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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎75r] (154/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1892 IMPRESSIONS OF NOR 639
remaining colony, that of Saltcoates, north-west of Winnipeg, I did
not go to, as I became [satisfied, after interviewing about a dozen
heads of families in the two first-named places, that visitors from the
' old country' do more harm than good to these particular settlers. It
creates an impression on their minds that public opinion at home is
actively agitated on their account, and that 'something more'
remains yet to be done for them. In a very few instances this
feeling of expectancy has produced discontent, and led to idleness.
But all to whom I spoke admitted they were far better off than
they ever would have been had they remained in Harris, Lewis,
or the other parts of the Crofter Highlands whence they hailed.
John McLeod, from near Stornoway, I found farming a whole
section of 640 acres. He had 120 acres under wheat, and was break
ing seventy more for this year's sowing. Himself and three sons
worked the land, with three yokes of oxen and a team of horses.
The old man told me he had five head of cattle, and that he was well
satisfied with the country, and expected to do very well on his farm.
He contrasted its extent and his future prospects with the three-acre
croft on which he had lived for over forty years in the Island of
Lewis, and his only regret was that he could not bring his two
daughters and a brother, who were still in Stornoway, out to his
new home. He assured me that all his crofter neighbours at
Pelican Lake were doing well, though they, like himself, were still
in debt to the grocers in Killarney (the market town for Pelican
Lake), owing to the two bad years which followed their arrival from
Scotland,
Donald McDonald, of Lewis, said he was well contented, but
would like to pay Lewis a visit. He owns 160 acres, fifty being
under wheat, and possesses a yoke of oxen and three cows.
John McKenzie, senior, from Lewis, would like to return home.
He had been more of a fisherman than a crofter, and he ' longed for
the sea breeze.' He had fifty acres under wheat, and was apparently
doing well,
Kenneth Macaulay, also from Lewis, was delighted with his loa*
house, sixty-five acres of wheat (on a quarter-section of 160 acres)!
three acres of oats, two cows, and yoke of oxen; but his son de
nounced the whole of Manitoba, and all those who had helped to
bring him there. His father, however, blamed ' the disturber from
Saltcoates,' who had visited Pelican Lake, for the discontent which
young Kenneth expressed, and assured me that it had no real
meaning.
Donald McDonald, Angus McDonald, John Morrison, and Allan
McLeod farm a section (640 acres) in conjunction, I saw 260 acres
of this unaer wheat, while each had some five acres of oats in addi
tion. They also possessed a yoke of oxen each, and from two to four
cows.
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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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