Excerpt from Canada This book is the first of a series of Readers dealing with the British Empire (british Empire Readers). It will be followed by volumes on Australasia, India, the Union of South Africa, the Crown Colonies, etc., with a concluding work on Great Britain, and a supple mentary reader devoted to the United States, all of which will be published by Herrn Moritz Diesterweg of frankfort-on-the-main. There are now over white inhabitants in the British Empire outside of the mother country. This number is growing by about half a million yearly, and the ratio of increase is rapidly augmenting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.