One pound to each
of one million and a-half of emigrants would absorb L1,500,000 of the
L9,000,000. The joint-stock company that was to work the concern must,
of course, have profits, and be paid for its labours; it was, therefore,
to have a bonus of L5, or a sum of about that amount, for each emigrant
it would prove to the satisfaction of Government that it had located in
Canada. It was to have other profits. It was to be empowered to lend
money to the district councils in Canada, to effect local improvements,
and the interest of this money was to be a portion of its profits. All
the emigrants were to be settled on the land in Canada; this would be
bought in its rude state by the company, and resold at a profit, when it
had improved it, and established upon it those "aids to location"
enumerated further on. This bonus of L5 on each, emigrant would amount
to L7,500,000, which, together with the L1,500,000 mentioned above,
would absorb the L9,000,000.
As already stated, it was a marked characteristic of this systematic
emigration, or colonization, that it was to be exclusively Catholic, and
that a number of priests, proportioned to the number of emigrants,
should be appointed to accompany them and settle down with them.
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