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"Canada and the British Immigrant" is a historical book looking at the lives of the English migrants who moved to Canada as settlers. English born author Emily Poynton Weavers moved to Canada as a child with her family and settled there. She explains her focus for the book as follows, "The purpose of this book is, however, neither to set forth the history of the Dominion, nor to relate our own (family's) individual experiences, whilst we were "feeling our way," as a neighbour once expressed it. It is intended rather to give a general idea of the Dominion as a whole, and of each of the provinces a little more in detail, touching their history only as it seems likely to help to the understanding of what they now are, and of the attitude and ideals of the Canadian people. I have written much of resources and opportunities, but have endeavoured also not to neglect mention of disadvantages, for Canada is no "earthly paradise," but only "a good land and a large," where there is scope for many types of human beings to develop physically, mentally and spiritually, as some of them have not room to do in the crowded centres of population in the Old World?"