Kingston Emigrant Agent’s Letter Book

[...] The Irish portion of the Emigrants of the past months were of the laboring clap and with few exceptions poor. They were aparted from food and transport from Quebec & Kingston and the majority proceeded friends and in search of employment to Toronto Hamilton and the more westerly parts of the Province. I was under the [illegible] of extending relief to a very large proportion of them but on no instance has a pitance or transport been granted from this Agency to young able bodied men or women or the full grown members of any Emigrant family. [...]