"A Road in the Talbot Settlement" P.J. Bainbrigge.
If the immigrant intended to settle in the remote parts of the province where land was cheapest, then he faced a long journey by ox-cart and foot after he stepped off the steamer. In the 1830's and 1840's it was over one hundred miles from Toronto or Hamilton to the newly-opened townships. Much of the distance was covered on roads such as this one little more than a path through the forest with logs thrown down crossways on the low, muddy places. A traveller did well if he walked twenty miles a day.
