{"product_id":"pictures-of-canadian-life-von-j-ewing-ritchie","title":"Pictures Of Canadian Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eLunching one day in Toronto with one of the aldermen of that thriving city (I may as \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewell frankly state that we had turtle-soup on the occasion), he remarked that he had \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeen in London the previous summer, and that he was perfectly astonished at the idea \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglishmen seemed to have about Canada. He was particularly indignant at the way in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich it was coolly assumed that the Canadians were a barbarous people, planted in a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewilderness, ignorant of civilization, deficient in manners and customs a well-meaning \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople, of whom in the course of ages something might be made, but at present in a very \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enebulous and unsatisfactory state. It seems my worthy friend had gone to hear a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epopular Q.C. a gentleman of Liberal proclivities, very anxious to write M. after his name \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeliver a lecture to the young men of the Christian Association in Exeter Hall on Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever was a man more mortified in all his life than was the alderman in question. All \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe time the lecture was being delivered, he said, he held down his head in shame. ¿I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efelt,¿ said he, rising to a climax, ¿as if I must squirm!¿ What ¿squirming¿ implies the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriter candidly admits that he has no idea. Of course, it means something very bad. All \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe can say is, that it is his hope and prayer that in the following pages he may set no \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanadian squirming. He went out to see the nakedness, or the reverse, of the land, to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eask the emigrants how they were getting on, to judge for himself whether it was worth \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eany Englishman¿s while to leave home and friends to cross the Atlantic and plant \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehimself on the vast extent of prairie stretching between Winnipeg and the Rocky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMountains. What he heard and saw is contained in the following pages, originally \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epublished in the Christian World, and now reproduced as a small contribution to a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equestion which rises in importance with the increase of population and the growing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edifficulty of getting a living at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041984930\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Journey Through 19th Century Canada: Observations and Experiences\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041984930","offer_id":48305960354117,"sku":"9791041984930","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/fd344fce-1c14-4072-bdb0-d12a6ee371b9.jpg?v=1768459978","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/pictures-of-canadian-life-von-j-ewing-ritchie","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}