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Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Samuel Strickland
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no money is required to be paid down, the lease being granted upon the
following terms:--

s.d. L. s. d.
100 acres, at 2 0 per acre, ann. rent 0 10 0 and no more.
" 3 6 " " 0 12 0 "
" 5 0 " " 0 18 0 "
" 6 3 " " 1 4 0 "
" 7 6 " " 1 10 0 "
" 8 9 " " 1 17 0 "
" 10 0 " " 2 5 0 "
" 11 3 " " 2 12 0 "
" 12 6 " " 3 0 0 "
" 13 9 " " 3 7 6 "
" 16 3 " " 3 15 0 "
" 17 6 " " 4 2 6 "

The rent is payable on the first day of February in each year, full
power being reserved to the settler to purchase the freehold, and take
his deed for the land he occupies, at any time during the lease, an
arrangement, of course, saving all future payment of rent.

Many persons unacquainted with the country, might object to pay from
twelve shillings and six pence to twenty shillings for the Company's
lands, when they see that the Government price on the wild lands
belonging to the Crown, in most townships, is only eight shillings per
acre.

However, they must recollect, that all the choice lands belonging to
the Crown have long since been located; and unless the emigrant is
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