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Subject: [UPP-CAN] Exodus of Upper Canada born children
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:00:02 EST

My family moved from Quebec to Central Ontario, Western Ontario, Michigan
from 1830 to 1865 then in the early 1900's to Western Canada.
A relative believes that it was because they were lumberjacks and were
following the new areas as they opened up. I believe that because they were
basically farmers and farming was not easy then, that droughts, pestilence and other
reasons for crop failures were the main reason for their children moving to a
new area. There are several reports in the agicultural books of different
problems faced.Property was expensive in the mid 1800's and they would have to make
their fortune somehow. They most likely grew up on many stories of travel
and adventure and it was a time of trying new things, inventions were comming
fast and furious, new lands opening up, mining, and many more oportunities.
Glenda from Ontario

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