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Diaries & First-Hand Accounts Pioneers and Settlement, Canada Genealogy & History More Books, Maps, & Resources - Canada | Flags of Canada Global Gazette Articles - Canada | Professional Researchers - Canada Searchable Online Data - Canada | Useful Web Links - Canada BOOK - Johan Schroder's Travels in Canada, 1863. Edited, Translated and with an Introduction by Orm Overland. This book is the Narrative of two months of travel during the summer of 1863 that took the author, a Norwegian gentleman and farmer, through Upper and Lower Canada. Schroder's travels, undertaken with a view to publishing a guide for emigrants, brought Canada to the attention of the Norwegian people. Norwegian shipowners, many of whom were acting as carriers for the timber industry, quickly discovered that their return voyages to Canada could be more profitable if their ships were filled with immigrants instead of ballast. The time was ripe for interest in immigration to Canada when Schroder decided to embark on his tour. Schroder was well recieved in his Canadian travels and managed two months to see more of the country than most Canadians did in a lifetime. But, despite his warm welcome, he decided to settle in the United States and advise others to do the same. Schroders account of Canada, which is now published for the first time in English, is the only narrative of travel in Upper and Lower Canada by a Scandinavian and one of the very few descriptions of pre-Confederation Canada written by a traveller from outside the English speaking world. It not only gives us a view of Canada as it appeared to an educated Scandinavian but also sheds light on the reasons why most European emigrants who entered the port of Quebec eventually settled in the United States. Hardcover, 166pgs. ISBN 0-7735-0718-3
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