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Peel 894

Currie, David [info]. The letters of Rusticus: Investigations in Manitoba and the North-West, for the benefit of intending emigrants: A series of letters from the special commissioner of the "Montreal Witness". Montreal: John Dougall & Son, 1880.
Physical description: [1], 1 leaf, 82 p., illus., 2 fold. maps.; 23 cm.
Language: English
Introduction signed: "David Currie." Text in double columns. A critical study of the possibilities for immigrants in Manitoba made by Currie during a tour in 1879. In his conclusion he advises "genteel people who hate manual labor, gregariously disposed persons, fickle-minded, changeable" people, not to emigrate: "Young men, whose moral character is not already fully established, should avoid Winnipeg as they would a den of rattlesnakes." Includes advertising.
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