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1834: 19,206 Scotland 1829: 2,643 1830: 2,450 1831: 5,354 1832: 5,500 1833: 4,196 1834: 4,591 Hamburg & Gibraltar. 1832: 15 Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, West Indies, &c. 1829: 123 1830: 451 1831: 424 1832: 546 1833: 345 1834: 339 Totals 1829: 15,945 1830: 28,000 1831: 50,254 1832: 51,746 1833: 21,752 1834: 30,935 The total number of emigrants arrived at Quebec, from 1829 to 1834, is 198,632. It will be remarked, that the number rose high in 1831 and 1832, and fell very low in 1833. --------------------------------------- Distribution of the 30,935 Emigrants who arrived at Quebec during 1834:- LOWER CANADA. City and District of Quebec: 1,500 District of Three Rivers: 350 District of St. Francis and Eastern Townships: 640 City and District of Montreal: 1,200 Ottawa District: 400 Total to Lower Canada: 4,090 UPPER CANADA. Ottawa, Bathurst, Midland and Eastern Districts, as far as Kingston, included: 1,000 District of Newcastle, and Townships in the vicinity of the Bay of Quinte: 2,650 Toronto and the Home District, including Settlements around Lake Simco: 8,000 Hamilton, Guelph, and Huron Tracts, and situations adjacent: 2,660 Niagara Frontier and District, including the line of the Welland Canal, and round the head of Lake Ontario, to Hamilton: 3,300 Settlements bordering on Lake Erie, including the London District, Adelaide Settlement, and on to Lake St. Clair: 4,600 Total to Upper Canada: 22,210 Died of cholera in Upper and Lower Canada: 800 Returned to United Kingdom: 350 Went to the United States: 3,485 [Total:] 4,635 --------------------------------------- Of the number of 30,935 Emigrants who arrived at Quebec in 1834, there were of:-- Voluntary emigrants: 29,041 Assisted by parochial aid: 1,892 Number of males: 13,565 Number of females: 9,683 Number of children under fourteen years of age: 7,681 Emigrants who prefer going into Canada by way of New York will receive advice and direction by applying to the British Consul at New York (James Buchanan, Esq.) Formerly this gentleman could procure for emigrants who were positively determined to settle in the Canadas, permission to land their baggage and effects free of custom-house duty; but in a letter dated 16th March, 1835, he says:-- "In consequence of a change in the truly liberal course heretofore adopted at this port, in permitting, without unpacking or payment of duty, of the personal baggage, household
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