n., 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The province of Ontario its soil, climate, resources, institutions, free grant lands, &c., &c., for the information of intending emigrants. (s.n.], 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Province of Ontario its soil, climate, resources, institutions, free grant lands, &c., &c. : for the information of intending emigrants (s.n.], 1889), by John Carling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration the advantages of emigration to Canada : being the substance of two lectures delivered at the Town-Hall, Colchester, and the Mechanics' Institution, Ipswich (Simpkin and Marshall;, 1831), by William Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe über West-Canada das Runner-Unwesen und die Deutsche Gesellschaft in New-York, nebst einem Anhange [übe]r die ö stlichen Townships in Unter Canada und die Passage-Bureaus in Europa und Amerika : ein Wegweiser für Auswanderer (A.A. Erb;, 1854), by Jakob Teuscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration letters from Sussex emigrants, who sailed from Portsmouth, in April, 1832, on board the ships Lord Melville and Eveline, for Upper Canada. (Sold by J. Phillips;, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information for intending settlers on the Ottawa and Opeongo Road, and its vicinity ([s.n.], 1857), by T. P. French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration letters from Sussex emigrants who sailed from Portsmouth, in April 1832, on board the ships, Lord Melville and Eveline, for Upper Canada : extracts from various writers on emigration to Canada, and from Canadian newspapers, with references to the letters : Capt. Hale's instructions to emigrants, and a gazetteer of the places named in the letters. (s.n.], 1833), by T. Sockett and Petworth Emigration Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plain statement of the advantages attending emigration to Upper Canada (Simpkin, Marshall, 1838), by Charles Rubidge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief review of the settlement of Upper Canada by the U.E. Loyalists and Scotch Highlanders, in 1783 and of the grievances which compelled the Canadas to have recourse to arms in defence of their rights and liberties, in the years 1837 and 1838 : together with a brief sketch of the campaigns of 1812, '13, '14 : with an account of the military executions, burnings, and sackings of towns and villages, by the British, in the Upper and Lower Provinces, during the commotion of 1837 and '38 (Printed for the author, by F.B. Penniman, 1841), by Donald McLeod (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the rise and progress of emigration from the counties of Lanark & Renfrew to the new settlements in Upper Canada on government grant comprising the proceedings of the Glasgow Committee for directing the affairs and embarkation of the societies, with a map of the townships, designs for cottages and a plan of the ship Earl of Buckinghamshire : also interesting letters from the settlements (Printed by J. Hedderwick for Chalmers & Collins, 1821), by Robert Lamond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ottawa, the future capital of Canada a description of the country, its resources, trade, population, &c. ; who are wanted, how to get there : hints to emigrants : with an excellent view of the city. (Algar & Street :, 1858) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information for intending settlers Muskoka and Lake Nipissing districts. (Department of Agriculture, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations upon emigration to Upper Canada being the prize essay, for which was awarded a gold medal, from the Upper Canada Celtic Society (s.n.], 1837), by Joseph Neilson and Celtic Society of Upper Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information for intending emigrants to Upper Canada (s.n., 1845), by Frederick Widder and Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canada Company having had numerous inquiries from various parts of British North America, and especially from the United States, upon Canada West ... have been induced to arrange those questions with the respective answers, and to print them in aform for general circulation .. (s.n., 1843), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Division of the Huron District, C.W. statement of facts, (extracted chiefly from a circular published January, 1847). (s.n., 1847), by John J. E. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Province of Ontario its soil, climate, resources, institutions, free grant lands, &c., &c. : for the information of intending emigrants. (Dept. of Agriculture and Public Works, 1874), by Ontario. Dept. of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical sketches of Upper Canada for the use of emigrants (J. Murray, 1832), by William Dunlop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information for intending emigrants of all classes to Upper Canada designed principally for the small farmer, agricultural labourer, &c., but which will be found interesting to other classes possessed of capital or independent incomes, who may contemplate leaving the United Kingdom with their families (s.n.], 1855), by Frederick Widder and Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anleitung für die Emigranten aller Klassen, welche nach Ober Canada auszuwandern beabsichtigen ganz besonders den kleinern Gü terbesitzern ... (s.n.], 1850), by Frederick Widder and Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration to the province of Ontario, Canada (s.n., 1872), by Canada. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Statement of the satisfactory results which have attended emigration to Upper Canada from the establishment of the Canada Company until the present period : comprising statistical tables and other important information, communicated by respectable residents in the various townships of Upper Canada. (Smith, Elder, 1842), by Canada Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts we would direct public attention to a publication in the last York (U.C.) Gazette, addressed To the resident land owners of Upper Canada, by Mr. Robert Gourlay .. (s.n., 1818), by Robert Gourlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Letter] the lieutenant governor thinks proper to call the attention of the House of Assembly .. (s.n., 1825), by Peregrine Maitland and Upper Canada. Lieutenant-Governor (1818-1828 : Maitland) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of a plan for settling in Upper Canada a portion of the unemployed labourers of England (Printed for J. Harding, 1821), by John William Bannister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of plans for settling in Upper Canada, a portion of the unemployed labourers of Great Britain and Ireland (s.n.], 1826), by John William Bannister (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British farmer's and farm labourer's guide to Ontario, the premier province of the Dominion of Canada Hon. Arthur S. Hardy, secretary .. (s.n.], 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice to commuted pensioners commuted pensioners who, previously to obtaining their pensions, have served for seven years and upwards .. (s.n., 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last Laird of MacNab an episode in the settlement of MacNab townhip, Upper Canada (s.n.], 1899), by Alexander Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Letters from emigrants sent to Upper Canada by the Petworth Committee in 1832, 1833 and 1837] (s.n., 1839), by Petworth Emigration Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the Dorking emigrants who went to Upper Canada, in the spring of 1832 (J. and A. Arch ;, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of Ontario, or, The peopling of the province (s.n., 1899), by C. C. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Statements from settlers on the Canada Company land in the Huron District] (s.n., 1842), by John J. E. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• By the authority of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and communicated by the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, one of the principal secretaries of state Canada, explanation of the conditions for settlers in Upper and Lower Canada, already published, dated 22d [Fe]bruary last ... (J. Moir, printer, 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Office of His Majesty's resident agent for the superintendence of settlers and emigrants in the Canadas ... notice is hereby given to settlers and emigrants arriving from the United Kingdom, and wishing to locate on lands belonging to the Crown in Upper and Lower Canada, that there are many situations in either province, whereon they may settle to great advantage, and which will be granted on very easy terms to industrious settlers for actual settlement ... (s.n., 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anweisung für Ansiedler an die Ottawa und Opeongo Strasse und Umgegend ([s.n., 1857), by T. P. French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auf nach West Canada Regierungsbericht über die Zustä nde Canada's : nebst einem Anhang die deutsche Einwanderund betreffend (Gedruckt in der Druckerei des " Deutschen Canadier" und "Berlin Telegraph" von Peter Eby, 1854), by Peter Eby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ontario as a home for the British tenant farmer who desires to become his own landlord. (Printed by Warwick & Sons, 1886), by Arthur S. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration. (Printed by C. B. Robinson, 1880), by Ontario. Immigration Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le nouvel Ontario comme champ de colonisation : une des contrées les plus fertiles du Canada ; contenant des millions d'acres d'excellentes terres faciles à défricher ; marchés locaux très avantageux accès faciles (Impr. de L'Etat, 1903), by A. Ribout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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