English America: or Pictures of Canadian Places and People

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The Author's impressions of Canadian social institutions, politics and industrial development in 1862. Morgan's Bibliotheca Canadensis states Day was an English author and newspape r correspondent who worked in Canada for the Herald and the Morning Post. Discussion of such topics as: the voyage out; Quebec; topography; fetes and feasting; Sir Allan MacNab; the Inter-Colonial Railway; Toronto; vital statistics; Whitby; Manitoulin; perils in an open boat; Indians; oil wells in Enniskillen; Sarnia; Hamilton; Niagara Falls; social life in Canada; industrial resources; defences; prosperity; emigration. More photos available on request. Show more