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Excerpt from Fifteen Years in Canada: Being a Series of Letters on Its Early History and Settlment Our object in writing, is to supply this desideratum, by placing before our readers, authentic information relative to those subjects which more immediately concern that class of persons who are desirous of improving their circumstances, by removing to a new country, and by presenting Canada as it really is, enable them to determine whether she has not equal, if not superior claims to any of the numerous fields now inviting the attention of the Emigrant. We shall endeavour, therefore, to sup ply the intending settler with more recent, comprehensive, and precise statistic details than has ever been presented in so condensed a form and though we have not written as much upon the subject as some of our readers might desire, or the materials at our command would have enabled us to do, yet if our humble efi'orts shall have tended in any degree to remove the prejudices, or correct any of the erroneous conceptions which some entertain, and shall aid any in coming to a decision upon a question which has long agitated their minds, the end will be gained, and we shall be satisfied. As to the mode we have adopted in communi cating the information we have supplied, we have simply to state, that it appeared to us the most familiar, and best suited to our purpose in enabling us to give a definite answer to the various questions put to us by our friends in our daily intercourse with them and in doing so, we are exceedingly anxious to be correct and faithful, so that we may not be charged with the responsibility of unduly persuading or dissuading any one with respect to so important a step as that of Emigration. If, there fore, any error should find its way into our Letters, it must be attributed to an imperfection of judgment in the arrangement of our materials, and to no other cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic boo