The Author's impressions of Canadian social institutions, politics
and industrial development in 1862. Morgan's Bibliotheca Canadensis
states Day was an English author and newspaper correspondent who
worked in Canada for the Herald and the Morning Post. Discussion of
such topics as: the voyage out; Quebec; topography; fetes and
feasting; Sir Allan MacNab; the Inter-Colonial Railway; Toronto;
vital statistics; Whitby; Manitoulin; perils in an open boat;
Indians; oil wells in Enniskillen; Sarnia; Hamilton; Niagara Falls;
social life in Canada; industrial resources; defences; prosperity;
emigration.
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