Introduction The following pages were written with a view to do service to those who may determine to leave their native country, and seek a more secure, or more comfortable home, in the Woods of Canada.

If the information they contain be considered deficient or ill-chosen, it is at least correct, as far as it goes; and I too well remember the pleasure with which I should myself have perused any work relating to Canada, not to hope that the purchaser of my little book will read it with some interest, and I sincerely trust, with some advantage.