Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1891 — Canada’s Population. [ARTICLE]

Canada’s Population.

Our neighbors of the Dominion are somewhat disappointed at the result of the recent enumeration, which shows a total population of only 4,823,344. The. enumeration of 1881 showed a total of 4,324,810. The increase in ten years, therefore, has been only 498,534, or 11J per cent. The increase during the preceding decade was greater not only relatively but absolutely—63B,2l4, or 17j per cent. What makes the figures the more disappointing is the fact that the report of the Dominion Department of Agriculture shows that during the decade 886,171 immigrants settled in the country. It appears, therefore, that, without considering immigration, the population of the Dominion is actually 387,637 less now than it was ten years ago. The knowledge that the Increase in the United States during substantially the same period was nearly 12,500,000, or 25 per cent., that over 7,000,000 of this was natural increase, and that we didn’t have to pay a cent for our foreigners, nor did they have to pay a cent for the privilege of coming here, but that, on the contrary, we spent a good deal to kfcep certain kinds of foreigners out of the country, does not lessen their disappointmen. On the score of natural increase we gained about 14 percent., while the Dominion lost about 9 per cent.