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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — CANADA
The total 'urban' population of Canada in 1911 is given as 3,280,964, against 2,021,799 in 1901. Of the number in 1911, 270,000 were in 'cities and towns' of under 1,000 inhabitants.
There are no complete vital statistics collected for the Dominion, the registration of births, deaths and marriages being under provincial control. But not all the provinces collect these statistics (New Brunswick has no returns), nor is there a uniform system in the method of collection. The following table shows the returns so far as they are available. New Brunswick is not included.
Birth-
Marriage-
Death
Excess
Provinces
Births
rate per 1,000
Marriages
rate per 1,000
Deaths
rate per 1,000
of Births over
living
living
living
Deaths
Alberta . 191fi
13,331
26-85
4,230
8-52
4,058
8-17
9,273
1917
13,576
26-00
4,270
8-12
4,047
7-75
9,529
B. Columbia!. 1916
7,475
13-12
3.169
5-56
3,887
6-82
3,588
1917
6,994
13 36
2,861
4-65
3,896
6 33
3,098
Manitoba! - . 1917
14,743
25-77
4,049
7-08
5,125
8-96
9,618
1918
15,317
25-74
3,743
6-29
6,937
11-66
8,380
Nova Scotia . 1917
12,382
24-19
3,421
6-6S
7,583
14 82
4,799
191S
12,421
24-11
3,611
7-01
9,125
17-71
3,296
Ontario . . 1917
(52,666
22-85
21,499
7-84
33,284
12-14
29,382
1918
64,729
23-12
19,525
6-97
43,038
15-37
21,691
Pr. Edward Is.i 1917
1,389
14-82
488
5-21
940
10-03
444
1918
1,297
13-84
510
5-44
1,059
11-30
238
Quebec . . 191S
80,327
37 93
16,643
7-58
38,206
17-39
42,121
1917
80,381
35-90
16,936
7-56
35.501
1586
44,880
Saskatchewan! 1917
20,332
28-43
5,105
714
5,319
7 44
15,013
1918
21,686
29-08
4,591
6-24
9,782
13-30
11,904
Yukon . . 19172
32
3-76
15
1-76
57
6-70
-25
1918
51
5-99
10
1-18
55
6-46
-4
i Including still-births. z 9 months.
Declared settlers arrived in Canada during 4 years : —
Number of Immigrants
arrived in the Years
—
ended March 31
1916-17
1917-18
1918-19
1919-20
From the Unit
ed States
61,389
71,314
40,715
49,656
English and W
clsh
5,262
2,531 174
8,060 336
45,855
Irish ... . .
958
2,751
Scotch
2,062
473
1,518
10,907
Austro-Hungariau
1
—
2
8
9
1
1
12
Scandinavian ....
635
391
LM
420
French and Belgians
325
133
270
3,116
758
189
49
1,165
136
32
22
116
Russians and Finlanders
274
165
4 1
95
Other Nationalities
3,565
3,681
6,498
3,145
Total
75,374
79,074
5T,W8
117,336
Under an Act passed in 1903, a tax of 500 dollars a head is levied on Chinamen landing in Canada. In the year 1939-20,4,363 Chinese immi- grants paid the tax. The number of Chinese iu Canada, as shown by the census of 1911, was 27,774.
