Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1911 — CANADA’S CENSUS [ARTICLE]

CANADA’S CENSUS

A THIRTY-TWO PER CENT INCREASE IM THE PAST TEN YEARS. That Canada has home rapidly to the front in the past ten years is amply shown in the results of the census recently made public. The population of the Dominion is now placed at 7,#81,869, which with outlying points to be heard from, may bring it up to 7% millions a& compared with 5,371,315 In 490 L Though these figures are large, they do not present a total as large as was expected but they do show a greater Increase of percentage in population for the decade than any similar increase United States. The highest percentage ever reached by the Republic was 24%; the percentage of increase in Canada for .the decade is 32%. Thus It will be seen that the provinces west of the lakes, with the great broad fertile acres ready for the sowing and Immediate reaping of grain and the Valleys of British Columbia capable of producing fruit with which to supply its neighboring provinces east of the mountains, have attracted numbers, which has exceeded the most optimistic of the expectations of ten years ago. Upon the prairies of the ten years ago there was but a spare scattering of people; but today, no matter in which way you go, take any direction, and you find homes and farms and good ones too, occupied by the very best class of people in good sized settlements with plenty of room for five or six times as many more. The population of Alberta is set down at 372,919, as compared with 73,022 in 1901; Saskatchewan 453,508 as compared with 91,270 in 1901; Manitoba’s 454,691 compares well with its 255,211 in 1901; and so does that of British Columbia —362,768 as against 178,657 in 1901; but in a territory as large as population of 1,643,000 is littlemore than discernible in point of numbers. The work through it has been great Look at the towns that have been built up; its cities, Winnipeg with 135,000; Vancouver with upwards of 100,000; Calgary with 43,000; Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon; Lethbridge; Medicine Hat, Moosejaw, splendid titles —none better anywhere; well maintained and equipped. These have come with existence and been built as they have -been built by reason of the splendid agricultural country by which they are surrounded. The population is scarcely discernible. A population ten or twelve times that shown by the recent census could be easily maintained in even greater wealth than that which maintains the present numbers. There is certainly a wonderful future for Western Canada and that which goes to the development of the west will enrich the last. This is the growing time in Canada and what has been the past ten years is but a The next decade will greater advancement. In the’meantime Canada is bidding welcome the progressive and industrious citizen. The invitajjto? is a standing one. At the forthcoffffij* land exposition in Chicago, Canadawill have one of the best exhibits*)! farm products that has ever been jjiade and it will be well worth while inspecting it and getting information from those who may be in charge.