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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.