Note 115 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (continued 4)

The Canadian government was at this period granting large areas of land north of the St. Lawrence, and of Lake Ontario, to the Loyalists of the United States, who were removing thither. Two hundred acres were given to each settler; and higher amounts, according to rank, to those who had served in the British army. See Canniff, History of the Settlement of Upper Canada (Toronto, 1869).—Ed.