Show ivone N SCARCE I 1 iier the french pioneer pioneers were isa with wires wives it is one of the almost forgotten J curiosities curios latits of jarly canadian I 1 history tbt that about the year 1668 france actually undertook to aup up ply its U discharged soldiers and other citi citizens ci tizer who bad fettled settled in canada with wives to order and on a scale britting its own ma magnify magni gairl fl cence ys the toronto globe ship ships were chartered aud and a con signi ligament nent of several hundreds of do mo moi nellee selles were shipped from the mother land for the choice and delectation lec tation of the sturdy adventurer adventurers who having at length conquered a peace from the fierce iroquois were now in a position to cultivate their own sea aligned ened acres and sit down by their own peaceful fi ini int sig latiin latter falters in the attempt to depict the curio ity tily and anxiety wild with which baeli tho the arrival arriva lif if t the h e vee ves 11 so el bearing hearing the precious freight would be awaited by the expectant and eager bachelors bar bach heloM elore if indeed they w re permitted to know beforehand of the beneficent designs of t the h e government ernnie nt or the peculiar shape the royal bounty was ft a about to as ninie 1 1 ue scene must certainly have been a nit memorable morable one to those vill who 0 witnessed wit nested it the collection we ere re vad by the chronicler con stated isted of t 11 hort short fair brown fat ami and lean eich etch of these had had no daht d her own peculiar trial dad and anti orrow sorrows for it its 19 hardly conceivable that jolly boll ux 1 with high expect jirine and an 1411 abundance of eligible offers in r 0 orti it laud land would have V ti to take the chances of a forn adventure advent even un der ilia zu auspices aup pios ices of df file he breuch go eanni ut t or r i loyal head even W ij chure trim tries in in vain to con cm 4 t the and idila i evir s tile Pg agut ut of the government ml 1 fit t have brought to bear in in order t li i these young women to the cui nu 14 b r of bev even en li hundred te to bid fretwell forever to the land of their bit h and arid all till old friend friends and aiso damia and mind go forth and anti take the tile dark lark chances in in happi nem aa as wives of unknown men and disbanded du banded ei goiri at that be that as it may imay there here they were the matches were all arranged within the abort space of leis than fifteen daye days front the publication of the advertisement advertisements the marriage nur ringe ci ceremony wa in each cae ease duly july performed and then the wedding gifts were in in order the governor general himself undertook und retook the ben tank task in in the ab absence ence of a cir cle cie of personal friends and acquaint ances slices to be put under contribution alm gifts were admirably practical and useful they consisted of oxen cowa cows bog hog fowls salted beef ht cf and fome bome money with live goodly stores the wedded couples started on their journie jour nye yv and anti though regard for historical truth or at least verl veri eircil similitude etude forbids us to declare of them then by wholesale whole eale that they were sill happy ever after but we may reasonably renon ably hope that a goodly pro portion of them at atleas least rea eo to especially since we mus mut believe that the personal and social 1 virtues of ninny an bonest habitant bf f the present day may have come down in in direct line of heredity from a pa pair r of ancestors thus strangely brought together and anti summarily eum marily wedded |