Inception Of The Canada Company

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"...the belief was 'Niagara must be considered the utmost limit west ward capable of cultivation.' In a word, the country had so far been considered only fit to produce peltries and pine masts. This wish to recompense the losses sustained by those colonists who had so faithfully served the parent overnment took active form in the inception of the Canada Company."

"The British officers who returned after the war had told those at home that although description had been true in calling the colony a "vast solitude," it was by no means " a hopeless wilderness." It is true, so late as 1804, Upper Canada had County Lieutenants, and a Domesday Book which contained records of grants of land from the beginning of the organization of that province in 1792. The still familiar name of Baby figured there as County Lieutenant for Kent."