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Population of the principal cities and towns, 1911 :—

Cities

Population, 1911

Cities

Population, 1911

Montreal .

Toronto .

Winnipeg

Vancouver

Ottawa .

Hamilton

Quebec

470,480

376,538

136,035

100,401

87,062

81,969

78,190

Halifax . London . Calgary . St. John . Victoria . Regina

46,619 46,300 43,704 42,511 31,660 30,213

There are no complete vital statistics collected for the Dominion. Declared settlers arrived in Canada during 4 years :

Nationality

From the United States

English and Welsh

Irish

Scotch .

Austro-Hungarian

German

Scandinavian

French and Belgians

Italians

Hebrews

Russians and Finlandei

Other Nationalities

Total

Number of Immigrants arrived in the Years ended March 31

1908-9

59,832

37,482

3,609

11,810

10,798

1,340

1,887

2,658

4,228

1,636

4,216

7,412

146,908

1909-10

103,798

41,144

3,940

14,706

9,757

1,533

3,387

2,637

7,118

3,182

6,021

11,571

1910-11

121,451

86,212 6,877

29,924

16,285 2,533 5,382 3,604 8,359 5,146 8,753

16,558

1911-12

133,710

96,806

8,327

32,988

21,651

4,664

4,086

3,095

7,590

5,322

11.451

23,947

208,794

311,084

354,237

a J^}^^^ *^^® ^®^^' settlers obtained 6,252,960 acres of free land : in 1910 6,650,880 acres ; and in 1911, 7,116,640 acres. '

Under an Act passed in 1903, a tax of 500 dollars a head is levied on C^hmamen landing in Canada. In the year 1910-11, 4,515 Chinese immi- grants paid the tax.

Religion.

The number of members of each religious creed was as follows in 1911:—

Roman Catholics

Presbyterians

Anglicans

Methodists

Baptists

Lutherans

2,833,041 1,115,324 1,043,017 1,079,892

382,666

229,864

1 Including Pagans.

Congregationalists Miscellaneous creeds^ No creed stated

Total

. 34,054

, 554,490

32,490

7,204,838

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