STILL INCREASING
POPULATION OF CANADA RECORD GAIN FOR YEAR Canada’s population now exceeds 12,500,000. At June 1 this year it reached 12,582,000, compared with 12,307,000 on June 1 last year, according to the annual estimate by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The gain of 275,000 over the 1946 estimate was the largest numerical increase for a year since Confederation. The rise in the population since the last Dominion-wide census was taken in 1941 was 1,075,000, or more than 9 per cent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 4
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81STILL INCREASING Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 4
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