The Canadian Settlers. Guide 12+

📗 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ... Compton. Part of Megantio iBeauce.. Routes, Distances, and Rates of Passages by Railway and Steamer, from Quebec to all parts of Canada, by Grand Trunk Railway, daily, from Point Levi, or by the Mail Steamer during summer, transhipping at Montreal to through line of Steamers to all Ports on the St. Lawrence and Lako Ontario. Letter Postage To And From England. Two ocean steamers carrying mails' for Canada leave Liverpool in each week. A Canadian packet sails direct for Quebec every week during the summer months, and every alternate week for Portland during the winter months, by which the postage rate is 6c?. sterling per £ oz., and a British Cunard packet on every Saturday, landing mails alternately at Boston and New York, by which the postage rate to Canada is 8 c/. sterling per £ oz. The British Post Office forwards letters to Canada by the first of these packets sailing after the letters are posted,--unless the letters bear a special.direction "By Canadian," or "By British Packet,"--and in that case, the letters are kept over for the packet designated. Therefore to pass for the 6c?. sterling rate, a letter for Canada must be posted so as to arrive at Liverpool in time for Wednesday's Canadian steamer, carrying letters at the 6c?. rate, or it m...