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 In its negotiations with the government, the Canadian Pacific Railway had received 25 million acres of land, and had made some of it available for sale to settlers. This pamphlet, issued out of the CPR's London office, attempted to convince settlers to come to Western Canada by reprinting letters from women who had emigrated. These efforts attracted only a very few immigrants during that period. Canadian Pacific Railway What Women Say of the Canadian North-West. A Simple Statement of the Experiences of Women Settled in All Parts of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. [London: H. Blacklock & Co., 1886]. 48 p. 
The growing use of the automobile and the increase in leisure travel of the 1920s saw a need for rules and regulations concerning frequent visitors from the United States. Canada. Department of the Interior and Department of National Revenue How to Enter Canada... Ottawa, 1928. 4 p. The find of placer gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in August 1896 set off a stampede of prospectors and adventurers from all over Canada and the United States. For the next few years, hundreds of guides were printed, even in Europe, for persons willing to travel to that region. The contents are very reminiscent of the "emigrant guides" shown in this exhibition. Steamboat and railway companies, taking advantage of this new market, printed many of these guides and brochures designed to get the prospectors to their destination.
The Great Gold Belt of the Yukon, Reached by Rail, Ocean and River. [Ontario?: Canadian Pacific Railway Co., 1897]. 6 p. Rates for steam boats and barges with their cargo of timber going through the locks at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, at the junction of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers. Dominick Daly, 1798-1868 Schedule of Tolls, to be Paid for Passing through the St. Ann's Lock: Boats or Barges, with Whatever Cargoes Laden, Except Salt and Sea Coal. [Quebec?, 184-?]. Rates for the ferry connecting Chambly to St. Mathias. Following the ferry regulations, each operator had to write in manuscript the different rates for calèches, horses, oxen, cows, foot passengers, calves or sheep. Lower Canada. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (District of Montréal) Rules and Regulations for Ferries / Règles et règlemens des traversiers. [Montreal, between 1830 and 1845]. |
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