Canadian Blood Services, Mississauga

8 Demographics 7 Schools Few Chose To Lease The Crown Reserves As Long As Free Grants Of Land Were Still Available The Lieutenant Governor Increasingly Found Himself Depending Upon The Customs Duties Shared With But Collected In Lower Canada For Revenue; After A Dispute With The Lower Province On The Relative Proportions To Be Allocated To Each These Duties Were Withheld Forcing The Lieutenant Governor To Search For New Sources Of Revenue The Canada Company Was Created As A Means Of Generating Government Revenue That Was Not Under The Control Of The Elected Assembly Thereby Granting The Lt Governor Greater Independence From Local Voters The Plan For The Canada Company Was Promoted By The Province's Attorney General John Beverly Robinson Then Studying Law At Lincoln's Inn In London The Lt Governor's Financial Crisis Led To A Quick Adoption Of Robinson's Scheme To Sell The Crown Reserves To A New Land Company Which Would Provide The Provincial Government With Annual Payments Of Between �15,000 To �20,000 The Canada Company Was Chartered In London In 1826; After Three Years Of Mismanagement By John Galt The Company Hired William Allan And Thomas Mercer Jones To Manage The Company's Upper Canadian Business Jones Was To Manage The "Huron Tract," And Allan To Sell The Crown Reserves Already Surveyed In Other Districts According To The Canada Company "the Poorest Individual Can Here Procure For Himself And Family A Valuable Tract; Which With A Little Labour He Can Soon Convert Into A Comfortable Home Such As He Could Probably Never Attain In Any Other Country � All His Own!" However Recent Studies Have Suggested That A Minimum Of �100 To �200 Plus The Cost Of Land Was Required To Start A New Farm In The Bush As A Result Few Of These Poor Settlers Had Any Hope Of Starting Their Own Farm Although Many Tried Huron Tract