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Peel 911

Canada. Department of Agriculture. Reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field for settlement: First series. Liverpool, England: Department of Agriculture, 1880.

Physical description: 141 p., illus., maps.; 22 cm.

Language: English

Printed in Liverpool by Turner & Dunnett. "The…Minister of Agriculture…of Canada caused a number of Delegates representing Tenant Farmers in the United Kingdom to be invited to visit the Dominion…in 1879, for the purpose of examining its resources, and reporting on its suitability as a field for settlement…" (page 3). Also published, 2nd and complete edition, Ottawa: Department of Agriculture, 1880 (173, [3]p.), which includes reports of delegates not published in the earlier edition. Also published as Reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field for settlement , Ottawa: Printed by MacLean, Roger, & Co.,1880 (iv, 191p. in Sessional papers , 1880, no.10). First edition reprinted, Ottawa: [Department of Agriculture], 1884 (141p.). For second series see Peel 907.

Subject headings:

• Travelers--Great Britain
• Farmers
• Land settlement