Mathematically, Durham was quite right: every year since the end of the Napoleonic Wars, immigrants had been leaving the British Isles by the thousands to improve their lot in North America, while the inhabitants of Lower Canada could now depend only on themselves to increase their numbers. ###>Mathématiquement, Durham a entièrement raison : à chaque année depuis la fin des guerres napoléoniennes, c'est par milliers que des immigrants quittent les îles britanniques pour trouver un meilleur sort en