Yes! They finally responded!

            It is I again Peter Boner, the British government finally responded. In 1784 a royal carter created the colony of New Brunswick. Though the farmers in my town are still not very happy, you see, colonies still have to go by French civil laws. One of witch says that farmers could use land to farm but not own it. So there is a petition going around, to let farmers own land. Then after the farmers get enough signatures for their petition they will send it to the king of England. Hopefully the King will do something about this. For now there is not much more we can do.

UGH! The government is located in Halifax; witch is too far away from my town to be able to help us.

I am Peter Boner, a very wealthy doctor, and I live all the way west of the Bay of Fundy. Because the government is too far away, we are always forgotten about. This is a problem because we my town’s population outnumbers Halifax’s. I have sent messengers to the government, complaining about how we need our own government. They haven’t responded yet, but they will eventually have to make a new colony, because the Halifax government will not able to handle all the new settlers. 

 I John Thompson work for the timber industry, but us workers don’t all do the same job. There are the workers that cut down the trees, and then the there are the workers that package the lumber and send it to Britain. But I don’t do either of those jobs. I am the one of the workers that climbs down in to narrow points of a river where some lumber has blocked the water flow. Other workers propel me down on a rope, and I have to find the log that is holding all the other logs up, and chop it in half so the water can flow. When I cut the log free I have to get out fast be for the water starts rushing again or I get washed a way with the water. That almost happened one time. I had just cut the log and I was climbing up the walls of the river when I slipped and the rope that was around my waist came undone. The water then burst though the logs, I grabbed onto a root that was sticking out of the wall. I was hanging on for dear life when one of the logs came right under me and I was able to push off it with my feet and grab onto a rocky ledge and pull my self up. That hasn’t happened since so that is good.

            The lumber industry is doing very well, because Britain is at war they constantly need to make new ships. Also with all the new settlers needing to build home and furniture and utensils, lumber is in constant demand. 

I am a fur trader for HBC (Hudson Bay Company) it is a pretty exiting job. It is perfect for me, because I am a good bargainer. I never settle for a first offer, even if it might be fair. The only problem is that I haven’t had much business lately because the North West Company is stealing all our costumers. Every body buys from them now because they have better furs. The HBC and the NWC trade there fur differently. The HBC has posts set up around Hudson Bay, and wait for the First Nations to come to us. The NWC travels a cross the continent looking for furs to trade. My wife sais that I should switch companies and work for the NWC because they are doing so much better, but if I did I would be so far away from my family. The NWC travel to new places to find fur, I could be all the way across the country, and I could not live like that. I hope the HBC will start doing better and drive the NWC out of business, because if they don’t, soon I wont have a job

What, we might be moving! Dad says that there is a place up north that will be are new home. He says we will own over 1000 acres of land if we move, but all my friends are here and not many people live in the town that our new home is in. Mom doesn’t want to move either, she sais she likes the way Ohio is governed, but Dad told her that the government officials might move to, because this new town as put aside a big lot of land for them if they do move. The only other person in our family that is exited to move is Grandma, she sais the with all the land will get she can finally have that garden she wanted. Since my dads a doctor and this new town need some, he assures us he will be employed. Only one of my other friend’s parents are considering to move, so I hope she does because by the looks of it Ohio won’t be my home any more.