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BOOK - Smith's Canadian Gazetteer (Ontario).
by WM. H. Smith. Originally published in 1846.
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In compiling this, the first Gazetteer of Canada West, WM. H. Smith was induced to undertake the task by the great ignorance which he found to exist respecting the Province, not only amongst persons in Great Britain, or newly-arrived emigrants, but even amongst many of those who had been for years resident in the country; and from ascertaining that the various, contradictory, and occasionally false accounts given to emigrants on their arrival, respecting distant localities, frequently led them to alter their original intentions respecting their destination; and often induced them to leave the province altogether, and settle in the United States.

Mr. Smith found this to be the case when he arrived in Canada. He was told that he should find the western boarders of the province a complete wilderness- that on the River St. Clair, for instance there was a marked difference between the appearance of the country on the American and on the British side- that on the former all was bustle and activity, fine farms and flourishing orchards; while on the Canadian side nothing was to be seen but uncleared forest- and that the Western District was very sickly.

To collect materials for the first Gazetteer of any country, (which in itself implies that it is a Gazetteer of a new country) may truly be called " the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties". These difficulties arise principally from the obstructions and inconveniences of travelling remote places, and from the difficulty in many localities of collecting authentic information. The later difficulty is caused not so much by the unwillingness of parties to give what information they possess as from apathy on the subject, the trouble is found in gaining information from those places that were lagging in the background.

Hard Cover Only/ 6" x 9"/ 1999/ ISBN 1-894378-12-1/ CIP incl.

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