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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2169, 20 April 1908, Page 1

Only a little time ago Lord Stratlicona voiced the prediction that the Dominion of Canada would hy the gild of this century have as largo a population as 'the United States. This, seeing that- the United States now claims 84,000,000 and Canada only 0,000,000 of population, seemed on tho face of it a sanguine anticipation,, but considered in the light of certain figures recently published there cannot be any impossibility about it at all. These figures show that against the present Canadian population of 6,000,000 the whole population of the organised States was only 5,308,483 in the year. 1900. During the 12 months ending June last 252,038 immigrants entered Canada. the latter contrasting with the total of 15,571 which entered the Dominion 10 years ago. One can hardly imagine the Times of to-day as an illustrated paper, hut on at least four occasions it has appeared with pictures, and can claim to have been the first Knglish illustrated newspaper, when it gave a plan of the battle of Copenhagen in 1801. The funeral of George, IV., was the occasion of its last pictorial effort a large plato giving its readers a bird’s-eye view of the procession, and plainly marking the position of the coffin.

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